Freedom is on the ballot this November
The differences between Republicans and Democrats in 2024 have become clear thanks to their national conventions, but they also revealed a commonality between liberals and conservatives: They both want the national government to play a much more active role in the private lives of Americans. The November election will be a referendum on government engagement. […]
Shapiro says ‘real freedom’ starts with public schools
(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday that Democrats support “some sort of freedom” that starts in the classroom. Specifically, public school classrooms. “Democrats, do you know this? We are the party of true freedom,” Shapiro said onstage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. “True freedom is the freedom that comes […]
Top Euro Paper Blasts EU’s Bid to Save Freedom by Killing Freedom
A “primal fear” among Europe’s left-wing dissidents leads them to believe that Elon Musk and Mr. X pose a greater threat to democracy than “totalitarian censorship” carried out in the name of freedom, a senior reporter for a major European newspaper has written. The European Union has developed a penchant for the contradiction of trying […]
Want more freedom of speech? Try less government.
It’s time for America to get out of the censorship business for good. Over the past three years, the House of Representatives has uncovered a vast system of censorship operated in part through federal funding and coordination with federal officials, a system that a federal court has described as downright “Orwellian.” The Biden administration has […]
Freedom Caucus draws first battle lines in election year government shutdown fight
The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus has signaled it won’t help Congress avoid a government shutdown next month unless a short-term spending bill is tied to a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. House Republican insurrectionists are also calling for the short-term spending plan to be extended until the new year, at which […]
Freedom Caucus pushes for stopgap into 2025 to avoid omnibus
The House Freedom Caucus has adopted a formal position in support of passing a continuing resolution to extend government funding past the Sept. 30 end-of-year deadline through early 2025, with the intention of avoiding a year-end omnibus bill that could favor Democrats. The move by hardline conservative groups amounts to a warning about a fight […]
Brat summer felt like relief, like freedom. Pity it was killed, as many good things are, by a bank | Madeleine Gray
TThey say the dead never leave us, as long as they live in our hearts. So was Summer of Brat. She was the bra strap we refused to hide and the bra we never wore at all. She was the cigarette butt that burned holes in our sheets. She was the fifth bottle of wine […]
Tulsi Gabbard fears for family and freedom upon learning Harris admin allegedly targeted her for surveillance
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is a national radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media. Glenn Beck How shocked she was to find out that the Harris administration may have been monitoring her through a program meant to identify and monitor potential terrorists. She feels personally betrayed, but she joined the military in the wake […]
Bangladeshi journalists hopeful for return to press freedom as Hasina era ends | Global development
Bangladeshi journalists hope that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation will mark an end to an era of censorship and fear, and prepare to hold a new caretaker government to account. Arrests, abuses and enforced disappearances by Bangladeshi security forces have dogged journalists for much of Hasina’s 15 years in power, preventing them from reporting on […]
Abortion Part of ‘Ever-Widening Circle of Freedom’, But Founders ‘Couldn’t Put it in the Constitution’
During Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said abortion rights are “a growing circle of freedom in this country,” adding that “our Founding Fathers had a great vision for this country, but they couldn’t put it into the Constitution. But thankfully, they made the Constitution amendable.” That expands freedoms […]