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You Can’t Say That!

April 18th, 2011

By Nancy Morgan It’s now official: The truth shall no longer set you free. In our new era of political correctness, the truth is more liable to get you penalized, demonized or fired. Last week, a female juror in a high-profile American mafia murder trial found this out the hard way. When asked on a [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: Bell Curve, freedom of speech, IQ, jury duty, PC, politically correct, race
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The Truth Will Get You Jailed

October 12th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “The truth will set you free?” Don’t be ridiculous, that’s only a dark notion from our distant past! In our modern, enlightened age, we know that questions of truth are unimportant, compared to whether that truth is offensive or not. Sounds outlandish? Crazy? Or maybe secretly deep down somewhere you like it, but [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: freedom of speech, Geert Wilders, immigration, Islam, Netherlands, trial
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Against Free Speech II

March 24th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin First Glenn Beck, now Ann Coulter. Only this time it wasn’t a couple of braindead liberals yakking it up on the news with no actual power to enforce their whims, it was a University of Ottawa bureaucrat accusing Coulter of “pre-crime” after learning that Ann was slated to give a speech at the [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Canada, Coulter, freedom of speech, University of Ottawa
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No Means No

February 5th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech….” You’d think that would be a pretty simple statement to understand. No means no, and it doesn’t matter what sort of special case you think you’ve found or what great excuse you’ve managed to dredge up, you don’t get to legislate against [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: campaign financing, Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, freedom of speech
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Freedom and Religion

December 27th, 2009

By Tom Carter According to a report by WBBM, the Chicago CBS affiliate, a kerfuffle over religion erupted a few days ago in the Illinois state capitol building in Springfield. Seems there were a variety of religion-related displays in the capitol. They included a nativity scene, a Christmas tree, a Soldiers’ Angels wreath, a tabletop display from the ACLU [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: establishment clause, First Amendment, freedom of speech, religion
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Free Speech and Flag Burning

July 5th, 2009

Eugene Volokh stated in an article on July 3: Congress is once again considering a constitutional amendment to ban the desecration of the American flag. The proposal, introduced this spring in the Senate by David Vitter (R., La.), and cosponsored by 20 other Republicans and Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, probably won’t get enough votes. Yet [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: flag burning, freedom of speech
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