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Category: Freedom of Speech

  • Free Speech From the Mouths of Babes?

    By Selwyn Duke Last week the Supreme court handed down three free speech rulings that find favor with conservatives.  One of them is Morse et al. v. Frederick, a case involving the free speech rights of students. At issue is a five year old incident wherein a Juneau-Douglas High School senior named Joe Frederick raised…

  • The New Lynching: Why I Must Defend Don Imus

    By Selwyn Duke So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who has found out how loose lips sink ships, in this case his own. But even though his is a vessel I…

  • The Barker and the ShillThe Fraud of the Fairness Doctrine

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These were carnival employees who both worked to entice customers into entering the mysterious realm of the sideshow, only, their methods were very different. The…