By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Freedom of speech is under attack. It's more than just well-known repressors such as China and Cuba openly cracking down on the expressions of their people. Far more insidious is the assault that quietly takes place as the political-correctness police convert criticism of certain groups into grounds for arrest.
The "like" button on Facebook seems like a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that doesn't mean clicking it is constitutionally protected speech.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has landed robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, sent probes to outer planets and operates a worldwide network of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has landed robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, sent probes to outer planets and operates a worldwide network of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft.
"I've no reason to think new Obama appointees or for that matter the old Obama appointees would vote to restrict such speech. So it's pretty clearly protected," he told The Washington Times.
There may be room, however, for a legal challenge, as University of California-Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh notes: "Denying a private business permits because of such speech by its owner is a blatant First Amendment violation. Even when it comes to government contracting -- where the government is choosing how to spend government money -- the government generally may not discriminate based on the contractor's speech, see Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr (1996)."
