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Female Muslim professor: ‘College is not a safe space’

Shaheen Pasha is a journalism professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also happens to be a female, Pakistani-American Muslim who is adamantly opposed to the notion of "safe spaces" for under-represented students on college campuses. Writing on Medium.com in November, Pasha, 38, argued that college is

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Army ordered to back off testing Sikh soldier

WASHINGTON – A serving U.S. Army officer who went to court to keep his beard for religious reasons notched a significant victory Thursday, when a federal judge blocked special tests for the decorated veteran while the case is pending. Federal District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington ruled that the Defense

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Atheist group abandons fight against ‘Big Mountain Jesus’

(CNSNews.com) – A statue of Jesus dubbed "Big Mountain Jesus," which stands on a Montana ski slope as a World War II Memorial, is now safe from removal attempts by the atheist group, The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which claims that the statue's presence on

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Christmas controversy as American tradition, 2015 edition

Each holiday season, it seems Americans find themselves immersed in what some commentators describe as a "War on Christmas." From bans of Christmas trees in some public squares to viral videos decrying "secular" red Starbucks cups, the debate has become a holiday tradition all its own.

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Fontbonne and the First Amendment

The First Amendment protects those with whom we disagree. Most people have no problem allowing speech with which they agree. But ask them if they are comfortable allowing the Nazis to parade through Skokie, Illinois, or an opponent of the Vietnam War wear a jacket with "F*ck the

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Yale campus yields 50 signatures to repeal First Amendment, satirist says

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A satirist went to Yale University recently to stage what may be a revealing spoof on campus, posing as an activist and asking passersby to sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution – more than 50 did. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz appears in

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The public square is for everyone

Recent advances in communications technology have made it easier than ever for speakers to spread their messages and for listeners to find the content they are after. I emailed the final draft of this column to the NewBostonPost yesterday, and today it might be read by someone on the opposite

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Hate speech and the First Amendment

"Free speech," though one of the more ubiquitous legal terms du jour, is also widely misunderstood. There are a number of mentalities behind this ignorance, perhaps none so simply observed as in the title of the famously liberal writer Nat Hentoff's book on the subject: "