The First Amendment protects the vilest forms of speech, whether it comes in the form of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville or cowardly racists scrawling “White Pride” on the side of a unique message board on the campus of the University of…
Like Sweeney Todd with a straight razor, Twitter has begun slashing the accounts of far-right extremists, enacting a new set of anti-hate speech protocols and inspiring the hashtag #TwitterPurge. As part of the new regime, the San Francisco-based social media…
When it comes to Arizona state Sen. David Farnsworth’s fixation on pro-marijuana billboards, an admonition from Jack Nicholson’s character Col. Nathan R. Jessup in the 1992 drama A Few Good Men comes to mind: “You can’t handle the truth!” The Arizona Daily…
Attempting to squelch the free-speech rights of others can prove disastrous. Just ask the City of Charlottesville, Virginia. A 207-page independent report, commissioned by the Charlottesville City Council and completed on November 24, reveals the march of folly that preceded…
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, took aim Tuesday at the world’s oldest profession, adding yet another legislative proposal to address a problem that is largely overhyped: online sex trafficking. Goodlatte’s remarks came during…
In response to Monday’s botched subway bombing in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to implicate the internet. Pointing out that internet service providers have the technology to track user behavior, Cuomo left hanging in the air the question…
UPDATE 1/10/2018: Front Page Confidential has followed up on this story. Read Stephen Lemons’s ongoing coverage of Joe Arpaio’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate by following the link below: “Pardon Me? Joe Arpaio Declares His U.S. Senate Candidacy” UPDATE 1/9/2018: Late…
If Saturday Night Live were to do a cold open lampooning today’s crop of campus radicals and their intolerance for First Amendment-friendly campus speech, it might look something like the disruption that greeted Jonathan Zimmerman before his December 1 lecture at Western Washington University,…
If you listened only to Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs earlier this fall, you might conclude that American Indian reservations are overrun by human trafficking, and that the…
What do you do with an expert witness who doesn’t say what you want to hear? If you’re the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, you make like he never opened his mouth. That’s…
