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    The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

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    Missouri Students’ Latest Target: The Campus Sushi Restaurant.

     

     

     

     

     

    YALE PRESIDENT PETER SALOVEY TELLS ME THAT COLLEGE “MASTERS” AT YALE WILL NOW BE CALLED “HEAD OF COLLEGE.”

     

     

    Why?

     

    The title is rooted in ancient and medieval traditions of learning, b
    ut it is also associated with the ownership of slaves.

     

     

    And only idiots don’t know the difference.

     

    And you’ve just told us that Yale is made up of idiots.

     

    Which, I have to say, the past year or so has seemed to demonstrate.

     

     

    http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/232493/

     

    Reagan

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    Outrage ?............................yeah, I suppose.

     

    It's almost like Hollywood wants to confirm Conservatives complaints about them when they pull B.S. like this.

     

     

    But mostly I feel sorry for those low information voters on the Left,

     

    who will actually believe some of the lies in the film.

     

     

     

     

    Notice how this project was held until Nancy passed away, they KNOW they are being slimy, but they just don't care.

     

     

    Its best if they are just ignored.

     

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    North Carolina GOP Block Gay Anti-Discrimintion Law

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    The bathroom panic isn’t quite as baseless or bigoted as progressives claim.

     

    The truth is that transgenderism has changed dramatically in recent years. Today, a person who is anatomically male and has not undergone any surgical or hormonal treatments may “identify as female.” There is also a growing population, particularly in college, of people who consider themselves “non-binary” — neither male nor female — and demand to use whichever restroom they feel like.

     

    Are women bigoted if they don’t want a person with a bushy beard in their public restroom? Are men bigoted if they don’t want a person with breasts sharing theirs? For most, it’s less a question of safety than privacy (an even bigger concern in locker rooms and fitting rooms). But the scenario of a sexual predator putting on lipstick and claiming a female identity to gain access to a women’s facility is not entirely far-fetched.

     

     

    Some propose phasing out all “gendered” restrooms for ones with fully enclosed stalls and common areas for hand-washing. However, this would entail huge expense and discomfort for most people used to gender-specific facilities.

     

     

    More gender-neutral single-user bathrooms would benefit many people, not necessarily transgender — for instance, parents accompanying an opposite-sex child. Locker-room issues can also be resolved with private accommodations.

     

    But compassionate and common-sense solutions may require compromises. The absolutist demand for a “civil right” to have your preferred gender identity validated regardless of appearance or anatomy can only lead to more culture wars.

    Hillary's Campaign Kickoff

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    Hillary Clinton’s gender gap was bigger than Trump’s in 3/3 primaries last night that had exit polls —>

     

     

     

    How women voted in the Acela Primary

     

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-women-voted-in-the-acela-primary/article/2589713

     

    So, Trump again carried the women’s vote in Tuesdays primaries

     

     

     

     

     

    Hillary Clinton wants gender quotas in her administration — why stop there?

     

     

     

     

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    Hillary's Campaign Kickoff

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    Hacking Hillary: Panama Papers Show Danger of Clinton’s Secret Server. “Hillary’s private email was illegal and ill-defended.”

     

    Some of her defenders on Twitter are saying that, well, there’s lots of overclassification. That’s true, but the stuff Hillary shared on unsecured email wasn’t stuff that shouldn’t have been classified. It was supersensitive stuff, whose exposure was extremely damaging.

     

    Any normal government employee — that is, not a political oligarch shielded by the current corrupt Justice Department — would be facing very serious charges.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE:

     

    The Hillary Speech Issue No One Is Talking About: Assignment Of Income.

     

     

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    Trump Alone at the Top

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    Nothing that Happened Today Changed Anything

    by Leon Wolf

     

     

    It looks like Trump has swept the Northeast, as he was absolutely expected to do. Almost all of the voting simulations that have happened to date predicted that Trump would get all or nearly all of the delegates today. Save your freakout for another day.

     

    It looks like some of the states, Trump will win by bigger margins than expected. Big deal. Cruz has done that plenty this election cycle, and no one treated that like the end of the world in Trump land.

     

    This election, going forward, is still about Indiana and California. Cruz has to win in Indiana next Tuesday in order for the race to stay static. If Trump wins, the math becomes much more difficult for the anti-Trump forces. If you are a John Kasich supporter and you live in Indiana, voting for Kasich next Tuesday is the dumbest thing you could possibly do because it will just help ensure that Kasich will never see the contested convention that he needs.

     

    Even if Trump wins Indiana, he can still be prevented from reaching 1,237, but only if Kasich quits pretty much immediately, and definitely before California.

     

    That was the calculus when we woke up this morning, and it remains so today.

     

    Anyone who is telling you differently is doing so out of one of two motivations. If they are media, they are doing so because their pecuniary interest demands it. Trump is good for ratings and the media wants to have him around for another six months.

     

    If they are a conservative, it is because conservatives are prone to despair and dismay. It's more or less our default setting sometimes. Conservatives have gotten so used to losing that it feels like it's in our DNA.

     

    As for me, I'm holding my despair, or even my dismay, for at least one more week. It is zero surprise to me that the diseased and defunct remnants of the GOP in the Northeast would support a corrupt huckster like Trump, and it holds zero real relevance to what is going to happen going forward.

     

    http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/04/26/nothing-happened-today-changed-anything/

    The Mizzou/Yale/PC/Free Speech Topic

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    Mizzou Misery: Exclusive Emails Reveal The Brutal Backlash.

     

    Mizzou’s vice chancellor for marketing and communications, Ellen De Graffenreid, received a disheartening email last fall at the pinnacle of the crisis on campus. A disgruntled parent wrote to the university’s Board of Curators, describing how her son, a sophomore, considered transferring out, while their two high-school-aged children “have all but eliminated Mizzou from their college list.”

     

    Someone had forwarded the note to the university’s Department of Marketing and Communications, adding: “I’m sure you already know this but you have a PR nightmare on your hands.” De Graffenreid, in turn, forwarded it to the college’s leadership, adding the letter from a parent was “pretty representative of the middle of the road people we are losing.”

     

    New correspondence reviewed by Heat Street and National Review depicts the cataclysmic backlash against the University of Missouri as its administrators grappled with demands from rowdy protestors, a hunger-striking grad student, and a boycotting football team. The protests ultimately toppled both the president and the chancellor.

     

    {snip}

     

    The 7,400 pages of emails, reviewed exclusively by these two publications, reveal how Mizzou overwhelmingly lost the support of longtime sports fans, donors, and alumni. Parents and grandparents wrote in from around the country declaring that their family members wouldn’t be attending Mizzou after the highly publicized controversy. Some current students talked about leaving.

     

    This passionate backlash doesn’t appear to have been a bluff. Already, freshman enrollment is down 25%, leaving a $32 million funding gap and forcing the closure of four dorms. The month after the protests, donations to the athletic department were a mere $191,000—down 72% over the same period a year earlier. Overall fundraising also took a big hit.

     

     

     

     

    Appeasing the noisy few was a devastating mistake, especially given higher education’s generally vulnerable position these days. If only someone had warned them.

     

     

     

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    Obamanomics

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    Delusional AP Treats Awful Economic Report as ‘Rebound’

     

    Today's stories at the business wires covering this morning's disastrous durable goods report from the Census Bureau ranged from good to absolutely horrid. March orders only increased by a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent, less than half of the 1.7 percent to 2.0 percent increase that was expected.

     

    Additionally, February's originally reported decline of 2.8 percent was revised down to -3.1 percent.

     

    Victoria Stilwell's dispatch at Bloomberg News earned a B-minus. Lucia Mutikani's writeup at Reuters rated a C-minus. As usual, the coverage at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, delivered by Martin Crutsinger, the nation's unofficial "Worst Economics Writer," brought up the rear and earned an "F."

     

    As usual, the AP's focus was on delivering a headline and opening paragraph sufficiently deceptive to lull those who won't click past the teases on their computers, smartphones and tablets into believing that things aren't all that bad. This time, it was accompanied by bad headline grammar:

     

     

    APon0316DurableGoodsOpening042616.jpg

     

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    The misleading headline and lede also represent what is usually read over the airwaves in TV and radio broadcasts.

     

     

    It's reasonable to believe that the AP and Crutsinger were bound and determined to headline a "rebound" no matter how weak the result, as long as it was positive.

     

    Crutsinger saved revealing that the details were really horrible for Paragraphs 2 through 7:

     

    More at the link: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2016/04/26/ap-awful-durables-goods-news-treated-rebound

     

     

     

     

     

     

    IBM Layoff Epidemic Spreads Worldwide.

     

    Summer of Recovery Seven ??

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