Scott talks to Steven Woskow about recent anti-BDS legislation at both the state and federal level. The issue has been going back and forth in the courts because on the one hand, a boycott is just an expression of personal first amendment freedoms, but on the other,...
First Amendment
Israel’s Fifth Column Suffers Crushing Defeat At Hands of the First Amendment
Why does Israel and its partisans hate free speech so much? It's because stealing and killing and lying is at the core of Israel's national strategy and daily public policy, and they're slightly worried the U.S. government might one day stop letting them take money...
Julian Assange Wins EU Journalism Award
Good thing foreigners still uphold the values of America's first amendment while USA journalists scatter like so many rats.
When They Came for Julian Assange
You probably heard Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, was arrested by British authorities yesterday. Mr. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012. Assange is expected to be extradited to the United States, where he will face charges...
FCC Commissioner Wants to Ban E-cigarette Commercials
If a member of the Federal Communications Commission gets her way, commercials for e-cigarettes (vaping products) would be banned from radio and television. A ban would not only violate freedom, specifically the freedom speech that is supposedly protected by the First...
Judge Confirms: Oregon Engineer Has a First Amendment Right to Call Himself an Engineer
A federal judge has ruled that the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying violated the First Amendment when it tried to fine Mats Järlström—an Oregonian with a degree in engineering and years of experience in the field—for describing himself as...
A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job
A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told that she can no longer work with the public school district, after she...
The Offending Tweets That Got Me Banned for Life from Twitter
A leaky little “bird” inside Twitter tells me these are the tweets that got me banned for life. I have no way of verifying this; official Twitter will not respond to my inquiries. I stand accused of dehumanizing several reporters (“targeted abuse”), using words to...
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