Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category

Who’s Afraid of Student Journalists?

February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct

This story first broke by the New York Times? =================== By John J. Miller WSJ 2/9/2017 Riots last week at the University of California, Berkeley stopped Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur who contributes to Breitbart News, from speaking on campus. The violence forced the cancellation of his event and inflicted $100,000 in damage to school property, according to administrators. Then it spread to New... Read more

A Libel Suit Threatens Catastrophe

February 6 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Law, Losing Freedom, Politically correct

If the left wants to take off the gloves, perhaps that is what should happen. ===== By MICHAEL A. CARVIN and ANTHONY DICK WSJ Feb. 5, 2017 8:16 p.m. ET The First Amendment provides robust protection for political and scientific debate, but it faces a new threat from a climate activist determined to silence his critics. In a case pending before the District of... Read more

Free Speech on the Quad

December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct

Great to see this progress. ========= WSJ 12/10/2016 It’s slow going, but the campaign to highlight censorship on campus may be getting somewhere. That’s the message of a new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which tracks the speech bullies in academia. Fire’s 10th annual report surveyed speech policies at 345 four-year public colleges and 104 private schools.... Read more

Castro ‘what?’ !

November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, The Left

Anyone who suggests that Castro was anything but a vicious dictator – I pray God would have mercy on your soul. =========== WSJ 11/28/2016 Armando Valladares in May accepting the Canterbury Medal from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: When I was 23 years old I refused to do something that at the time seemed very small. I refused to say a few... Read more

Another Judge Is Unpersuaded

November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Obama, US Courts

My guess is Mr Obama will explain this at his next news conference. ====== WSJ 11/19/2016 The Obama Administration’s executive overreach received another rebuke on Wednesday, this time from a federal court in Texas. In National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Perez, Judge Sam Cummings granted a motion for summary judgment and rejected the Labor Department’s attempt to stack another deck for unions. The... Read more

What’s Happened To The University?

November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Losing Freedom, Social Engineering

Wow… ====== WSJ 11/10/2016   By Frank Furedi Rancorous trends such as microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings and intellectual intolerance have taken hold at universities with breathtaking speed. Last year’s controversy over Halloween costumes at Yale led to the departure of two respected faculty members, and this year made the fall festival a flashpoint of conflict at campuses across the country. The recent explosion... Read more

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