Once a government…
A friend of mine recently tagged me on Facebook to ask my opinion on this. Below is my response with some enhancements and additions. * * * * * Quoting for acce...
Category: Free speech
Speech and consequences
Yep, I’m jumping on this bandwagon. Talking about Roseanne. Or rather what others have been saying in the wake of her recent firing that boils down to thi...
As we leave 2017
One lesson all of us should learn ahead of this Christmas given everything that’s happened politically in 2017 and also 2016: RIGHTS limit how the governm...
Misconstruing free speech – #TrumpCup
On November 18, a woman named Sam Montgomery posted this to Twitter: I work at the Starbucks in Lexington, Kentucky and if anybody asks me to write Trump on the...
Violence as speech
A disturbing trend has taken root in the United States and much of the Western world. And it is the redefinition of speech by certain individuals perceived to b...
Limiting the exercise of rights, and the risks of freedom
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitu...
Wil Wheaton and free speech
I think it safe to say that many do not understand the right of free speech. Let’s add Wil Wheaton to that list: I just watched this idiot reporter on KCA...
Wal-Mart is not censoring Ronda Rousey
MMA champion Ronda Rousey apparently fancies herself an author enough to have written a book called “My Fight/Your Fight“. And apparently Wal-Mart i...
Misconstruing free speech, revisited – Andrew Shirvell
Andrew Shirvell was an assistant attorney general in the state of Michigan. He helped the execution of a campaign against an openly-gay student at the Universit...
Employers and electioneering
I came across a Huffington Post/YouGov poll today that asked a simple question: “Should it be legal or illegal for companies to ask employees to vote for ...