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MACDONALD: AG Claims Civil Rights Win He Doesn’t Deserve

July 19, 2026 Steve MacDonald

To be fair, this isn’t the first example in which AG John Formella got the Judicial system to agree with his disastrous interpretation of New Hampshire’s Civil Rights Act. Frank Hobbs took his “feelings” out on someone’s pride sign, and the State decided it was a hate crime. There’s no such thing, but if Judges … Read more

Morning Update: Hate Speech Slayed?

June 25, 2026June 25, 2026 The Morning Update

Today, on the Morning Update, SB464 just became law, and it has quietly amended New Hampshire’s civil rights law to protect Free Speech (IMO) from spurious hate-speech and hate-crime prosecutions by the AG and whoever else might think to leverage imagined victimhood to suppress protected expression. 00:00 Pretending at Hate Speech and Hate Crime01:15 Civil … Read more

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Morning Update: The Truth Is a Crime

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 The Morning Update

Today, on the Morning Update, this ‘Western” nation has removed the mask on fake hate speech laws. The goal is not just to control words, speech, and thought. It is to criminalize it, even when it is the truth. 00:00 The Concept of Hate Speech01:28 The Political Agenda Behind Hate Speech Watch on the ‘Grok … Read more

MACDONALD: Bridging The Divide Is Harder Than You Think

April 9, 2026 Steve MacDonald

I am skeptical when, given the current political climate and recent history, anything calling itself a safe space where both sides can find common ground pops up from the trenches. Political operatives like to craft them to persuade otherwise well-meaning moderates to the left and to give progressives who join cover. Oh, look, so-and-so is … Read more

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MACDONALD: Hate Speech Creep

January 26, 2026 Steve MacDonald

You can hardly throw a virtual rock around the internet these days without hitting a story about how the British Empire is advancing fascist and draconian anti-speech rules and laws. The UK puts more people in prison for online speech than countries like China and North Korea (subject to the notion that we actually get … Read more

MACDONALD: Sotomayor Was Never Bad On Free Speech

September 18, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The sort-of, kind-of fallout has begun to settle from AG Pam Bondi’s remarks about prosecuting hate speech. It’s been a few days, an interminable amount of internet time, and other mausements are bound to distract. No one’s talking about the war in Ukraine, for example, so if Bondi can manage not to attract attention, the … Read more

MACDONALD: The Hate Speech Problem

September 17, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Attorney General Pam Bondi has had a few missteps as the nation’s top cop, but that’s to be expected. It’s a big stage, a big job, and given how the Trump Administration is taking on the largest pruning of the Federal Kudzu beast ever attempted, there are lots of legal things that would find their … Read more

Opinion: Why We Should Hate Hate Speech Laws

July 9, 2025June 23, 2025 David Gordon

In many countries, though not in most parts of the United States, laws prohibit “hate speech.” Those who, in Jeremy Waldron’s opinion, uncritically elevate the benefits of free speech over competing values oppose hate-speech laws; but Waldron thinks that a strong case can be made in their favor. (Waldron thinks that there are “very few … Read more

The UK Threatens Americans

February 28, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I’m not inclined to travel these days. I don’t like the BCS at TSA. I don’t have the proper “documents.” I confess to being a bit put out by the impact of DEI on the design, assembly, flight, and air traffic control. And I admit to some lingering concern over their response to COVID-19. It … Read more

Is NH’s AG Chasing Another Bogus Civil Rights Case?

October 23, 2025January 18, 2025 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella might be a great guy to watch the game with or drink a beer. Maybe he plays an instrument (wasn’t everyone in New England in a garage band at least once?). Decent singing voice? Donates to puppy rescue shelters? Hands out sandwiches at homeless camps. I have no clue, … Read more

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The State’s War Against Hate

October 16, 2024 Wanjiru Njoya

In Against the State, Lew Rockwell explains how the constant expansion of state power is often justified as a necessary means of achieving the dreams and visions of voters. In its relentless pursuit of power, the state has a strong incentive to focus on the problems that are likely to resonate most deeply with voters and, … Read more

‘Hate Speech’ Means they Hate … Speech

February 14, 2024 Steve MacDonald

There is speech that is hateful, but the people who want to use that idea to silence other opinions hate speech. Intransitive Verb: ‘ To feel a strong dislike for or hostility toward.’ The laws they want or pass are about hating speech, not hateful speech. Free speech is what they hate.

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Millions Allocated to Spy on Citizens in Search of Hate Speech

November 15, 2023 Op-Ed

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced surveillance efforts on Americans. She, through the New York State government, claims a need to target and root out hate speech on social media to create a safer and more just New York State.

Legislative Paradox: Michigan House Passes Bill That Should Make The Bill Itself Illegal

July 7, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The war on free speech continues in Michigan. The legislature is advancing a bill that would make it a felony to “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.” My first thought was, no more pandemic fearmongering, then?

MIT Student President Commits Hate Hoax to Prove Speech is Too Free

May 13, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The College Fix reports that MIT’s “student government president has been removed from his position and faces a recall election due to his role in perpetrating two campus hate-crime hoaxes” in opposition to new campus policies supporting free speech.

What Responsibility Does NHPR Bear For The Nashville School Shooting?

March 28, 2023 Ed Mosca

NHPR’s Todd Bookman recently wrote an article claiming that LGBTQ people are in danger of being attacked by “hate groups,” and that some have begun arming themselves, and training, in response to this alleged threat. Here is the headline: From the article: Every member of the group has a different story about how they arrived … Read more

Cover page Stanford Elimination of harmful language initiative

Having Fun with the “Neurodivergents” That Created Stanford’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative

December 28, 2022 Steve MacDonald

When UNH created its Bias-freeLanguage Guide, we wrote stories that went national. Then UNH President Mark Huddleston made it disappear and talked about the University’s commitment to free and open speech.

Laconia School Administrator Gave Master Key to Dozens of Students for “SR. Prank”

June 2, 2022 Skip

Almost every High School, come graduation time, has a Senior Prank that is pulled. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. But given what just happened in Uvalde, TX, where there was much consternation over an open door by a teacher (was it? was it not?) and those sworn to protect Society twiddling their thumbs outside as innocent … Read more

One Minute Read: Understanding the Left and “Free” Speech

April 8, 2022 Steve MacDonald

We have free speech in America, but I will not fight to the death to defend your right to promote tyranny.

Germany Has it, The American Left Wants It – And This is What it Looks Like …

March 25, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The American Left has been spit polishing its jackboots for years for a moment like this and if we didn’t have the First Amendment AND a Supreme Court committed to defending it (9-0 in most cases), this would be happening to many of us right now.