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Fred
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Google is Trying to Help Me Not be a Jerk
I am white. At heart I am a suburban kid. One of my ex-coworkers is white. At heart he is a country kid. One of our dear mutual friends,...
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Fred
Dec 30, 20235 min read
5 WORST Beacon of Speech Articles this Decade
Usually websites pad their content between Christmas and New Year's with Best Of lists and Beacon of Speech is no different. But instead...
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Fred
Dec 24, 20234 min read
Is Rock Dead, or is the Rock Magazine Dead?
Or, what the working title was, Revolver v Rolling Stone (Part II) Due to hearing impairment issues, I have been very detached from new...
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Fred
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Chris Quinn: Most Successful Hatchet Man in Cleveland
Our friend Chris Quinn over at cleveland.com thinks that they "had a pretty good year." They did not. Let's rebut, point-by-point: -Our...
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Fred
Dec 21, 20231 min read
Watch 20 Days in Mariupol
20 Days in Mariupol may turn out to be the most important document of the 21st Century. Putin said he wasn't targeting civilians during...
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Fred
Dec 20, 20234 min read
Rashida Tlaib's Evolving Definition of Whiteness
As the media floods the landscape with analogies of Trump as Hitler: CNN: Trump Parrots Hitler CNBC: Trump Parrots Hitler Axios: Trump...
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Fred
Dec 17, 20232 min read
Ukraine: Addition By Subtraction Part IV
If I could give Volodymyr Zelensky just one sentence of advice, it would be this: You cannot win a war of attrition. As the Russian...
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Fred
Dec 17, 20231 min read
You Cannot be Saved From the Wrath of Allah
Earlier this week, a Turkish lawmaker gave an impassioned speech condemning Israel. At the end of his speech, he implored that "You...
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Fred
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Jill Filipovic: Political Foot Soldier
By now, everyone has a take on Harvard's President Claudine Gay. Long story short, she said antisemitism needed "context" at a...
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Fred
Dec 10, 20232 min read
Rolling Stone's Obituary Scam
You like the Pogues? They were way off my radar. I was vaguely aware of their lead singer Shane MacGowan due to his jacked up teeth, but...
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Fred
Dec 9, 20235 min read
Donald Trump Could Change Politics for the Next Century
Let's just say for the sake of argument that I hated the Republican Party, hated it with every fiber of my very being. You know what I...
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Fred
Dec 8, 20231 min read
Clarifying Free Speech
You see that list above? That is a list compiled by the United States Government of favorable and unfavorable news websites. In a country...
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Fred
Dec 3, 20232 min read
What is Markle's End Game?
As the witch hunt to find the "Royal Racist" continues, I keep asking myself "what are we doing here?" Let's pick on Prince, oops, I mean...
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Fred
Nov 30, 20231 min read
Dark Humor or Hate Speech
Now that's funny. If I were the late Sam Kinison, I would have taken that meme and employed it in my stand-up act. I can read that third...
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Fred
Nov 29, 20233 min read
NBC doesn't THINK anymore
So on the lower right hand side of the home page on our website, there's a button for GARBAGE. We actually have a formula for what we put...
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Fred
Nov 26, 20232 min read
North Ridgeville's Historic Run
My son plays an instrument in the local High School marching band. This is his Senior year and we have enjoyed his many musical...
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Fred
Nov 24, 20233 min read
Brad Pitt is Brad Pitt
Earlier this week, Brad Pitt's adopted son Pax Jolie-Pitt, called his Dad a "world class a-hole" and a "despicable person" who made his...
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Fred
Nov 22, 20231 min read
Soundtrack to the End of the World
I came across this tidbit on social media: The song? Nearer My God to Thee. If I was an executive at CNN, would I have chosen that song?...
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Fred
Nov 19, 20237 min read
In Defense of Israel
<sigh> In over a thousand articles, I think we have only made glancing references to Israel on 3 or 4 occasions. We wrote one (two-part)...
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Fred
Nov 15, 20231 min read
God Insults Me
This is going to be one of our shortest Beacon of Speech articles ever. We are on the brink of World War III and the Middle East is a...
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Fred
Nov 14, 20231 min read
I Hope Bob Rock Trips and Falls into a Ravine and His Pain is Prolonged and Agonizing
I came across a Metallica Top 50 List according to Spotify: Man, I hope that list is incorrect. Bunch of Gen Z'ers brainwashed by Bob...
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Fred
Nov 12, 20232 min read
Vatican Incorporated
Last year, we wrote about Father Frank Pavone, a Catholic Priest who was kicked out of the priesthood for preaching Catholic Doctrine too...
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Fred
Nov 8, 20232 min read
I Voted in Ohio
Now a lot of talk never really turns into action, but yesterday, yesterday was a day of action. As a Libertarian-leaning website, we...
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Fred
Nov 5, 20232 min read
The Murder of Adam Johnson
Earlier this week, I saw a few reports that former NHL'er Adam Johnson had died in a "freak accident" on the ice. I looked up Johnson's...
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