Democrats desperately want people to believe that Republicans are criticizing them in order to deliberately put them in harm’s way.  If they can get enough people to believe this, they can simply silence all dissenting opinion as “incitement.”

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Isn’t it nice of these students to decide for everyone who should be allowed to speak?

Campus Reform reports:

Socialist students: Don’t let ‘war criminal’ Condoleezza Rice speak

A socialist student group at the University of Buffalo is calling out the school administration for hosting “war criminal” Condoleezza Rice as a “distinguished speaker.”

The former...

Eugene Kontorovich is a brilliant legal scholar formerly with Northwestern University Law School, who recently joined George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law.

Kontorovich’s expertise includes international law, as well as free speech. His lecture The Legal Case for Israel is a must watch video.

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Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire gave a speech at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) this week. Student protesters turned the event into a circus, and a masked figure even attempted to throw liquid, initially believed to be bleach, onto Knowles and was arrested.

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We ran a full post about this incident over the weekend. Read the full back story here.

FIRE has now released a statement:

FIRE statement on charges against University of Arizona students

For protesting the appearance of Border Patrol agents at a March 19 campus event, two University of Arizona students will reportedly...

It’s a bit hard to take this from someone at Berkeley. Has this dean seen what’s been happening at his school in recent years?

Campus Reform reports:

Berkeley law school dean: Trump’s free speech executive order is ‘unconstitutional’

In light of President Donald Trump’s executive order on free speech, Erwin Chermerinsky, dean of Berkeley...

Last week, two border patrol agents were speaking to a small group of students at the University of Arizona when the event was interrupted by a student calling them the KKK and “murder patrol.” She was eventually joined by other students, and now they’re facing charges.

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I was honored and humbled to be present at the White House last week to witness President Trump sign an executive order designed to protect free speech in higher education.

Public colleges and universities must now stop trampling upon students’ First Amendment rights, or risk federal cuts to their research dollars. I...

If you look below, you can see a video of the protesters piling up furniture on the stage to prevent the speech.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports:

Protests prompt Beloit College to cancel Erik Prince lecture

Beloit College canceled a lecture by former Blackwater head Erik Prince Wednesday after protesters disrupted the...

This has been in the works for months and now the governor has signed it into law. May other states follow suit.

FIRE reports:

New law gives Kentucky college students ‘broadest possible latitude’ for free speech

Today, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed HB 254 into law, protecting free speech at the commonwealth’s public colleges...

He started this process before Trump’s executive order, but it can’t hurt.

Campus Reform reports:

If colleges won’t protect free speech, this congressman will ‘do it for them’

Florida Republican Rep. Francis Rooney introduced a bill on March 12 aimed at protecting free speech on college campuses.

Campus Reform obtained a copy of the bill,...

The suppression of free speech on campus is not just an American problem. This week, Cambridge University, one of the world’s oldest and greatest, showed it is just as feckless as Yale, Berkeley, and Middlebury. Cambridge decided to cancel an invited speech by Jordan Peterson, a prominent psychology professor at the...

This needs to happen all over. Free speech zones are an insult to the idea of free speech.

Campus Reform reports:

Iowa is really close to banning free speech zones

An Iowa bill to eliminate free speech zones and prohibit universities from discriminating based on viewpoints is headed to the governor’s desk.

Specifically, Senate File...

This is a point I have been making for years and feeling like I was yelling into a well. It’s great to see people with much more influence now saying this.

Karol Marcowicz writes at the New York Post:

Taxpayers shouldn’t...

The very concept of isolating free speech to certain areas is insulting. We need more representatives to speak up in this way.

Campus Reform reports:

Congressman breathes fresh air into campus free speech debate ahead of Trump’s exec. order

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) is seeking to remove free speech zones on college campuses with...

In early November 2018, we covered the story of a conservative Sarah Lawrence College professor Samuel Abrams who came under attack after writing an Op-Ed in The New York Times advocating for diversity of opinion on campuses.

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Professor Michele S. Moses teaches education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She argues that higher education is fully committed to free speech and that Trump’s executive order misses the point.

She writes at Inside Higher Ed:

President Trump Misses the Point

President Trump is focusing on the wrong problem. He announced Saturday...