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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Thirty Churches To Challenge IRS By Endorsing Candidate From The Pulpit

As most of you know, churches as organizations aren’t allowed to get political.  They can’t endorse campaigns and they can’t criticize political candidates in an official way.  This is because…...

Thursday, August 14, 2008

47% Of Americans Support The Fairness Doctrine

A sad commentary on the state of free speech in America. Nearly half of Americans (47%) believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts…...

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Judges Ok Free Speech Cages At Democrat Convention

The Democrats like to flirt with the hippies and 9/11 truthers, but they don’t want them stinking up their convention.  And now they’ve got the law on their side. And…...

Monday, June 30, 2008

More On The Free Speech Cages At The Democrat Convention

Last week I posted about plans to put protesters at this year’s national Democrat convention in fenced-in cages (don’t worry, they’ll be open on top!).  Now the Denver Post is…...

Friday, June 27, 2008

Nancy Pelosi Wants To Limit Free Speech Of Conservatives

You see, conservative talk radio is a huge advantage for Republicans.  Nancy Pelosi would like to remove that advantage.  Because denying conservative talkers the right to free speech is “fair.”…...

Monday, June 23, 2008

Protesters Not Happy About Plan To Put Them In Cages At Democrat Convention

The plan right now is for those protesting the Democrat convention to be herded into pre-designated, wire-surrounded areas where nobody will see them. City officials on Monday released additional details…...

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Bar In Trouble Over “Racist” Obama/Monkey Shirts

Just for the record, according to the liberal left this is acceptable political commentary: This is not: Personally, I don’t find monkey-comparisons to be all that advantageous to political debate…...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

New York Times To Hillary: Give Up And Let Us Crown Obama Already

The editorial board at the New York Times is clearly tired of the Democrat primary race and all the in-fighting it is creating.  Clearly, they’re anxious to get back to…...

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Spontaneous Dancers Arrested In Front Of Jefferson Memorial

Sigh... Tonight, a group of about 20 D.C.-area libertarians headed down to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial for some flash mob fun. The prank was harmless revelry: To ring in Jefferson’s…...

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Free Speech Is Fading Away In Canada

That the Canadian government is letting foolishness like this go on is an indictment of that country’s claim to be a free society, and rather ironic given that it’s coming…...

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Obama Supporter Ticketed For Calling Black Kids In A Tree “Monkeys”

Personally, I’m not so much upset about the “monkey” comment (seems like an innocent enough term to use for little kids climbing in trees whatever their racial background) as I…...

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Leftists Protest Karl Rove Speech, Crowd Calls For A Tasing

Someone like Karl Rove getting harassed and heckled by leftists during a speech is nothing new, but the calls for a tasing are a new phenomena: I think you’d be…...

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Media Shield Law Still In Question

As it should be. Media types talk a lot about accountability for politicians, but what about accountability for reporters and their sources?  A shield law preventing reporters from being compelled…...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Harvard Study Illustrates Correlation Between Negative Media Stories And Increased Attacks In Iraq

Meaning, in plain terms, that negative media stories about the war seem to embolden terrorist attacks.  Which means that a lot of the defeatist rhetoric coming from the Democrats and…...

Shopping Mall Prepares Itself For Influx Of Anti-Military Protesters

Why in the world does law enforcement tolerate this sort of thing? Fort Lewis officials are alerting soldiers and their families to avoid the Tacoma Mall between noon and 5:30…...

Monday, March 10, 2008

Kid Gets Detention For Wearing T-Shirt With A Gun On It

A t-shirt honoring a fallen Iraq veteran, to boot. LANCASTER, Pa. - The family of a middle school student who was given detention for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image…...

Karl Rove Welcomed With Liberal Tolerance At University Of Iowa

And by “liberal tolerance” I of course mean students who constantly ...

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

“Net Neutrality” Is “The Fairness Doctrine” For The Internet

And make no doubt about it, the powers that be are very interested in controlling what kind of information is available on the internet. ...

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Human Rights Activists?

Apparently people out burning the Danish flag to protest the country’s allowing media outlets to publish cartoons of Mohammed without punishment are now “human rights activists.” Pakistani human rights activists…...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

UN Pressures Google Into Banning Critic

The bureaucrats at the United Nations aren’t going to brook any dissent from scrappy internet commentators, and Google is going to help them out with it. ...beginning Feb. 13, Google…...

Monday, February 18, 2008

North Dakota Indian Tribes Banish Again, This Time A Health Care Provider

First the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe banished me for writing about the poverty, crime and rampant substance abuse which exists on the reservation.  Now the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe has banished…...

Obama’s Campaign Funding Dilemma

What does he do? Keep his word, or make himself a liar to cash in? A year ago, at the beginning of his bid to secure the clean-up-Washington mantle, Barack…...

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Atheletes Being Forced To Give Up Their Free Speech In Advance Of Beijing Olympics

Pathetic... British athletes who want to compete in the summer Olympics will be required to sign a contract promising not to make statements critical of the communist regime’s human rights…...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Mike Huckabee Would Like To Outlaw Political Criticism Not Approved By The Candidates

In other words, Huckabee would like to outlaw free speech.  During an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition Huckabee responded to accusations of push-polling in South Carolina by saying that he’s…...

Sunday, January 13, 2008

The State Of Free Speech In Canada Is Not Good

Here is Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard, appearing in a hearing before a Canadian government “human rights commission.” Levant is being questioned for publishing the now-infamous “Mohammed cartoons”…...

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Judge Rules That Anti-Hillary Film Is Campaign Advertising

And thus subject to all the arcane rules, regulations and limitations the federal government burdens political speech with. WASHINGTON (AP) - The early reviews are in, and three federal judges…...

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Canadian Muslims Versus Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn has long been one of my favorite columnists and authors.  He’s almost always right in his analysis, and he writes in a smart manner that is also so…...

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Banned For Life For Criticizing Homosexuality

In Canada. Now, I don’t personally have a problem with homosexuality.  I figure that what consenting adults do with one another is their business.  But this goes beyond gay issues…...

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Tom Brokaw: Blogs And Video Games Are Cancerous

From a recent interview between Brokaw and Hugh Hewitt: HH: NBC ran the Virginia Tech killer tape on the day they obtained it. Steve Capus, Brian Williams made that decision.…...

Friday, December 07, 2007

Newt Gingrich Gives NBC A Smackdown Over Refusal To Run Troop-Thanking Ad

He goes so far as to actually call for a boycott. His point about NBC giving away 35 hours of air time for Al Gore to proselytize about global warming…...

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