Tag: United States

  • “The tree of liberty must be refreshed … with the blood of patriots & tyrants.”

    The title of this post was taken from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in Paris, on Nov. 13. 1787. He sent that letter to William Smith. Those words do not appear in the Declaration of Independence. Those words do not appear in the U.S. Constitution. Thomas Jefferson was the principle author of the Declaration of […]

  • Freedom of Speech and its limits

    Federal free speech protections apply only to the government. The First Amendment does not regulate private employers.

  • Global Readers of English

    India is the only country in which books are published in some 18 languages, with English representing the most significant share.

  • Taking it Global: Online Freedom of Speech versus the 6th Amendment

    Freedom of Speech is only one of the rights/protections that the US Constitution offers its citizens.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 5/5

    Is it possible that Murdock—or other wealthy neoconservatives—are supplying the money behind the IMED where Julie Lenarz is a fellow?

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 4/5

    I have learned that it is best to be suspicious of political nonprofit organizations with impressive sounding names that promise to achieve wonderful things and make the world a better place. They could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 3/5

    There are several private-sector special interest groups that benefited from the Iraq War—each one for a different reason.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 2/5

    Wars are fought with mostly borrowed money that ends up growing the National Debt and that debt—if it is ever paid off—will be paid by U.S. tax payers and not by oil companies.

  • Censored but not Silenced: Part 1/5

    Civil Liberties says, “The right to free speech is a longstanding U.S. tradition, but actually respecting the right to free speech is not.”

  • Does MADE in the U.S.A. mean made by an American-born citizen?

    Over a five-year period 2007 to 2011, almost 2,000 illegal immigrants died attempting to cross America’s southwest deserts and almost three million were caught and sent back home.