The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression usually hands out awards every year to the most oppressive and anti-free speech government agencies. But the group took a different tack this year.  Witnessing the incredible assaults on free speech at colleges and universities across America last year, the TJC gave its "Jefferson Muzzle Awards" to those institutions of higher education that demonstrated "excellence” in the categories of censorship and intolerance.  Many of the award winners were involved in highly publicized incidents on campus. Campus Reform: “Never in our 25 years of awarding the Jefferson Muzzles have we observed such an alarming concentration of anti-speech activity as we saw last year on college campuses across the country,” the TJC wrote when announcing the winners. The awards were broken down into five categories this year, including both “censorship of students” and...(Read Full Post)