Monthly Archives: July 2016

News of the Week (July 31st, 2016)

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El Archipiélago de Gulag

     Venezuela continues down it’s path as a “socialist paradise” that other “socialist paradises” have trod down before: “Political arrests are a rare growth industry in Venezuela. When Nicolás Maduro became president after Hugo Chávez’s death from cancer in 2013, there … Continue reading

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University Requires Ideological Purity

     College campuses have increasingly become hard-Left monocultures.  Now the University of Cincinnati is formally requiring new faculty and staff formerly declare their ideological purity in writing: “As of July 1, the University of Cincinnati will request a Diversity and Inclusion … Continue reading

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Quick Takes – Transforming the Suburbs; Transforming the Colleges; Transforming the Courts

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Transform all the things!      First, a little mood music:  Victim of … Continue reading

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Intersectional Irony of Planned Parenthood

     Planned Parenthood has jumped on the entire “intersectionality” bandwagon.  In addition to fighting against the so-called Patriarchy™ by aborting babies, who are disproportionately Black and poor, they want to fight the “White man” (presumably the Kyriarchy overall) by “dismantling” “systems … Continue reading

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Poe’s Law, University Edition

     If you were told a university to combat “toxic masculinity” setting up programs with acronyms like “BALLS,” “DUDES,” or “PENIS,” would you think that this is legitimate, or a case of Poe’s Law where parody becomes indistinguishable from reality?  The … Continue reading

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According to Academia, Mountains are People Too

     We are familiar already with how glaciers are misgendered, but now we can learn about how to get intimate with… mountains.      A graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bryanne Young, suggests just such a course. … Continue reading

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News of the Week (July 24th, 2016)

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Donald Trump and the Holding of Tongues

     #NeverTrump will not cause a Hillary Clinton Presidency.      Trump (and his more crazy supporters) will cause a Hillary Clinton Presidency.      Trump will do to Republicans what William Jennings Bryan did to the Democrats.      While it is possible that Hillary loses … Continue reading

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Donald Trump and the GOP Establishment

     There is the belief that the “GOP Establishment” opposed Donald Trump and that anyone who opposes Trump is a tool of this “Establishment.”      This of course, ignores statements from Trump that place him close to Hillary Clinton ideologically and governmentally.  … Continue reading

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