Professional lip-flapper Meghan McCain did her best Veruca Salt impersonation on The View Thursday as the show’s quartet of chatty Cathys took up the issue of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s recent arrest in London and whether or not freedom of…
Disheveled and sporting a bushy white beard that had him resembling a latter-day Howard Hughes, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shouted, “UK must resist!” on Thursday as London’s Metropolitan Police Service dragged him from the Ecuadorian embassy where he’d been holed…
With a mixture of gallows humor and outright defiance, veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin captivated the 100-plus libertarians who gathered in Phoenix on Friday, March 8, for the Reason Foundation’s annual Reason Weekend. Joining a panel at the…
On January 8, 2019, in a court decision that could double as the film treatment for a remake of National Lampoon’s Animal House, a New York judge upheld Syracuse University’s suspension of ten members of the Theta Tau fraternity who had taken…
Aiming to land a haymaker straight to the kisser of wanton indecency, a student group at the University of Notre Dame has called on university officials to institute a campus-wide Wi-Fi block on online porn. To make its case, the group,…
No one ever accused Saudi Arabia’s ruthless rulers of possessing a sense of humor. So it should arch nary an eyebrow that they object to an episode of the comedy series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that’s critical of the kingdom’s notorious young…
The cheeky rebels at the Satanic Temple are on a First Amendment winning streak this holiday season, having scored victories in Illinois, Arkansas, and New York, to name just three. Founded in 2012 and based in Salem, Massachusetts, the Satanic Temple…
One of the best things about having Donald Trump in the White House is that you never have to guess when he’s angry. And he’s angry a lot. Take this past Sunday morning, when indulged in a presidential airing of…
Administrators at the Los Angeles Unified School District taught high school students at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools a valuable lesson. In institutional cowardice. In a December 11 story, Los Angeles Times education reporter Howard Blume recounts how the school district caved…
When the right and left of the political spectrum defend the First Amendment on identical grounds, free speech triumphs — even if neither side wants to share the glory after the fact. All of that came to pass with a…
