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North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls has recently filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, alleging the commission has aimed to stifle her First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 11:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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New York Times columnist David Brooks blasted attempts from the political Left to censor speech, saying that it was a “problem for democracy.”
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 6:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors unanimously approved a new policy Feb. 23 banning schools from forcing employees or applicants to agree with certain political viewpoints as a condition of employment or acceptance as a student.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 7:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The political world was upended Tuesday following President Biden's SOTU speech when it was revealed Republicans and Democrats were surprisingly divided on his performance.
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 1:03 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The John Locke Foundation has joined more than 50 groups, elected officials, and individuals challenging a federal subpoena that aims to chill political speech.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Over a dozen former Defense secretaries and Joint Chiefs chairmen signed a letter warning of a “challenging civil-military environment” days after President Joe Biden delivered a polarizing political speech with two marines in the backdrop.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 10:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Biden Slammed By Mainstream Journalists For Using Marines As Props While Attacking American CitizensDemocrat President Joe Biden faced backlash from mainstream news reporters Thursday night after U.S. Marines were positioned behind him during a highly polarizing political speech in which the president demonized millions of Americans as being “extremists” who posed a threat to the country.
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 7:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Democrat President Joe Biden faced backlash over the speech that he delivered Thursday evening for its dark and divisive tone, as well as its optics.
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 12:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Thursday evening, President Joe Biden delivered a supposedly non-political speech in which he demonized half the country as “threats” who represent “a clear and present danger” to our nation. The entire speech was evidence that the “soul” of Biden’s America is dark as hell.
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 4:22 am
By: Daily Wire
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Biden Slammed By Mainstream Journalists For Using Marines As Props While Attacking American CitizensDemocrat President Joe Biden faced backlash from mainstream news reporters Thursday night after U.S. Marines were positioned behind him during a highly polarizing political speech in which the president demonized millions of Americans as being “extremists” who posed a threat to the country.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2022 @ 11:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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A recent survey from Heterodox Academy found the percentage of students who believe the political and social climate on their college campus hampers free speech rose from 55% in 2019 to 64% in 2021.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 4:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When it comes to public affairs, bad news is good and good news is bad. That is, political speeches and media pieces that describe a problem as big and getting worse tend to attract more attention, so more are produced.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 7:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Political commentator Dave Rubin and psychologist Jordan Peterson have become the latest in a line of Internet celebrities to declare their independence from the crowdfunding site Patreon, after Patreon revealed a bizarre new "hate speech" policy.
Published: Monday, January 14th, 2019 @ 12:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday, the political world stood still as Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) delivered a speech prior to announcing whether or not she would support SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2018 @ 4:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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Election Day reminds us about deep political divisions. A high-profile diplomat's recent speech in Durham should remind us to place our political disagreements in the proper perspective
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 10:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Republican Party Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse said Democrats' efforts to compel information from him would chill political speech
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Citizens United, or Citizens United v. FEC, is a 2010 case in which the Supreme Court struck down limits to independent political expenditures on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 1:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a dispute pitting political speech against the authority of public agencies, in January the N.C. Supreme Court ruled that a sheriff could fire a deputy for refusing to make a contribution to the sheriff's re-election campaign.
Published: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I have previously reported, last May US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) proposed subjecting people who make politically incorrect statements about climate change to criminal investigation, and in September a group of respected academics went on the record endorsing that outrageous idea...
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Back in June I discussed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's disturbing suggestion that energy companies that raise doubts about the Administration's response to climate change should be prosecuted under federal racketeering law. At the time it seemed like a farfetched proposal and a clear violation of the...
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I noted in last week's newsletter that the American left has abandoned its traditional support for free expression and now seems intent on criminalizing politically incorrect speech. One notable manifestation of this change is a growing consensus that "hate speech" ought to be subject to criminal...
Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 @ 9:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At cato.org, Walter Olson has posted an interesting discussion of how politicians are increasingly inclined to criminalize politically incorrect speech...
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2015 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid horror stories about speech codes, grade inflation, and political correctness run amok on college campuses across the country, there's been one major positive development in recent years: the emergence of independent academic centers. The more than 150 centers focus on topics such as...
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 2:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At Monday night's Beaufort County Commissioner's general meeting, the commissioners voted 4 to 3 to ban certain political speech ascribed to by Commissioner Hood Richardson.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, at Beaufort County's General Meeting for October, a majority of Beaufort County Commissioners saw fit to snatch away Commissioner Hood Richardson's constitutional right to his political speech to further their Authoritarian agenda.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County NOW may not only be the first of its kind in Beaufort County and northeastern North Carolina, it is probably a member of a rarefied few in the world.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 8:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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At Modesto Junior College on September 17, 2013, an ordinary thing happened on what, by all accounts, is an ordinary college campus. A student, Robert Van Tuinen, was told to stop handing out literature on campus in violation of campus rules.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2013 @ 12:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Generally this series is for the public to speak, and have their concerns relayed to our growing readership. On this occassion, the publisher is having words with his public.
Published: Monday, September 6th, 2010 @ 1:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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