News of the Week (August 16th, 2015)

Posted on August 16, 2015 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for August 16th, 2015


 

Obama Scandals

 

Cuba is Cracking Down on Dissidents, and Obama’s to Blame
Back in January, I wrote about how we should not expect substantial changes to Cuba’s communist political system despite the “thaw” in relations between it and America. Dissidents in Cuba know this is true, and events this past weekend prove it. John Kerry’s scheduled to visit the island on this Friday brought protesters to the streets of Havana on Sunday. Among them were the Ladies in White, a group formed by wives and female relatives jailed dissidents.

Navajos say EPA should clean its spill rather than trying to swindle Indians
The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.

John Kerry: Cuba Can Help Us Combat Climate Change
During the ceremony raising the American flag over the newly opened U.S. embassy in Cuba, Secretary of State John Kerry encouraged the Castro brothers and the Cuban people to join the fight against climate change.

“If Dissent Is Denied in Courtyard of the U.S. Embassy, It Will Never Be Allowed Anywhere in Cuba”
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) accused the Obama administration of “shameful” actions contradictory to American values as Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to raise the U.S. flag at the embassy in Havana.

Fidel Castro to US: you owe us millions
Fidel Castro marked his 89th birthday Thursday by insisting the United States owes Cuba “many millions of dollars” because of the half-century-old American trade embargo.

Kerry in Cuba: “I Feel Very Much at Home Here”
Friday, at the U.S. embassy in Cuba flag-raising ceremony celebrating the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, Secretary of State John Kerry said he felt “very much at home” in the country ruled by the authoritarian Castro regime.

 

Gun Rights

 

Twice Looted Ferguson Market Spared – After Owners Sit Outside Store With Shotguns
Last year the Ferguson Market and Liquor store was looted and destroyed by protesters.

 

Hide the Decline

Environment &
“Green Energy”

 

3 Million Gallons Of Metal-Laden Water Reaches Animas River, Worried Residents Await Information
Governor Hickenlooper is preparing a State of Emergency for the areas in southwest Colorado along the Animas River. Both the town of Durango and La Plata County have already issued their own emergency orders.

EPA: Pollution from mine spill much worse than feared
Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday that the Gold King Mine discharged an estimated 3 million gallons of contaminated water, three times the amount previously believed.

Comrade Clinton’s Stalinist Energy Plan
Facing only token opposition from congressional Republicans, the totalitarian Left is ready to enact their agenda. Hillary Clinton’s energy plan is right in line with the rest of it.

 

Obamacare

Government in Healthcare

 

No, Donald Trump, Single-Payer Health Care Doesn’t “Work Incredibly Well” In Canada & Scotland
“How can you run for the Republican nomination and be for single-payer health care?” asked former Texas Gov. Rick Perry of Trump. When Fox anchor Bret Baier later asked Trump to defend his position, Trump responded: “As far as single payer, it works in Canada, it works incredibly well in Scotland.” Here’s why Trump is wrong.

Fidel Castro to US: you owe us millions
Fidel Castro marked his 89th birthday Thursday by insisting the United States owes Cuba “many millions of dollars” because of the half-century-old American trade embargo.

“If Dissent Is Denied in Courtyard of the U.S. Embassy, It Will Never Be Allowed Anywhere in Cuba”
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) accused the Obama administration of “shameful” actions contradictory to American values as Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to raise the U.S. flag at the embassy in Havana.

 

War & Terror

 

“Top Secret” emails found as Clinton probe expands to key aides
As pressure builds on Hillary Clinton to explain her official use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, she faced new complications Tuesday. It was disclosed her top aides are being drawn into a burgeoning federal inquiry and that two emails on her private account have been classified as “Top Secret.”

Hellish ordeal of the 11-year-old ISIS sex slave used as a human shield
Terrified girl is strapped to bonnet of Humvee and driven into battle to protect her captor from gunfire

ISIS supporters call for Pluto to be renamed “The Moon of Mohammed”
NASA urged to give the dwarf planet a new name after Islamic amateur astronomers claim to have seen Arabic letters on its surface

Hillary Clinton emails contained signal intelligence from spy satellites
Revelation undercuts former secretary of state’s claim she had no idea information was classified

ISIS Uses Chemical Weapons Against Kurds
The Islamic State was confirmed to have used chemical weapons against Kurds this week.

AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.

 

National

 

Judicial Watch Challenges Congress’ Claim To Be A Small Business
A conservative non-profit watchdog group is challenging what it views as the fraudulent registration of Congress as a small business in the District of Columbia’s Obamacare health insurance exchange.

Judge Faults University for Requiring Student to Prove He Was Innocent of Sexual Misconduct
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga erred in finding a student guilty of sexual misconduct based on his inability to prove he had obtained verbal consent from a woman who described her own memory of their encounter as clouded by intoxication, a state judge has ruled.

17 Yr-Old #Ferguson Protester Arrested for Shooting Fellow Protester
#BlackLivesMatter protesters gathered in Ferguson, Missouri this weekend to commemorate the shooting death of robber Mike Brown.

Sandra Bland Protest: All White People Should Be Killed
Breitbart Texas was at the Waller County Sheriff’s Office county jail Saturday evening when a protester told reporters and others present, that all white people should be killed. She also called white people and reporters, “terrorists.” Her orders – “go back into the cave where you came from.”

HTC caught storing fingerprints AS WORLD-READABLE CLEARTEXT
Android biometric banks more Fort Nope than Fort Knox.

The 4-mile-tall pyramid mountain on dwarf planet Ceres is glowing
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft finds that the largest object in the asteroid belt is also a huge mystery, as the craft takes a closer look.

The Creepy Freaks of “Social Justice”
Perhaps “Sarah” Nyberg (@srhbutts) thinks I’m stupid. Or perhaps Ms. Nygberg has been fooling people for so long now, Ms. Nyberg thinks that bogus little “victim” act will never fail. At any rate, after I was first suspended from Twitter for a five-month-old tweet about Ms. Nyberg, I had hoped that my response would caution Ms. Nyberg against further aggressions. Alas, as Benjamin Franklin said, experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other. Some genuinely frightening people have tried to shut me up in the past, and have learned that I am not easily frightened. In fact, some of those people are in federal custody now because this is not a game that Homey D. Clown plays.

Gay Versus Trans Bar Fight Breaks Out Over “Stonewall”
Many of today’s gay-rights activists are accusing their courageous progenitors of exactly the kind of weakness and passivity that the actions of Stonewall belied.

Of course: Gov’t recommendations on breakfast were based on basically nothing, probably wrong
And, here we have another example of the federal government making recommendations on next to no scientific evidence, built mostly on a foundation of speculation and a deep desire to tell people what to do, that ends up probably having hurt the people they were trying to help.

The Professional Protestors and Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton invited Deray McKesson to her third announcement speech. That was the one she did when everyone forgot about the first two and the video.

Fake Hate: 9 False Discrimination Stories the Media Ran With
The left loves to portray the right as bigots who hate minorities, women, Muslims, and gays. So the media latch onto any claim of perceived discrimination or hate, real or not, and report it with glee (forget investigation and due diligence!).

Colorado Company Visited as Part of FBI Investigation into Hillary Clinton emails
FBI investigation into Democratic presidential front-runner expands its reach

Latest California Proposal Features Gas Rationing
A bill so bad even some Democrats are speeding away from it!

Did Hillary just walk into a perjury trap over her emails?
Submits court Declaration under penalty of perjury in FOIA suit as to Huma Adedin’s outside employment.

Fetal Parts Sold for “Scientific Research” on Cosmetics, Flavor Enhancers
Donating aborted babies to science may not actually save lives

Sen. Claire McCaskill: How I Helped Todd Akin Win — So I Could Beat Him Later
It was August 7, 2012, and I was standing in my hotel room in Kansas City about to shotgun a beer for the first time in my life. I had just made the biggest gamble of my political career—a $1.7 million gamble—and it had paid off. Running for reelection to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Missouri, I had successfully manipulated the Republican primary so that in the general election I would face the candidate I was most likely to beat. And this is how I had promised my daughters we would celebrate.

Oof: McClatchy “Reporter” Claims Criminal Investigation Into Hillary Clinton’s Conduct Is Not About Her
What the hell kind of mental gymnastics is this?

Human Capital – Episode 2: Inside the Planned Parenthood Supply Site
Whistleblower Who Harvested Aborted Baby Parts Inside Planned Parenthood Clinics for Partner Company StemExpress Lists Numerous Law and Ethics Violations in New Documentary Episode

Former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director Explains the Tissue Donation Process
For eight years, Abby Johnson, who used to work for a branch of Planned Parenthood, didn’t just witness the fetal tissue donation process—she participated in it.

Why Did the Media, All at Once, Proclaim the Evils of Air Conditioning?
The EPA is out to grab more power, and the media, facts be damned, complies.

Black teacher runs for school board to end “white privilege” training
Aaron Benner knew he couldn’t stay in St. Paul Public Schools as a teacher any longer.

VIDEO RELEASED of #Ferguson Shooter Tyrone Harris Drawing Gun
On Sunday night Tyrone Harris, a friend of Michael Brown, was shot by police officers after he exchanged fire with them in an unmarked van.

President Carter diagnosed with cancer after liver surgery
Former President Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that he has cancer, and will be undergoing treatment in his home state of Georgia.

Trump Snubs Scott’s South Carolina Town Hall
Donald J. Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has declined to participate in one in a series of town halls run by South Carolina’s most popular politician, making the real estate mogul the only high-polling candidate to snub the state.

Did Team Hillary remove classification markings?
Relying on an unnamed State Department official, Fox News reports that someone in Hillary Clinton’s “inner circle” likely stripped the classification markings from documents on her server

Now the cultural cleansers want to ban a familiar Southern word
Cultural progressives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina want to change the name of the Dixie Classic Fair. They say the word “Dixie” is offensive.

A Gender Gap among Iowa RepublicansShare article on Facebook
According to CNN/ORC, the top four candidates favored by Iowa Republican men, in order, are Donald Trump, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, and Rand Paul. Among women, it’s Carson, Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Mike Huckabee.

Will Ferguson Protests Make A Bad Situation Worse?
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters view the latest Ferguson protests as mostly criminals taking advantage of the situation.

Official: Clinton “inner circle” may have stripped email classification markings
The latest revelations about top secret information traversing Hillary Clinton’s private email server have triggered accusations that someone in her “inner circle” likely stripped the classification markings, illegally.

Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws
Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna was preparing to start a coveted internship at Facebook when he launched a browser application from his dorm room that angered the social media behemoth.

Figures. Democrats’ “Freedom of Choice” Abortion Movement Was Stolen from the Nazis
When the Nazis entered Poland (a Roman Catholic country) in 1939 abortion for any reason was illegal. The use of contraceptives was also illegal in Poland (because the Roman Catholic Church was opposed to abortion and to contraception as well). The Nazis conquered half the country (the other half went to the Russians), and they immediately did away with the anti-abortion laws. Hitler wanted to limit and reduce all non-Aryan populations. In late 1939 a decree was issued encouraging Polish women to seek abortions. The campaign was called “Auswahlfeiheit” (“Freedom of Choice”).

Drudge, Fox News could be censored under new federal rules, experts warn
A Washington, D.C., appeals court is set to hear arguments later this year on new net neutrality rules, which critics say could lead to government regulators censoring websites such as the Drudge Report and Fox News.

Colorado court outlaws religious freedom
Anyone who can still argue that homosexual marriage, and the coming fight over make homosexuals special snowflakes under the law, isn’t a direct attack on religious freedom really needs to increase their meds.

MEXCLUSIVE!! “BLOOD” GANG MEMBER who shot New York Firefighter WAS A DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST!!
Earlier today a “blood” gang member had a 6 hour standoff with New York police in Staten Island, after which a fire department officer was shot in the leg, and the loser was killed by the cops.

Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Blames Marilyn Mosby For Violent Crime Spike
A veteran Baltimore prosecutor is blaming state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby for contributing to the dramatic spike in violent crime that has gripped the city in the aftermath of the Freddie Gray case.

Democrats Now Displaying Mexican And LBGTQ Flags at Their Campaign Events in Iowa
Leave it to the Democrat party to include the Mexican flag and the rainbow LGBTQLMNOP+ flag at their Presidential forum in Iowa tonight… Right next to the POW-MIA flag. Looks like someone goofed up and accidentally included a few American flags, which I’m sure someone will find “offensive” and demand they be removed.

Watch Millennials Try to Explain the Difference Between Democrats and Socialists
Campus Reform took the recent incident on MSNBC with Debbie Wasserman Schultz and tried the same experiment with some young people.

Black Ministers: Remove Bust of Racist Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger From National Portrait Gallery
The conflict between a national group of black ministers and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is heating up over the pastors’ call for the removal of a bust and all images of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger – a known racist and eugenicist – from the gallery.

The real email question: Did Hillary Clinton sell US secrets?
While the media is focusing your attention on the shiny object that is her email server, the real story is not being told. The circumstantial evidence indicates that Hillary Clinton, or members of her inner circle with her connivance, purloined highly classified US intelligence and either sold it, traded it, or used it for personal gain. This is not a conspiracy theory and it is not hyperbole. Stick with me for a moment.

Ferguson Business Owner Rebuilds Her Shop and Gets Robbed Again
One year after riots tore apart the town of Ferguson, the owner of a hair salon managed to rebuild her shop with help from Tea Party locals. Unfortunately, her new and improved situation didn’t last long.

Society of Professional Journalists’ #GamerGate Debate Suspended By Bomb Threat
The Society of Professional Journalists’ debate on the GamerGate controversy had to be evacuated earlier today after the venue hosting the event was targeted by multiple bomb threats.

 

Economy & Taxes

 

Ninth Circuit Gives Unmarried Couples Double The Mortgage Interest Deduction Available To Married Couples
A split Ninth Circuit panel on Friday reversed the Tax Court and held, contrary to the IRS’s position, that the § 163(h)(3) limitations on the deductibility of mortgage interest ($1 million of acquisition indebtedness plus $100,000 of home equity indebtedness) are applied on a per-taxpayer basis (for a total of $2.2 of mortgage debt), as contended by celebrity psychiatrist Charles Sophy and his domestic partner, Bruce Voss, who owned homes in Beverly Hills and Rancho Mirage, California, as joint tenants.

 

International

 

Man arrested after deadly triple stabbing at Ikea
A man and a woman have died and another is seriously injured following a stabbing inside an Ikea store in Västerås, north west of Stockholm. Police have arrested a suspect.

Vegemite being used to make homemade alcohol in dry communities
Vegemite could be ending up in more than sandwiches, following reports of the yeast extract being used to make homemade alcohol in dry communities across Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Claim: Norwegian Labour Deputy Leader “on a Mission From Allah to Islamise”
The Pakistani heritage deputy leader of the Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, AP) is on a Mission from Allah to Islamise the nation, so claims a Progress Party organiser.

Sweden: Rape Capital of the West
In 1975, the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the former homogeneous Sweden into a multicultural country. Forty years later the dramatic consequences of this experiment emerge: violent crime has increased by 300%.

Scandinavia Isn’t A Socialist Paradise
If you’re looking for a prosperous European country to emulate, don’t look to the high-tax social democracies of Scandinavia. Check out Switzerland, instead.

Hugo Chávez daughter is the richest individual in Venezuela, report claims
On more than one occasion the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez declared that being rich is bad, often adding “Rich people attack me for saying that, but I claim it is bad.”

Looting and violence on the rise in Venezuela supermarkets
Venezuelan supermarkets are increasingly being targeted by looters as swollen lines and prolonged food shortages spark frustration in the OPEC nation struggling with an economic crisis.

UKIP MEP Threatened With Gun In “War Zone” Migrant Camp
UKIP’s Mike Hookem was threatened with a gun in a migrant camp in Dunkirk yesterday afternoon. The incident happened in the same camp widely reported to be controlled by a brazen South London gangster turned people smuggler.

Labour risks “annihilation” if Jeremy Corbyn is leader says Tony Blair
In an impassioned letter printed in the Guardian, Mr Blair said the party was walking “over the cliff’s edge”.

Enormous explosion rocks China port city Tianjin, kills at least 13
A fire and at least two massive explosions around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday local time injured hundreds and left at least 13 people dead at an industrial area roughly 75 miles southeast of Beijing. Dozens of building collapsed are cars were burned out.

Was badly stored cyanide to blame for the catastrophic Chinese warehouse blasts that killed 50? Panicked families flee “toxic cloud” after secretive officials refuse to list deadly chemicals kept on site
At least 50 people killed including 12 firefighters and more than 700 injured after massive blasts in Tianjin, China

Gay Rights Groups Sue Bishop For Inciting Violence After He Quotes Bible
A Swiss Roman Catholic Bishop is being sued by gay rights organisations after he quoted an Old Testament bible passage on homosexuality at a Catholic conference. His detractors have accused him of inciting violence against gay people, as the passage in question advocates the death penalty for homosexuals. The Bishop has issued an apology.

NIGEL FARAGE FOR BREITBART: I Hope Corbyn Wins, He’s Good for the Referendum and Will Kill The Green Party
For fifteen years now I have believed that the folly of the Euro currency would break up the European Union. It was perfectly obvious to me that economic and monetary union between Greece and Germany could never work and that political union was an impossibility.

Turkey’s Racism Problem
The U.S. Department of State needs to analyze the Kurdish issue more closely and carefully. When they do, they will see that the problem should not be called “the Kurdish Issue;” it would be more just to call it “the Turkish Racism Problem.”

 

Opinion

 

What Conservatives Hate About Common Core, and Why They’re Not Alone
Good News: There’s something you can do about it.

Bush’s Common Core obfuscation
Many informed voters who watched Thursday’s GOP presidential debate may have come away confused about Jeb Bush’s stance on education. Bush is known to be a supporter of Common Core. Yet there he was insisting that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in creating educational standards.

Could Google Swing the Next Election?
I have no idea, but that’s the question Wired magazine asks, though more ominously that I put it

Google Search Results Could Steal the Presidency
Wired website has the results of a study by two scientists at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology that shows the algorithm used by Google in its search engine could accidentally determine the outcome of a close presidential race.

Note this interesting parallel, in a New Yorker piece on free speech:
“Speech nuts, like gun nuts, have amassed plenty of arguments, but they—we—are driven, too, by a shared sensibility that can seem irrational by European standards.”

Letter to a Young Social Justice Warrior Who Requested a Formal Apology
This is a letter to a young social justice warrior who requested a formal apology.

A rebuttal to those who accuse America of imperial arrogance (I’m talking to you Mr. Obama)
I have been to several American military cemeteries in Western Europe. They are deeply moving places, because they shelter the bones of Americans who died far from home, defending the freedoms of people other than themselves.

Feminist Tumblr: Justifying Hatred With Radical Ideology and Also, Witchcraft
Feminism justifies anti-male attitudes by promoting an ideological belief that I call feminism’s Patriarchal Thesis

Jon Stewart asked people to look for evidence of him toting water for Obama so we did
Before Jon Stewart bowed out as host of The Daily Show, he had one more interview with President Obama in July, in which CBS described them as “two old friends” on the verge of leaving their respective professions.

The Peril to Democrats of Left-Leaning Urban Centers
Twenty years ago, America’s cities were making their initial move to regain some of their luster. This was largely due to the work of mayors who were middle-of-the-road pragmatists. Their ranks included Rudy Giuliani in New York, Richard Riordan in Los Angeles, and, perhaps the best of the bunch, Houston’s Bob Lanier. Even liberal San Franciscans elected Frank Jordan, a moderate former police chief who was succeeded by the decidedly pragmatic Willie Brown.

The “Free Stuff” Party
Democrats are Santa Claus, and it’s Christmas every day with lots of toys for good little boys and girls who vote Democrat

The Doublethink Strategy of the Cultural Elitists
Orwellian efforts behind the elevation of mindless attention seeking as an attempted substitute for values, achievements and principles-as well as the growing global movement to overthrow the tyranny of elitist collusion and consensus.

The Coddling of the American Mind
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.

Scott Walker and a “Return to Normalcy”
Despite what The Donald and Jeb! and Carly said in last week’s debate, Scott Walker’s closing statement tackled an even larger elephant in the room: “I’m a guy with a wife, two kids, and a Harley. One article called me ‘aggressively normal.'” The Wisconsin Governor’s detractors aren’t as euphemistic. Let’s face it: Scott Walker is B-O-R-I-N-G.

10 Things “The New Yorker” Gets Wrong About Free Speech (Part 1)
The August 10, 2015 issue of The New Yorker contains an article by Kelefa Sanneh, “The Hell You Say,” that purports to examine “the current free-speech debate.” Unfortunately, the article contains a number of incorrect assertions and flawed arguments—we’ve identified 10—that require response.

Animal Rights: A Dangerous Aspect of Our New Secular Religion
The elevation of “animal rights” to a semi-sacrosanct belief has taken many casualties.

How “emotional reasoning” informs current campus sexual assault hysteria
The notion that one’s negative feelings reflect reality is permeating our college campuses when it comes to free speech and sexual assault.

The narcissism of assisted suicide
A shocking case shows that assisted suicide is about more than alleviating suffering.

The “Self-Abnegation of … Gender Identity”
“I’m proud of being trans and queer and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Emily Sommer concludes her decidedly weird column at the feminist blog The-Toast.net, which is chock full of the trendy jargon of feminist “gender theory”

Feminism’s Attack on “Institutionalized, Normative Heterosexuality”
If you’ve read my book Sex Trouble, you understand how I focus on the gap between feminism’s exoteric discourse (what feminists say when seeking support from the general public) and feminism’s esoteric doctrine (the beliefs shared among intellectuals and activists who lead and control the movement). Like other movements of the radical Left, feminism preaches one thing to outsiders while teaching something else to insiders, and this deception is both deliberate and necessary.

Disciplinary Bulverism
Occasionally Americans debate the correctness of beliefs and practices – political, moral, social. But not very often. Most Americans, or so one would judge from social media anyway, are Bulverists: they already know who is right and who isn’t, so all they need to debate is why the people who get things wrong – so, so wrong – do so.

What if George W. Bush’s Social Security reforms had passed?
More than a decade ago, President George W. Bush set out to fix what he called a broken Social Security system. In 2001, intermediate projections had shown the retirement trust fund would be exhausted in 2040. By 2005, finances had improved and the projected exhaustion date was 2043. But today, exhaustion looms closer, only two decades away in 2035.

The Culture of Evil: How Funny Or Die Defends Planned Parenthood
Amid the noise of news and politics this week, a sixth video exposing Planned Parenthood and “tissue procurement” firm StemExpress was released by The Center for Medical Progress. In this newest video, C.M.P. speaks in depth with a former StemExpress employee, Holly O’Donnell, about her experiences as a Blood and Tissue Procurement Technician working inside Planned Parenthood.

Sheltered Students Go to College, Avoid Education
If you’ve reached that crotchety age I’m at, you may be as mystified as I am by the kids these days — especially by how they’re behaving on campus. I get the naive leftist politics and the wildly irresponsible partying; those things have been staples of student life for hundreds of years. I even understand the drive toward hamfisted censorship of views they don’t like. After all, I did my coming-of-age at the University of Pennsylvania during the “spring from hell,” when copies of the campus newspaper were stolen to protest perceived bias against minorities, and Eden Jacobowitz was famously brought up on racial harassment charges for screaming “shut up, you water buffalo” out the window at a black sorority that was conducting a rather lively promenade down the walk below his dorm window.

The coming perfect storm on American college campuses – one that feminists and other professional victims will hate it
Several bizarre trends are burgeoning on American college campuses, all of which have the potential to backfire in spectacular form against the hardcore Leftists who are promulgating these ideas.

Fundamental Concepts – Opportunity Lost
I had nothin’ for this week. Usually I start thinking about what to write for these posts, and after sorting through a couple ideas one grabs my imagination, and I sit down and write it. This week….nada. I had only a small ideas, it’s really important but it seems so self evident to me that I can’t think of a lot to say about it. I’ll give it a shot.

What’s Behind the Rise of College Students’ Demand for Censorship?
Pushing boundaries has been exchanged for “safe space.”

The “age of disruption.” Time for a lot more political parties?
Is our two party political system now more of a hindrance than a help?

Another reason to ban civil asset forfeitures
The pernicious and corrupting influence of civil asset forfeiture procedures is on display this summer in still another Nevada case.

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