Back in May of 2009 : 'Rush Limbaugh declared "The 30-Day Challenge." publicly challenging (MSNBC) to go for 30 days without mentioning his name, playing his video, or having guests comment on him, to "see if they can survive on their own.'" Now MSNBC did survive, but not of its own accord. MSNBC, and sister-station CNBC, were always subsidized by corporate parents NBC and General Electric. Earlier this year at Politico , they asked if MSNBC could survive on its own, without

My Aunt was a teacher at St. Richard's Catholic School in North Olmsted, Ohio back in the 1980's. Now St. Richard's, the school, is closed, but let me paint a picture of what the first grade classrooms looked like a generation ago. There were three 1st grade classrooms at St. Richard's: Classroom A - Run by an old, overweight, and slow, Nun. She ran her classroom with an iron fist. Good kids were afraid of her, bad kids could outrun her. She was out-of-shape and winded when u

I respect John Lydon's contributions to punk history, but I never thought of him as a great musician. Why? The Sex Pistols are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame based off of one, yes one, single studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols . If you never heard of the band before today, you could hear their singular contribution to music in under 40 minutes. Their cultural shifting attitude was something else all together. You want to do some Sex Pistols resear

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Bill Clinton's last day in office was January 20, 2001. People forget that the Clintons gave a fateful interview within a month of leaving office claiming that, according to AI : " They were indeed heavily in debt, primarily due to millions of dollars in legal fees accrued during various investigations, including the Whitewater real estate deal and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Hillary Clinton famously described them as "not only dead broke but in debt." How far in debt? " The

According to Yahoo News : Jeffrey Epstein had a short "egg-shaped penis." When did this story come out? Just this week. Who saw it? The original reference was from one of Epstein's Trials over a decade ago. Whereas it just hit the current news cycle now as files are being dropped this time around. If you google it, about a dozen stories pop up. Just last week, scientists discovered that Adolf Hitler had Kallman Syndrome . What does that mean? There is a strong link between Ka

This isn't an article, it is a time capsule. Today, November 20, 2025, Rolling Stone Magazine announced the Rolling Stone College Journalism Awards. What a bunch of crap. When I think of woke publications, Rolling Stone Magazine shoots to the top of the listen. They used to be the counter-culture, now they are corporate-culture, chock full of far-lefties. Because, apparently, I'm a figurative masochist, I only go to Rolling Stone to get angry. So with that being said, I can p

(And Not Necessarily in a Good Way) As the Rolling Stones celebrate their 63rd year together, we revisit bands where a key member simply outgrew their band and moved on. But that doesn't mean that the history books necessarily looked kindly on the artist. Below is our Top 10 list, with our opinion of the subject's decision-making process. 1. Sting 1983's Synchronicity by The Police was one of the greatest albums of all time. After that tour ended, Sting stepped away from the

Here at Beacon of Speech, we TRY to have a moral core. I'm not saying we're successful at it, I'm saying that we try to move by a guiding hand. What is that hand? I have Free Speech. You have Free Speech. Donald Trump has Free Speech. But, geez, Mr. Trump, as my Dad calls him, is in big trouble. In 2024, we asked the question: Why Won't E Jean Carroll Just Go Away? 'For E Jean Carroll to come back, almost 30 years after the fact, to say Trump "raped" her reeks of regret, not

Last week, the Cleveland Browns announced that their Chief Strategy Officer, Paul DePodesta of Moneyball Fame , was stepping down to take a position with MLB's Colorado Rockies. I was livid that DePodesta basically slipped out of town as the local media yawned. I heard a few comments at the local Sports Talk Station , but one host said " how can you be mad at a ghost? I never met him, I never saw him ." I took my frustration out in blog form: Paul DePodesta: NFL FAILURE I tri

This is a little bit embarrassing to talk about, but I have breached the subject on a few occasions on the blog and in the past. Since childhood, I have been plagued by nightmares. The nightmares cycle from daily to monthly and since I was a kid I've gotten all sorts of advice on how to get rid of them. Don't eat too close to bed. Don't eat certain foods. Pray. Meditate. Exercise before bed. Don't exercise before bed.... The list goes on and on. Earlier this week, Tucker Carl

Last month, Netfix released their new political thriller A House of Dynamite to a limited number of theaters in order to qualify the movie for Award Season . Last night, I watched the movie on the streamer itself. I have never been so torn about a movie. When Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert reviewed movies for their self-titled show at PBS, it was simple, either thumbs up or thumbs down. A House of Dynamite was more complicated than that. In the history of movie-making A House o

One of the favorite Libertarian pages that I follow posted this meme today and I laughed out loud. Then I thought to myself, "oh shit, I look like Karl Marx. Even the tired eyes." I didn't mean to do it, I don't like Marx at all. I was going for one of the apostles, but most of those guys died long before they turned grey. < sigh > < double sigh > Addendum - One Day Later: My Mom is displeased that I think I look like Karl Marx, she says I look like my Great-Great-Great-Great

Paul DePodesta is famous for being one of the central figures behind the movie " Moneyball ." Editor's Note: In Moneyball, the insufferable  Jonah Hill played a fictionalized version of DePodesta. After being a doormat for most of the 1990's, MLB's Oakland A's hired Paul DePodesta in 1999 to be their Assistant General Manager. He, along with GM Billy Beane, used their heavy reliance on sabermetrics to guide the A's to an impressive 479-330 mark between 1999-2004, including a

Once again this week, I stumbled across the Trump is Hitler Analogy . Oooooooo, Hiiiiiit-ler! For the 100th time, Donald Trump is not Hitler. Donald Trump is Donald Trump . In the history of the United States, for better or for worse, Trump's populism is quite unique. In the history of the Western World, for better or for worse, few leaders have publicly stated contradictory policies against their own words as many times as Trump. Most leaders, even the most evil of dictators

If you clicked on the link, I assume you know what the NWSL is, but if you don't, it's the National Women's Soccer League. The NWSL is in real trouble. First of all, the NWSL doesn't have a long and storied history. it's technically the 4th pro women's soccer league IN AMERICA since 2000: WUSA : 2000-2003 WPS : 2009-2012 NWSL : 20212-current USL Super League : 2024-current Why is IN AMERICA in bold? Let me tell you a short story. I always thought that the NWSL was an indepen

As the years went on and on, Facebook de-emphasized the very thing that built it, and that's the concept of connecting with friends. As a Facebook user for over a decade, few friends even post anymore. And the friends that do post, they are mostly one-trick ponies, hardly a renaissance man amongst them. Using Facebook has mostly been reduced to ads, groups, and, most importantly, Reelz. Now I don't have Tik Tok or Instagram, but I am exposed to both platforms because Facebook

Step 1: Come Up With A Wildly Insane and Untrue Theory . A theory that only the chronically unemployed or conspiracy theorists will believe. Example: Bill Clinton's Secret Identical Twin Brother is running an underground pedophile ring along train routes between Boston and New York City. All the money collected is from undocumented, underaged immigrants and funneled to the Clinton Foundation (gasp)....ALSO COINCIDENTALLY LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY! Promote that idea like it's t

Unfortunately, I had a cochlear implant earlier this year. I am very grateful to be able to hear again, but music doesn't quite sound the same as it used to. So with that being said, my kids are super excited about Sonic Temple's festival lineup next Spring. They are? If I could hear, I would have been excited.... If I had a time machine: 10. DragonForce What year would I have WANTED to see them? 2006 Would I want to see them today? Probably, because both of the main guitari

Quietly, in response to the No Kings rallies, 90 year old Libertarian Ron Paul rolled out of bed and dropped this gem of an essay: It Didn't Start with Trump The money quote? " Federal agencies can also target presidents’ political enemies without a presidential order to do so being issued. Some ambitious and unscrupulous individuals will target a president’s enemies believing that this is an effective way to curry favor with the president or high-level administration offici

I really don't like admitting that I'm wrong, but today I have to eat the sh!t sandwich. In 2024, I defiantly proclaimed that Qatar would never qualify for another World Cup in my lifetime. Shockingly, Qatar slipped into the 8th of (possibly) 9 qualifying spots this weekend. 2026 Qualifiers from Asia? Japan South Korea Iran Australia Saudi Arabia All five of those countries are perennial soccer stalwarts, each having qualified for, at least, 6 World Cups. Uzbekistan Jordan B

Back in August we predicted the finish of the Premier League 2025-2026 season, 1 through 20. Before we were done, we had Nottingham Forest at 18th and relegated. What was our rationale ? "Any last comments? Evangelos Marinakis will melt down and Nottingham's fairy tale season will be a distant memory. Look for 5 managers at Nottingham this year. Manchester United will be average, but at this point they are just shoveling money into a hole." Evangelos Marinakis ruined Notting

10. Speed Buggy - (1973 - 16 Episodes) Teens having Scooby-Doo like adventures with their dune buggy... that is alive! (And voiced by the same guy that did Bugs Bunny.) Chances of a reboot? Speed Buggy has made many cameos over the past 50 years, but the chances of a reboot are slim. 9. Super Friends - (1973 - 16 Episodes) Your DC Comic favorites all having G-Rated adventures on ABC. Chances of a reboot? Between 1977-1985, Super Friends was rebooted or re-tooled 6 differe

Trump thinks it's "weird" that there are Libertarians. We do not like Rand Paul at Beacon of Speech, not at all. Why? Because his Father was a Pillar of Modern American Libertarianism, while Rand himself is part of the Republican Political Machine. That's harsh? Let's step into the way-back machine. Back in 2016, 17 candidates ran for the Republican Nomination. You really only had 4 Choices: Donald Trump: Businessman, Populist, and Outsider Rand Paul: "Libertarian" Ben Carson