J.K. Rowling has a point of view: Intolerance of alternative viewpoints is spreading to places that make me, a moderate and a liberal, most uncomfortable. Only last year, we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from entry to the U.K. It garnered half a million signatures. Just a moment. I find almost • Read More »
Archives: freedom of expression
That was then – JFK blasts the idea of government secrecy
May 18, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: First Amendment, law.Once upon a time, a president of the United States — in the face of grave danger to the nation — had this to say about government secrecy:
2007 – the year of the First Amendment
May 18, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: First Amendment, law.This past year we saw the Federal Elections Commission “reprimand” a NASCAR driver because he had a “Bush-Cheney” sticker on his car during a race. We can only hope that the FEC continues to make such ridiculous decisions so that people will wake up to how dangerous that agency has become.