by Blake Neff CNN contributor and progressive activist Sally Kohn criticized free speech advocacy during a Friday debate at the University of Missouri (MU), saying such advocacy was really just an excuse for attacking multiculturalism and other progressive attitudes. Kohn was at MU as part of a two-day symposium on the topic of campus free speech. Kohn’s…
Jonah Bennett Facebook recently banned the profile of respected journalist and academic Jonathan Spyer for mentioning the threat radical Islam poses to Europe, then later reinstated his account without explanation. The Middle East analyst and senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center had written a brief post mentioning specific keywords such as “Islamist” and…
Must you be a Liberal or a Conservative? Aya Katz Some people assume…
by Caitlin Grimes Last year, Nebraska became the 18th state to abolish the death penalty. Unlike other states, Nebraska’s legislature is unicameral and nonpartisan. There are conservatives, progressives, and libertarians serving in the state senate, but there are no Republican or Democratic caucuses influencing votes. As such, the historic decision proves how much common ground…
By Joel Kurtinitis One of the most impeachable dereliction of the modern libertarian movement is its blatant disregard of – or support for – government attacks on religious liberty. The Gary Johnson complex, as I’ve come to call it, is not grounded in any libertarian ideology – a fact that fellow candidate Austin Petersen ripped…
By Blake Neff A group of researchers has issued a dramatic corrections to a paper that linked political conservatism with psychotic traits. The paper in question was “Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies,” authored by Brad Verhulst and Lindon Eaves of Virginia Commonwealth University along with Peter Hatemi of Penn State University. The paper investigated the…
Yesterday, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) slammed Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, on Twitter. This comes after he said he would consider voting for the Libertarian Party ticket and announced he would not be voting for either Trump or Clinton. Notes for October:Johnson is pro-abortion, pro-exec overreach, bad on religious liberty & naive…
By Blake Neff David French announced Sunday night he will not be running for president, ending his unexpected candidacy before it even began. “Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president…
By Bruce Cohen If you haven’t heard of Mary Matalin, you haven’t been paying attention. At least, not to politics. Her Website www.Matalin.info says this about her: …served under President Ronald Reagan, made her marks George H.W. Bush’s Campaign director and most recently as assistant to President George W. Bush, and as assistant and counselor to Vice…
Right wing websites are up in arms this week after Gizmodo broke a story detailing how Facebook allegedly suppresses conservative news sites and stories. While conservative sites have been up in arms, many libertarians have rushed to defend Facebook; after all, a private company may do what it wants with its own site. Right? Not…