Congressional Democrats are not expected to begin their push for reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” until next year. Until then, however, I expect they’ll be paying close attention to news reports from Barack Obama’s family stomping grounds in Kenya. Why? Because the East African nation appears to be functioning as a test market for [...]
Kenya Serving as Fairness Doctrine Test Market
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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Missouri Governor Fires Back at Obama Backers
September 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Two days after news broke about Barack Obama supporters in St. Louis threatening free speech via the use of so-called “Truth Squads,” Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt fired back, effectively saying, “There’s no room for B.O. in the White House”: “St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County [...]
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Author Trashes Bloggers, Then Launches Blog
September 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
The folks at Brown Books Publishing issued a news release today about a new book, One Nation Under Blog: Forget the Facts … Believe What I Say! by David G. Wallace. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the author is a blogger himself [...]
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‘Obamaniacs’ Try to Bully Chicago Radio Station
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
If the words above — part of an e-mail sent out by people working for Barack Obama (a.k.a., “Obamaniacs”) — are indicative of the beliefs held by the candidate, one might surmise that the Democratic Party presidential nominee does not believe in free speech and does believing in bullying radio stations. The e-mail in question [...]
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Hate Hurts America Hates Free Speech
April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This morning, the Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition used a news release to tackle two objectives. While the “headline” objective was to announce that HHA had launched a re-designed website, the primary objective seems to have been reminding the world that HHA members think Michael Savage is targeting Muslims with on-air “hate speech” [...]
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Failure of School Prayer Amendment Remembered
March 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
“I am deeply disappointed that, although a majority of the Senate voted for it, the school prayer amendment fell short.” — President Ronald Reagan The words above were spoken by President Ronald Reagan on this day in 1984, the day the Senate voted down voluntary prayer in public schools. Reagan spoke often about free speech. [...]
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Column Shows Newspapers Out of Touch, Dying
September 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments
It should come as no surprise to anyone why the nation’s newspapers are rapidly losing their power and influence and why they’re struggling to remain afloat by cutting costs wherever possible. Put simply, newspapers are out of touch and dying, being replaced by citizen journalists. Evidence of this sad-but-true phenomenon can be found in the [...]
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