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Relevance: 16% Posted on: December 8, 2022
Federal officials feel entitled to demand the censorship of persons uttering renegade opinions about pandemics and elections. Local police officers feel entitled to arrest persons who commit parody against them. And New York State officials now feel entitled to compel social-media companies to restrict speech that the officials dislike. The…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: May 10, 2017
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” Is Afghanistan becoming the Hotel California? Back in 2014, Obama declared victory — well, he called it “over.” We even informed our enemies ahead of time that we were leaving, to show good manners. But as wars…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: December 17, 2015
America’s worst racial and sexual injustices were institutionally addressed years ago, in the Sixties and soon after — by folks in the Civil Rights movement, everyday citizens, and their representatives. So what do today’s earnest, Johnny-and-Jilly Come Lately “Social Justice Warriors” have left to complain about? Why, building names, of…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: October 12, 2012
“A deeply divided Supreme Court squared off Wednesday over the future of affirmative action in college admissions,” reports the Washington Post, covering the admissions policy of the University of Texas. The arguments for and against race-based admissions preferences were mostly old hat, but got weird when Justice Alito noted a…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: March 15, 2023
I don’t gawk at car crashes. I did not watch the ISIS beheadings. Bloody slasher movies aren’t my thing. And neither was the recent hearing held by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It was so hard to watch I could hardly take more than a…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: December 20, 2021
Well, why not? According to some politicians, I have a perfect right to. But, you ask, on what grounds? Because of the emotional injury I suffer when I listen to these bozos. Legislation being considered in Congress would permit social-media companies to be sued for causing physical or “severe emotional…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: September 11, 2013
“We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” Not a sign of the times. Oh, sure, you see the sign posted, here and there. But one is not allowed to really mean it. Contra those signs, the right to refuse service to anyone has not been retained by the…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: June 3, 2015
As I worried, this weekend, about Dr. Annette Bosworth, and her future sentencing for the “felonies” (minor infractions) she committed in South Dakota, others were similarly anguished about Ross Ulbricht. A judge just gave him two life sentences in prison for setting up the “Dark Web” anonymous trading service “The…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: December 23, 2022
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas, denizens of the Sort-of-Great State of New York! It is certainly a time to be jolly. For some time now, Santa and his legislative elves have been striving to give you and yours an ever more overbearing medical regime. Take a gander at some of…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: August 18, 2023
Another day, another indictment of former President Trump. This one, out of Georgia, would criminalize election challenges. Jonathan Turley observes that in this fourth indictment, “every call, speech, and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone…