- Being illiberal: Same sex gun sales
- If selling a gay couple a wedding cake means a “christian” baker participated in their marriage, does selling a gun to a murderer mean a “christian” gun store owner participated in murder?
- Citizens United and libertarian schizophrenia
- The latest Supreme Court ruling on free speech pretty much completes my renunciation of the Democratic Party.
- Civil rights vs. showboat killers
- If we want to take away people’s civil rights to stop the showboat killers that seem to have proliferated since Columbine, is it worth it?
- Don’t call us on spending; we’ll call you
- What does open government mean? It means the President gets to shut down open government.
- The enduring hate speech of Stephen Douglas in Canada
- If the right hasn’t changed much since Abraham Lincoln, the left hasn’t changed much since Stephen Douglas. They still believe that it’s their responsibility to control the rest of us.
- First, CNN came for InfoWars
- “When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.”
- Free speech restrictions always lead to more
- Free speech restrictions against “corporations” and the rich always lead to speech restrictions against the rest of us.
- Mozilla Foundation fires most of California
- In the aftermath of JavaScript creator and Mozilla founder Brendan Eich’s departure, the Mozilla Foundation has further outlined the limits of employment at their Mountain View offices.
- Shed a tear for Democracy
- Public Citizen is outraged that the Supreme Court sides with free speech. Their version of democracy, with a capital D, is government control over every aspect of a candidate’s campaign (government funding) and the candidate’s supporters (subjecting supporter advertisements to FEC whims).
- Wife offers no apology after husband beats her
- Social change reporter blames victims for attacks, says free speech isn’t worth defending.
More Information
- The Oak and the Calf• (hardcover)
- (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)