“HATE SPEECH” is free speech?
“HATE SPEECH” is free speech: The U.S. Supreme Court stated the general rule regarding protected speech in Texas v. Johnson (109 S.Ct. at 2544), when it held: “The government may not prohibit the...
View ArticleDISCLOSE Act: Warning from The National Association for Gun Rights
Harry Reid Dear gun rights ally, The fate of free speech is being debated in the U.S. Senate RIGHT NOW. Harry Reid’s midnight skulduggery has the DISCLOSE Act on the fast track to passage TOMORROW...
View ArticlePenn Jillette, Not Having the Courage to Confront Islam is Bullsh*t
Illustration by Bosch Fawstin by David Swindle It’s always a sad day when someone you admire tremendously, who has entertained and challenged you for years lets you down and reveals themselves to...
View ArticleArizona Student Suspended Over Picture Of A Gun
From ABC15.com: Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in....
View ArticleOPSEC For Journalists And Leakers
Wired’s Danger Room has some tips for journalists to protect their identity from subpoenas like the one involving the AP. We now live in a world where public servants informing the public about...
View ArticleObama Signs Law That Makes Protesting a Felony
This former Constitutional law professor appears to have no respect for the Constitution itself.
View ArticleNavy SEAL Who Shot bin Laden Being Pressured To Not Reveal Himself
The former SEAL is set to do an interview with Fox News on Nov. 11. From Business Insider: … in a statement issued to Business Insider the Pentagon stressed that anyone who participated in the 2011...
View ArticleDefense Distributed Sues State Department
From The New York Times: Now, with a high-powered legal team behind it, Mr. Wilson’s company,Defense Distributed, a self-described “anti-monopolist digital publisher,” has filed suit against the State...
View ArticleMuslim Protesters Should Go Live In A Muslim Country
Franklin Graham said that Muslims protesting the showing of American Sniper should go live in a Muslim country. Can you believe that the University of Maryland canceled a screening of the movie...
View ArticleDefense Distributed Injunction Against State Department Denied
From Reason.com: This week U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against the State Department in the case of Defense Distributed v. U.S. Dep’t of State. Quotes...
View ArticleNRA Stands Up For First Amendment
From NRA-ILA: As we reported in June, the Obama Administration’s State Department (DOS) proposed a revision of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) on June 3 that would require anyone...
View ArticlePoet Sentenced To Death In Saudi Arabia
From The Guardian: A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam. A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the...
View ArticleCody Wilson Versus The United States
From Fox News: The (15) members of Congress, led by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kent., signed onto an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where Texas inventor Cody Wilson is fighting a lower...
View ArticleEFF Files Brief In Support Of Defense Distributed’s 3-D Files
From EFF: The underlying legal ideas stretch back to one of EFF’s earliest major legal victories. Twenty years ago, in Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice, a judge articulated that code is speech...
View ArticleLawmaker Trolls Anti-Gun Hypocrites With Reporter Registration Bill
From US News: A South Carolina lawmaker invited nationwide condemnation Tuesday with legislation proposing a mandatory journalist registry and potential jail time for violators. But state Rep. Mike...
View ArticleStudents Arrested For Handing Out Constitutions
From Washington Times: Kellogg Community College students Brandon Withers and Michelle Gregoire were arrested Sept. 20, 2015, in Battle Creek after they refused to stop handing out copies of the U.S....
View ArticleDefense Distributed Part of New Documentary
From The Verge: In the film, Wilson is openly positive about the election of Donald Trump, which may help explain the film’s chilly reception among the liberal-leaning Sundance audience. Then again,...
View ArticleJudge Abridges First Amendment
From Washington Free Beacon: “Judge Lasnik’s ruling involves some of the most amazing legal acrobatics I’ve ever seen,” Alan Gottlieb, founder of the group, told the Free Beacon. “He has accepted the...
View ArticleTwitter Refuses To Ban User Over Death Threat
From Washington Free Beacon: Legius’ now-deleted tweet reads in full: “The only way these people learn is if it affects them directly. So if Dana Loesch has to have her children murdered before she’ll...
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