Columns, Criminal law, Media, Politics

Hunter’s Collapsing World: Why a Criminal Plea Could Now be the Best Option for the Bidens

Below is my column in The Hill on the hearing today in Arkansas involving Hunter Biden and his daughter Navy Joan. President Joe Biden and the First Lady have refused to acknowledge their grandchild and her father is opposing her using the family name. A court will now have to decide whether this child can call herself a Biden and whether her father can reduce his level of financial support.

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Free Speech, Media, Politics

ABC News Censors Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ABC News

Before he was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy declared that “hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard.” That does not appear to be the view of ABC News, which censored his son who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination. ABC objected to Kennedy’s views on COVID-19 vaccines, so it simply announced that it was preventing viewers from hearing those views to protect them from dangerous ideas. Continue reading “ABC News Censors Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” →

Columns, Media, Politics

Daddy Dearest: Hunter Forced to Appear in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s Name and Support

On Monday, Hunter Biden will finally make it to Arkansas. The Natural State is not a Biden family favorite but there is one thing that would ordinarily be an attraction: Biden’s daughter Navy Joan. In the Biden family, the four-year-old girl remains “she who must not be named” literally. Not only has President Biden refused to refer to her as a grandchild or even include a Christmas stocking with the other children, her father Hunter is fighting to prevent her from using the Biden name. Indeed, the only reason that Hunter is coming to the same state with his daughter is to seek to limit his child support. Continue reading “Daddy Dearest: Hunter Forced to Appear in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s Name and Support” →

Free Speech

Bar Ban: Indiana Owner Declares Anyone Criticizing Bud Light Will Be Thrown Out

We often discuss the twisted logic used on campuses where faculty and students will profess support for free speech while censoring or canceling others from speaking.  However, Fairfax Bar & Grill in Bloomington, Indiana, has taken this hypocrisy to a truly impressive level. The bar recently declared that it supports free speech so it will throw out anyone who criticizes Anheuser-Busch or BudLight for its campaign featuring transgender figure Dylan Mulvaney. Owner McKinley Minniefield told Newsweek “I won’t tolerate hate speech, and I think that’s where I draw the line.” It is that easy, you just declare opposing views to be hateful and then ban them from the bar. Continue reading “Bar Ban: Indiana Owner Declares Anyone Criticizing Bud Light Will Be Thrown Out” →

Constitutional Law, Courts

Federal Judge Enjoins Illinois’ Assault Weapon Ban

In a major victory for gun rights advocates, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn has granted a preliminary injunction of Illinois’ ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court.  These long-awaited challenges will test the Democratic calls for removing all AR-15s and similar weapons, including calls from President Joe Biden.

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Courts, Media, Politics, Supreme Court

Alito: I Know Who Likely Leaked the Dobbs Decision

In a surprising statement to The Wall Street Journal today, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he has a “pretty good idea” who leaked a draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. He strongly suggested that it was someone who opposed the opinion and wanted to pressure the justices not to go forward with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

 

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Constitutional Law, Politics

Bagging “Jim Eagle”: 11th Circuit Upholds Florida’s Voting Reforms

It appears that “Jim Eagle” has flown the coop.

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld critical provisions in Florida election law reforms, including provisions that Democratic politicians and pundits spent years misrepresenting as “a return to Jim Crow.” Many of these attacks were directed against Georgia, which was the subject of boycotts. However, other states passed similar provisions. In a majority opinion written by Chief Judge William Pryor (and joined by Judge Elizabeth Grant), the 11th Circuit found that the district court misconstrued the controlling precedent and made factual errors in its injunction of a few of the provisions enacted by Florida.

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Academia, Constitutional Law, Politics

Destroying a Democracy to Save It: Robert Reich Calls for Blocking Trump from Ballots as a Traitor

Robert Reich, the Berkeley professor and the former labor secretary under Clinton, has been known for his increasing anti-free speech views through the years including characterizing the restoration of free speech on social media as tyranny. He now believes that former President Donald Trump can be barred from running for president in 2024 because he “committed treason,” according to a new column in The Guardian. The argument is entirely without merit, but that does not prevent the media from repeating this flawed but cathartic claim. Continue reading “Destroying a Democracy to Save It: Robert Reich Calls for Blocking Trump from Ballots as a Traitor” →
Criminal law, Free Speech, Politics

Antifa Attacks “Protect the Kids” Protesters Opposing Drag Show

A “Protect Texas Kids” protest this week was attacked by counter-protesters outside of the location of a planned drag show that would reportedly involve children. The incident was caught on videotape and shows how Antifa routinely, even cavalierly, resorts to violence to silence those with opposing views. Any doubt as to their association from their signature black outfits and tactics was dispensed by this picture clearly showing the Antifa flag. Continue reading “Antifa Attacks “Protect the Kids” Protesters Opposing Drag Show” →

Academia, Columns, Free Speech

The American Cultural Revolution: Whitworth Students Bar Survivor of Maoist China from Speaking

Below is my column on Fox.com on the recent decision of students at Whitworth University to bar a speech from a survivor of Maoist China. It was an ironic but all-too-familiar scene in higher education today.

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Uncategorized

Michigan Students Sue After Being Forced to Remove “Let’s Go Brandon” Sweatshirts
Image from D.A. v. Tri County Area Schools Complaint

In Tinker v. Des Moines, the Supreme Court famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” That may be true but apparently they can shed their sweatshirts in Michigan. In a newly filed complaint, two middle school students are suing Tri County Area Schools after they were ordered to remove their sweatshirts featuring the anti-Biden slogan “Let’s Go, Brandon.” The lawsuit filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) makes a compelling case that the schools acted in an unconstitutional fashion in censoring the political message. Continue reading “Michigan Students Sue After Being Forced to Remove “Let’s Go Brandon” Sweatshirts” →

Congress, Media, Politics

Biden Praises Tennessee Legislators For “Standing Up” for Democracy . . . By Stopping the Legislative Process

President Joe Biden held a curious meeting in the Oval Office where he honored Tennessee legislators for “standing up” for democracy by preventing a legislature from continuing its work. He then magnified that mixed message by refusing again to answer questions from the media and dismissing them with a joke. Continue reading “Biden Praises Tennessee Legislators For “Standing Up” for Democracy . . . By Stopping the Legislative Process” →

Academia, Constitutional Law, Religion, Supreme Court

Seventh Circuit Upholds Termination of High School Teacher Who Objected to Pronoun Policy

There is an important ruling this month out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which ruled against former high school music teacher John Kluge for refusing to comply with the school’s pronoun policy for religious reasons. What is most curious about the ruling is the timing. The Seventh Circuit opinion from April 7th is particularly interesting given the oral argument in the Supreme Court in Groff v. DeJoy only 11 days after the appellate ruling. Groff could gut the underlying standard used by the Seventh Circuit in its ruling for the school district. The opinion also puts the appellate court in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in its recent Meriweather decision. Continue reading “Seventh Circuit Upholds Termination of High School Teacher Who Objected to Pronoun Policy” →

Free Speech, International

Macron Gives “Le Doigt” to Free Speech: Protesters to be Prosecuted for Flipping Off the French President

Five years ago, I wrote a column criticizing Democratic and Republican members of Congress who joined the media in gushing over an address from French President Emmanuel Macron as he called for European style censorship. Free speech has been in a virtual free fall in France for decades and Macron is a major voice in that movement. This week, the French added another outrage to Macron’s legacy by promising to prosecute three citizens who protested the President by flipping him off at an event. The use of “Le Doigt” could now land them in “La Prison.”

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Antony Blinken and the ‘Made Men’ of the Biden Administration

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent disclosure that the organizer of the infamous “Russian Disinformation” letter on the Hunter Biden laptop was prompted by then Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken. He is, of course, now our Secretary of State and he follows a pattern of the “made men” of the Biden Administration.

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