“Is Campus Censorship the New Normal?” in Free Inquiry Magazine By Greg Lukianoff Check out the latest issue of Free Inquiry magazine which features an article by my colleague Will Creeley and me that explores how censorship of campus speech ends up hurting all of us in the long run. The article, entitled “Is Campus [...]

Elections are coming up, and it looks like some Michigan Democrats like to start the season off with a masquerade ball. Apparently lacking confidence that they can win on their own failed policies, it appears that the latest approach is to trick the people into thinking they are getting a traditional Tea Party candidate who stands for [...]

Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

In the words of his admirer, the Islamochristian and former CNN Mideast editor Octavia Nasr, Fadlallah “hated with a vengeance the United States government and Israel,” “regularly praised the terror attacks that killed Israeli citizens,” was a Holocaust denier, and was “designated a terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department.” The…

I will label this a Free Speech Death Watch Update and shed a tear for Hizballah’s loss of its CNN mouthpiece when CNN actually stops reflecting the terror group’s political line, and when Hizballah begins carrying my columns on its websites. An update on this story: “Hezbollah denounces CNN’s firing…

Why do liberal humanitarians support the slow death of liberalism in the Middle East?

A Rare Victory for Free Speech at UC Irvine By Sara Dogan The incident occurred in February when Israeli ambassador Michael Oren spoke at UC Irvine. According to the disciplinary committee’s findings, members of the Muslim Student Union (MSU) disrupted the speech by standing up and yelling, one after the other, creating a chaotic situation [...]

Abetting Terrorism = “Free Speech”? by John Perazzo In a 6 to 3 decision last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that makes it a crime for Americans to provide “material support” of any kind – be it in the form of cash, weaponry, training, personnel, services, or “expert advice or assistance” – [...]

Here is yet more evidence of the welcoming attitude toward Sharia, even in its most draconian aspects, on the part of Western governments. “US and UK failing to take Iraq’s gay pogrom seriously: Both countries deny any Iraqi state involvement in anti-gay militias, but LGBT supporters suggest otherwise,” by Paul…

Good news, in an update on this story. Meanwhile, of course, we wait to find out the grounds on which another group of Christians was arrested there, as BWI — Breathing While Infidel — is not yet against Michigan law. If it’s an Islamic festival, call it an Islamic festival….