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Posted by Mike LaChance on October 06, 2017 12 Comments
FOX News contributor Katie Pavlich is scheduled to give a talk at the University of Wisconsin Madison next week on the Second Amendment. The event is being hosted by the Young America's Foundation and it is already hitting roadblocks.

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 26, 2017 23 Comments
So it looks like the left has embraced the idea of using #TakeAKnee to show its opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration without taking into account the perception it gives. Georgetown Law School faculty and students decided to protest a free speech event by Attorney General Jeff Sessions by taking a knee. Yes, Sessions's speech was about how free speech has eroded on campuses and that the Department of Justice plans to provide protections for speakers.

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 24, 2017 15 Comments
By now, you may have heard that a n event at UC Berkeley called "Free Speech Week" which was set to feature Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter and Steve Bannon has been cancelled. All we really know at this point is that the school didn't cancel the event, it was the student group which was hosting it. NBC News reports:

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on September 20, 2017 23 Comments
I used to be puzzled by patently- and provably-untrue statements made by prominent Democrats.  For example, former Democrat governor, presidential hopeful, and DNC chairman and current "Democrat consultant" Howard Dean stirred controversy earlier this year with his insistence that "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment. I wrote about this a few months ago, noting that restricting Americans' First Amendment rights is a key goal of the left.
One of the fondest dreams of the radical (and not-so radical) left is to undermine the First Amendment and ultimately to control speech.  Democrats have advocated the DOJ’s investigation and even prosecution of climate “skeptics,” condemned “hate” speech formally in the House, supported the criminalization and ban of “hate” speech, and as we see play out on college campuses across the nation, resorted to violence as a response to speech with which they disagree.
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