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"It should be off-limits, but it wasn't this week," said the Northern Irishman after Europe's 15-13 win over the United States on Sunday.

If we allow a regime in which political pressure, regulatory power and corporate compliance render most commentary off-limits, we concede that speech is licensed — and not free.

Non-public areas of hospitals and emergency rooms are also off-limits to officers who do not have judicial warrants or court orders.

But those areas are already off-limits for protests, although there have been complaints of uneven enforcement of rules.

No topic was off-limits, and no president was beyond lampoon.