Happy birthday, Thomas Jefferson. And the Jefferson Muzzle Awards Go To…

U.S. Representative Alan Grayson (D-Fl.), the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, Chicago Alderman James A. Balcer, the Oklahoma Tax Commission…read on.

The Muzzle awards are awarded (according to the website) “as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment. Because the importance and value of free expression extend far beyond the First Amendment’s limit on government censorship, acts of private censorship are not spared consideration for the dubious honor of receiving a Muzzle.”

For more about the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, see here.