Tag: free speech
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Regressing
After Drak recommended God in the Dock in response to yesterday’s post, I picked it up. It’s been a while since I read CS Lewis, and I knew I hadn’t read that collection of essays. I’m delighted I impulse bought this book. The essays are a broad collection, apologetics, yes, but it’s Lewis. He had…
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Baen Books
Anyone who has read my blog or who knows me, knows of my deep and abiding affection for Baen’s Bar, which led me to Baen Books. This week, a ham-handed and libelous attack was made on the forum. I’m including Toni Weisskopf’s response below. To Whom It May Concern: What is it we do…
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The Lone Man
I’d been reading John Locke, as I revisit the origins of my beloved country and remind myself where the freedoms I currently enjoy stem from. It’s a good thing to do periodically, as time erodes with it’s passage much that we took for granted. Locke, at length, proposes to trace the origination of the…
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Sore Must be the Storm
Are we seeing some pushback against the ‘cancel culture’? One can sincerely hope. I for one do not see good things coming from a world where a professor can openly threaten to permanently damage a student’s livelihood and career simply because he does not like what the student has to say. It used to…
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A trio of topics: Controversy
I’m going to briefly leave three things that popped up on my radar in the last day or so. I’m having a busy, grumpy day, and while I may still do a post on one or the other of these – certainly will, in the case of the organic food report – but today you…
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Join Arms and March
I am echoing the words of many bloggers today, as we all speak out in defense of free speech. Join us, in a virtual march, to show that you, too, defend the right to speak freely. Tell the Truth Using the idea that if you offend anyone, you’ve committed a hate crime, you can silence…
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The Right to Speak Freely
Never, it seems, has the freedom to speak been under more attack than in these days following the tragic murders of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. “President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack “of exceptional barbarity”. Twelve people slaughtered in the name of terrorism, and their blood was not…
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Freedom Lives
I don’t know that I can write about this, today. Not with any coherency, and I may never be able to do that, this has shaken me. Others have written fluently, and I’ll share those words. Click on links to read more, and feel free to share, either this post, or the cartoon I created…