Via Jonathan Turley.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
At UC Santa Barbara, the student Senate recently passed a resolution that calls for mandatory “trigger warnings” — cautions from professors, to be added to their course syllabi, specifying which days’ lectures will include readings or films or discussions that might trigger feelings of emotional or physical distress.
h/t Ottawa MJ
Free Ethical Oil!
Greenpeace wants Elections Canada Commissioner Yves Cote to investigate whether EthicalOil.org is just a way for the Conservative Party of Canada to skirt political donation limits.
“It walks like a front group, it talks like a front group,” Greenpeace campaigner Keith Stewart said Tuesday. “(We’re) asking the commissioner: Is this a front group that would violate the elections law act?” […]
He admits, however, everything “could be within the boundaries of the law.”
*snort*
Reader Tips
The Stones, from 1969 – Gimme Shelter. Tips thread open.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The Ninth Circle of Hell
If questions like this are raised on American ‘conservative’ sites, imagine the ideas floating about in the progressive half.
Given that no American political leader favored fighting for Ukraine, the only argument for fighting for a NATO member that is even less strategically important would be a sheet of paper.
Because the worth of man is defined by the value of his word. Because NATO followed you into Afghanistan, rightly interpreting 9/11 as an attack on America. Because you elected a fool we followed again into the mess that Libya turned into. Because without honour, you have no soul.
Is there any doubt that the US is the big stick in NATO’s arsenal? No. Want to talk about the dissolution of NATO, fine, but that isn’t brought up,
Canada, France, and the UK invested heavy political capital in your Syrian red-line, the UK PM to the point where he’s all but a lame-duck. And you let them drift.
And you wonder why Israel is giving your leaders the finger? Why the PA is ignoring Kerry? Why the Euro’s are telling you to shut-up about Russia? Why Iran, Syria, Russia and AQ are running rough-shod over your “smart” foreign policy?
You, America, YOU, have lost your soul, not Obama, Holder, Kerry, Clinton or Bush. You. No one in the world trusts you anymore, we all just hope you wake the hell up, because you built this world we live in and we aren’t strong enough to keep it.
The Tolerant Left
Welcome to the Liberal Gulag.
Soviet-style repression has long been a dream of the American Left. Consider the abuses of psychiatry that were the great hallmark of the Soviet way, and then consider that there is a cottage industry today among left-wing psychiatrists arguing that conservative political views represent a form of mental disorder. That psychiatric approach to suppressing dissent has spread quickly through the intellectual sewers of the Left, with writers everywhere from Daily Kos to Salon diagnosing instances of “RWA” — right-wing authoritarian — disorder among their political rivals. Robert Altemeyer, the father of this asinine school of so-called thought, denies that there exists such a thing as a left-wing authoritarian.
CAIR Successfully Pressures Brandweis University
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an outspoken advocate for human rights throughout the Muslim world. Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, had planned to give her an honorary degree. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) didn’t like this and pressured the powers-at-be at Brandweis to reverse their decision. Robert Spencer provides much insight:
The Brandeis statement did not mention CAIR, and probably university administrators are unaware of its Hamas ties or its record of opposing any and all counter-terror efforts. Nor did the statement specify exactly what in Hirsi Ali’s past statements was “inconsistent with Brandeis University’s core values.” CAIR, however, did so in its press release (also issued Tuesday; Brandeis snapped into line quickly) which quoted Hirsi Ali from a 2007 interview saying: “I think that we are at war with Islam.”
Cold, Dead Hands
The Start of America’s Generational War
Catherine Rampell has an interesting column comparing what Social Security and Medicare benefits people get compared to what they paid into it:
For Americans who turned 65 in 2010, Medicare benefits will typically amount to two to six times what beneficiaries had paid into the system, depending on their marital and work histories. For example, an average-wage, two-income couple who turned 65 in 2010 paid today’s equivalent of $123,000 into the Medicare system during their working years. They will receive about $385,000 in Medicare benefits over their decades of dotage, even after subtracting out the cost of premiums. For a similar couple that retired 20 years earlier, the comparable numbers were $43,000 paid in vs. $227,000 received. A decent return, no?
The current system is unsustainable and will break. It’s just a matter of ‘when’.
Reality 1 CBC Staffers 0
Fiscal reality has hit the CBC and some people are freaking out.
h/t Plainzdrifter and Robert of Ottawa
Reader Tips
The timeless Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces.
Comments are open.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Lawrence Solomon – Europe taught us to spare no expense in supporting wind and solar projects, the better to help the planet survive. Now Europe is teaching us how to tear down those same projects, the better to help ratepayers, and politicians, survive.
How the Democrats Win
An acquaintance posted this image on her Facebook Wall:
The image was created by this group and refers to this.
It doesn’t matter what was actually in the bill. The fact that every Senate Republican voted against it likely means that it was an horrific piece of legislation that should have never seen the light of day. But in the game of Political Chess, the Democrats seem to be several moves ahead of the Republicans. Is there any possible way for the GOP to successfully combat these tactics?
Jim Flaherty dead
Ten percent, Two years
Lacroix, you let this ‘crisis’ go to waste. So much for the much hyped, cuts at CBC.
When my job was eliminated, the percentage of cuts were much bigger and had about 2 months of grace. I feel bad for anyone let go, it sucks. I’m a three time veteran, four if you count the one that was deserved. I’ve found though that usually it’s the best thing that happens.
Oh, Frack
Exploding sinks and liquid that flows upward.
I Bring You Culture
I’m watching a man picking his nose inside a dead bear. I didn’t see that coming when I got up this morning.
Said in response to this monumental work of performance art.
Y2Kyoto: Cooking The Climate
