Archive | Censorship

A growing number of “elites,” including Bill Clinton, are calling for a return of the “fairness doctrine” to talk radio, a sure indication that Congress and the new President will soon be taking on this issue. Supporters of the “fairness doctrine” are actually evading the only way to achieve true “fairness” in a free society: [...]

Were you a dictator, or merely an appointed bureaucrat or official charged with preserving a status quo by abridging, repealing, policing, or suppressing the written and spoken word of your worshipping but delusional private citizens’ troublesome thoughts and deeds, you would have a gilt-edged menu from which to select the best, tried-and-true methods to preserve [...]

The Federal Communications Commission recently asked Congress to hand it broad powers to regulate “excessive violence” on TV, the way it currently restricts “indecent” speech: broadcasters who violate the FCC’s limitations on “excessive violence” will face crippling fines and, potentially, the loss of their broadcast licenses. Isn’t it time to ask: How did a country [...]

John Kerry has gained control of the Bush campaign and has, psychologically and strategically if not yet literally, won the presidential election. While Kerry’s own party systematically decimates Bush’s competence and character for daring to actually use military force in Iraq and to cut taxes, the Kerry campaign expresses moral outrage that anyone would question [...]

Rush Limbaugh’s comment on ESPN regarding Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Donovan McNabb was: “I don’t think he’s been that good from the get go. I think what we’ve had here is a little of social concern from the NFL. The media has been desirous that a black quarterback do well.” Kweisi Mfume, NAACP’s president, criticized Limbaugh’s [...]

It is one of the sad signs of our times that a furor was created because Rush Limbaugh expressed an opinion as to why a particular quarterback seemed to him to be over-rated. In his view, it was because the powers that be in professional football were anxious to have a star quarterback who was [...]

I used to think liberals were the only ones confused over what “censorship” is. We’re all familiar with left-leaning celebs waxing political, but then when protested cry that their freedom of speech is being infringed. But recently censorship confusion came out of Nashville radio talk-show host Phil Valentine’s conservative mike. Discussing the Dixie Chicks flap, [...]

The University of Toronto Objectivist Club is having an event this Sunday entitled “The Moral Case for Supporting Israel”. The club ordered from the Ayn Rand Institute 350 complimentary copies of a pamphlet entitled “In Moral Defense of Israel”. (PDF). Yesterday morning, I received a Notice of Detention from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency [...]

The terrorist attacks of September 11, according to many college professors, have claimed another victim: free speech on campus. They contend that a chilling climate has arisen, in which they hesitate to voice ideas critical of America for fear of reprimand by university officials. At the University of Texas, for instance, when the administration criticized [...]