As he prepared for the biggest speech of his career, Obama spent late nights writing and trying to dampen expectations.
Damascus The buildup for President Obama's speech today in Cairo has been prodigious, and not least by the White House, which has held the sort of briefings for journalists that .
At this point, most of the noise about Barack Obama wanting to indoctrinate school children in a back-to-school speech has mostly faded from view.
Obama continues war on free speech The Obama Administration has declared war on the First Amendment — free speech. Groups that try to educate Americans about the Constitution have been put through the IRS wringer. The Justice Department scoured the emails and tracked the whereabouts of a television news reporter.
June 16, 2013 - The Journal News
Free speech outside Supreme Court: Ban on protests in plaza struck down In a case that brings free speech protections literally to the very steps of the US Supreme Court, a federal judge in Washington has struck down as unconstitutional a statute that allowed police to arrest anyone attempting to deliver a message of protest on the wide marble plaza outside the high court’s elegant front entrance.
June 12, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
Barack Obama in GulfNews Obama said it best when he declared: "No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point."
Samuel Alito in Examiner.com Our proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express 'the thought that we hate,'Alito said, quoting a previous court decision.
Bill Blair in The International News Magazine We have never seen that level of wanton criminality and vandalism and destruction on our streets,he said and continued further, "There are limits to free speech, and these limits really end when it infringes on the rights and safety of...