Free Speech
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Just STOP!!!
Last week, free and open political discourse was shut down by an assassin's bullet. We can't have that, and we must stop the poisonous rhetoric that makes it more likely.
Ghouls Argue Charlie Kirk Had It Coming
After the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated and martyred on Wednesday, many Americans today seem to be litigating whether he deserved to be shot in the throat.
The Siren Song of Despair
That Charlie Kirk was shot while he engaged in act of peaceful persuasion makes his murder all the more devastating.
Britain, Land of the Unfree
"You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail."
EU Speech Regulations Will Affect Americans
The threat posed to America's First Amendment free speech rights by tyrannical speech restrictions in Europe and the UK is real and requires attention.
Irish Comedian Arrested for Jokes
Free speech is all but dead in the United Kingdom, where offending the wrong people with humor can get you detained by police and tossed in the clink.
Trump, Flag Burning, and 3-D Chess
The president knows full well that flag burning is protected speech under the First Amendment, but there's a shrewd political angle to his executive order.
Trump Does Away With Debanking
While it's only an executive order and therefore doesn't have the permanence of law, Donald Trump, himself a victim of the vile practice, has hit the debankers with a haymaker.
Colbert, NPR, and 'Free' Speech
In the wake of a bad week for subsidized speech, the Left is once again showing that it doesn't understand the first thing about the First Amendment.
IRS Allows Politics in Church
The IRS, in settling a lawsuit, is reasserting free speech protections by agreeing to an interpretation of the Johnson Amendment that permits churches to endorse political candidates.
Good News: Leftist Knockoff Bluesky Is Flailing
The communistic social media echo chamber is dominated by progressive scolds and is too toxic even for some diehard leftists. The death throes have apparently begun.
Is Inciting Violence Free Speech?
Calling for the destruction of Western civilization, death to America, and attacking people because of their religious ethnicity is sedition.
Biden's 57 Varieties of Censorship
A new report lists an astounding array of government-led initiatives meant to attack and erode free speech.
Can the GOP Dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex?
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt says doing so must be a GOP imperative.
DEI Is Not Free Speech
It's great that the Left has rediscovered the First Amendment, but that's not really the issue here.
What Is It With Germany and Thought Police?
German authorities are not going to save the country from Nazis by behaving like Nazis themselves.
The Media's Un-American Ambush of Vance's Endorsement of Free Speech
On Friday, the vice president descended into a European den of censorious socialists to deliver a principled lecture on free speech and free elections.
Freedom Means Free Speech, Vance Tells Europe
The vice president headed to Germany to remind our allies what undergirds free societies.
Trump Tackles Censorship
Another executive order deals with how government interfaces with Big Tech.