How the Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters
Reason.com, the website I edit, was recently commanded by the feds to provide information on a few commenters and not discuss it. Here’s why we’re speaking out. by Nick Gillespie…
Don’t Go Soft on the ICANN Handoff
Congress is wrong to take itself out of the game. by Peter Roff • US News & World Report If, as CQ.com reported Thursday, GOP congressional leaders…
For Folks Who Just Love Suppressing Free Speech
By Charles Lipson • RealClearPolitics The Canadian government of Stephen Harper has a fascinating idea. Use hate-crime laws against groups that advocate boycotting Israel. It’s a…
The Left’s Silencing of College Campuses
By Kirsten Powers • The Daily Beast The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone—almost always a liberal—has been…
The United States of ‘American Sniper’
Liberals’ criticism of my SEAL teammate Chris Kyle has had the ironic effect of honoring him. By Rorke Denver • The Wall Street Journal ‘American Sniper,”…
Ex-CBS Reporter’s Book Reveals How Liberal Media Protects Obama
by Kyle Smith • New York Post Sharyl Attkisson is an unreasonable woman. Important people have told her so. When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about…
Policy Backgrounder: Ensuring a Free Internet – ICANN Transition Moving in the Wrong Direction
by Jared Smith Overview When the United States Government announced its intent to forfeit its historical role of providing oversight for the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), it did so…
White House Approving & Disapproving Content of Press Reports
by Paul Farhi • Washington Post White House journalists are creating an alternative system for distributing their media “pool” reports in response to the Obama administration’s involvement in…
China unrest and the future of the open internet
by Peter Roff • Washington Times Many of those watching the pro-democracy demonstrations underway right now in Hong Kong are concerned, appropriately, about the impact they will have…
The Unfree Speech Movement
I was among the student radicals at Berkeley in 1964, back when colleges actually had intellectual freedom. by Sol Stern • The Wall Street Journal This…
World Wide Principles for the World Wide Web
by Horace Cooper • Politix Last spring the White House announced that it would go forward with an effort to relinquish all American oversight over the operation…
Free Speech Needs No Amending
Senate Democrats would restrict fundamental First Amendment rights in an election-year stunt As election season enters full swing, Senate Democrats are taking the opportunity to garner votes by attempting to…
Harry Reid’s Peculiar Priorities
by Mark Pfeifle • RealClearPolitics The United States Senate should have a busy schedule when it comes back into session this week. Atrocities in the Middle…
Liberalism as an Instrument of Coercion
by Michael Barone Liberals just aren’t very liberal these days. The word “liberal” comes from the Latin word meaning freedom, and in the 19th century, liberals in this country and…
Struggling to Show Anti-Koch Amendment Is “Reasonable”
A proposed Constitutional amendment would give Congress authority to regulate every dollar… by Byron York While much of Washington grapples with international crises, chronic economic troubles, and upcoming midterm elections,…