Professor teaching evaluations now include 'diversity,' 'cultural awareness' ratings - The College Fix
"Villanova University has launched an effort to monitor professor bias in its lecture halls, according to a pair of professors employed there. This school year, teaching and course evaluations completed by students now include questions about professors’ “sensitivity,” and commitment to “diversity and inclusion.”
Professors Colleen Sheehan and James Matthew Wilson note in The Wall Street Journal that students at the Catholic institution “are now being asked heavily politicized questions such as whether the instructor has demonstrated ‘cultural awareness’ or created an ‘environment free of bias based on individual differences or social identities.’”
“In short,” the authors continue, “students are being asked to rate professors according to their perceived agreement with progressive political opinion on bias and identity.
Students are also invited to ‘comment on the instructor’s sensitivity to the diversity of the students in the class.’”
This includes things such as gender identity, disability, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and “etc.” That last item, the professors say, sounds “like an ominous catchall.”..." Read all!
The IPCC’s AR5 estimated the global warming caused by a tonne of livestock methane would be 28 times that of a tonne of carbon dioxide. All this is now challenged by a new and authoritative research paper, Allen et al (2017): “A solution to the misrepresentations of CO2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, under ambitious mitigation”. This paper finds that conventional GWPs misrepresent the impact of short-lived gases (such as methane) on global temperature... because a steady-state herd of cattle can add very little to global warming. Methane has a half-life in the atmosphere of only about six years – so that every new molecule added is offset by the expiry of a molecule emitted by that herd a few years earlier. “Traditional greenhouse gas accounting ignores the impact of changing methane emission rates while grossly exaggerating the impact of steady methane emissions”. And – “Climate policy the world over has traditionally treated every tonne of methane as supposedly “equivalent” to 28 tonnes of carbon dioxide… It isn’t.
By Barry Brill The IPCC’s AR5 estimated the global warming caused by a tonne of livestock methane would be 28 times that of a tonne of carbon dioxide. New research destroys that estimate. The war o…
REPORT: A Massive, Private Climate Change ‘Resiliency’ Program Is On Its Last Legs | The Daily Caller:
The Rockefeller Foundation is planning to pull the plug on its 100 Resilient Cities initiative as early as the summer of 2019, Bloomberg reports.
The 100 Resilient Cities program is the largest privately funded climate change resiliency program in the United States. The Rockefeller Foundation began the program in 2013 with the goal of funneling money into the infrastructure of 100 cities across the world, preparing them to endure the effects of climate change.
"This has been copied from a Grand Rapids Police Officer that was working. ***A little opinion rant about the Trump Rally last night*** This rant is not the opinion of my employer. I like many men and women, worked over time last night for the Trump rally. The group I was with rode 18 miles on our bikes in a roughly 4 square block area, to ensure the rally and protest was safe for all the attended (Republicn, Democrat, and anyone else that attended.) I can honestly say that in one event, I have never seen so much support for myself and my co workers from the folks waiting in line to get in the arena. Every time we turned a corner there were cheers and thank-you's from those attending. Once the rally started, those on bikes, approximately 20-30 of us, made a line in between those waiting to get in the arena, and the protestors. This was merely to ensure fights did not break out between the two groups. Several of the protestors in attendance had their faces covered, wore gloves (even though it was nearly 60 degrees), and attempted to conceal their identities. Now one would ask themselves, why would you try to conceal your identity if you are there for a "peaceful protest?" Well lets just say, several thousand people were in line waiting, some since the night before, to go in an see their president speak, and the "peaceful protestors" said some of the absolute WORST THINGS I have ever heard to people waiting in line. I have been in this job and I have heard some terrible things said to me because I wear the uniform I do. But to scream and yell and completely antagonize someone just because they wear a hat that reads "Make America Great Again," is beyond me. Maybe I grew up differently than these degenerates, but I was taught RESPECT, regardless of who it was. I have not liked every president, governor, mayor I have ever experienced, but I would never completely and utterly disrespect people the way these anti Trump groups did. Now I get Freedom Of Speech and Right to peaceful assembly, which these idiots always preach about, but this was anything but! Water balloons were hurled at the crowd (who knows what they were filled with) and several of them even tried to instigate fights with Trump supporters as they were walking by. One moment that stuck with me was when I had two girls in front of me holding Anti Trump signs and they were yelling at the crowd, and at me, calling me a racist, and a Trump supporter, and trying to get me to react. This went on for quite some time, but I didn't give them the time of day. About 10 minutes later, a teenager with a MAGA hat walked through the protest crowd and I kept my eye on him as he was deep in the crowd. This kid appeared to be just walking from one end to the other, maybe in an attempt to leave. I then witnessed the two girls confront him and they began to yell. The kid also started yelling back at them. Well guess who comes up to me and asks me to tell this kid to leave because he is offending them? I asked what was wrong and one of the girls said, "he is using offensive language and swearing at us." Needless to say, I just laughed and told them that if they didn't like the way he was talking, they could leave. Long rant I know, but my mind has been made up at who the real problem with this society is, and last night, 99% of those wearing the red hats were some of the greatest Americans I have ran into thus far!"
History for April 1 - On-This-Day.com Otto Von Bismarck 1815 - First chancellor of united Germany, Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera"), William Manchester 1922 - Writer Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher, Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress, Rachel Maddow 1973 - Broadcast journalist 1979 - Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah. 1987 - U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
American colleges used to pride themselves on their commitment to free speech and free inquiry. That’s the only way learning takes place, we thought, and you’d have to go back to the Dark Ages to find people who disagreed. Only now the Dark Ages have returned, with college speech codes, barking-mad left-wing student mobs and faculties that refuse to hire open conservatives.
This week, President Trump took a big step to stop the madness with one of the most important speeches of his presidency.
Trump signed an executive order to authorize the denial of federal funds to colleges that suppress student free-speech rights.
On the West Side, the street shows no fear of Chicago police - Chicago Tribune
"I’d hate it when some old-time police sergeant, usually an old white guy but sometimes black, would stand, hand on hip and sigh.
And in the laconic and bitterly ironic tone of Chicago police, he’d make the big speech of five words: “Gonna be a bad summer.”
I’d cringe, because, well, who the hell doesn’t know this?
People are outside in summer. Rich people go places. But poor people go outside. And in Chicago, guns go outside with them. Calling it “gun violence” lets local politicians off the hook, because they want to shift the blame away from the lousy schools they’ve provided and taxes that cripple or drive away businesses so there are no jobs. The proper name is “gang violence,” and the gangs kill people over drugs, money, over revenge, over nothing, over they just felt like it.
It was always going to be a bad summer.
But something happened the other day on the West Side that makes me think that old archetype of a sergeant may be right this time.
Authorities confirmed that two police officers — TAC cops, not rookies — were making a drug arrest shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday.
A mob appeared, threatening the officers, surrounding them, threatening to reach for their own weapons to shoot them dead, and the cops let the suspect go.
What is learned here? The street is officially no longer afraid of the Chicago police..." Read all.
Lawsuit Seeks Documents Potentially Showing FBI Ignored Intelligence Community IG Evidence That Chinese Hacked Clinton’s Server | The Daily Caller:
The watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to produce records detailing the FBI response to warnings that a foreign power has comprised then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server.
The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that Clinton’s server was compromised with malware that caused every one of Clinton’s emails to be copied to a foreign entity, according to a congressman on the House Judiciary Committee.
Whole Christian villages wiped out, media silent - Metro Voice News "Another week. Hundreds more dead and wounded Christians lay in villages in Nigeria while the world sleeps.
Brothers and sisters in Christ were the target of yet more bloody attacks in the last seven days as Boko Haram terrorists captured the town of Michika in Nigeria’s far eastern state of Adamawa.
It was a scorched earth attack with little left standing and few people left alive.
This time, however, the terrorists exchanging fire with government troops but the response was not enough to save families.
According to an op-ed in the Washington Examiner by journalist Douglas Burton, the attack continued for hours with an unknown number of casualties, although initial reports mentioned: “scores killed.”
...That fact remains unreported by American secular media.
University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson and suspect Nathaniel David Rowland. (Columbia Police Dept.)
Police arrested a man Saturday in connection with the death of a college student who apparently got into the suspect's car thinking it was her Uber ride. Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, was arrested early Saturday..."
What a mess. So many questions, and so little transparency in this nutty, high-visibility case. For example, why did the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office drop the case against Jussie Smollett? Why did it agree to have the record sealed? Why didn’t it consult with the police who investigated the crimes before disposing of the case? Why did it give Smollett a sweetheart deal, rather than force him to go to trial or at least insist on a guilty plea, or even a plea of no contest? Was there political pressure to drop the case? And if so, who exerted the pressure on whom, and to what end?
Exceedingly rich, white men (and women) who invest in biomedical companies are funding myriad transgender organizations whose agenda will make them gobs of money.
"...when Time magazine announced a transgender tipping point on its cover, I had already begun to examine the money behind the transgender project.
I have watched as all-women’s safe spaces, universities, and sports opened their doors to any man who chose to identify as a woman. Whereas men who identify as transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible. I was astonished that such a huge cultural change as the opening of sex-protected spaces was happening at such a meteoric pace and without consideration for women and girls’ safety, deliberation, or public debate.
Concurrent with these rapid changes, I witnessed an overhaul in the English language with new pronouns and a near-tyrannical assault on those who did not use them.
Laws mandating new speech were passed.
...These elements, along with media saturation of the issue, had me wondering: Is this really a civil rights issue for a tiny part of the population with body dysphoria, or is there a bigger agenda with moneyed interests that we are not seeing?
This article can only begin to graze the surface of this question, but considering transgenderism has basically exploded in the middle of capitalism, which is notorious for subsuming social justice movements, there is value in beginning this examination.
Who Is Funding the Transgender Movement?..." Read all!
"Pastor (and MTM CEO) Dennis Van Kampen published an absurd yarn of a pro-Trump hate mob victimizing his homeless shelter before yesterday’s Trump rally in Grand Rapids. Far-left activist Dennis Van Kampen seems to be the latest in a long line of desperate leftists faking hate crimes to manufacture sympathy for their fledgling cause in the age of President Donald Trump. “I am heartbroken, angry and ashamed. Yesterday the lines of people waiting to attend the Trump rally ran right in front of our mission. Red hats and white men as far as the eye could see,” Van Kampen wrote, already showing his extreme leftist bias in his first sentences... ...Van Kampen, who has a Facebook profile picture with a “#HereToStay I Support DACA” frame to show his support for illegal immigrants, works as CEO of Mel Trotter Ministries, a not-for-profit organization that helps the homeless of Grand Rapids. ...VanKampen deleted the original post hours after making it, as it was beginning to go viral with many Trump supporters calling him out and demanding evidence for his allegations. He can run but cannot hide from accountability as the many conservative West Michigan donors to Mel Trotter Ministries will ultimately demand answers about the organization’s leftist CEO’s baseless attempt to defame them." Read it all and make some noise!!
This school year, teaching and course evaluations completed by students now include questions about professors’ “sensitivity,” and commitment to “diversity and inclusion.”
This school year, teaching and course evaluations completed by students now include questions about professors’ “sensitivity,” and commitment to “diversity and inclusion.”
Now one would ask themselves, why would you try to conceal your identity if you are there for a "peaceful protest?" 
American colleges used to pride themselves on their commitment to free speech and free inquiry. That’s the only way learning takes place, we thought, and you’d have to go back to the Dark Ages to find people who disagreed. Only now the Dark Ages have returned, with college speech codes, barking-mad left-wing student mobs and faculties that refuse to hire open conservatives.
Calling it “gun violence” lets local politicians off the hook, because they want to shift the blame away from the lousy schools they’ve provided and taxes that cripple or drive away businesses so there are no jobs.
Whole Christian villages wiped out, media silent - Metro Voice News
What a mess. So many questions, and so little transparency in this nutty, high-visibility case. For example, why did the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office drop the case against Jussie Smollett? Why did it agree to have the record sealed? Why didn’t it consult with the police who investigated the crimes before disposing of the case? Why did it give Smollett a sweetheart deal, rather than force him to go to trial or at least insist on a guilty plea, or even a plea of no contest? Was there political pressure to drop the case? And if so, who exerted the pressure on whom, and to what end?
Whereas men who identify as transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible.
ANOTHER HATE HOAX: Michigan Minister Publishes, Deletes Smollett-Style Hate Fantasies from Trump Rally - Big League Politics
“I am heartbroken, angry and ashamed. Yesterday the lines of people waiting to attend the Trump rally ran right in front of our mission. Red hats and white men as far as the eye could see,” Van Kampen wrote, already showing his extreme leftist bias in his first sentences...