the law, i disagree with the side she comes down on because i believe this is government speech. the reason why it s government speech, unless it s not subject to this equal time doctrine, is that the commissioning of the license plate was done by the north carolina legislature, that s what makes it government speech, and thus, they are not required to provide the counter argument. gregg: ann a you know, north carolina has exclusive editorial control over these plates, and there it is again, and to some extent they are regulating that private speech, are they not? that s what they can do. this is not government speech. if they want to change their state logo to choose life they can do that because people can go to the polls and decide if that s a message they want to represent. here, you are not having an open debate when you are actually prohibiting the other side from putting forth their view, that is the entire problem. this is not the first state to tkpwabl with this issu grapple