Photoshop credit: Bob Owens My second syndicated column this week looks at the chilling trend of left-wing political speech-squelching and reports on the total apathy of the AWOL ACLU and fairweather free-speech crowd. Feel the chill yet? *** Barack "The Silencer" Obama's Gangland Assault on Free Speech by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2008 Where... Read More

Read this. I ask again: Who's next?

Scroll down for updates... First, they came for TV stations daring to air an independent ad about Barack Obama and unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Next, they came for GOP donors. Now, they are shamelessly attacking National Review investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz -- one of conservatism's most thoughtful and penetrating writers on academic and... Read More

The Obama campaign is giving a glimpse of the future for conservative free speech. They're trying to sic the Justice Department on TV stations, many of them Sinclair Broadcasting stations, that are airing the independent ad on Obama and Bill Ayers. Feel the chill in the air? Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly... Read More

The Tides Foundation is one of those high-minded, left-wing "social justice" non-profits funded with Soros money and Teresa Heinz Kerry money. You also know Tides as one of the funders of John McCain's open-borders Reform Institute. The foundation is in the news again, but you won't hear the do-gooders saying much about this:

The ogling Obamedia is so incorrigibly predictable I can't even get mad about this crap anymore. They took a break from staring at Barack's loins and weeping over his nomination to blame Rush Limbaugh for spreading the left-wing Larry Johnson-spearheaded, Bob Beckel-fueled rumors about a purported Michelle Obama rant-- even though Rush, as he noted... Read More

The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It's disgusting. Author Mark Helprin's grenade in The Wall Street Journal stands out. Yesterday, he launched an attack on conservative radio hosts who oppose presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Helprin sneered that their "major talent is that, like... Read More

Artwork from an anti-borders art contest held by the John McCain-staffed Reform Institute The McCain campaign continues to perpetuate its Big Lie in the run-up to Super Tuesday. And thanks to MSM enablers and open-borders Republicans rooting for a McCain win, voters are swallowing the Big Lie. The Big Lie is that McCain can be... Read More

It's conservative talk radio that's being targeted by the Democrat majority, but in NYTimes world, it's MSNBC and GE that supposedly face horrible risks for considering Rosie O'Donnell as its next cable TV hire. Only in NYTimes world, kids. Only in NYTimes world. *** Related: NYT shills for leftist MSNBC’s “ratings wave” Related: Will Rosie... Read More

Democrat Rep. Mark Udall is spearheading the resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh. It apparently has 19 co-sponsors now. Meantime, Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar has started a censure bandwagon: Guess he's trying to get back into the nutroots' good graces after signing onto the resolution condemning MoveOn. The Daily Sentinel also points out that Salazar's brother is... Read More

Update Midnight: Poor Daily Kos is feeling left out of the Rush-bashing action. Kos promotes VoteVets.org diatribe to the front page. Lonewacko has advice on how to fight back. Another target. Update 8:35pm Eastern. Backdoor restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, take two: Wesley Clark ramps up the nutroots' campaign to kick Rush Limbaugh off of... Read More

Cliff Kincaid urges redoubled efforts to get Rep. Mike Pence's Broadcaster Freedom Act passed: Kincaid says a massive public outpouring on behalf of Pence's Broadcaster Freedom Act--akin to the public opposition to

The Courier Post editorial board is speaking sense: Welcome to the "Loud Folks" coalition, Courier Post! Gotta give props to my native south Jerseyans.

***8:00 pm Eastern update*** I reported yesterday that Rep. Pence would be introducing an amendment today to the financial services appropriations bill to prevent FCC funds from being used

The Left is watching its media monopoly crumble, and it doesn't like what it sees. The Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody, who runs a hot politics blog here, has reportedly been invited to join Tim Russert on Meet The Press this weekend. Liberal bloggers, led by the Fairness Doctrine water-carriers at Think Progress, are up... Read More

You know, it's really funny. Last week, when I noted that the left-wing Center for American Progress report on talk radio was a clever part of the Dem campaign to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine, the nutroots scoffed. Fairness Doctrine? Who said anything about the Fairness Doctrine? Who did? Dennis Kucinich did. Dianne Feinstein did. Now,... Read More

Bumped 10:20am Eastern update: The Left wants increased regulation to address the lack of ideological diversity in talk radio. What do they have to say about the lack of ideological diversity in America's newsrooms? "Appears" to confirm? Snort. 10:00am Eastern 6/21 update: Mark Levin strikes back. Update: More on the Center for American Progress below... Read More

There's an important breaking court decision on a political free speech case involving my friends at KVI radio in Seattle. A reader e-mails: Seattle Times coverage: The state Supreme Court said in an opinion released this morning that KVI talk show hosts did not need to report their advocacy for an anti-gas tax campaign as... Read More

Check out City Journal: Adam D. Thierer weighs in on the "media cornucopia" and the Left's attempts to snuff out abundant conservative voices. Scarcity-obsessed Dennis Kucinich has recently introduced plans in Congress to revive the Fairness Doctrine, which once let government regulators police the airwaves to ensure a balancing of viewpoints, however that’s defined. A... Read More

I'm continuing to track the EU's move to regulate Internet videobloggers via the "Television without Frontiers (TVwF)" regulatory plan. Help fight back. Bryan Preston: Some might argue in the EU’s defense that what it’s doing is no different from what the FCC does and has done for decades with respect to broadcast spectrum space. But... Read More