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

A few weeks back, Iran's Minister of Sports said that there was " no way " Iran's National Soccer could play in America for the World Cup. Then yesterday, American President Donald Trump said that the Iranians were more than " welcome " to play in the World Cup, but it would be "inappropriate" if they actually showed up. Then, today, the Iranian team itself put out this statement: " No one can exclude " us from participating. If I was on the Iranian National Team, I would re

Last week, Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan made some controversial comments when he said " they purposely dialed down rock music " in the late 1990's. I actually agree with Corgan in this respect, I don't agree with who 'they' are, but around the turn of the millennium, American culture started to equate Rock with Toxic Masculinity. In 1999, one of the most popular Rock artists in America was the Stone Temple Pilots . If you were a guy, leader singer Scott Weiland

Jesse Jackson passed away earlier this week, and I want to be clear, right from the start, no one questions Jackson's contributions to the Civil Right Movement. No one. But, as happens with many a great American, his legacy gets a bit dicey after his entrance into politics. What's my specific problem with Jackson? Politics is not the Civil Rights Movement. In 1984, Jesse Jackson ran for President of the United States for the first time and came in a very respectable 3rd in th

Bomb Iran by Vince Vance and the Valients First of all, the song above is one of my favorite music parodies of all time. I think I've written, like, 5 articles with the song as an Easter Egg. So let's be clear, clear as muddy pond water. Beacon of Speech is a Libertarian-leaning website. For the Record, we do not support the bombing of any other country. We should not be in the war business. But.... Me, as Trump bombs the shit out of Iran. If you asked me in 2025 , "if you ha

Not sure what exactly my problem has been, but for some reason I've been on a classic Hanna-Barbera binge. I have specifically been watching a lot of Yogi Bear lately. And not Yogi's Gang , the cartoon that fought cultural and ecological enemies in the 70's, but the original 60's Yogi Bear, which captured the zeitgeist of its era to perfection. Over at the Daily Star, there's a story promoting the new movie Pinocchio . Pinocchio is not a nice young puppet who dreams of bei

Editor's Note: I want to be clear, when I played high school soccer, I wasn't very good. But the lessons imparted to me lasted a lifetime. I still love soccer. At the beginning of my Senior year, our High School Soccer team was projected out to be one of the best in the county. We had 5 kids that were the cornerstones of our team. Unfortunately, each one of the 5 kids' parents were born in different countries: Danilo - Serbian Gerald - German Joe - Russian Kevin - Am eri can

Human zombie Kelly Osbourne is lashing out against a very unforgiving public due to negative comments made about her at the BRIT Awards: Hmm, she is going through a lot. Very displeased about being dropped from the Return of the Living Dead reboot for looking too realistic. Upset that it was reported that she was engaged to the dead member of Slipknot. E! invited her back to the network, but only to be a guest on Botched! Was voted "least talented" Osbourne sibling, while J

An arbitrator found that the report cards violated the collective bargaining agreement by " disparaging NFL clubs and individuals ." - ESPN Last month, the NFL banned the NFLPA from publishing NFL Report Cards. Why? More than any other league in the United States, the NFL is all about parity. When the NFL pie is split, more or less, 32 equal ways, teams are looking for every advantage to sign free agents when the money is equal. We are going to focus on only 2 categories for

So let me get this straight, for my own mental health. On June 11, 2025, even before the broadcast of Season 3 of the cult-cartoon hit Smiling Friends aired, Adult Swim picked up the series for Seasons 4 & 5 . Adult Swim was happy, creators Michael Cusack and Zach Handel were happy, and the fans were happy. On October 5, 2025, Season 3 premiered to rave reviews . That same week it was announced that Cusack and Handel were creating their own cartoon production studio: Zam St

According to the Trump Resistance Movement : Sorry for the blurry meme. Because the image didn't download cleanly, here's the quote: "Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that's he's dead, you never, ever, hear about him. No one mentions anything he did, because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture, nothing of lasting value. He just made anger, every day, blooming and fading like a fart, then he died, and was instantly replaced by a

I came across this list on Facebook and thought to myself, "this isn't a terrible list.... Then I thought for a few minutes and said to myself, "wait a minute, this is a terrible list." I am going to be slow and methodical. First of all, why was Forbes Magazine coming out with the list of Top Rock Bands of all time? Is the list based off of money generated or albums sold? Nope, strictly on quality. We are huge fans of Punk and Metal. With that being said, the category is Top

Man, I never thought I'd write this article. As a Libertarian-leaning website, we despise Hillary Rodham Clinton, Queen of American Partisan Politics. But as her face is plastered across every single news website in America in relation to the Epstein Files this evening, she is getting hammered on social media for claiming she never met Jeffrey Epstein. I'll tell you what, I believe her. Forget everything you know about HRC. Everything. At her core, she is a long-time, married

I want to be crystal clear, I like Johnny Knoxville, I do. He has a real devilish charm about him. And I like the Jackass Movie Franchise. I'm not some high-brow snob, talking about the opera or the films of Federico Fellini. I liked the TV series and watched all the Jackass movies, even the .5 ones. Give me low-brow humor all day long. My grandkids will talk about Jackass the way I wax poetically about the 3 Stooges . But Alex Morris, in her interview with Johnny Knoxville

Circa 2001 Earlier this week, Prince Andrew was arrested, and then freed, on (the British equivalent of) bail. Prince Andrew is not rotting in some English Dungeon, he is at his estate, right now, lawyering up. The only living person in jail related to the Epstein Case is Giselle Maxwell. But I can't help but think any arrests beyond this point are diluted justice. The above photo is 25 years old and Virginia Giuffre is dead. By all accounts, she had a rough life and a contro

Beacon of Speech is a free speech website, but we aren't really experts on many things. One of the few things that we ARE experts on is the infrastructure of Taco Bell , having worked at multiple locations from 1987-2000, from lowly dishwasher up to Store Manager. I worked at both franchise stores and corporate stores, across multiple states. Somewhere, deep in the Taco Bell archives, my name is etched in with the Mankato Team for Store of the Year honors in Minnesota, I th

Editor's Note: Also known as the Poison Dart Frog You ever go to the local zoo and in a dark corner, you see a heated terrarium with a humidifier and a handful of small, brightly colored frogs inside? Chances are, you saw the Ecuadorian (Poison) Dart Frog Display. Now, if you're a kid, you're mesmerized by the bright colors. If you're an adult, you wonder to yourself, "is it really a good idea to have poison frogs at eye level with little kids?" It took me about 5 seconds to

At my day job, I noticed our new mechanic had a Mushroomhead tattoo. A Cool Tattoo I asked him if he was following the Mushroomhead Drama, he said "nah, I used to like them when I was younger, not so much anymore." Dude is like 25. So I will tell you, the reader, what I passed on telling him: Mushroomhead I: Founded in 1993 as an 8-piece band, Mushroomhead has ballooned to 10 members. Not the same members, mind you, there are now 2 dozen Mushroomhead alumni, but 9 newer music

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Last year, Sharon Osbourne set up a benefit concert for her husband's last performance, the Back to the Beginning Show . She claimed all profits were going to local Birmingham, England Charites. I really wanted to watch Ozzy's last show, so I went to YouTube, couldn't find it. Went to Hulu, couldn't find it. Went to Prime Video, couldn't find it. Quickly shifted gears and googled it: On sale at a Private Streaming Service for $30 . I wasn't paying $30 to Sharon Osbourne for a