There was a time, not too long ago, when liberals loathed censorship, cherished the idea of freedom of speech and held fast to the dictum, often misattributed to Voltaire, that, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend…
In the aftermath of Saturday’s mass shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, U.S. progressives rallied under the hashtag #JackStopTheHate to demand that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey ban neo-Nazis, President Donald Trump and other assorted right-wingers from the social media…
California Senator and presidential contender Kamala Harris’ effort to market herself as a champion of criminal justice reform took another hit on April 19, as the California Attorney General’s Office, where Harris was once the jefe, admitted in open court…
California Senator Kamala Harris should be able to score a gig as a contortionist with Cirque de Soleil once the presidential campaign is over. Harris has bent more ways than Elastigirl fromThe Incredibles trying to square her newfound progressivism with her…
Lefty students at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts recently demanded that the school sack its most prominent professor, feminist bomb-thrower Camille Paglia, for her criticism of the #MeToo movement and for comments they consider to be transphobic. But in a…
Talk about beating around the bush. According to Los Angeles Times reporter David Savage, lawyers for both sides in a trademark case regarding the word “FUCT” avoided uttering the the word during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this…
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…
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid. That’s what pundits from The Nation to the Washington Post fail to grasp about the onetime romance between former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and California Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris. Harris’s apologists would have…
