ROGER SIMON: Shallow Talk about Iraq on the Brink of South Carolina.
It’s like the Donald would rather rehash the headlines from 2003 than talk about the last seven years for some reason.
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February 20, 2016
MORE ON GEORGETOWN LAW’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM, FROM INSIDE HIGHER ED: Justice Scalia, a Law School and Diversity of Thought.
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has set off a debate at the Georgetown University law school about the appearance of institutional endorsements and intellectual diversity.
Some professors are criticizing the law school for a statement on Justice Scalia’s death that they say ignores parts of his record with which many disagree. These professors shared their views in emails to all students and faculty members. And their sharing of their criticism of Scalia in that way has other professors saying that their positive views of Scalia are being denigrated, and that students are thus being discouraged from expressing certain conservative or libertarian opinions.
The various emails are all being published online, adding to the debate.
If the race/gender breakdown of a school should approximate that of America as a whole, why not the ideological distribution?
Plus, some related thoughts from Professor Bainbridge.
Apparently Peller emailed (privately as opposed to an all-campus blast) Barnett to apologize: “Please accept my apology, as I have great affection and respect for you as a colleague.” This is typical of Peller and the academic left in general: To your face they claim to be your friend, but they will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat to achieve their political ends. Like their fellow Marxists of olden day, the only thing that matters is their political triumph and all means are therefore justified.
The diagnosis by Barnett and Rosenkranz is exactly right. Law schools faculties are comprised of a predominance of left-liberals living (at salaries most socialists could only dream of) in a cozy elite bubble in which they assume almost everybody shares their worldview and that the few dissenters in their midst are not worthy of ordinary human compassion.
Barnett and Rosenkranz are exactly right in their analogy to the death of Thurgood Marshall. There is no law school in the country where a conservative faculty member could say such things without getting hauled into the Dean’s office for a scolding, if not worse. Indeed, at most schools you’d probably end up in front of a Title IX officer.
Can you imagine what the Pellers of the law school academy are going to say when Clarence Thomas passes? The unhinged racism by these champions of social justice will be stunning.
We need a legal academy that looks like America.
NOTE TO GLENN BECK: GOD HAS NOT ENDORSED TED CRUZ.
SYMBIOTIC: Where Do Dogs Come From?
THERE’S A REASON I DON’T TRUST THE CLOUD: The Infrastructure Of The Internet.
BUT LATEX GLOVES ARE STILL MANDATORY, RIGHT? Porn stars dodge goggle requirement.
BURKAS AS THE ERASURE OF WOMEN: Modesty, Faith, and Burqa Bans.
WHAT DOES HE SAY — OR THINK — ABOUT ANYTHING? What was Trump actually saying about DACA—or was he saying anything about it?
THE SKY IS MADE OF COTTON CANDY, AND PIGS FLY: Clinton Says She’s Never Lied.
OH, SWEETIE, MARRIAGE IS FOR GROWNUPS, WHICH YOU AIN’T: Celebrity Princess Bride.
MAKING BRAVE MEN SUFFER FOR HIS EGO IS WHAT HE DOES: Obama’s Cuba trip guarantees another Castro crackdown.
IT’S WHAT THEY DO. IT’S WHO THEY ARE: Lying to New York’s parents about soaring school violence.
PUTTING SEASONALLY ADJUSTED LIPSTICK ON A SEASONAL PIG: Why the Fed will decide to raise interest rates.
February 19, 2016
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CLIVE CROOK: Donald Trump: Class Warrior.
When my wife and I bought some land in West Virginia and built a house there, many friends in Washington asked why we would ever do that. Jokes about guns, banjo music, in-breeding, people without teeth and so forth often followed. These Washington friends, in case you were wondering, are good people. They’d be offended by crass, cruel jokes about any other group. They deplore prejudice and keep an eye out for unconscious bias. More than a few object to the term, “illegal immigrant.” Yet somehow they feel the white working class has it coming.
My neighbors in West Virginia are good people too. Hard to believe, since some work outside and not all have degrees, but trust me on this. They’re aware of how they’re seen by the upper orders. They understand the prevailing view that they’re bigots, too stupid to know what’s good for them, and they see that this contempt is reserved especially for them. The ones I know don’t seem all that angry or bitter — they find it funny more than infuriating — but they sure don’t like being looked down on.
Many of them are Trump supporters.
Indeed.
THE AUDIENCE IS UNIMPRESSED WITH YOUR VIRTUE-SIGNALING: Angry ESPN Viewers Blast ‘Rise Up’ Segment Promoting ‘Black Lives Matter.’
And, shockingly, ESPN’s viewership is plummeting.
WE NEED A NEW LAW REQUIRING THE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP ALL RECORDS ON PAPER. IT’LL BE HARDER TO HACK, AND LIMIT THEIR MISCHIEF. IRS Fails To Follow Basic Web Security Procedures, Increases Risk Of Taxpayers Identity Theft.
GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE THINGS WE SCREW UP TOGETHER: San Bernardino Shooter’s Apple ID Passcode Changed While in Government Possession, Apple Says. “The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said. Apple executives say the phone was in the possession of the government when that passcode was reset. A federal official familiar with the investigation confirmed that federal investigators were indeed in possession of the phone when the reset occurred.”
UNDERCOVER DRIVER: Danica Patrick Goes Undercover As A Lyft Driver.
THESE SETTLEMENTS DESERVE ANOTHER ZERO OR TWO: University of Montana settles with football player accused of rape.
One of the most high-profile campus rape accusations in recent years has come to a close.
Jordan Johnson, the former starting quarterback for the University of Montana, has reached a settlement with the University of Montana for $245,000 to drop his claims against the university. Johnson had threatened to sue the school following what he called an “unfair and biased” investigation by the school.
Johnson had been a star quarterback for the university. Handsome and well-spoken, he seemed to have the world on his plate. He hoped to join the NFL. But just as his star was rising, he was accused of rape during a time when the nation — and especially the University of Montana — were under heavy scrutiny for allegedly mishandling accusations of campus sexual assault and rape.
This led to Johnson being investigated by the school and recommended for expulsion. He was also charged with rape in criminal court, but a jury acquitted him.
Kangaroo courts should be expensive, for the kangaroos.
I DON’T TRUST THEM: Artificial Sweeteners and Weight Gain. “Artificial, or nonnutritive, sweeteners have no calories and are often used as diet aids. But while some well-designed trials have found that those randomly assigned to drink artificially sweetened beverages gained less weight than those given sugar-sweetened drinks, large population studies suggest that frequent consumption of artificial sweeteners may be linked with unanticipated consequences, including weight gain.”
If you eat a lot of sweet stuff, you need a lot of sweetening. If you eat less, you notice more subtle sweetnesses — like, as a commenter here noted, baby carrots — that you wouldn’t otherwise. I think that artificial sweeteners mess this up.
JOHN HINDERAKER: Jason Riley Rocks Minneapolis.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Cooley Craters: 60% Drop In Enrollment, Faculty.
VIDEO: Who said it, Trump or Kanye?