Free Republic

I was having a 4 way phone text conversation with my father, sister and brother. We were mostly talking about Biden's gaffes from a speech he made earlier in the day. We also mentioned other things that he said or did, from past months and years. Suddenly, my father informed us that a person reached out to him and asked if he wanted to "mute" the conversation. He didn't say who they were or why he was offering his "muting" services. Has anyone else had anything like this. We are being spied on, and they don't care that we know...

There’s nothing like a little violence to focus the mind. I am the Middlebury College professor who ended up with whiplash and a concussion for having the audacity to engage with the ideas of Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Though he is someone with whom I disagree, I welcomed the opportunity to moderate a talk with him on campus on March 2 because several of my students asked me to do so. They know I am a Democrat, but the college courses I teach are nonpartisan. As I wrote on Facebook immediately after the incident, this...