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Sunday, March 19, 2017

These NCAA Tournament Schools Are Anti-Free Speech Dumps | The Daily Caller

These NCAA Tournament Schools Are Anti-Free Speech Dumps | The Daily Caller:
"America’s college and university campuses are brimming with vast multitudes of bureaucrats and strong contingents of students who want to limit speech they find offensive.

Alliance Defending Freedom, a civil rights organization which sues college and universities for violating students’ First Amendment rights, has meticulously put together a Bracket of Shame to showcase the absurd and frequently egregious censorship currently occurring on America’s college campuses.
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The rules are simple: Only March Madness teams are eligible. America is oozing with colleges and universities which infringe heinously on student speech rights. However, their basketball teams are also terrible, so they don’t make the cut here.

West Regional

In the West region, Gonzaga University certainly stands out for hiring Melissa Click, the disgraced University of Missouri professor last seen calling for “muscle” to remove a student journalist who was trying to film an anti-free speech event.

There’s also Virginia Commonwealth University, which authorizes dorm staffers to remove students’ speech expressions on their own doors if the speech doesn’t reflect the taxpayer-funded school’s values. And there’s taxpayer-funded West Virginia University, which, according Alliance Defending Freedom, maintains a bizarre policy allowing complaints against students for “abuses of social justice principles.”

Vanderbilt University wins the West region, though, because it has violated federal law by trying to require nursing school students to submit to abortion training, and because of its strangely hostile stance toward Christian groups.

Midwest Regional

In the Midwest region, several schools stand out for their embarrassing lack of commitment to First Amendment rights.

Michigan State University became a national laughingstock just last month when school officials outlawed whiteboards from doors in dorm buildings because it’s possible that someone could scrawl some offensive message or image on them. Also, until just months ago, the taxpayer-funded school maintained a women’s study lounge in its main student union in which male students could not trespass..."
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Could Someone Please Inform the Federal Judiciary That Jihadists Are Muslim? | National Review

Could Someone Please Inform the Federal Judiciary That Jihadists Are Muslim? | National Review:

"Someone needs to inform the federal judiciary that jihadists are Muslims, and targeting jihadist-infested nations for a short entry ban is not the same thing as targeting the broader Muslim community. Trump’s ban doesn’t touch cardiologists in Indonesia or programmers from India. Instead, it pushes the pause button on entry from six of the most hostile and violent nations in the entire world.

That’s unreasonable? That’s anti-American? That’s unconstitutional? Only with those who’ve lost their judicial and moral bearings and have sacrificed the Constitution and common sense on the altar of their own politics."

Yes, everything is politically correct for these religious fanatics---------Civil rights watchdog dunks on journo’s ‘socially conscious’ NCAA picks with free speech Bracket of Shame – twitchy.com

Civil rights watchdog dunks on journo’s ‘socially conscious’ NCAA picks with free speech Bracket of Shame – twitchy.com:
"Someone, somewhere likely thinks the perfect football game would consist solely of Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest at the 50-yard-line while Bob Costas delivers an hour-long gun control lecture from the broadcast booth.

Most people, though, enjoy sports as sports, realizing that the players are athletes, not social justice warriors.

Leave it to CNN and Michael Smerconish, then, to attempt to kill all fun associated with the NCAA tournament by bringing on sports writer Larry Platt to present his “socially conscious” NCAA bracket.

And now we give them $100 million?!!-----Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says - CNN.com

Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says - CNN.com:
(CNN)The mayor of Flint, Michigan, reacted to a federal lawsuit which claims donors were directed away from a charity for victims of the city's water crisis and toward a fund sharing a name with her campaign fund Wednesday, calling the allegations "outrageously false."

In the suit filed Monday, fired administrator Natasha Henderson claims that in February 2016, Flint's current mayor, Karen Weaver, directed a former city employee and a city volunteer to stop directing potential donors to a charity called Safe Water/Safe Homes.
That charity was run by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and had been approved by the city for water-crisis donations.
Instead, the lawsuit claims city employee Maxine Murray was directed by Weaver to begin directing donations to "Karenabout Flint."
According to the lawsuit, Murray came to Henderson "in tears" and in fear of "going to jail."
..."Karen About Flint" was Weaver's campaign slogan when she ran for mayor in 2015, and her Twitter handle is @karenaboutflint..."

Islamist Turkish Minister: ‘Holy Wars Will Soon Begin In Europe’ | Daily Wire

Islamist Turkish Minister: ‘Holy Wars Will Soon Begin In Europe’ | Daily Wire:
"Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, has claimed that “holy wars will soon begin in Europe.”
...“Holy wars will soon begin in Europe,” he added in an ominous message predicting the collapse of the liberal democratic European project.

As a political ally of Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Cavusoglu is committed to demonizing the Netherlands following the diplomatic row that erupted after the Dutch government denied entry to Turkish officials who wished to campaign for domestic causes.
In fact, over the weekend, Cavusoglu’s own plane was barred from landing in the Netherlands when he made clear that his intentions were to galvanize popular support among Turkish nationals for a Turkish referendum aimed at expanding the powers of dictatorial Islamist President Erdogan.
Tensions between the two countries hit a boiling point when Erdogan compared to the Dutch government to “Nazis” and “fascists,” prompting Prime Minister Rutte to dismiss the Erdogan government as unhinged."

Judge Who Ruled Against Trump Travel Ban Is Former Obama Classmate | The Sean Hannity Show

Judge Who Ruled Against Trump Travel Ban Is Former Obama Classmate | The Sean Hannity Show:

"It turns out that Judge Derrick Watson, the U.S. District Court Judge who on Wednesday ruled against President Trump's temporary travel restriction, has an interesting connection to President Obama: both he and the 44th president were classmates at Harvard Law School.

The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports:"

Another American City Destroyed by the Democrats | Frontpage Mag

Another American City Destroyed by the Democrats | Frontpage Mag
“American politics is dominated by an enduring myth,” writes author Peter Collier—the myth “that Democrats are the party of the common man, the voiceless, the powerless, the poor. That if you care about what happens to the least among us, you will cast your vote in the Democratic column.”

But as Collier also points out, the vast majority of America's voiceless, powerless, and impoverished people are concentrated in cities that have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades—even generations—without interruption.

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These are cities where stratospheric rates of crime, poverty, unemployment, out-of-wedlock births, homes without fathers and failed school systems have become a way of life—along with oppressive and confiscatory taxes whose only discernible achievement is to keep the leaky ship of city government afloat for as long as possible before it is inevitably capsized by economic and social calamity.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is perhaps the least likely case in point.
Camouflaged by the state as a whole, a synonym for plainspoken stability, it is just one of the many American cities that were once thriving centers of industry, prosperity and optimism—until Democrats took them over.
Since 1978, Minneapolis has been governed exclusively by mayors from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFLP)—the state affiliate of the Democratic Party.
...Like so many other major American cities, Minneapolis offers melancholy testimony for the bankruptcy of Democratic Party urban policies.
Under the guise of compassion, Democrats have exploited the residents of these cities as a means to ever-more-entrenched political power, using them as a captive electoral bloc every national election while allowing their life prospects to continue to erode.
Like so many other Democrat-run cities, Minneapolis is the urban equivalent of a captive nation, its residents watching their civic life decline while the cynics who control their prospects continue to make their city a mad laboratory for failed polices and stolen dreams."
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History for March 19

History for March 19 - On-This-Day.com:
David Livingstone 1813 - Scottish explorer and medical missionary, Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821 - English geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, Wyatt Earp 1848 - American gambler, sheriff and Deputy Town Marshal of Tombstone, AZ, he took part in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

William Jennings Bryan 1860 - American politician, Adolph Eichmann 1906 - German Nazi SS officer, executed for his role in mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps, Bruce Willis 1955 - Actor ("Die Hard", "The Sixth Sense")

1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.

1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.

1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.

1945 - About 800 people were killed as Japanese kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan.

1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.

1976 - Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.

1977 - The last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired.

2001 - California officials declared a power alert and ordered the first of two days of rolling blackouts.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

WUT: College Student Explains Why Milk Is Racist | Daily Wire

WUT: College Student Explains Why Milk Is Racist | Daily Wire:

"While it does not surprise anyone that the Left says white girls cannot wear hoop earrings and that fraternities must admit women in defiance to the exceptions to Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, nothing can logically explain an opinion piece claiming that milk is racist."

Jeff Jacoby: Climate Models Fail So Often Because Climate Science Is So Incomplete — The Patriot Post

Jeff Jacoby: Climate Models Fail So Often Because Climate Science Is So Incomplete — The Patriot Post:
"“Do you believe,” CNBC’s Joe Kernen asked Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new director, in an interview last Thursday, “that it’s been proven that CO2 is the primary control knob for climate?”
Replied Pruitt: “No. I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So no — I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But we don’t know that yet. We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.”
It was an accurate and judicious answer, so naturally it sent climate alarmists into paroxysms of condemnation.
The Washington Post slammed Pruitt as a “denier” driven by “unreason.”
Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii called Pruitt’s views “extreme” and “irresponsible” — proof of his unfitness to head the EPA.

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...Yet for all the hyperventilating, Pruitt’s answer to the question he was asked — whether carbon dioxide is the climate’s “primary control knob” — was entirely sound.
“We don’t know that yet,” he said.
We don’t.
CO2 is certainly a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, but hardly the primary one: Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of greenhouse gases.
By contrast, carbon dioxide is only a trace component in the atmosphere: about 400 ppm (parts per million), or 0.04 percent.
Moreover, its warming impact decreases sharply after the first 20 or 30 ppm.
Adding more CO2 molecules to the atmosphere is like painting over a red wall with white paint — the first coat does most of the work of concealing the red.
A second coat of paint has much less of an effect, while adding a third or fourth coat has almost no impact at all..."

Liberalism is a mental disease-----Hampshire College student denies assaulting Maine basketball players over ‘cultural appropriation’

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Hampshire College student denies assaulting Maine basketball players over ‘cultural appropriation’:
"...a Jan. 27 incident at Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center. According to court documents, Figueroa approached members the Central Maine Community College women’s basketball team and ordered them to remove braids from their hair citing “cultural appropriation.”
...When the players did not comply and began to leave the building, Figueroa allegedly initiated a fight towards one of the players.
At the same time, another unknown Hampshire College student pulled the hair of a visiting women’s basketball player causing her to fall to the ground, according to court documents.
While the player was on the ground, police allege that Figueroa kicked and stepped on the player causing injury.
Another Maine player attempted to protect her fallen teammate but Figueroa “grabbed her by the head and threw her to the ground,” according to court documents..."

Trump’s budget director outrages liberals with blunt answer on climate change – TheBlaze

Trump’s budget director outrages liberals with blunt answer on climate change – TheBlaze:

"President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney waded through reporter questions on the recently released and very controversial budget proposal by Trump Thursday, but one answer especially shocked some viewers.

“Regarding the question as to climate change,” Mulvaney bluntly responded, "

Venezuela seizes bakeries amid bread shortage | Miami Herald

Venezuela seizes bakeries amid bread shortage | Miami Herald:

"BOGOTA, COLOMBIA-Facing a bread shortage that is spawning massive lines and souring the national mood, the Venezuelan government is responding this week by detaining bakers and seizing establishments.
In a press release, the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights said it had charged four people and temporarily seized two bakeries as the socialist administration accused bakers of being part of a broad “economic war” aimed at destabilizing the country.
In a statement, the government said the bakers had been selling underweight bread and were using price-regulated flour to illegally make specialty items, like sweet rolls and croissants.
The government said bakeries are only allowed to produce French bread and white loaves, or pan canilla, with government-imported flour..."

War On Science: Gluten-Free Madness Needs to End - The Daily Beast

War On Science: Gluten-Free Madness Needs to End - The Daily Beast:

Anti-gluten hysteria has turned one of the most important staples of the human diet into a grocery-store pariah—with potentially disastrous repercussions.-PAUL A. OFFIT

"...Liberals have their own anti-science biases...liberals appear to be motivated by a belief that all things natural are good, anything with a chemical name is bad, and everything that profits an industry is really bad (unless that industry makes dietary supplements).

...The gluten-free is probably the saddest fallacy—and the most destructive.

...Today, 20 million Americans claim that they are allergic to gluten when only about 3 million actually are. You can buy gluten-free hair products, gluten-free food for your pets, and go on gluten-free vacations. In 2014, the global market for gluten-free products totaled $4 billion a year; by 2019, it will be closer to $7 billion.

...The most unfortunate outcome of the gluten-free revolution is that demonizing food can lead to food fetishes or food phobias causing bulimia and anorexia, which affect about 2 percent of the United States population...

The cure for celiac disease is avoidance of gluten. The cure for gluten mania, on the other hand, remains elusive.

Paul A. Offit, MD is a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the author of Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong (National Geographic, April 2017).
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