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Both mandatory unions and mandatory professional organizations are antithetical to Constitutional Free Speech *UPDATED*

Tweet The State Bar of California, which I have to pay into in order to practice law in the State of California, long-ago abandoned its core responsibility of ensuring that people who hold themselves out as lawyers to California citizens are at least minimally qualified.  As with all these mandatory organizations, it’s turned into a [...]

Life imitates South Park

Tweet I’m not much of a TV watcher to begin with, so I guess it’s unsurprising that South Park isn’t part of my repertoire.  That explains how I missed the fact that, a few years ago, South Park predicted with uncanny accuracy the government’s response to the Mohamed video.

“Rid the world of those savages!”

Tweet Froggy, who blogs at BlackFive, attended the funeral of Ty Woods, one of the former Navy SEALS who died trying to defend the consulate in Benghazi that State Department policy left completely exposed.  Dorothy Woods, Ty’s widow, had the emotional strength to deliver a powerful eulogy for her husband.  Froggy was especially struck by [...]

Jonah Goldberg gets to the heart of the matter about Islam and the First Amendment

Tweet I wish I’d said it this well: It’s really quite amazing. In Pakistan, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being harassed, brutalized, and even murdered, often with state support, or at least state indulgence. And let’s not even talk about the warm reception Jews receive in much of the Muslim world. And yet, [...]

Have you ever heard of a book called “The Master and Margarita?”

Tweet I was doodling about on that Folio Society site I told you about, and I came across a book I’ve never heard of:  The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov.  Here’s the product description: ‘Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there’s no stopping it’ On a hot spring afternoon in Moscow, a [...]

A brilliant display of grassroots conservative wit

Tweet There’s nothing funny about the Obama administration’s decision to trample on the First Amendment in its rush to placate radical Islamists.  Well, almost nothing.  If you give the conservative masses a crack at their still functioning right to free expression, you end up with marvelous examples of political wit.  Here are a few of [...]

Glenn Reynolds explains why Obama should resign

Tweet If you read nothing else today, nothing else this week, or even nothing else before the election, you must read Glenn Reynolds as he explains why Obama should resign.  Then, email it to all your friends, tweet it, put it on Facebook, and print flyers to put on people’s windshields.  (Just kidding . . [...]

Did Obama just deal another blow to Free Speech? *UPDATED*

Tweet Obama made a statement today.  Here is the official transcript of what he said (emphasis mine): I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts [...]

American embassy in Cairo appears to embrace sharia speech codes *UPDATED*

Tweet Yes, I understand that the embassy in Cairo is besieged but it does strike me as cowardly to abandon core principles as this juncture (emphasis mine): U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement September 11, 2012 The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings [...]

Angelina’s arrogance perfectly exemplifies the Left’s refusal to engage

Tweet A woman named Jane Pitt recently exercised her Free Speech rights by sending a letter to a local paper castigating Obama for supporting same-sex marriage and urging people to vote for Romney, because he will support traditional marriage.  She was predictably savaged by Leftists who didn’t merely challenge her beliefs, but effortlessly went to [...]

Anti-bullying is simply another way of saying “paralyzing political correctness.”

Tweet Dan Savage made a name for himself as the face of the “anti-bullying” campaign sweeping America’s schools.  He’s gotten lots of money, lots of media face-time, and lots of access within the Obama administration because of his “peaceable” message.  Savage’s own behavior, though, makes clear that his anti-bullying message is just another Leftist scam, [...]

Maryland judge confused about Free Speech and the marketplace of ideas

Tweet I bet all of you all remember “Everyone Blog About Bret Kimberlin Day.”  After all, it took place less than a week ago.  For those unfamiliar with it, this is the way it worked: Conservatives bloggers learned that Brett Kimberlin, using both the legal system and a bit of self-help, was harassing those bloggers [...]

Friday is Everybody Blog About #BrettKimberlin Day *UPDATED*

Tweet [I've added a newer post, with more links and more facts here.] Before today, I’d been aware of Brett Kimberlin in only the vaguest possible way, since his name suddenly seemed to be popping on various sites I visit.  Since his name didn’t actually ring any bells, I didn’t stop to educate myself about [...]

Lynch mobs and hit lists

“The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money”, writes Strassel.

Free speech’s slow death England

Tweet I’ve been following a free speech story out of England and have been meaning to blog about it.  Since the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, I never did get around to writing that post.  Fortunately, someone else did, and a whole lot better than I would have done so.

Unmaking ourselves in a foolish effort to placate an intransigent foe

Tweet This video is a year old but, especially with the latest Koran burning “scandal,” is as pertinent now as it was when first made: Hat tip: W”B”S

#BillMaher gives a lovely example of the way the Left uses itself as the template for what’s fair

Tweet I always love it when Leftist idiocy highlights some sort of life lesson I just imparted to young people.  Today’s life lesson is that fairness should be a reasonably objective standard, rather than one that, as Bill Maher would have it, depends on whether you, personally, are benefiting from the standard imposed. Back in [...]

Even the affable, slightly generic, left-of-center Jay Leno cannot escape the hurt feelings of the political correctness crowd

Tweet Back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, when political correctness first floated into the realm of mainstream culture, everyone thought it was the same as being nice or having good manners.  It’s not.  Good manners, to my mind, means assuring that the people around you feel comfortable.  Political correctness means controlling people’s thoughts and [...]

Free speech for me but not for thee

Tweet American universities pay lip service to multiculturalism and inclusiveness, but one of their despicable secrets is that, while conservative and Jewish speakers are ignored or shouted down with no push-back whatsoever from the university administrations, pro-Palestinian speakers are given a bully pulpit.  The worse their rhetoric — the more anti-inflammatory and antisemitic — the [...]

“In God We Trust” banned in California classrooms

Tweet Do you have any spare change lying around?  Yes?  I thought you might. My dollar coins say “In God We Trust.” My dollar bills say “In God We Trust.” My quarters say “In God We Trust.” My dimes say “In God We Trust.” My nickels say “In God We Trust.” My pennies say “In [...]

The true new McCarthyism

Tweet Ted Rall, who is to the left of Left, reveals today’s dirty little secret: It feels a little weird to write this, like I’m telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But it’s true: there’s less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under [...]

Geert Wilders’ speech in Tennessee deserves the widest possible distribution *UPDATED*

Tweet Everyone should read this speech. Everyone. While the media swooned about Obama’s Cairo speech (in which he lauded veiling women and ignored thousands of years of Jewish ties to Israel), and Obama’s race speech (in which he insulted white people), and Obama’s recent immigration speech (in which he demonized people who fear the risks [...]

It is NO BIG DEAL that a Jewish publication got rid of Hillary’s picture

Tweet There is much breast-beating amongst the usual suspects about the fact that an Orthodox Jewish newspaper deleted all female images from the Situation Room picture the White House issued after bin Laden’s death.  Hillary was one of those deleted. The deletion was technically a violation of federal policy, but given the way in which [...]

Free speech, in all its glorious ugliness

Tweet Barry Rubin sounds a tocsin at Pajamas Media about the way in which political correctness is slowly but steadily eroding free speech in America, leaving us to speech norms more commonly seen in repressive Middle Eastern countries.  As he explains, there’s a reason “the authors of the American Constitution forbade limits on freedom of [...]

Michael Haltman of the Watcher’s Council weighs in on the Koran burning

Tweet I agree completely with Michael, who blogs at Political Commentator and is a Watcher’s Council member: He’s a very solid speaker, sounding more controlled and stable than the gal interviewing him.