Talk about a ‘hall pass’. ======== WSJ 8/6/2018 The Trump Administration in July withdrew Obama-era guidance that gave colleges a wink and a nod to racially discriminate. This means that colleges like Harvard that use racial preferences in admissions will receive more legal scrutiny, and the examination should be instructive. Between 2011 and 2016, the Obama Education Department issued seven notices advising colleges... Read more
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Harvard Needs to Come Clean
August 6 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Politically correct, US ConstitutionA Movement Rises to Take Back Higher Education – WSJ
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Politically correctGood news, indeed. ====== By Emily Esfahani Smith – June 17, 2018 1:59 p.m. ET Debra Mashek, a psychology professor at Harvey Mudd College, was leading a class discussion about intellectual humility this past semester when the conversation came to a halt. Ms. Mashek asked the students to think of ways in which, during an argument, they could signal intellectual humility—that is, admit... Read more
Student Interrogated … For Going to Gun Range with Dad
April 25 | Posted by mrossol | 2nd Amendment, American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI can hardly believe, and yet I can. This country is going so … PC that some days it is hard to leave the house. ===== ==== If it weren’t clear enough where bureaucrats stand in the 2nd Amendment vs. gun control debate, one need look no further than high school student Kyle Kashuv. While the media swarm around left-leaning kids who are... Read more
Not a Victim Anymore?
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, Politically correct, Racism“…Racism is as endemic to the human condition, just like stupidity is.” ====== Shelby Steele, 1/12/2018 WSJ The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness. They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally—an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement... Read more
Help Iranians!!
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Politically correct, TrumpDon’t be like Obama… ======= WSJ 1/2/2018 Iran has a peculiar habit of surprising Americans. It has done so again with the protests engulfing its major cities. The demonstrations began over economic grievances and quickly transformed into a rejection of theocracy. The slogans must have unsettled the mullahs: “Death to Khamenei!” “Death to Rouhani!” “We will die to get our Iran back!” Imperialism has... Read more
When Listening is Not Listening
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left=== WSJ 11/16/2017 By Zachary Wood – Williamstown, Mass. ‘You’re a racist white supremacist!” a Williams College student shouted at Christina Hoff Sommers, after she finished a recent campus talk on feminism. To their credit, a handful of students responded to Ms. Sommers’s talk with challenging questions and cogent criticisms. But insults, rants and meltdowns consumed the majority of the question-and-answer session. As president... Read more
