If the left wants to take off the gloves, perhaps that is what should happen. ===== By MICHAEL A. CARVIN and ANTHONY DICK WSJ Feb. 5, 2017 8:16 p.m. ET The First Amendment provides robust protection for political and scientific debate, but it faces a new threat from a climate activist determined to silence his critics. In a case pending before the District of... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
A Libel Suit Threatens Catastrophe
February 6 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Law, Losing Freedom, Politically correctFree Speech on the Quad
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correctGreat to see this progress. ========= WSJ 12/10/2016 It’s slow going, but the campaign to highlight censorship on campus may be getting somewhere. That’s the message of a new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which tracks the speech bullies in academia. Fire’s 10th annual report surveyed speech policies at 345 four-year public colleges and 104 private schools.... Read more
Castro ‘what?’ !
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftAnyone who suggests that Castro was anything but a vicious dictator – I pray God would have mercy on your soul. =========== WSJ 11/28/2016 Armando Valladares in May accepting the Canterbury Medal from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: When I was 23 years old I refused to do something that at the time seemed very small. I refused to say a few... Read more
Another Judge Is Unpersuaded
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, US CourtsMy guess is Mr Obama will explain this at his next news conference. ====== WSJ 11/19/2016 The Obama Administration’s executive overreach received another rebuke on Wednesday, this time from a federal court in Texas. In National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Perez, Judge Sam Cummings granted a motion for summary judgment and rejected the Labor Department’s attempt to stack another deck for unions. The... Read more
‘Queen’ Elizabeth Gives Orders to Hillary
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Hillary Clinton, Losing Freedom, The LeftWSJ 10/17/2016 ========== As Hillary Clinton expands her lead in the polls, Democrats are angling to influence her choices for policy-making jobs. Witness Elizabeth Warren’s extraordinary demand on Friday that President Obama demote Mary Jo White as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Massachusetts Senator made her demand in a letter to the President that is remarkable for its vitriol... Read more
