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  • Twitter Doesn’t Realize that Protecting Hate Speech Promotes Tolerance

    Twitter Doesn’t Realize that Protecting Hate Speech Promotes Tolerance0

    Does freedom to speak in ways that others consider “offensive” or “hateful” threaten minorities or does it protect minorities? Before you answer, please consider one of the means by which abolitionists sought to change public opinion about slavery. In the 1830s abolitionists were using the U.S. mail in their campaign to end slavery. In 1835

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  • Twitter CEO Apologizes for Eating Chick-Fil-A Sandwich

    Twitter CEO Apologizes for Eating Chick-Fil-A Sandwich0

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday expressed regret over eating at Chick-fil-A because of the chicken company’s CEO’s personal views on gay marriage. Dorsey tweeted a screenshot from his phone that showed a purchase he had made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application. After a liberal backlash, however, Dorsey apologized for eating at the popular

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  • Twisting Words: A Look at ‘Lynching’

    Twisting Words: A Look at ‘Lynching’0

    On October 22, Donald Trump tweeted a message regarding the ongoing impeachment inquiry against him: So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are

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  • Twin Cities School District Thinks Students Should be in Front of a Screen ALL OF THE TIME

    Twin Cities School District Thinks Students Should be in Front of a Screen ALL OF THE TIME0

    • August 25, 2015

    Public school districts today are increasingly identifying screen time with education. Across the country, many districts are spending a lot of money to provide each student with an iPad or laptop.  I live around one of them. The other day I received in the mail the 2015-16 calendar for the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school

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  • Twenty Years after 9/11—Are We Better Off?

    Twenty Years after 9/11—Are We Better Off?0

    When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that first 9/11, the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan and providing sanctuary for al-Qaida. Today, the Taliban are in control of Afghanistan and providing sanctuary to al-Qaida. What then did our longest war accomplish?      The Afghan army and

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  • Twenty Lessons From 2020’s Fallout

    Twenty Lessons From 2020’s Fallout0

    This year has been a shock. Here is an early sketch of what I think I’ve learned. Governments are fully capable of doing the unthinkable, and doing so suddenly with no exit plan, little consideration of cost, and a callous disregard for individual rights. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are largely irrelevant when

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