In my earlier post today, I used an addendum to discuss this editorial by the student editors at Claremont McKenna College. But I decided it needed a post of its own, in order to spotlight it. Reading it may give … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The dancing bear reference is to this quote from Allan Bloom’s 1989 description of the behavior of most faculty and administrators in response to Cornell’s crisis in 1969: [S]tudents discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom … Continue reading →
So they ask their white supporters to leave: Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Johnetta Elzie seemingly confirmed those with Caucasian skin were asked to leave the area, tweeting that the group had created a “black only healing space for the … Continue reading →
Hillary throws charter schools under the school bus. And there’s a lot of brouhaha about whether she’s wearing a wig these days, sparked by (of all people) Trump, and continued by Drdge and then pooh-poohed by Hillary’s hairdresser (as reported … Continue reading →
…appears to have been real. That’s a load off my mind. Apparently, there’s evidence of a police report, minus a photo* [see ADDENDUM below]. I still don’t understand why it wasn’t photographed or otherwise documented (DNA, anyone?), because if the … Continue reading →
A new false rumor, that is. Take a look. I’m in a hurry right now, but I’ll have more to say about this later.
Continue reading →A good idea from Kevin Williamson, now that Democrats are fighting against the so-called “Cadillac tax” that was instrumental in getting Obamacare (remember Obamacare?) its low CBO scoring, the low scoring it needed in order to pass muster: Speaker of … Continue reading →
But this time it was assistant professor Melissa Click: An assistant communications professor at the Missouri School of Journalism resigned from her courtesy appointment Tuesday after she was caught on video confronting a student journalist and attempting to block him … Continue reading →
Somehow I’d missed this story when it first came out in September. But it certainly fits in quite nicely with recent events. It involves an incident that occurred at the University of Delaware: When the black studies student saw a … Continue reading →
…you don’t need saboteurs: Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole has endorsed Jeb Bush for president and will serve as the former Florida governor’s National Veterans’ Chairman, according to the campaign. Dole said that while almost all of the candidates are … Continue reading →
The undercard is debating right now. My first observation is that Fox Business News shines compared to CNBC, the moderators of the last debate. Of course, it’s not hard to shine compared to CNBC, which covered itself with shame. But … Continue reading →
When I wrote my first post on the University of Missouri racism flap, I included these observations: And if the origins of that [excrement] swastika are anything like many such incidents in the recent past at other universities, the perpetrator … Continue reading →