Congress And The Slippery Slope Of Censorship

free speechJonathan Turley – English essayist Samuel Johnson wrote that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” I thought of Johnson’s words in preparing to appear before a House committee exploring limitations on free speech, including a campaign by some Democratic members and activists to remove networks like Fox News from cable carriers. As someone who just came over to Fox News as a legal analyst from CBS and the BBC, the hearing concentrated my mind “wonderfully” on the future of free speech and the free press.

Increasingly, free speech in the United States is described as a danger that needs to be controlled, as opposed to the very value that defines us as a people. While I am viewed as a “free speech purist” by many, I maintain what once was a mainstream view of free speech. I believe free speech is the greatest protection against bad speech.

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Kavanaugh and Barrett: John Roberts Retreads?

RobertsRabbi Aryeh Spero – All that work for, and faith in, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett! As with John Roberts before, we are once again the victims of unrequited affection and lost labor. Like other Republicans, I expended lots of hours and effort to do my part in getting all three confirmed. I wrote articles, did radio and TV interviews, gave speeches, called Senators and asked my friends to do so, and spoke to countless people.

I even attended the Senate Hearings for two of them; and in the case of Kavanaugh went face-to-face against a wild group of “feminists” blocking my way to the Senate hearing room, was bad-mouthed by them while in waiting-lines, and harassed in the office taken over by these “non-insurrection” protestors while trying to get my pre-arranged ticket which they had dumped. (Interestingly, when complaining to police how the “progressive” protestors had taken over Senator Grassley’s office, the Capitol Police replied: “This is a public space, open to the people, and we cannot stop them from exercising their right of speech and assembly”). Continue reading

The Best Way To Navigate Through Life

pathVeronica – In a world of constant movement one never knows when the tides will turn.  Some say that a random reality exists that can trip the most advanced energy.  Others believe that there may be superior beings that create realities using the incarnates as pawns.  Both perspectives incite a feeling of helplessness and victimhood.

The best way to navigate through a life is to put yourself in control of it.  Decide to determine the path of your life.  Take action rather than reacting.  Use all of your senses to navigate through it.  You do have more than five of them.  The truly most important one is your intuitive sensing.  Feeling into something often produces more information and awareness than the others. Continue reading

Five Counties Are Trying To Leave Left Wing Oregon

Portland riotsMike LaChance – When you think of Oregon, you probably think of the left wing riots that have been happening in Portland for months.

It’s easy to forget that it’s a big state and not everyone who lives there is a left wing radical.

Some people there are sick of it, and are trying to make parts of the state leave for Idaho.

It’s happening in five counties.

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Communicating With Lucid Dreamers

lucidJoseph P Farrell – You might recall that yesterday I blogged about the latest transhumanist fantasies about the “Spatial web“, and about my concerns that what was really being talked about was yet another dystopian ideology of the collective, in this case, a kind of transhumanist “Borg” collective.

In a nutshell, my concern was that in the rush to get everyone “connected”, we are creating a system that is supremely anti-human, where one’s “interior conversation” is open to everyone else, and vice versa, such that there is no more conversation, but only an unending noise and babble, where no individual voices can be singled out and heard, a kind of Tower of Babble. Continue reading