Archive | Censorship

As I noted in my last column, “The Stinking Badges of Our Federales” (June 2nd), the Department of Justice is again on the attack against freedom of speech. The occasion for this guerilla attack is a talk to be given by United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee Bill Killian during an event [...]

Obama represents the worst in people: Unaccountability, resentment, envy and unearned entitlement. He speaks to the small-minded and petty in people, and he has the “audacity” to call this “progressive.”

Every day, millions of Americans dispense advice to friends, relatives, and complete strangers through blogs, websites, and a variety of online publications. And each time they do so, many of these Americans could be risking substantial fines and perhaps even imprisonment. As an example, three years ago Steve Cooksey was rushed to the hospital in [...]

It’s much like the alignment of the planets to produce some catastrophic force, or the convergence of two storm systems: The U.S. remembers 9/11. On 9/11/2012, Muslim mobs assault the U.S. embassy in Cairo, hauling down the U.S. flag and raising the black flag of jihad. In Benghazi, Libya, hours later, another mob launches a [...]

The Democrats can’t fault the Republicans for exploiting super-PAC loopholes in McCain-Feingold, because the Democrats do it every day, as well.

Is there a correlation between the establishment of a welfare state and a trend towards censorship? Do growing restrictions of freedom of speech (e.g., the notion of “hate speech”) occur inevitably with the congealing of a welfare state or an increasing regulation and expropriation of property? Must the expropriation of private property (including money) ultimately [...]

I emailed this letter to Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, at the Department of Justice: 27 July 2012 Thomas Perez Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division Department of Justice Washington, DC Mr. Perez: Your astoundingly evasive and nearly comical response to Representative Trent Franks’s direct, simple question today, during a session of [...]

Every day, millions of Americans dispense advice to friends, relatives, and complete strangers through blogs, websites, and a variety of online publications. And each time they do so, many of these Americans could be risking substantial fines and perhaps even imprisonment. As an example, three years ago Steve Cooksey was rushed to the hospital in [...]

In Sunstein’s worldview, the First Amendment is no guarantor of “democratic deliberation.” It must be either rewritten, or complemented with legislation that will identify and regulate what the government deems as true and worthy of deliberation.