Category Archives: Free Speech

ACLU: Sam Walker: ‘Conscientious Objectors’

Source:The New Democrat  “The ACLU was born out of World War I and the repression that resulted when the U.S. joined the fight.” “On the night of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson made the trip from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue … Continue reading

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ACLU: A Supreme Court Fight For Students Free Speech Rights- The Story of John and Mary Beth Tinker

Source:The New Democrat If you look at American political culture from the 1960s and 70s, they have a lot of things in common with the Millennial’s today in the sense that they both have serious leanings on the Left ( … Continue reading

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The New Yorker: ‘A Hundred Years of American Protest, Then & Now’

Source:The New Democrat  “A split-screen look at how protests in America have evolved over a hundred years. From the civil-rights movement and the Ku Klux Klan to the March for Our Lives and Unite the Right, here’s how mass protests … Continue reading

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Americans United: ‘We Are Americans United’: For Separation of Church and State

Source: The New Democrat From Wikipedia “The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom … Continue reading

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Constitution Daily: ‘Looking Back: George Carlin & The U.S. Supreme Court’

Source:The Daily Review The blog writes a lot about political correctness and fascism, because we write a lot about comedy and write comedy ourselves and without free speech which is what political correctness and fascism tries to restrict (obviously, duh, … Continue reading

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Constitution Daily: What’s Next For Free Speech?

Source:The Daily Review I’ll tell what I hope happens next for free speech in America which is probably going to sound very sarcastic and cynical and hopefully funny and informative like a good comedian. And then I’ll tell you what … Continue reading

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The Steve Allen Show: Lenny Bruce (1959)

Source:NBC– Comedian Lenny Bruce on The Steve Allen Show in 1959. Source:The Daily Review “Lenny is tender/mean/sweet at the same time. Enjoy! One of my favorite comedy bits of him.” Source:Sam Legend Wrestling– comedian Lenny Bruce on The Steve Allen … Continue reading

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Paul Richards: The Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience in Berkeley 1964

Source:The Daily Review I hate as a Liberal hearing California being called a liberal state and some bastion of liberalism. And just go back to the 1960s and how they came down on students who were simply looking to express … Continue reading

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Constitution Daily: Joshua Waimberg: Schenck v. United States: Defining The Limits of Free Speech

Source:The New Democrat  I’m not a lawyer, which is probably as obvious as Ayn Rand wasn’t a Socialist, but I bet a good lawyer who is sane, sober and awake at the time, could make a damn good case that … Continue reading

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Movie Clips Classic Trailer Vault: ‘Lenny Official Trailer- Dustin Hoffman Movie (1974)’

Source:Movie Clips Classic Trailer Vault– from the trailer of Lenny. Source:The Daily Review “Lenny Trailer – Directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Frankie Man, Gary Morton, Guy Rennie. The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, … Continue reading

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