Amusement parks are supposed to be the happiest places on earth. Full of candy, thrilling rides, and children shouting with joy, it's hard to be sad waiting in line for your favorite roller coaster. All good things come to an end though, and when amusement parks become closed and abandoned, something scary happens. The steel rusts, the paint chips, the wood rots, and nature takes over. Source

Since the last original episode of Bewitched aired in 1972, things have been looking pretty good for actress Erin Murphy. If you can recall, Murphy played the young Tabitha Stephens on the popular supernatural show for 103 episodes. While many child actors become burnt out or turn towards addictive vices, Murphy has been living her best life. Ironically, her best life doesn' Source

There was once a time when primetime television didn't mean reality shows, it meant laughing along to sitcoms and various talk shows. Series such as Star Trek and Charlie's Angels ruled the screen. But, the truth of the matter is a lot of the shows from the '50s through the '80s wouldn't fly today. From scantily clad women in the workplace to jokes that haven't aged well, there are more than a few... Source

Alcatraz Island, located in San Francisco Bay, California, operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963. Prior to that, it was a fort and a military prison. Several infamous criminals spent time on "The Rock," including Al Capone and Robert Stroud, before it closed down when it became too expensive to maintain. While you may know the basics about this infamous penitentiary... Source

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In the late 1970s, Skokie, Illinois, was home to tens of thousands of Jews, many of whom were Holocaust survivors. That’s when the National Social Party of America, which self-identified as Nazis, planned a march against them. Shockingly, the American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of these Nazis and their First Amendment rights. “Even card-carrying ACLU members resigned in droves, saying, ‘We support free speech, but this goes too far,’” Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour,” adding, “The ACLU lost 15% of our members.” “Even though that case was a loser in the court of public opinion, including among ACLU members, it was an easy winner in the courts of law because of that bedrock viewpoint neutrality principle: Government may never punish speech solely because its viewpoint is loathsome and loath,” Strossen continues. The ACLU even defended the 2017 Unite the Right demonstrations in Charlottesville, because there was no evidence that any violence was planned. However, while the ACLU has historically come to the defense of free speech, there have been some changes recently. “I’m going to acknowledge again the kind of shift that I acknowledged earlier, and it’s a generational shift,” Strossen says. “Younger cohorts within all of these institutions that had traditionally supported free speech, academia, journalism, publishing, ACLU librarianship, etcetera, every indication, including surveys, show that the younger you get, the less supportive people are of classical free-speech values.” “You see that even in the legal profession, so at some point, that dwindling support for classical liberal free speech values may affect the judiciary as well,” she adds. Poulos believes that what’s been laid at the feet of younger generations must be seriously protected. “I think it’s increasingly clear that these things do need to be defended, we do need a broad coalition to defend them, and if we don’t, it’s just not going to be America anymore,” he says. Want more from James Poulos?To enjoy more of James's visionary commentary on politics, tech, ideas, and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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