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Barry Kibrick: ‘Love Your Mistakes’
“Mistakes are your best assets. They hone your skills and develop your creativity. Don’t be afraid to make them, the more the merrier.” From Barry Kibrick Eric Metaxas the right-wing author and radio talk show host, once said when he was talking about one of his books and I’m paraphrasing: “We’re all a bunch a screw […]
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The New Yorker: Douglas Watt- ‘The Glittering, Corrosive Humor of Lenny Bruce’
Source:The New Democrat “Early in 1966, the entertainer Lenny Bruce, who died in the midsummer of that year at the age of forty from a self-administered overdose of morphine, gave his next-to-last public performance, at the Berkeley Community Theatre, a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1966, America, Berkeley, California, Christian Conservatism, Christian Conservatives, Christian Right, Comedy, Douglas Watt, Far-Right, Fascism, Fascists, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Lenny Bruce, Lenny Bruce's Career, Lenny Bruce's Life, New Right, New York, New York City, Political Correctness, Religious Conservatism, Religious Conservatives, Religious Right, Satire, The 1950s, The 1960s, United States, University of California
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Skeptic Magazine: Michael Shermer- Interviewing Anthony Kronman: ‘The Assault on American Excellence’
Source:The New Democrat “The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. In his tenure … Continue reading
Posted in Skeptic, The New Democrat
Tagged America, Anthony Kronman, Collectivism, Collectivists, College, College Campuses, College Life, Colleges, Communism, Communists, Far-Left, Fascism, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Michael Shermer, New Left, Political Correctness, Socialism, Socialists, The Assault on Excellence, United States
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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
Posted in Free Speech
Tagged America, Baby Boom, Baby Boom Generation, Baby Boomers, Center Left, Classical Liberalism, Classical Liberals, Des Moines, Fascism, First Amendment, Free Choice, Free Expression, Free Speech, Free Will, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Iowa, John Tinker, Liberal Democracy, Liberalism, Liberals, Mary Beth Tinker, Personal Autonomy, Personal Choice, Political Correctness, The 1960s, Tinker V. Des Moines, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War
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The Onion: Pros and Cons of Free Speech on College Campuses
Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat To be completely serious second ( which seems to go against everything that The Onion stands for ) a pro for being in favor of free speech on campus is … Continue reading
Constitution Daily: NCC Staff- Looking Back: George Carlin & The U.S. Supreme Court
Source: This piece was originally posted at 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 … Continue reading
Slate: Karina Longworth- ‘The Hollywood Ten Paid The Price For Refusing to Answer The $64 Question’
Source:The Daily Review “The hearings on what the House Un-American Activities Committee called “the communist infiltration of the motion-picture industry” began on Oct. 20, 1947. At the insistence of lawyers representing the 19 “unfriendly” witnesses brought before the committee, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 70th Congress, Censorship, Communism, Communists, Communists in Hollywood, Far-Left, Far-Right, Fascism, Fascists, Herbert Biberman, Hollywood, Hollywood Ten, House Un-American Activities Committee, Karina Longworth, Neoconservatism, Neoconservatives, Political Correctness, Samuel Ornitz, State Fascism, The 1940s, The 1950s, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives
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Constitution Daily: Staff- What’s Next For Free Speech?
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review: Constitution Daily: Staff- What’s Next For Free Speech? I’ll tell what I hope happens next for free speech in America which is probably going to sound very sarcastic and cynical … Continue reading
Posted in Free Speech
Tagged Censorship, Comedy, Far-Left, Fascism, Fascists, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, New Left, News Satire, Political Correctness, Political Satire
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NBC: Lenny Bruce on The Steve Allen Show in 1959
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review: NBC: Lenny Bruce on The Steve Allen Show in 1959 Steve Allen, right before he brought on Lenny Bruce, made a great comment and I realize he was being humorous, … Continue reading
Posted in Lenny Bruce
Tagged Censorship, Comedy, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Lenny Bruce, NBC, Political Correctness, Satire, Steve Allen, Steve Allen Show, The 1950s
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Paul Richards: The Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience in Berkeley 1964
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review: Paul Richards: The Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience in Berkeley 1964 I hate as a Liberal hearing California being called a liberal state and some bastion of liberalism. And just … Continue reading
Associated Press: Lynne Hollander-Savio- Berkley’s Campus Free Speech Movement at 50
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review: Associated Press: Lynne Hollander-Savio- Berkley’s Campus Free Speech Movement at 50 The Millennial’s today who are still in college, the so-called Social Justice Warriors who want to establish their form … Continue reading
Posted in Free Speech
Tagged Baby Boom Generation, Baby Boomers, Berkley, California Berkley, California University, Censorship, Fascism, Fascists, First Amendment, Free Expression, Free Speech, Free Speech Movement, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Hippie Movement, Hippies, Lynne Hollander Salvio, Political Correctness, The 1960s
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