Tag Archives: Free Speech

Be Sure to Tune in Tomorrow Morning at 8:40 AM ET

Another Monday and another trip to the super secret studios to talk about the New Media, Free Speech, GraniteGrok, and politics in NH and the Nation. Tune in at 8:40 am ET to hear what’s on tap this week with the … Continue reading

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Congressman Proposes Bill to Control Speech

Maryland Congressman Anthony Brown has proposed legislation that would force every American college to define rules for acceptable speech. It includes federal money for small schools that need assistance in meeting the laws reporting and enforcement requirements. Rules that, if not followed could result … Continue reading

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Liberal Objection to Google’s Power Never Translates to their Obsession With Government

Gizmodo like most liberal mouthpieces, worries about the overreaching power of monopolistic behemoths like Google. Google started out as a company dedicated to ensuring the best access to information possible, but as it’s grown into one of the largest and most profitable … Continue reading

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Professor Calls For Selective Censorship to Reign in ‘Cheap Speech’

In an August, 18th Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Richard L. Hasen, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine, offered his insight into the problem of “cheap speech.” Framing the context in an opening paragraph that fingers … Continue reading

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A Discussion about the “Not-See” Party

f you insist that your marches are about peaceful protest why do you brook masked and hooded thugs bent on using violence and intimidation to suppress or stop that speech? This week Rich and I explore how the Democrats and Progressives … Continue reading

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Entitled Loud Mouths

They want to order off the Chinese menu of modernity, picking and choosing the dishes they like, while at the same time cursing the cuisine and the culture that created it. It’s like Hollywood lefties who crap on America, the … Continue reading

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Adhocracy, Why the Progressives are against Free Speech

Remember when the Democrats unanimously voted to repeal the First Amendment back in 2014? Remember when Hillary wanted to curtail free speech when it pertains to politicians? And how about all those times over the past several years when Progressives and leftists … Continue reading

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Unlikely Allies Join Fight To Protect Free Speech On The Internet

“I think Richard Spencer and I wouldn’t agree on hardly anything,” he says. “But on the issues of whether these (internet) companies should be able to control what I can and can’t hear, I think in principle we have to … Continue reading

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Just 28% Think Americans Have True Freedom of Speech Today

Few Americans think they have true freedom of speech today and think the country is too politically correct. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 28% of American Adults think Americans have true freedom of … Continue reading

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Maybe 99.7% of Boston Anti-Free-Speech Protesters Were Not There for Peaceful Purposes

This morning Chief Nick Willard asked me about the 99.9% (or 99.7%) of protesters whom the Boston Police commissioners claimed were in the city for a peaceful demonstration. I said (paraphrasing) he couldn’t possibly know that but if 40,000™ people showed up … Continue reading

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