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
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
Who’s Afraid of Student Journalists?
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correctA 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
Abandoned by America
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctHeavy sigh. We sure have abandoned many… ===== A Great Place to Have a War, By Joshua Kurlantzick Simon & Schuster, 323 pages, £22.79 BY MARK MOYAR AS THE OBAMA administration walked out the door, tributes from adoring media and entertainment outlets drowned out the accusations of abandonment emanating from erstwhile friends and allies of the United States. Syrians who wanted American help in saving... Read more
Time to Reform the Kangaroo Courts on Campus
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Politically correct, The LeftRight after the VA, Trump might give some attention to cleaning up the DOE. ========== WSJ 12/28/2016 By Robert Shibley The University of Minnesota football team’s dramatic walkout in protest of what they saw as unfair treatment of 10 fellow players in a campus sexual-assault investigation came to an end on Dec. 17. But it made national headlines for imperiling the team’s trip... Read more
Where’s the Pope on Syria?
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Politically correct, Religion, The LeftI really wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this probably ends that hope forever. ========= WSJ 12/27/2016 If you are like this columnist, you may have missed the recent prayer vigil in front of St. Peter’s, which featured Pope Francis leading tens of thousands of the faithful in protest of the sickening Russian military strikes in Aleppo that have... Read more
Christmas Eve in Space and Communion on the Moon
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, ReligionWell, well. Perhaps God did intervene up on the Moon! ========= WSJ 12/24/2016 By Eric Metaxas It happened on Christmas Eve, 48 years ago. Three men took turns reading from the first 10 verses of the Book of Genesis. They were nearly 250,000 miles away from Bethlehem, but since it was the night before Christmas, and there was no chimney from... Read more
