In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about. Twenty-two years ago this month,...
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Putting Israel First, Rubio Victimizes Harmless Student Over Op-Ed
by Brian McGlinchey | Jun 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel — which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s US-based collaborators — many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State...
Marco Rubio’s Bizarre War On Speech
by Daniel McAdams | May 29, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Punishing Freedom
by Andrew P. Napolitano | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past...
A Peculiar Measure of the Prevalence of ‘Antisemitism’
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2025 | Congress Alert
On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives approved yet again legislation (this time H. Res. 352) to counter “antisemitism” — something the US government has been redefining for its purposes as going beyond being related to race, ethnicity, or religion...
The War On Speech, With Guest Nico Perrino
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 23, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Arrested And Deported For Exercising First Amendment Rights?
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 27, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Making Our Rights Disappear: The Authoritarian War on Due Process
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich The war on due process is here. No trials. No hearings. No rights. Just indefinite detention and secret deportations. This is the fate that awaits every one of us, not just immigrants (legal or...
A Brief History of the Freedom of Speech
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”-- Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government. Notably absent were...
Perilous Times for Personal Liberty
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --Because I was not a...
American Spring? Uphold Freedom of Speech on American Campuses
by Dennis J. Kucinich | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Throughout my political career, I have steadfastly defended the First Amendment, particularly the right to free speech. In 2002, I delivered a speech entitled A Prayer for America, where I challenged the rationale of the PATRIOT Act and questioned actions that...
DOJ Deploys ‘Antisemitism Task Force’ to Four US Cities as Part of Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protests
by Dave DeCamp | Mar 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
The US Department of Justice said Thursday that its recently created “Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism” will be heading to four US cities as part of the Trump administration’s broad crackdown on college protests critical of Israel. The DOJ said the...
‘Listen Carefully it’s Actually Much Darker’: How the Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News...
Crimson Tide: Only One-Third of Harvard Students Feel Comfortable Speaking About Controversial Subjects
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
Harvard has long been accused of fostering an anti-free speech environment and quelching viewpoint diversity. That was the subject of my recent debate with Law Professor Randall Kennedy at Harvard. A new report confirms many of the objections...
Trump Issues Executive Order Aimed At Deporting Anti-Israel Protesters
by blueapples | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last spring, a wave of protests across college campuses nationwide against Israel's war in Gaza became the focal point of the growing cultural schism further dividing American society. The dichotomy between supporters and opponents of those protests...
Week One, Trump 2.0: How’d He Do?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 29, 2025 | The Liberty Report
Saved from the Terror of TikTok
by Eric Margolis | Jan 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Thank goodness that our heroes in Congress and the Supreme Court have courageously acted to end the scourge of that nefarious Red Chinese conspiracy, TikTok. This evil computer program was designed to mesmerize, corrupt and mislead America’s youth. Not since the...
TikTok and the Freedom of Speech
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law ...abridging the freedom of speechor of the press…”--First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon Papers case, a fascinating colloquy took place between Justice William O....
Trump’s 2nd Admin, Cali Aid, Tik-Tok Ban, Journalist Assault – Friday Media Roundup
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 17, 2025 | The Liberty Report
House of Representatives Approves Legislation Threatening Nonprofits’ Free Speech
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2024 | Congress Alert
On Thursday, the United States House of Representatives approved legislation that would threaten nonprofit organizations’ exercise of free speech rights. The legislation would accomplish this goal by empowering the US government to selectively clamp down on nonprofits...
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