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…
Serial killer Samuel Little’s hunting ground for humans stretched from Southern California to just outside Washington, D.C., encompassing 90 murders of mostly black and Latino women, which took place between 1970 and 2005, in some 37 cities across the nation….
The once fiercely transgressive social-media platform Tumblr has announced that it is hopping aboard the censorship express. In a statement posted to its staff blog on December 3, Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio warned that beginning December 17, the company will no longer allow…
What do the demise of former presidential contender Gary Hart’s political career and Starbucks’ recent decision to block porn on its public Wi-Fi have in common? Donna Rice Hughes. If you’re old enough to remember Hart — the U.S. senator…
Calling b.s. on fake news stories that hype the nonexistent epidemic of sex trafficking may be like shooting fish in a barrel. But sometimes those scaly swimmers need to be shot. Take “Holiday shopping is prime time for human trafficking…
Meghan McCain must be immune to irony, because her recent diatribe against President Trump from her perch as a panelist on the ABC gabfest The View was chock-full of it, yet she bloviated her way through it with no ill…
The Thanksgiving leftovers barely had time to cool before Major League Baseball’s commissioner quietly tiptoed into the national political fray. Two days later, Rob Manfred’s office was forced to very publicly scramble out of said swamp. On Friday, November 23,…
“We are like the French troops in Russia when the snow started falling. The difference is we have winter coats and better lawyers.” –Michael Lacey, Backpage defendant, veteran newspaperman, and First Amendment stalwart A federal judge in Phoenix has rejected…
Maggie McNeill possesses an intellect as acerbic as a vat of hydrochloric acid. Watching as it devours the objects of her scorn is one of the great pleasures of reading her blog, The Honest Courtesan, which she takes to daily…
