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Archive for 2016
December 26, 2016
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Report: Campus disinvitations hit record number in 2016. “One of the highest profile disinvitations in 2016 was journalist Jason Riley, who was disinvited from Virginia Tech. But the oddest disinvitation was John Derbyshire, who was disinvited by Williams College President Adam Falk due to fears his speech would be offensive to black students. Ironically, Derbyshire was invited by a black student, Zach Wood, who heads up the ‘Uncomfortable Learning’ series that brings controversial speakers to campus.”
WAIT, I THOUGHT TRUMP WAS LITERALLY HITLER:
Related: Trump and the New Anti-Semitism: Has the definition of anti-Semitic changed to being too pro-Israel? As always in certain quarters, definitions change to meet the political needs of the moment.
This is maybe a bit unfair — it’s not like Beinart was around and writing back then. But you certainly don’t hear much about it.
MY ONLY BIG COMPLAINT ABOUT JEFF SESSIONS: His support for civil forfeiture. Congress could address that, of course, by changing the law, and it should — regardless of who is Attorney General.
FAKE NEWS: A&E Cancels KKK Documentary Series, Says Participants Were Paid in ‘Direct Violation’ of Policies. “A&E said it would no longer move forward with ‘Escaping the KKK,’ a controversial documentary series that purported to examine the plight of people seeking to extricate themselves from the hate group known as the Ku Klux Klan, citing a recent discovery that producers involved with the show had made financial payments to some of the subjects involved with the program.”
A COWARDLY LEFTIST BULLY: Hours After Harassing Ivanka on Flight, Watch What Man Does When Confronted by TMZ.
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME: Politico: The Real Legacy in Jeopardy Under the New Congress? LBJ’s. LBJ’s Great Society programs were always just taxpayer-funded vote-buying schemes for Democrats that usually left their “beneficiaries” worse off in the end.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Sorry, But Our Fight Against Liberal Fascism Has Only Just Begun. “Remember: Liberals are fearful because they know the kind of oppression they absolutely intended to inflict upon us if they had won, and they worry that we will do to them what they wanted to do to us.”
“OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR:” Obama’s Israel Vendetta Opens the Door for Trump to Defund the UN.
DISRUPTION: Changes Coming to White House Press Room: Who, Where, When and How.
With the naming of Sean Spicer as White House press secretary, Donald J. Trump has selected a Republican Party insider and communications veteran.
But that doesn’t mean it will be business as usual for the press corps that covers the next administration.
Mr. Trump’s unconventional, sometimes hostile, relationship with the news media and his penchant for communicating through unfiltered Twitter posts threaten to upend a decades-old Washington tradition that relies almost entirely on protocol. The result, reporters and editors say, could be a loss of transparency that would hinder the press’s role as a conduit for information to the people.
But Mr. Trump’s advisers, and even some former White House press secretaries, say that some of the conventions of White House coverage are outdated and due for a face-lift.
As I’ve said before, in the post-World War II era, the press has enjoyed certain institutional privileges based on two assumptions: (1) That it’s very powerful; and (2) That it will exercise that power responsibly, for the most part. Both assumptions have been proven false in this election cycle. Like many of the postwar institutional accommodations, this one will be renegotiated under Trump. (Bumped).
UPDATE: From the comments: “If you like your press pool, you can keep your press pool.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EDITION: Blackman: University of Oregon’s Punishment Of Tax Prof Nancy Schurtz For Wearing Blackface To Halloween Party In Her Home Is ‘Dangerous And Wrong.’
RALPH PETERS: The Feast of Stephen 2016: We are living in a new age of Christian martyrs. “The 2,000-year-old Middle-Eastern Christian civilization that began in the days of St. Stephen lies in ruins, persecuted as never before. As the Obama administration averted its self-righteous gaze, a religious genocide already underway accelerated across the region. Stubborn and dogmatic, the administration refused to acknowledge the problem of Christian refugees—those who’d survived the kidnappings, tortures, rapes, massacres and broad religious cleansing—even to the extent of labeling those who wished to help Christians as bigots. In Obama’s global village, there’s no room at the inn for Christian refugees. There’s not even a stable.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: George Washington University removes U.S. history from required courses — for history majors.
Cost of attending George Washington University: $68,725 per year.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Angry students say Charlotte School of Law hid the truth about its problems.
Related: Students File $5 Million Class Action Lawsuit Against Charlotte Law School.
SO MUCH WINNING:
Donald Trump is set to inherit an uncommon number of vacancies in the federal courts in addition to the open Supreme Court seat, giving the president-elect a monumental opportunity to reshape the judiciary after taking office.
The estimated 103 judicial vacancies that President Obama is expected to hand over to Trump in the Jan. 20 transition of power is nearly double the 54 openings Obama found eight years ago following George W. Bush’s presidency.
Confirmation of Obama’s judicial nominees slowed to a crawl after Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015. Obama White House officials blame Senate Republicans for what they characterize as an unprecedented level of obstruction in blocking the Democratic president’s court picks.
The result is a multitude of openings throughout the federal circuit and district courts that will allow the new Republican president to quickly make a wide array of lifetime appointments.
My recommendation: Quickly appoint Randy Barnett to the D.C. Circuit, and Eugene Volokh to the 9th Circuit.
I HOPE THAT IN THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION, THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WILL TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: Tax Prof Nancy Shurtz Blasts University Of Oregon For Improperly Releasing Error Filled Report As ‘Public Retaliation And Shaming.’ And I hope Prof. Shurtz will sue.
Meanwhile, I encourage journalists to make FOIA requests for emails and documents regarding the university’s response to this incident.
December 25, 2016
TRUMP SPREADS DESTRUCTION AMID DEMOCRAT RANKS. IS THERE ANYTHING HE CAN’T DO? Pity the husbands of Los Angeles – sex therapist claims city’s Hillary-supporting women have lost their libido over Trump victory. “Sex therapist Kimberly Resnick Anderson claims Trump winning the presidency has led to a widespread loss of libido in the bedroom among her clients. Dubbing it ‘The Trump Bedroom Backlash’ Resnick Anderson says she has seen it time and again in her office.”
Between this and all the Democratic women engaging in self-mutilation over the election outcome, Democratic men may have to become Republicans in order to enjoy a satisfactory sex life.
WITH TRUMP’S ELECTION, Democrats Suddenly Discover Freedom of Association.
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Iraqi Christians Celebrate Christmas Amid Sorrow and Homesickness.
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SOCIAL CLASS IN TODAY’S SOCIETY: I thought it was interesting that those who were “higher class” were more likely to have shaky ethics.
AS THE LAST EIGHT YEARS HAS PROVEN, THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE 1970S ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT: 10 Movies Millennials Must See to Understand the 1970s.