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Is Free Speech Dead?

As Charlie Kirk pointed out on Hannity last week, “free speech isn’t really so free anymore.   It’s actually quite expensive.”    After all, it cost the college $600,000 to pay for all of Ben Shapiro’s security at his event at UC Berkeley earlier this month.   The left wants to make it so difficult and inconvenient for conservative speakers to give speeches at college campuses that many of them will not even bother trying anymore.     To a degree, the left’s attempts to deter conservative speakers have succeeded.   Two conservative recording artists, Kaya Jones and Joy Villa, had initially planned to attend Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley but ultimately declined to so after receiving death threats.   Villa had previously angered the lefties in Hollywood by wearing a Trump gown to the Grammy Awards earlier this year.              Speaking of Free Speech Week, The Berkley Patriot, the Campus’...

Free Speech Week: Yes, it is Necessary

The folks in the Southern United States have had a rough couple of weeks.   Residents of Texas and Louisiana had to evacuate their homes as Hurricane Harvey dumped feet of rain on their states.   About a week later, residents of Florida had to deal with the wrath of Hurricane Irma; whose storm surge caused massive flooding in parts of the nation’s third most populous state.   Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida have yet to have their power restored.   Both hurricanes cost billions of dollars in damage.   It certainly didn’t help that liberals suggested that people deserved the wrath of hurricanes because their states voted for President Trump in last year’s Presidential Election.     In the minds of the snowflakes at Berkeley , they will have to deal with something far worse than a natural disaster next week:   Free Speech Week. These people probably take trigger warnings more seriously than hurricane warnings.   Brittany...

It Was the Best of America, It Was the Worst of America

Two events that happened this weekend highlight the best and worst of America .   One will make you feel like there actually is hope for the United States of America while the other will make you feel like the traditional America that we know and love has reached a point of no return.          Let’s start off with the worst.   In Berkeley , California , a small group of right-wing activists gathered for a “Say No to Marxism” event were met with thousands of counter-protesters attending a “Rally Against Hate” event.   Apparently, opposing Marxism makes someone hateful.   Amber Cummings, the organizer of the “Say No to Marxism” event, had previously called off the event due to fear of violence breaking out.   In spite of the event’s cancellation, a small group of Anti-Marxists still showed up to talk about their cause.    About 100 of the left-wing counter-protesters inflicted enormous pain on the right-wing protestors,...