Despite being married, 23-year-old Alyssa Branton was stalked for months by a much older man who recently shot her dead outside her office building after she refused his advances. Despite providing more than 70 pages of documentation detailing Roger Troy’s bizarre and unwanted behavior, Branton was denied the restraining order that might have saved her…
Category: Free Speech
Highlighting a 1st Amendment Hero
Mike Adams says that Dr. Indrek Wichman is a First Amendment hero and proceeds to prove it using Wichman’s own words: Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly…
Denmark’s ex-Leader to Kowtow to Islamofacists
Michael van der Gailen reports that Denmark’s just-resigned Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen will publicly apologize to the Islamic world because Danish newspapers printed what have become known as the infamous Mohammed cartoons. If true, the reports are the latest in a long string of unfortunate moral failures on the part of European leaders in…
More Congressional Censorship, Inadvertent This Time?
I recently wrote about public libraries planning to ban older books because of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed by Congress last year. The NY City Journal has picked up on the story now that the damage seems to be spreading to retail book resellers. Not until 1985 did it become unlawful to use…
Great Britain, a Lost Country
Students singing in the choir at Arthur Bugler Primary School in Great Britain spent weeks practicing Christmas music only to be told that the songs weren’t appropriate for the Corringham "Winter Festival", an event undoubtedly once known as a Christmas Festival. The reason? The songs were "too religious". The decision was called ridiculous by parents…
Gays’ Entitlement and Incivility
The aftermath of Proposition 8’s passage in California has put the spotlight on the glaring incivility of homosexual activists in the state. Understandably disappointed, they’ve gone too far by staging high-profile personal attacks on individuals who sided against their cause. It seems that everyone in America mistakenly believes that they are entitled to have their…
Washington D.C. Endorses Atheism
Washington D.C.’s Metro Transit Authority has decided to allow the American Humanist Association to put billboards reading "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake" on its buses during the Christmas season. Sounds like an endorsement of a religious position to me. Odd how it’s A-OK to mock the faithful using public…
More (Un)Fairness Doctrine
Stephen Green knows that the Fairness Doctrine is anything but. How could it possibly represent fair outcomes given its birth in a bastard Congress and possessing a name like that? Stephen writes: If (when?) Obama is elected, by my estimation there’s an at least even chance that the newly-reconstructed FCC will reverse course and attempt…
The Intellectual Left and Censorship
It’s common knowledge that conservatives are old, white-haired, white-skinned men with money who don’t care what anyone thinks save for those like them. The corollary is that it’s the left who are the staunch defenders of freedom in everything from retroactive birth control to homosexual marriage to free speech. Everyone knows that. Unfortunately there’s one…
RNC Raids
Glen Greenwald writes that Minneapolis police were out in force today, “dropping in on” some of the Twin Cities’ hippy crowd and making them feel right at home in Minnesota. Looks like we’re gonna party like it’s 1968 again. After that little brouhaha in Chicago, no one in authority wants to see riots in their city. …