By Blake Neff The president of DePaul University announced Monday he is resigning from his post, after enduring weeks of attacks for how he handled a visit by conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos. Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, a Vincentian Catholic priest, says his decision to step down was made months ago, but it’s difficult to ignore the…
By Chris White The Democratic attorney general in U.S. Virgin Islands dismisses claims he’s violated the Constitution’s First Amendment with his inquisition targeting fossil fuel companies and global warming. Claude Walker, the attorney general for the U.S. territory based in the Caribbean islands, was reacting to claims made in a court motion by the free…
By Casey Harper Flying Dog Brewery, responsible for the Raging Bitch IPA, is taking the winnings from a long legal battle and using it to start a free speech group. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit awarded Flying Dog Brewery $40,000 in March of 2015. Now, the brewery is using the money to…
By Casey Harper A Christian calligraphy studio is suing the city of Phoenix over its LGBT non-discrimination ordinance, the latest dust-up in a slew of same-sex legal battles nationwide. Lawyers for Brush & Nib, a calligraphy studio run by two Christian women who sell hand paintings and calligraphy for weddings and events, filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the Phoenix LGBT…
By Lina Bryce This is the year to say goodbye to President Obama‘s liberal policies draining our economy and the year Republicans would nominate a true Conservative, but Donald Trump isn’t exactly a conservative. Now what? While it may seem like a good idea to have a successful business man taking the helm of our hurting Republic, Donald Trump isn’t much…
When it comes to free speech that is used to oppose his quest for political power, Donald Trump turns to authoritarian threats — in this case, threats of taxation and “trust busting.” by Joey Clark As so-called “dangerous faggots” (who are really just frivolous trolls) carry on their blather about Donald Trump being a champion for radical…
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by Lina Bryce Hilde Kate Lysiak is not your average 9-year-old — she’s also the reporter, editor, and publisher of Orange Street News who ruffled some feathers by breaking a story about a murder that occurred in her hometown of Selinsgrove, PA. Apparently following in the footsteps of her father Matthew Lysiak, an author and former New York Daily News reporter,…
Luke Rosiak George Washington University is paying rapper Action Bronson not to perform at its Spring Fling after some students protested that he had once written — but does not perform — a song called “Consensual Rape.” He was scheduled to headline the school’s spring concert Saturday, but its events board canceled him at…
Millennials. They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty. But are they ready for it? Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have…
Blake Neff The California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) professor who denounced a group of campus conservatives as white supremacists and offered to fight them, has authored an angry response email to The Daily Caller News Foundation, accusing the publication of libel. Over the weekend, assistant sociology professor Robert Weide became deeply upset over an event planned…