Jefferson v. Cuccinelli Does the Constitution really protect a right to “academic freedom”? By Dahlia Lithwick and Richard Schragger Last week the University of Virginia decided to fight a sweeping subpoena served upon the institution in late April. State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli subpoenaed documents in connection with five grants awarded to Michael Mann—a former [...]

Wonder of wonders — a news report that actually speaks honestly about Islamic apostasy, and points out CAIR’s tactics of personal destruction. “Detroit transit sued for nixing ‘Leaving Islam?’ ad,” by Michal Elseth for the Washington Times, May 27 (thanks to Pamela Geller): A bus-ad campaign that seeks to offer…

Nick Gillespie over at the usually reliably dhimmi Reason magazine (thanks to Amy Alkon) articulates it well: There comes a point in any society’s existence where it must ultimately, to paraphrase Martin Luther (who himself was more than happy to see opponents put to death), dig in its heels and…

The “American” Civil Liberties Union has forfeited any right to that moniker, and the proof has never been clearer than this week.
The ACLU has defended students’ “rights” to do, say, and WEAR, just about anything while on a high school campus.  But this week, they have nothing to say about the Morgan Hill Live Oak [...]

Let me get this straight.  According to the Supreme Court, burning the American flag is protected speech under the First Amendment.  Yet in order to protect the sensibilities of Mexican-American students celebrating the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, a California Bay area school decided that high school students would not be permitted to wear  t-shirts emblazoned with [...]

Warning: HBO-level language. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.
… but he can’t take the point to its logical conclusion.
In the above clip from HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the leftist host and comedian says what so many of his progressive pals cannot:
1. Our American culture is better than the Middle East’s.
2. American Christians who follow [...]

A court has called the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. Dems and Republicans agree to fight it. But what we need even more than fighting for prayer is for us to actually pray.

While actual Baptists celebrate Easter today, the family cult that calls itself the Westboro Baptist Church is celebrating the death of American soldiers—and the federal court which washed its hands of its responsibilities and turned a fallen Marine’s father over to this rabid mob.
A District Court had hit the Westboro cult with a multi-million dollar [...]

A recent incidence of censorship at American University shows the intellectual rot and decay that has taken place at American colleges and universities. This incidence of censorship also underscores the need for an academic bill of rights.

Marc Lamont Hill comes on “The Factor” all too frequently to discuss just about any topic - virtually all of which he knows nothing about.  One week Bill O’Reilly has him on the show to talk about national security issues.  Another week Hill opines on health care.  This week Hill has given us a discourse on free speech [...]