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 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 research o

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

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

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