freedom of speech

Trump’s Assault On the First Amendment Takes Root In Public Louisiana High School

Trump’s Assault On the First Amendment Takes Root In Public Louisiana High School

In a tweet, Shaun King shared a chilling announcement from a public high school principle in Louisiana. It's the first…

7 years ago

Opinion: U.N. Condemns Republican Bills Criminalizing Peaceful Protests

Since January 2017 a number of undemocratic bills that if enacted into law, threatens one of the United States’ constitutional…

7 years ago

Woman Uses Baseball Bat On Preacher Known For “You Deserve to Be Raped” Sign

A preacher who has spent years spewing hate speech at students and at public events learned there are physical consequences…

8 years ago

Scott Walker’s Illegal Arrests Of Protesters May Cost Wisconsin Taxpayers $1 million

Walker's attempt to abolish unions and ordering the arrest of protestors exercising their Constitutionally-protected freedom to assemble peaceably to seek…

9 years ago

Hey Everybody, You’re Not for Free Speech if You Are Only for Your Own

The Pope said, "You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people's faith, you cannot mock it" but mocks critics of…

9 years ago

It’s Time to Give Anti-Choice Zealots A Taste of Their Own Medicine

Freedom of speech goes both ways and it is high time to give back to religious extremists what they dole…

10 years ago

Darrell Issa Hid The Truth About Benghazi For a Year While Attacking President Obama

Darrell Issa who has had the same information the New York Times reported for over a year and sat on…

10 years ago

Republican Hypocrites Can’t Hide From the Hypocrisy Behind Their Duck Dynasty Outrage

For Americans with half-a-brain, the conservative hypocrisy is as glaring as the subjects conservatives are certain their older, whiter, and…

10 years ago

Mike Huckabee Defends Phil Robertson With a Paranoid Rant Against Militant Homosexuals

What Huckabee and the religious right object to is losing what they consider religious freedom to impose their rules on…

10 years ago

A&E’s Decision to Suspend Phil Robertson Is Not a Freedom of Speech Issue

Whether or not one is inclined towards intellectual masochism by watching A&E's "Duck Dynasty," the decision to suspend one of…

10 years ago

The Religious Right Champions Moral Relativism in Defense of Phil Robertson

All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right's insistence that they have a right to say…

10 years ago

MSNBC Helped Sarah Palin Muzzle the 1st Amendment By Not Supporting Martin Bashir

What MSNBC accomplished by not supporting Bashir's 1st Amendment right was to muzzle and pre-censor the rest of the network's…

10 years ago

No Longer a Frontier: Free Speech vs. Online Ugliness

This week Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation denounced tech companies and employers who censor or punish online ugliness.…

11 years ago

Vaginas and Uteruses and Republicans, Oh My!

Republicans must talk about vaginas given the laws they've been making but they're not about to extend Democrats the same…

12 years ago

Bill Maher’s Defense of the Indefensible

Bill Maher attempted to defend Rush Limbaugh's freedom of speech but attacked our right to be to be offended, our…

12 years ago

Do You Love Your Freedoms? Sarah Palin Has Citizen Kicked Out for T-Shirt

Sarah Palin had a woman escorted out of her book signing today in Alaska. The woman's crime was the t-shirt…

13 years ago

The Republican Siren Song of Sedition

Throughout my life I’ve never hated someone’s message so much that I wanted to shut him or her down by…

14 years ago