New Zealand is a country of almost five million inhabitants, some 29 million sheep and, on the evidence, plenty of hurt feelings. The latter has been tackled by sweeping new parliamentary legislation making cyber-bulling a criminal offence while guaranteeing the protection of people emotionally
According a report from Journal-Gazette in Mattoon, Martinsville School District board in Illinois voted 6-0 Thursday to fire English teacher Jordan Parmenter after stomping on the U.S. flag in a lesson he gave on May 15. Parmenter said he used the flag as part
North Korea has reacted fiercely to a scathing new report of human rights abuses, threatening to take “tougher countermeasures” against the United States after Washington stated the communist country is guilty of some of the most grievous human rights violations on the planet.
Would you believe that Sen. Marco Rubio was heckled by pro-amnesty for illegal alien supporters?
A bizarre government assault on Reason Magazine has been in progress for the past two weeks, and in a nice Kafkaesque touch, the magazine was barred from talking about the situation with a gag order.
Censorship on the internet is unpopular and difficult. Information banned on one hosting platform usually surfaces on another, often helped along by the ever reliable Streisand Effect. But that doesn’t mean that some people aren’t trying.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court’s streak of incoherent decisions remained intact, as the Court ruled that the state of Texas could ban Confederate flag symbols from license plates but that the town of Gilbert, Arizona, could not place time restrictions on billboards based on content. This is, to say the least, nonsensical. But we expect nothing less than nonsense from the Supreme Court these days.
Recently we have had a dramatic illustration of the increasingly totalitarian intolerance of feminofascism and the “progressive consensus”, with the forced resignation of Sir Tim Hunt from his post as Honorary Professor of Life Sciences at University College London (UCL),
Blogger and free-speech activist* Pamela Geller, the initial target of the jihadi beheading plot that later became a plan to murder police officers in Boston, said that she refuses to go into hiding after an ISIS sympathizer disclosed her home address on Twitter.
Chaplain Wes Modder spends his days basically alone in the base chapel. He is no longer allowed into his office. By order of his commanding officer, he is not allowed even to speak to the sailors in his unit. If anyone from his unit comes into the chapel, he may not speak with them.
A high school principal in Miami was removed because of short, civil comments he made on the website of a newspaper discussing the McKinney “pool party” video, after his comments became the focus of criticism from others, including a gay, Obama supporting ex-cop.
On Sunday, Egypt’s minister for Religious Endowments, Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, called for an “international law to criminalize contempt of religion,” which would make it a crime to publish articles or cartoons showing disdain or ridicule of religions.
A Persian-language news outlet reported this week that Iran has sentenced a group of 18 Christians to between one and ten years in prison each for organizing “house churches” and “propaganda against the regime.”
After outcry from supporters, Instagram restored an account dedicated to memorializing the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamist revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The account, which has over 100,000 followers according to some media reports, has posted over 600 photos of the late cleric and revolutionary.
A progressive professor says his students have become enamored of a simplistic social justice politics that makes every discussion personal and therefore a potential “threat” to their identity.
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that “every establishment creates sort of its own censorship, its own inquisition” when it comes to speech on Friday’s McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan, in a discussion on Pamela Geller and drawings of Mohammed said, “there is a
A group of several hundred demonstrators on Friday attended a rally outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, the mosque allegedly linked to the two men who attacked a “Draw Muhammad” contest organized by Pamela Geller in Garland, Texas.
On Thursday, Washington D.C.’s mass transit authority decided that, instead of being forced to sell ad space for a free speech campaign featuring the winning entry of the “Draw Muhammad” art contest, they would put a ban on all PSA and advocacy advertising for six months.
On May 29, bikers in Pheonix, Arizona, are holding a “Draw Muhammad” contest outside the mosque at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, which is where the two gunmen who opened fire in Garland, Texas, allegedly attended.
Kirsten Powers’ new book The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech surveys the political landscape of the past couple years and finds something new to worry about. A self-described liberal, Powers writes that the “illiberal left” is trying to dominate the discussion on campus, online and in the media through intimidation. In our discussion, Powers suggests there is an authoritarian impulse at play, one that has been gaining steam in the broader culture.
A new poll shows that a majority of Democrats want to limit free speech with laws that would prohibit so-called “hate speech.”
A German court has ruled that a comedian and satirist who jokes about Islam can be called a “preacher of hate.” Dieter Nuhr has made a name for himself in Germany with his satirical take on Islam. Jokes such as “In Islam,
Confirming the worst fears of users, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has told NPR that she does not want the site to be a “completely free-speech platform”. Her comments followed last week’s introduction of new ‘anti-harassment’ policies on the link-sharing site that
On Monday, the 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a prior decision by a three-member panel of the same court that forced YouTube to take down the video “Innocence of Muslims,” which sparked condemnation among Muslims globally and was falsely cited by the Obama Administrations as the catalyst for the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Joseph Offutt is the patriotic Texan who held an American flag for 14 hours outside the reopened Curtis Culwell Center, following the failed terrorist attack against the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland on May 3. He’s still raising that flag at a more convenient intersection nearby, six days a week, and he’s never alone.
