Where 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
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Middlebury’s Statement Of Principle
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, The LeftWho’s Afraid of Student Journalists?
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correctThis 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 correctIf 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 correctGreat 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 LeftAnyone 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 CourtsMy 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
