CEI Weekly: Government Should Stop Trying to Restrict Speech

Friday, October 19, 2012

Feature: Hans Bader discusses attempts to restrict speech.

FEATURE: Government Should Stop Trying to Restrict Speech The Obama administration is backing a UN resolution to restrict anti-religious speech. In a Washington Post letter to the editor, CEI Senior Counsel Hans Bader argues that the First Amendment protects speech that discriminates--and that the federal government should stop limiting such speech.  Read his letter here. SHAPING THE DEBATE Greece's Grim Future Portends Decline Matt Patterson & Crissy Brown's op-ed in The Washington Times Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Destabilizing Force Iain Murray's op-ed in National Review Republicans Denounce Immigration Regulations Reagan Created David Bier's op-ed in The Huffington Post Greece Must Stop Hitting Snooze and Wake Up to Economic Reform Matthew Melchiorre's op-ed in City AM Not All Jobs Are Created Equal Matt Patterson & Crissy Brown's op-ed in American Thinker Verizon Draws Fire for Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits Ryan Radia's op-ed in CNET Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? CEI's citation in Reason On Tap Today CEI's citation in Politico Google Antitrust Case Could Come From FTC by End of 2012 CEI's citation in eWeek

CEI PODCAST October 18, 2012: The Limits of Free Speech Free speech is a core value in any free society. But what are its limits? Senior Attorney Hans Baderdiscusses a UN resolution to ban anti-religious speech and a court case involving a professor who sent anti-immigration emails. The best remedy for hateful speech, he argues, is not to silence it with laws and courts. It is to rebut it with speech of one’s own. BEST OF THE BLOGS Of Mice, Mushrooms, and Formaldehyde By Angela Logomasini On Energy Policy, Debate Obama Bears No Resemblance to Real-Life Obama By William Yeatman China's High Speed Rail Disaster Is Not a Model for the U.S. By Marc Scribner Obama Makes False Claim About Supreme Court Decision; Fact-Checkers Parrot  It By William Yeatman