Editors note – Today, October 9, 2023 is Columbus Day. Here is a re-post of a piece I wrote last year which contains my commentary on Columbus Day from 2021. E-City Beat✓ will neither cease nor desist from exercising our First Amendment rights no matter how hard the clowns at WTF406 (Democrat Jasmine Taylor and…
Category: 1st Amendment
E-City Beat Responds
_______________________________________________________________________ This week E-City Beat received an article submitted by a writer named Janice Penberthy. After reading the piece, as editor and publisher, I found the article to be well written, entertaining, interesting and relevant so we published it. The article was not written or conceived by anyone at E-City Beat or by any of…
Free Speech Threatened
In a recent E-City Beat piece, ‘Rapping Voters’, we reported that one of Great Falls Public Schools Superintendent Tammy Lacey’s condescending excuses for last Tuesday’s operational levy failure was some amorphous confused “Opposition Group”. “And having an opposition group that has their local school district and local educational opportunities confused with their dislike of government…
Oh the Humanities…
One of my biggest concerns about the SJW craziness on college campuses is the current trend to conflate speech, even offensive speech, with violence. Mahler Mali does a great job describing this trend and its sources in this piece. He argues that the humanities, and especially the English majors, lack academic rigor and instead spend…