Tag: free speech
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If you were Ozzie Guillen you’d be fired
I like Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen. He’s an old school manager a la Billy Martin — hard-drinking, profane with a high baseball IQ. Politically, he’s not what you’d call bright. The fracas started over the weekend, when Time magazine published an interview on its website in which the Marlins skipper said he “loved” Castro. “I respect…
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‘The most seriously professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson’ doesn’t understand the 1st Amendment
Professor Newt demonstrates a fundamentally profound misunderstanding of Amendment 1. “We’re going to serve notice on future debates,” [Gingrich] told Fox. “We’re just not going to allow that to happen. That’s wrong. The media doesn’t control free speech. People ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to.” To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the media…
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Thank Allah for the First Amendment
Andrew Sullivan underscores the importance of the First Amendment following a British judge’s wrongheaded decision to fine a Muslim extremist for orchestrating a vile protest during an Armistice Day ceremony. The same goes with charges (ultimately dropped) against a preacher in Cumbria inveighing against homosexuality on the sidewalk. Ditto Britain’s banning of Fred Phelps compared…
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Republicans demand broader powers for Obama justice department
You know the Republicans have lost their way when they vigorously argue in favor of something they warned against just two years ago. Remember hearing conservatives insist that Obama was going to revive the Fairness Doctrine as part of his Marxist plot to give Omar Sharif his own show on government-run radio? I understand if…
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Prosecuting hate speech is more dangerous than hate speech
In the UK, it’s against the law to declare homosexuality a sin. Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. The 42-year-old Baptist, who has preached…
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yale censors controversial cartoons from book about controversial cartoons
Score another one for Ivy League cowardice. Those who would sacrifice liberty for security … well, you know the rest by now.
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