BackboneAmerica

While political censorship is abhorrent in a free society, political invective is democracy’s very breath of life. Yes, even when that breath (more…)

(Denver Post, May 4) To fear an idea, any idea, is unworthy of a free society. To suppress an idea from debate is more cowardly still. How does our country measure up? Americans pride themselves on being free-thinking and open, and we generally are. But five instances to the contrary recently hit the news. The utterance of forbidden words had polite opinion caterwauling like spinsters who saw a mouse. It was a bad show. We can do better. The would-be censors targeted a radio host’s glee, a political party’s advocacy, a wartime nation’s realism, a legislator’s bluntness, and a black man’s heresy. (more…)

My hosts from the College Republicans were told by the university’s Office of Multicultural Affairs — are you ready? — that they should have invited a white speaker to campus instead of me. (more…)