THE HARVARD LAW RECORD: Fascism At Yale.

This recent movement of university students to use administrative procedures to punish speech with which they disagree should be called by its rightful name: proto-fascism.

Several days later, students disrupted an event held by the William F. Buckley, Jr. program that was designed to highlight the importance of free speech. According to reports by the Yale Daily News, several attendees were spat on as they left.

Once again, the problem isn’t that you disagree with what the event said (though, if you disagree with an event about the importance of free speech, that might be a cause for concern itself), but that you are using a tactic—spitting—that constitutes battery, and should never be used against someone for expressing beliefs that you disagree with.

Sad when a Harvard man understands things so much more clearly than Yalies. But that’s the deal.

FIND OUT WHAT THEY DRANK AND GIVE IT TO AMERICANS NOW: Colonial Americans Drank Roughly Three Times as Much as Americans Do Now.

UPDATE: Via Bill Quick in the comments, I drank like a colonial for a day, and it was awesome. Shockingly, not by Stephen Green.

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KIRSTEN POWERS ON “THE VIEW:” ABC mean girls might want to consider why no one else is laughing at their Fiorina ‘joke.’

STEVE GREEN IS CURRENTLY DRUNKBLOGGING TONIGHT’S GOP UNDERCARD DEBATE. I hope he’s pacing both his liquor and his liver for both halves of the double-header.

LEGALIZED PIRACY: New report: In tough times, police start seizing a lot more stuff from people.

Recent years have brought public scrutiny on a controversial law enforcement practice known as civil asset forfeiture, which lets police seize and keep cash and property from people who are never convicted — and in many cases, even charged — with wrongdoing. But despite a growing public outcry spurred in part by news investigations and congressional hearings, a new report Tuesday from the Institute for Justice, a non-profit civil liberties law firm, finds that the past decade has seen a “meteoric, exponential increase” in the use of the practice. . . .

One possible explanation for the recent rise is that “the years 2008 to 2014 were some lean economic years,” said report co-author Dick Carpenter in an interview. “Forfeiture is an attractive way to keep revenue streams flowing when budgets are tight.”

Law enforcement officers generally acknowledged this factor, according a Washington Post investigation last year: “All of our home towns are sitting on a tax-liberating gold mine,” Deputy Ron Hain of Kane County, Ill., wrote in a self-published book in 2011.

Critics of the system also say that the increase in forfeiture activity is due largely to the profit motive created by laws which allow police to keep some or all of the assets they seize.

Yep. It’s corrupting to let the police keep the stuff they seize.

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NEO-NEOCON: More on Missouri—and more and more and more:

I also spent many hours—many, many hours—searching in vain for more details about the actual charges of racism at the campus, those charges to which Wolfe and Loftin were accused of paying insufficient attention. They amount to (a) two reports of black students being called the n-word, once by an unspecified group of men in a pickup truck who may or may not have been students themselves, and once by another man who is sometimes described as having been a drunken student, and (b) one report of a swastika smeared in feces on a bathroom wall in a dorm, by an unknown person for an unknown reason. That seems to be it.

So, as Amy Miller points out, a lot of people are puzzled about what Wolfe and Loftin did or did not do that deserve canning as punishment. I can answer that question quite simply: they didn’t deserve it, the social justice warrior mob demanded it, and what the social justice warrior mob wants on college campuses the social justice warrior mob gets. Enlisting the football team in the fight was the icing on the cake, because football is very powerful on the college campus as well.

As I wrote yesterday, for the most part the American university died quite some time ago.

As a consequence, Jonah Goldberg writes in the L.A. Times today, “this is the generation the mandarins of political correctness have been waiting for.”

Which brings us back to the astonishing efforts at Mizzou to “muscle” student journalist Tim Tai out of photographing and videotaping the protests yesterday. “Some of the media are even wondering how this kind of disrespect from the First Amendment could happen. Well, Media, do you really want to know why she and the kids acted that way? THEY LEARNED IT FROM YOU, MEDIA! …They learned it from you,” as Moe Lane quips at Red State, paraphrasing the ubiquitous anti-drug PSA from the ’80s.

Scroll down to the conclusion of his post for the photo that squares the circle.

Update: Speaking of squaring the circle, “Mark my words: Before this is over, despite inciting a mob of SJWs to deny a reporter’s rights and then all but laughing about it on camera, safe-space enforcer Melissa Click will pose as every inch the persecuted free-speech martyr herself,” Allahpundit predicts.

MSNBC GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE! “MSNBC: Hillary Supporter Wanting to ‘Strangle’ Fiorina Was ‘Sort of Funny.’”

Sort of like wanting “take her into a room and only he comes out,” to coin a phrase. Or perhaps, “She might stick around to be the slowest-moving target imaginable for comedians and commentators. It would be like shooting moose from a chopper,” to coin another MSNBC-approved phrase.

Somewhere, Keith Olbermann and Martin Bashir are shaking their heads and wondering what on earth they did wrong.

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THE THEATER OF WHITE GUILT: At Ricochet, Nathan Harden writes:

Let me tell you a little story: Some years ago, a professor at Claremont McKenna college in Southern California who identified as Jewish (although she hadn’t officially converted) reported that someone had vandalized her car with a bunch of anti-semitic slurs, swastikas, and the like. Students, understandably, were alarmed, scared, and galvanized. There was a huge campus protest — a great show of solidarity — where students gathered by the hundreds, holding hands on the campus quad, and “intolerance” was condemned.

About a week later, this lady was proved to be a fraud. She had faked the hate crime and vandalized her own car. But the worst part of the story was that was revealed that college administrators already knew she was under investigation for lying to police about the incident. In other words, they already knew that, in all likelihood, she had faked her own hate crime. Yet those administrators went along with the anti-intolerance rally, helping to organize it and standing by silently while throngs of tearful students unknowingly battled the fake racism in their midst. Those administrators were happy to set up a theater of white guilt.

And that, my friends, is what Tim Wolfe, apparently was not willing or shrewd enough to do. He apparently didn’t take seriously the idea that the University of Missouri was plagued with institutional racism. He didn’t realize that one or two anecdotes might be enough to cost him his job if he did not act out his part in the play.

Or, as John Podhoretz posited yesterday, “I’m telling you, these resignations at Mizzou are really these guys saying ‘get me the hell out of this madhouse.’”

Related: Rich Lowry explores “The Mizzou Meltdown,” noting,  “To read the association’s indictment, you’d think that the University of Missouri exists in a small enclave of Klan-dominated, Reconstruction-era Mississippi.”

Wait, I thought that “small enclave” was located in Berkeley – the Klan is everywhere these days, I guess.

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE MIZZOU FOOTBALL TEAM:

● “Missouri Football’s Rape Culture ‘And So On And So Forth’”

—Headline, Vice.com, September 9th, 2014.

● “CNN’s Rachel Nichols Compares Missouri Football Team to Jackie Robinson.”

—As spotted by NewsBusters, yesterday.

(H/T: John Schindler.)

NYPD COMMISSIONER CONFUSES LEFT-LEANING MANHATTAN RESIDENTS BY EMPLOYING CITY’S RAREST COMMODITY, LOGIC: ‘One of the quickest ways to get rid of the homeless is not to give’: Bill Bratton causes a stir by telling New Yorkers to stop handing over change to beggars amid city’s street people epidemic.

Back in 2009 the left-leaning SF Weekly observed, in classic Fox Butterfield fashion, “Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, [San Francisco’s] homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s.” Apparently the left still can’t make the connection.

#WARONWOMEN UPDATE: Watch as Hillary Jokes with Man Who Says He Wants to ‘Strangle’ Fiorina.

Update: There’s an interesting touch of synchronicity considering that this moment took place in front of a banner promoting “the Truman Project.”

CHANGE: Bill Adding A Warrant Requirement For Aerial Surveillance Introduced In The House.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Was The Poop Swastika Incident At Mizzou A Giant Hoax?

SEE ALSO: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, ACADEMIA, MSM, AND HOLLYWOOD:

By the way, the Bard of Des Moines (and Austin!) is leading #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay on Twitter; just keep scrolling his timeline.

ROGER SIMON: Republican Debate #4: Do We Have a ‘Final Four’?

Steve Green will be drunkblogging both debates tonight at PJM — I hope he’s pacing both his liver and stash of hooch for both to survive the double-header.

Bumped to include this minor bit of trolling from the GOP:

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Evidence Shows Most Lawyers Continue To Have Profitable, Fulfilling Careers.

WHEN YOU’RE IN THE LEGISLATIVE MINORITY, YOU HAVE TIME FOR STUFF LIKE THIS: Caffeinated peanut butter is here, draws ire of Charles Schumer.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I PLANNED: Your Urban Vehicle of the Future Might Be an Electric Tricycle.

WHY DOES THE NEW YORK TIMES HATE IMMIGRANTS? The New York Times Publishes Another Misleading Story About Nail Salons.

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