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Q. When do media and leftist professors worry about free speech on campus? A. When speech they agree with is threatened. Compare, for example, their differing approaches to two UNC system professors, Gene…
11:52 Final update: John Kasich elected governor of Ohio. I covered him when working in Washington in the 1990s. A very sharp fellow who never let you forget that his…
Michael Barone should be on his way to Raleigh at this moment for his appearance at a noon John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon on the 2010 elections. Before heading to…
WRAL has video of the protest staged at Tom Tancredo’s speech this last Monday at UNC. The highlight comes in at about 1:45 where a student was asked if he…
In this American Thinker piece today, my Pope Center colleagues Jay Schalin and Jenna Robinson write about last night’s talk at Chapel Hill by former Representative Tom Tancredo. Last time…
On Monday, former congressman Tom Tancredo will be returning to UNC-Chapel Hill; it’s unclear whether he’ll be able to deliver his speech. Protesters are promising to shut down the event,…
At the end of last semester, writers for the conservative student magazine, the Carolina Review, discovered that many copies of their April 2009 issue had gone missing. Today, CR journalists…
The Daily Tar Heel reports that at yesterday’s forum on free speech, Haley Koch, the student who, along with others, disrupted Tom Tancredo’s speech at UNC earlier this year, defined…
The seven protesters arrested for disturbing the peace at speeches by former U.S. Reps. Tom Tancredo and Virgil Goode at UNC-Chapel in April delayed their first court appearances — initially…
Every time there’s a lefty-lib protest on a college campus, presidents and chancellors cluck their tongues and seem to say that the offending students were just exercising their rights under…
The N&O reports: “Three local activists complained to a police accreditation committee Monday that campus public-safety officers unnecessarily pepper-sprayed them in the eyes during a protest of a speech by…
Jay’s piece is definitely worth a read. My favorite section: [Riley Matheson, founder of the UNC-CH chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, the group that brought Tancredo and Goode to…