Sentences with phrase «defense of free»

In the annals of First Amendment jurisprudence, the Supreme Court's 1927 opinion Whitney v. California is known for its concurrence by Justice Louis Brandeis in which he wrote an eloquent defense of free speech while joining in a decision against it.

On Liberty involves an impassioned defense of free speech.

Dear Mark, as you fight the good fight in defense of free speech did I miss a post regarding The President's «trolling?»

Paul Driessen is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and maintains associations with a range of organizations devoted to the denial of man - made climate change including the Heartland Institute, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (now Atlas Network), and others.

The first principle of the defense of free speech is eternal vigilance is the price of freedom: readers who accept David Rose's false misuses of the press as protected speech demonstrate insufficient skepticism.

Arnold is the executive vice president of the think tank the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which has received funding from various conservative foundations and oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil.

Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, recently cited a report by the Virginia - based Science and PublicPolicy Institute — a leading opponent of global warming — regarding the complete futility of any effort by the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions.

Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, recently cited a report by the Virginia - based

Yesterday Cooper Union trustee Kevin Slavin, an alumnus elected by alumni to the board last year, published a passionate defense of a free Cooper Union.

PewDiePie's use of the n - word and Campo Santo's response has triggered a massive wave of debate as some worry whether Campo Santo's filing of a DMCA takedown notice was perhaps a step too far, while others have expressed worry that PewDiePie's negative behavior will affect the YouTube platform as a whole, and still others have even defended PewDiePie in a misguided defense of free speech.

is a celebration, and a much - needed defense of a free press.

While there are a number of conservative resources that profile organizations and individuals on the Left (such as David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org, Heartland Institute's LeftExposed.org, Berman and Company's ActivistFacts.org and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's UndueInfluence.com) CDC will build upon and complement their efforts adding value through its more comprehensive coverage, superior search engine optimization, and wiki - style format,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).

«New York is the world's crossroads, so what happens out there — in this case, the U.K.'s libel tourism problem and its misuse by terrorism's apologists and facilitators — affects us here, and it's nice to know that our defense of free speech here in New York is likewise having an impact out there as pressure builds in the U.K. to cease being a haven for libel terrorists,» the assemblyman said.

Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, a Republican who has mostly supported Trump's agenda, if not his manners, rose on the floor of the Senate to deliver a blistering rebuke of the media critic in chief — and a passionate, unapologetic defense of a free press.

Milton's defense of a free press, then, is not merely tactical.

Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 XIII That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and be governed by, the civil power.

Later Keynes underwent a conversion, stating, «Defense of free trade theory is, I submit, the result of pure intellectual error, due to a complete misunderstanding of the theory of equilibrium in international trade.»

«We'd like to ask you to step up once again in defense of a free, open and secure Internet.»

Theresa May delivered a defense of free trade on Monday, although she added that more could be done to make the global system fairer.

He knew that the instinctive response from journalists would be to cry foul, and to mount our horses in defense of free speech, truth, and justice.

Not exact matches

He also said he wants South Korea to pay the cost of the U.S. THAAD anti-missile defense system, which he estimated at $ 1 billion, and intends to renegotiate or terminate a U.S. free trade pact with South Korea because of a deep trade deficit with Seoul.

Membership for the Defense Alliance and the APC has always been free, and federal funding through the SBA allowed the organization's staff of industry professionals to provide extensive consulting services to its Members.

Principles and Goals The Latino Coalition supports dynamic free enterprise, limited government, low taxes, quality educational opportunities for all, reasonable government regulation, legal immigration, fair and open trade, and a strong national defense, all in support of American exceptionalism.

Several free programs, from self - defense to Zentangle art, will be offered for adults ages 50 and older at the Vista Library as part of Older Americans Month in May.

Thrun has been a public figure since 2005, when a modified Volkswagen Touareg of his design won a Department of Defense — sponsored competition that pitted cars without drivers through a 128 - mile, pedestrian - free course in the Mojave Desert.

What many people don't see is the biggest upside of free trade — increased exports of foodstuffs, airplanes, defense articles, construction equipment and vehicles, high technology products and many services.

It is true that, in the Middle East, things happen which require the defense establishment to prepare for dealing with new extraordinary threats that require a lot of money, even more than what will be freed up by cutting the salaries of career officers or selling their company cars forcing them to arrive at IDF HQ by hitchhiking.

In Islam life is more sacred than anything and should only be shed in self defense, to free the oppressed and to protect the freedom of religion.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

Or, stated in other terms, Plantinga's claim is that unless the atheologian can refute his «free - will defense» by establishing the truthfulness of (5) and thus the impossibility of (3), he can demonstrate no inconsistency between (1) and (2).

In God, Power and Evil, Griffin mentions two more criticisms of a free - will defense which affirms (16) and thus (14).

In fact, such a denial — premise (6) in our discussion of his views — is the basis for his free - will defense.

The Free Will Defense is not a theodicy, and it is not an attempt to explain the existence of evil; it is a dDefense is not a theodicy, and it is not an attempt to explain the existence of evil; it is a defensedefense.

The first line of defense against tyranny is free elections and a free press, not Saturday night specials.

But the same holds in the case of the Free Will Defense.

Of course, one can extend the free - will defense to the subhuman realm, without positing any inherent power of self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohortOf course, one can extend the free - will defense to the subhuman realm, without positing any inherent power of self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohortof self determination to its entities, by pointing to the irrefutable possibility that all evils in this realm are due to Satan and his cohorts.

Augustine's views on these matters are not clear, but in De Libero Arbitrio he offers one of the first versions of the Free Will Defense and in some passages seems to suggest that it is not within the power of God to cause it to be the case that someone freely performs an action.

In its report, The New York Times cites several people's objection the Dawkins event, including the station's general manager who, in a public statement, actually claims free speech in defense of canceling the event.

Although not without its idealist elements, the analytic starting point of this form of internationalism was a realist assessment of the mid-twentieth-century situation: Totalitarianism was a mortal peril to free societies and resisting its aggressive encroachments required the United States to take the lead in defense of the West, since Europe had unmanned itself in the two mid-century world wars.

And, although, I'm not convinced of yours, or the article's, position, I would point out that the US is a free market and unlike national defense the government does not dictate which doctors are hired or from where.

The First Amendment Defense Act can and should protect the free exercise of religion without ignoring the freedom of speech, press and assembly for the non-observant as well as the devout.

When they tried to do that back in 1975, Representative John Monks of Muskogee memorably rose to the defense, hailing the great tradition of cockfighting as «the sport of all free countries.»

This defense of the accuracy of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words of Jesus is undertaken, in spite of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable obstacles, because to these lovers of the Gospel the alternative seems to be surrendering the authenticity of some of the most precious and manifestly true of Christ's reported words: «I am the bread of life... I am the light of the world... I am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live... I am the way, the truth and the life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.

Ethics and Politics ends with a fascinating defense of the virtue of toleration and free speech.

A substantial sector of religious America, for example, sees the firefight in Waco as an attack on radical religion and places the cutting edge of religious freedom in the defense of cults» free exercise rights.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

Accordingly, Griffin concludes that Plantinga's Free Will Defense must be viewed as basically irrelevant «to the problem of evil as humans actually grapple with it» and therefore as not «anything worth doing» (ER 45).

Plantinga's famous «Free - Will Defense», Griffin points out, is by Plantinga's own admission not a theodicy — an attempt to explain the existence of evil — but rather simply a defense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompDefense», Griffin points out, is by Plantinga's own admission not a theodicy — an attempt to explain the existence of evil — but rather simply a defense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompdefense against the charge that «A good God exists» and «Evil exists» are logically incompatible.

Barth does not fall into the trap of the so - called «free - will defense» of God, that theodicy which allegedly explains evil by rooting it in human freedom.

«That a Muslim immigrant can assault a United States citizen,» it says, «in defense of his religious beliefs and walk away a free man, while the victim is chastised and insulted... is a horrible abrogation.»