Right 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
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
Time to Reform the Kangaroo Courts on Campus
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Politically correct, The LeftWhere’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
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
Greenberg, AIG and the Army
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Party Politics, Politically correctWSJ – 10/14/2016 The first weeks of Hank Greenberg’s trial suggest that, 11 years after then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer cried fraud and drove Mr. Greenberg out as CEO of AIG, prosecutors are still struggling to make a case. The New York Attorney General’s office has been overruled on efforts to introduce hearsay evidence, as well as material irrelevant to... Read more
