The Closing of the Campus Mind

 Schools of social work are silencing conservatives.

The Weekly Standard
 "I can’t have you participate in class anymore.”

 

"I was on my way out of class when my social welfare and policy professor casually called me over to tell me this. The friendliness of her tone did not match her words, and I attempted a shocked, confused apology. It was my first semester at the Hunter College School of Social Work, and I was as yet unfamiliar with the consistent, underlying threat that characterized much of the school’s policy and atmosphere. This professor was simply more open and direct than most.

"I asked if I had said or done anything inappropriate or disrespectful, and she was quick to assure me that it was not my behavior that was the problem. No: It was my opinions. Or, as she put it, “I have to give over this information as is.”

"I spent the rest of that semester mostly quiet, frustrated, and missing my undergraduate days, when my professors encouraged intellectual diversity and give-and-take. " . . . 

Devorah Goldman

Memories Pizza Will Reopen Today

Downtrend

 

"Here’s a story of triumph.

"Anyone who’s been paying even limited attention to national news for the past couple of weeks knows about the Indiana religious freedom law and the subsequent fallout that ensued. Among the temper tantrums from the left over the law, none was more hateful and pig-ignorant than the invective directed against Memories Pizza in Walkerton after the owner’s daughter said that her store wouldn’t cater a gay wedding.

"Because of the outcry, Memories Pizza closed down for a while. However, the owner got the last laugh when a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $800,000 for the pizza parlor. Conservatives know how to support the oppressed.

"Today, Memories Pizza will officially reopen.

 . It’s a story of good overcoming evil, of freedom trumping bigotry.". . .

CAN THE LEFT COME UP WITH ONE TRUE STORY?

Ann Coulter

Yesterday, up on the stair,
I saw a rape that wasn't there,
It wasn't there again today!
Oh why, oh why did it go away ...

. . .  "You know who else Rolling Stone's story kind of did a disservice to? I think, personally -- as long as we're ranking victims -- a very close second to the woman who lied about being raped, as well as all the unnamed college rape victims who might have their claims taken less seriously in the future, are THE INNOCENT FRATERNITY MEMBERS WHO WERE FALSELY ACCUSED OF A VIOLENT GANG RAPE.

"The UVA fake rape is even worse than the Duke lacrosse team fake rape. The accused fraternity hadn't even courted danger by hiring a stripper. They were going about their lives, minding their own business, when, out of the blue, Rolling Stone, the president of their university, and a fiendish coed decided to accuse them of a monstrous crime.
. . .
"Again, isn't someone missing from all that delicate "balancing"? I'm thinking of: the men falsely accused of rape. Colleges might want to consider adopting a concept that's been around since the second century: "innocent until proved guilty."

Ann Coulter notes the difficulty of white, straight coeds 'to acquire victim cool' 

"Sorry this column is late. I got raped again on the way home. Twice. I should clarify – by “raped,” I mean that two seductive Barry White songs came on the radio, which, according to the University of Virginia, constitutes rape."

"TAKE BACK THE NIGHT!" Dec, 2014

Alan Caruba: Using the Global Warming Hoax to Destroy America

Warning Signs

 

"When President Obama announced on March 31 that he intends to ensure that the U.S. will slash its “greenhouse gas emissions” 26% below 2005 emissions levels by 2025 in order to keep pledges made to fulfill the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, he failed to mention that such levels would be comparable to what they were in our Civil War era, 150 years ago.

"He also failed to mention that the U.S. has made no such pledges as regards the 1992 “Kyoto Treaty” which was resoundingly rejected by the U.S. Senate when then Vice President Al Gore brought it back from the U.N. conference.

"There is no need, globally or nationally, to reduce such emissions. It would be a crime against humanity, especially for the millions that would be denied electrical power or would see its cost rise exponentially. “The President has no credible evidence to back up his claims,” said H. Sterling Burnett, a Research Fellow with the free market think tank, The Heartland Institute. “Obama’s climate actions are likely to cause far more harm to people, especially the poor, than any purported threats from global warming.' ” . . .

OBAMA DECRIES: ‘Less-Than-Loving Expressions by Christians’…Says Squat About Islam’s Atrocities

 Clash Daily  "Obama says Christians are just so unloving at the Easter Prayer breakfast…but for some reason, he doesn’t say anything about the Muslims that killed 147 Christians in Kenya during Easter holy week."

President Obama used an Easter breakfast at the White House Tuesday to call out what he viewed as unbecoming comments by fellow members of the Christian community.
“On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I’m supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes when I listen to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned,” the president said to a gathering of Christian leaders. “But that’s a topic for another day.”
Obama appeared to go off script in that exchange. He did not allude to whom he was referring.

Read more: Washington Examiner

 Obama criticizes 'less than loving Christians' at Easter prayer breakfast   "As the Washington Times points out, the latest Obama signal of religious relativism came after his administration had issued a statement on the Kenyan massacre at a Christian college without once mentioning the religion of the victims – or the attackers.

Addressing an ecumenical gathering at the White House of cardinals, ministers, pastors and the lay faithful, Mr. Obama was talking about the Apostle John’s call to love “with actions and in truth” rather than with words. The president then briefly gave in to temptation, and deviated from his prepared remarks.

. . . The president's perversity – a perversity echoed by many on the left – wouldn't be so bad if he bashed Muslims for committing far worse sins in the name of their faith.  Calling someone names is not the same as cutting off his head to glorify Allah.  Until Obama acknowledges the difference, his criticism of Christianity will be seen as gratuitous slaps to mollify Muslims, and not serious commentary."

OBAMA ISSUES DIRE PREDICTION FOR SAUDIS

Klein Online  "In his sit-down interview with the New York Times over the weekend, President Obama issued a dire, largely unreported prediction about the future of Saudi Arabia and other Sunni allies of the United States. “I think the biggest threats that they face may not be coming from Iran invading,” said Obama. “It’s going to [...]"


 Obama’s long-held dream of nuclear disarmament

 

. . . "This is a young man who doesn’t seem to like America a whole lot and didn’t think all that much of humanity in general either. There is no question that he believes he knows better, and has purer and more noble instincts, than those in charge. That’s not an unusual point of view for a young man, of course. But Obama seems to have managed to carry a similar attitude right up to the present.

"The NY Times picked up on the attitude:" . . .
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It’s also instructive to remember this:

…President Obama erred in 2013 with his decision to scrap — in response to Russian objections — a planned system in Europe to defend against missile threats from the Middle East. Obama won no good will from the Russians, even as he forfeited an important opportunity to strengthen U.S. allies against future threats. Missile defense allows strong nations to defend themselves against weaker enemies without resorting to terrorist tactics or fighting bloody wars. This is a win-win, except for terrorists like Hamas and national rulers bent on aggression against neighbors.

But the dream dies hard, doesn’t it?

From Blackfive: Inspection Insanity  " Obama is out trying to pitch his lipsticked-up pig of a nuke deal and managed to compare this stage of the process to signing a contract to buy a house and then you just need to do the inspections and VOILA!. Except, no deal was signed, the Iranians are saying they didn't agree to all the things O is crowing about and then you have the actual inspections. How do you think that will go? You're right, about as good as the North Korea deal. Nukes for all Obama's pals."