Scott Stantis, Author at Yellowhammer News

Editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis weighs in on the Bentley-Mason affair.

As a proud son of Alabama, I found myself called to draw on the most recent episode of Redneck Governor Theater.

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” – President Bill Clinton

“I want everyone to know though that I have never had a physical affair with Mrs. Mason.” – Governor Robert Bentley

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In his masterpiece “1984,” George Orwell wrote about newspeak, the dystopian government’s attempt to reform the language, making opposing views impossible to articulate.

American universities seem to be taking this lesson to heart. With the happy assistance of faculty things like the First Amendment are twisted to mean “you have a right to my opinion”. This mostly goes unquestioned and unchecked until something like the protests at the University of Missouri, (home of the oldest journalism school in the country), where a communications professor, Melissa Click, told a reporter to stop reporting on a public event in a public space. When the reporter refused she called out “I need more muscle here…get this reporter out of here!”.

Ms. Click has since resigned her post at the university, although a fellow professor who seemed to be in complete agreement with suppression, leading chants like “Hey, hey, ho, ho, reporters have got to go” (he also seems to shares an address with Ms. Click), is still on staff at Mizzou.

Nowhere is it written in the First Amendment that you have a right not to be offended. No where are you given the right to create a list of words, phrases or “micro-aggressions” that others have to follow.

I am a First Amendment absolutist. People have the God given right to say stupid things. Which, to me, is essential. I mean, how else are you going to be able to pick out the dumb ones?

Alabama native Scott Stantis is the editorial cartoonist at The Chicago Tribune and a Yellowhammer contributor.

A ruling Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia eliminates the federal government’s ability to provide subsidies on federal insurance exchanges under ObamaCare.

Almost simultaneously, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., issued a ruling that came to the opposite conclusion.

With two seemingly contradictory court decisions, the whole thing seems to be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Again.

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Some people are torn on the Bowe Bergdahl story. I am not one of them. I see a traitor who cost American soldiers lives when they went out and searched for him.

Leave no soldier behind. Absolutely! Deserters? They’re on their own.

What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below or by tweeting @YHPolitics.

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Memorial Day

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…and so it begins. Incandescent bulbs are out. From this point forward any time you get an idea be ready to wait a while for the bulb over your head to warm up to full illumination.

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Warrantless surveillance, prisoners held without charges and presidential death warrants. A juvenile selfie at a memorial service seems the least of this Administration’s sins.

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