Free Speech

Disruptive Protests Are Not a Constitutional Right

I remember the first time I saw leftist protesters snarling traffic. The cause of the moment was climate, I believe, and the bright-minded activists decided to protest the use of fossil fuels by causing tens of thousands of cars (and buses) to idle on the highway. It was an early Monday morning and organized squads […]

Silence or Fire Stephen A. Smith After Trump Comments

Keith Olbermann has issued ESPN an ultimatum: silence Stephen A. Smith or fire him. In a recent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Smith spoke negatively about how the left has tried to use former President Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial in New York to prevent him from running for re-election in November because, […]

The Left is Upset that Their Protesters Can’t Ignore All the Rules All the Time – HotAir

Yesterday more than 100 protesters were arrested on the campus of Columbia University by NYPD officers who’d been invited on campus by President Shafik. Today, voices on the left are reacting angrily to that spectacle. Columnist Michelle Goldberg, had her usual knee-jerk response, blaming everything on Republicans. Columbia’s exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has […]

‘I Want My Voice Back’

April 15 is Tax Day, and it was obviously taxing on former President Donald Trump. Trump made history Monday by becoming the first former U.S. president to sit for a criminal trial, but it was clear from his posts to social media that he didn’t consider the history-making day to be an honor. Before 6 […]

‘You Don’t Get to Require Me to Use Incorrect Grammar’

Tensions flared when a trans activist demanded that a host on Britain’s TalkTV use her preferred pronouns. Shivani Dave, a self-described journalist, broadcaster and physicist who identifies as transgender, was invited on TalkTV to discuss a recent report on medical and social services for children who identify as transgender in England. TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer […]