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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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College Lecturer at CSU-Fullerton Suspended for Striking a Student at Protest

From The College Fix: California State University-Fullerton lecturer Eric Canin has been suspended by the school for his actions against the campus College Republicans at a February 8 protest: He struck one of them. As reported by the Daily Titan, on that date the CRs were engaged in a “nonviolent counter protest” against a march objecting to President Trump’s […]

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Hundreds of College Campuses Push Students to Monitor Each Other’s Words
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Hundreds of College Campuses Push Students to Monitor Each Other’s Words

From the Washington Examiner: At Appalachian State University, students reported on one another for chalked messages that were pro-Trump as well as chalked messages calling Trump a “RACIST.” The former were reported by students as “hate speech,” the latter “politically biased slander” that was “unlawful.” While students at Ohio State University reported each other for […]

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Cincinnati Students Protest ‘State of the Nation’

From The College Fix: Earlier this week, a cadre of students from the University of Cincinnati got together at the campus Tangeman University Center to “silently protest the ‘state of the nation.’” That’s right, there was no specific beef, just, as The News Record reports, “acts of racism, sexism, xenophobia and other forms of bigotry perpetrated by President Trump’s administration and […]

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WATCH New Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Speech at CPAC 2017
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WATCH New Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Speech at CPAC 2017

Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in the D.C. metropolitan area this week. Her remarks were criticized by the Left, teachers unions and other anti-Trump elements, but you can watch a video of her remarks below (via ABC News’ YouTube page) and decide for yourself whether […]

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