Napoleon once said “treason is a matter of dates.” The Democrats seem to have taken Napoleon’s words to heart in declaring Republicans traitors or anti-Democratic in their planned challenge the certification of electoral votes next week. Both the media and Democratic...
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YouTube Declares It Will Censor Videos Questioning Biden’s Victory
by Jonathan Turley | Dec 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have have been discussing how writers, editors, commentators, and academics have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including President-elect Joe Biden and his key advisers. The erosion of free speech has been radically accelerated by the Big...
Democratic Member Seeks To Disbar Two Dozen Lawyers Challenging Election Results
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the campaign of harassment and threats against Republican lawyers to get them to drop election challenges. New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell expanded that campaign this week with a malicious and frivolous demand for New York and other...
'All Speech Is Not Equal': Biden Taps Anti-Free Speech Figure For Transition Lead On Media Agency
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Richard StengelFor those of us who have been critical of the growing anti-free speech movement in the Democratic Party, the Biden transition team just took an ominous turn. The New York Post reports that Biden tapped Richard Stengel to take the “team lead” position on...
'Shredding The Fabric Of Our Democracy': Biden Aide Signals Push For Greater Censorship On The Internet
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the calls for top Democrats for increased private censorship on social media and the Internet. President-elect Joe Biden has himself called for such censorship, including blocking President Donald Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting. Now,...
Twitter Double Downs On Censorship With Renewed Warnings On Trump Tweets
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the rising private censorship on the Internet demanded by Democratic leaders and meted out by companies like Twitter and Facebook. The original purpose of the Internet as a free and robust space for political and social expression is under...
Disinformation By Popular Demand: How The Authenticity of Hunter’s Laptop Became Immaterial
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, former Vice President Joe Biden was again insisting that the scandal involving Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation despite the direct refutation of that claim by the FBI. No mainstream reporter bothered to ask the simple question of whether...
'Time To Mute The President': Former Twitter and Google Executive Calls For Trump To Be Banned From Social Media Until After The Election
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
Peter Greenberger, a former Twitter and Google executive, is calling for the social media accounts of President Donald Trump to be shutdown for the remainder of the election. For those of us who have criticized calls for censorship from Democratic leaders for years,...
Schiff v. Ratcliffe: DNI Reports That Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Not Believed To Be Part Of A Russian Disinformation Campaign
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
Recently, we discussed how House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff stated publicly that the recently disclosed laptop information from Hunter Biden was clearly part of a Russian intelligence operation. This morning, John Ratcliffe, Director of National...
'A Means Of Distracting The Public': Brennan Briefed Obama On Clinton 'Plan' To Lie Trump To Russia
by Jonathan Turley | Oct 7, 2020 | Featured Articles
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified notes of former CIA Director John Brennan showing that he briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s alleged “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of...
Wisconsin Student Newspaper Fires Columnist After Writing Column Opposing The Defunding Of Police
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 29, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing a crackdown on some campuses against conservative columnists and newspapers, including the firing of a conservative student columnist at Syracuse, the public condemnation of a student columnist at Georgetown, and a campaign against one of the...
Harvard Survey: Only Seven Percent Of Incoming Students Identify As Conservative
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing the rising intolerance for conservative, libertarian, and Republican students and faculty on campuses across the country. Faculties rarely hire conservative or libertarian professors; journals rarely publish studies from conservative authors....
ACLU Staffer Attacks University For Admitting Nick Sandmann While Professor Denounces His 'Anti-Intellectual' Views
by Jonathan Turley | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
I have previously written, as a long supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), about my concern over how the venerable group has changed under its current leadership, including a departure from its long robust defense of free speech. Recently, the ACLU...
How 'Silence is Violence' Can Became Compelled Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the rising concern over compelled speech on our campuses and our streets. Here is the column: “Silence is violence” has everything that you want in a slogan: Alliteration. Brevity. Simplicity. It also can be chilling for...
Why Antifa Is The Keyser Söze of Social Unrest
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 6, 2020 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on yesterday’s hearing in the Senate, which ended abruptly with Sen. Hirono walking out after a confrontation with Sen. Cruz over his objection that the Democrats were avoiding direct criticism of Antifa. In roughly 50 hearings...
Willful Blindness: New Damaging Information On The Russian Investigation Is Promptly Unseen By The Media
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent disclosure of a document showing that the FBI used an agent to gather information for Crossfire Hurricane during campaign briefings of Trump during 2016. The document directly contradicted the long-standing denial that the...
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Removes Columbus Statue in Chicago After Days Of Violent Protests
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
Growing up in Chicago, the giant Christopher Columbus statue was a well-known feature in Grant Park. It is now gone. Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved to end the violent protests through an act of surrender. She unilaterally ordered the removal of statue. Problem solved? No,...
Was This Michigan Teacher Fired After Tweeting Support For Trump and Reopening Schools?
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
We recently discussed a Vermont principal who was told that she would have to retire after expressing her opinion of Black Lives Matter on her personal Facebook page. Now, a popular social studies teacher and baseball coach at Walled Lake Western High School in...
‘Anti-American’? House Members Move To Condemn Rep. Omar In Resolution
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 17, 2020 | Congress Alert
I have recently been highly critical of reports that Rep. Iihan Omar (D-MN) has given up to one million dollars in campaign funds to her own husband’s company, one of the long-standing loopholes for corruption in Washington. Omar has been highly controversial for her...
D.C. Delegate Asks The Right Question After Bizarre Incident Near White House
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) had a bizarre encounter yesterday when a man dressed only in a bra and panties rushed then near Black Lives Matter Square and the area claimed earlier as the “Black House Autonomous Zone.”...
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