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The Fake Crusade for Free Speech

Behind the Bastards

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The Macheanyard Podcast - You Get Your Machete

In August 3rd 2018 famous tabloid the New York Post published an article titled How Liberals Turned Against Free Speech. Why is it considered liberal to compel others to say or fund things they don't believe? That's a question raised by three Supreme Court decisions this year. It's a puzzling development for those of us old enough to remember when liberals champion free speech even advocacy of sedition and conservatives wanted government to restrain or limit it. So if you're into these crisis pregnancy centers sometimes known as 'CPCs' then it becomes easier to see the authoritarian liberal argument against them. They seem not to have noticed Yale law professor Stephen Carter's observation that every law is violent because behind every exercise

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