by Sara Higdon “Rights.” What are they really? Enshrined in the Constitution are basic inalienable rights that the government can’t take away. Depending on who you ask, you will get a wide range of answers. It is a word we hear people from all over the spectrum use wrong. We always hear, “Healthcare is a…
Best speech flourishes when hate speech is allowed. As Nadine Strossen, civil liberties activist and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said, “hate speech laws are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive.” Strossen’s first premise is that in countries with stricter hate speech laws, there was a rise in racist hatred…
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By Anthony Rogers How, in a country that has a Bill of Rights claiming we have Free Speech and Freedom of Press in the First Amendment, are speech and press so controlled? The goal isn’t to tell the truth or make sure everyone on the internet is honest. The goal is to manipulate people into…
Many conservatives are upset. They are upset that they cannot post their opinions, as they see fit, on various media outlets. President Trump just chimed in, using Twitter to denounce Twitter and other social media platforms by saying, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives (sic) voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them…
Mary Margaret Olohan Attorney General William Barr emphasized in a Tuesday statement that “even in times of emergency,” federal law prohibits religious discrimination. The attorney general released a statement Tuesday on religious practices and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. The statement comes after Barr intervened in a Mississippi church’s lawsuit against Greenville police who…
Stay at home, and you will live… at least for a while, but would you trade a life of alleged security for a life of servitude for your family and your children? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIvRkjOd1f8 Sons and daughters of the American Republic, you are citizens of a country that was forged over 243 years ago with a…
The Great Depression… The Great Recession… But what are we in today? This government-caused economic downturn is unlike anything we have ever experienced. Never have we seen anything of this magnitude. So, what should this recent catastrophe be called? Gene Epstein has coined the term ‘The Great Suppression’. How government has suppressed business The economy…
Chris White Facebook, YouTube and other big tech companies are not bound to abide by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a court ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to conservatives online. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision came in a case brought by Prager University, a nonprofit that produces videos promoting conservative positions on…
The next several years may be among the most important for the future of free speech since the United States’ founding. The parameters of the United States’ centuries-old debate on the First Amendment are undergoing rapid and irreversible change driven by an explosion in information and communication technology. Before the widespread adoption of social media,…
The Queens will march on the Missouri Capitol and the librarians will not be silent as the evangelical right rallies behind southwest Missouri Representative Ben Baker. Since Representative Baker introduced his HB2044 Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, outrage has continued to grow, making national headlines. The bill would establish elected parental review boards to…