Today is the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday; the day the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression announces their “Muzzle” awards, in the process “calling attention to those who in the past year forgot or disregarded Mr. Jefferson’s admonition that freedom of speech ‘cannot be limited without being lost.'”

Read the list. If you find you are in the constituency of a recipient (and I guarantee you are), remember this come election time.

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