(Pictured above: Bernie Sanders, who is pushing to amend the Constitution to give much more power to the government to “regulate” (meaning fine, punish, or imprison for) (private) spending on ideological-oriented ads, pamphlets or broadcasts.) More than a dozen proposals have been introduced in the two chambers of Congress to supposedly overturn the Supreme Court’s …
Category: Free speech under siege
Jul 31
Freedom-Of-Information-Act Documents Show U.S. Military Exerting Influence on TV Programming
Trusters of government frequently complain about private-sector money in politics. They say that private-sector voices (especially business and pro-free-market voices) should be barred from spending money on ads that could influence American politics. However, the government is spending massively to influence politics, and to convince Americans that government is good and should be expanded and …
Jul 19
Wisconsin Political Police Launched Violent Armed SWAT Raid in a Witch Hunt against Political Donors
In a free society, every person has a right to say, publish and broadcast any truthful facts about anything. One can pay for a full-page ad in any newspaper (that is willing to take the money) saying what one wants to say. Increasingly, this is not the case in America. After generations of suffering setbacks …
Jul 17
Public Universities Continue their War on Freedom of Speech and Thought
There is no reason that taxpayers should be forced to OWN a university. The two justifications that are routinely offered for the existence of government universities do not stand up to scrutiny. The first claim–that public schools somehow meet the needs of the poor in ways that private institutions do not–is shattered by measurable data. …
Jul 09
ACLU’s Ira Glasser: attempts to overturn Citizens United with a constitutional amendment are “willfully, intellectually dishonest.”
Ira Glasser, long one of the ACLU’s most important legal advisers and litigators, spoke at an event put on by the Center for Competitive Politics entitled “Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years – Should Liberals Support Citizens United?” The video is here. Glasser excoriated those on “the left” for calling for a constitutional amendment …
Jul 04
Professor: Jail Climate Skeptics
Professor Lawrence Torcello an assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, has called for the arrest and prosecution of doubters of the government’s manmade-carbon-dioxide-driven-global-warming hysteria. Torcello says there is “an organised campaign funding misinformation” regarding climate change which “ought to be considered criminally negligent.” See here. Torcello is not speaking of the well …
Jul 04
U.S. Senator Calls on Justice Department to Persecute Climate Skeptics
We have previously reported on leading journalists and professors who have called for the arrests and prosecutions of those who question the government’s climate-change messaging. See here and here. Now a sitting U.S. Senator, Sheldon Whitehouse (D.-R.I.), is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to pursue (apparently civil) charges against those who disagree or question …
Jun 28
“Campaign Finance Reformers” Complain Only About Private-Sector Political Spending—While Ignoring Government Political Spending
NFL football games regularly feature displays honoring the U.S. military: moments of silence, speeches and videos honoring the troops, and even synchronized air force “flyovers” in which F-16 jets fly over NFL stadiums in formation while fans cheer. It came out in March 2015 that everything—even the moments of silence—are paid for by the U.S. …
Jun 14
“Progressive” Politicians Hiring Loads of Unpaid Interns While Lecturing the World About Inequality and Campaign-Finance Corruption
THE GUARDIAN is out with a fascinating story about the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. The Clinton campaign is employing large numbers of unpaid interns–who generally come to work for the campaign for purposes of resume’-building and view such internships as stepping stones to future career rewards. The use of unpaid interns, of course, should …
Jun 04
NSA Secretly Expands Its Powers Without Authorization–Again!
The New York Times is reporting today that the TSA has once again expanded its spying on Americans’ internet and email communications, despite the lapsing of the USA Patriot Act and a total lack of congressional authorization. The new spying apparently does have the approval of President Obama, who campaigned in 2008 that he would …
