Vaclav Havel, Pavel Landovsky, and Vaclav Maly wrote this fantastic letter in support of Lui Xiabo, a Chinese political activist who has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for exercising his freedom of speech. The three famous dissidents then printed the letter and delivered it to the Chinese embassy...

As a one-time resident of the Netherlands, a headline like “Freedom of Speech Under Attack in The Netherlands” feels quite odd to me. The people of the Netherlands, the Dutch, are a fantastic study in human decency. In all of my travels, I have never encountered a nation of people more...

Hugo Chavez has declared that “using Twitter, the Internet (and) text messaging” to criticize his socialist regime “is terrorism.” If you would like to become a Venezuelan terrorist, you can follow these Twitter accounts: #venezuela #estudiantes #freevenezuela

The recent Supreme Court ruling protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans, even if they are corporations or labor unions, causes many of us to pause to think about the nature of corporations and similar organizational structures. Corporations are merely groups of people.  Corporations have...

Only days after a victory for free speech in the United States comes a major defeat for free speech in Venezuela. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez forced cable television providers to stop transmitting Radio Caracas Television because the station was not broadcasting his official propaganda messages. Chavez...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently create a surprising and welcome roadblock in the path of those who seek to destroy free speech in the United States.  In a narrow victory for freedom, the judges ruled 5-4 that groups of Americans who organize as corporations and labor unions do not lose their rights...

In the wake of criticism over it’s handling of the most recent terrorist attack on the American mainland, the Obama Administration chose their first targets to attack: Bloggers. Obama’s henchmen at the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) served subpoena’s on travel bloggers...