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Professor’s Op-Ed Wonders if White Parents are Raising Children to Avoid Racism

Are white parents raising racist children, or at least dispelling racism while raising children in today’s society? A Drake University professor wondered about that in her op-ed in the New York Times: In a Tuesday New York Times op-ed, Drake University’s Jennifer Harvey argues white parents who teach their children that all people are equal and […]

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The Case Against Gorsuch: Things Fall Apart

Well, the best and the brightest on the Left are amassing their forces for a full-scale frontal assault on President Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination. The problem for them is, they don’t have much ammunition. Former President Obama’s favorite think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP), almost tried to do it algebraicly in their […]

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Why Shouting Down Speakers is Absolutely Wrong
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Why Shouting Down Speakers is Absolutely Wrong

At the Academe Blog, John K. Wilson writes about why shouting down speakers is absolutely wrong because it continues to polarize the country and it plays into the Right’s hands: Shouting down speakers, such as the recent suppression of Charles Murray’s speech at Middlebury College by a large crowd of protesters, is wrong. Plain and […]

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Berkeley Students to Hold Event on Milo and the Freedom of Speech
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Berkeley Students to Hold Event on Milo and the Freedom of Speech

After the riots and damages at Cal-Berkeley and the discussions about free speech at Berkeley, the Students for Liberty and Cal Libertarians will hold an event to discuss free speech and its importance this coming week: Berkeley, CA— Students For Liberty in cooperation with Cal Libertarians is hosting libertarian personality Dr. Tom Palmer at UC […]

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University Floats Idea of Loan Forgiveness for Deported Students

From Campus Reform: In a letter addressed to the school’s chancellor, a group of “faculty and graduate employees” present five explicit demands to be “implemented as quickly as possible,” including loan forgiveness for students potentially affected by President Trump’s now-failed executive order, and the establishment of a safe space “for affected students to express their […]

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Ivy League Student said He Can’t Go to Class since His Professor Won’t Acknowledge White Privilege

From Tom McLaughlin’s blog: James Fisher said he couldn’t attend classes at the University of Pennsylvania because one his white professors refused to denounce his white privilege. Fisher is black, and he wrote an article about his mental anguish published in his university’s newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian. “I stopped going to his class for a month. […]

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The Millennial Morass of ‘Free Stuff’
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The Millennial Morass of ‘Free Stuff’

Jesse Waters might be accused of cherry-picking low information millennials for his popular ambush interview segments on Fox News. The sad thing is, he doesn’t have to. “During the primaries, more than 80 percent of millennials voted for Bernie Sanders,” Mercedes Schlapp, a writer at The Washington Times, said in a panel at the Conservative […]

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Kellyanne Conway Won’t Play the Victim Card

The media would like to paint presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway as a termagant. She is anything but. “I view myself as the product of my choices not as the victim of my circumstances,” she said in a conversation onstage with writer Mercedes Schlapp at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  For the record, she […]

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