Sharia continues to strangle free speech

Jun 19, 2009 - PUBLIC POST +++++++++++++++++++ Sharia continues to strangle free speech By Diana West COPENHAGEN, Denmark — I am being patted down by a female Danish security officer in the basement of the parliament building in Copenhagen and I have a thought. I have just triggered the metal detector — my heels, I'm sure — en route upstairs to the Landstingssalen, formerly the parliament's upper house. There, I am scheduled to deliver a speech at the invitation of the Danish Free Press Society, or Trykkefrihedsselskabet. - 15 Comments

Sotomayor - Anti- Free Speech

May 29, 2009 - PUBLCI POST +++++++++++++++++++++++ BLOG TEEN'S SUPREME IRE RIPS SONIA AS A FOE OF FREE SPEECH By JENNIFER FERMINO BATTLE: Avery Doninger was barred from holding student office over a blog vulgarity, and Sonia Sotomayor backed the girl'sConnecticut school. A Connecticut teen who used a vulgar epithet on a personal blog to describe her school's administrators never imagined someone like Sonia Sotomayor would stand in the way of her student-government career. But the Supreme Court nominee did just that last year, when she sided with school brass, which had barred the ambitious student from holding office over the offending blog entry. - 35 Comments

Free speech for me, not for thee

Oct 03, 2008 - Free speech for me, not for thee By Rich Lowry Barack Obama has already brought change. He's ended the "chilling effect." Any restrictions on speech — real or imagined — were once inevitably deemed to have a "chilling effect" on people who would otherwise exercise their First Amendment rights if they weren't so frightened by the possibility of running afoul of the law. - 2 Comments

Campus Leftists Don't Believe in Free Speech

Apr 18, 2009 - Campus Leftists Don't Believe in Free Speech By DAVID HOROWITZ I arrived in Austin, Texas, one evening recently to give a speech about academic freedom at the university there. Entering the hall where I was to give my speech, I was greeted -- if that's the word -- by a raucous protest organized by a professor and self-styled Bolshevik, Dana Cloud. Forty protesters hoisted placards high in the air and robotically chanted "Down With Horowitz," "Racist Go Home," and "No More Witch-hunts." - 92 Comments

Is Exercising Your Rights of Free Speech Terrorism Now?

Apr 21, 2009 - John Ziegler was arrested at USC because he disagreed with Katie Couric getting an award for her interview with Sarah Palin. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=320633 - 27 Comments

Pushback sought against talk radio censorship

Jun 14, 2009 - PUBLIC POST * Coalition says coming hearing on FCC nominee critical Posted: June 12, 2009 11:05 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily The chief of a coalition set up to fight attacks on America's First Amendment rights has issued a warning that Tuesday will be a pivotal point in the history of free speech, as the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing for Julius Genachowski. President Barack Obama's longtime pal is his pick to be chief of the Federal Communications Commission, but is causing nightmares among the U.S. talk radio industry members because of his views Syndicated talk radio host Roger Hedgecock of San Diego, who was picked by members of the American Radio Free Speech Foundation to be the chief of its Don't Touch My Dial campaign, said censorship, racial quotas for radio stations, and other new demands from the government are inevitable if Genachowski is confirmed. - 6 Comments

Urgent, full-court press for 'hate crimes' bill

Apr 28, 2009 - Regardless of what you think about any particular issue, freedom of speech, thought and public discussion is critical to American life. ========================================================================================= PUBLIC POST * Urgent, full-court press for 'hate crimes' bill Vote looms on legislation that could outlaw preaching on homosexuality Posted: April 27, 2009 11:38 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn House Democrats have announced a vote could come as early as tomorrow on a "hate crimes" bill that supporters admit might allow federal officials to prosecute Christians who speak out against homosexual behavior. The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, or H.R. - 10 Comments

U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine'

Apr 28, 2009 - PUBLIC POST * U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine' Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail Posted: April 27, 2009 8:41 pm Eastern WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period. The revelations about Cass Sunstein, Obama's friend from the University of Chicago Law School and nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, come in a new book by Brad O'Leary, "Shut Up, America! - 12 Comments

Geert Wilders, European Islam and Fitna

Jan 24, 2009 - * PUBLIC POST ** Please be civil. I was impressed with FITNA specifically because it did not preach, it only reported. Personally, I found it to be unexpectedly objective. - 18 Comments