I hope that Mr Henninger is correct, but I am not betting a lot of money on it. ===== Daniel Henniger, WSJ 3/11/2017 The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the... Read more
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McCarthyism At Middlebury
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Politically correctMiddlebury’s Statement Of Principle
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, The LeftWhere is the left leaning press when they could really provide some support to the concept of a truly liberal society?? They REALLY should be ashamed that they do not cover this adequately. WSJ 3/7/2017 By Jay Parini And Keegan Callanan Middlebury, Vt. On Thursday roughly 100 of our 2,500 students prevented a controversial visiting speaker, Charles Murray, from communicating... Read more
Schumer’s Rosenstein Extortion
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWSJ 3/7/2017 Well, that was predictable. Senate Democrats hounded Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself last week from any investigation into Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign, and no wonder. Now Democrats are threatening to hold up President Trump’s nominee to be deputy AG unless he promises to appoint the special prosecutor they want. On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee... Read more
Robert Bork and the FISA Follies
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, US ConstitutionWSJ 3/7/2017 Robert Bork saw it all coming. Not, of course, today’s clash of recriminations, between a sitting Republican president who’s accused his Democratic predecessor of having tapped his phones even as the other side accuses this same Republican’s campaign team of having colluded with Moscow to steal the November election. For all his wisdom, the late judge and onetime Supreme Court... Read more
How Valuable is Flextime?
March 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Work worldWorkers underestimate the benefits of a flexible schedule WSJ – BY RAYMOND FISMAN AND MICHAEL LUCA EARLIER THIS MONTH, the city council in Copenhagen voted unanimously to give all municipal workers greater control over their schedules. The city’s 10,000 employees will work the same number of hours as before but with greater freedom to decide when that work gets done. Though Copenhagen’s... Read more
The Mob at Middlebury
March 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correct, The LeftAnd the coverage and outrage? ====== WSJ March 3, 2017 7:15 p.m. ET Once again a scholar invited to speak at a university has been shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually. On Thursday at Middlebury College, allegedly an institution of higher learning, a crowd of protesters tried to run Charles Murray off campus. Mr. Murray is the... Read more
