Tag Archives: free speech
Comment of the Day:”Catawba Valley Community College vs. FIRE, Free Speech and Fairness”
The Comment of the Day explores the change in university leadership and power structure that is resulting in abuses of academic freedom and freedom of expression. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Education, Leadership, U.S. Society
Catawba Valley Community College vs. FIRE, Free Speech and Fairness
A community college was using a vague policy to bully a student who objected to being exploited as part of an unholy alliance between the school and a credit card company. And then FIRE entered the scene… Continue reading
Filed under Education, Finance, The Internet
Ethics Quote of the Week: GMU School of Law Dean Daniel Polsby
Wow. A University Dean who doesn’t endorse censorship of unpopular speech on campus! Continue reading
Coercive Indoctrination in the Schools: Unethical, Regardless of the Content
There are words for schools punishing students for their beliefs, and among those words are “indoctrination,” “coercion,” brain-washing,” and “unethical.” Continue reading
Ethics Quiz: Truck Nutz vs. Schweddy Balls
Which is more rude and uncivil, Ben and Jerry’s new Schweddy Balls ice cream, or the large, red, swinging plastic scrotum decorations that some truckers hang at the tail end of their rigs, Truck Nutz? Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week: Nutrition Advocate Marion Nestle
If we lose the precious freedoms laid out in the Bill of Rights, it will surely not be at the hands of a dictator or renegade army, but because of the irresponsible tunnel-vision of deranged do-gooders like Marion Nestle, who, when you get right down to it, believe that only speech they approve of should be truly free. Continue reading
Hate Thy Neighbor: the Cranston Ethics Train Wreck
A hateful neighbor, an outraged neighborhood, sympathetic police and an angry victim spell E-T-H-I-C-S T-R-A-I-N W-R-E-C-K for Cranston, R.I. Continue reading
Ethics and the Right to Truck Nutz
Truck Nutz are a…decoration?… favored by people whose sense of humor runs to loud farts, burps and titty-twisters, whose favorite films are the “Jackass” series and Farrelly brothers movies, whose idea of the perfect woman is Pamela Anderson, and whose idea of a genius is Howard Stern. And they are apparently illegal in South Carolina. Continue reading
An Appropriate Limit on the First Amendment Right To Be A Total Jerk
Using one’s mouth to torture animals is not protected by the Constitution. Only a jerk would do it, and only a jerk would argue that it was. Continue reading
Ethics Quote of the Week: “Ethics Bob” Stone
One of the most valuable assets of any broadcast personality is likeability, and this has been Joe Scarborough’s stock in trade since he traded in his credentials as a Republican Congressman to become MSNBC’s token conservative pundit. As Bob Stone correctly states, however, Scarborough is not a nice guy; he is a fake. Continue reading
