Category: Free speech
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Hey football millionaires, take a knee for spousal abuse
13 days since the last NFL player arrest Good for Mike Pence. The vice president left the football game at Indianapolis after 20 San Francisco 49ers “took a knee” during the National Anthem. Now if we get a few thousand more to do so. Here’s the gripe at the Stately Manor: the Colin Kaepernick Cop(ier)s…
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Free speech and gun rights will collide Tuesday on the UW-Madison campus
UPDATE: Campus conservatives say UW stifling Right speech — again UPDATE #2: Two of the few conservative faculty step up. The University of Wisconsin’s commitment to the free exchange of ideas — you know, that “sifting and winnowing” thing — will be sorely tested next week Tuesday. In the shadow of the massacre by an apparent…
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Caution: political agitprop in downtown Madison
It’s called “posing for holy pictures.” Feel-good government resolutions that condemn hate, plague, pestilence, and things that go bump in the night. Except that those Hallmark card resolutions tend to be tendentious mousetraps of selective outrage sprung for partisan purposes. At least, in Madison and Dane County. One such is County Board Resolution #195, written…
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A red, white & blue Tuesday in one Madison WI neighborhood
A most beautiful Independence Day was celebrated (not merely observed) here at the Stately Manor. The indentured servants, unlettered field hands, white lab coats, The Squire, Mrs. Squire and #1 Son helped themselves to the brats, beans, and burgers laid out in Orchard Ridge Park by our very active neighborhood association. Via the family Philco,…
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John Nichols re-educates Winston Smith
“It is a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” — George Orwell In Sunday’s newspaper, Comrade John Nichols invokes the holy names of Old Fighting Bob and Wild Bill Evjue by way of establishing that, once upon a time, The Capital Times actually defended free speech. That time being World War 1, an even 100…
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Want true diversity on campus? Protect speech AND hire conservatives!
How dare a campus group dare to go ahead and invite a speaker deemed insufficiently progressive, and then actually bring that person to campus? What to do if an objectionable speaker somehow sneaks through the cracks? The answer is obvious: prevent the speech from taking place “by all means necessary.” So it is not surprising…