by Michael Barone I’m old enough to remember when American liberals cherished the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. They celebrated especially the freedom accorded those with unpopular…
Congress has too much power already; it should not have the power to silence citizens. by Ted Cruz For two centuries there has been bipartisan agreement that American democracy depends…
The long, ugly journey from the Free Speech Movement to professors assaulting protesters. by Matt Welch On March 4, in a designated “free-speech zone” at the University of California, Santa…
Frontiers of Freedom Praises the House of Representatives for wisely agreeing that the Internet should remain under the authority of the United States May 30, 2014, Washington, D.C. – George Landrith,…
by Carl M. Cannon I still think of myself as a reporter—my role for three decades—although as Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, the bulk of my job these days is…
Welcome to America’s college campuses, where the feelings of students are never to be bruised and where freedom of speech is reserved for only some of those doing the speaking.…
by Alana Goodman Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) repeatedly pressed the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of specific conservative nonprofit organizations in letters to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and…
Each week seems to bring another incident. Who will the thought police come for next? by Kirsten Powers Welcome to the Dark Ages, Part II. We have slipped into an…
by Charles Krauthammer The debate over campaign contributions is never-ending for a simple reason: Both sides of the argument have merit. On the one hand, of course money is speech.…
Hate-crime laws may have the paradoxical effect of privileging some victims of violence over others. by Michael McGough Frazier Glenn Cross (a.k.a. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.), the 73-year-old extremist accused…
Democratic Rep. Cummings previously denied IRS contact. But emails now show his denials were false. Why all the false and misleading statements, if there is not a smidgen of corruption…
by Charles Krauthammer Two months ago, a petition bearing more than 110,000 signatures was delivered to The Post, demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming. The petition arrived…
by Paul Joseph Watson Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy has called on Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie to start arresting Bureau of Land Management agents on charges of trespassing and theft…
by Thomas Sowell The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens…
The Supreme Court just lessened the influence of those “shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names” President Obama warns against. We’ll see how the Democrats’ rich donors like the sunlight. In a…