Tag: First Amendment
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Look out for journalists
Sometimes they take the law into their own hands! At the age of 7, Blaska became the editor and publisher of The Blaskie Paper, the leading journal of BugTown. A map of the imaginary country resembled the platbook’s rectangular delineation of our farm east of Sun Prairie WI. The publication took its name from the…
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Free speech and the Constitution took a bullet
‘Our nation is broken.’ — Gov. Bryan Cox, Utah Maybe we were too old to fully appreciate Charlie Kirk in his too-short lifetime, but the young man was engaged in free and open debate on the issues of our time where it mattered most: on our blinkered college campuses. (His “Prove Me Wrong” tour visited UW-Madison…
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Bruce Murphy is at it again: defending the speech police
Milwaukee’s Bruce Murphy has committed some solid journalism. He broke the Milwaukee County pension scandal that helped elect reformer Scott Walker as county exec and, ultimately, governor of Wisconsin. Good liberal that he is, Bruce has been doing penance ever since. Bruce takes the side of unelected government commissars empowered to determine who can say…
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Attorney General Schimel must resign over that footnote on page 39
Receives coveted honor from Progressive mouthpiece The Nobel Peace Prize? Barack Obama got one roughly a week before he was sworn into office, if memory serves. The Pulitzer Prize? Walter Duranty of the New York Times won it for covering up Stalin’s forced starvation of millions in the Ukraine. Art Carney the best actor Oscar…
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Journalists, pls defend political speech; I’ll help write the editorial
[ UPDATE: State Journal editorial czar Scott Milfred responds: “Thanks, Dave. Our editorial board is still digesting the latest and lengthy John Doe doings, and may editorialize next week.” ] To: John Smalley, editor, and Scott Milfred, editorial page editor, Wisconsin State Journal To: George Stanley, editor, and David Haynes, editorial page editor, Milwaukee Journal…
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Now will the State Journal and Journal Sentinel finally condemn the speech police?
Vicki McKenna among those GAB spied on Thank the Good Lord for Brad Schimel, the first conservative state attorney general in long memory. Thank you the heavens above for the too few brave souls — Eric O’Keefe, the Wall Street Journal, Vicki McKenna (her interview with Schimel), and Matt Kittle (his report) among them — for…