According to AI: "MMIWG2S+LGBTQQIA+ stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people, combined with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual communities. It is a comprehensive acronym used primarily in Canada to highlight the vulnerability of Indigenous LGBTQIA+ individuals to systemic violence, particularly 2S individuals." Listen, the MMIWG2S+LGBTQQIA+ Movement should not exist. Am I some sort of LGBT Hate

This is from our article: Stephan A Smith is Right in 2022: "Earlier in the week, Celtics Coach Ime Udoka was suspended for a year for having an extra-marital affair with a Celtics employee. AND? That was my initial reaction: I'm not saying Udoka shouldn't face repercussions. What I'm saying is that you fine him and keep matters in-house, or you just outright fire him. Suspending a coach for a year and then embarrassing him seems really petty. Then I saw Stephen A. Smith on

Listen, I'm a human being, I like to be right. So right now I'm going to gloat. One of my biggest pet peeves in life is when Liberals call Donald Trump a Conservative. Donald Trump is a Populist, he has been one his entire adult life. When Trump was a Democrat two decades ago, he was a Populist. When he was a Reform Party Candidate, he was a Populist. And today, as he lit up some of the most controversial figures on the Right, I remind you that Donald Trump is a Populist. Whe

10 years ago, I started my job at the local school district. Due to the early hours in the morning, and acid reflux issues in the evening, Breakfast became my go-to meal. The problem is, locally, ordering breakfast has become a disaster. McDonald's - When I was younger, I ate McDonald's breakfast religiously. It was fast, it was cheap. You know, the definition of fast food. Then, about 5 years ago , I once waited in line for 20 minutes, spent $10 on a Bagel Meal, and when I o

We have talked about this over and over. We are beating a dead horse. The Beacon of Speech Blog started in 2016. From the beginning , we implored people NOT to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican Primaries, we voted for John Kasich. In the 2016 Presidential Election, we voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson. The 6th article we ever did was: How Gary Johnson Wins . In the 2020 Republican Primaries, we did not cast a ballot. We lamented: Bill Weld: Screwed in Unnatural W

A few weeks ago, I saw on Facebook Reels the story of The Pike Effect . What's the Pike Effect? According to Hat Rabbit: More than a century ago, German zoologist Karl Möbius conducted an interesting experiment. He placed an unsuspecting pike in a glass tank filled with water. He then divided the tank into two parts, by placing a glass panel in the middle of the tank. Thereupon the curious biologist placed some smaller fish in the tank. The pike probably thought it was having

First a little background. Most of my adult life, I have lived in Lorain County, Ohio, just outside of the county that houses Cleveland. Almost every year, I drag myself to the polls and look at the ballot and there's Murray Ridge , asking for a levy renewal. What's Murray Ridge? They educate the most severely disabled and most marginalized kids in the county. And every year, I always vote " YES, " I don't even give it a second thought. Unless you are in the education busines

Editors Note: Over at the Daily Beast, writer Katie Francis wrote this totally original and unique missive yesterday: Trump Triggers 25th Amendment Calls With Unhinged Easter Meltdown "Hmm, where have I seen this before, I though to myself." Below is the same exact article I wrote on January 19 , that responded to the Daily Beast article, Trump's Appalling Threat Leaves No Doubt That Its Time for the 25th Amendment. I only changed the highlighted parts. The top story at the

This week, the Artemis II space mission returned the astronauts to the moon.... Well, not ON the moon, but NEAR the moon. When I was a kid, I thought everyone was as excited about space travel as I was, but when I became an adult, I was vaguely aware of an undercurrent of Americans, especially minorities, that thought that NASA money would be better spent on the poor. This week on social media, the anti-NASA chatter was louder than I remember it being in recent memory. I live

I love Tubi. I hate that the NFL's Cleveland Browns are run by gas station attendants and mental deficients . I had no intent on writing about the Browns tonight, not at all. I went over to Tubi to watch the movie Event Horizon. But on Tubi's front page, they were promoting the 2015 NFL Draft. Read that again. Not the 2026 Draft, they were rerunning the 2015 Draft---and people were watching it. So the NFL makes money by playing no games, but generates revenue by broadcastin

Editor's Note: This is strictly a rhetorical question. Let's say, hypothetically, that there was no religion. I am not only saying no Jesus, no Muhammad, or no Confucius, I am saying that the entire concept of religion doesn't exist. Humans are born, suffer, mate, and die, with no grasp of a higher power. They are no more cognizant of anything beyond themselves than monkeys. You know who does exist though? Darwin. What if religion spawned today's homosexual culture, 12 Monkey

If I was a billionaire, I wouldn't drive anywhere. Okay, okay, I would make runs to the local Dairy Queen or the corner CVS Pharmacy, but I wouldn't leave my hometown, I wouldn't even THINK of getting on the highway. It's not that I'm above driving, I don't have my nose in the air, it's just that if I had a billion dollars, I'd probably be really busy, I could simply create more time for myself if I had someone else drive. And, if I had an appetite for drugs and alcohol, I DE

A few days ago, an AI program called " Death by Claude ," lit up Beacon of Speech . I though it was funny, my sister thought it was mean, but, hey, even bad publicity is good publicity... . right ? So I ran about 40 more websites through Death by Claude and laughed at nearly every result. Then, as a lark, I ran the school district that I work for through the machinery. I told our old mechanic that School Bus Aide was a job that couldn't be replaced by AI. He said "how do you

In the NFL, there are only 2 minority owners, Shahid Khan (Jacksonville Jaguars) and Kim Pegula (Buffalo Bills). In the NBA, there are only 2 minority owners, Vivek Ranadivé (Sacramento Kings) and Joseph Tsai (Brooklyn Nets). In MLB, there is only 1 minority owner, Arte Moreno (Los Angeles Angels). In the NHL, Kim Pegula is still listed as the Buffalo Sabres' co-owner. Of the 4 major sports, that's the list of minorities with majority ownership stakes. As the WNBA tries to el

Way, way back in 2021, we wrote an article with the headline #FreeBritney . We are currently not fans, nor have ever been fans, of Britney Spears, but I keep seeing articles that she should be returned to her conservatorship. That should not happen. "In January of 2008, Britney Spears was put on an involuntary psychiatric hold and was released after a few days under the condition that she enter a conservatorship run by her Father. He was worried that she was about to become a

Came across the website deathbyclawd.com this afternoon. What does Death by Claude do? It judges your website. And when I say "it," I mean AI. It was a brutal review, but in the style of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast . # SKILL: Beacon of Speech Replacement ## Purpose Provide a platform for passionate free speech commentary that both sides of the political spectrum will hate equally. ## Instructions - When the user wants to publish an opinion, accept their text and forma

Just last week, I wrote about my favorite (Facebook) Reels . The list leaned heavily into sports and comedy, and, despite Beacon of Speech being a free speech website, we follow no news-related Reels. Imagine my surprise when a Tucker Carlson Reel came up. Before I could skip it, the Reel began to play. His guest? Professor Jiang and his " Greater Israel Project ." Wow. It is rare that I have seen such a steaming pile of combustible garbage at any time in my life. If you beli

Just a reminder, we are a libertarian-leaning, free speech website at Beacon of Speech. Many problems in America stem from one simple concept: In the gray areas between the Police, which represent the interests of the government, and the Citizen, which is basically you and me, the Constitution enumerates the rights of the Citizen. Now don't get me wrong, when career-criminals get off with light sentences, it is maddening, I admit that. But many in the Law and Order Camp err

For demonstrative purposes, we are only going back to the year 1999, the year the Cleveland Browns were "re-born." Let's review the worst trades in sports and the people who made them. MLB: According to the Bleacher Report , the Florida Marlins sending Miguel Cabrera to Detroit in 2007 was the worst trade in baseball since the year 1999. The trade was spearheaded by Larry Beinfest, who was promoted from GM to President of Operations just a few months earlier. In Beinfest's

Back in 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene grabbed anyone who would listen and screamed " Volodymyr Zelensky Wants Our Sons and Daughters to Die in Ukraine ." Now that wasn't true, but politicians don't always tell the truth. Are there any American Troops in Ukraine today? There are not. But we did have a response to MTG in real time back in 2023 : "I am going to go out on a limb and say that NONE of Marjorie Taylor Greene's three children are going to die in the armed services, no

We are not the cool kids here at Beacon of Speech. BOS is on Facebook and Bluesky, that is it. Let me re-iterate, no Snapchat, no Instagram, no TikTok, no X. But lately, we have been turning to Facebook Reels for more and more entertainment options. Which is kind of funny, seeing that Reels is seemingly mostly re-runs of Instagram or X content. With that being said, these were my Top 10 content creators this week: Jim Rome : Rome has been the best talk-radio sports host in th

Listen, there's no getting around the fact that Donald Trump is not a great president, especially the second time around. But as I read, almost daily, that Trump is everything from a Fascist Overlord to the Anti-Christ, everyone gives Donald Trump way too much credit for being some sort of evil genius. What is happening in America is that we are living The Celebrity Apprentice , for better or for worse, in real time. The Apprentice: Season 16 Episode I: The Voters Fire Kamala

Last night I turned on the Tacoma Stars/Baltimore Blast MASL game on Amazon. It was 4-4 at half, so I figured I'd get a good game. I was wrong. As I wrote in the foreground, the game played in the background. The Blast piled goal upon goal on the Stars. With about 30 seconds left in the game, I had long since tuned out as the Blast were up 10-4. With 2 seconds left in regulation, # 15 on Tacoma appeared to swing on the Blast Defender. Both refs charged into the fracas as the

We are under no delusions as to our place in the universe at Beacon of Speech, we are a low-end, libertarian-leaning blog. We were founded out of the ashes of the Post Industrial Midwest. Post-Industrial Wasteland Chris Quinn , on the other hand, is very delusional about his lot in life. Officially founded in 1842, The Cleveland Plain Dealer has survived World Wars and Urban Upheaval. In 1920, Cleveland was the 5th largest city in the United States of America and the city was