Tag: Free

Hate-crime law is an all-out assault on free speech

UNDER Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act, citizens may be prosecuted for speech in the privacy of their own home. The Act came into effect on April 1. Given how egregiously it violates the principles of free expression and limited government, it seems especially apt that it came into effect on April Fool’s Day, […]

Hey, Free Speech Is a Good Idea – HotAir

Richard Feynman was among the greatest scientists of the 20th century and, more importantly, one of the best teachers of science ever.  As a theoretical physicist, he helped revolutionize the field, especially with his work on quantum mechanics. I don’t pretend to understand his work, and while I admire him for what he did, he […]

Democracy in Decay: GB News and the assault on free speech

GB NEWS is upsetting Britain’s delicate ‘broadcast ecology’ and should be shut down, Sky’s Adam Boulton whined just over six months ago.  An unfortunate phrase to use in the circumstances, given that the process most associated with ecosystems is Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest through natural selection. No doubt, to extend the biological metaphor, […]

Bari Weiss and the Free Press – HotAir

Bari Weiss helped lead the way for a series of prominent liberal journalists to break their ties to the mainstream media and strike out on their own.  Or, should I say, LIBERAL journalists to do so. A number of Right-leaning journalists had done so and made a nice living out of it, but they, for […]

Aaron Sibarium of The Washington Free Beacon – HotAir

There is a lot of “meh” in journalism and a lot of “yuck” too.  But occasionally, you run across a good, old-fashioned bulldog of a journalist who blows you away.  Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon is one of those. In just 2 1/2 years of reporting, the 27-year-old journalist has broken onto the […]