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Free speech and press

Will Ricciardella calls for eliminating the free press

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Quoting the tweet in case it’s later deleted: News outlets that hid behind “anonymous sources” to sell the Russia hoax and the Ukraine call narrative have...

Crime/Free speech and press

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t wrong

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I first discovered Jimmy Kimmel back when he was the co-host of Win Ben Stein’s Money on Comedy Central. He would later go on to host The Man Show. I watc...

Fifth Amendment/Free speech and press

AOC did nothing wrong

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Two things to say up front before getting into Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s recent letter to the Attorney General. First, it is not a crime to inform people of th...

Crime/Free speech and press/Health/Health care/Law Enforcement/Police/Second Amendment/Vaccines

Risk perception, or why women are choosing bears

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Now that the party has somewhat died down around the recent social media phenomenon of women saying they’d rather run into a bear in the wild than a rando...

Fifth Amendment/Free speech and press/Rights/Second Amendment

It isn’t a right if it’s compulsory

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the United States there are several rights codified in our Constitution. And one concept about rights many seem to forget is they are entirely voluntary. You...

Censorship/Ethics/Free speech and press

Tenant’s rights and social media

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

A lot of people know quite a bit about tenancy law, better known as “renter’s rights” or “tenant’s rights”, even though ther...

Democrat platform/Economics/Free speech and press/Health care/Second Amendment/Socialism

Once a government…

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Free speech and press

Speech and consequences

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Due process/Feminism/Free speech and press

As we leave 2017

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Free speech and press

Misconstruing free speech – #TrumpCup

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

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