Tag: 1st Amendment

A Collective Madness

Love of the Rebel flag is authentic, deep-seated, and long-lasting. Hatred of the flag is a recently invented political weapon.   Historically, the Battle “Rebel” Flag, with its familiar Cross of St. Andrew, was designed to represent the historic Celtic and…

Journalism Is Not a Crime

The First Amendment took a major beating in a California courtroom last week. On Friday, 11/15/19, a jury in San Francisco’s U.S. District Court found David Daleiden and his team guilty of trespassing, fraud, and other infractions. Daleiden and his…

Censorship Crusade Continues

Throughout our history, free speech has been cherished in the United States of America. Thankfully, we have the First Amendment which mandates that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.” It not only protects this right, but also…

There is No Wall Of Separation

“. . .One needs to protect the church from the state because the latter will utilize its enormous powers to do what the state has always done – either subvert the religion or destroy it.  If we continue our slide…

The Left Goes After Religious Liberty

“The freedom to worship is one of our nation’s most fundamental rights.  That First Amendment guarantee should never be used to undermine other Americans’ civil rights or subject them to discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, or…

Manipulating The Media

Two beliefs safely inhabit the canon of contemporary thinking about journalism. The first is that the internet is the most powerful force disrupting the news media. The second is that the internet and the communication and information tools it spawned,…

Free Speech

“Liberal censorship” is technically an oxymoron. But today liberal censorship is a common reality. Where once free speech reigned on college campuses and in other secular institutions (or at least it was so thought), today you have the totalitarianism of…

Use It or Lose It

The MRC study confirms what we knew to be true already: There is a war against conservative and religious speech… For many years I’ve said that, when it comes to America, I’m more concerned with the absence of light than…

Left Going After the First Amendment

That story about California’s proposed legislation to ban “fake news”–by which they mean any reportage or commentary that they, the exalted rulers, don’t like–has inspired some gloomy thoughts among my friends. Because the leftid Bad Guys are acting like they…

Bad Publicity After Rejecting Ad from Vets Group

The NFL can’t afford more bad publicity, but that’s exactly what they’re getting after their latest clash with veterans. You’d think the league’s abysmal ratings would have them rethinking their business model. Not so far, according to Fox News’s Todd Starnes.…

Tyrants Use Surveillance To Crush Dissent

Tyrants have always spied on their own people. Keith Laidler, a PhD Anthropologist, says that spying and surveillance are at least as old as civilization itself. And unfortunately it hasn’t been limited to just defense against external forces.  Tyrants have…

The Sharia Creep

No, the Sharia Creep is not a new plant species, but it is just as invasive  as  the Kudzu vine well-known to Southerners.  It has found its way into the U.S. financial district, our schools, our government and court systems.  If its current rate of…