Category: Free speech
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Who shuts down a July 4 parade?
Isn’t there anyone who can help this belligerent brewer? At noon tomorrow, July 4, a City of Madison fire truck will lead a parade of kids on bicycles circling the streets surrounding Orchard Ridge Park. Parents will run alongside their youngest, pedaling furiously on tiny bikes, many with training wheels, decorated with red, white &…
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Progressives plead guilty to suppressing free speech
The Nation fesses up! There can be no more denial, no more prevarication. We have our guilty plea. Progressives have been stifling free speech on our university campuses. A law student — at Harvard, no less — admits on the pages of The Nation (one of the most earnest enablers) that progressives are guilty of…
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Show me the crime!
Trump may be guilty, but not of this! Few years back, a state employee recommended that a contract be awarded to a travel agency whose boss wrote an election campaign check to Jim Doyle, governor of Wisconsin. The fix was in! A Republican-appointed prosecutor charged the low-level bureaucrat with a crime most felonious! A conservative…
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Even ‘hate speech’ is protected speech
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States v. Schwimmer (1929). On the University…
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Court protects right NOT to speak
Free speech trumps identity politics! Let’s say you are a gay website designer and an intolerant right-wing homophobe wants you to design his hate group’s website. WELL, GO AHEAD AND SAY IT! (Sigh. I am a gay website designer and an intolerant right-wing homophobe wants me to design his hate group website, blah blah blah!…
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Spring time in Madison, the fragile flowers are in bloom
The equity majors are in high dudgeon! Studying — some of them, anyway — at the great University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are 44,640 students. Of those, 9,824 are graduate students, 37.9% from out of state, 8.4% foreign, 65% White, 13.3% “International,” 7.1% Asian, 6.1% Hispanic, 3.4% two or more races, 2.2% black or African American,…