Last week "columnist of the world" Mark Steyn went on trial before the Canadian Human Rights Commission for slandering Islam -- or something like that. The specifics of Steyn's crimes include pointing out the demographic advantages Islam has over aging Western societies and reviewing Robert Ferrigno's "Prayers for the Assassin." (A book I reviewed here.) […]
I've been following the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District for years. (For background read here and here.) The short summary for those of you who haven't been following it is that Tyler Chase Harper was pulled out of class for wearing a T-shirt condemning homosexuality at school on the school-approved "Day of […]
The American left has been decrying the end of free speech, freedom of expression and civil rights under President George W. Bush's "police state" ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led to the passing of the Patriot Act. Columnists like Paul Krugman have publicly fretted that they could be sent to Gitmo. […]
Ezra Levant was the publisher of the Western Standard magazine in Canada in Feb. 2006 when he published the infamous Danish Muhammed cartoons. Last Friday, Levant appeared before Alberta, Canada's "Human Rights Commission" to answer charges that he hurt the feelings of a couple of Muslims. He's uploaded videos of his interrogation to YouTube -- […]
Some would say that the controversy over this student broadcast story on John Edwards' campaign headquarters in Chapel Hill, N.C., is evidence that his campaign is run by amateurs. Sorry, not even amateurs are this stupid. It's a safe bet that no one from the UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school was covering the event in person: […]
Over at The New York Times, law professor Stanley Fish addresses some of the issues in Evan Coyne Maloney's flim, "Indoctrinate U." Maloney's response can be found here. I want to touch on one of the points that Fish mentions and Maloney's response. Fish: Then there’s the matter of speech codes. This is a fake […]
It wasn't a big story outside some mentions on Fox News, journalism Web sites and various Colorado media, so it would've been easy to miss the brouhaha created by an "editorial" in the Colorado State University student newspaper which carried read "F*** Bush" in what was once known as "second coming" font size of about […]
Uncover a totalitarian. They're all for free speech ... except when they disagree with the content of the speech. Ignore, if you can, retired Gen. Wesley Clark's dishonesty regarding what radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was saying about phony soldiers, and instead focus on his desire to have Congress decide what can go over […]
The Council on American Islamic Relations threatened to do something (what exactly they don't say) to the Young America's Foundation if they allowed Islamic scholar Robert Spencer to speak at their conference. YAF spokesman Jason Mattera responded appropriately: “CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them.” CAIR's threats may […]
National Review's "The Corner" pointed me to this article and quote in The New York Times: Michelle Campbell, 26, a librarian in Washington, said that librarianship is a haven for left-wing social engagement, which is particularly appealing to the young librarians she knows. “Especially those of us who graduated around the same time as the […]