American voters are best informed when every voice is free and the mails and airwaves are filled with divergent views, forcefully expressed. Under the First Amendment, every American has the right to write, speak, broadcast and publicize his political views without government interference or permission. Recently, however, an army of well-meaning but misguided “reformers” have …
Tag: Free speech under siege
May 04
Central Planners Now Dominate Election Spending, While Claiming Elections Are Bought by Free-Market Capitalists
There was a time, generations ago, when self-described “liberals” were the biggest proponents of free speech. This was probably because the speech and publications of “liberals” were historically singled out for censorship and persecution more than the speech of any other sector of the American population. Today, the First Amendment’s protections of free speech and …