The director of Northeastern University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program claims …

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The director of Northeastern University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program claims it is “logical to hate men,” asserting that it is time for feminists “to go all Thelma and Louise…on their collective butts.”

That didn’t work out very well for Thelma or Louise.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): 
As a colleague said at the time, what really happens in the Thelma & Louise movie is that two women get out from under male supervision, immediately do a lot of stupid things, then commit suicide. 
And the only voice of sanity is the older white male cop (Harvey Keitel), whom they ignore. 
And yet it’s portrayed as some sort of feminist masterpiece.--Posted by Stephen Green"

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The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’ | Intellectual Takeout

The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’ | Intellectual Takeout

• "It’s 2 a.m. and Claire has been stuck at a red light for five minutes. She knows that it’s against the law to run a red light. However, no other cars are in sight, and it seems ridiculous to wait for the light to turn green. Should she run the red light and continue her drive home?
• Brian knows that public urination is against the law. However, there are no restrooms around, and he has to go to the bathroom very badly. He happens to have a susceptibility to bladder infections, and has been hospitalized a couple of times because of them. Should he go ahead and relieve himself in the nearby alley?

How to deal with these moral dilemmas?
Well, there’s an ethical principle for that!
It’s called epikeia.
Epikeia is a Greek word meaning “reasonableness”..."
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Fed Judge Rules Against Mueller: He Must Name Unidentified Persons in Manafort Indictment

Fed Judge Rules Against Mueller: He Must Name Unidentified Persons in Manafort Indictment:

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller must identify unnamed individuals in an indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Last week, Mueller indicted Manafort and his former aide, Konstantin Kilimnik, on a series of charges related to lobbying work they did on behalf of Ukraine, The Hill reported.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered Mueller’s team to turn over the names of several individuals and organizations referred to but not named in the indictment by Friday.

Lubbock, Texas school district spent $1.4 million on hotels, airlines — in one year! | EAGnews.org

Lubbock, Texas school district spent $1.4 million on hotels, airlines — in one year! | EAGnews.org
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Lubbock Independent School District has its own travel department.
If that’s not a red flag for taxpayers, it certainly should be. 
When a government department of any type exists, you can be sure that a lot of tax dollars are spent.
When it came to employee and student travel in the Lubbock school district, that certainly appears to be the case.
In fiscal 2016-17, the Lubbock district spent more than $1 million at hotels alone.
The exact total was $1,028,067.49, according to our tally, through 2,373 district travel card transactions.
...The school district also spent $395,321.76 on airline fares and fees through 1,158 travel card transactions, according to our calculations..."
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History for June 16

History for June 16 - On-This-Day.com
Stan Laurel 1890, Katherine Graham 1917, Erich Segal 1937


Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer, Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player, Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper


1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."


1884 - At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in America opened.


1883 - The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.


1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.


1952 - "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV.


1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.


1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.


2000 - U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone company.

James Comey was 'insubordinate,' FBI wracked by leaks in 2016 campaign probe - Washington Times

James Comey was 'insubordinate,' FBI wracked by leaks in 2016 campaign probe - Washington Times:

Top FBI officials regularly broke Justice Department rules during the 2016 presidential election, the department’s inspector general said Thursday, calling fired Director James Comey “insubordinate,” saying others violated their recusals from the Clinton investigation, and a top agent’s political bias might have skewed the bureau’s decisions in the run-up to Election Day.
The agent, Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, said in an August 2016 text message to his paramour, then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that they would “stop” then-candidate Donald Trump from winning the White House.
Ms. Page wanted reassurance that Mr. Trump wouldn’t win the election. Mr. Strzok replied: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”

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Iranian Deal Disaster from Start | National Review

Iranian Deal Disaster from Start | National Review
"The more we learn about it — as Iranian and Obama-administration deceptions are uncovered — the more we know it was a disaster from the start.
When Donald Trump withdrew from the so-called Iran deal in early May, almost all conventional wisdom in Washington was aghast.
The Left thought nullification would fast-track Iranian proliferation, incite more Iranian terrorism and adventurism, estrange our allies, and alienate a possible new friend.
Many on the conservative side (aside from Never Trumpers who are against anything Trump is for, including their own prior policies) thought it would have been wiser to back out slowly, or at least to have waited first for the duplicitous Iranians to get caught in clear violations, or to coordinate a joint withdrawal with the Europeans.
Few of these critics ever quite understood that the deal was already a stinking corpse, long overdue for burial. Iranian cunning and the strategic thinking about the asymmetrical deal had always aimed at the following trajectory..."
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