The fall of higher education

Alan Fraser   "Parents who continue to send their children to college and alumni who continue to contribute to colleges should have their heads examined.  We've gone way beyond "this is embarrassing." 

1. "Northwestern doubles its programming on 'deconstructing masculinity'"
"The first event of this academic year in November will tackle 'toxic masculinity[.]' ... The program ... started in spring 2016 with a grant from the U.S. Justice Department." 

2. "Swarthmore students burn American flag on Columbus Day"

3. "Students storm library, shut down College Republicans meeting"

4. "Marquette University hosts 'Black Male Appreciation Luncheon'"

5. "Grizzly Bigotry At The University of Montana"

6. "200 pro-life posters torn down at Loyola Marymount University"

7. Marquette University, a Jesuit-run university, to host LGBT 'Pride Prom' in campus ballroom

8. "Columbia University Pledges $100 Million To Campus Staff 'Diversity'"

9. Eastern Illinois University's 'Lincoln Hall' eyed for name change

10. "Hillary Clinton in talks with Columbia University to take on professor role"

One option under discussion is an esteemed "University Professor" role that would allow Clinton to lecture across a range of schools and departments without the requirement of a strict course load, one source said.

11. "University Refuses Research On Growing Numbers Of Trans People Who Want 'To Go Back'"

12. "Students at Cambridge University are being warned that they may have to study books with upsetting content – the plays of William Shakespeare. Lecturers claim the advice is to protect undergraduates' mental health, even though several of the Bard's works are known for their depiction of sex and violence."

Bush and Kelly: Truth Tellers. We all have something to learn from the two speeches, not least Donald Trump.

Jonah Goldberg  "Former president George W. Bush gave an impassioned, eloquent speech on the current moral, civil, and political climate in the United States and across the West."John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, gave less formal, but arguably more powerful, remarks in the briefing room yesterday. Kelly scolded a Democratic congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, and, really, the entire country, much like a disappointed father or grandfather might.

"But it seems like almost everybody is only hearing what they want to hear. Liberals, the media, and — importantly — President Trump’s Amen Corner all heard the same thing in Bush’s remarks: “Blah, blah, blah, blah, Trump Bad.” 

"That’s why Bush is suddenly benefitting from a strange new respect from liberals and a strange new hatred from former supporters.

"Meanwhile, John Kelly is being hailed by most conservatives as a heroic champion of moral verities and a brilliantly effective defender of the president of the United States, while liberals — particularly of the piss-from-a-great-height MSNBC variety — are denouncing Kelly as, at best, an enabler of the president and, at worst, a racist.

"I’m disgusted with a great deal of this, but rather than argue against any of that, I want to ask you to entertain a thought experiment. Imagine, if just for a moment, that all of you who fall into one of these camps are entirely wrong.

"What if President Bush was aiming his fire at Democrats and liberals? What if Kelly was actually lecturing his boss?" . . .  Read more.

I'm sick of the media puppets

I continually ask leftists to list Obama's domestic and foreign policy achievements, and I have yet to see a list. They would probably list the Iran deal, the pretend Paris agreement, and Obamacare.  I believe that those are all unmitigated disasters. 

Jack Hellner  "I saw Nicole Wallace on The Today Show yesterday morning say it is Trump's fault that the news has been focused on the unverified phone call for five days. 

"I have heard Trump demand that reporters cover the massive corruption involved with the Russian uranium deal.  So why do Nicole and other supposed reporters not follow Trump on that?

"What I heard on CBS radio news yesterday morning was "The lead story is the phone call."

"Reporters somehow act as if they have no choice on what to cover – and they all cover exactly the same thing in the same manner.  They are essentially worthless puppets. 

"The Bush spokespeople say the speech wasn't about Trump, so why do they all cover it as though it was?  Don't they believe him?  When have the media ever respected what Bush said?

"After watching the FBI, Justice Department, and IRS the last eight years, why would anyone trust them?

"Reporters should be all over Mueller and Comey for being in charge of the FBI during the Russian uranium cover-up, but somehow they don't care.  They are out there every day seeking to destroy Trump, no matter what he does.  It makes me support Trump more and tells me the swamp is huge.

"Thank God, Trump won.  Hillary and Bill would have continued their massive corruption to make them and their friends rich."

"I continually ask leftists to list Obama's domestic and foreign policy achievements, and I have yet to see a list. They would probably list the Iran deal, the pretend Paris agreement, and Obamacare.  I believe that those are all unmitigated disasters. 

"When Hillary was running, we repeatedly heard from reporters that she was the most qualified person ever to run, and yet I never saw a list of foreign policy accomplishments of hers, either.  I guess she did get uranium to the Russians."

Does the left really think it can drag General Kelly into its mud?

General John Kelly Son Robert

Monica Showalter  "Maybe I spoke too soon. Far from recognizing the masterly statement of President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, in the wake of the brouhaha over President Trump's condolence call to the wife of a fallen serviceman, the left has doubled down on screeching attacks against Kelly, charging him with ever more outlandish epithets.

"The congresswoman who horned in on the moment and tried to score political hay from it, Rep. Fredericka Wilson of Florida, has started yelling racism, the last refuge of today's scoundrels. She claimed that Kelly's use of the term 'empty barrel' to describe the contents of her unhinged mind was the same as attacking the color of her skin. The White House, she added, was "full of white

supremacists."

"The press, meanwhile has focused on calling Kelly a liar, saying an unearthed tape of Wilson's 2015 speech is proof positive that she never crowed about securing the financing for the building that was named after two fallen FBI agents. Actually, it's not proof - no one knows what she was crowing about in the before and after times of it, off camera to officials such as Kelly. Kelly has not backed down from his charge and just the inside-politics nature of it suggests it was not made up. Who would have thought of such a thing if it hadn't happened. It would be far easier to say Wilson was spitting in the punchbowl if things were going to be made up. But this isn't stopping the media from calling it story-over and demanding Kelly apologize.

"Then there's Team Hillary, creativity-challenged in its Trump rage these days, calling General Kelly "odious," as former Hillary Clinton operative Brian Fallon declared on Twitter.

"The charges are crazier and crazier as the left congeals in its inability to accept the wisdom and realism of Kelly's slam-dunk statement. Instead of moving on, they're like a frenzied hooked fish, thrashing and flopping wildly on a deck, knowing they've been caught.

"It's a waste of time, as the Kelly statement speaks for itself. The Drudge Reporthas scraped the controversy off its website due to lack of reader interest. RealClearPolitics has largely moved the issue over to a side column. Fewer and fewer pieces are now coming out about it now. Game over. Yell as it likes, the left has lost."

Portland Deputies Investigated For… Cooperating With ICE

I’m sure you can find some of your officers who are guilty of actual wrongdoing to investigate rather than bringing down the hammer on the ones who are actually helping to enforce the law.

Hot Air

. . . "Well, I suppose it’s nice that the deputies won’t be losing their jobs over charges of doing their jobs. To fully understand the insanity of this investigation, we need to go back to the origins of the case. It cropped up back in February of this year and it all centers around Sheriff Mike Reese. He’s been, shall we say… rather enthusiastic in his defense of sanctuary city policies in his county. And when the local press turned up some emails indicating that deputies had responded to requests for information from immigration officials, Reese flew into action. (Portland Tribune).

. . . 

"So what sort of illegal aliens are we talking about? Apparently, some of them didn’t have any other “serious” charges against them. But in at least one case, that of Julio Montejo-Mex, the suspect had been charged with, “domestic violence crimes, including assault, strangulation and kidnapping.” And the Sheriff was upset that deputies gave some information on this guy to ICE?

"Excuse me, but even if you are the most open borders loving, Trump hating activist on the planet, aren’t those precisely the type of people we’re supposed to prioritize for detention and/or deportation?

Fellow Attorneys Look at Mueller’s Team With Skepticism Over History of Sketchy Tactics

The Sentinel  "Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel in the Trump-Russia collusion probe, has employed a slew of Democrats to investigate, half of whom donated to the Hillary campaign or her Foundation. He has allowed the leaking of information periodically which also happens to harm the Trump administration. Many believe it’s a witch hunt.

"Mueller’s team has most recently been criticized by fellow attorneys for questionable tactics in the past.

"Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts, wrote an opinion piece accusing Mueller of once trying to entrap him when Mueller was acting U.S. attorney in Boston.

“I have known Mueller during key moments of his career as a federal prosecutor,” Silverglate wrote for WGBH News. “My experience has taught me to approach whatever he does in the Trump investigation with a requisite degree of skepticism or, at the very least, extreme caution.”

"Mueller tried to set him up, entrap him with drug charges." . . .

Remember when late night TV was enjoyable

Wu is on the phone

Liberal Millennials Love Trump's Tax Plan...When They Think It's Bernie's

Leah Barkoukis

When the interviewer finally informed the students that Sanders actually has no tax plan, one seemed more surprised than the next. “I’m shocked that I do agree with Trump on certain things,” one student replied. In the end they all acknowledged their bias toward anything related to Trump.

"Liberals apparently love some elements of President Trump’s tax plan—that is, when they think it’s actually Sen. Bernie Sanders’s plan.

"Campus Reform headed to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. to talk with students about tax issues. The interviewer started out asking students what they thought of Trump’s tax plan—without specifics. The responses ranged from “it’s not the most efficient, nor beneficial to the general populous” to “it’s better for the upper class than anyone else.”

"Then Campus Reform decided to ask those same students about Sanders’s fictitious tax plan, which were actually parts of Trump's plan.

"One student said of the plan to enhance the child tax credit, “I think that’s great,” while another said it’s a “positive, definitely.”

"On eliminating the death tax, students expressed their support for the plan.

“ 'I think that’s definitely something we should be doing,” one student commented. “I’m in favor of that,” said another.

"Students also widely supported the idea to lower the small business tax rate to a maximum of 25 percent." . . .

Grieving Gold Star mom shuts down CNN’s Trump hammering: ‘I just want people to remember my son’

Carmine Sabia  "In a never ending quest to criticize President Donald Trump, CNN brought on the parents of another Gold Star family whose son was killed in action. And it made for a heart-wrenching interview.

"Sheila and Calvin Murphy appeared on the network to discuss their son, Etienne Murphy, 22, who died in Syria.

"Host Alisyn Camerota attempted to bait Sheila Murphy by asking if she had received a call from president Trump, but Murphy shut the door quick." . . .

Pay attention to the way CNN worded the chyron at the bottom of this video.

. . . "Gold star families have taken center stage this week since Democrat Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson shamelessly used one such family as a prop to wage her personal war against President Trump. Wilson claimed the president was callous towards the soldier’s widow and painted the president as uncaring about veterans.

"But her own record showed that she voted many times over the years against legislation aimed at helping veterans and their families."

Democrats, Fake News Media Exploit Sgt. La David Johnson’s Death to Smear Trump  . . . "Jake Tapper is among the conspiratorially-minded. That became clear during Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, in which he led the show with a recap of Trump’s supposed history of “attacking Gold Star families,” as the chyron read, beginning with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and continuing through the infamous Khizr Khan.

"What Tapper conveniently failed to remember is that in each of these cases, the families attacked Trump first in a nakedly political fashion." . . . 

. . . "It took Holder ten months to apologize to the family of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who died in Holder’s botched Operation Fast and Furious. And Holder only apologized after being publicly exposed for never having done so.

"Regardless, the media’s latest attack on Trump marks a new low. It requires us to disbelieve the evidence of what we have seen with our own eyes after nine months of Trump as commander-in-chief — that he cares deeply about those who serve in the military and law enforcement, and particularly for the families of the fallen. This is nothing more than a smear campaign, specifically aimed at dividing the country and distracting from the victory in Syria." . . .

Seinfeld Actor: ‘People Get Viscerally Angry At Me’ for Supporting Trump

Corinne Weaver   "It’s rare to find a conservative in Hollywood. It’s even more rare to find one that isn’t completely shunned for their beliefs.

"Actor John O’Hurley (Seinfeld) made a guest appearance on Fox and Friends on October 19 to promote his film, Swing Away, but also to talk about supporting Trump, NFL protests, and liberal Hollywood reacting to Harvey Weinstein.

"When asked about the NFL protests, he said,

“ 'I think it’s ridiculous. I go to the NFL for escapism. I don’t want to be slapped in the face for someone’s political views. It’s a way to get away, and I don’t believe that under the employment and they are being employed at the time, so it’s not their constitutionally protected right to do that in the area of employment. I have no more right to stand up in the middle of a Broadway show and announce my political views.

"Steve Doocy: Well, you could, but you just wouldn’t work the next day.

"O’Hurley: “And they would be right to can my little butt. And I kind of feel the same way about this NFL thing.”

"When Brian Kilmeade mentioned the cast of the Broadway show Hamilton protesting when Pence went to see the show, O’Hurley replied,

“ 'You know they did that and frankly I was embarrassed for my profession because I don’t think we should be pontificating from the stage. I don’t believe it. I wouldn’t do it, and I wouldn’t allow it with my cast." . . .

Flag Waiver – A.F. Branco Cartoon

  CDN  "NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has mishandled the National Anthem protestssince the beginning and the decision to not enforce the league’s guidelines on behavior during the anthem was his weakest of all."

Democrats, this "racism" scam has long been disgusting. Are you not capable of decency, even a little? Reading list for you

Thanks to these cartoonish Democrats, a real victim of racism will likely be laughed at. TD

RedState: Dem Congresswoman Laughs At Gen. John Kelly’s Moving Speech, Accuses Him Of Racism  What has become of our culture?

Now the Congresswoman Is Accusing John Kelly of Racism

"I'm a rock star!"

. . . "White House Chief of Staff and former Gen. John Kelly, who lost a son in combat, was so distraught by the politicization of the soldiers' deaths in Niger, that he took a somber visit to Arlington Cemetery to collect his thoughts. Once he had, he offered some poignant, yet strong remarks at Thursday's White House press briefing. At one point, he scolded Rep. Wilson for supposedly bragging about getting securing funding for an FBI field office in 2015.

"Wilson, after hearing the remarks, said she feels "sympathy" for Gen. Kelly and the loss of his son, but insisted he can't just "go on TV and lie." Somehow, she perceived part of his speech as being "racist.' " . . .

Protip: empty barrel to a military man means you have no ammo in your gun and no reality in what you say.  . . . “That’s a racist term*, too. I’m thinking about that one. We looked it up in the dictionary because I had never heard of an empty barrel. And I don’t like to be dragged into something like that,” she said. “The only thing I want to be dragged into right now is getting back our girls who are the victims of Boko Haram in Nigeria.' ”

In her desire to have it be racism, she manufactures this term. Michelle Obama loved portraying herself as a victim on anything she could call racism.

Gold Star Widow Releases Trump's Call: "Tell Your Children I Said Their Father Was A Great Hero"    From Zero Hedge.

“I am so sorry to hear about the whole situation. What a horrible thing, except that he’s an unbelievable hero,” Trump told her in the call about her husband Army Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, which The Washington Post released. 

“Thank you. I really, really appreciated it,” she said. “I really do, sir.”

"Trump also told the widow if she is ever in Washington D.C. that she is welcome in the Oval Office." . . .

. . . "MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said he was “stunned” by White House chief of staff John Kelly’s remarks about Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida, suggesting that the former general was a product of a racist upbringing." . . .

 Ugly: Trump-Obsessed Dems Shift Attacks to Gold Star Father and Four Star General John Kelly  . . . " 'Stunning and classless," writes an aghast Stephen Hayes.  "Good luck with that messaging," snarks Jonah Goldberg. " . . . 

Bear in mind this is the party that chanted for victory for Ho Chi Minh. TD