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The Source Of The Marxist Takeover Of American Institutions Is So Obvious It Hurts.  It is impossible to deny how far left all of America's institutions have shifted in the past few years. [...] This could not have happened without the left's successful "long march through the institutions."  This term, made famous by radical academics in the 1960s, refers to the strategy used by "New Left" students of that era.  They aimed to achieve long-term social and and political change by infiltrating and subverting key institutions, particularly the elite universities they often attended.  These radicals were the progenitors of the critical theories that plague our offices and our children's schools today.  They knew these ideas could never be sold democratically to the American public, so they instead sought to disrupt disciplines — sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and cultural studies — that were more amenable to their critical perspectives.  Through their research, teaching, and activism, they eventually came to dominate entire departments or even university leadership.  This power was then used to launder their ideology to a new generation of students who would unquestioningly carry it with them into the "real world."  A new Harvard survey on faculty political leanings reveals that the left's long march was more successful than they likely ever dreamed.  A whopping 75% of Harvard faculty identifies as "liberal" or "very liberal," while only 2.5% identifies as conservative.  A minuscule 0.4 percent identifies as "very conservative."

Ten Steps to Totalitarianism.  Does anybody still think totalitarianism can't happen here?  Ask yourself how many of these steps we've already galloped past. [... #7] School Indoctrination:  Lenin declared, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."  Is it any wonder, then, why schools are the front lines of all cultural battles?  It used to be broadly understood in America that parents are instrumental in determining what is taught in local schools.  Now the Department of Justice targets parents unhappy with the leftist indoctrination of their children's school curricula.  Objecting to the State's infusion of cultural Marxism into education can get one labeled a "domestic terrorist."  Objecting to schools' increasing exposure of young children to "transgenderism" and graphic sexual content can get one labeled a "bigot."  Objecting to young white children being taught to feel guilty for the color of their skin is ironically cast as "racist."  And to top things off, while most Americans have ditched masks as relatively ineffective instruments for diminishing the spread of disease, too many schools are still committed to hardwiring into the little developing minds under their control that the State may force mask compliance (and submission) on a whim.

Professor claims American universities too right-wing.  The real problem with the "modern American university" is that it "is a right-wing institution," according to Asheesh Kapur Siddique, an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [...] To say this is a preposterous statement does not begin to do it justice.  Everyone, even the French, can agree that American higher education is entirely owned and run by far left idealogues.  Survey after survey shows that 90-97% of the professors themselves admit to being liberal/progressive/left leaning.  Virtually the same percentage admit they vote exclusively for Democrats if they are not voting even more left wing.  Virtually the same percentage of political donations made by those employed by the vast majority of universities go to Democrats and Democrat-supporting organizations.  Multiculturalism, cancel culture, "wokeism," identity politics and now critical race theory are ubiquitous on college campuses.  Students are not so much educated as indoctrinated.  SAT and ACT scores are out.  Social justice warring is in.  Conservatives are either not invited to speak on campuses or chased off of them if they dare to show up.

There is No Greater Threat to This Civilization Than Modern Universities.  When the great American experiment in liberty officially comes to an end, there will be plenty of finger-pointing and blame-assigning taking place.  Plenty of Founding Fathers observed that the natural progression of things was for government to grow and liberty to contract.  But when we're wanting to pinpoint what institutions, what things played the biggest part in facilitating the demise of freedom, I am going to predict that a fair reading of history will show that few entities had a bigger hand in destroying our civilization than the American university system.  With far too few exceptions, college campus culture has become little more than a radicalizing agent seemingly designed for the sole purpose of deprogramming its clientele of any appreciation or respect for the history, heritage, accomplishments, and values of Western society.  It has become an intellectual dumping ground for radical theories and failed ideologies, espoused as gospel from the lecterns of professors whose expertise is confined to the narrow bubble of academia alone — a bubble that is dangerously insulated from the hard realities of real life, and immune from the responsibility to adjust or rethink positions that prove untenable in practice.  Nothing is practice there — it is all theory.  The consequence of utopian promises fed to gullibly idealistic youth, untethered from any moral foundation but full of boundless passion and self-assuredness.

Political Bias And Anti-Americanism On College Campuses.  A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation.  The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment.  Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in "Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges."  Langbert and Stevens conducted a new study of the political affiliation of 12,372 professors in the two leading private and two leading public colleges in 31 states.  For party registration, they found a Democratic to Republican (D:R) ratio of 8.5:1, which varied by rank of institution and region.  For donations to political candidates (using the Federal Election Commission database), they found a D:R ratio of 95:1, with only 22 Republican donors, compared with 2,081 Democratic donors.

This Time It Is Personal — for Us.  The public schools do not need to teach ideologies: cisgender, transgender, non-binary gender, the whole leftist agender.  They do not need public school teachers to hand out condoms or teach sexual strategies for avoiding pregnancy, nor courses on who in history was gay, who was straight, who had bellies inside-out or outside-in.  Rather, the schools need to teach reading and writing and arithmetic, hard sciences and technology.  Even with texting and keyboards, kids still should grow up knowing how to read a handwritten birthday card or write one.  And even with calculators and smartphones, they should be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide on their own.  Just look at Congress to see what happens to people who grow up without skills needed to balance a checkbook.  And they need to learn real history, not the pure garbage that now consumes valuable pages in texts and jams kids' minds with dross and detritus.  Just imagine if, instead of being encouraged to whine and blame, they were taught the heroism and sacrifice of Americans of all ideologies and races during World War II.

Our Education System Fosters American Self-Loathing.  n a recent poll by YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, 70 percent of millennial Americans (23 to 38 years old) are likely to vote socialist, and 36 percent have a favorable view of communism.  In a 2018 YouGov poll, millennials are almost four times as likely as those Americans older than 54 to say they are not proud to be an American and almost three times as likely to disagree with the statement that "America is the greatest country in the world."  These generational differences are stark and disturbing for the future of America.  They are not surprising, however, given that our education system emphasizes the evils of America, the West, and capitalism.  Today, teachers underscore our failures, fostering American self-loathing, never teaching that the United States has been the greatest force for freedom and opportunity in the history of humankind and that free-market capitalism has created unparalleled wealth, even among the poorest.

The Right Needs To Adopt This Revolutionary Higher Ed Reform Plan Now.  Speakers such as Heather Mac Donald have done an excellent job of highlighting examples of the far-left bias that is prevalent at America's higher ed institutions.  Conservative YouTube channels are great at highlighting the perils of conservative speakers attempting to speak on various campuses.  But few address the elephant in the room.  Taxpayers are heavily subsidizing the entrenched and blatant anti-American and anti-Christian bent in our colleges and universities.  The huge budgets of these colleges — and their ability to pay professors well over six figures to teach for only several hours a week, only during the school year — is entirely the result of choices our elected officials have made.

Marxism in America: The Final Stages.  Much of what we see happening all across this country began as a spin off of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that made its way to Germany and then the United States.  These German Marxists, or Communists, started a school of social theory called the Frankfurt School; a school that was dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization. [...] Their goal is to change society, transform our beliefs from the ground up, leaving fertile ground for communism to grow and flourish.  It is what Saul Alinsky practiced and preached to the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and countless others on the Left.  When Hitler threw out these Marxists, not wanting any competition, they made their way to the United States, first finding a home at Columbia University.  From there they branched to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.  They are now deeply embedded in our education system from kindergarten on up, our political institutions, Hollywood, and the mass media.

College Scam:  That's Not the Half of It.  [Scroll down]  There is little that is secret about this.  During finals, administrators are known to openly tell faculty, sometimes in writing, to remember the institution's laudable commitment to retention and diversity.  You do not need a doctorate to comprehend the meaning of such messages.  Such departments are also sandboxes for playing at social justice and indoctrinating students in leftist ideology.  They are forums for telling students what to think, not teaching them how to think.  From the administrative perch, they are safety valves for students to act out, demonstrate, shut down speakers, and otherwise make noise while the real work of the university continues unimpeded. [...] Real students in demanding programs have neither the time nor the energy to engage in demonstrations.

Marxism, the Frankfurt School, and the Leftist Takeover of the College Campus.  When one observes the modern-day college campus, one observes nothing but the Marxist-leftist indoctrination of America's youth. [...] One has to look no farther than Boston University to find courses with titles such as "Dismantling White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy."  Any course that attempts to induce guilt for one's ethnicity is undeniably subjective in nature.  Consider the debates on sex, sexuality, and human physiology.  There is arguably mainstream societal acceptance that there are more than two "genders" and that sex and sexuality are in no way linked.  Furthermore, if one even questions the eligibility of male athletes in female-only sports, he will often be labeled a bigot, or at the very least old-fashioned.  No empirical research is needed to realize that much of American history is now scrutinized rather than honored.  American military involvement is commonly preached as oppression rather than liberation.  Everything from the nuclear family to supporting ICE is under scrutiny.  There is a systematic dismantling of American values that were once accepted as objectively good and now maligned as evil.  When objective truth and reality no longer exist, the Left can rewrite the rules to society — and it has.  Where do all of these ideas come from?  Primarily college campuses.

Climate brainwashing in schools and the Democrats' lurch to the left.  The mainstreaming of climate change hysteria into the public schools, beginning in early grades, has probably more to do with the overwhelming leftist sentiments of the rising generations than any other factor, including demographic shifts in the population.  Preferring socialism to capitalism is linked to the belief that corporations, particularly certain kinds, are responsible for rising temperatures, and only government can change the direction and save the planet.

10 Ways to Be a Good Citizen, and Fight Bad Ones.  For decades, American public schools included a course on "civics" as an integral and fundamental part of their curriculum.  Civics teaches what it is to be a citizen; how government is structured, organized, and perpetuated; the history of the country and its admirable traits; the importance of elections; how to vote; and patriotism — love of and loyalty to America.  Lamentably and perilously, civics classes no longer exist in America's schools.  They have been replaced with classes on diversity, gender classifications, toxic masculinity, white privilege, cultural misappropriations, and victimology — hardly a curriculum that facilitates the formation of a healthy functioning adult, marketable in a skill-based competitive workplace, let alone encouraging assimilation and love of country.

How Public Schools Indoctrinate Kids Without Almost Anyone Noticing.  Many people have long suspected that governments sometimes attempt to indoctrinate their people to increase the government's own power and influence.  Unfortunately, ambitious governments will not stop at merely controlling what their people can do; they must control their minds.  Indoctrination happens through many channels — entertainment, speeches, and censorship — but its main instrument is the school system. [...] While indoctrination involves pushing a certain opinion, it is also much more.  It is the comprehensive effort of passively disseminating a particular viewpoint.  The passive aspect is key.  People who are indoctrinated with a certain narrative or ideology do not arrive at the intended conclusions through their own thinking, but hear the same thing repeated in a million different ways until they finally take it as unquestionable truth.  Because indoctrination happens in the absence of thinking, many teachers who engage in indoctrination do so unconsciously.  They themselves take what they're given and pass it along without thinking.  Ideologues often intervene at this level by writing the scripts for teachers, which is how LGBT advocacy and anti-Semitic fabrications become included in their lessons.  Thoughtlessness is essential.

Hard Times at Snowflake U.  At some point, America's high schools, liberals arts colleges, and universities got taken over by Leftist radicals, who starting in the 1960s had burrowed into the system as eternal graduate students and who gradually emerged, like parasites, to devour their hosts.  The result has been increasingly politicized, feminized institutions that, in many cases, bear almost no resemblance to their original incarnations besides their names.  They've become an expensive parody of education, some costing into six figures per year, all in.  Obsessed with "social justice," they bristle with diversity administrators and other barnacles; teaching has become secondary to the schools' primary mission of ideological indoctrination; and the diploma has become simply a very expensive certificate of attendance, different from a mail-order diploma mill only in the prestige of the name on the piece of paper.

Get Your Kids Out of Government Schools, Right Now, Today.  The situation in government schools is dire and getting direr every year.  All parents, whatever their circumstance, must consider the danger government schools present to the souls of their children and even the soul of our country.  Activist/author Mary Rice Hasson and philosopher Theresa Farnan get this exactly right in their important new book Get Out Now:  Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It's Too Late. [...] There has been no more influential history book in our time than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, a primer for hating America because America has only ever done evil.  You can be sure that most of those teaching history to kids have been steeped deeply in Zinn.  Hassan and Farnan point out that the National Network of State Teachers of the Year recommend a smelly book called the Social Justice Book List that lists the themes of "classism, racism, xenophobia, sexism, and transgenderism."  This is for kids in pre-school through sixth grade.  If you wonder why your 4th grader comes home sounding like Jeremiah Wright and worse, this is why.

The University Is Ripe for Replacement.  Beginning in early K-12 and continuing to the highest levels of university education, Leftist indoctrination is the gravest dilemma that afflicts education in North America, rendering it perhaps the most powerful instrument of anti-Western bias and socialist propaganda of the modern era.  Here my concern is with the abandonment of genuine scholarship, fact-based historical research, familiarity with the "Great Books" and the development of critical thinking habits, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.  The curriculum now in place is one of intellectual dysphoria promoting the circulation of false or unprovable narratives — anthropogenic global warming, Islam as a religion of peace, the campus rape epidemic, toxic masculinity, the scandal of American history, the glories of "diversity and inclusion," the benefits of socialism, to cite just a few among a veritable encyclopedia — and furthering the revolutionary project of social and political deconstruction.  Education has been transformed into a grooming operation for social justice warriors, radical feminists, anti-white vigilantes and budding socialists.

The Permeation of Propaganda in the College Student Brain.  In 1937, an editorial in The New York Times declared that "what is truly vicious is not propaganda but a monopoly of it."  Thus begins an article titled "Propaganda Techniques of German Fascism," written by Clyde R. Miller and reprinted in the fifth edition of Modern English Readings (1946).  This text was used by college students.  There is nothing dealing with gender, white privilege, social justice, the religion of peace, or alleged microaggressions.  When pundits discuss the culture wars, it is essential to see how so many present-day textbooks have contributed to generations of young people who have, for the most part, never been exposed to how America's ideals have shaped the country.  Instead, students are indoctrinated by public school teachers with connections to Antifa.  More chilling is that these same teachers publicly acknowledge they would not protect the rights of students who disagree with them.

Progressive Child Abuse in the Schools.  Many "educators" today sadly have become indoctrinators.  Educators and professors who teach students to use logic and critical thinking are doing God's work.  Teachers who spur cognition and who encourage students to question, to read, and to investigate all points of view are truly teaching.  On the flip-side of the coin, we have teachers who now subscribe to methods of leftist indoctrination and who are currently using this indoctrination as a weapon within the classroom.  It becomes dangerous when these indoctrinators start using propaganda as a means of engaging young and impressionable minds.  Indoctrination eventually turns into brainwashing.

The case for abolishing public schools.  Here are the reasons why a public school system should be abandoned. [...] [#4] Indoctrination.  The leftist agenda gets pounded into "our" kids relentlessly.  They're not called government schools for nothing.  God is out, government is in — or, spoken another way, the government is the religion.  As a parent, you may want to protect your kids from undesirable influences.  How can you do this when they are forced into associations with teachers and kids who live, breathe, and talk the agendas and ideologies that you despise?  In this environment, your young loved ones will surely morph into something or someone you do not recognize.  It's not much of an exaggeration to say they will become "possessed."

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The Incurable TDS.  We are living through an astonishing time in our nation's political history.  Somewhat more than half of Americans see President Trump as a leader of courage, energy, and commitment with a proven record of promoting peace and strengthening both the U.S. economy and the southern border against an illegal invasion, whereas the other half sees only personal evil in Trump and describes him with adolescent hyperbole, habitually comparing him to Adolf Hitler.  That half is not able to thoughtfully assess Trump's policies, or even its own economic or political interests.  Instead, these people cling to a sense of moral superiority and are obsessed with the imputed personal sins of a man they despise.  This obsessive hatred, popularly called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), is not a free-standing mental disorder.  Rather, it is a delusional symptom cluster at the terminal stage of a sixty-year vast, progressively insane attempt by the left wing, especially the cultural, educational and political elites, to entrain the American people to despise their nation, their laws, and themselves in order to break their self-respect and mentally enslave them to government control.

Report: California Teacher Storms Out of Classroom, Accuses Student of 'Hate Crime' for Wearing MAGA Shirt.  A Los Angeles County, California, high school teacher is reportedly under fire for storming out of her classroom at the sight of a student wearing a "Make America Great Again" shirt last week.  In an email sent later to students, obtained by the Daily Mail, the teacher said it is unfair for one group to be able to espouse "racist, misogynistic, antisemite, and homophobic" views: [...]

Post-election, Vermont school counsels children — to be Democrats.  On November 5, America resoundingly rejected the hateful race rhetoric and divisive lies of Democrat identity politics.  This included record numbers of black and Hispanic voters disenchanted by the election-year promises of Democrats that translate into deteriorating economic opportunities for racial minorities.  But Bernie-blue Vermont didn't get the memo, and has continued to shamelessly push anti-MAGA propaganda spewed by the mainstream media — in public schools, by paid teachers. [...] Many Vermont public school ideologues are so utterly divorced from reality that they have unmoored themselves from their duties:  teachers are not supposed to indoctrinate others' children with their personal political views (or, as here, toxic delusions).  The school superintendent said, "Many students were feeling 'angry and sad' and had questions about laws that might change as a result of the election."  Counseling feelings (including political emotions) in woke Vermont has been elevated in schools above math, reading, and writing.

Blue City Blues.  In reading through the stories of problems in America's larger cities, one notices commonalities.  When cities make the news for all the wrong reasons, those covering them often mention their leaders.  The 25 largest cities in America all have Democrat mayors, and as of 2023, over 85% of the largest American cities are mostly populated by and led by Democrats.  That stands to reason.  The colleges and universities that are turning out people with advanced degrees have faculties that are overwhelmingly left-of-center.  The high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools likewise have faculties that lean left.

The path forward.  President Trump can start with the Department of Education, which has totally and utterly failed in its mission.  It promoted three lies throughout the 20th century that have cause the downfall of the Republic: tribal peoples are inherently peaceful, progress is the normal "course" of history, and both sexes are mentally the same (along with the "blank slate" theory).  All three have been thoroughly debunked:
    a.  About 20%-40% of each generation of males in tribal civilizations die in war.  The Disney film Pocahontas, Avatar and Fern Gully were all vicious lies.  The Noble Savage is a myth.
    b.  In the 17th century, especially in France, absolute monarchy was seen as enlightened progress due in part to the violent chevauchees of the Hundred Years War and the utter bloodbath of the Thirty Years War in which 20% of Europe's population was killed.
    c.  Men and women think differently.  This is so obvious to anyone who has been married it doesn't need a citation.

Teachers Give Kids Pro-Kamala, Anti-Trump Election Material.  A Hawaii middle school is under fire after teachers created and then distributed election materials that were pro-Kamala Harris and anti-Donald Trump.  Teachers at Kapolei Middle School gave their students a two page document that was handed out to students in which stances of each presidential candidate are simplified.  The handouts addressed six hot button issues, Hawaii News Now first reported.  "Very upset," said parent Angel Morales.  "I think teachers should do their job as teachers stick to education and not politics."  On the issue of immigration, the pamphlet said that Harris was tough on the border and intended to hire more border patrol agents.  Trump, on the other hand, was described as wanting to take children away from their parents.

Democrat professors outnumber Republicans 28 to 1 at U. Arizona.  Democrat professors at the University of Arizona appear to outnumber Republicans by about 28 to 1 in 12 departments, a College Fix analysis found.  Additionally, The Fix found that there are zero identifiable Republican professors in at least five departments.  The Fix conducted its research using voter registration data and identified 237 party-affiliated professors out of 369 in 12 departments.  Of those 237, 222 were Democrats, 7 were Republican, and 8 were registered with third parties.  Another 76 were unaffiliated while 56 were unidentified.  This means 3.4 percent of identified professors who are registered to vote are Republicans, while 96.6 percent are Democrats, when broken down by the two major parties.

University of Kansas professor on men who won't vote for Kamala: "We could line all those guys up and shoot them".  Update:  The professor has been placed on leave. [...]   [Tweet with video clip]  [Transcript: "]If you think guys are smarter than girls, you've got some serious problems.  It's what frustrates me.  There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president.  We could line all those guys up and shoot them.  They clearly don't understand how the world works.["]

Entire Chicago School Board Resigns Leaving Mayor Johnson Free to Further Radicalize the Schools.  The Chicago public schools, one of the worst big-city school districts in the country, is in crisis again.  All seven members of the school board, including President Jianan Shi, abruptly resigned on Friday, driving an already chaotic situation into a total meltdown.  The board was supposed to be Maytor Brandon Johnson's lapdogs.  The former union organizer for the Chicago Teacher's Union believed he had the board in his back pocket.  But then, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) started spending money it didn't have, creating a $1 billion budget shortfall.  The board knew this shortfall was coming but passed its $9 billion budget anyway.  To close that budget gap, Johnson wants to take out a $300 million loan at usurious rates.  That may be only the beginning since the teachers have come to collect on their investment in Johnson.  The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract and they expect their handpicked mayor to back them in what promises to be the biggest, most expensive contract in the city's history.  Standing in their way is the CEO of the school board, Pedro Martinez.

Trump-Supporting Mom Confronts and Blasts School for Forcing 17-Year-Old to Register to Vote Democrat Without Her Consent.  A mother in Pittsburgh is furious after her 17-year-old daughter was pulled out of class and told to register to vote — without her consent.  To make matters worse, the school's staff allegedly pushed a blatant political agenda, suggesting that "if Donald Trump was elected, Black people would be doomed."  In a viral TikTok video, Kay Montana shared the distressing experience her daughter, Nyla, went through, claiming "Pittsburgh Public Schools" not only registered her to vote without her permission but also was subjected to political indoctrination.  "My 17-year-old daughter was pulled out of class and told she needed to register to vote.  Not only was she told how to register, she was told who she should vote for," Kay said in her viral video.

Shocking Study Exposes What's Really Being Taught in Top Medical Schools.  Healthcare watchdog group Do No Harm has released a report exposing left-wing activism's takeover of medical academia, specifically how "medical schools are short-changing rigorous training in science for the political indoctrination of future doctors."  The 14-page report, titled "Activism Instead of Anatomy:  The Sorry State of Medical School Curricula," systematically examined the course catalogs of 20 top-rated medical schools across the country to identify instances of radical political objectives embedded in the teachings as opposed to typical medical knowledge.

Arizona State University prof claims current abortion policies could lead to forced breeding camps and cannibalism.  Arizona State University professor of English Jennifer Irish recently used a school workshop called "A Speculative Future for Reproductive Rights" to express her concern that the country's current abortion policies could somehow lead to "forced breeding camps" and "cannibalism," according to a story in The College Fix. [...] When asked how best to protect abortion, Irish answered: "Dismantle capitalism" and "elect a female president."  "Dismantling capitalism" will protect abortion?  That seems nonsensical and a non sequitur.

The issue that isn't being addressed in the campaign.  It didn't make it into either presidential debate conducted this year.  Nor is it on any of the top 10 lists of issues most important to Americans in 2024, such as the one produced by the Pew Research Center.  But those who think that woke ideologies, which have captured so much of America's education system, as well as the government bureaucracy and even the arts, pose only a minor threat to America's future are mistaken.  As much as any other topic, the fate of this wildly successful movement will determine what kind of country Americans live in for decades to come.

26 Million Americans Believe Political Violence is Justified.  With the unrelenting claims of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others that democracy is about to die in America, some now feel a license to commit criminal acts in the name of "saving democracy."  It is the ultimate form of self-delusion that one saves democracy by committing political violence against those with whom you disagree.  We have seen this radicalism spread in past years from higher education into society at large.  Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event.  Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University.  Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.  It is now common to hear inflammatory language from professors advocating "detonating white people," denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements.

The Democrat Plan to Restore the Higher Education Indoctrination Industrial Complex.  The Democrat party's craving for power is insatiable so nothing is ever enough.  How else can you explain their infatuation with open borders with quick paths to citizenship, undermining the electoral process with mail-in voting or schemes to re-write the Constitution?  Consider the party's 2024 party platform.  The section "Making Higher Education Accessible and Affordable" advances two aims central to the party's very existence: promoting political indoctrination and rewarding one of the party's most crucial allies, college professors.  Today's college campus is, with scant exception, a key instrument for pushing youngsters leftward so even physics majors must take course in the humanities and social sciences where they will learn how America was built on slavery with land stolen from the noble indigenous people while women continue to be oppressed by the white patriarchy.  Campus propaganda works.

Walz Told Students Communism Is When 'Everyone Is The Same And Everyone Shares'.  Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz used favorable language to describe Chinese communism when teaching a high school social studies class in 1991, according to an unearthed article in Nebraska's Alliance Times-Herald.  Walz told students that, under communism, "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing from the government, according to the resurfaced newspaper piece first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.  Just two years before the article was published, China's communist government massacred pro-democracy student protesters in Tiananmen Square, with death counts ranging from several hundred to thousands, according to the BBC.

Walz told high schoolers communism was a system where 'everyone shares'.  Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, has been sweet on socialism and even communism for pretty much all his adult life.  After all, he did describe socialism as "neighborliness."  He's the guy who let his city burn. [...] The thought of this guy teaching this to high schoolers makes the mind reel.  Except that it's not ignorant.  He made trip after trip to communist China, under Mao and other leaders as a sort of Sandalista tourist and "English teacher," and if he were normal, he would have had a far more serious view about what communism is, particularly as it had been practiced in Mao's China.

This teacher at the Harris-Walz rally just gave us the best ad for homeschooling yet.  Here's a school teacher in Arizona at the Harris-Walz rally proclaiming EXACTLY why she went into education.  [Tweet with video clip]  Wait ... public schools are just woke indoctrination centers?  Silly me, I thought that public schools were about educating kids in the basics.  Reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Donald Trump's shooter — a product of government schools' indoctrination?  President Biden and others are urging Americans not to make assumptions about motive, but we are all eager to know why — what would cause a young man to want to assassinate Trump?  I instantly think of his young age; not long out of high school having had his head recently pumped full of leftist indoctrination.  With Critical Marxist theories intended to pit people against one another, and so-called "social justice" indoctrination happening in early grades and intensifying over time, children are taught to hate themselves, others, and their country.  So, someone who loves our country and is committed to making it great again is an obvious target for "social justice" at any cost.

How Can Election Results Really Fight Bigotry?  [Scroll down]  It wasn't that long ago, after all — the 1970s and '80s — when there were efforts to spread antisemitic propaganda in the United States.  The Illinois Nazis sued to march in Skokie, IL; a vocal antisemite — David Duke — ran for office in Louisiana.  Such efforts were met with nationwide derision. [...] The American heart stood against the antisemites back then; we should consider what has changed in the years since.  The Left has consolidated their domination of K-12 textbook publishing and the public school system.  They have used this domination, in part, to whitewash islamofascist terrorism, skip or gloss over the Holocaust, and teach children that Israelis are "occupiers" rather than the rightful government of a sovereign nation. [...] A high percentage of our colleges and universities have developed partnerships with Middle Eastern nations, especially Iran's polite sister Qatar.

More Proof American College Campuses Are Cesspools of Leftist Indoctrination.  Since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israeli civilians, Americans have had a disturbing look inside at what is really happening on college campuses across the country as many have devolved into cesspools of leftist indoctrination.  The naked anger and contempt for conservatives has extended into crazed theories about the failed assassination attempt on President Trump on Saturday.  College Reform reports that University of Virginia Assistant Professor Sethunya Mokoko shared a post on X suggesting that the failed assassination attempt was "staged theatrics" to garner "idiots' vote."  In a quote-tweet, Mokoko said that Trump's secret service purposefully "ignored" eyewitnesses who allegedly informed police of an armed man on a roof before the shooting took place.

The Stonewall Riot Hoax.  The left is obsessed with falsifying American history.  For these radicals, the Founding Fathers did not write the Constitution to form a more perfect union; it was merely a ploy by racist white males to protect slavery.  Similarly, those who settled America were not seeking a better life for their families; their aim was genocide against peaceful indigenous people who were careful stewards of the environment.

The Pentagon wants to cancel Thanksgiving and teach military kids that America is 'stolen land'.  Campaigners have uncovered worrying teaching materials for the Pentagon's 160 military schools that many service members may see as unpatriotic and even scary.  Training manuals for its 8,000 teachers advise that Thanksgiving feasts have no historical basis and that America was founded on land 'stolen' from natives.  Though uncontroversial for some, Adam Andrzejewski, who uncovered the documents via public records requests, calls it a 'perverse' way to teach kids of service members.

Children are intentionally dumbed-down every day.  AI is dangerous to children.  People should recognize that most of this "intelligence" is not artificial at all.  It is programmed to regurgitate what it is fed.  Children then believe it is infallible.  They are taught not to ask any questions or do research.  Before we worry about AI, we should recognize all the garbage information most of the media and other Democrats feed children and the rest of us every day to get them to vote for Democrats and push for their radical destructive agenda to remake or destroy America. [...] Children are taught that they should sue oil and coal companies for the harm they have done to them instead of being told the truth about how they have greatly improved their quality and length of life.  Children are falsely told that the government can control the climate, including temperatures, sea levels and storm activity.  They are taught to repeat what they are told instead of to ask questions and do research.  They are chastised as stupid, anti-science, and climate deniers if they dare disagree. [...] On COVID, they were falsely told that everything Dr. Anthony Fauci and the government said were based on science.  They were told not to question anything.  They were kept out of school, from their friends, and out of sports, based on false information.

How Public Schools Became Ideological Boot Camps.  A pair of teachers at New Jersey's Fort Lee High School recently taught students that Hamas is a peaceful "resistance movement" and Israel is committing genocide.  Teachers at California's Berkeley Unified School District are "indoctrinating students with antisemitic tropes and biased, one-sided anti-Israel propaganda disguised as education," according to a complaint by the Anti-Defamation League.  Meanwhile, students recently chanted "from the river to the sea" at college campus "tentifadas" — but when pressed could identify neither.  Why does this keep happening?  And how can public schools at once be hotbeds of radicalism and "woke" indoctrination, yet produce students who are so poorly informed about the radical causes they ostensibly espouse?  The answer has a lot to do with one of American education's dirty little secrets:  on any given school day in nearly every public school in the country, curriculum materials are put in front of children that have no official oversight or approval.

The Culmination of Marxist Infiltration, Part 1.  Both former FBI Director James Comey and Director Christopher Wray are promoting "critical theory" in the entire FBI.  Critical law theory education began to be noticeable in the Clinton administration and attitudes began to change.  That's when we saw the cultural byproducts of American education now taught in our universities. [...] Critical race theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life, categorizing individuals into groups of oppressors and victims.  The critical theorist argues that to eliminate prejudice, Christianity, capitalism and the traditional patriarchal family all had to be destroyed.

A Poor Reason to Be a Trump-Hater.  People who emphatically disapprove of Donald Trump — in short, Trump-haters — are likely to be college graduates, whereas people who are quite devoted to him — Trump-lovers — are likely to lack a college degree. [...] We should also keep in mind that a college education, besides exposing students to knowledge they might not otherwise be come across, also exposes students to misinformation and intellectual foolishness that would probably not be available to the average young person outside a college campus.  The danger of this miseducation comes not from professors of mathematics and the natural sciences; their subjects don't usually lend themselves to political manipulation.  The danger comes from ideological professors of literature, philosophy, and the (so-called) social sciences.  It also comes, probably more influentially, from fellow students, students with an ideological bent.  It should be noted that these student ideologists are more likely to bend left than right, leftism being temperamentally more suited to the rebellious adolescent mind.

Combatting Our Homegrown Enemy.  The radical Marxist Left in our universities is indoctrinating students to hate the West.  Our public education system teaches anti-West CRT, DEI, and anti-racism and reframes American history as primarily being about slavery, white supremacy, and colonialism.  Promoting gender confusion to our children destabilizes the family structure that has been the backbone of Western civilization forever.

I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated.  As a teacher, my first obligation is to my students.  But right now, my school is asking me to embrace "antiracism" training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply harmful to them and to any person who seeks to nurture the virtues of curiosity, empathy and understanding.  "Antiracist" training sounds righteous, but it is the opposite of truth in advertising.  It requires teachers like myself to treat students differently on the basis of race.  Furthermore, in order to maintain a united front for our students, teachers at Grace are directed to confine our doubts about this pedagogical framework to conversations with an in-house "Office of Community Engagement" for whom every significant objection leads to a foregone conclusion.  Any doubting students are likewise "challenged" to reframe their views to conform to this orthodoxy.  I know that by attaching my name to this I'm risking not only my current job but my career as an educator, since most schools, both public and private, are now captive to this backward ideology.  But witnessing the harmful impact it has on children, I can't stay silent.

Will the United States Become a Third World Nation?  What generally defines "Third World" includes pervasive poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, lack of sanitation, inadequate modern healthcare, rampant crime, ineffective education, and violent political instability often reflecting ethnic rivalries, not democratic elections.  Law reflects the whim of the powerful; not following written precepts.  Third world governments also have a penchant for crushing national debt and wild spending.  Invariably, a very rich minority governs masses living in squalor. [...] Less visible is the decay of public education manifested in declining test scores, rampant school violence, and replacing traditional education with radical racial ideology prizing self-esteem over merit-based academics.  Meanwhile, innumerable students at elite colleges, disproportionately majoring in academically "soft" fields, not engineering or science, demand "Death to America" while exhibiting profound ignorance of world affairs.  Tellingly, in intellectually challenging fields, American must increasingly import its brain power from abroad.

The Destructive Generation — Proving America's Weakest Link.  Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction."  Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends its inheritance while neither appreciating nor replenishing it — if not ridiculing those who sacrificed so much to provide it.

Teacher Who Focused on Reason Over Ideology Fired.  Warren Smith, who burst on the scene in February when a video of him discussing J.K. Rowling with students went viral, has been fired from his job.  You probably recall the video.  If not, Elon Musk amplified it, driving its message across the world.  [Tweet with video clip]  What made the video interesting was not that Smith defended Rowling — he actually didn't, at least not directly.  Instead, he taught students how to examine their beliefs using the Socratic method.  He forced them to articulate what they believed, discuss why they believed it, and consider whether the evidence actually supported those beliefs.

Onward Christian Soldiers.  Not long ago I heard that Trump had declared that he can fix our national woes in six months' time once he regains office. [...] He can rescind all the idiot mandates Biden has put in place — pull the transfolk out of the military, stop the sexual mutilation of children, thin the government bureaucracies, stop the ridiculous spending — a lot is under the presidential purview to fix.  But some things are not.  For one, we have several generations that have been ill-educated by our schools, both public and private.  This wouldn't be hard to fix if it were only this last, this Covid generation, but things have been sliding downhill precipitously since the 60s.  We will have to re-educate our educators, but where will we find knowledgeable, literate, traditional teachers to do that?  Our young people know little about our national history, about the philosophy behind the inception of this country, nor do they grasp the connection between freedom and God.  They are steeped in situational ethics, convinced that their only responsibility is to provide themselves with pleasure.

Activists look to turn daycares into woke indoctrination camps.  Here is a tale of two recent childcare webinars.  One was organized by entrepreneurs who see their daycare centres and the families they serve being bulldozed by the Trudeau government's national takeover of their sector; the other was held by government-funded activists and aspiring central planners who see the governmentalization of childcare as an opportunity to inject it with their notions of social justice.

The Ravings of a Kindly Old Man with a Poor Memory.  [Scroll down]  And how about all those college students who probably don't know what 11x11 equals, or can't distinguish a gerund from a gonad, or who conflate Taylor Swift with Jonathan Swift, bravely standing up for the terrorists who raped, tortured, and killed thousands of Israelis on October 7th?  Could they be any more out of touch?  Or spoiled?  Or pathetic?  Methinks not.

College campus protests have a primary beginning.  Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal Deputy Editorial Director, opined in a recent column appearing in his paper that maybe the criticism of the administrators of the universities and colleges, such as Columbia, Harvard, Yale and even UNC-Chapel Hill is misplaced and that they may not be the ones who should be removed.  Pointing to the role that alumni play in the future of these expensive elite schools, Henninger offers this sage advice: "Firing the president (of the school) won't close the barn door.  Instead, fire the admissions office.  What a tragedy to think how many serious high-school students were rejected by Columbia, Yale and NYU, edged out by the non-useful idiots whose chosen major is the political structure of re-education camps."  In that critical and somewhat facetious remark Henninger is touching on the major failure of more than a university system that suffers from an incestuous relationship with its rich benefactors who, because of their financial donations, are pretty much assured their progeny will be admitted to the same universities.  The result is a homogenous student population that feels entitled and superior to the general populace, and is inclined to group think.

San Francisco Elementary Teacher Says Israel As Well As America Have No Right To Exist.  A San Francisco Bay-area elementary school was trained by an organization called "Woke Kindergarten," whose leader wants to see America and Israel destroyed as countries, according to posts on social media.  According to the website, the head of the organization is "Akiea 'Ki' Gross (they/them)" who "is an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten."  [Video clip]

The Blessing of the College Riots:  Part 1.  I begin with a bit of background.  I graduated from Columbia University in 1976 with a B.A. in political science. [...] In four years at Columbia, I never once met a professor with conservative values.  They all were leftist, many outright communist, or at best apolitical.  I majored in political science and never heard of William F. Buckley Jr. or Ayn Rand.  I took an introductory course in economics and never heard of Adam Smith or Milton Friedman.  I took a course on the History of Judaism, and it was taught by an atheist who devoted the entire term to propounding his theories that the Torah is not the word of G-d but a compilation of texts written by nomads.  I once challenged him in class respectfully with a compelling question.  After class, he told me not to do that again, or he would reduce my grade.

Majoring in Jihad.  Nobody should be forced to matriculate at a place that is apparently so bad that it requires student occupation, and no college should feel compelled to enroll students who wish to burn it down.  Yet apparently a great number of professors and students believe it is logical to use their time together not learning and researching but rather destroying parts of campus, toppling historic statues of long-deceased founders, and demanding that tuition dollars be sent to ISIS offshoots in the Middle East.  It seems to me that such likeminded teachers and students are close-minded activists and rigid demagogues feigning to be free thinkers and honest intellectuals.  As such, they serve no purpose in a classroom.

Joe Rogan on Progressive Indoctrination in Higher Education: 'We Are Sending Our Kids to Cult Camps'.  During a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan spoke with Tulsi Gabbard about the insanity we have been seeing on college campuses over the last few months.  Rogan pointed out that students are being indoctrinated with progressive ideology that then spreads through various institutions and parts of our culture.  He also talks about being dumbfounded by the congressional testimony of the heads of our elite colleges and universities.  [Tweet with video clip]

America Is Headed For A Civil War... Maybe.  How does one know a civil war is coming?  Have you been on a college campus lately?  2024 is an echo of 1968. [...] Today, we have a completely different landscape.  In 2024, Democrats are virtually indistinguishable from communists, and being pro-American is seen as racist.  Hence, the college protests.  They're not just pro-Hamas; they're much, much more.  These protests are very much a reflection of their time given the seemingly mainstream nature of the beliefs that power them.  They're at their core not just anti-Israel, they're antisemitic, they're anti-American, anti-Western, anti-capitalist, anti-police, and of course, anti-white.  Sadly, all those things are basically mainstream Democrat policies in 2024.  We see every single one of them play out across the country in federal, state, and local governments.

Marxism and Cowardice are the Hallmarks of America's Colleges and Universities.  Thirty-five years ago, the New York Times published an article entitled "The Mainstreaming of Marxism in US colleges" describing how, despite unmitigated failures and the collapse of Marxism around the world, Marxist ideas were becoming mainstream in the halls of American universities.  The Marxists in America, recognizing that the traditional class conflict argument would not work in the United States, instead promoted one simplistic tenet — the world is divided into the oppressors and the oppressed.  Therefore, the oppressors must be overthrown by any means possible if there is to be a "just and equitable" society.  A brilliant blueprint which plays on the American national proclivity to invariably cheer for the underdog.  The key element of this strategy is to indoctrinate students to see every social relation or interaction through the lens of oppression and conflict.

Lord of the Flies on Campus.  Seventy years ago, William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies, a brutal novel that sent shivers down our collective spines by exposing the raw hate and brutality hiding in the dark corners of our minds.  Showing that such evil could be present in a group of young school-age children made the tale all the more harrowing.  Today we have a scenario unfolding on university campuses across the U.S. that, while not yet as ghastly violent, threatens to come close. [...] In the insane world of victimology that divides the world into the oppressed and their oppressors, there are many strange bedfellows.  Those who might have championed Black Lives Matter in 2020, and those marching for transgender freedom in 2022 now join the Islamic jihad against Israel, America, and all the Western civilization represents.  This is happening despite what should be obvious incompatibilities among the groups.  "Trannies for Hamas" is the ultimate oxymoron.

We are the West's last generation before the new Dark Age begins.  There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life.  We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.  Marx was wrong:  it is not the working classes that are alienated by modernity but the bourgeoisie, and especially their morally adrift children, many of whom genuinely believe that the West is an evil hellhole.  The revolutionary urge emanates from the universities, and their guilt-ridden graduates.  Too many have turned themselves into woke indoctrination camps, with hard-Left administrators encouraging post-modern academics to brainwash a generation.  There is now a striking correlation between levels of education and holding stupid, destructive ideas, between being highly credentialled and falling for every fashionable conspiracy theory, every tribalistic affliction, every online fad.

Let the Protesters Stay Until Academia Burns to the Ground.  In yesterday's Briefing, I was mostly referring to the student mobs who have been making all of the anti-Israel noise and trouble on campuses all over America.  We can't forget the adults in Academia who are paid handsomely to indoctrinate the kids and saddle them with such crippling ignorance, however.  What we're seeing is the product of decades of pumping impressionable minds full of, to borrow a leftist word, misinformation. [...] The student mobs have been whipped into a frenzy by the alleged adults in the room.  That's the real tragedy here.  We on the right don't rail against leftist indoctrination in education because we're afraid of younger people having different political beliefs than we do.  We do it because kids and young adults in college are being lied to.  The academic leftists have been crafting alternative histories and feeding them as fact to young people who trust and occasionally idolize them.

Wealth and Redistribution.  Why should any living person dwell on the French Revolution?  Well, there is more to it than picturesque Parisian backdrops, powdered wigs, and peculiar costumes. [...] To be sure, intellectual corruption poses a major threat to the survival of Western civilization.  That the younger generations have not learned history in school actually represents an inexcusable neglect.  When distanced from the moral basis of the church and largely uncultured, discounting the erratic impact from social media, they become extremely sensitive to extremist propaganda.  Ignorant of historical facts in outline or depth, they relate uncritically to ideologically distorted narratives such as that of racism as the driving force in history.  Immature megalomaniacs and with an appetite to be in the front row, which is typical of youth at all times, they are too easily seduced by the sirens of totalitarianism.

Chicago schools teach children to 'decolonize' and become anti-Western activists.  Chicago Public Schools teachers are instructing their eighth graders to ignore Western academic tradition, "decolonize learning," and become political activists, according to the district's new English curriculum.  Known as Skyline, the brand new, $135 million universal curriculum introduced by CPS in 2021 is rooted in critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology.  While the bulk of what teachers are using to instruct children is behind password walls and largely inaccessible to parents on the school district website, a teacher inside CPS shared several of the English units with the Washington Examiner that highlighted the left-wing bent of what students there are learning.

Schools in 2024: Low Skills, Leftist Ideals.  On the ideological front, a 1953 book by James B. Conant, entitled Education and Liberty; The Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy, emphasized that schools should focus on strong intellectual skills.  Although he was a strong advocate of public schools, which brought together students from all social classes, in this book, he expressed a belief that "it may well be that the ideological struggle with Communism in the next fifty years will be won on the playing fields of the public high schools of the United States."  Thus, we see that two great concerns of the 1950s — that basic reading and math skills be retained and continuously improved, and that the USA through its schools would continue to reject communism — were great goals to be advanced.  Yet the exact opposite has happened: reading and writing skills have sharply declined, and the schools are hotbeds of leftist and communist thinking.  American social and political mores have been diluted or are being overturned in alarming ways since the 1960s, and this has been accompanied by a corresponding decline in the verbal and math skill sets of the students.  In short, "dumbing down" of students and leftism appear to be hand-in-glove processes.

Students Deserve to Know the Truth About Socialism.  For the past few decades, American students have been taught a whitewashed version of socialism.  Such is why nearly half of young Americans have a "positive" view of socialism and 70 percent of Millennials are "somewhat or extremely likely to vote for a socialist candidate."  This is a dire threat to the future of the United States considering this cohort will soon become the political, business, and societal leaders of this nation, not to mention the largest voting bloc for years to come.  The reason that most young Americans have a distorted view of socialism is because the public school system has been derelict in its duty of properly educating students about the truth regarding socialism.  Trust me, as a former public high school social studies teacher who taught in Illinois and South Carolina for many years in the mid-2010s, I have seen first-hand how biased and inaccurate the teaching of socialism has become in classrooms throughout the country.

It's time to stop accommodating the crazies in America.  Schools across America have abandoned teaching traditional subjects such as reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and civics.  They are, instead, indoctrination centers for progressive ideas about sex, race, patriotism, and economics.

Radical Democrats Want The Same Fate For America As Hamas Does For Israel.  [Scroll down]  This worldview is institutionally endemic from the campus to the boardroom to the federal bureaucracy.  It — antiracism, progressivism, intersectionality, gay race communism, et al. — is the basis of our de facto state religion.  Those who are filtered through and direct American institutions cling to this ethos with religious zeal.  That presents a serious threat to the lives and safety of the American people.  Observe how adherents of this worldview embedded within the U.S. government foment chaos and violent crime by refusing to enforce the law at the southern border.  Currently, legions of fighting-age men from across the globe, including several suspected Islamic terrorists, are illegally flooding across the shared border with Mexico before finding themselves in the country's heartland, where they've committed hundreds of thousands of violent crimes.  But whole generations of people are reared to sincerely believe this isn't a problem.  They believe the U.S. is an illegitimate nation whose institutions seek to target and oppress nonwhite residents, such as these illegals.  From their earliest days in the education system, virtually every child in America is taught to despise the nation and its culture because it is deemed "oppressive" and infringes on an abstract, ever-expanding notion of "rights."

America Requires an Educational Revolution.  Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite themselves.  The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America.  The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism.  The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality.  America's children are the primary target of the globalist predators.

Indiana AG Launches Awesome Initiative to End Public School Indoctrination.  The Attorney General of Indiana has launched an interesting initiative to prevent the progressive indoctrination of children in public schools.  In an interview with The Daily Signal, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced the launch of an online portal in which parents can monitor content of potential concern.  "This is a tool to empower parents in their dealings with their own school system so they can better raise their kids, which is their job and not the schools," Rokita told the Signal.  Rokita said that he felt the need to take action after parents sent him lesson plans showing how their children were being taught critical race theory and other far-left ideas:  "Parents were sending me lesson plans," he explained.  "This is around the time that we were calling out critical race theory and this social [and] emotional learning that was being taught to teachers and then teachers to the students, and it was corrupting the whole educational experience."

Things Are Much Worse Than You Fear in Education.  Earlier today, I wrote about a school in Washington State that held a candlelight vigil for, of all people, Fidel Castro.  They were celebrating him as a "martyr" of the Social Justice/decolonization movement — an interesting idea given that he was a murderous tyrant who died at the ripe old age of 90 of natural causes.  You and I may think, "That doesn't make sense," missing the point that it doesn't HAVE to make sense in the topsy-turvy world of today's communist public school system.  As has been pointed out many times in the past, getting people to insist that utterly insane things are true is an actual brainwashing technique — and that is a vital task of public schools today.  The Center of the American Experiment, an excellent think tank based here in Minnesota, sent me an email this morning outlining the (relatively) new requirements for getting a teaching certificate in Minnesota.  The new standards, promulgated by our Leftist governor, Tim Walz, essentially require all teachers to become communist/DEI mouthpieces.

The U.S. is going off the rails.  According to the New York Post:  ["]Students at Stamford public schools will no longer get the day off on [Veterans' Day and Columbus Day] for the next two school years after the board voted 5-3 to remove them Tuesday night, the Stamford Advocate reported.["]  The motive for the removals is obvious, however at least one board member claimed the holidays were simply axed to shorten the school year which currently extends into mid-June.  If so, why were these two days removed and no other holidays?  After all, PRIDE! month is celebrated, even if there is no single day off.  And the schools are closed on Indigenous People's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr.  Day, Yom Kippur, Election Day, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, and "Juneteenth." Incredible.  Maybe cut out a couple of them?  Of course not.

How Actual Communists Used "Public Education" to Kill Us.  Communists and "robber baron" super capitalists teamed up to destroy free America using the government school system to turn young Americans against God, country, and family, explains The New American magazine's Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State.  From the very hatching of the idea that government should educate children to the establishment of the system that exists today, primary-source documents prove the evil agenda.  Key figures such as Robert Owen, Horace Mann, and John Dewey are all exposed here, along with the support from the Rockefeller dynasty and others.  [Video clip]

Compelling Speech and Behavior at a Math and Science School.  Students at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) staged a sit-in protest on December 8th, complaining that their preferred pronouns weren't being used, and demanded that harsh punishments like detentions, suspensions, expulsions and the removal of leadership positions be enacted for those who commit offenses.  Not only that, but an "offending" student's future school choice may be affected as the IMSA protesters demanded that "potential future colleges" be notified.  Consequences are also extended to staff and faculty after the completion and assessment of a biased incident report.  The latest above is merely the continuation of the leftists' march through the institutions, which began half a century ago.  We've seen this gradually take place in one form or another, in federal bureaucracy, big corporations, universities, and even K-12 schools.

The Corruption of Everything.  [Scroll down]  Education has been corrupted.  Universities do not teach students how to get a job, be prosperous, and succeed.  Instead, they teach antisemitism, anti-white racism in the guise of "systemic racism" and "anti-racism," identity politics, and sexual deviancy.  Everything on the left is about cultural identity matters:  Are you gay?  Are you black?  Are you trans?  Are you non-binary?  Are you a Jew-hater?  A Christian?  It seems as though the left has an aversion to other people being happy, and so leftists tear everything apart in their insecurities and unwarranted anger and envy.  They are despicable people.

Waking Up to the Age of Deception.  Our society has also been torn apart by elite hyperpartisan educators from universities and public schools.  Leftists have spread conflicting ideas and values about truth against American culture, parents, students and children.  A recent document by the National Education Association made clear that educators could ignore religious values, teach their own revisionist history, racism, Marxism, socialism, even transgender identity and childhood sexual development.

You Want Fair Elections?  Honestly?  [Scroll down]  Speaking of which, has anybody spent any time looking into how easy some local governments make getting local students on university campuses to the polls on election day?  This is the opposite of voter suppression.  It is voter empowerment, and I don't mean that in a good way.  Do you suppose the same proactive effort to get certain demographic groups to the polling booth is expended when it comes to wealthy residential neighborhoods that vote differently from college students?  Especially those who think Greta Thunberg is a righteous chick?  Why do you suppose that is?  I can give you a hint:  In Santa Barbara County, even though the majority of registered voters are Democrats, undergraduate students at UCSB vote monolithically, and, as you'd expect, they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.  It is not untypical for the students in Isla Vista to deliver 10,000 to 15,000 votes, or even more, for a single candidate, or for or against an initiative they favor or oppose.

University of Minnesota Professor Calls to 'Dismantle' the U.S..  A University of Minnesota (UMN) liberal arts professor called to "dismantle" and "decolonize" the U.S. during an anti-capitalist, pro-Palestinian event.  Dr. Melanie Yazzie, a member of the Navajo Nation and assistant professor of American Indian studies at UMN Twin Cities, joined the "teach-in" panel discussion on December 3, where she made several controversial statements.  Yazzie, who boasts of teaching about "queer Indigenous studies" and "Marxism" on her university biography page, joined the stage with representatives from progressive groups, including American Muslims for Palestine and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

An Ignorant Public Poses a Threat to the Republic It Cannot Keep.  The Rand Corp, surveyed high school social studies teachers about aspects of civic development that they considered "absolutely essential."  High on their list were "toleran[ce] of people and groups who are different than themselves" and "see[ing] themselves as global citizens."  Way behind were understanding the basics of our system of government such as federalism, the separation of powers, and checks and balances or identifying the protections of the Bill of Rights.  It looks like students aren't learning what their teachers aren't teaching.  The Annenberg Public Policy Center's 2023 survey of civic knowledge found that one-quarter of Americans can name only one branch of government — or none at all.  Half can name no more than one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.  In another peek at the future, civics scores for eighth graders in the National Assessment of Educational Progress are declining for the first time since it began in 1998.

The Indoctrination of Kids Has Worked.  If you still need evidence that the kids are not all right, the latest Harvard-Harris poll should finally convince you.  If you are a Trump supporter or a Biden opponent, the news is good.  But if you worry that our education system has turned into a factory that churns out ideological monsters, the news is very bad.  [Charts not shown here.]  The first thing you notice in the poll is that all those classes promoting CRT are having an effect.  Four out of five people between 18 and 24 believe that White people are oppressors and that race-blind policies are unjust.  Among millennials, the split is 50-50.  Gen X and Boomers are on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Staley: 'Critically Conscious' Instruction Radicalizing Kids.  Notice extra angst and rage among many young people this holiday season?  Blame a harmful ideology that has a grip on K-12 education and is incentivizing resentment, fragility, and disruptive behaviors.  "Critical consciousness" trains students as young as preschool to find oppression, racism, or transphobia everywhere, every day, all the time.  It induces a manufactured heightened state of anxiety and fear and encourages students to act on those emotions through activism.  Unfortunately, it is a feature of state education frameworks, teaching philosophies, district policies, curriculums, and lesson plans across the United States.  The ideology conditions students to assume any perceived slight, "microaggression," or action is offensive regardless of intent.  Whether it's packaged as nebulous sounding education lingo, or derisive terms such as "whiteness," critical consciousness is an insidious set of ideas bent, frankly, on dehumanization and the destruction of western culture.

I wish we had been wrong.  We have been warning for years about the pernicious and corrosive impact of the racialization of education under the umbrellas of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  We told our readers and anyone who would listen that these ideologies set students against each other, against their parents, against their own country, and against Israel and Jews.  On October 7, and 8, and 9, and beyond, the putrid hate generated by these ideologies spewed forth on campuses, shocking the nation.  Our readers were not shocked.  I wish we had been wrong.  But we were right.

If Republicans Want To Govern, They'd Better Learn How To Go After The Left.  Amid the controversy following recent congressional testimony on the problem of campus antisemitism by the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has introduced a bill that would drastically increase the tax rate on the largest university endowments.  This is something Vance has been talking about for some time now, and while it's a good idea on the merits, it's also a good example of how conservatives should be willing to use whatever political power they have to fight back against the left.  Simply put, unless the right starts treating the left and its institutions like the hostile entities they are, our republic will not likely survive.  This is especially true when it comes to higher education, where the wealthiest and most elite schools have long enjoyed preferential treatment even as they poison the body politic by actively promoting not just antisemitism, but racism, gender ideology, and every other brand of cultural Marxism you can imagine.

The Treason of the Intellectuals.  In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs — "The Treason of the Intellectuals" — which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and racism.  By that point, although Benito Mussolini had been in power in Italy for five years, Adolf Hitler was still six years away from power in Germany and 13 years away from victory over France.  But already Benda could see the pernicious role that many European academics were playing in politics.  Those who were meant to pursue the life of the mind, he wrote, had ushered in "the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds."  And those hatreds were already moving from the realm of the ideas into the realm of violence — with results that would be catastrophic for all of Europe.  A century later, American academia has gone in the opposite political direction — leftward instead of rightward — but has ended up in much the same place.

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Wrongthink to Avoid.  Speaking of brains, you should never mention the sad state of American education at present.  Kids no longer learn reading, writing or arithmetic.  Instead, they learn Critical Race Theory, LBQT+ propaganda, and climate change doom-mongering.  Forget writing in script, half the kids can't print legibly.  [Indeed], most students don't even know how to hold a pencil correctly!  They put down their phones upon entering school, put their faces in a computer for most of the day, and pull out their phones the moment the final bell sounds.  Should internet and phone technology ever go down, today's students will be helpless little lambs, lost in the wilderness.  Never before has so much money been spent for so little education.  But, like I mentioned earlier, the FBI is targeting parents concerned about the abysmal state of public education.  Don't be one.  And whatever you do, don't question "climate change".

The newest Democratic propaganda in schools: 'Fake news' classes.  The Democratic Party's panic over losing control of narratives in schools has led it to pursue a new path to propagandize to children: mandatory "media literacy" classes to teach students about "fake news."  Media literacy lessons are now mandatory in California in English, science, history, and even math classes throughout every grade level, thanks to a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) last month.  Delaware, Illinois, and New Jersey are also among the states requiring these lessons.  Among other things, the California law worries about the effects of "online misinformation" that has "threatened public health."

America on the Edge of the Cliff.  The core of this problem was the complete fall of the American university, which has been in motion for decades.  All institutional rot flows from that.  The teachers who are radicalizing America's kids, the Pravda press who control the narrative, the social media kingpins kicking up a pining among our youth for Bin Laden, the politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats, writers, publishers, and industry leaders all have one thing in common: they were indoctrinated and radicalized in American universities.  We've reached an interesting point in our history where Americans are far more likely to be intelligent, wise, and self-controlled if they never set foot in an American university.  Once the university system fell and started cranking out generations of people who see the world only through an oppressor versus oppressed lens, the other institutions toppled like dominoes.

Democrats are terrified that Moms for Liberty will end left-wing indoctrination in schools.  These mothers have been attacked, vilified, bullied, doxed, and called every demeaning and negative name in the book.  Why?  Because mothers around the nation grew weary of the Left's vice-like grip on the education industrial complex.  These brave women decided to resist, fight back, and challenge left-wing ideological dominance in education by embracing the spirit of two simple words:  "No more."  Such defiance and desire to protect their children has petrified Democrats, liberals, and left-wingers everywhere.  They fear the threat to the Left's core values and sociopolitical monopoly on education that Moms for Liberty represents.  For the first time in decades, left-wing bureaucrats in education have a worthy opponent in M4L — and they will do everything in their power to stop them.

Let's Close All the Government Schools.  [Scroll down]  Either way, the kiddies all dream of becoming activists, to fight as Allies of the Victims against the White Oppressors.  In Britland, right now, kids are being sent to detention for misgendering teachers.  Because that is what our educated ruling class believes, and that is what they teach in government schools.  So, the first thing we do, as Dick the Butcher might say, we close all the government schools.  I don't care how we get there, via charter schools, or by vouchers, or by home schools or all three.  Why?  Because, it must be perfectly clear by now, the government's approach to government schools is the same as the military's approach to basic training.  It amounts to "boot camp" to turn ordinary citizens into soldiers in the rulers' wars.  It's not that our leaders don't understand the danger of ideological indoctrination.  Every good wokey knows the horror of the religious robots turned out by "fundamentalist" Christian churches.  And everyone knows the danger of allowing fascists to enroll the young generation in the Hitler Youth.

Black 4th Grade Teacher Teaches Her Kids To Hate White People.  ["]Teaching my 4th grade class about white supremacy and colonization.["]  [Video clip]

Should US Public Schools be Teaching SEL?  For those arriving late, SEL means Social Emotional Learning.  Although it's aggressively marketed as being beneficial, SEL is one of the most divisive programs to ever hit our K-12 schools. [...] Put another way, the evidence clearly indicates that SEL promoters are advocating the atheistic religion of Relativism.  This is extremely problematic!  Why is it that supporting Judeo-Christian standards is verboten for public schools — but it's OK for them to be promoting a Left-wing, godless creed?  In other words, why are Public Schools allowed to openly teach such a religion?

University of Michigan Law School Exposed — Rotten to the Core.  This is the last article of a 10-part series that J. Christian Adams and I started over six months ago to expose the radical curricula of the top 10 law schools as rated by U.S. News & World Report last year. [...] UMich is just as bad as the other schools, if not worse.  If you want to spend almost $100,000 a year to turn your son or daughter into a radical, America-hating extremist whose goal is to bring down our republic, particularly our supposedly white supremacist legal system, then Ann Arbor is the place to go.  None of this is surprising given the recent news about student organizations at various colleges, including law students, supporting Hamas terrorists and their kidnapping and murder of Israeli civilians, the same way the infamous, anti-Semitic German American Bund of the 1930s supported the Nazis.  Law students at three of the law schools we have covered — Harvard, NYU, and Columbia — have had job offers from law firms withdrawn because of their support for these terrorists.  No shock that the University of Michigan has such groups, too, like the "Young Democratic Socialists of America," who applaud Hamas's killing spree as the "revolutionary will of the people," and "Students Allied for Freedom and Equality," who call on "honor[ing] our martyrs" in "resist[ing] imperialism."  Given the militantly leftist curricula and faculty at those schools, the student support for Hamas is no surprise.

Academia Needs to Go Extinct.  Crises clarify what is true, and what is indisputably true during this crisis is that academia, as currently constituted, is a poisonous cancer infecting our society.  Like many other institutions, academia has gone from respect to contempt in the eyes of normal people, if not our garbage ruling class.  But its latest series of public disgraces may wake up even the most obstinate cheerleaders for pretending that nothing fundamental has changed.  And let's use the opportunity we have been given to eliminate this dinosaur institution.  At the top of our conservative agenda must be making it extinct.  It has outlived its usefulness.  Among people paying attention, academia's reputation is already in the garbage bin.  From political correctness to administrative bloat, from its inability to teach basic concepts, from its greed to its arrogance, those of us who know what time it is already despise it.

Expressing Disdain for the Evils Promoted on College Campuses.  Parents, families, and American citizens all over the country are expressing their disdain for the evils being promoted on college campuses such as woke Harvard University and others.  In addition to expressing our anger and outrage, we must also begin to articulate the values we want promoted on K12 and college campuses.  Harvard University was originally founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after Rev. John Harvard donated his property and library.  As the first college in America, Harvard was founded with a foundation of values as its official motto was "For Christ and the Church."  The word "veritas," which continues to this day to remain on the college seal, means "divine truth."  This once-great college had at its foundational core a love for divine truth.  Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a professor on campus who believed in such a thing as divine truth.  Truth is now considered whatever you want it to be.

So, it's all about the Benjamins after all!  In 2019, Rep. Ilan Omar let her views on Jews be known when she tweeted, "It's all about the Benjamins, baby" in a sleazy reference to hundred dollar bills. [...] Have you ever wondered why so many of America's youth, in colleges and universities and even public government schools, have a vociferous, cult-like admiration for all things Arab, and in particular, all things Palestinian?  And their dislike for Jews, Israel and secondarily America?  How does this fixation fit with their fixation with social justice, equity, and intersectionality?  It doesn't!  How does this youthful zeal for all things Palestinian jive with the manner in which Palestinians treat women?  It doesn't.  How does this zeal for all things Palestinian blandly co-exist with the disdain, disfigurement, and even death of LGBTQ members when discovered by the Islamists among them?  It doesn't[.]  Omar's Benjamins comment was the ultimate in projection.  For decades, a waterfall of Benjamins have been flooding American colleges and universities from a multitude of Arab countries.  These Benjamins come from Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.

Civilizational Suicide: "Decolonization" leads inevitably to barbarism.  Harvard finds itself in an ideological bind.  Following Hamas's horrific terror attack against Israel, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee issued a statement, co-signed by 33 other student groups, blaming the Jewish state for the murder, rape, and mutilation of its own citizens by Hamas.  "Today's events did not occur in a vacuum," the statement read.  "The apartheid regime is the only one to blame."  The reaction was swift.  The media, the public, and prominent political figures condemned the students for rationalizing atrocities against innocent people, including women, children, and the elderly.  Harvard's administration, long accustomed to toeing the radical line, hesitated for days before releasing a generic statement of condemnation and writing that "no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership."  Meantime, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers expressed surprise, wondering on social media why the university could not "find anything approaching the moral clarity of Harvard statements after George Floyd's death or Russia's invasion of Ukraine."  It is hard to believe that Summers is being sincere.  As anyone in Harvard's orbit would know — especially a long-time professor and former university president — the politics of decolonization, critical race theory, and anti-Israel agitation has been a staple of public life on that campus for decades.

Protect Your Kids.  Parents who truly love their kids leave them in these government schools year after year and are then puzzled when, at graduation, those wonderful kids turn against them.  It is the tragedy of our present age and is pretty general throughout the country.  This philosophy is aided by the Marxist teachers' unions and the textbook publishers.  Some parents have seen the problem but appear helpless to do anything about it.  They know they ought to remove their kids from these schools but are helpless to do so.  It is simple:  both mother and father have to work just to balance the home budget.  Neither of them can quit to home-teach their own children.  The question comes down to this: what is more important to you?  Is it your job, your fancy home, your new furniture, and your wonderful car, or is it your children?

Campus Cowardice and Where the Buck Stops.  American universities are places of exquisite sensitivity.  Just ask Greg Patton.  Patton is a USC professor who was suspended from his job a few years ago because he said a Chinese word — a filler word, like the word uh — that happened to sound like an English slur.  Or ask Leslie Neal-Boylan.  She is dean at the nursing school at University of Massachusetts.  Or she was, until she was fired when she wrote the following sentence in an email:  "BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE'S LIFE MATTERS."  A math professor at the University of North Texas lost his job for disparagingly joking about microaggressions.  NYU fired a lecturer because students complained his chemistry class was too hard.  Yale professors Nicholas and Erika Christakis resigned from their roles as deans of a residential college after Erika sent an email suggesting that college students could handle the sight of offensive Halloween costumes.  For that sin, she and her husband, who defended her response, were accused of failing to create a "safe space" for Yale students.  None of these people actually did anything wrong.  But according to the prevailing ideology that rules American college campuses, violent acts include "misgendering" and "harmful language," and so these acts must be condemned publicly in the strongest possible terms, the perpetrators punished.

American Library Association president says libraries, public schools need to be 'sites of socialist organizing'.  The American Library Association (ALA) president said Sept. 2 at the Socialism 2023 Conference in Chicago that libraries and public schools need to be sites of socialist organizing.  Emily Drabinski, who also is an associate professor at Queens College, got in line at the microphone and introduced herself as a librarian during the question-and-answer part of a session called "Freedom to Learn:  Black And Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education," according to undercover journalist Karlyn Borysenko.  "I just want to say thank you for bringing up libraries and classroom libraries, but also school libraries of all kinds, public libraries and high educational libraries who have been under attack in similar ways," Drabinski said, according to an audio recording captured and posted by Borysenko.  "I think your point that public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing," Drabinski added.  "I think libraries really do too ... I haven't seen that working in libraries.  But I think there's real opportunity here to both connect with happening in public education, what's happening in libraries, but also we need some help in the libraries.  We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing."

School Choice Won't Save Us.  Many on the right are waking up to public schools indoctrinating children into woke ideologies.  X (formerly Twitter) accounts like Libs of TikTok have been exposing public school teachers as Marxists, intent on coaxing children into their gnostic cults.  The right has been predictably outraged and has shown up in force for school board meetings demanding change.  A few teachers have been fired, but there appears to be an endless supply of replacements in the ideological war.  Most normal Americans have started understanding that "diversity" is a common Marxist buzzword.  When a Marxist uses the word "diversity," he does not mean the standard definition.  What Marxists mean is conformity.  Everyone must conform to what the Marxists say is true.  Marxism thinks it is building toward utopia but believes that utopia cannot be achieved unless everyone is striving toward the same goal.  There can be no dissent, not even by a single individual.  Thus, the modern Marxist operates under the logic of Herbert Marcuse's infamous essay, "Repressive Tolerance."  Movements from the left must be tolerated, no matter how violent, but movements from the right must be pre-censored so that even the offending thought does not enter a person's head.

Why We Must Always Ask Why.  Like many idealistic young teachers, my main goal when I started teaching over 20 years ago in a Catholic school in the Boston area was to instill in my students a healthy skepticism about what they were learning and why they were learning it; I surmised the best way to foster critical thinking skills was to teach them to ask the question "Why?" at every decisive juncture of their academic and personal life. [...] Since that time over 20 years ago in an open-minded Catholic school that supported students' questioning, I've been fortunate enough to work and teach in Russia, China, and Turkey, countries where, unlike the subtlety of the U.S., the line between education and indoctrination is non-existent.  In such countries the question why is not only socially dangerous but could end up landing you in jail (or worse).  And although it hasn't gotten that bad stateside, there are similarities between the way some social views are being introduced and taught to American students and the way that children in Russia, China, and Turkey are indoctrinated.  Much revolves around a perceived sacred dogma that cannot be questioned.

The Destruction of the United States Is Intentional.  Here's What Will Happen Next.  The commies began the operation decades ago.  As Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov warned, the college professors and civil rights leaders indoctrinated — or as Bezmenov calls it, demoralized — generations of Americans and convinced them to hate their nation and, frequently, themselves.  The Soviets successfully infiltrated the black communities, convinced them they were less than, and let the anger seethe into subsequent generations.  That is why we see highly educated and successful black folks like the Obamas, MSNBC's Joy Reid, and the deranged Cori Bush screaming about racism, even though they are one-percenters.  If systemic racism were real, how did these poor, indentured serfs get so far?

China's Communist Party Infiltrates American K-12 Schools.  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has, or has had, ties to 143 school districts in the United States, including 20 near military bases, through its "Confucius Classrooms," according to a recent report, "Little Red Classrooms:  China's Infiltration of American K-12 Schools" by Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization.  Confucius Classrooms, are, purportedly, "centers that teach Chinese language and culture."  According to the book Hidden Hand:  Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World, by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg: "Initiated in 2004 as an innocuous way to spread the Party narrative... ostensibly devoted to teaching Chinese language and promoting Chinese culture they are, as former propaganda chief Li Changchun put it, 'an important part of China's overseas propaganda set-up.'"  In 2020, the US Department of State and the US Department of Education warned about the Confucius programs at American colleges and universities, and designated them as foreign agents: [...]

Meet the Avowed Marxist Who Decides What Books Go in Your School Library.  Emily Drabinski, a self-described Marxist, is president of the American Library Association (ALA) and says that "public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing.  Libraries really do, too."  Rogue journalist — and I mean that as a huge compliment — Karlyn Borysenko just spent three days "undercover at the largest socialist conference in the country" and brought back hidden audio recordings that might do Project Veritas and O'Keefe Media Group founder James O'Keefe proud.  Saying that "it's all fun and games until someone infiltrates a socialism conference," Borysenko snuck into the Socialism 2023 conference at the Chicago Hyatt Regency over the weekend — complete with the obligatory purple hair, oversized black glasses, red knit cap, and COVID virtue-signaling face mask.  "The Socialism conference is live-streaming some of their sessions," she explains in her introductory YouTube video. "I'm getting the stuff they're not live-streaming.["]

University Of Alabama Dean:  Identity Politics Is 'The Whole Purpose Of The University'.  Want to know how diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology has begun to take over public higher education in Alabama?  Read Scott Yenor's recent report, "Going Woke in Dixie?: The progress of DEI at the University of Alabama and Auburn University."  He details the effects of the University of Alabama's "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) strategic plan, lists the number of well-paid diversity officers, and catalogs how athletics and Greek life have been subordinated to DEI ideology.  His description of DEI at Auburn University is just as comprehensive. "Going Woke in Dixie?" provides chapter and verse on just how badly DEI has colonized Alabama's system of public higher education.

Why Young Americans Are Not Taught About Evil.  Most of our schools teach almost nothing of importance, and nothing is more important than the study of good and evil.  In the United States today, nearly all schools, from elementary through graduate, concentrate on teaching about racism, sexism, preferred pronouns, homophobia, transphobia, LGBTQIA+, climate change, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and white guilt.  In other words, most of our educational institutions, including the most prestigious, do not educate.

Activist Educators Are Brainwashing Our Kids About The So-Called Climate Crisis.  Hammering K-12 school children nonstop about the dangers of climate change in every class, even math, art and gym, is child abuse.  Barely one-third of fourth graders can read or do math at grade level, according to the latest national scores, but climate activists are demanding kids hear about global warming in every class.  New Jersey mandates it, and now Connecticut is following suit as the school year opens.  In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is requiring every public school participate in Climate Action Day.  The climate push is nakedly political, spearheaded in New Jersey by the governor's wife, first lady Tammy Murphy, a founding member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. [...] Climate change is the Left's religion.  The messaging is as heavy-handed as catechism in a religious school.  It's also scary.  Children are being told that global warming is killing their favorite animals.  At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, first graders are taught that transportation, heating, and raising livestock are "making Earth feel unwell."

America's top law schools are openly abandoning the Constitution.  America was founded as a nation that had the rule of law.  The Constitution is the fount of those laws.  It, in turn, looks back to the best of the British legal system.  The Constitution is what has maintained stability in America and, when we've erred as a nation, it's the compass that has put us back on the path of ordered liberty.  And for 250 years, America's lawyers have been the repository of constitutional wisdom and the guardians of the rule of law.  That's why every one of us should be deeply concerned by a report showing that, at the nation's ostensibly "top" law schools, professors are attacking the Constitution and demanding its deletion.

Teachers' unions trained educators to 'indoctrinate' students with 'radical progressive ideology': Report.  An August report from the Defense of Freedom Institute, a conservative nonprofit organization, revealed that teachers' unions trained their members to "indoctrinate" students with "radical progressive ideology" despite outspoken opposition from parents.  DFI's latest report, "Summer of Woke, The Sequel," follows a 2022 report that exposed the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers for pushing "racialized" school policies and gender ideology.  Last year's report also accused the NEA and AFT of lobbying for abortion.  According to the DFI, the 2022 report drummed up negative press for the NEA, leading it to take steps to "conduct its 'New Business Items' in secret" during its annual meeting this year.

Fighting the Flying Monkeys.  Almost 50 years ago my husband and I took issue with the public education our grade-school-age kids were receiving.  They were being exposed to courses that taught kids that parents and clergy were suspect, that euthanasia was an appropriate course of action, that evolution was fact, that the occult would help them discover their true identity, that there was no real, absolute truth.  Fifty years ago!  We succeeded in removing our children from the offending courses, but we seemed to be nearly alone in our concern.  We knuckled down and diligently untaught our kids the nonsense they were being exposed to in the classroom.  I even taught in the public schools, grateful for being able to close my classroom door and teach truth.  But even then, it became evident that I was making a dangerous compromise.  We have, as a nation, done just that.  We want all our children to be educated, but we also want freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of political opinion.  If we truly have that freedom, we have to admit that there is no middle ground, there is no neutral position when dealing with the important ideas.  There is good and there is evil.  There is nothing in between.

America and the Common Characteristics of Authoritarian Regimes.  [#5] Education Becomes Brainwashing:  The best way to crush a rebellion is to target potential rebels when they are young.  Like entertainment, the syllabus is tailored to glorify the regime and denigrate opponents.  When the young who consume this syllabus grow up, they become blind and staunch proponents.  In China, the syllabus consistently extolls the achievements of the Chinese Communist Party.

In Canada, the youngsters are being indoctrinated into euthanasia doctrine by the state.  In Canada, physician-assisted suicide is so normalized there are now memes about it. [...] Any person of faith or morals who opposes this is shut out from the debate here. [...] The only value presented in medically assisted suicide is that of self-direction and control of one's own destiny as if everyone is his own autonomous god and is taking the bull by the horns in seeking medical suicide in order to die with dignity, instead of what is really going on, which is being put down like an ailing farm animal by the vet, which is no dignity at all.

Democrats Try to Go After Moms.  How did moms top the list of problematic Americans?  Simple: they cared about their kids.  To be more specific, they cared about what was happening in their kids' schools, what they were being taught, and conversely, what they weren't being taught.  Moms noticed the left-wing indoctrination while "distance learning" during COVID.  They were able to pay attention and heard an endless stream of anti-American lies and gender insanity with their own ears.  They were also able to see the education of their children take a backseat to these and other left-wing concerns.  Kids couldn't read or do basic math, but they knew to dutifully obey whatever pronouns some classmate in need of therapy insisted was real on a daily basis.  Moms were not amused.

California's new Marxist math.  California has approved new radical K-12 math standards that are openly a vehicle for Marxist ideology.  The stated goal is equity in math learning for non-whites and those from low-income families.  The framework notes that "black, latinx, indigenous, women and poor students" have been underrepresented in the curriculum throughout history."  Equity will be implemented in the curriculum by dumbing down and sugar-coating the lessons and infusing them with political issues and student organizing.

Crybullies and Beyond: Four Additional Ways the Left Resembles Nazis.  [#1] The far left and the Nazis insist on indoctrinating children:  We shouldn't have to spend that much time documenting this particular parallel with what is taking place in our society, schools, and certain stores.  It should be obvious that this is a form of indoctrination or recruitment into their cult.  They always insist on performing before young impressionable children and indoctrinating youth in school instead of educating them, why?  We all know the reason, it's the same reason that the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party insisted that children join the Hitler Youth and that the Soviets insisted that children join the Komsomol.  This similarity is in combination with the fact that as collectivists, they think that children belong to society to mold and shape as they please.

The Lawlessness of Yale And Other Law Schools.  Yale Law School professor Oona Hathaway wrote an especially revealing Guest Essay in the pages of the New York Times.  By aiding the government's exceptional indictment against a former U.S. president, she may have violated several laws; the American Bar Association (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct; and the American Association of Law School (AALS) Statement on "Law Professors in the Discharge of Ethical and Professional Responsibilities."  Hathaway's essay demonstrates how extreme ideological fervor can make law professors "legally blind" to what the law actually says.

Keywords:  Loon, snowflake, commie.
College Professor Says American Flag Causes Him 'Anxiety'.  A Marquette University professor said the American flag makes him "anxious" in a National Public Radio interview Wednesday.  Philosophy Professor Grant Silva told an interviewer with WUWM, an NPR affiliate station in Milwaukee, that he feels "anxious" when he sees an American flag.  In the interview, Silva described how "excessive imagery" of American flags is borderline "nationalism."  "I also get a little bit anxious around the excessive imagery of the flag in part because in my experience, patriotism quickly slips into nationalism," Silva said.  "Especially the simplistic version of patriotism, the flag-waving, my country love it or leave it kind of attitude.  That is just a hop, skip and a jump away from becoming nationalism."

The Left Is Strategically Brain-Washing Kids at Every Grade Level.  They are coming for your kids and if you don't believe me, just listen to these commies say it for themselves.  [Video clip]

Radio Free America.  [Scroll down]  On the subject of so-called teachers: in Colorado, the largest teachers union came out with a strong statement against... wait for it, capitalism!  At its 97th Annual Delegate Assembly in April, the Colorado Education Association formally voted to oppose capitalism as an economic system.  Does this clear and present danger resonate with you?  Why would anyone want their children taught by people like this?

A Devastating Exposé of America's Colleges.  It has become so generally known that the Left has infiltrated our colleges and universities that people seldom bother to produce the evidence of it.  Without evidence, many who would like to see a return to depoliticized campuses tend to forget how bad things have become.  We need a loud alarm bell to arouse us.  Professor Stanley K. Ridgley has written just the book we need:  Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities.  In it, Ridgley, who teaches at Drexel University, blows the whistle on the ugly phenomenon of using college to turn students into zealots who despise America.  In the book, we learn about the organizations that are behind this covert operation and the tactics they use.  If you are inclined to think that the Left's control over our educational institutions is regrettable but not a matter of great concern, Brutal Minds is essential reading.

'Your speech is violence': the left's new mantra to justify campus violence.  "Silence is violence."  When those words became a popular mantra years ago on college campuses, I wrote that the anti-free speech movement was moving toward compelled speech while declaring dissenting views to be harmful.  Today, it isn't just silence that is considered violence on college campuses.  It is also speech, as both faculty and students are actively shutting down opposing views on subjects ranging from abortion to climate change to transgender issues.  Recently, many people were shocked by a videotape of Hunter College professor Shellyne Rodríguez trashing a pro-life student display in New York.  Most were focused on her profanity and vandalism, but there were familiar phrases that appeared in her diatribe to the clearly shocked students.

'The whole place is run by far left lunatics!' CUNY professor unleashes on 'Marxist' faculty.  A CUNY Law professor who has previously complained about the university's alleged anti-Semitism says the entire place is being run by a faculty of 'far left, Marxist lunatics.'  The comments come after a shocking commencement speech on May 12 by pro-Palestine law graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed, who accused Israelis of 'settler colonialism' and called for 'rage' to tackle the 'fascist NYPD'.  It was the second year in a row the school — one of the largest in New York City, which receives more than half its funding from government — allowed such pro-Palestine, anti-Israel remarks at the graduation ceremony.

Are Public Schools Broken, Or Are The Defects Part Of The Design?  Today's government schools were first designed in the mid-19th century with heavy contributions from Horace Mann, one of the leading education reformers in America.  He was an admirer of the schooling system being developed in Prussia, featuring a standardized curriculum, widespread testing, compulsory attendance, professionalization of teachers, and career training.  It was an authoritarian, top-down model that emphasized the collective over the individual. [...] Mann's quest to industrialize education set up a framework — the foundations of a system — that other education reformers were then able to use to indoctrinate millions of children.  Among others we might mention, John Dewey certainly takes the lead.  A secular humanist who theorized an atheist utopia, Dewey stated the following in his book "My Pedagogic Creed":  ["]I believe that every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling; that he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.  I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.["]  Dewey's "true kingdom of God" was government.

Inmates Take Over the Asylum at a Kansas High School.  The good news is that not every teacher in the schools across the nation is an agendized leftist culture warrior.  Some teachers actually practice virtues like dignity, values, and common sense, and embrace ideas such as free speech and critical thought.  The bad news is that such teachers seem to be much fewer in number than their guerrilla counterparts and face uphill battles in their efforts to reintroduce sanity to the classroom.  Caedran Sullivan, a 15-year veteran English teacher at Shawnee Mission High School in Overland Park, Kan., is one such teacher.  And she is paying the price.  Sullivan had become fed up with the woke culture at the school, which she says fostered an atmosphere of contempt and disrespect, according to The Blaze.  To that end, she penned two op-eds in an online magazine called The Lion, which advocates a Christian approach to education.

Kansas public school teacher: Yes, your children are being indoctrinated.  Parents and taxpayers need to know what's going on in the Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD).  As an English teacher employed in the SMSD for 15 years, I can no longer stay silent about the state of our schools.  I will be attacked and threatened, but for the good of our district and the students with whom we are entrusted, I must speak out.  This is too important.  Amidst a worsening teacher shortage that saw SMSD pay $3.5 million to out-of-state agencies to recruit and retain more educators, we are losing good teachers because of an imposed divisive rhetoric that does not inspire mutual goodwill.  In my school alone, three teacher-coaches left in March and recently, in one day, four more teachers said they are contemplating leaving the profession.  We are being manipulated and intimidated by a divisive "woke" ideology that is creating a culture of contempt and disrespect.

673 university professors sign letter opposing courses on America's founding, Constitution.  Hundreds of professors at the University of North Carolina signed a public letter Tuesday opposing legislation that would require university students to take courses on America's government and founding documents.  The 673 UNC Chapel Hill professors revealed the public letter Tuesday, arguing the new courses and another bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives would constitute an infringement on the university's "academic freedom."  The first piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America's founding and history.  Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five essays from the Federalist Papers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Gettysburg Address.

Seething Rage in former Institutions of Higher Learning.  The rejection of free speech has seeped out of our universities into K-12 schools and into the culture generally, where it breeds dogmatism, hatred and even violence (talk about fascists?).  One would think that anyone of even modest intelligence would see how dangerous this is but the enormous levels of narcissistic self-absorption, an essential concomitant to the dogmatic intolerance promulgated by the left, instilled into the young over the past decades, prevents people from seeing anything beyond their own imagined reflections.  It is only common sense that the reason adolescent undergraduates refuse to debate certain issues is that they cannot defend them.  If one is really confident in one's views, one is happy, even eager, to debate them respectfully and civilly.  It is likely that, at some level, the undergraduate censors know that their rote recitation of slogans and bumper stickers in a homogeneous leftist echo-chamber does not constitute a serious position.

University Quiz Says 'Wealthy White Men' Are 'Most Likely' To Be Violent, Irresponsible And Lack Remorse.  A psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) distributed a quiz to students that claimed "wealthy white men" are more likely to be violent, irresponsible and show a "lack of remorse," according to the Washington Free Beacon.  Kirsten Bradbury, an associate professor of instruction at UT Austin's Department of Psychology, gave the quiz to students in her Personality Psychology course, the Free Beacon reported.  One of the listed questions asked students to identify which "sociodemographic group" would be most likely to diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder, which was described as a "racist diagnosis in the way it has been applied."

Socialism in Our Schools.  Someone has made the claim that socialism is being taught in our junior college in our town.  Some official discounted that possibility and challenged him to "prove it."  Now, that would be difficult to do. [...] No teacher is going to stand up in class and say, "Children, today we are going to learn about the benefits of socialism."  They know that a few people who have studied the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution might find serious objections.  But there is nothing stopping the teacher from extolling one government program or another.  Welfare is just one government program that involves more and more government at all levels.  We are used to that, and in fact expect the government to do more.  Never mind that in the past, individuals, churches, and charitable organizations took care of the needy; now it is just assumed that the government has to do it.  So if a teacher happens to suggest that welfare is good, that teacher is teaching socialism.

Utah Teacher Has Kids Eat Bugs Because Cows Are Destroying the Environment.  [Scroll down]  I have tried eating ze bugs.  I know whereof I speak when I say I'll take a pass.  I'll take a cheeseburger every time.  Except on steak night.  Which is tonight.  But of course, there are those who have been baptized into the First Church of Climatism.  Some, if not most of these folks I think, enjoy the power that comes with posturing, hectoring, and bossing people around under the banner of saving the planet.  In fact, I am convinced that 75% of climate outrage is the product of people getting in touch with their inner totalitarian.  With that in mind, we take you to Spring Canyon Middle School in Springville, Utah.  As part of an English assignment, teacher Kim Cutler purchased bugs approved for human consumption from a website and gave them to her students.  It was part of an assignment on — what else?  Climate change.  The premise was that cows, which produce methane, are depleting the ozone layer and should be replaced with ze bugs.

Pathocracy and the Liberal Mind.  [S]tudents can no longer attend school with the expectation of knowledge.  Education in a pathocratic environment is revisionist, dogmatic, and final; and nothing good will come from the programed hostility of activists who are caught in the vortex of liberal propaganda.  These are the ones who hate, who teach their hatred to others, and who are making copies of themselves in the minds of our children.  We see the formation in liberal culture of a synthesis of Marxist ideology and structural racism originating neither from impulse nor anger, but from hatred without a cause, the kind of hatred that can only be learned through instruction in the pure evil of identity politics — the new name for official racism in America.

Virginia teachers union, Democrats oppose teaching about victims of communism.  Democrats in the Virginia state legislature put on hold a bill that would require schools teach about communism and its victims.  Although House Bill 1816, the "Standards of Learning; instruction on dangers and victims of communism," passed the House of Delegates with some Democrat support, it ultimately met its demise in the Democrat-controlled Senate of Virginia, Fox News reports.  The bill was "passed by indefinitely" by the Committee on Education and Health, which means it could be reconsidered at a later date.  If it isn't, the bill essentially will be dead.  Democrats in both legislative chambers voted "nay" following the Virginia Education Association's claim that the bill might lead to negative reactions against Asian students.

Are Whiteboards Racist?  On one hand, college must be a breeze these days, since actually learning something no longer appears to be a requirement on many campuses.  On the other hand, when institutions of higher education are on perpetual crusades against racism, sexism, and whatever other "isms" are currently in vogue, the list of potential targets will inevitably grow short.  That, of course, is bad for business.  After all, no one wants to get all geared up for the Two Minutes Hate with their best piercings and signs, only to find that the mass hysteria has been canceled for lack of something to protest.  And so, the woke prophets must look further and further afield to find targets for their ire.

DEI Has Already Killed Public Education.  During the last few years, most conservatives have become at least dimly aware that leftist ideology, in the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has infected public education.  It's unlikely, however, that many Americans realize just how far the disease has advanced.  It has long since spread beyond a few courses embedded into the social studies curricula of secondary schools and elite colleges.  Public school students as young as 9 and 10 years of age effortlessly recite leftist shibboleths even as they descend into functional illiteracy in reading, writing, math, and science.  If this sounds like "right-wing extremism," consider this:  Last fall, hundreds of Philadelphia-area fourth- and fifth-grade students participated in an essay contest, sponsored by the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement, in which they were asked to outline proposals for a hypothetical new amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Their amendment proposals included abolishing the Electoral College, providing everyone with free health care, limiting gun possession to individuals who need them for military and hunting uses, guaranteeing a living wage to everyone, and imposing term limits on U.S. Supreme Court justices.  Sound familiar?

Critically Thinking About Our Education System - Part 1.  The US education system is a behemoth.  IMO it is made purposefully complex (e.g., with its own language — this is designed to keep interlopers [like you and me] out).  It is also an elitist culture — where parent, citizen, legislator, etc. inquiries are patronizingly dismissed.  Their message is:  thank you for your interest but you are out of your lane, so leave the educating of your children to us, the experts.  We know best...  My commentary here is an attempt to help you to penetrate this domain.  To start with, I WILL stay in my lane.  I'm a professional scientist (physicist) so my comments will exclusively pertain to Science.  To further refine my focus, I will only discuss K-12 Science education.  [Note that few K-12 Science teachers actually have a Science degree, so the reality is that most of them are actually intruding on MY lane.]  Not surprisingly, the protectorates of the education cabal have also made K-12 Science education complicated.  So this commentary is just about one aspect of K-12 Science education: an overview of how the K-12 Science curriculum comes about.

Critically Thinking About Our Education System - Part 2.  As a reminder, this is the relationship of the three main education elements:  FRAMEWORK --> STANDARDS --> CURRICULUM  (in layman terms:) Messages --> Methodology --> Mechanics  At the end of Part 1 we left off after progressives cooperated in generating a K-12 Science Bible (Framework is their term), which they then massaged into a sister document that states could directly use as Science standards.  The later is called the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).  [These are the first two elements above.]  These two documents are packaged and marketed to convey that they are quality efforts, constructed by independent Science experts.  IMO these are a Trojan horse:  attractive on the outside, but not so good inside.  The attractiveness of this deception is one reason why some forty-five (45) states have adopted all or most of these!

Donald Trump Unveils Plans to 'Save American Education' from 'Radical-Left Maniacs'.  Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday detailed his comprehensive education policy platform which aims to "restore power to American parents."  It includes plans to cut funding to schools and programs that push radical left-wing ideologies like "Critical Race Theory and gender ideology," and keeping boys out girls' sports.  Trump unveiled his "plan to save American education" by noting that "[o]ur public schools have been taken over by the radical left maniacs."

How the Deep State Destroyers Threaten Your Way of Life.  The Destroyers know they have limited time to do their mischief before they're found out.  Once light shines on them, like cockroaches, they'll scurry to the darkest recesses they can find.  These people know that the clock is ticking, and it is getting harder and harder to hide the damage they are doing to us all. [...] Perhaps nowhere else have we been so damaged than in our educational systems, from pre-K to doctoral.  Termites of evil and misinformation at our schools have eaten away at our traditional foundations, invisible from the outside until they swarm.  Our schools are shot through with manipulation, reinvented histories, and strident haters of America.  There are many ways we could put a stop to this crisis that will affect the next generation of citizenry.  Parents need to regain the power and oversight they ceded all too readily.  They must oust those on school boards and in teachers' unions who are complicit in the brainwashing of America.

America's Future is Bleak When Only 27% of the Younger Generations are Proud to be American.  As recently as 2004, 91% of Americans were extremely or very proud to be American and the United States ranked first in the world in national pride.  However, in less than twenty years there has been a stunning reversal that portends a dire future for the United States as a precipitous erosion in national pride has undermined societal confidence, self-reliance, optimism, and cohesion.  A recent poll revealed that a record low of just 68% of the citizenry are extremely or very proud to be American.  However, underlying that overall dismal outcome is the reality that among the two youngest generations only 38% of Millennials and 16% of Gen Z are proud to be American despite being the beneficiaries of living in a unfathomably prosperous nation that has not known any profound national adversity since the Great Depression.  What we are seeing play out is the reality of demographic change in America as the younger mal-educated generations account for over half of the populace and are increasingly becoming culturally and politically influential.  Within these generations an overwhelming majority have been indoctrinated by socialist/Marxist ideologues to believe that a capitalist United States as founded is irredeemable and must be transformed.

Mathematx is the new hotness.  We all know that math is racist.  It is used to enforce Whiteness on people by emphasing universalism (there is a truth) and requiring precision (apparently your ability to be precise is highly dependent upon melanin content in the skin).  It is a construct that is inherently anti-radical as it assumes some inherent structure to the universe, and that there are "right" answers and wrong ones.  That, at least, is the contention of some mathematics educators, including Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez of the University of Illinois at Urbana.  Dr Gutierrez teaches not only Latina/Latino studies, but is also a professor at the School of Education, focusing on curriculum and instruction.  In other words, she is one of the people who trains students to become teachers.

A Group of Pennsylvania Teachers Prove It Was Always About Indoctrination, Not Education.  Public schools have become a minefield.  Sending your kids to one is a gamble as winding up in the wrong classroom could put them into the clutches of an activist posing as a teacher, and as we've seen more and more over the years, these activists are everywhere. [...] While I wouldn't do something so ridiculous as to label every teacher a bad actor — I know plenty of honest and good ones — the analogy of the jar of M&Ms is fitting here.  If you had a jar of 10,000 M&Ms but even just 10 of them were poisoned, would you still eat from the jar?  Your life is over if you choose poorly.  In the case of getting the wrong "teacher," it's your kid whose life gets destroyed.  Recently, the school district of Central Bucks, Pennsylvania saw the school board ban flags and banners that have political or social importance.  This means LGBT flags, Black Lives Matter flags, Antifa banners, and more were not allowed to be displayed in public schools.  This is absolutely reasonable as a teacher's personal politics should have no bearing on what the students are learning.  However, teachers from the schools didn't find this acceptable and decided to protest.  See for yourself just how many teachers protested.  You'll notice it's quite a few, and worse, they have students in tow as well.  [Tweet]

Why Families Are More Important Than Ever.  Your favorite politicians, journalists, teachers, and even celebrities are uninterested in truth and instead are interested in pushing a specific agenda (whatever that agenda happens to be). Every news organization out there has a specific slant they consistently maintained, pushing out independent minded journalists in favor of people willing to submit to whatever narrative is currently popular amongst readers.  State funded schools, unsurprisingly, favor statist policies.  Regardless of whether your children are in public schools, private schools, or in home schooling, you have the power to dispel some of this propaganda.  You can spend time teaching your kids about your values and philosophies and why they're important to you.  You can help point out some of the flaws and shortcomings in the lessons they've learned elsewhere.  But most importantly, you can spend time teaching them the power of critical thinking, so they can reliably assess the accuracy and veracity of the information they encounter in the future.

Only 16% of Gen-Z adults proud to be American.  Would this outcome really surprise anyone — especially those who have kept pace with the way education and curricula have evolved over the last few decades?  My generation may have been the last to get fully instructed on American civics, values, and the worth of our small-r republican institutions.  Since that time, American students have gotten a full dose of Zinn-esque education on American history, plus a curricula soaked in critical race theory assumptions, if not overt and explicit CRT itself.  Why would we expect any other outcome from such a survey?  The surprise here may be that one in seven young adults still have any patriotic feelings about America at all.

A Key Lesson in Education Policy: You Don't Make Peace with Termites.  For most of the last century, the "progressives" have been taking over the nation's education system at every level.  Pick any teacher, professor, or administrator and the chances are high that he or she is utterly dedicated to the Leftist project of replacing our liberal (in the true sense of the word) society with their vision of a properly regulated one.  By controlling education, the Leftists implant the ideas they favor into students (including collectivism, egalitarianism, and acceptance of authority) while at the same time repressing ones that work against them (such as individualism, skepticism of authority, and belief in the spontaneous order of liberty).  Due to the phenomenal success of that project, school and college curricula are saturated with hostility to Western civilization.  Teachers are trained in "education schools" that promote failed pedagogical concepts while at the same time demonizing anything that's remotely conservative or libertarian.  Overwhelmingly, the people who work in state education bureaucracies have been steeped in leftist ideology.  They are far less concerned about how well students learn to read, write, and do math than with turning them into zealous advocates for their pet causes.  And once students get into college, the drumbeat for "progressivism" continues.

Thought Control and Morality on Campus.  Throughout the campus of a major urban university, two signs dominate.  They are found inside and/or immediately outside every elevator on campus.  One sign is a list of eight sexual harassment behaviors that are rejected and deemed despicable by the university.  The other sign pertains to discrimination and lists 21 areas of potential discrimination that will not be tolerated by the university.  Thus, there are 29 despicable behaviors that are verboten.  None are defined by the warnings, but the seriousness of breaching any of these prohibited behaviors is clear.  Anyone who has "encountered" any of these behaviors is given an office to call, and a telephone number.  No specific punishments are mentioned for engaging in any of these behaviors. [...][ These commands are ever-present reminders that the Orwellian Big Brother is watching you and will call you to account in some unspecified way if you make the egregious mistake of falling into any of the 29 grievous behavioral errors.  Positive words and terms like respect, courtesy, patience, consideration, sociability, kindness, golden rule interactions, self-restraint, integrity, purity, brotherhood of man, or responsibility are not on any posters.

Teachers trying to protect their students from Christian symbols.  Incredibly — and illogically — the same teachers who push Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the classroom and revel in discussing every conceivable sexual orientation and practice with young students are absolutely determined to keep their charges from being exposed to any Christian symbols during the Christmas season.  In fact, they don't want you to even say the word "Christmas."  The blog We Are Teachers recently reposted a 2018 Facebook article titled "Holiday Decorations Don't Belong in Classrooms — Period."  So, it's okay to adorn one's classroom with a LGBTQ and/or BLM flag, but not with Christmas decorations?  Yup.  Why?  The article cited a number of reasons, including the fact that "not everyone celebrates Christmas."  Well, not everyone celebrates gay pride or the burning and looting of American cities, either, but that doesn't seem to matter to these insane "educators."  Another reason listed was, "The holidays are difficult for a lot of kids."  Yeah, well I'd say being forced by adults to talk about sexuality is difficult for all kids.

10 Steps to Save America.  Our universities are failing to produce competent graduates essential to a meritocratic nation engaged in fierce global competition.  Increasingly, students are politicized, largely ignorant, indebted, bitter, and unable to ensure American preeminence in basic science, technology, engineering, and math.  Yet the solutions are again simple:  get the government out of the student-loan business that ensures escalating tuition hikes greater than the rate of inflation.  Eliminate faculty tenure and replace it with five-year contracts that require demonstrable achievement.  Subject large endowments to taxation on their interest income to curb their wasted spending.  Allow public schools to hire either those with school of education credentials or one-year master's degrees that focused solely on academic study.  Require standardized exit tests, in the fashion of erstwhile SAT and ACT entry tests, for the certification of the bachelor's degree.  Force universities to follow the Bill of Rights on campus, regarding due process and freedom of expression.  These are not radical suggestions.

Educator brags about indoctrinating kids, then complains about 'right-wing' reporting on it.  A Chicago-area high school "literacy coach" recently recorded a video of herself in which she admits to indoctrinating the students in her charge.  Fox News reports Crete-Monee High's Heather Marie Godbout, a member of the school's Equity Team, also rips "right-wing conspiracy theorist nut jobs" in her video and notes she is opposed to traditional grading policies — because grades get "conflated with other things that aren't actually learning, like effort or 'work ethic,' whatever that means."  "All you right wing conspiracy theory nut jobs who seem to think the teachers are out here just indoctrinating children into some sort of woke agenda that you can't actually define, I'm just going to come clean," Godbout says.  "I am, in fact, indoctrinating your children."

The Left Preaches, but Doesn't Practice, Diversity.  [Scroll down] Another study from a Brooklyn College professor found, "Democrats dominate most fields.  In religion, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans is 70 to 1.  In music, it is 33 to 1.  In biology, it is 21 to 1.  In philosophy, history and psychology, it is 17 to 1.  In political science, it is 8 to 1."  This analysis of liberal-arts colleges ranked highly by US News and World Report, "Found no field in which Republicans are more numerous than Democrats."  It's not only academic institutions not walking the diversity walk, but also tech companies.  These are the companies quick to pressure customers or even entire states that for example feel it is inappropriate for young girls to use a men's bathroom, all in the name of tolerance and diversity.  But when it comes to political diversity, these companies fall short and feel no need to practice this type of diversity themselves.

A Republic if You Can Teach It.  President Biden has a civics lesson that he is fond of and regularly repeats.  It is about how the United States is unique in the world because of the founding ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.  "Unlike every other nation on Earth, we were founded based on an idea," he notes before adding that "while we've never fully lived up" to those principles, "we have never given up on them."  An overwhelming majority of Americans, 89%, agree that a civics education about those founding principles is "very important."  And yet, a similar majority across the political spectrum, 71%, do not believe that their children receive "an honest picture" of American history in school.  Those are among the findings from a recent nationwide survey conducted by RealClear Opinion Research in concert with the conservative Jack Miller Center.  Americans overwhelmingly express a healthy appetite for civic education, but report a general dissatisfaction with what they believe is currently offered in the K-12 classroom.

A non-fiction book for kids helps explain 2022's non-existent Red Wave.  I'm certain that garden-variety illegal fraud, combined with the legal fraud of ballot harvesting and mail-in voting, went a long way to explain how Americans suffering terribly in a bad economy did not deliver a wipeout to the Dems in the 2022 midterms.  I also reserve a great deal of blame for the GOP, which is trying hard to drive MAGA from its ranks and is willing to lose to do so.  But one cannot get past the fact that the American population, after 60 years of leftist education, may be incapable of connecting cause and effect.  That brainwashing is everywhere, including ostensibly non-fiction educational material for the 8-12-year-old set.

Mother of NYC heiress paid 'deprogrammer' big bucks after daughter 'brainwashed' by college's woke agenda.  New York City pharmaceutical heiress Annabella Rockwell is claiming that her mother paid a $300-a-day "deprogrammer" after believing her daughter had been "brainwashed" by attending an all-female elite liberal college that left the young woman "totally indoctrinated" and estranged from the parents who raised her.  "I left school very anxious, very nervous, very depressed and sad," Rockwell, now 29, recently told the New York Post.  "I saw everything through the lens of oppression and bias and victimhood.  I came to the school as someone who saw everyone equally.  I left looking for injustice wherever I could and automatically assuming that all White men were sexist.  My thoughts were no longer my own."

From a Time When Communism Was Taught Right.  When I was a senior in high school, I was required to take and pass a government class as a condition to graduate.  My teacher was a retired Illinois state trooper.  Naturally, my teacher had certain opinions about the criminal justice system and the courts.  My teacher was not a big fan of the Miranda decision.  His issue was not against informing a suspect about his rights; it was more about how the landmark decision was used to invalidate many good arrests on picayune issues.  He complained that career criminals, especially murderers, would have their charges dropped by weak judges for matters not related to the arrest.  With this particular teacher, things were black and white, either right or wrong.  There was no middle ground.  I think that because of his law enforcement background, he was also very anti-communist.  He spent minimal time on the U.S. and Illinois Constitution, but we painstakingly labored over the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago.  We spent several weeks reading and discussing summaries he passed out in class.  The final exam was even more intense. [...] Fast-forward to today.  First, I doubt that any teacher would have the courage or even be allowed to teach that material.  Instead, educators today like to highlight the merits of communism in Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and especially China.

Are You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago?  Children in the 1950s recited the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, took part in schoolyard flag-raising, learned the evil of communism, respected their parents, were not exposed to inappropriate material in school or at home, attended church with their (two) parents, worked chores and odd jobs, and idolized their nation's Founders.  In sum, they grew up in an atmosphere of order and respect, and they were happier and healthier for it.  Freedom means the condition of acting and thinking on one's own, without restriction or regimentation, but if the polls are any indication, a large percentage of Americans now have little idea of what freedom entails.  Otherwise, they would not elect governors and representatives intent on expanding the size and power of government.

The unstated reason why the red wave died.  Culturally responsive teaching integrates academic lessons with politically charged lessons about Critical Race Theory, segregation, gender fluidity, racism, violence, brutality, slavery, graphic death, suicide, fear, anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment, and pornography.  A steady diet of this radical education has mentally destabilized today's youth.  Civics and unrevised American history are in the distant past.  Instead, in "action civics" classes, students learn about Black Lives Matter and community organizing, with students becoming America's Red Guards.  Xi Van Fleet, who as a child lived under the tyranny of Mao's Cultural Revolution and his young Red Guards, told a Dallas audience recently that she believed she had left communism behind forever, only to find that her son is now a Bernie Sanders-supporter after being indoctrinated in communism in public schools.  None of this is surprising for those who know the real purpose behind the founding of American public education and teacher colleges in the early 1800s.  No, it was not because colonial education was so bad.  Quite the contrary.  The goal of public education was to replace Christianity with secular humanism and indoctrinate students for an eventual socialist America.

Lenin is Educating Your Children.  Try as I might, I can think of no solution to save public education as exists today.  There are outposts of excellence here and there, but even those few bright lights are dimming under the continued onslaught of political correctness, demands for equity, and greed.  Nonstop claims of white privilege, Virtue signaling, critical race theory, and myriad other contrived code words and phrases are all designed to separate us from our history, families, and norms.  Why did we not stop this sooner?  The damage lies before us in children who believe our country was founded on racism and theft.  They are taught to believe that the only way forward is to burn it all down and start over.  The destroyers positively pant at the idea of laying us low, brought to our knees, as the only path back to their vision of social redemption.  You can't reason with those destroyers that have no eyes, no ears, no soul, and no ability to apply logic, reason, or understand history itself.

Washington state school district appoints board director who once labeled cops 'pigs,' encouraged riots.  A Washington state woman who has a history of anti-police statements and once seemed to be encouraging people to riot has been appointed to fill a director vacancy on a city school board.  Talauna Reed was sworn in during an Olympia School Board meeting on Thursday, October 27, according to a press release.

5 out of 11 University of Georgia humanities departments have zero Republican professors: survey.  Five out of 11 University of Georgia humanities departments have zero Republican professors, according to an analysis of the state's election data conducted by The College Fix.  The comparative literature, English, history, religion and sociology departments do not have any Republicans teaching their students.  The classics, geography and philosophy departments each have one Republican professor, and the anthropology, linguistics and psychology departments have two. The Fix contacted the philosophy, religion and history chairs to ask for comment on the tilt of their departments and if they have plans to create intellectual diversity, since these subjects should lend themselves to a variety of political approaches and concepts.

A Case for Federal and State Standards on Teaching about Socialism and Other 'Isms'.  Despite the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, academia is filled with professors who preach a one-sided view of communism and socialism.  The failure of Republican presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan and GOP leaders in Congress to address this has allowed cancel culture to result and now its efforts to stamp out free speech.  Today, employers will not hire people who oppose homosexuality, even on religious grounds.  Statues are torn down and new heroes like the drug addict George Floyd are now heralded.  Folks in academia or government can have their lives ruined for failing to pay fealty to "woke policies much like Mao and Stalin purged suspected capitalists — murdering millions.  Millions of college and public school students know little about the 100 million people who died at the hands of communist and socialist regimes over an 80-year period.  Rather, they are spoon-fed anti-American textbooks by socialists such as Howard Zinn (A People's History of the United States) and Nicole Hannah-Jones "1619 Project."

Academics are becoming trashy.  Academics have leaned liberal for as long as I have been aware of politics, but the lurch Left over merely liberal didn't really begin until the late 80s or early 90s.  Professors were politically liberal, but relatively few of them seemed dedicated to doing nothing but spreading propaganda.  There were the Marxists, of course, but they were mostly fringe figures.  Lots of academics still did real research, even in the liberal arts.  Academics today are a different breed, for whatever reason.  There are still plenty of serious scholars, of course, but they now are the fringe.  And many are hanging up the medieval robes and leaving.  Social justice is the the primary mission of the University today, and that makes it a difficult place to seek truth.  But the problem of academic decline goes deeper than ideological rot.  Many academics have lost all sense of dignity, and more importantly of respect for people with whom they disagree.  Rather than begin with a genuine willingness to understand others who think differently than them, they have open contempt for the plebs.  This doesn't just make them awful people — and many of them indeed are awful people — it also makes them stupid.

Grooming Future Revolutionaries.  The American military is peddling critical race theory, white shaming, queer theory, and left-wing activism to children in its K-12 military schools.  The U.S. Department of Defense ("DoD") runs 160 schools on military bases across the globe serving more than 69,000 children of military personnel.  It employs thousands of teachers.  The DoD's military base education budget exceeds $3.2 billion.  This education system allows for easy transfer from one base to another, but it also allows for central command to dictate changes in curricular emphasis and direction.  Tom Brady, the system's director, created a new division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in 2021 to transform the educational experience in military schools.  Last year, the Department of Defense (DoD) held a DoD Equity and Access (DoDEA) summit to guide common curriculum and practices for the military education system.

How AEA-parent organization NEA gained political clout to promote radical ideologies in American public education.  Teachers' unions have long been controversial in the United States, especially now, as polarizing discussions about public education in America are front and center.  The most prominent teachers' union in the United States is the National Education Association (NEA).  By extension, the NEA has affiliates throughout the country.  In Alabama, it is known as the Alabama Education Association (AEA), which has been operating in the state for over 165 years but has only existed in its current form since 1969.  Paul Hubbert, head of the then-all-white Alabama Education Association, and Joe Reed, head of the all-black Alabama State Teachers Association, merged to create the modern AEA that has been a fixture in Alabama politics ever since.

Why schools won't tell parents what their kids are being taught.  School is starting, but don't count on getting answers about what your child is being taught.  School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround.  That explains the fireworks over a Greenwich, Conn., elementary-school assistant principal, Jeremy Boland, bragging that the school pushes kids to think in a "progressive" way that he hopes will make them Democratic voters.  The school's hiring process, he explains on video, is geared to accomplish indoctrination.  Prospective teachers who are Catholics or over 30 are disqualified.  They're too set in their ways, he says.  Catholics are unlikely to "acknowledge a child's gender preferences" or go against parents, so "you don't hire them."  When the video was released last week, Greenwich authorities immediately put their free-speaking assistant principal on leave.  But Peter Sherr, who served on the town Board of Education for 12 years until December, attests that Boland's comments are "very accurate."

NYC Middle School Teacher Encourages Kids To Throw Bricks At People Who Don't Share Leftist Views.  A new video from Project Veritas has exposed a New York City middle school teacher for encouraging her students to join in violent left-wing protests by throwing bricks at people who are on the other side of the political aisle.  As part of their series exposing liberal bias in academia, "The Secret Curriculum," Project Veritas took to the NYC Department of Education, where they uncovered English teacher Ariane Franco's shocking views.  "This is what I told my students," Franco said to an undercover investigative reporter.  "I was like 'Guys, there's strategic ways to do this [protest].'  You want to... I brought up [a] crazy organization that have done this.  Like, they chose which places to throw bricks in."  "They chose — and they didn't do it in their own neighborhood... They didn't do it in black and brown communities.  Doing it in our own community does not make sense," the teacher said of violent protests where people representing groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa have thrown bricks and other objects.

I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated.  Ten years ago, I changed careers when I discovered how rewarding it is to help young people explore the truth and beauty of mathematics.  I love my work.  As a teacher, my first obligation is to my students.  But right now, my school is asking me to embrace "antiracism" training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply harmful to them and to any person who seeks to nurture the virtues of curiosity, empathy and understanding.  "Antiracist" training sounds righteous, but it is the opposite of truth in advertising.  It requires teachers like myself to treat students differently on the basis of race.  Furthermore, in order to maintain a united front for our students, teachers at Grace are directed to confine our doubts about this pedagogical framework to conversations with an in-house "Office of Community Engagement" for whom every significant objection leads to a foregone conclusion.  Any doubting students are likewise "challenged" to reframe their views to conform to this orthodoxy.

Where are the 'right-wing extremists'?  If you listen to the left, parents of public school students are right-wing extremists because they don't want their children to learn perverse sex, drag queenery, masturbation, pedophilia, and an America [is bad] ideology.  Parents don't want their children to be taught to hate people with a different skin color.  Does that make the parents extremists?  Apparently: Parents have been labeled by the National School Boards Association as domestic terrorists, although the NSBA later apologized for the terminology.  Merrick Garland seconded the motion to label parents as domestic terrorists by threatening to set his DoJ dogs on parents who object to what their kids are being taught in public schools.  So I guess that parents who actually get involved in their children's education by showing up to protest are now threats to our democracy.

The Eutopians want our obedience.  Students once learned the classics in order to glean valuable life lessons from them.  They learned who the heroes were.  They learned why the Bible is the source of our laws.  They learned how to debate in order to present a rational argument to an opponent.  They learned the law, medicine, engineering, technology, and government.  They learned the right way to speak to people, to conduct business, to create personal wealth and well-being for themselves and their families.  They learned honor, decency, decorum, patriotism, and the sacred.  Not so long ago, an education educated.  Today, the left have forsaken education in favor not simply of indoctrination, but of destruction and the creation of an American communist state.  The young leftists in particular are learning to destroy American history, culture, and exceptionalism.  This is a deliberate attempt by Great Resetters who want to create Eutopia — a one-world culture that consists of people who are not educated about history.  These student-victims cannot help but repeat it.

Chicago Public Schools website features appalling video justifying burning and looting.  The Chicago Public Schools are doing a miserable job educating the children of that troubled city.  As Matt Rosenberg of Wirepoints notes, the school system has every incentive to try to redirect anger over its failures onto society as a whole, specifically to white racism.

Wisconsin School Board Bans Pride, BLM Flags From Classrooms.  A Wisconsin school board voted Tuesday to prohibit the displaying of LGBTQ pride and Black Lives Matter flags in classrooms.  The Kettle Moraine school board in Wales, Wisconsin, examined a policy that prohibits educators and staff from "promoting partisan politics and sectarian religious views" which Superintendent Stephen Plum clarified to include pride and Black Lives Matter flags, according to Fox 6.  The board approved the policy at the meeting, claiming that the flags are a violation of the code of conduct because they are political.

Woke Teachers Have No Idea When America Was Founded, Focus On Teaching BLM And LGBTQ Lessons Instead.  This teacher, who doesn't know when America was founded, says she teaches her students about protesting and activism but refuses to teach the curriculum.  [Video clip]

Canadian children are indoctrinated about the wonders of euthanasia.  Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of 25 short stories, many reflecting Vonnegut's 1960s belief that the earth was becoming dangerously overpopulated.  The eponymous short story anchoring the book imagines America as a place in which old people are encouraged to commit suicide, helped along by beautiful, virginal women.  I couldn't help thinking of that story when I read about the guidebook the Canadian Virtual Hospice has prepared for children aged 6-12.  Ostensibly to help children understand a loved one's death, the book seems to encourage euthanasia as a great "life" option.

Harvard University student survey finds tiny percentage of faculty lean conservative.  A Harvard University student newspaper survey of faculty within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences found that just 1.46% individuals who responded lean conservative.  The survey, which received 476 responses and 333 complete responses, was emailed to faculty at Harvard University between April 11 to April 26, found that 1.46% of respondents lean conservative while 82.46% lean liberal.  Of those Harvard University faculty surveyed, 16.08% consider themselves moderate.

Government-Funded Booklet Teaches Canadian Kids to be Suspicious of "Free Speech".  The Canadian government is funding a booklet being sent to schools across the country that teaches children to be wary of people who champion "free speech."  [Video clip]

Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?  There is no longer free speech on college campuses.  Guests who voice minority opinions are in danger of being shouted down or put into physical danger — with the near certainty that their attackers will face few if any consequences.  "Safe spaces," dorms, and graduation ceremonies are often racially exclusive — all knowingly in violation of the spirit and the letter of once vaunted civil rights legislation.  At many colleges, faculty and potential faculty are asked to write "diversity statements," apparently in emulation of the old McCarthy "loyalty oaths" that likewise served both to eliminate any dissent and to frighten would-be apostates.  Any dissident professor will have his biography thoroughly scanned for thought crimes, and then be libeled as a "racist" or "sexist" — as a clear warning to others to keep silent.

Manufacturing Social Justice Warriors on an Industrial Scale.  For over a half century, American institutions of higher education have been guilty of promoting oikophobia — hatred of one's own people and, more generally, Western civilization.  Instruction initially only occurred in traditional academic disciplines like English and Sociology where youngsters learned about America's racism, sexism, and multiple other sins.  Within a few years, America-bashing had its very own departments, notably Women's Studies, Black Studies, and other "grievances studies" departments.  Remarkably, despite the plain-to-see pernicious impact of this "education," it continues to thrive and expand.  America-hating academics resemble drug addicts unable to achieve highs from the original dose and thus must move on to ever-larger amounts.  At some point, alas, this addictive pursuit may prove fatal, and the same may be true in education as our schools continue to demonize America.  The latest installment of this national suicide on-the-installment urge is the burgeoning field of "social justice" as a separate academic major.

To Fight Marxist Education, We Need a New Kind of School.  That last point gets to the nub of it, does it not?  The Educational Establishment, much like the Political Establishment, is not vested in helping young minds grow.  It is interested in placing children in small, windowless boxes and slapping them back should their curiosity dare to poke an occasional hole exposing the illuminated world of knowledge just beyond their grasp.  It is committed to preventing young minds from ever acquiring the essential tools necessary for unlocking limitless potential.  It seeks good "woke" soldiers, not true thinkers.  Thinking is dangerous to any system of control.  Asking "why?" is the dirtiest of words in a system dependent upon intellectual conformity.  Indoctrination, not enlightenment, is the game today.  Those desperate to drink unquenchably from the cup of knowledge must sate their thirst away from the prying eyes of government-controlled institutions, where wrongthink is punished and groupthink is praised.

Elite NYC private schools are teaching kids that American society must be destroyed.  Ryan Finlay is a brave young man.  A senior at the elite private Horace Mann School, Finlay last week published a pointed but measured essay describing the aggressive political bias that's dominated his education on the Bronx campus, where generations of famous and well-connected New Yorkers, from Jack Kerouac to Eliot Spitzer, have matriculated or sent their children.  Faculty "feel obligated to open students' eyes to the inequality that surrounds them," Finlay explained, but that takes the form of "continuous pressure in the classroom to embrace visions of wholesale societal reform."  The message, hammered relentlessly into students' heads at Horace Mann, is that "the system is broken, unable to be reformed, rotten to the core, and deserving of demolition," he wrote.

Seattle High School Makes Student Mentors Pledge to Support Left-wing Causes.  Upperclassmen in a Seattle high school who wish to serve as mentors to freshmen must agree to be kind, have a positive attitude — and support Black Lives Matter, abortion, and other left-wing causes.  Eastlake High School operates a "Link Crew" program, which "pairs juniors and seniors with incoming freshmen to help them navigate the demands of high school," according to KTTH talk-show host Jason Rantz, who broke the story.  "Students are chosen to participate for being 'kind, responsible, a positive role model, has blossoming leadership qualities' in addition to wanting to give back to the school."  In order to participate in the program, students must agree to abide by a code of conduct supplied by faculty advisors Jason Wessels and Michelle Okroy.  Students must initial each statement in the code and then sign the document.  "Students who do not follow through with their promises will be removed," noted Rantz.

Flag Day fades from public schools amid culture wars.  Maybe, with all the focus on exposing students to hot-button cultural issues, there's just no room in the modern American classroom for lessons on Flag Day, the annual celebration of the history of the Stars and Stripes.  A study says more than 30% of children don't know the American flag has 50 stars representing the nation's 50 states.  The survey, released by the homework learning platform Brainly ahead of the holiday Tuesday, also finds that 53.2% of middle and high school students do not discuss Flag Day in their schools.  Still, more than 35% want to learn about it.

One Way Government.  To be credentialed as an 'expert' today, and thus qualify to work within the bureaucracy, you must attend university.  The more prestigious, and most likely progressive, the university you obtain your degree from, the higher you are likely to climb in the deep state.  What this means is that every boss and coworker who a bureaucrat needs to interact with and impress to climb the ladder was required in his or her formative years to absorb the morality of increasingly radical college professors.

I'm a teacher.  Here's how my school tried to indoctrinate children.  Last year, I left my job as a public high school teacher in Salinas, California, after 5 years.  I love helping students realize their vast potential.  But it became clear to me that school officials were obsessed with left-wing indoctrination, and that dissenting voices — like my own — were not welcome.  Right now, public education officials are doing their best to convince concerned parents that an ideology that falsely insists America was founded on systemic racism and that our institutions still discriminate against black Americans like me is not being taught to children.  Well, I'm here to tell you those officials are not being truthful.

A peek into how educrats indoctrinate our children.  As parents, we send our children to public schools to learn English, math, science, history, and other subjects deemed desirable by our society.  Our schools also teach propaganda aimed at transforming America into something like the America that President Obama longed for when he said he wanted to transform America during his administration.  Recently, conservative groups critical of Obama's vision have challenged those school boards and politicians suspected of trying to help Obama transform America.  The defeat of Terry McAuliffe in Virginia and opposition to Critical Race Theory show that parents and taxpayers are wising up to the leftward march of American Public Education.  As I said, I support wresting control of American Public Education from the leftist educrats.  Even as we celebrate the victory of Governor Youngkin and the attention on CRT that is making the news on a regular basis, however, we must not underestimate the educrats' power.  They will not go away quietly.

Florida Textbook Publishers Surrender to DeSantis, Scrub Woke Content.  Textbook publishers are surrendering to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' demands that math instructional materials get in line with state standards, allowing more books to be added to the approved list, according to the Florida Department of Education.  "Publishers are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing woke content allowing the department of education to add 19 more books to the state adoption list over the past 17 days," the Florida Department of Education announced on its website.

Rhode Island teacher told 'all 5' classes how Musk's Twitter buyout is worst thing ever.  A Rhode Island teacher is under fire after tweeting that he explained to all five of his classes that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is the "worse thing that could have happened."  "Of course I explained to my students in all five of my classes today why Elon Musk buying off Twitter is the worse [sic] thing that could have happened," Enrique Sanchez tweeted Monday afternoon.  "No individual and especially wealthy elites should be given these types of opportunities to buy off social media platforms."  [Tweet]  Sanchez's Twitter bio shows he works at Central High School in Providence and is running as a "Leftist Candidate for Rhode Island State Representative." Fox News Digital could not confirm what classes he was teaching at the school.

Report: GOP Warns Raffensperger Of Stacey Abrams' Voter-Education Initiative For GA Students.  Republicans in the U.S. House sent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a letter flagging a report that a voter-education initiative spearheaded by Stacey Abrams is teaching students the state's laws restrict voting, The Washington Times reported Thursday.  The letter, written by Reps.  Rodney Davis of Illinois and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, asked Raffensperger how he plans to combat the initiative, which is taught in Atlanta's public schools, The Washington Times reported.  It was also sent to members of the Georgia State Elections Board and the chair and vice-chair of the Fulton County Elections Board, the Washington Times reported.  Atlanta high school students were asked to attend a democracy class put on by the New Georgia Project, which Abrams founded in 2013, after the city's public schools partnered with the group, as well as Rock the Vote, in August 2021 to implement a "Democracy Class Atlanta" lesson plan focused on "voting rights," according to documents obtained in an open records request, Fox News reported.

American Library Association Picks Self-Proclaimed Marxist as President.  The world's largest library association has selected a self-proclaimed "Marxist lesbian" to serve as its president.  Emily Drabinski was selected as the 2023-2024 president of the American Library Association on April 13, according to a press release.  She currently serves as the interim chief librarian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

House GOPers Preparing Political Earthquake With Legislation to Withdraw NEA's Federal Charter.  A bill co-sponsored by 18 House Republicans would remove the National Education Association's (NEA) 116-year-old federal charter because of the union's hyper-partisanship and support for extreme ideological policies such as critical race theory (CRT).  "The NEA can no longer be considered a public service worthy of its federal charter as it has drifted substantially from its core mission and become a massive political operation dedicated to electing Democrats and imposing a radical progressive agenda on America's schools," reads the bill, HR 7510, which was introduced April 14.  The NEA was chartered in 1906 by Congress "to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States," according to HR7510.  To date, the NEA is the only federally chartered labor union and, with that charter, it is "receiving a seal of approval from and support of their actions by Congress," according to the proposal.

Is STEM Being Politicized?  "To me, science and justice exist in opposition to each other," said James Battle, an assistant professor of sociology in a video for the Science and Justice Research Center (SJRC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  In the same video, Derek Padilla, a physicist, explains that science and justice are about "being more than just in your silo as a science student."  These scenes are the face of the growing politicization of science.  Defenders will say these scientists are doing their duty as good citizens.  In fact, they fail to answer the question:  What is the proper interface between science and public interest?  Should science stand apart from politics, acting as a source of dispassionate advice to society?  Or should science be harnessed for explicitly political aims?  The former apolitical approach is clearly better, as the latter foments skepticism and mistrust.

Florida Rejects Publishers' Attempts to Indoctrinate Students.  Today [4/15/2022], Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran approved Florida's initial adoption list for mathematics instructional materials properly aligned to Florida's Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards.  The approved list followed a thorough review of submissions at the Department, which found 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were impermissible with either Florida's new standards or contained prohibited topics — the most in Florida's history.  Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics.  The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies.  Despite rejecting 41 percent of materials submitted, every core mathematics course and grade is covered with at least one textbook.

University Orders Professors to 'Decolonize' Math, Think Twice Before Citing 'White or Male' Mathematicians.  Is STEM rife with racism?  Is math marred by misogyny?  It seems there's a good chance, judging by a policy at Durham University. [...] Not long ago, decolonization wasn't deemed necessary.  Everything appeared to be going gregariously thanks to an increasingly colorblind culture.  Then suddenly, we were informed we're either evil oppressors or tragic victims unable to societally succeed.  Therefore, the system must be upended in the name of non-negotiable equity.

Here's What the Woke Teachers Are up to in Your Public Schools.  I decided to watch some of the TikToks coming out of woke academia during an episode of RedState LIVE!.  What you see will make you laugh while you pull your kid as far away from these lunatics as humanly possible.  You'll run into such characters as a shaved-headed witch, a devil horned transgender student, and a guy whose crazy I just can't match.  [Video clip]

The Left Did This to Itself.  The messy culture wars in Texas are a backlash against decades of illiberal abuse by the political left.  Conservative legislatures are giving leftists a dose of their own medicine.  It is a readily observable reality that the lay of the sociocultural land allows lefties to express themselves whenever, but does not allow righties to do the same.  Gay pride is glorious.  Straight pride is despicable (and stupid).  Black pride is necessary.  White pride is hate.  The list of double standards is endless.  It only ever goes one way.  That is why a number of states have passed laws over the last decade preventing school districts from essentially endorsing certain viewpoints on charged issues.  Banning Critical Race Theory can be justified on far more grounds than just this one, including the ugly fact that brainwashing young white children to hate themselves is frankly diabolical, if not child abuse, and will invariably have all kinds of negative long-term effects on the psychological well-being of white children.

'Polyamorous, Gender-Fluid, Witch' Crows About Teaching Four-Year-Olds About 'Crazy'.  As the left-wing media continues to insist that untold numbers of teachers across America don't "teach" young children about gender identity, sexuality, and other such things they have zero right to drop on our kids, "educators" who do exactly all of the above continue to come forward and admit they do.  Except preschool teacher "Lois Schwartz" doesn't just admit it, he/she brags about doing so, including in a recent TikTok video posted to Twitter by Libs of TikTok, which scours the internet for left-wing craziness, as reported by The Post Millennial.

1st Grade Teacher Tells Students That Doctors "Guess" The Gender of Babies and Sometimes Make an "Incorrect Guess".  A charter school in Boston held an "identity share" session on a Zoom call with kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders.  During this session, one of the teachers, a transgender man named Ray Skyer, informed the children that when babies are born, doctors "guess" their gender and are sometimes wrong.  On the Zoom call, Skyer was asked to share something cool about himself, and the "coolest" thing about him is apparently that he's transgender.  Before diving into his ridiculous, inappropriate explanation of 'transgender', Skyer reminds the kids that they "touched a little bit about that at the beginning of this week in the book that Ms. Hammond read," suggesting that these K-2 graders were already read a book on being transgender.  This in itself is a totally inappropriate classroom topic for such young kids.

Students who oppose free speech and contracts should lose professional prospects.  Law students who oppose the twin constitutional pillars of free speech and the sanctity of contracts should never work as lawyers.  Journalism students who oppose free speech should also never work in a professional newsroom.  Colleges that encourage their students to embrace illiberal positions against two of the things that make America great are depriving the nation of a new generation of competent professionals.  They are doing the nation a grave disservice, to say nothing of the students they are misleading.  And they should not be permitted to get away with it.

I Asked What My Daughter Would Learn in Kindergarten.  Then the Teachers Union Sued Me.  I'm just like any parent — when I enrolled my daughter in kindergarten, I wanted to know what she would learn.  In response, our school district bullied, harassed, defamed, evaded, and stonewalled me.  Then the teachers union sued me.  I left public school because I no longer felt safe but I'm still taking action to get answers.  Kindergarten is a precious milestone.  Our babies are not babies anymore:  They go to school for full days.  Parents want to know their children are safe at school, and they want to feel confident that their children are receiving a quality education.  I knew many public schools across the country have been politicizing lessons, so I called my principal in the South Kingstown School District in Rhode Island to ask if they teach concepts of Critical Race Theory or gender theory.  That question and the events that followed changed my life.

Why the Classroom Activists Never Give Up.  Social-Emotional Learning supposedly arose out of the COVID-19 pandemic and a need to attend to the emotional psyches of fragile youth.  It is a shift in the role of a teacher from an educator to a therapist and places a high value on a child's emotional competency over academic performance.  After locking kids in their homes, isolating them from their peers, muzzling them with ineffective face diapers, and pounding them with fear and doom for 2 years, activists have swooped in to provide emotional support in the classroom once they were permitted to return.  In typical government fashion, it seems like a solution looking for a problem.  They didn't create SEL to mend the fragile psyches of youth, they damaged the fragile psyches of youth to push SEL.  Social-Emotional Learning is a backdoor for CRT and gender ideology.  After returning to school, some students have complained that rather than work to get them caught up on missing a year of quality instruction, they were instead presented with pseudo-therapeutic questions about their emotional competency.

Will the Real Good Teachers Please Stand Up?  "Those Christian Conservatives... they need to die.  They need to get COVID and die."  That's what an 8th grade teacher in Colleyville, Texas, said to some fellow teachers recently.  She was broadcasting her deep disdain for parents and their "conservative Christian crap."  Thankfully, her egregious attack on parents was exposed.  She was put on administrative leave by her school district.  The teacher resigned later that day.  While parents at her school are thankful she resigned, some are left wondering what else she may have said to their children or whether her contempt for a particular group of people may have impacted the grades of their children.  Now parents of neighboring districts are concerned she may be hired at one of their schools.  Some local parents are even emailing their superintendent and school board members asking them to not hire this teacher.  Parents are terrified of these kinds of teachers — what I call Political Activist Educators — who take their activism out on their students.  This is not just a Texas issue.  This type of activism is happening in schools across America.

The Hater's Guide to Woodrow Wilson.  If you were dragging getting out of bed to start this week, thank Woodrow Wilson.  Daylight saving time is just one of a battery of ways that Wilson and his presidency changed America, most of them for the worse.  I come now not to explain Wilson, but to hate him.  A national consensus on hating Wilson is long overdue.  It is the patriotic duty of every decent American.  While conservatives have particular reasons to detest Wilson, and all his works, and all his empty promises, there is more than enough in his record for moderates, liberals, progressives, libertarians, and socialists to join us in this great and unifying cause. [...] In my youth, and perhaps yours, Wilson was presented in history books as a tragic hero whom the unthinking American people didn't deserve.  He was often placed highly on academics' rankings of the presidents.  Princeton University named its school of international relations for him.

'The Future is Not White': The Normalization of Activist Elementary Education.  [Scroll down]  COVID-19 lockdown policies not only exposed but accelerated the normalization of social justice activism in K-12 education.  Before COVID-19, schools relied on clandestine curriculum and the slow creep of ideological indoctrination.  Now if a parent questions a book or school material, that parent is deemed racist or homophobic.  School staff disregard parents as distractions.  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe announced parents should have no say in curricula.  The Biden DoJ released a memorandum directing the FBI to work with local leaders to combat uncited threats of violence against school boards targeting parents in the process.  Currently, the American Montessori Society pushes activist philosophy on families.  The president of AMS Board of Directors, Amira Mogaji, was a founding board member of Montessori for Social Justice.  This group organized conferences for teachers about "Decolonizing the Human Potential" replete with t-shirts asserting, "The Future is Not White."

The Real Reason Why Biden Wants to Spend Billions on Pre-K.  During his State of the Union Address, President Biden rebranded the failed Build Back Better bill as his bill that would cut inflation, grow the economy, lower costs, and lower deficits.  Then he added that his plan would include universal — free — "Pre-K for every 3- and 4-year-old."  This is appealing to families struggling with high daycare costs so they can work.  Others wrongly believe that children need to be in formal school as early as possible.  Few Americans realize that government control over the rearing and education of young children is a key communist goal for turning our nation toward totalitarianism.

Violence is in the offing and it's the fault of our schools/.  This past week while President Biden puttered about the White House, addled and confused, in his rainbow-striped pajamas, two surveys were released that should chill the blood of even the most progressive among us who still think we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  The first survey was conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and reported that 23% of America's college students now think it's okay to use violence to silence those with whom they disagree, and 66% currently support shouting down a campus speaker whose ideas they don't like.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Nearly one-quarter of our precious darlings, whose education we helped pay for with hundreds of millions of our hard-earned tax dollars, now tell us they have no problem beating us into submission if they don't like our views.

Hidden Footage Shows Angry Texas Teacher Saying Conservative Christians 'Need to Get COVID and Die'.  Over the past couple of years, many public educators have been exposed repeatedly to be the last people you want to entrust your child to.  Be they the type trying to push their politics on your child, expose them to radicalized ideologies, convince them to embrace mental illnesses, or even attempt to introduce pedophilia into their thinking, public school has become one of the hottest political battlegrounds.  The hard leftist teachers in Texas, especially, are having a very rough time as the state continues to crack down on radical social conditioning and forbid schools from implementing unnecessary COVID rules.  One teacher at Colleyville Middle School seems to be so upset by the state cracking down on overboard (and ultimately harmful) COVID precautions that she wished death on her political opposites.

PA school board votes to discontinue mandatory airing of CNN in classrooms.  A Pennsylvania school board has voted in favor of pulling the plug on the mandatory streaming of CNN into middle school classrooms, a major win for those who believe that America's impressionable young minds should be subjected to a diverse variety of viewpoints.  On Monday [2/14/2022], members of the Norwin School Board which is near Pittsburgh voted to end the daily broadcasts of CNN 10, the 10-minute daily digital broadcast that is tailored for young captive audiences and is described by CNN as serving "a growing audience interested in compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom."  The 5-4 vote did not completely ban CNN but rather ended the requirement for it to be broadcast during homeroom as well as eliminating television during the period "unless it is either student, teacher or administrator driven to allow students to socialize and interact with each other," Fox News reported, citing a school district representative.

NYC Middle School Teachers Force Kids to Perform a Pro-Vaccine Song that Looks like it was Sponsored by Big Pharma.  Another day, another video showing children being used to push leftist school teachers agenda.  Proving once again these leftists are doing everything they can to brainwash the youth into believing them.  Ironically, these are the same individuals who constantly yap about how lobbyists are destroying America, how corporations shouldn't be involved in politics, etc.  Yet here they are forcing children to carry signs with big pharma's names on it.  Our teachers unions are nothing more than Democrat controlled propaganda organizations at this point.  [Video clip]

Groups tied to George Soros pump cash into NYC's John Jay College.  Left-wing billionaire George Soros has pumped more than $500,000 into the New York City college that serves as a breeding ground for woke district attorneys.  The Dem donor's charities have funded research and financed programs and a workshop at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by The [New York] Post.  Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center in Virginia, said Soros' team uses cash to throw money into institutions "and make a massive impact that no one realizes that they're making."

GOP pushes US schools to post all class materials online.  Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. are trying to require schools to post all course materials online so parents can review them, part of a broader national push by the GOP for a sweeping parents bill of rights ahead of the midterm congressional elections.  At least one proposal would give parents with no expertise power over curriculum choices.  Parents also could file complaints about certain lessons and in some cases sue school districts.

A Color Map of the Fronts of World War III.  Almost forty years ago, KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned of an assault on the West via leftist ideological subversion. [...] Academia — chiefly leftist humanities departments in universities — has been most effective in recruiting and training that army by indoctrinating impressionable young students with Critical Race Theory (CRT), the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) paradigm, and fallacious theories of gender fluidity.  Hypnotized by vague but thralling theories, their youthful idealism hijacked by specious arguments, they begin to nurse messianic notions.  On graduating, they eagerly join in the revision of national history and the calumniation of religious and ethical principles.

Moms Form Covert Network to Expose Indoctrination Programs Plaguing Private Schools Across the Country.  A growing group of moms from across America — and across the political spectrum — have created a covert network dedicated to combating critical theory pedagogy in private schools accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), and are setting out to destroy what one mother calls the "head of the snake."  The central goal of the group is to expose and put a stop to political indoctrination in their children's schools, declining academic standards, and opaque school governance and financial management — which they believe stems from NAIS.  The moms are of a variety of political leanings — some of whom told Breitbart News they have "maxed out" political donations to former President Obama and to Hillary Clinton — and do not have a collective political ideology.  Their only stance is opposition to political indoctrination of any kind in school.

Substitute California teacher is fired after he was caught on camera slamming eighth-grader's pro-police Blues Lives Matter face mask.  A substitute teacher was caught on camera as he berated a teenage student who is the son of two California police officers for wearing a Blue Lives Matter American flag face mask in support of cops.  Lucas Lillar, 13, who is in the eighth grade at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley, near Sacramento, was filmed by another pupil as the unidentified substitute teacher reprimanded him in front of the class for wearing the cloth mask, which features a thin blue line.  'That's not the American flag, that's the new confederacy flag,' the teacher can be heard yelling while Lucas attempts to defend himself last Monday.

Iowa bill could see cameras installed in classrooms — so parents can livestream.  Conservative lawmakers in Iowa are pushing to have cameras installed in public school classrooms to allow parents to watch via livestreams — as the debate over critical race theory continues to rage.  The lawmakers introduced the bill this week that would see cameras put in almost every K-12 classroom, with the exception of physical education and special needs classes.  Teachers who fail to keep the camera recording, or obstruct its view, could be fined up to 5 percent of their weekly salary each time they are caught doing it, according to the bill.

Mark Levin on MRC Business Study Exposing George Soros' $2.3 Billion Education Behemoth.  Conservative radio host Mark Levin praised a "fantastic" MRC Business study that revealed liberal billionaire George Soros' massive spending on a new global university network.  Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined Levin on his radio show to dig into the details.  Levin told Bozell that the study by MRC Assistant Editor Joseph Vazquez — "America's Most Notorious Billionaire Leaves His Mark on the World from a $2.3 Billion Education Behemoth to Racial Politics" — was "a great service" to "the nation." Levin lauded the study's findings, which exposed Soros' scheme in creating a massive global university network dedicated to indoctrinating the next generation with his anti-American/anti-Western ideology in addition to pouring hundreds of millions into fomenting racial strife in America.  The study "conscisely go[es] through what this man [Soros] has been doing.  Whether it's 'transnational feminism,' whether it's 'critical race theory,' whether it's 'climate change' — all these things that we are battling today — the indoctrination of college students; the enshrinement of radical left professors with tenure and really in many ways the destruction of our school system," Levin said.  "This guy is behind all of it."

Mediocrity in power.  Due to the collapse of education, young Americans en masse have become mediocre — which is exactly what the ruling elite wants.  It's easier to govern such people.  As a result, science and technology are deprived of domestic human resources, and the country's intellectual elite is disappearing.  Engineering departments still exist in colleges and universities, but enrollments lean heavily toward those not born in America.  Go to almost any school and you will find a disproportionate share of students from Asia or of Asian ethnicity, while many of the faculty and researchers are immigrants.

The Disgraceful Howard Zinn.  Despite many serious scholars' denunciations, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has enjoyed phenomenal success since its publication in 1980:  2.6 million (!) copies sold, incorporation into the curricula of innumerable schools, and the achievement of almost iconic status in popular culture.  Mary Grabar's Debunking Howard Zinn:  Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America performs a valuable service by examining Zinn's polemical volume and revealing "just how distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest" it truly is.  A tireless left-wing activist with a Ph.D. in history, Zinn (1922-2010) urged fellow historians, as Grabar relates, to eschew "disinterested scholarship" in order to bring about "a revolution in the academy."  Not all radical academics agreed with his anti-capitalist take on history.  Eugene Genovese declined to review Zinn's opus, which he privately described as "incoherent left-wing sloganizing."  Michael Kammen called it "a scissors-and-paste-pot job" that devoted too much attention to "historians, historiography, and historical polemic" and hence provided "little space for the substance of history."  Kammen acknowledged the need for "a people's history; but not single-minded, simpleminded history, too often of fools, knaves and Robin Hoods."

Conservative activists call 'social emotional learning' a Trojan horse for critical race theory.  Parental and conservative activists nationwide say "social emotional learning" is priming students to learn critical race theory while sidelining parents from caring for their children's mental health.  Now facing scrutiny, retailers of the method insist it only serves to help students manage their emotions and learn empathy.  A defining moment in the push against social emotional learning, or SEL, occurred at a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, at which a local mother called on the Carroll Independent School District to ban SEL, saying it amounted to "advertising suicide."  The harsh charge represents the activist accusation that SEL is a Trojan horse for liberal ideas, including critical race theory and gay and transgender advocacy.

A Deeper Divide.  If you think America was split back in 1861 over states' rights, you should see it now.  Every minority group is yelling wolf and that they won't take it anymore, the only one with their jaws shut tight as if by wire, the WASPs.  Never has America been more ferociously divided, with every movie and TV series showing white men as bloodthirsty criminals, lefty pundits on TV presenting a nation ruled by white supremacists.  Much of the media went slightly hysterical after a so-called conservative won the governorship in Virginia.  All the poor winner did was go against the indoctrination of children in the fine arts of racial hatred, homosexual pornography, and gender neutrality.  Virginia parents rejected critical race theory, which tells black children that white children are inherently evil.  Listening to some of the pundits decrying the Virginia election of a moderate, a visitor from Mars would think a Hitler-Stalin heir had just carried the state.  What actually won Virginia for the Republicans was the simple argument of whether parents have rights over what their children are being taught or not.

All the power to the parents vs. Critical Race Theory.  Raised during the 1960s era of systematic racism and consequential societal change, I have experienced the real-life impacts of our country's world-changing mission statement:  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."  That is what makes recent attempts to institutionalize division and disincentivize parental involvement in the classroom all the more disturbing.  I grew up in a home of teachers.  My dad was a college professor for more than 40 years, and my mom taught junior high.  They were trusted to do what teachers throughout our history have always done:  teach students to read, write, add, subtract, and think critically, nurturing the wellbeing of children at important stages of development along the way.  To this day, I still remember the life lessons learned from both my parents and my teachers.

What other county in the U.S. has a secret curriculum in the public schools?
Loudoun County Forces Parents To Sign NDA-Style Form To View CRT-Inspired Curriculum.  Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is requiring parents to sign a form comparable to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to view a portion of the district's new curriculum inspired by critical race theory, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller.  As part of LCPS' broader equity agenda, the district spent approximately $7,700 to become a "licensed user" of Second Step Programs, a branch of the left-leaning non-profit organization Committee for Children.  According to a copy of the NDA-style form reviewed by the Daily Caller, "eligible parents" at LCPS must sign the document to view the Second Step curriculum.  Curriculum presentations can only be given in person and parents cannot broadcast, download, photograph, or record "in any mannern whatsoever."

These people really believe they own your children.  Everyone has a bias, and teachers have some of the most impassioned dogmas — especially when it comes to the woke, neo-Marxist religion.  Do parents have a right to keep religion out of their kids' schools?  Because when little Jimmy is learning about the 84 genders on the rainbow spectrum, he's being taught a religious faith with no bearing in objective science or history.  Woke teachers have no interest in teaching kids to think independently, but every intention of teaching them what and how to believe.

UC Berkeley Students Happily Pledge Money to Help the Taliban Kill Americans Inside the U.S..  [Scroll down]  Every day at UC Berkeley, these students' professors regale them with propaganda about how America is an evil agent of imperialism, colonialism, and racism, and that the Americans among them should regard their American nationality with shame.  This relentless indoctrination bears the fruit it was intended to bear:  a generation of Americans who not only wouldn't fight to defend this country but would cheerfully aid in its destruction.  That fruit is what this video shows us.

Virginia Voters, Beware the Weaponization of Teachers.  In the educational wars occurring throughout the country, most of the conservative commentary has focused on two parties:  children and parents.  This is because states and school districts are treating children not as individual human beings but as lumps of clay to be fashioned into the image of the State.  Instead of teaching children to think critically and developing their individual gifts, public schools are indoctrinating children in leftist ideology, seeking to destroy their individual identities and reconstruct them into a homogenized group of progressives.  Similarly, many states and districts have begun implementing policies that run roughshod over parental authority.  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe recently affirmed these ideas when he declared that parents should have no right to tell schools what their own children are taught.  All liberty-loving Americans must continue to resist these totalitarian efforts wherever they might be found, and Virginians certainly should consider them when they vote in a few short weeks.

Practical Ways To Push Back Against Leftist Indoctrination In Public Schools.  [Scroll down]  But what's arguably most important for America's future is what's happening in America's schools.  The left thinks it's important too, which is why the FBI, fresh off its legal $86,000,000.00 bank robbery in Beverly Hills, is offering its fedboi protection racket to authoritarian Marxist school board members who are under siege from angry parents nationwide. [...] The time for commentary is over.  The time for action is way overdue.  The National School Boards Association has declared war on concerned parents nationwide, and Randi Weingarten's NEA fully supports the feds going after innocent American parents with every Patriot Act tool at their disposal for the domestic terrorist crime of standing up to the radicalization, sexualization, and racial division of their children in far too many classrooms in America.

Philadelphia Mom Speaks Out, 'Won't Be Intimidated' By DOJ's Targeting Of Parents.  A Pennsylvania mother who previously pushed back against her suburban Philadelphia school district injecting critical race theory into its curriculum in 2020 joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Wednesday [10/6/2021] to sound off on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's directive targeting parents at school board meetings; which allows for the FBI to investigate claims alleged to be "intimidation" or other somewhat vague characteristics.  Elana Fishbein, a doctor of social work from Gladwyne, previously worked to start a nationwide movement after learning of her fourth-grade son's "cultural proficiency" lessons in the Lower Merion Township School District.  Of the texts the younger Fishbein was to be subjected to was "Not My Idea:  A Book About Whiteness" that is meant to "connect" White children "with their instincts about racism," according to its author.

Christian Education and the Future of Western Culture.  The war over education will be a defining issue for the next decade.  Unfortunately, defeating Critical Hate Theory isn't going to stop the poison that already infects our educational system.  Beneath the veil of diversity, inclusion, and tolerance is the acidic educational philosophy that America is evil, that its values need destroyed, and that Western culture is irredeemable.  That is what actually motivates progressive education: hatred of their culture and homeland.

Woke Educator Indoctrinates Little Kids with COVID-Friendly Version of Common Nursery.  Over the weekend, a stunning video began making the rounds on social media that appeared to be filmed by a teacher who was teaching her students a cute little song about wearing their masks to school.

Exactly who or what is the National School Boards Association?  I'm willing to bet that, before this week, most Americans, including parents whose kids are or were in public school, had never heard of the National School Boards Association ("NSBA").  When its president, though, wrote to Joe Biden suggesting that parents who complain about Critical Race Theory, masks, and transgenderism are domestic terrorists, it popped up on our radar.  And when the DOJ promptly agreed with that suggestion by promising to send FBI agents to become involved with local school boards, people started wondering just who or what the NSBA really is. [...] It's a do-good lobbying organization for American public-school boards.  It's when you get into the details of exactly what constitutes doing good as far as the NSBA is concerned that you realize that it is a group completely dedicated to leftist policies.  The word "equity" crops up repeatedly. [...] Equity is a zero-sum game of winners and losers, with the government determining who wins and who loses.  It pits groups against each other, treats individuals based on external, immutable characteristics, glories in victimhood, and generally is antithetical to a free people and a free society.  The NSBA has a whole disquisition on equity.

North Carolina school board passes ethics policy that says teachers can be fired if they teach US historical figures weren't heroes or describe racism as a permanent part of life.  Educators in one North Carolina school district can now be fired if they 'undermine' foundational United States documents or teach critical race theory in their classrooms.  The Johnston County School Board unanimously approved the curriculum policy changes on Friday after county commissioners decided to withhold $7.9 million in district funding.  The all-Republican board of commissioners said they would continue to withhold the funds until a policy was established to 'eliminate the possibility of CRT — Critical Race Theory — teachings and any other potentially divisive teaching topics.'

Video: High School Teacher Bullies Her Unvaccianted Students, Accuses Them Of Killing People — The School Tried To Destroy Evidence.  Tanner is a 10th-grader at Puyallup High School.  He says his biology teacher became upset that some students were improperly wearing their masks.  It set her off on a rant against her unvaccinated students.  She called unvaccinated students "selfish" and said they weren't welcome at school.  She accused her unvaccinated students of killing people by spreading variants of the virus, warning them that they could "literally kill everyone on the planet."  That teacher is now on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into her conduct.  But before the investigation took place, the school's vice principal, who identifies as an abolitionist educator, tried to have the video evidence deleted[.]

Biden must reject using the PATRIOT Act to suppress angry parents' opinions.  [Scroll down]  The abandonment of in-person instruction by teachers unions was very revealing.  It showed that unions are powerful organizations with no concern at all for children's education.  The learning loss they have caused has harmed schoolchildren.  On the other hand, though, a forced increase of involvement in their children's day-to-day education experience has also helped parents wake up to the inanities that certain far-left school boards are forcing upon their children.  The school boards are not happy about the scrutiny.  They have in some cases tried to keep parents out of public meetings.  They are so out of touch and so entitled that they resent being held accountable by irate parents who have started showing up at these meetings.  Parents are unhappy at having their children indoctrinated with toxic racialist ideologies such as critical race theory, which attempts to make children feel bad about the color of their skin.  They have raised the problem of pornographic materials and even child pornography that has been made available in some school libraries, supposedly in the name of tolerance for alternate lifestyles.  Some parents have also come to meetings upset about school mask mandates that have little or no scientific basis.

'The Parents Are The Educators': Virginia Rally Urges Voters To "Push Back" Against School's Liberal Agendas.  Advocacy groups hosted a "Virginia Families First" rally in Loudoun County on Saturday, calling for change and parental rights in the public school system.  Hosted by CatholicVote and Fight For Schools, the rally — held in front of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors building — urged Catholic and Christian Virginians to vote against "liberal politicians" and fix the public school system.  "America is watching Loudoun County.  All of America, and [they] have been inspired by parents stepping forward to annoy [Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate] Terry McAuliffe by actually trying to have a say in their child's education," former Attorney General Ken Cucinelli said.  "The nerve, the nerve of you parents, who of course, we Catholics, and all Christians believe that parents are the educators."

Destroying America, Overtly or Covertly.  In public schools and too many universities of what I would describe as "lower learning," America's history is being rewritten to shame young people and load them aboard the progressive train wreck.  There are many stories of students returning home and accusing their parents of racism, and worse.  The stain of racism can never go away despite the money that has been spent and the programs enacted to help lift descendants of slaves out of poverty and into better lives.  Once more or less united, Americans are now fragmented into groups, and those groups are pitted against each other as gladiators once were in the Roman Colosseum.

Loudon County's school board stops at nothing to prevent Matt Walsh from speaking.  The Loudoun County Public Schools district ("LCPS") has spent tens of thousands of dollars training teachers to teach Critical Race Theory ("CRT"), which categorically derides all Whites as racists and all Blacks as victims and that attacked "heterosexism" and parental control.  The result of this racist, zero-sum thinking was that the district become notorious for canceling several Dr. Seuss books, while teachers formed a cabal to attack any parents who objected to CRT.  LCPS has also embraced wholeheartedly the idea the "transgender" fad, even though there's no scientific support for this theory.  This fad is as evil as witch-burning given the number of lives it destroys, whether it's the deluded people who are chemically and surgically mutilated or the sane ones hounded out of the public square for trying to stop this madness.  For example, the LCPS board fired a teacher who stated at a public board meeting that he cannot in good conscience use anti-science pronouns.  The Virginia Supreme Court reversed that firing but it remains to be seen whether the teacher can be fired again for violating the policy in his classroom.

Florida Teacher Calls Student A Racist For Having A Trump Flag.  The backstory behind "Free Colton," is that this student brought a Trump flag to school, despite his parents telling him to not as it is against school rules.  Colton had the flag in his backpack and another student (not Colton) proceeded to pull it out.  At this point, a teacher attempted to confiscate the flag, Colton tried to take it back and it resulted in the teacher getting 2 broken fingers.  Colton was suspended, which prompted the "Free Colton" movement in which students went around the school with post it notes that said "Free Colton."   [Video clip]

Shocker: Young Americans sign petition to kill U.S. Constitution.  Ahead of Constitution Day on Friday, dozens of University of Florida students who were asked if they believe the U.S. Constitution is still relevant today signed a petition to abolish it and create a new, "more inclusive" document.  A reporter for Campus Reform found many who believed the nation's founding document is outdated and should be scrapped.  "It has to be," one student said.  "It was written in the late 1700s; it wasn't written for the 21st century."  Another said there are "a lot of outdated things in there that nowadays aren't accepted."  [Video clip]

Homecoming theme day causes controversy at Parchment High School.  Parchment High School Principal George Stamas sent a letter about a homecoming school activity that has caused controversy Tuesday [9/14/2021].  The high school is holding theme days for their homecoming week.  Tuesday was a USA theme.  The letter stated that some students "chose to express their political affiliations."  "We are sincerely remorseful if a day that was meant for unification turned into division for some," Stamas wrote.  "We will not tolerate actions that choose to belittle, demean, threaten or put down others."

The Editor says...
I suspect the students who "chose to express [the wrong] political affiliations" will be targeted for re-education.

Washington School Banned 9/11 'Red, White, Blue' Tribute as 'Racially Insensitive'.  A Sammamish, Washington, high school banned students from wearing red, white, and blue for its "Patriot's Day" football game Friday over concerns such a memorial could be "racially insensitive" and offensive to some individuals.  Jason Rantz, host of [a radio show] in Seattle/Tacoma, wrote Monday [9/13/2021] at mynorthwest.com students at Eastlake High School were prepared for a "Patriot's Day" theme at a football game against Rainier Beach.  "Red White and Blue Friday!" the Instagram announcement reportedly read, but has since been removed.  "Dress in your USA Best!"

Washington state HS calls off 9/11 football tribute because some could be offended, report says.  Students at a Washington state high school wanted to mark the 20th year since the Sept. 11 attacks by wearing red, white and blue at a patriotic-themed game but were refused because the event could "unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently," according to a report.  Jason Rantz, a host on KTTH 770/94.5 FM, reported that the event was canceled by an unnamed staffer at Eastlake High School in Sammamish "at the last minute."  A student told the show that he was informed that the "red, white and blue was going to be seen as racially insensitive and may affect people in a way that we will not understand and for that reason that we were to change our theme."  The station posted a screengrab of an email from one of the school's associate principals to a parent that said she understands the "sacrifice and values our flag represents, but I think they [school leadership] just did not want to unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently."

Our Government-Controlled Healthcare Is Killing Us.  Our public education system and post-secondary brainwashing and indoctrination system, neither of which teaches logic, reason, or critical thinking, there are Americans, unfortunately, who have bowed to the notion that the government must be the solution to every issue we encounter in life.  Can these leftists and statist devotees defend their dearly held beliefs with a calm, cogent, intelligent, rational, reasoned discussion?  No, their go-to coping mechanism is derision, mocking, and ridicule, with some fake news thrown in to grab the headlines and shape their narrative.  Everything they say will most likely be ill-conceived, illogical, and will not withstand critical examination.  Their expressed opinions aren't based on evidence, but instead are most likely fallacies, false premises, or who-knows-what.  They just don't care if it makes any sense or not, because it's how they feel.

Portland professor resigns with scathing letter about woke brainwashing at 'social justice factory'.  Philosophy professor [Peter] Boghossian has today informed the provost of Portland State University in Oregon that he is quitting his teaching position there because the campus has apparently become besotted with intolerance to free speech.  "While I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught at Portland State for over a decade, it has become clear to me that this institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas," he declared in setting forth in writing various reasons for his resignation.  He also implied the taxpayer-supported institution failed its duty that it owes to students and the public to fundamentally ensure the "freedom to question."  Boghossian is far from the only educator at the college or secondary school level who has made this kind of difficult decision because of the pervasiveness of intolerant and far-left identity politics and where diversity of opinion is shunned.

Antifa Teacher's Indoctrination Attempts Should Outrage — and Mobilize — Public School Parents.  The latest example of school indoctrination was uncovered by Project Veritas.  In a recently released recording, a California public school teacher, Gabriel Gipe, a member of the Sacramento Antifa chapter, is caught not only stating, "I have 180 days to turn [my students] into revolutionaries," but citing Mao Zedong as an inspiration for his tactics to radicalize his students through fear and propaganda.  Gipe states that in order to bring about a Maoist-like revolution in the United States, activists must be "consistently focusing on education and a change of cultural propaganda ... We have to convince people that [socialism] is what we actually need."  Photos of Gipe's classroom show that he has a portrait of Mao prominently displayed, alongside both Antifa and gay pride flags.  It is clear through Gipe's admission that he does not consider himself an educator.  He views himself as a propagandist and a recruiter for a cultural revolution in the United States.

Ever wonder why woke people hate America so much?  Never in our collective history has such a sizable segment of the population espoused such self-loathing, anti-American thoughts as today's misguided woke Progressives.  The irony of their unrecognized privilege that allows them the freedom to criticize the society they live in from a safe and comfortable vantage point is too obvious to bother pointing out.  The conflicted nature of education is illustrated perfectly by the experience a friend of mine just had with his college-age daughter.  She attends a prestigious college in New England.  Last week, on her first day of class, an all too familiar scene played out once again:  The professor announced to the students, "I will not accept anything on your papers from news sources that I consider biased, unreliable, or based on opinion instead of verifiable fact.  Nothing citing Fox News, Newsmax or the N.Y. Post is acceptable.  For current news sources, only the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN will be considered as trustworthy and credible."  These are sources that are solidly in favor of CRT, the 1619 Project, and BLM.

Teacher's Antics and Educational Ethics.  For nearly a decade now, I've been keeping track of what I call "K-12 Whoppers" — examples of egregious and embarrassing educator antics — in order to understand and document the problem of growing teacher bias and general lack of professionalism in our schools.  I do this because, like many Americans, I'm a captive observer of our declining cultural standards and also because I've personally experienced unacceptably substandard teaching, both as a student and parent.  I'm not talking about momentary, understandable lapses of judgement coupled with a sincere apology when warranted; we all understand that teaching is a difficult, ongoing, live, semi-impromptu performance with correspondingly high stress levels, and we can be very forgiving of teachers who earnestly do their best and strive to improve on their practice.  No, I'm talking about brazen, unrepentant operators who deliberately and intentionally misuse their access to other citizens' children to enact their partisan, personal aims, viewing the impressionable young students assigned to their classrooms (and compelled by law to attend) merely as means to their cherished political ends.

Pro-Antifa California teacher to be fired by school district after leaked video emerges.  A far-left California teacher with a hammer and sickle tattoo and an apparent affinity for Antifa and brutal communist dictators will be fired after bragging on video that he was working to radicalize his students "further and further left," his employer announced Wednesday [9/1/2021]. In a letter, the Natomas Unified School District Superintendent Chris Evans wrote that Gabriel Gipe, a social studies teacher at Inderkum High School, would be terminated after Project Veritas found Antifa and Mao Zedong posters in his classroom and recorded him talking about indoctrinating his students.  "I have 180 days to turn them into revolutionaries," he says in the recording.

Antifa AP Government Teacher Brags About Indoctrinating Kids, Turning Them Into 'Revolutionaries'.  California teacher Gabriel Gipe is an admitted member of Antifa.  He is also a teacher at Inderkum High School in Sacramento, California.  He recently admitted to trying to indoctrinate his students and turn them into "revolutionaries."  He believes he is succeeding, and he admitted it all to an undercover reporter from Project Veritas.  "So, they take an ideology quiz and I put [the results] on the [classroom] wall.  Every year, they get further and further left ... I'm like, 'These ideologies are considered extreme, right?  Extreme times breed extreme ideologies.'  Right?  There is a reason why Generation Z, these kids, are becoming further and further left" Gipe boasted.  Project Veritas just released the sickening ten-minute video, where the teacher spills his Marxist guts and happily talks about his propagandizing.

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Profs: Princeton diversity office's 'nihilistic' attack on university's history and anti-woke dissidents.  The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office of Princeton University has a message for incoming students:  It wants them to participate in "tearing down" the very institution they have worked so hard to attend.  And to drive this message home, the office is more than happy to tear down those who dissent from its official orthodoxy.  As members of the class of 2025 arrive on campus, they receive a mandatory injection not of a vaccine against COVID, but of indoctrination.  An official video freshmen are required to watch presents an utterly one-sided and negative picture of Princeton's history.  The video and the accompanying Web site are expensively produced.  Yet slick production values do nothing to offset the tendentious slant.

Antifa Teacher on the Run, Claims He Fears For His Safety and Job After Project Veritas Blows His Cover.  As I reported yesterday [8/31/2021], the heroes at Project Veritas released an undercover video showing a proud antifa communist teacher bragging about how he has 180 days to indoctrinate his students and make them Marxists.  How does he do it?  He "scares [...] them."  Now the proud commie peacock is running scared.  He refused to defend himself to another Project Veritas reporter.  He claims he fears for his safety, and is worried about his brainwashing teaching gig, which means he KNOWS what he was doing is wrong.  Even his fellow Antifa clowns aren't happy with him.  In the tweet below, fellow antifa stains bemoan Gipe's willingness to spill his commie guts to an undercover Project Veritas reporter.  They also question his over-zealous approach to indoctrinating young high school kids and turning them into fellow Marxist comrades.

Project Veritas exposes California teacher who admits to indoctrinating students.  A California high school teacher is said to had bragged about turning his students into "revolutionaries."  An undercover Project Veritas video released on Tuesday, showed Inderkum High School's Gabriel Gipe admitting that he and a growing number of teachers use the classroom to push communist propaganda.  The AP government teacher explained when he's not disrupting conservative events with his local Sacramento Antifa Chapter, he grades students based off their willingness to attend radical fringe events.  After shaming teenagers who don't follow his political views, the so-called anti-fascist went on to praise the Chinese Cultural Revolution.  He then explained how he tracks his student's political views.

Camp Counselor Brags About How He Turned A Bunch Of 13 Year Olds Into Marxists.  You can't leave your kids with anyone these days it seems.  This woke camp counselor actually took to TikTok to brag about how on the first week of summer camp, he converted an entire cabin of 13-year-olds into Socialists.  [Video clip]

Parents have the right to be vocal.  First, it needs to be firmly stated that the public schools' main purpose is to teach basic subjects as thoroughly as possible to prepare students for their futures.  Traditionally, this has meant giving them the knowledge and skills to serve them well for either a vocation or higher education's demands as well as to enhance citizenship.  This type of education takes time and demands sufficient priority.  Students should graduate with basic English and math skills, and knowledge of science and both national and world histories.  No one should need remedial reading classes in college if K-12 schools accomplish their purpose.  Adding issue-centered courses should not diminish time spent on core subjects.  Some schools, though, are already promoting sexual or gender issues — issues that are controversial based on parental and religious beliefs.  Likewise, many race-oriented issues are especially controversial.  Those influenced by Critical Race Theory focus heavily on Black and White populations even though the United States may be the most racially diverse of all nations.

Utah Teacher No Longer Employed After Rant Against Trump, Unvaccinated.  A Utah high school chemistry teacher is no longer an employee of the Alpine School District after she was recorded spouting off to her students about unvaccinated Americans, her views about politics, and her hatred for Donald Trump.

[A] Teacher [is] out of [a] job after video of [an] anti-Trump, left-wing rant in class [is] released.  A Utah chemistry teacher is out of a job following a viral video showing her telling a high school class, "I hate Donald Trump" at the start of the new school year.  "I hate Donald Trump.  I'm gonna say it.  I don't care what y'all think.  Trump [...]," the former Lehi High School teacher told her class on Tuesday, according to a video that has been viewed more than 700,000 times.  The teacher was identified as Leah Kinyon, according to Fox 13, which spoke to a mother of one of the students in the class.  At least one student pushed back on Kinyon in the video, asking her why she hates the former president.  "He's a sexual predator," she responded.  "He's a literal moron."  Another student is also heard saying, "This is a chemistry class."

After success of police body cams, parents campaign for cameras to monitor teacher lessons.  A decade after the movement to place body cameras on police officers, some Missouri parents are pressing to put cameras in the classroom so they can see what educators are teaching their children.  The nascent movement began a few weeks ago in Springfield, Mo., with a meeting of conservative activists and parents upset by curriculum informed by critical race theory.  And now it is spreading to the state Capitol, where some lawmakers said they could be open to the idea.  "I think that COVID just opened the window to what was going on in the classroom," explained Marilyn Quigley, a retired teacher with four decades of experience in the classroom.  "And students were getting involved with parents, parents were trying to help students, and suddenly some of them said, 'What are you being taught.'  And then all of this then came out.

AP Practice Exam Asks Partisan Questions About Voter ID.  Did you know that your children do not have to take the state standardized assessment given in your public school each year?  That also includes the SAT given to students in 10th grade.  You are better off finding an actual achievement test, giving it to your child outside the school system, and looking at those results.  That will give you a better idea of your child's proficiency in the core academic subjects.  The information is sent to you and you don't have to worry about where your child's data is going.

A Virginia elementary school tells kids the police are dangerous.  It's great that parents are pushing back against the relentless leftist indoctrination in public schools but they might be wiser to pull their kids out entirely, starving schools of the students they need to justify funding.  That seems like the most sensible move for parents with children at a Virginia elementary school.  They discovered that "Safe," a "video book" that the school recommended for seven-year-olds over the summer, comes from Woke Kindergarten, a site run by a woman who claims to be "transgender," teaches kids that the police are dangerous, and believes the 5-7-year-old set needs to learn about transgenderism and pronouns. [...] What outraged parents was the screenshot saying, "I feel safe when there are no police."  Considering that the "defund the police" movement has led to cities turning into shooting galleries and increased by thousands the number of dead and wounded in these cities, it's a stupid message.

Gigantic Teachers' Union Sues Mom for Asking What the Local Public School Is Teaching Her Daughter.  There was a time when parental involvement in our kids' education was seen as a good thing that all parents should do.  We were invited to meet our kids' teachers and even participated in class once or twice a week.  This was all part of making sure our kids obtained the education our tax dollars paid for.  The COVID pandemic and the moral panic following George Floyd's death destroyed all of that.  Unionized teachers advocated for closing schools and keeping them closed and started sneaking in critical race theory teachings at every level during online classes.  When parents noticed and asked, they tended to get a run-around or worse.  In Loudon County, Virginia, public school administrators and teachers formed a cabal to hunt down and smear parents who questioned them.  Rhode Island mom Nicole Solas wanted to know what her daughter was being taught in kindergarten.  So she asked the school for copies of the curriculum.  She is entitled to that, as a parent and as a taxpayer.  Public school curricula are public documents.

To Save America, Run for School Board.  Forget Congress, the Senate, or whatever glamorous position you ever fantasized about or not, even president of the United States, if you want to have a serious impact from your work, if, as they say, you want to make a difference, to change this country for the good in the short and long term, run for your local school board.  You would be saving America from turning into the bleakest, socialist-communist state imaginable because that is what our current educational system, K-12, is designed to do and, sadly, has been successful in doing, literally for decades — and it's only getting worse.  You would in the process also be a true revolutionary in the tradition of the Founders of our country in bringing back truth, justice and the American way to our children and our children's children.

Grassroots organization pushes for reform by training parents to run for school board.  The COVID-19 pandemic's shuttering of classrooms in March 2020 triggered a sea change in the nationwide debate over the direction of public schools.  That debate has only flourished since, even after many schools that had long been closed to in-person instruction reopened, with reports showing parents flocking to local school board meetings to weigh in on operational and curriculum-related decisions.  Building Education for Students Together is vying to capitalize on that momentum.  The grassroots education reform organization launched its BEST Academy in January aiming to increase parental involvement in their children's districts by teaching them how to run successful campaigns for local school boards.

A Weapon to Fundamentally Transform America.  The Social Justice Warriors and their media allies are working furiously to transform our thinking about people with whom we have harmoniously lived, worked, and played for years.  The term "white supremacist" formerly conjured up images of the hood-wearing, cross-burning Ku Klux Klansmen.  Now the term applies to anyone with whom the Wokerati disagree, including those black and brown people who behaved badly by professing conservative values, i.e., "multiracial whiteness."  Further dividing us, the party line dictates that we condemn all white people for their "whiteness."  This includes attributes such as rugged individualism, family structure, emphasis on the scientific methods, Protestant work ethic, planning for the future, and speaking proper English.  How interesting.  These are all qualities my black parents had instilled in me.  Even mathematics is racist.  For example, teachers asking students to show their work when solving math problems is a sign of white supremacy.  According to class materials, this requirement reinforces "worship of the written word as well as paternalism" and wrong answers "perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."  Take heed.  If even a small group of people can be convinced that math is racist, they can be convinced of anything.

Mike Pompeo:  Read the Bible, Not 1619 Project.  Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow on Monday that young Americans should read more of the Bible, not the 1619 Project.  "We've got to retake our nation," Pompeo told Marlow on Monday at Turning Point USA's annual Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida.  "I want [the students] to understand that the real risk is here in our republic."  "If we get it wrong in our schools, if we get it wrong in our churches, our synagogues, and religious freedom is denied here, then we could lose our country," Pompeo added.  [Video clip]

The CRT War on the Republic.  "George Washington was an evil man!  He's not a hero.  You need to take that picture down," my 13-year-old daughter admonished my brother, while standing in his home.  "He slaughtered Native Americans and owned slaves.  My social studies teacher taught me all about him."  "And you are sending your kids to that school?" my brother asked.  I shook my head and vowed to investigate while gazing at his copy of "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg.  It has always been one of my favorite works of art, and in our family, the portrait is symbolic of the power of prayer and what it means to be an American. [...] As it turns out, my daughter's teacher, a self-proclaimed lover of "hard history," is a disciple of anti-racist teaching.  Parents in our community have testified that they do not object to lesson plans presenting multiple perspectives of history and they support diversity training; they disagree when instructors present revisionist history as fact and disavow the United States Constitution.  Unfortunately, this seems to be lost on educators like my daughter's teacher, who tweets praise for activists such as Hasan Kwami Jeffries, an Ohio State University professor who was contracted by OLSD to provide professional development.

Research Used to Justify California's 'Equity' Math Framework Doesn't Add Up.  The push to create "equity" and more "social justice" in public schools in California, America's largest state, rests on this basic premise:  "We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents," declares the current draft of the California Math Framework, which also states that it rejects "the cult of genius."  Informed by that fundamental idea, the 800-page framework calls for the elimination of accelerated classes and gifted programs for high-achieving students until at least the 11th grade.  It's a major departure for the framework, commissioned every seven years by the Department of Education to provide guidance to the state's 10,315 public schools serving 6 million students.  Some California teachers describe it as a misguided "one size fits all" approach to reversing long-standing discrimination against girls and students of color in math instruction.  But the framework, which could be adopted next year, claims its recommendations are based on the latest, seemingly unimpeachable findings of advanced social science research.

The Democrats Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste.  Democrats are hastily making changes that will be impossible to reverse.  They have less than two years to cement in place the new radical building blocks.  They are pressing forward with conditions that cannot be reversed to return to America's greatness.  As leftists say, "Burn down the system!"  Last year, the left's rioting foot soldiers were called "peaceful protesters" as they attacked, killed, and set America ablaze.  It was an insurrection against the established order.  But you never heard it called that.  These tactics, which Saul Alinsky mentored in his pamphlet "Rules for Radicals," were the opening salvo leading to the imposition of American Marxism.  The One Party overreach includes a massive effort to remove traditional values, values that made America a shining light upon a hill.  Leftists sweep aside traditions and cherished heritage, replacing them with a mass indoctrination dividing the country.  The indoctrination has leaped from Ivy League academia into the public school system.

The Anti-Educators.  Professional educators still talk about fashioning well-rounded graduates, but their words ring hollow.  In our age of corporate wokeism, public and private schools from kindergarten to graduate school strive to turn students into standardized units of social and human capital.  Confident expressions of cultured thought and feeling are in alarmingly short supply at the termini of what is now called the "education pipeline."  Schoolteachers and professors wield ideological abstractions like hammers to pound down individual particularities of heart and mind.  Just as smooth blanks are needed for pressing coins, contrarian idiosyncrasies must be removed from souls that are to be stamped with the characterless visage of total political conformity.

An Affront to the State.  How long ago was it when children were held in the highest regard, rather than a commodity to be served up to the governmental "authority?"  It's not just a "sign of the times" it's a black mark on all of society that they have turned their faces from the horrors of child manipulation and sexual exploitation.  In the annals of history, no matter how vehemently one disavows their role, America, in this era, will be seen as in the clutches of child predators.  Schools, the Boy Scouts of America, some churches and many of the institutions unto whom we have given over our progeny have served as sexual grooming stations or mind manipulation centers.  This was an issue highly featured in the novel Rebel.  The teacher's unions now demand to be left in control of the children's minds, in secret, to do as they wish with them, subject them to all manner of sexual deviance, racist curriculums, pre-genocidal indoctrination so that they will know where to lay their heads before the guillotine.

Are We Seeing a Cultural Realignment?  Even attitudes on abortion are slowly beginning to shift.  Millennials in the 18-29 age group now support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks by 52%.  Only 44% of those 50 and older support such a ban.  The pro-choice crowd is also alarmed by the "enthusiasm gap" among millennials.  Of millennials who identify as pro-life, 51% consider it an important issue.  Of those who identify as pro-choice, only 20% consider it an important issue.  Pro-life millennials are passionate about the subject, while pro-choice millennials are only tepid about it.  Given that enthusiasm is a leading indicator of a cultural shift, the future is looking much brighter for unborn babies.  Nobody expected a pro-life position to be embraced by this generation of young adults — surprise!  The Democrats may want to rethink their litmus test.

The indoctrination in public schools is having its intended effect:
How Much Longer Will July 4 Be A Holiday?  Though it became a federal holiday only in 1941, Americans have been celebrating Independence Day since the colonies broke away from the British crown.  Today, a core of extremists wants to erase our history and at the same time fix it in the public's mind that this country is illegitimate due to a racist past and present, its colonial foundation, and capitalist system of exploitation.  This leaves us to wonder how many more glorious Fourths we have left.  As we noted on Monday, most of us consider ourselves to be either "extremely" (44%) or "very" (23%) proud to be Americans.  A mere 6% of the country said it was not proud to be an American.  Good news, no?  But just below the surface, the numbers from our I&I/TIPP poll are alarming.  Only 36% of those from 18 to 24, the future of this country, said they were proud to be Americans.

I&I/TIPP Poll:  Just 36% of Young People Are Proud To Be American.  Is pride in America a thing of the past?  Not if you ask Americans.  As the nation celebrates its 245th birthday, the first in a series of I&I/TIPP polls finds that 68% of adults say they are "very" or "extremely" proud to be an American, with another 15% "moderately" proud.  On the other end of the spectrum, only 6% say they "aren't proud at all," and 8% say they are only "slightly proud."

Arizona House Passes Bill Requiring Schools [to] Share Stories From People Who Fled Communism.  The Republican-majority Arizona House on June 25 approved a bill that could mandate that school teachers share stories from people who fled communism as part of the curriculum.  The requirement is part of House Bill 2898, which includes changes in laws governing K-12 education in the state.  The language was inserted by Republican state Rep. Judy Burges, and states that the measure will prepare students to be "civically responsible and knowledgeable adults."  Public schools would be required to teach "a comparative discussion of political ideologies, such as communism and totalitarianism, the conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy essential to the founding principles of the United States" among other changes, the bill's text states.

What Is to Be Done?  A New Economic Model.  [Scroll down]  Here in the United States, our own Marxist revolution arrived on our shores in the 1930s from Frankfurt in National Socialist Germany, when a handful of Marxist scholars — if one can dignify Marxism, a philosophy of resentful losers, with the term "scholarship" — were given refuge and immediately began their task of subverting the nation via their preferred brand of socialism: communism.  Their weapon was something called Critical Theory, and it went like this: everything about a culture (in this case, Western civilization) needs to be questioned, attacked, mocked, invalidated, and destroyed.  That's it.  What comes after was and remains not their problem.  Some men, after all, really do just want to watch the world burn.  As only something this juvenile could be, Critical Theory was taken seriously and introduced into the American university system, starting with Columbia in New York City, and from there quickly spread like a cancer across the nation, especially once the 1960s got underway.

New Cal State LA ethnic studies dean previously said she hopes Clarence Thomas 'dies early'.  Julianne Malveaux, the incoming dean of Cal State University Los Angeles' newly created College of Ethnic Studies, has previously said she hopes 73-year-old, conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dies an early death.  "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease," Malveux said during an appearance on PBS in 1994, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Ethnic Studies dean regrets publicly hoping Clarence Thomas 'dies early, like many black men do'.  Dr. Julianne Malveaux, who once learned that her words can indeed come back to haunt her, is poised to become the first-ever dean of Ethnic Studies at California State University in Los Angeles.  The announcement of the incoming dean's appointment raised eyebrows and criticism as a look at her past comments sparked questions about the move.  Her past comments about Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as well as once wishing for the early death of a Supreme Court justice have resurfaced with the announcement of her stepping in as dean of the newly created College of Ethnic Studies.  A decade ago, Malveaux issued an apology after she expressed her disdain for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by publicly wishing for his death during a 1994 appearance on PBS, claiming she had meant her words as a "wisecrack."

This Creature From The Black Lives Matter Lagoon Is Brainwashing Your Children.  Several TikToks from an Iowa teacher went viral on Wednesday in which she ranted about not being able to teach Critical Race Theory (CRT) and being forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance before school.  [Video clip]

Fairy Tale Science:  The Correct Path to a Better Reality.  [Scroll down]  Students learn that things their parents, family, and friends believe and have taught them are fundamentally incorrect and undesirable.  They learn that ideas contrary to what they're exposed to in school should be rejected.  Government is uniformly presented as the truest source of knowledge and guidance in modern society.  Such myopia flows readily into their socialization beyond K-12, where the same straitjacketed mental perspectives are reinforced, and rewards and punishments are based on how well one regurgitates politically correct answers. [...] Brighter students notice an appreciable, sometimes enormous, gap between what they're supposed to learn and what their experience shows them is true.  Those giving voice to such observations quickly learn doing so is risky.  Our schools are no longer engaged in teaching students how to think.  They're focused on teaching them what to think.  Acceptable thought, Orwell's "goodthink," is the goal of our public indoctrination system.

In the Sway of the Narrative.  [Scroll down]  "Scientists in training" emulate the attitudes, beliefs, and priorities that are reinforced by those administering their respective departments, colleges, and funding sources.  If they do not demonstrate those prerequisite qualities they are denied entry into or progress within their desired career path.  That's why students and professors espousing conservative ideas are rare in academia.  That's why the majority of researchers in American academia today cover the ideological gamut all the way from "Woke" to "Woke+."  That's why "peers" in "peer review" can be relied upon to keep inconvenient, dissenting, disconfirming research from ever seeing the light of day.  That's why one of the Ivy League's formerly preeminent institutions, Harvard, can give rise to something as intellectually specious and venomous as Critical Race Theory.  That's how newly minted Harvard physicians and their professors can voice with impunity their views on the propriety of treating minority before white patients, all while proclaiming they're against racism.  That's why a Columbia University student who defected from North Korea can credibly state that Columbia is more fanatically dogmatic than the Hermit kingdom.

Stanford professor Joel Peterson reveals student called him racist for standing for the flag and another said 'white people should be eradicated'.  A Stanford University professor with a distinguished background in business has told of his dismay at the 'cancel culture' on campuses, telling how he was labelled a racist for standing for the United States' flag.  Joel Peterson, professor of management at the California university and a former chairman of JetBlue Airways, said students at elite institutions were ignorant of history in their rush to 'cancel' perceived oppressors.  Peterson said that he had been reported to the dean for 'triggering' students.

Teacher Shares Behind-Scenes Look at How Unions Further Woke Agenda.  California teacher Brenda Lebsack says she began seeing "red flags" in public education when she decided to become more involved with her union, the California Teachers Association.  After she began attending the union's conferences in 2015, Lebsack says, she was alarmed to see that many of the topics weren't academic but instead focused on social justice, human rights, and LGBTQ issues.  "I thought, wow, my union does not seem to care that much about academics as much as they do the political side of things," Lebsack told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.  A teacher since 1987, Lebsack has taught a variety of grade levels and subjects.  She currently is a physical education teacher for special education students in several elementary schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District, about 35 miles south of Los Angeles.

North Korean defector says 'even North Korea was not this nuts' after attending Ivy League school.  As American educational institutions continue to be called into question, a North Korean defector fears the United States' future "is as bleak as North Korea" after she attended one of the country's most prestigious universities.  Yeonmi Park has experienced plenty of struggle and hardship, but she does not call herself a victim.  One of several hundred North Korean defectors settled in the United States, Park, 27, transferred to Columbia University from a South Korean university in 2016 and was deeply disturbed by what she found.

Death spiral of American academia.  Earlier this year, Eric Kaufmann of the University of London published a remarkably detailed and comprehensive study of bias in academia, "Academic Freedom in Crisis:  Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship."  Kaufmann's writing is a product of California's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, a small think-tank set up to do research that is forbidden in today's academy.  His finding of rampant left-sided political bias in publication, employment, and promotion in the Academy — and discrimination against anyone right-of-center — qualifies as forbidden scholarship.  What follows below is (I think) a generalization of the process that Judith described with regard to the Wuhan Coronavirus.  I hope readers will come away with the notion that the process of institutionalizing, and then defending, bad, politicized science is fractal — the internal geometry is very similar for most all such instances.  The reason is because mainstream practitioners of science have a demonstrable political bias and discredit or reject the work of anyone whose beliefs are inconsistent with that bias.

Mandatory body cameras for teachers, not just cops!  Thanks to Don Surber, I learned of a proposal from the Nevada Family Alliance to require teachers at government schools to wear body cameras.  If this does not strike you immediately as absolutely necessary, take a look at this recording made by a student recently of a teacher badly abusing a student who objected to her LGBTQ+ indoctrination scheme: [...] You can expect the teachers' unions to howl like banshees and throw around ridiculous objections, such as "academic freedom."  There is no such right for government employees teaching primary and secondary school children.  They are not scholars pursuing new knowledge of value to humanity, they are instructors following curricula imposed on them by school boards.  They may claim a right to "privacy," but a government funded schoolroom is not a private situation.  It is a public event funded by taxpayers, who have a right to know what is taking place on their dime.

College Students' Reaction to Memorial Day Might Make You Concerned About the Future.  Campus Reform, a conservative news site that focuses on higher education, created a fake petition calling for the removal of Memorial Day as a federal holiday, which was created to honor members of the Armed Forces who died while serving their country.  A member of Campus Reform posed as an activist obtaining signatures for the faux petition and asked college-aged students if they would sign the form.  [Video clip]

The public school system had stopped teaching children long before the pandemic.  If the academic year now ending has taught us anything, it's that the public school system would rather indoctrinate than educate its students.  The school system was created to teach students academically and morally, and to prepare them for the next phase of life.  The pandemic proved that most public schools will abandon this responsibility when given the opportunity. [...] Parents need to see the public school system for what it is.  It has failed our children academically, but that failure was deliberate.  Public schools don't want to teach students the stuff that matters.  They want to teach children to be leftists who cannot keep up in their academic subjects.  Unfortunately, the pandemic made that goal a lot easier.  The only way this trend will be reversed is if parents wake up and take their children elsewhere — before it's too late.

Georgetown Students Sign Fake Petition to Cancel Memorial Day over 'American Imperialism'.  Georgetown University students recently signed a fake petition to cancel Memorial Day due to its celebration of "American imperialism."  One student said he "didn't really think of it in this way" until he got to college and took "Women's and Gender Studies classes," which put him on a "[...] the U.S." path in life.  Campus Reform's Addison Smith went to Georgetown University to conduct a social experiment to see if students would be willing to sign a fake petition seeking to abolish Memorial Day over alleged "American imperialism."  Many students signed the petition.

The one class every American high schooler desperately needs to take.  We neglect an essential element in the formation of citizens when we fail to supply young people with a full, accurate, and responsible account of their own country.  The evidence of that failure is overwhelming.  In fact, the most recent test administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called The Nation's Report Card, shows continuing decline in (already-low) history and geography scores and flatlining in civics scores.  We must recommit ourselves to the teaching of both history and civics — and to the recognition that the two belong together.  Something more needs attending to in the work of civic education, too.  Tracking scores on standardized tests can provide useful, if limited, data about the state of our historical knowledge.  But the scores cannot tell us about the depth and quality of that knowledge or the extent to which those who possess it feel a genuine and living connection to it.

Maryland School District Indoctrinates Students Into Believing MAGA Is 'Covert White Supremacy'.  In yet another example demonstrating why parents must be diligent about knowing what schools are teaching their children, Maryland's largest school district reportedly included a curriculum in its classes teaching kids that conservatives are white supremacists.  According to watchdog group Judicial Watch, documents show that the material used by educators labeled phrases like "Make America Great Again," as an example of white supremacy.  Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, "The racist revolutionary claptrap in these documents should be nowhere near a school classroom."  He added:  "These documents show that extremists have access to our schools and are willing to abuse this access to children in order to advance a dangerous, divisive, and likely illegal agenda."

Masters in Justice:  UT-Austin Grads Walk out of Commencement Over 'Anti-Black' School Song.  As reported by The College Fix, a group of students planned to walk out of the commencement in protest.  The reason for their revolt: the school's use of 1903-penned song "The Eyes of Texas."  According to opponents of the tune, it's downright racist.  More specifically, it's anti-black.

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If the school is really racist, why are you still enrolled there?  For the rest of your life, you'll have a diploma in your office that clearly says, "University of Texas."  If the school song matters so much, you should have transferred to UCLA long ago.  Now you're one of them!

'Our constitution should be burned': What critical race theorists really think of America.  Will Reusch, a high school teacher in LA who also worked with the Heterodox Academy, asked to have a conversation with advocates for CRT in schools.  That conversation revealed that CRT advocates do not believe in America's founding documents, instead saying that "the constitution should be burned."  Reusch spoke to Alfred "shivy" Brooks who is running for Atlanta City Council, Dr. Kate Slater who has worked in teacher recruitment for a top prep school, and Louiza "Weeze" Doran who were proponents of critical race theory.  While undoubtedly these folks would define it differently, critical race theory is the practice of looking at all events both current and historical through the lens of race and racism.

Alaska teacher on leave after suggesting George Floyd would still be alive if he had complied with police.  A high school teacher in Fairbanks, Alaska, has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after suggesting to students that George Floyd would still be alive today had he complied with Minneapolis police.  In a video posted to YouTube last week, a teacher identified as "Ms. Gardner" is seen and heard conducting a virtual discussion with students about several high-profile shootings that have occurred in America of late, including police-involved incidents with black Americans.  When the topic of conversation shifted to Floyd, the teacher remarked that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin "abused his authority" and "was complicit in George Floyd's death."

New bill could allow students to record college professors — and use tapes against them.  A Florida bill would let students record college professors' lectures for proof if they suspect they are pushing political bias.  HB233 would allow recordings of lectures for students' "own personal educational use, in connection with a complaint to the public institution of higher education where the recording was made, or as evidence in, or in preparation for, a criminal or civil proceeding."

Climate change, racism and social justice concerns affecting Gen Z's physical and mental health.  As Earth Day is celebrated, Generation Z is grappling with the health of the planet and racism and social justice, according to a new survey.  More than eight out of 10 young Americans say they are concerned about the health of the planet, according to the Blue Shield of California NextGen Climate Survey which polled participants between the ages of 14 [and] 24.  When asked about which issue concerned them the most, the environment and climate change had the second-highest percentage at 47%, behind racism and social justice at 62%.

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Nobody needs to "grappl[e] with the health of the planet."  The planet is not unhealthy, and there is no global warming, climate crisis, or climate emergency, regardless of what these young people have been told in the public schools.  These young people have heard only one side of any important issue; therefore their opinions are worthless — just like Earth Day.  Nobody under 18 can legally vote, so what difference does their opinion make anyway?

Website Will Allow Parents and Teachers to Expose Classroom Radicalism.  A North Carolina education advocacy group launched a website this week to help whistleblowers expose radicalism in K-12 schools.  Education First Alliance launched its Schoolhouse Shock watchdog site on Monday to help parents and teachers call attention to radicalism in the classroom.  Users can anonymously upload videos, photos, and documents from their child's class to catalog critical race theory-based lessons being taught in schools.  "Our new statewide whistleblower program, Schoolhouse Shock, will add to our toolbox in the fight against the onslaught of racially inflammatory and sexualized curriculums that children are being immersed in all over North Carolina," Sloan Rachmuth, Education First Alliance president, said in a statement.

Candace Owens rallies parents to start suing schools.  Conservative activist Candace Owens says that parents have to start taking 'woke' schools to court when their offspring get bullied for resisting identity politics indoctrination in the classroom.  "Parents have to start speaking out, not just speaking out, but suing.  You have to start suing these schools because they're ruining the lives of young children," Owens told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel [...].  Owens and her former Turning Point USA colleague, Charlie Kirk, appeared on the show to react to two very disturbing examples of far-left intolerance.  In one incident, a Minnesota high schooler who wanted to start up a Turning Point chapter was falsely accused of racial messaging, which prompted school-wide protests and even a law enforcement investigation.  And in the other, a Virginia student was shamed for wanting to do a presentation about Owens for Black History Month.

Woke culture is 'infecting schools' and turning education into indoctrination by 'poisoning' children's minds, 'Woke Inc' author warns.  American schools are 'going down the tubes' because they have been 'infected' with 'woke culture' that has 'sacrificed the idea of excellence' by 'indoctrinating' students, according to a leading critic.  Vivek Ramaswamy spoke out in response to two separate controversies that impacted elite New York City prep schools where parents complained their children were being brainwashed with anti-racism ideology.  Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and the author of Woke, Inc, compared the wave of 'wokeness' in schools to China's Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s, when the people were indoctrinated with Maoism by the Communist Party.

High School English Teacher Downplays Holocaust.  A North Carolina teacher's lesson on slavery included a discussion question that downplayed the Holocaust and likened 19th-century Americans to Nazis.  Ardrey Kell High School English teacher Lisa Patrizio asked her 11th-grade students to describe a fictional character's thoughts after reading about World War II. The correct answer to the multiple-choice question, a screenshot of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, implied that Americans give undue weight to the horrors of the Holocaust.  "While the monstrosities of the Holocaust may have been more intense over a shorter period of time, those who lived through slavery endured conditions just as horrible over a much longer duration," the answer read.  "Yet while Americans are largely comfortable acknowledging the events of the Holocaust as the worst impulses of mankind, there is often more hesitancy to take responsibility for the degradations of enslaved people that took place on American soil."

I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated.  I am a teacher at Grace Church High School in Manhattan.  Ten years ago, I changed careers when I discovered how rewarding it is to help young people explore the truth and beauty of mathematics.  I love my work.  As a teacher, my first obligation is to my students.  But right now, my school is asking me to embrace "antiracism" training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply harmful to them and to any person who seeks to nurture the virtues of curiosity, empathy and understanding.  "Antiracist" training sounds righteous, but it is the opposite of truth in advertising.  It requires teachers like myself to treat students differently on the basis of race.  Furthermore, in order to maintain a united front for our students, teachers at Grace are directed to confine our doubts about this pedagogical framework to conversations with an in-house "Office of Community Engagement" for whom every significant objection leads to a foregone conclusion.  Any doubting students are likewise "challenged" to reframe their views to conform to this orthodoxy.

A Self-Loathing Ruling Class Cannot Endure.  ot every aspect of the onslaught of self-hate that has broken over America, warped its media, and turned most of the academy — and even apparently, most of its elementary and secondary schools — into centers of reorientation designed to convince Americans their national past is loathsome hypocrisy, is bad.  Every country has a national mythos, and the larger, more complicated countries have relatively elaborate, conventionally agreed-upon versions of the raison d'être of their nationalities.  In the case of the United States, there have always been some soft points in this rationale, and to a slight extent, there may be some merit in addressing them.

This Teacher Says Left Has Turned Public Schools Into 'Indoctrination Centers'.  If you want to keep your job as a politically conservative public school teacher, you learn to keep your mouth shut, a Chicago area teacher told The Daily Signal.  Morgan Foster has taught English in middle school and, later, high school in Cook County, Illinois, for about 10 years.  Now in her early 30s, Foster says she has had about all she can take of the progressive ideology being promoted in public education.  "I definitely want out," Foster said in a recent phone interview, adding that it is "becoming even harder to stay apolitical, or to come across as being neutral."  "You are being forced to ultimately support the liberal narrative in public education," she said of herself and other teachers.  "We are too far over the hill," Foster said, arguing that public schools have "become indoctrination centers."

How to destroy the public school system.  [Scroll down]  However, if I were vehemently opposed to public schools, and what I really wanted was to destroy them, I know exactly how I'd go about it.  First, I'd help elect radical, neo-Marxist ideologues to the local school board.  As a bonus, they wouldn't have much experience running a school system or kids of their own in the county schools.  Once my radical leftists held a majority on the board, they could begin enacting their extremist agenda — starting with keeping as many kids out of school as possible for as long as possible by pushing popular superstitions about COVID-19.  We know, based on multiple studies, that children are not at high risk, nor are they likely to give the virus to adults.  But my radical school board wouldn't let that stand in the way of its fear-mongering. [...] To promote these efforts, I would enlist the help of teachers' unions and "associations," even in right-to-work states like Georgia.

Communist and Black Nationalist Angela Davis Speaks to K-12 Students, Calls on Them to 'Dismantle Capitalism'.  On Wednesday [3/31/2021], former Communist Party activist and black nationalist Angela Davis spoke at a webinar for an elite California prep school, where she told the K-12 students watching online that it was incumbent upon them to "dismantle capitalism," as reported by the Washington Free Beacon.  The "diversity and inclusion"-themed webinar, titled the CommunityEd Series, was hosted by the Heads-Royce School, a prep school that costs just over $47,000 a year in tuition.  "Ultimately, I think we're going to have to dismantle capitalism if we really want to move in a progressive direction," Davis said to the impressionable students on the final day of the webinar.  "If we want our children and children's children and their children to begin to move along a trajectory that is described by freedom."

8 Ways Public Schools Could Further Radicalize When They Finally Re-open.  I think we can infer eight negative outcomes down the pike after a long period of politicized school closures that were never justified by medical science.  I imagine our ruling elites will be happy with such outcomes.  We should be prepared for the following. [...] [#3] Accelerated Left-Wing Radicalism:  "The pace of left-wing radicalism will likely accelerate," in the schools, Collins states.  After all, school boards have been busier than ever renaming schools (including those named for Abraham Lincoln) and introducing radical curriculum changes even while closed for real business.  Illinois now requires teachers to indoctrinate students in leftist propaganda of critical race theory and gender ideology, among other things.  Against this backdrop, we can only surmise that once parental involvement has been effectively curtailed after a "reset" of more than a year, public schools will have far less parental pushback against curricula like the 1619 Project, critical race theory, dysfunctional math, white privilege workshops, mandatory transgenderism, and the like.  School board accountability will precipitously plummet with fewer engaged parents in the system.

The 'most terrifying story I have ever had to report': Glenn Beck reveals newly approved CA school curriculum.  California's Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a new, multimillion-dollar Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, which will be offered statewide with many of the state's largest school districts making it a requirement for graduation.  According to National Review, the curriculum is "probably the most radical, polemical, and ideologically loaded educational document ever offered up for public consideration in the free world."  On the radio program Tuesday [3/30/2021], Glenn Beck reacted to the newly approved curriculum, calling it "the craziest, most terrifying story I have ever had to report."

Against California's Ethnic-Studies Curriculum.  To graduate from high school in the state of California, students have to take just three years of English and two years of math.  Democrats in the state are now trying to add another subject to these paltry requirements, which are among the most lax and lenient in the nation.  Chemistry, biology, physics, history, geography, civics, and foreign languages have all been passed over.  As it turns out, the subject that California's political machine wants taught to all children in the state without exception is ethnic studies.  Today, the state's Board of Education will vote on whether or not to approve a model curriculum for this subject to be used in each and every Californian public school.  The state legislature has signaled its intention to make the curriculum mandatory if the Board of Education gives its approval.  If such a bill is signed into law, ethnic studies will be the only subject in California with the same pedagogical priority in K-12 classrooms as reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Race-obsessed Loudon County school teacher schooled by mellow teen.  There are so many true and rotten things one can say about progressive values, but I think most will agree that one of the worst things progressives do is attack boys.  There's a reason for this:  If raised right, boys are hardwired for courage.  We see this in a wonderful way in a video someone posted showing an unknown teen in Loudon County, Virginia (which is famous for canning Dr. Seuss and trying to dox "white supremacist" parents) politely refusing to go along with his white teacher's insistent racism.  The short video brings together a lot of newsworthy trends.  The first one is that Loudoun County Public School District, which is located in the wealthiest county in America, just north of Washington, D.C., is populated with the worst kind of public school teachers — leftist activists.

Schools Gone Woke:  One America Educator Speaks Out.  I am an American educator who began teaching nearly two decades ago.  During that time, I have taught at some of the most prestigious private secondary schools in the United States.  Starting about five years ago, these schools began to be consumed by woke ideology.  When I say "consumed by woke ideology" I mean that these schools are obsessed with sophomoric and divisive notions of diversity, equality, and justice; increasingly hostile to freedom of expression; addicted to cancelling anything that offends the woke movement; and prioritising activism over understanding as the goal of education.  I am writing this letter to alert those we may describe as "sleep-wokers". A sleep-woker is one who has not taken the woke creed to heart, yet nevertheless tacitly complies with the linguistic, pedagogical, political, and moral imperatives of wokeness.

Cops investigate Virginia teachers' Facebook group for naming parents who were 'against critical race theory'.  Virginia police are investigating an 'anti-racist' Facebook group that named the parents of students who members say are 'against critical race theory'.  The Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County group — which reportedly includes teachers and school board members — shared personal details of those they say had opposed moves to teach the controversial curriculum.  It urged followers to 'gather information' on them and encouraged online hackers to silence critics of the theory, The Daily Wire reports.  Parent Cherly Onderchain told Fox News she was on the 'hit list', adding:  'Their goal is silence.'

Who's going to teach all the illegal alien children coming here?  On Monday [3/29/2021], we learned that the San Diego Board of Education is sending teachers to the San Diego Convention Center to give in-person education to the illegal alien kids there.  The most obviously wrong thing about that, of course, is that our kids are not getting in-person education.  But I don't want to comment about the obvious.  I want to talk about the insane rant from a Sacramento teacher who hates Americans, especially white Americans.  Unless we do something, it's these insane teachers who will ultimately end up indoctrinating the new students who will be pouring into American schools.

Professor rips new discrimination on campus against 'whiteness'.  Once upon a time, Aaron Kindsvatter relished the scholarly world, which he found to be a fascinating marketplace of ideas with liberal leanings.  Those days are gone.  Now, a tenured professor of counselor education at the University of Vermont, he finds himself in a surreal, totalitarian environment.  Faculty and administrators want him exiled because he has taken a stand against what he saw as pigeonholing of people according to skin color.  "Please stop reducing my personhood to a racial category in your teach-ins," he asked in the first of three videos he made this month that embroiled him in a campus fury.  "Please stop telling me my views are harmful just because they are more moderate than yours."

In Aftermath Of Parent Enemies List, School Committee Pledges To 'Silence The Opposition'.  A quasi-official body tied to the Loudoun County, Virginia, public schools on Friday [3/26/2021] pledged to "silence the opposition," apparently referring to parents who question the schools' adoption of controversial racial ideologies, as officials seemed to double down after revelations of a list, the stated purpose of which was to "infiltrate," "hack," and "expose" such parents.  The LCPS Minority Student Achievement Advisory Council (MSAAC) wrote on Twitter and Facebook: [...] The "call to action" consisted of items such as:  "refrain from opening/clicking or sharing any article/tweet/facebook post from any group that seeks to sow seeds of untruths, hate and distrust."

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That's pretty convoluted logic.  Do untruths have seeds?

Australian School Forced Its Male Students To Stand In Front Of The Females And Appologize For Their Gender.  Some parents of male students at a school in Australia are seething after their sons were forced to stand up in assembly and apologize to their female classmates on behalf of their gender.  The incident happened at Brauer College, a senior school in Warrnambool, Victoria, on Wednesday.  One parent, Danielle Shephard, who has a 12-year-old son at the school, told 7News her son was feeling confused after being told to apologize.  "He said that he was made to stand up and basically apologize... It wasn't explained properly to the male students what they were doing or why they were doing it," she said.  [Video clip]

Georgia Science Professor:  Fox News Is 'Questionable Source,' CNN, New York Times Are 'Reliable News Sources'.  A science professor told students that Fox News is not a credible source for news, though The New York Times and CNN are.  An ecology professor at the University of Georgia asked students to refrain from using Fox News as a source for a writing assignment, according to emails obtained by the Young America's Foundation (YAF).  Professor Scott Connelly suggested that his students use sources such as CNN and The New York Times instead.  "For this assignment, please do an internet search or rely on information from reliable news sources that you already read (factually reliable news sources include media such as BBC, CNN, NYTimes, ABCNews, etc.  Please do not draw from questionable sources such as National Inquirer, Fox News, OAN, blogs, etc.)," Connelly wrote.  When a YAF employee emailed Connelly asking why he had singled out only conservative news outlets as unreliable, the professor said his choice had nothing to do with politics.

Teachers Compile List Of Parents Who Question Racial Curriculum, Plot War On Them.  A group of current and former teachers and others in Loudoun County, Virginia, compiled a lengthy list of parents suspected of disagreeing with school system actions, including its teaching of controversial racial concepts — with a stated purpose in part to "infiltrate," use "hackers" to silence parents' communications, and "expose these people publicly."  Members of a 624-member private Facebook group called "Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County" named parents and plotted fundraising and other offline work.  Some used pseudonyms, but The Daily Wire has identified them as a who's who of the affluent jurisdiction outside D.C., including school staff and elected officials.  The sheriff's criminal investigations division is reviewing the matter — but the group's activities might be no surprise to top law enforcement because the county's prosecutor, narrowly elected with the help of $845,000 in cash from George Soros, appears to be a member of the Facebook group.

Lt. Gov. launches new website reporting indoctrination in NC schools.  Lt. Governor Mark Robinson says some parents, kids and educators have concerns over what's being taught in North Carolina public schools.  So, on Tuesday [3/16/2021], he launched the FACTS Task Force on his official government page.  "If I go into the classroom and I can't put my opinion aside long enough to go inside the classroom and give impressionable, young minds just the facts without my opinion, I have failed as an educator," Robinson said during a news conference.  FACTS stands for Fairness, Accountability in the Classroom for Teachers and Students.  Concerns people can submit online include:  examples of discrimination or harassment, examples of students being influenced by political opinions and ideologies and proof of inappropriate content or subject matter.

The Miseducation of America's Elites.  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.  They are usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools, but now they come together to strategize.  They say that they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking.  But the situation of late has become too egregious for emails or complaining on conference calls.  So one recent weekend, on a leafy street in West Los Angeles, they gathered in person and invited me to join.  In a backyard behind a four-bedroom home, ten people sat in a circle of plastic Adirondack chairs, eating bags of Skinny Pop.  These are the rebels: well-off Los Angeles parents who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.  By normal American standards, they are quite wealthy.  By the standards of Harvard-Westlake, they are average. [...] So it strikes them as something more than ironic that a school that costs more than $40,000 a year [...] is teaching students that capitalism is evil.

Most American Schools Are Damaging Your Child.  If your child attends almost any university in America (or Canada or anywhere else in the English-speaking world), the odds are that your child's decency, intellectual acuity, faculty of reason, character and moral compass will be damaged, perhaps permanently.  The worse news is that sending your child to almost any elementary school or high school — public or private — is fast becoming equally toxic.  More and more schools are being taken over by left-wing ideologues and by nonideologues who lack the courage to confront the ideologues.  Once infected with leftism, these schools teach children to hate reason, tradition, America, Christianity, whites, excellence, freedom and masculinity.  To cite one example, thanks to a million-dollar grant from Bill Gates through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Oregon Education Department has announced that teaching there is "one right answer" in math — yes, in math — is an expression of white supremacy.  Why, then, would an Oregon parent who cares about his or her child's mind, send that child to an Oregon school?

Exposing Corwin's Socialist Math Textbook Series.  Corwin Press, a professional development book publisher, is no longer interested in producing academic material designed to teach children how to think, rather, has set its sights on teaching students what to think.  The company, which was established in 1990, has taken a hard left turn over the past five years, so much so that the publisher has abandoned any pretense of objectivity and has openly embedded its political agenda into much of its material.  In January, Corwin posted so-called "free resources to help educators process the Jan. 6th riot at the Capitol," which provided links to agenda-driven activist groups like Black Lives Matter, whose aim was to indoctrinate school children in polarizing identity politics.  Now Corwin is promoting a new series of math textbooks aimed at indoctrinating high school students in radical leftist politics, textbooks that replace objective, linear math with socialist propaganda.

The Case for Closing Public Schools Indefinitely.  Part of me sympathizes with the conservative parents who are struggling to cope with working from home and the online curriculum management of their children.  (Though that sympathy does not extend to liberal parents who knowingly voted for this lunacy.)  But I am struggling to understand why conservative parents are insistent to return their children to these wretched institutions that are delivering a subpar education and indoctrinating their children with Marxist theory.  Public schools throughout the nation have adopted wholesale the insidious Marxist curriculum of race agitators like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi, along with Nicole Hannah Jones's fictional work that is the "1619 Project."  In Buffalo, New York, teachers and administrators have introduced "anti-racism" lessons that instruct kindergarteners — yes, kindergarteners — that 'all white people perpetuate systematic racism' and forces children to watch videos of dead black children.  In Oregon, the 'Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction' claims that obtaining the 'right' answer to a math problem is somehow rooted in white supremacy.

A Trojan Horse for Woke Education.  A massive new national project called "Educating for American Democracy" will be launched on Tuesday [3/2/2021] with the explicit aim of "redefining" and then "harmonizing" American civic education nationwide.  From the days of Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and the McGuffey readers to Ronald Reagan's farewell address and the controversy over national history standards, citizenship education (broadly understood) has always been a vital function of American schools for the perpetuation of the American way of life.  That's about to change for the worse.  Educating for American Democracy (EAD) is a coalition of educators that aims "to transform teaching of civics and history to sustain our constitutional democracy and meet the needs of a diverse 21st century K-12 student body."  EAD in 2019 received start-up funding of $650,000 from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Teacher Asked Students to List Their Political Party and Why, Then Publicized Their Responses.  There's been a lot of controversy over Joe Biden's seeming reluctance to want all the public schools opening up as soon as possible.  Obviously, that's not making a lot of parents very happy.  But if they saw what just happened at Porter Ridge High School in Indian Trail, North Carolina, they just might not want to send their kids back.  A teacher, as part of an assignment, asked kids to list what political party they would choose and had them write it down, and explain why.  The teacher then publicized to the rest of the class what each student had chosen and what they had written, with conservative students being bullied, according to WCNC.  One mother described how her daughter was bullied for being a Republican.

Oh The Places The Woke Will Go:  Dr. Seuss Canceled For 'Racial Undertones'.  A national educators organization is telling schools to avoid reading Dr. Seuss because the children's books allegedly have "racial undertones."  For more than 20 years, March 2 has been recognized as Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday.  The reading recognition day was founded by the National Education Association — the nation's largest labor union — in 1998.  This year's theme is "Create and Celebrate Diversity."  Learning for Justice — a left-wing educators group — is demanding that Dr. Seuss be canceled.  A prominent Virginia school district has taken marching orders and ordered its schools to avoid "connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss."  Loudoun County Public Schools, one of the nation's most affluent school districts, announced that it will no longer recognize Dr. Seuss on his birthday.

The Chinese Communist Takeover of America Is Well Underway.  The Communist Chinese have been subtlety indoctrinating young impressionable minds here on school campuses all across America with their Marxist ideology.  An effort that's been underway for years.  And an effort that has had a great deal of success, considering the level of self-loathing about America that they have been able to instill in a great many of America's youth for a couple of generations now.  American youth have been taught to hate our founding fathers, and to view our Constitution and other founding documents as impediments to achieving a promised Marxist Utopia — an ideology that they were fed while attending classes at American universities by Marxist indoctrinated professors.  Despising the very country that has provided them the freedom to enjoy all of the modern conveniences that those same students and professors rely upon and have grown accustomed to.

A Fifty-Year History of Anti-Patriotism in the United States.  [Scroll down]  Anti-patriotism can literally be dated back 55 years.  Rejection of the flag and traditional patriotism has been with us for decades.  During the Vietnam War, the New York City schools stopped requiring daily recitation of the Pledge in effect since 1966, at the height of antiwar protests about Vietnam.  The pledge was not reinstated for more than 35 years.  That's right:  they had 35 years without the Pledge being required in the public schools, which enroll approximately 1,000,000 kids a year.  After 9/11, N.Y. State mandated the Pledge.  But not all schools were in compliance, and there was no enforcement of the so-called "mandate."  At that time, I was teaching high school.  The school I was in complied with the mandate.  The principal ruled that the Pledge would be recited every day over the P.A. system, but that students did not have to stand; however, they could not talk during the Pledge and could not turn their backs on the flag (imagine: not turning one's back on the flag had to be given as policy as recently as 19 years ago).  Most other high schools were not even in compliance.  My former high school, when in session, continues to comply and recite the Pledge, although in the junior and senior homerooms, only [three or fewer] students can be seen standing and reciting.

Maybe the children whose schools are still closed are the lucky ones.  There are currently two dominant narratives about K-12 education in America:  The first is the fact that many teachers in huge urban school districts are refusing to return to their classrooms.  The second is the fact that the schools that are back in business are using their power over people's children to indoctrinate both the children and their families in hard-left ideologies, especially about race and sexuality.

Illinois Readies Disastrous Teaching Standards.  The Illinois Legislature's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules will consider on February 16 the Illinois State Board of Education's proposed Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards to determine certification of all teachers and other education personnel in the state.  "This Part establishes certain standards that shall apply to the issuance of all Illinois professional educator licenses endorsed in teaching, school support personnel, and administrative fields," the proposal states.  The standards, if approved, would go into effect on October 1.  The stated aim is the nebulous but apparently innocuous goal of creating "the culturally responsive teacher and leader."  Though written with generous helpings of gobbledygook, the standards are quite clear about the intention to license only teachers fully committed to political and cultural indoctrination and willing to ignore academic achievement to the extent that it gets in the way of this, which is to say:  completely.

'Spirit Murder,' Neo-Segregation and Science Denial in American Schools.  A distressed parent writes me from Harvard-Westlake (tuition: $41,300 a year; alma mater of the siblings Gyllenhaal).  She tells me that, this fall, a dean lavished praise upon Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, both Louis Farrakhan fans, in a high-school wide assembly.  She is shocked and so I mirror it back.  But at this stage of the game, in which Mallory is appearing in the pages of Vogue, I'm not surprised in the least.  Then another parent at the school tells me of the school's 20-page plan outlining its "anti-racist" program.  Policies include: "assessing word problems in math and rewriting them to be more representative and culturally sensitive" and "redesigning the 11th grade US History course from a critical race theory perspective."  I start writing it up only to see the news out of Dalton (tuition: $54,180 a year), which makes Harvard-Westlake look almost conservative by comparison.

NYC schools teaching BLM agenda inspired in part by cop-killer Assata Shakur.  Big Apple students are this week being taught a Black Lives Matter agenda inspired in part by a cop-killer who is one of the FBI's most wanted suspects.  City schools are joining others around the US in a Black Lives Matter at School "week of action" encouraging a "lifetime of practice" on 13 guiding principles, including being queer- and trans-affirming.  The BLM at School's home page centers on one inspirational quote — from Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther who in 1979 fled prison, where she was serving life for the execution-style murder of a New Jersey state trooper.  Shakur — the godmother of late rapper Tupac Shakur and also known as Joanne Chesimard — is still wanted by the FBI with a $1 million reward.  She was the first woman ever named as a "Most Wanted Terrorist" and is considered likely armed and dangerous.

Illinois Teachers [have been] Told to Adopt Progressive Ideology or Be Fired.  In the Land of Lincoln, a set of rigorous new rules has been proposed for K-12 public-school teachers that will give government total control of what students learn and how they learn it, effectively turning students into at-will activists for far-left, progressive issues.  The state-approved Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards (CRTL Standards) illustrate the latest attempt by the Left to transform American schooling to conform to the beliefs and values of their singular worldview.  If ratified by the Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) on February 16, 2021, the CRTL Standards would require that educators become "culturally responsive" to a host of highly politically charged issues, teaching leftist dogma such as the idea that widespread racial discrimination and gender discrimination exist and are the result of long-enduring systems of societal and cultural oppression.  Under these standards, teachers would be forced to "create curriculum content to include a counternarrative to dominant culture," among other mandates.  The new regulations would be incorporated into all teacher trainings and certification requirements, and those who refuse to comply could face disciplinary action or termination.

California Is Cleansing Jews From History.  [Scroll down]  But three years later, when the first draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) was released, [Elina] Kaplan couldn't believe what she was reading.  In one sample lesson, she saw that a list of historic U.S. social movements — ones like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Criminal Justice Reform — also included the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for Palestine (BDS), described as a "global social movement that currently aims to establish freedom for Palestinians living under apartheid conditions." Kaplan wondered why a foreign movement, whose target was another country, would be mischaracterized as a domestic social movement, and she was shocked that in a curriculum that would be taught to millions of students, BDS's primary goal — the elimination of Israel — was not mentioned.  Kaplan also saw that the 1948 Israel War of Independence was only referred to as the "Nakba" — "catastrophe" in Arabic — and Arabic verses included in the sample lessons were insulting and provocative to Jews.  Kaplan, 53, a Bay Area mother of two grown children who describes herself as a lifelong Democrat, was further surprised to discover that a list of 154 influential people of color did not include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, or Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, though it included many violent revolutionaries.  There was even a flattering description of Pol Pot, the communist leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, who was responsible for the murder of a quarter of the Cambodian population during the 1970s.

How and Why Joe Biden Opposes Patriotic Education.  Of all the executive orders that newly elected Joe Biden swiftly enacted, nothing is more indicative of his anti-American animus and radical left-wing influence than his revoking Trump's "1776 Commission" to promote "patriotic education."  The 1776 Commission to Create a Patriotic History Curriculum is in direct contrast to the "1619 Project," which reflects a decidedly anti-American, factually incorrect, and blatantly biased program currently being pushed through the U.S. education system.  The mission of the 1776 Commission is "to defend the legacy of America's founding, the virtue of America's heroes, and the nobility of the American character."  But the left continues the mendacious onslaught of falsehoods about America.  Considering the people Biden is choosing to assist him, this move should come as no surprise.

Anti-White Racism Pervades Major Academic Publisher's Teacher Resources.  Hours after being sworn in as America's 46th president, Joe Biden reversed Trump's ban on using toxic Critical Race Theory in federal government diversity trainings.  Doing so has reopened the floodgates for allowing anti-American identity politics in our public institutions and schools.  Corwin Press, an academic publisher that supplies books for K-12 schools, has taken advantage of Biden's new agenda by releasing a series of free teacher resources titled "Responding to Insurrection, Domestic Terrorism, and Threats to Democracy."  A quick look at these so-called teacher resources, which are linked at the top of Corwin's webpage, reveals that they are disturbingly political and agenda-driven, with a clear objective to teach children what to think and not how to think.  In short, these resources fail to allow students to critically analyze current events in an accurate and balanced context.  They do not offer a classic pro and con format, but are presented from a one-sided lens that makes a complex situation simplistic.

No Wonder Biden Canceled It: 1776 Commission Report Takes Aim At Identity Politics, Socialism, And Slavery.  Former President Trump's 1776 Commission has issued a report that summarizes "the principles of the American founding and how those principles have shaped our country."  It will be the only such report — President Biden swiftly dissolved the commission by executive order after being sworn into office on Wednesday.  Biden's decision is regrettable because "The 1776 report calls for a return to the unifying ideals stated in the Declaration of Independence," as Chairman Larry P. Arnn, Vice-Chair Carol Swain, and Executive Director Matthew Spalding said in a statement.  "It quotes the greatest Americans, black and white, men and women, in devotion to these ideals."  The report rejects the teachings of historians such as Howard Zinn, The New York Times's 1619 Project, and other efforts aimed at fundamentally transforming how Americans view their country's history.

Dennis Prager:  To save America from left's destruction, take your kids out of public school.  Conservative commentator Dennis Prager said Friday that President Joe Biden has built his political career on standing for "whatever works at that moment" and demonstrated that his first day in office by disbanding former President Trump's 1776 Commission, which, Prager said, focused on a "patriotic education" for American students.  "The left is thrilled with that," Prager told "Just the News AM" host Carrie Sheffield.  "The left is primarily concerned with deconstructing the United States of America.  And apparently [Biden is] quite willing.  There's a 50/50 chance that if you send your kid to elementary school, high school and college, they will come out holding you in contempt.  If you're prepared to lose your child, keep your kid in school."  [Video clip]

Biden to Cancel Trump's 1776 Commission That Promotes American Founding Values.  President Joe Biden plans to cancel the Trump administration's 1776 Commission, only two days after the advisory panel released a report calling for a U.S. history education centered on the nation's founding principles.  Biden, who was inaugurated on Wednesday, is expected to sign 17 executive actions, according to a press release.  A number of those actions are a direct reversal of Trump-era policies, including the travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries, the construction of barriers along the U.S.-Mexican border, and the 1776 Commission to promote a "patriotic education."  Through his day 1 executive order, Biden will "rescind the Trump administration's 1776 Commission," which "has sought to erase America's history of racial injustice," the Biden-Harris transition team said in a press release.

Thoughts on the 1776 Commission and Its Report.  The newly formed President's Advisory 1776 Commission just released its report.  The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry P. Arnn.  The vice chair was Dr. Carol M. Swain, a retired professor of political science. (Full disclosure:  I was a member of the commission.)  The unanimously approved conclusions focused on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the historical challenges to these founding documents and the need for civic renewal.  The 16-member commission was diverse in the widest sense of the familiar adjective.  It included historians, lawyers, academics, scholars, authors, former elected officials and past public servants.  Whether because the report was issued by a Donald Trump-appointed commission, or because the conclusions questioned the controversial and flawed New York Times-sponsored 1619 Project, there was almost immediate criticism from the left.

Biden's Disbanding of 1776 Commission Shows Left's War on US History.  All Americans should wish President Joe Biden well.  To do otherwise would be churlish and self-defeating.  It beggars belief, though, that one of his first intended acts was for his White House to take down the report issued Monday by the 1776 Commission, and on his first day as president, to disband the commission.  Is that really the priority?  As one of the commissioners, I guess I'm flattered.  But is the baying from the woke left so furious that dissolving a commission named after our nation's founding, and deleting a report calling for teaching objective history, makes the top of the list?  The symbolism alone should give pause.  But maybe the symbolism is the thing, and our new president wants to demonstrate his bona fides to the creators of the 1619 Project and their hard-left allies.

Ultra-Woke Illinois Mandates Are Top Threat to U.S. Education.  Yes, woke K-12 curricula grounded in neo-Marxist Critical Race Theory are on the march through America's schools.  We've just learned that a California elementary school is forcing third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities and rank themselves by "power and privilege."  Although California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a too-woke ethnic-studies high-school graduation requirement last fall, a reworked version, still saturated with Critical Race Theory, has just been released for public comment.  Minnesota's new draft social studies standards minimize key events in American history and stress "systemic racism" and "marginalization" instead.  Cities like Seattle and San Diego are moving in the same direction.  The egregious 1619 Project has already been adopted by school districts across the country.

Trump's 1776 Commission slams schools for trying to paint the US as an 'evil country' with 'distorted histories' on slavery.  The Trump administration's 1776 Commission has slammed what it calls 're-education attempts' that re-frame the United States as 'an evil country' in a scathing report released on Martin Luther King Jr.  Day.  The 45-page document blasts 'destructive scholarship' that the commission says misrepresents the history of slavery and racial discrimination in the nation's schools and colleges.  It also likened American liberals to the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, who the commission said 'sought to centralize power under the management of so-called experts.'

Florida middle school teacher fired after blaming Antifa for Capitol riots in class.  A Florida teacher found herself out of a job after a rant to a classroom full of students in which she blamed Antifa for the Capitol riots.  The unidentified substitute was filmed by a Bok Academy student who later posted the meltdown on the Instagram account @knowyourracists.  According to the Lake Wales' school principal Dr. Damien Moses, she was dismissed from school system, TMZ reported.  The post began:  "Teaching kids that Antifa broke into the Capitol. ... She was a substitute teacher in the middle school's language arts class.  She has been dismissed from the Lake Wales Charter School System.  She just RANDOMLY started talking about this in 1st period, it was language arts class and we were about to do work when she started talking about the Capitol raid," the post continued.

MIT Professor Who Received $19M in Federal Grants Arrested for Concealing Ties to China.  A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and researcher who has received almost $20 million from the Department of Energy was arrested Thursday after he allegedly failed to disclose ties to the People's Republic of China.  Mechanical engineering professor Gang Chen faces charges of wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report, and making a false statement in a tax return, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston revealed Thursday [1/14/2021].  Prosecutors allege the 56-year-old professor, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, has held a number of positions on behalf of the PRC with the goal of promoting China's technological and scientific capabilities.

The new American aristocracy, like the old European one, hates the peasants.  In the past, when a small percentage of Americans graduated with four-year degrees, these graduates had both the historic literacy and the technical education (math, engineering, science, etc.) to give legitimacy to their belief that they were a leadership elite.  They also still had a sense of noblesse oblige.  Now, pure leftism controls credential-bestowing institutions.  Students are indoctrinated not educated, and they have no loyalty to America or its people.  Noblesse oblige is dead.  Graduates still take leadership positions across the board in American society (politics, media, academics, entertainment, medicine, etc.), but these new leaders despise the people over whom they exercise disproportionate control.

Anti-America Americans are Synergizing Again.  Since serving in combat in 1969, I've spent a half century inside the ivory tower.  That has convinced me the intelligentsia are the #1 threat to American freedom.  University Marxists/Leninists/Stalinists gave birth to today's "woke" cancel culture while simultaneously administering last rites to higher education quality in America.  Beyond that, they educate the other four anarchist elements — profiteers, manipulators, zealots, and moralists — to serve themselves, not others; especially, not America.  And, of course, they continually propagate more of their own, with the in-breeding generating precisely what genetics predicts.  Pedagogic indoctrination is sometimes subtle, oftentimes not, but the brainwashing works.

Why I Am Joining The Jan. 6 DC March For Trump.  [Scroll down]  Hoping for the best, I enrolled my children in public elementary school that year.  Over the course of five years, I watched a son be bullied so badly by other students and his own teacher that I tried homeschooling just to see him smile again.  I watched my other son be left behind in math to the point that he couldn't add single-digit numbers properly.  I watched a daughter bring home papers about global warming and bad white people who hurt Native Americans.  I joined the parent-teacher association only to find that fixing these issues wouldn't happen there because there were no issues more important than selling wrapping paper to buy a new gymnasium and computers to make sure we had the same equipment other schools did.  I saw no future for myself or my children there, so I quit the system.

High School Student Sues Over Leftist 'Indoctrination' in Nevada.  A high school senior of mixed race is suing a taxpayer-funded charter school in Nevada over the "coercive, ideological indoctrination" that is central to its Critical Race Theory-based curriculum that forces students to associate aspects of their identity with oppression.  In the lawsuit, Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, filed Dec. 22 in federal court in Nevada, the young plaintiff William Clark and his mother Gabrielle Clark claim their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated.  Students were allegedly told that by refusing to identify with an oppressive group, they were exercising their privilege or underscoring their role as an oppressor.  The lawsuit was filed by the Illinois-based group Schoolhouse Rights, whose website describes its mission as supporting "civil rights litigation in defense of students' freedom of conscience in public education and the rights of parents to guide and direct the upbringing of their children."

The Birth of Cancel Culture and the Death of Education.  [Scroll down]  Most are familiar with the undergraduate student deferments used to dodge the draft in the 1960s.  Less well known were the ones for graduate school, in place until 1968. Those led to a 3-fold increase in Ph.D. degrees — men only — in the '60s compared to the previous decade.  The increases prior to that were a couple percent per decade.  And where are most Ph.D. awardees employed?  At universities.  Since their motivation was to avoid government service, it's not surprising they would espouse principles not supportive of America.  Their negative views undoubtedly spilled over into their teaching, thereby providing foundational cancel culture training — Woke Philosophy 101; Introductory Victimology 202; Mobology 303: Advanced Bullying — identified as such or not.  Perhaps even more concerning, though, was another draft dodging option — K-12 teaching deferments.  Guys lacking the academic credentials or financial resources for graduate school could add the education courses necessary to become teachers just to avoid the draft.  Obviously, more students qualified for that dodge than the Ph.D. route.

Parent Of 3rd Grader Calls Teacher To Chew Her Out Over Electoral Map Assignment Showing Biden The Winner.  The video shows a worksheet for a student named Anthony, where the class seemingly was instructed to color in each state based on who won it in the election, with students coloring states blue for states President-Elect Joe Biden won and red for states President Donald Trump won.  At the bottom, students wrote how many electoral votes each candidate was projected to receive and who won.  The student, Anthony, filled in that Biden won 306 electoral votes while Trump received 232, and that Biden is the winner.  The parent can be heard ranting to the teacher on speakerphone.  [Video clip]

Proposed Illinois teacher standards: 'embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints'.  New standards proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education — which allegedly will make teachers and administrators "more sensitive" to students' cultures and backgrounds — have irked some conservative groups.  According to NPR and The Center Square, the Illinois Pro-Family Alliance and Thomas More Society contend the "Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards for all Illinois Educators" are "unconstitutionally vague" and "amount to a form of 'compelled speech.'"  "These elements of the proposed rule require teachers to enunciate a government-sourced 'progressive' and activist viewpoint in their educational work with students," said the former's Ralph Rivera and Molly Malone Rumley.

The True Battleground Is Education.  The key to conservatives reclaiming and rescuing any sense of America as we have known it for the last several decades is education.  Not just raising our children to know right from wrong and good from evil, though that's a good start.  Regardless of your religious affiliation, it usually doesn't hurt to throw a little God in for good measure.  It's not necessary that they be devout followers but learning that there's something bigger than them... than all of us... will be helpful.  The way to start taking back this country is by getting conservatives and conservative ideas back into the classroom.  It would be helpful in K-12, but I mean specifically the university system.  That is our frontline battleground now and in the future.

National Parents Coalition:  Revisionist History in Public Schools Has Led to Socialist Uprising in U.S..  A national parents' coalition that rose out of the uprising against the Common Core standards asserts the decades-long indoctrination of U.S. students in revisionist history has led to the current battle over the presidential election.  "The battle over who will be president continues," US Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) said in comments to Breitbart News.  "One of the reasons this battle is happening is because one party is working hard to re-write history to convince Americans that our country is bad and does not deserve the peace and prosperity we enjoy.  The 1619 Project is a current and significant example."

How Decades of Media and Faculty Bias Have Pushed America to the Left.  [Scroll down]  For decades, the public's predominant source of information about the nation's history and political institutions has been the establishment "mainstream" media, public schools, and America's higher education system.  This has a sizable effect on the public's views and ideology.  Staffers at tech companies, dictionary editors, and managers at Google are all part of this public.  Moreover, the sorts of people who work at Silicon Valley companies, and who work as editors and website designers, tend to have degrees obtained from colleges and universities.  These are the same colleges and universities that today's journalists and pundits attended.  They're the same colleges and universities that public school teachers attended, and which today's attorneys, corporate CEOs, and high-level managers attended.  Moreover, over time, the share of the public attending these colleges and universities has grown.

Teacher holds 13-year-old after class to lecture him about Trump's 'racist' immigration policy.  A middle school teacher in Washington state kept a 13-year-old student after class to lecture him over his support for President Trump — and the student recorded the whole thing.  It's the latest in a growing string of incidents in which teachers are bringing their anti-Trump political biases into the classroom.  Now that remote learning is more prevalent, more and more incidents are being caught on tape.  Connor Seaman, a language arts teacher at Kopachuck Middle School in Gig Harbor, had apparently taken issue with the student's choice of Trump as his "hero" for a recent assignment.  So he asked the student to stick around after class for a quick chat before he proceeded to spend nearly 10 minutes attempting to convince the student that his hero's immigration policy is nonsensical and "racist."

Leftist Teacher Makes Kid Stay After Class To Grill Him Over His Admiration For 'Racist' President Trump.  A 13-year-old student recorded his teacher as he tried to convince him to stop supporting President Donald Trump.  The teacher spent nearly ten minutes trying to get his student to agree the president's immigration policy is a failure and that Trump is a racist.  Connor Seaman from Kopachuck Middle School in Gig Harbor.  A 13-year-old student recorded his teacher as he tried to convince him to stop supporting President Donald Trump.  The teacher spent nearly ten minutes trying to get his student to agree the president's immigration policy is a failure and that Trump is a racist.  [Video clip]

Waking to the Woke.  Since June, a group of Northwestern University students has demanded that the school disband its campus police force and sever ties with the Evanston, Illinois police department.  On Saturday, October 17, their protests became unruly.  Members of NU Community Not Cops (NUCNC) sprayed anti-cop graffiti on private and public property, broke a window at the local Whole Foods market, set at least one trash can on fire, and burned a school banner.  The following Monday, Northwestern's president denounced the violence in the most unequivocal of terms — and was himself promptly denounced as a racist for having done so.  But the president, Morton Schapiro, to his enormous credit, has neither apologized nor backed down on his refusal to abolish the campus police department.  The Northwestern episode is doubly instructive.  Schapiro is one of the most woke college presidents in the country.  Yet he has done something that almost no Democratic politician or progressive opinion leader has dared do with such forcefulness:  draw a bright line between Black Lives Matter protests and violence.  Had Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris been as unhesitating in their condemnations of this year's murderous race riots, the country might have avoided the worst of the anarchy.

False History Taught in Schools Incites Kids to Hate America.  The history taught in public schools is "a complete and total reversal of reality" and this is the root cause of the civil unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis that later has spread across the nation, said Alex Newman, an author, and award-winning international journalist.  President Donald Trump said during the Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3, "Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains."  "The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions," Trump said.  "He hit the nail right smack on the head.  That's what I've been arguing for years. ... That's not exaggeration," said Newman who also is a co-author of the book "Crimes of the Educators:  How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children."

The Shocking Bias and Incompetence of Our Public Schools.  With an election impending, the public schools are teaching our children about the issues and the candidates.  One of their primary tools is Scholastic Magazine, which I think is read by millions of school children and is the basis for instruction in countless classrooms.  A friend alerted me to the fact that the current issue includes profiles of President Trump and Joe Biden and describes their positions on several issues. [...] What our public schools are telling our kids about the election is identical to the propaganda being put out by the Biden campaign.  Our public schools are so incompetent, and so ridiculously biased, that they are a threat to the Republic.  I think voters should seriously consider abolishing them altogether.  Whatever private arrangements would arise in the resulting vacuum could only be an improvement.

Meet America's New College Professors:  Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok and Beto O'Rourke.  Peter Strzok, whom the FBI canned for sending anti-Trump texts to lover and coworker Lisa Page, is now an adjunct professor of counterintelligence and national security at Georgetown.  And who better to teach political science than failed Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who will join the ranks at Texas State University this spring?

Taxpayers and Donors Can Stop Disgusting Professorial Teachings.  The ugliness that we have recently witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders, and grossly stupid claims about our nation has its origins on college campuses.  Two websites, Campus Reform and College Fix, report on the despicable teachings on college campuses across the nation.  Let us look at some of it.  In response to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's tweeting that he supports "citizen soldiers" in Kenosha, Wisc., Tressie McMillan Cottom, a black professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, declared that "they have deputized all white people to murder us."  Jesse A. Goldberg, professor in the English department at Auburn University who teaches classes in African American literature, American literature, and composition wrote a now-deleted post on Twitter, "f--- every cop.  Every single one."  Goldberg added, "the only ethical choice for any cop to make at this point is to refuse to do their job and quit."

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Ordinarily, one would think that a professor of English would be able to express himself forcefully without resorting to vulgarity.

Conservatism Now Means Defeating the Establishment.  [Scroll down]  How about the example of academia?  For the most part, in terms of practice, the only major difference between the typical college class today and one a century ago is that the person lecturing the hungover sophomores knows which bathroom to use.  What is different is that it doesn't work anymore — those mush-minded teens are not learning the info they need to be citizens, both because what they are being fed is rancid propaganda and because there are no standards anymore.

Super Woke Update:  University Votes to Stop Calling Its English Department the ENGLISH Department.  On today's episode of "This Just in From the No Longer Hallowed Halls of Academia," we learn that "faculty members of color" at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, recently introduced a proposal to change the name of the school's English Department, because "racism."  Earlier this month, as reported by The Cornell Daily Sun, a "significant majority of the department approved the change and is now awaiting approval from college administration."  I'll go out on a limb and bet — how should I put this? — there isn't a snowball's chance the name change won't be approved.  Unanimously.

Massachusetts student who supported Trump gets apology from school.  Who's up for yet another story about the indoctrination of our youth in the nation's public schools?  This tale comes to us from O'Maley Middle School in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and while still disturbing, it at least has something of a happy ending.  12-year-old Jackson Cody is a typical 7th grader who attends this school and his class is somehow being allowed to attend school in person.  Recently, after the first presidential debate, one of Jackson's teachers scheduled a classroom exercise where the students would discuss the debate and what they thought of it.  That's when things took a turn for the worse.  Jackson made the "mistake" of saying that he was impressed with how President Trump did and his performance in office.  The response from the teacher was less than open and welcoming, to say the least.

Minnesota High School Asks Residents to Remove Trump Flags to Create "Peace" for Neighborhood.  Imagine the indoctrination taking place inside Kingsland Junior/Senior High School in Spring Valley, Minnesota, when they have to ask the neighborhood residents to remove their Trump flags in order to create "peace in the neighborhood."

Our Second Civil War:  Communism Collapsed Only to Revive.  Marxist promises of an earthly paradise for workers had been thoroughly exposed as lies.  Marxism gave the world the most bloody, brutal, murderous, and impoverished regimes the world had ever seen.  Russia, which was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, had turned into a vast killing ground.  The repression of the Russian people under the Tsars was a picnic in a park compared with the immense murder state that the USSR became.  Stalin and Mao became history's worst mass murderers, far surpassing the unimaginably cruel Adolf Hitler. [...] Despite the utter failure of Communism, despite its unique cruelty, it still had admirers from all over the media and the academy.  These taught their students and their readers and viewers the nauseatingly untrue dogma that free societies, especially free enterprise societies, were inherently racist and ridden with theft.  Persons in high office who severely criticized Communism and Communists were smeared as war-mongers and lunatics.

How Modern Education Makes Good Little Marxists.  We cannot say we were not warned.  Decades ago, in an article perhaps long forgotten, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand gave an ominous warning on the state of American education at all levels, especially the ideologies and philosophies that were beginning to become pervasive within its university system.  Whatever one may think of Rand's novels or personal character, an objective analysis of her work on education specifically displays her thoughts as unquestionably prescient.

What Our Children Learn In School.  Our public schools are run, for the most part, by liberal administrators, and teachers are drawn, usually, from the lowest quadrant of academic ability among college graduates.  There are exceptions, of course, but the overall level of instruction in the public schools is abysmal.  And that isn't the worst of it: teachers who are marginally able, at best, to teach the subjects for which they are nominally responsible often devote themselves to political indoctrination instead.  Most such forays into left-wing mythology go unreported, but occasionally an enterprising kid turns on his phone and records a teacher's rant.  That happened a few weeks ago in a 9th grade Geography class in a suburban Twin Cities high school:  [Audio clip]  The teacher's ignorance is cosmic:  1) There is no "Speaker of the Senate."  2) McConnell didn't say there wasn't enough time to confirm Merrick Garland.  3) The idea that "life in America is gonna change radically" if there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court is a fantasy.  4) "This is an opinion of the court"?  Sheer incoherence.  5) "Conservatives believe that corporations should be considered humans and should have rights."  Stupid beyond belief.  No one has ever said that a corporation is a human, nor has anyone ever denied that corporations have rights.

Video shows Seattle-area teacher scold 10-year-old for admiring Trump: mom.  A Seattle-area middle school teacher scolded a 10-year-old student and briefly kicked him out of his virtual classroom last week after the child said he admires President Trump, his mother said.  Brendan Stanton, a sixth-grade teacher at Perry G. Keithley Middle School in Tacoma, asked his students on Friday to name a person they admire and to state why.  Students were supposed to type their answers in a chat room.  "I admire Donald J. Trump because he is making America great again," the child wrote, according to the "The Jason Rantz Show."  "And because he is the best president the United States of America could ever, ever have.  And he built the wall so terrorists couldn't come into in the U.S. Trump is the best person in the world.  And that's why I had admire him."  Stanton reportedly booted the child from the chat and proceeded to berate Trump without saying his name.

Anti-Americanism, Then and Now.  As members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter continue their nightly exercise of kinetic economic redistribution, and protestors assemble outside Walter Reed Hospital, where President Trump is receiving treatment for the Wuhan Flu, to shout anti-Trump slogans, I thought it might be useful to step back and consider this current wave of anti-American sentiment in historical context.  Anti-Americanism is not new, of course.  It was, as many writers have noted, a staple of 1960s' radicalism.  What seems novel today, however, is the extent to which radical anti-American sentiment has installed itself into the heart of many institutions that, until about 15 minutes ago, were pillars of the American establishment.

CNN is not only in airports, it's in schools, big brother?  A National Review Online and Forbes contributor, Carrie Lukas wrote on Twitter that her daughter is forced to watch CNN every day in school.  She wrote in response to another mother whose son had to remove his Trump hat in school. [...] Progressives are brainwashing your child in school.  Know what they are teaching.  Check their work.  Don't be afraid to complain and bring other parents with you.

The Working Class vs.  Wokism.  Wokeness, with its accompanying white ethno-masochism, is merely the latest manifestation of an improbable ideology imprinted on the miseducated middle and upper classes.  The working class is spared this indoctrination by avoiding a crucial underpinning of wokeness, Critical Race Theory, which is served up in most Humanities departments, many law schools, and now even in some hard-science departments.  Popular culture offers examples of instinctively conservative working-class characters at odds with a college-educated, scold-filled, newly minted ideological certainty.  "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Roseanne" are just a few TV shows that displayed that that dynamic.  It's not only in the U.S. that you see working-class resistance to policies fashionable with the woke college educated.  According to polls, support for Brexit decreased with educational attainment.  More than just a reassertion on national sovereignty, Brexit was seen by many as a necessary step to restrain mass Third World immigration into Britain.

The Progressive Medusa.  The Left sought to make the university woke and loud.  It succeeded beyond its wildest dreams and so ensured that it is now increasingly mocked and bypassed, its graduates both abjectly ignorant while zealously arrogant.  Life on campus was supposed to be an unforgettable, irreplaceable educational experience — a Socratic odyssey of free thought, unconventional ideas, and constant reexamination.  But it is not, and outside of the sciences and professions, undergraduate liberal education has turned instead into a sort of summer camp bore for prolonged adolescence, a chorus of nodding and chants.  The virus and lockdown reminded America that going into hock for a collective $1.4 trillion in student debt while offering the nation millions of unskilled and poorly educated activists could be bypassed with online replacements at ten cents on the dollar.  If universities do not have real core education, unleash ranting ideologues on their classes, and the campus experience is dreary indoctrination, what, then, is exactly lost by distance learning?

How to break the left's chokehold on the teaching of American History.  The left has hijacked American history.  Due to its unrelenting attacks on America, our brilliant but flawed history is now presented to students at all levels with the brilliance excised and the flaws vastly overstated. [...] The questions are:  (1) will patriotic Americans muster the determination to reverse the hijacking and (2) what is the best way to go about doing so.  With President Trump now leading the way, it looks like the answer to the first question is "yes."  Trump's remarks at the White House Conference on American History show a determination to break the left's chokehold on the teaching of American history.  They also point to the direction this effort should take.

ASU journalism school removes people, news items decried as too pro-police.  In the last four months the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University has repeatedly removed pro-police related items after students and activists cried foul.  In June, the school rescinded a job offer to the new dean of its journalism school, Sonya Forte Duhé, after students accused her of past microaggressions and other insensitive comments.  Mostly notably, Duhé had recently tweeted support for "good police officers who keep us safe."  Also that month, Cronkite News, the news division of Arizona PBS produced by content from the Cronkite School, took down a Twitter poll that had been accused of being too soft on police.  In a separate incident in June, Cronkite News also removed an interview with a former police officer after complaints it did not provide "sufficient context" or "alternative viewpoints."

92 percent of college faculty members' political donations in Ohio went to Democrats.  Ohio may be a swing state in the upcoming 2020 election, but the state's college faculty members overwhelmingly have their minds made up.  Over 92 percent of college faculty members at Ohio's 11 largest universities who donated to political candidates gave to Democrats, according to a review of Federal Elections Commission data by The College Fix.

University Professor Suspended After Wishing Trump Supporters Die Of COVID Before Election Day.  Marshall University has suspended one of its faculty members after a video clip in which she says she wished Trump supporters would catch the COVID-19 virus and die before the election went viral on social media.  Professor Jennifer Mosher, of the school's Biology department, was teaching a virtual class session Wednesday when she commented on supporters of President Donald Trump at an indoor political rally not wearing masks.  [Video clip]

Forgetting History and Misrepresenting History is America's Real Pandemic.  [Scroll down]  The real number one issue in America is public education and higher education.  If that's not fixed, America will not be America in this next cycle, and if the Democrats manage to steal this election, it will happen much sooner than later.  That is the absolute number one issue that needs to be emphasized and dealt with.  The Politically Correct crowd are using our own values against us.  They're using the education system to destroy America by teaching America's children to hate America.

'Death to America' Shouldn't Be a Lesson Plan.  "When college students graduate, they'll be hit with reality." For years, we've been hearing that radicalism is unsustainable in the real world.  Yet, as evidenced by recent student-led protests sweeping the nation, it seems as though reality is merely bending to their whim.  These students, some of whom defend rioting, looting, and even parade the streets chanting "Death to America," did not radicalize overnight.  Campus radicalism is often attributed to a small contingent of students who bully those they deem guilty of nonconformance, fringe ideologies thrust upon students by their professors, and university administrations enabling — even encouraging — these ideas.

Professor Busted for Urging Students Not To Vote for Trump.  I can't even feign surprise when I hear a women's studies professor anywhere doesn't support President Donald Trump.  A Women's Studies Academics for Trump convention couldn't fill a phone booth — and I doubt the president or any of his supporters are particularly sorry about this.  I also don't particularly expect these women's studies profs to keep their opinions to themselves, either. [...] However, there's a point where you cross a line.  I don't know where that line is, but directly telling your students who to vote for is way on the wrong side of that line.  Janet Gulla has found herself there.

Teacher tells white student she doesn't have right to an opinion.  A video clip shows a grandmother confronting a teacher over the phone about how she told a student she didn't have a right to an opinion because she was "white" and "blonde."  The footage starts with the grandmother explaining to the teacher that her granddaughter is crying and hasn't been to school because of this "BLM [stuff]."  She then accuses the teacher of telling her granddaughter that she had no right to express an opinion on the issue because she's British, white and has blonde hair.

What do students know about the Constitution?  Ahead of Constitution Day, Campus Reform traveled to the University of Georgia to ask students there for their thoughts on the nation's founding document, where it was written, who wrote it, and what rights it guarantees to all Americans.  Several students said that overall, the Constitution is a good thing.  However, others weren't so sure.  "I believe the constitution isn't very inclusive of people," one student said.  Another student called the question of whether the Constitution is a good or bad thing "tricky," saying that "there are parts of it that are good and that we need in society but it's also like, the time it was created, there are a few questionable things about it."  [Video clip]

'I was really appalled': College instructor reportedly reassigned after student records anti-Trump rant.  A New York college professor has reportedly been reassigned after being exposed for her rant against President Trump during a virtual class with students.  Just days into the new school year, students at Suffolk County Community College were subjected to an anti-Trump rant by a humanities professor who urged them not to vote for the president who's "done a crap job." Professor Janet Gulla was "reassigned" after a short video of her comments was posted by the father of one of her students, WINS radio reported.

Michigan superintendent rips anti-Trump quiz teacher gave to students as 'misinformation'.  Anti-Trump questions on a current events quiz given to students in a Michigan district this week were taken from an app and not crafted by the teacher or approved by the school, the superintendent said in a statement Wednesday [9/9/2020].  Several questions on the quiz "were deemed inappropriate in nature" and were not part of the Bedford Public Schools' curriculum, Superintendent Carl Shultz wrote in a statement posted to the district's Facebook page.  A screenshot of one of the controversial questions reportedly taken from the quiz paints President Trump as a racist, xenophobe and misogynist.

Rhode Island professor says killing by Portland activist OK from 'moral' perspective: 'He killed a fascist'.  A Rhode Island professor with a history of incendiary comments against conservatives is under fire this week for appearing to suggest that the fatal shooting of a Patriot Prayer supporter during unrest in Portland last month was morally justified.  The comment from Erik Loomis, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island, came in response to a comment on his blog post:  "Why Was Michael Reinoehl Killed?"  The post questioned whether police deliberately "murdered" 48-year-old Michael Reinoehl, the man who fatally shot Aaron "Jay" Danielson on Aug. 29, the night Trump supporters clashed with backers of Black Lives Matter in Portland.

Washington and Lee University defends course on 'How to Overthrow the State' where students write revolutionary manifesto.  Washington and Lee University has defended its course titled 'How to Overthrow the Government' which requires students to write a revolutionary manifesto, after coming under fire from critics led by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.  The president of the private liberal-arts university in Virginia on Monday issued a statement defending the course, which is one of 15 introductory writing seminars that first-year students are required to take.  The controversy exploded after the course description gained notice, stating in part: 'This course places each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society.'

'Revisionist history': Ted Cruz rips 1619 Project as unteachable in public schools.  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz defended President Trump's decision to eliminate "propaganda" from public schools.  Cruz criticized 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones, who said Trump's pledge to redirect funds away from public schools that teach the project was an example of "cancel culture."  The Texas Republican fired back, calling it Marxist propaganda.  "Calling out lies is not silence.  NYT explicitly admits the 1619 project is revisionist history:  'It aims to reframe our country's history.'  It is filled with serious errors — which have been called out by top historians — but the NYT doesn't care.  You're not after truth.  You're engaged in propaganda," Cruz tweeted.

Trump moves to suspend indoctrination in schools and govt. agencies.  Democrats have made implicit promises to the radicals whose active support they need that they will back aggressive compulsory brainwashing sessions demonizing Caucasians and the American founding as fundamentally and inherently racist.  A memorandum from OMB director Russell Vought 3 days ago began the pushback and laid a trap for them: [...] The Department of Education has enormous power over local curricula through the denial of federal funds based on criteria of its own devising.  Under Democrat administrations and the day-to-day rule of the bureaucrats, this power has been used to favor leftists.  But it is also available to the Trump administration — at least until the Department of Education is abolished, as it ought to be.  By upping the stakes and taking on California, which regularly litigates against the federal government under Republican policies, Trump is goading Dems into the trap of defending racist, anti-White brainwashing.

Washington and Lee University Offers Course on 'How to Overthrow the State'.  Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is offering a course entitled "How to Overthrow the State," which includes encouraging students to engage in "producing a Manifesto," and "writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory."  A course being offered at Washington and Lee for the fall semester focuses on encouraging students to think of ways they can "overthrow a sitting government," according to the course description on the university's website.

This Virginia University Offers Course On 'How To Overthrow The State' And Write Your Own Manifesto.  Want a formal education that includes an in-depth analysis and application of Marxist principles?  Look no further than the prestigious Washington and Lee University.  Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia is offering a course titled "How to Overthrow the State?" according to Breitbart News.

California Schools Kowtow to Black Lives Matter's Marxist Agenda.  [Scroll down]  Now, fast forward to the English 9 Ethnic Studies curriculum for the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) at the high school level.  The colorful syllabus for the course was sent to students as a Power Point in mid-August 2020.  In the first slide, an image of a cheerful "Ms. Powers," who wears sneakers and a T-shirt with the black power-communist fist salute, waves to the students in front of a backdrop that features the Black Lives Matter logo and a rainbow flag. [...] Below the introductory slide are listed the "Units of Study" for the August-December 2020 semester.  Week One is devoted to "Community Building".  Weeks 2-5 are about "My Place in the Community."  Weeks 6-9 are dedicated to "Protest."  (The syllabus doesn't specify if that will include extracurricular activities on-site in Chicago, Portland, or other field trip location.)  Weeks 10-12 are for "Intersectionality," and Weeks 13-15 are about "Stereotypes and Internalized Racism."  Yes, this is an English class.  But don't be too sure about any actual "English language" content.

U.S. Universities Underreport Donations from Hostile Regimes by Over $1.5 Billion.  [Scroll down]  Cornell initially reported taking $340 million in foreign funding, but the real number is closer to $1.3 billion — over $800 million of which came from Qatar.  The University of Colorado Boulder initially reported $55 million in foreign funding, but the real number is closer to $345 million — 61 percent of which came from the United Arab Emirates.  Yale initially reported $128 million, but the real number is $496 million — almost $42 million of which came from China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Russia.  Foreign influence is growing on college campuses, and universities seldom disclose their fiscal relationships with foreign actors.

A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal?  The cherished and iconic works of our past are also threatened, in two ways.  First, the movement that originated on campus more than a generation ago to get rid of core curricula and reinterpret in light of leftist orthodoxy those bits allowed to remain has borne fruit.  We've now "educated" generations of students — even (especially) elite students — either 1) to have no familiarity with the Western canon; and/or 2) to despise it as inherently evil; or 3) to see it only through leftist lenses that make it seem as if it merely confirms current orthodoxy; or 4) to believe it was all "stolen" from other cultures.  That last one, of course, is a bald-faced lie, but one that at least implicitly concedes there's something valuable in the tradition.  But the point is never made to spur anyone to actually read the books, rather only to validate in-group confidence.  My people, and not yours, did that, hence we are great and you are not.  The result is that the whole Western tradition is at risk of atrophy, and even death, simply from ignorance and neglect.

Secret Indoctrination?  Parents Told Not To Observe Online Classes.  Recently, Liberty Nation reported on a teacher who tweeted out his concerns about parents and others in the household being able to listen in to and see what's happening in the virtual classroom.  The instructor feared this would inhibit productive conversations concerning race, gender, and sexuality.  Now, Tennessee has taken it a step further and has demanded parents sign a form promising they will not eavesdrop on their children's studies.  When someone tries to point out that schools are indoctrinating children into socialism and the left's progressive views, they are called out for trying to spread conspiracy theories.  Yet, this latest move appears to confirm the fears:  Parents, you have no right to know what the teachers are teaching and furthermore, you are not allowed even to observe.  The reason given?  Confidentiality.  Yes, that's the excuse they are using for objecting to parents witnessing any lessons.

Parents have lost control of their children's education.  Ever wonder how we got to this point?  How did a nation that defined itself with the superlatives, "land of the free and the home of the brave," "America the Beautiful" and "one nation under God" turn into a broken culture with no boundaries, no borders, no law, no order and no soul so fast?  How did we lurch from being the United States into a divided people so quickly?  Where did this all come from: the vitriol and vice, the anger and hatred, the looting, the riots, the destruction, the nihilistic confusion, the science-denying gender-bending sexuality, the suicidal infatuation with socialism, the adolescent whining for safety rather than freedom?  How in the world did these demons possess our national body politic in what seems to be just the blink of an eye?  The answer may be closer than you think.  It might be right there at your kitchen table or on the couch right beside you.  Just look over your son's or daughter's shoulder, and you might find the answer.

Gov. Abbott calls for firing of Wylie ISD teacher over assignment that likened police to KKK, slave owners.  Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called for the firing of a Wylie ISD teacher who assigned a lesson to students that featured a cartoon that appeared to compare police with the KKK and slave owners.  The cartoon caught the attention of the National Fraternal Order of Police.  The district issued an apology and removed that assignment after 400 8th graders received the political cartoon as part of a lesson.

Texas School District Caught Teaching Children the Police are Just Like the KKK and Slave Owners.  The Wylie School District in Texas apologized after they were caught teaching children police officers are like the KKK and slave owners.  Parents complained after they found this cartoon in their child's school assignment.

Some believe canceled Wylie ISD assignment that likened police to KKK, slave owners was taken out of context.  Wylie ISD has not determined what next steps it will take after the district apologized for an assignment that featured a cartoon that appeared to compare police with the KKK and slave owners.  The cartoon caught the attention of the National Fraternal Order of Police.  The district issued an apology and removed that assignment after 400 8th graders received the political cartoon as part of a lesson.  A national representative for police said he was disgusted over the cartoon being shown in school.

Conformity to a Lie.  The lethal arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May triggered widespread riots and a torrent of contempt for America from virtually every institution in the country.  Businesses large and small, the education establishment, and the press rushed to condemn the country's purportedly endemic racism, implicitly accusing the majority of Americans of destroying "black lives."  Banks and law firms pledged that hiring and promotions would now be even more race-conscious than before.  Hundreds of millions of dollars poured forth from corporate coffers into activist groups; the corporate benefactors hoped to dismantle America's white supremacy, they announced.  Colleges and universities also promised increased diversity spending, though in amounts dwarfed by those corporate outpourings.  Nevertheless, the academic response to Floyd's death and the ensuing violence will have the greatest impact on the nation's future.  Academia was the ideological seedbed for that violence and for its elite justifications; it will prove just as critical in the accelerated transformation of the country.

"This War Can't Be Civil": Berkeley Columnist Calls For "Violent Resistance".  I testified in the Senate about the erosion of free speech and rise of violence on our campuses and in our streets.  Antifa and related groups have succeeded in advancing anti-free-speech agendas as students and faculty justify attacks on those with opposing views.  An example of the growing intolerance can be found in an editorial at the Daily California by staff writer Khaled Alqahtani.  The August 12th column calls for violent resistance and denounced notions of civility in the public debate over racial and economic justice.  In his column entitled "This War Can't Be Civil," Alqahtani mocks those who seek non-violent change and while "quoting Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about peaceful protest and resistance."

Reclaiming Our Culture from the Left.  [Scroll down]  But the education most of the rioters have received has made them abjectly incapable of thinking rationally and evaluating claims on the basis of their logical coherence and supporting evidence.  No amount of careful reasoning, no amount of evidence is going to convince most of the rioters that their rage is based on false premises, because they have been carefully educated throughout their lives to feel rather than think, and to believe that America is a nation of deep injustice with a shameful history and an equally condemnable present.  It doesn't matter that the claims that the rioters and their defenders are making are false.  It doesn't matter that police brutality affects people of all races.  It doesn't matter that thoroughgoing civil rights legislation has made "systemic racism" a thing of the distant past.  The rioters know America is evil because they have been taught it all their lives by virtually every authority they have encountered, and those authorities have also taught them that those who tell them otherwise are stupid, contemptible, and operating out of ulterior motives.  This is true of the establishment media as well as the educational system — not to mention the corporate culture, the entertainment industry, and more.

Rutherford County Schools Tell Parents Not to Monitor Their Child's Virtual Classrooms.  Parents of students who attend Rutherford County Schools (RCS) must agree not to monitor their child's online classroom sessions.  Officials at all county schools are asking parents to sign forms agreeing not to watch these virtual classes.  The Tennessee Star received a copy of such a form this week.  "RCS strives to present these opportunities in a secure format that protects student privacy to the greatest extent possible, however because these meetings will occur virtually RCS is limited in its ability to fully control certain factors such as non-student observers that may be present in the home of a student participating in the virtual meeting," according to the form.  "RCS strongly discourages non student observation of online meetings due to the potential of confidential information about a student being revealed."

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If you're showing my child (or grandchild) something over the internet, you can show me, too.

Back to Academic Brainwashing.  Parents, legislators, taxpayers, and others footing the bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the upcoming academic year.  Since many college classes will be online, there is a chance to witness professors indoctrinating their students in real-time.  So, there's a chance that some college faculty might change their behavior.  To see recent examples of campus nonsense and indoctrination, visit the Campus Reform and College Fix websites.  George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley warned congressional lawmakers that Antifa is "winning" and that much of academia, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is complicit in its success." In his testimony before Congress Turley said:  "To Antifa, people like me are the personification of the classical liberal view of free speech that perpetuates a system of oppression and abuse.  I wish I could say that my view remains strongly implanted in our higher educational institutions.  However, you are more likely to find public supporters for restricting free speech than you are to find defenders of free speech principles on many campuses."

Teaching Americans To Love Their Country Is A Powerful Antidote To Racism.  The only effective solution to bridging America's seemingly insurmountable partisan divide is as simple as it is controversial:  We need a renewed American nationalism.  Nationalism?  The very word no doubt triggers the protesters pulling down our founders' statues.  They're certain that progress demands weakening our allegiance to the nation, not tying ourselves closer to it.  They want less America, not more. [...] Rather than try to transcend our tribalism, we should instead co-opt it though a renewed American nationalism, educating our children to do what comes naturally:  to love their tribe.  We must also teach them that their tribe includes every single American, regardless of race, religion, or country of origin.  They must understand that any definition of the nation that seeks to divide us by race, such as white nationalism or saviorism, is a perversion that betrays our creed and endangers our brethren.  Our nation is vast, but it is not so abstract that a love for it cannot be a powerful force in our lives.

I'm a Former Teacher.  Here's How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated by Leftist Ideology.  Your children are being indoctrinated.  The education system designed to teach them how to think critically has been weaponized by the radical left to push an anti-American agenda.  As someone who has worked in education for four years, I have seen firsthand how your children are being ensnared by the left and their teachers.  I worked with kids from ages 3 to 13 and saw the brainwashing that exists at all levels of education.  The left uses a combination of propaganda and suppression to push kids into the ensnaring grip of socialism and anti-patriotism.  First is the propaganda.  Teachers will assign work instilling the idea that the pillars of Western civilization were evil, and their memories deserve to be thrown in the trash.

Teacher worries parents will overhear what he's actually teaching their kids in virtual classroom.  Meet Matthew R. Kay, a teacher at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy who's been accused of trying to indoctrinate his students in left-wing thought.  Kay came to the public's attention Saturday when he posted viral tweets warning his followers that the virtual classrooms slated for this school season will allow "potential spectators," including parents, to overhear what their kids are learning.  This, he warned his followers, might present a challenge for their so-called "equity/inclusion work," i.e., their alleged indoctrination of schoolchildren.  This alleged indoctrination includes discussions that "encourage vulnerability," address "gender/sexuality" and "destabiliz[e] a kid's racism or homophobia or transphobia."  Kay further suggested that he's always taught his students that "what happens here stays here," but that virtual classrooms will prevent this.

Economics professor says Wright State won't let him open class critical of Marxism to all students.  An economics professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, says the school has repeatedly denied his request to teach an elective class critical of Marxism to the general student body.  "Clearly, it's all just censorship," Wright State economics professor Evan Osborne told Fox News.  "I have proposed several electives.  All have been approved, not going against the sacred beliefs of the radical wing of our department."  Only honors students will be allowed to take Osborne's class "Marxism:  A History of Theory and Practice" despite his requests that it be opened to any student, The College Fix first reported.

Economics professor at Ohio university says he is being 'censored' by faculty who won't let him teach an anti-Marxism course.  An economics professor at a public university in Ohio claims he is being censored because the administration won't let him teach a class critical of Marxism to the general student population.  Evan Osborne, a professor at Wright State University, teaches a course entitled Marxism:  A History of Theory and Practice, at the Dayton, Ohio, campus.  The course is described in its syllabus as 'both an introduction to Marxist economic thought and the history of political power exercised in the name of that thought.'  The syllabus assigns students to read material on how communism was applied in Russia and China.  It also critiques Westerners who viewed communism sympathetically.

Antifa Is the Natural Product of Our Educational System.  [Scroll down]  For decades, our schools have been self-replicating machines, preaching to college students, directly or indirectly, the left-wing gospel according to Howard Zinn (and the Frankfurt School and so forth) and sending them out in turn to preach this junior varsity, critical theory Marxism themselves as teachers at whatever level at all manner of institutions throughout the country.  The youngest of those levels is perhaps the most dangerous because it's the most impressionable.  Antifa members are therefore only doing what they have been taught all along, getting rid of a cancer called the United States.  This connection between Antifa and the teaching profession is so profound that some insist the majority of those hidden behind the black masks are indeed teachers.  Others, needless to say including the liberal media, have denied this.  It's impossible to know for certain.  Antifa, like some Islamic terror groups, doesn't have a formal leadership structure; why would they need it?  They also don't keep records.  This, however, is probably a case where the cliché about smoke and fire applies.  Whether Antifa is 50 percent teachers or 20 percent teachers, it's a lot of teachers.

Woke Colleges Are Assembly Lines for Conformity.  Don't be fooled by universities' incessant chatter about "diversity."  Most are poster children for ideological conformity and proud of it.  The faculty, students, and administrators know it.  Indeed, many welcome it since their views are so obviously right and other views so obviously wrong.  They believe discordant views are so objectionable that no one should express them publicly.  What views are now considered beyond the pale?  They almost always involve ordinary political differences.  We are not talking here about direct physical threats.  Those are already illegal, and universities rightly deal with them.  They don't have to face neo-Nazi marches.  Nor is anyone advocating such noxious ideas as genocide, slavery, or child molestation.  Speech about those subjects might be legal, but virtually nobody is making the case for them.  That is not what the fight for freedom of speech on campus is about.  It is about the freedom to voice — or even hear — unpopular views on topics such as merit-based admissions, affirmative action, transgender competition in women's sports, abortion, and support for Israel.

Fourth Grade Teacher Details How Schools Push Ban History And Leftist Agendas.  A world without textbooks or homework and where getting the wrong answer is celebrated may sound like an elementary student's dream, but if such a fantasy becomes a reality, it would damage a generation of young minds.  That is, however, exactly what is happening in many public elementary schools.  Recently, I spoke with a fourth-grade teacher from the midwest, who shared her experience witnessing the shifting of curriculum from history and science towards overt political indoctrination, all to the detriment of students' learning.

Reversing the trend of liberal indoctrination.  Liberal indoctrination has been going on for decades, and when you factor this in with the failures of the education system as a whole, it is little wonder why we are witnessing a hatred of America today.  The results are clear.  According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card, only 23 percent of graduating seniors are proficient in Government and Civics, and 11 percent are proficient in American History.  This is the "largest ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do."  These numbers have remained stagnant for quite some time, and they are a national embarrassment, but it's something I have witnessed first-hand each and every semester.

Why Your Kid Is A Communist.  No, I am not saying that every parent's child is a communist.  What I am saying is that there are enough young people out there with either an affinity or a sympathy for the communist system to make us all very concerned.  The polls show it, the rioting proves it.  According to a 2019 Gallup poll, 51% of adults, 18 to 29 view socialism positively, while 49% view capitalism positively.  Parents, especially of strong Christian faith, can hardly believe what comes out of the mouths of their children.  College-age young adults go into university as bright eyed, eager-to-learn fledglings and come out bitter, angry, under achievers.

The Riots in Portland Started in Public School.  Think of the rioting in Portland as our national Graduation Party.  The kids got permission to have an open house, and now it's all gotten out of hand.  (Except when a traditional open house get out of hand, the police still show up.)  None of this should come as a shock.  The nightly attacks on statues, on a federal courthouse, and on police are the proof of Solomon's injunction, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old[er], he will not depart from it."  Solomon wanted children taught the fear of the Lord; but the principle applies no matter what you teach.  This is the moment that America's teacher's colleges, and the public-school systems fed by them, have been working toward since the 1960s.  That's when the "education schools began conditioning teachers to peddle impossible social and economic theories to captive human sponges in K-12 classrooms," [...]

Our Summer of Cultural Suicide.  Supposedly woke and informed rioters this summer incoherently toppled or damaged the statues of everyone from Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant to Frederick Douglass and Miguel de Cervantes.  So the public might begin to wonder how the nation's multitrillion-dollar investment in higher education actually served the country.  Soon, popular fury will beget more dangerous questions for American universities.  Maybe the country should subsidize the training of more essential electricians, plumbers, contractors, and masons instead of unemployable environmental and ethnic studies majors.  If a university president wanted to devise a plan for how to destroy his university, he could not have come up with a better one than what has happened on campus in recent decades.

The Establishment Has No Clothes.  Our academic elites embrace outright idiocy on a regular basis.  They teach our brightest young adults that to recognize two sexes isn't truth but bigotry.  That America was founded on slavery and racism.  That the world will end in 12 years because of cow farts.  Employers rail against the character flaws and arrogant ignorance of their new hires straight out of the indoctrination factories.  Parents are increasingly choosing trade schools for their kids rather than adding to the $1.6 trillion mountain of college debt academia has fleeced America into.  Many of the richest men in America didn't even graduate from college.  Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg certainly didn't.  Gates and Zuckerberg, and the rest of Big Tech, hardly conduct themselves in a manner one would term as elite.

Sen. Tom Cotton Launches Bill Banning Federal Funds for Teaching America Founded on Slavery.  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill Thursday that would ban federal funds for teaching the New York Times's revisionist "1619 Project," which claims America was founded on slavery.  The Saving American History Act of 2020 asserts America was founded on July 4, 1776, when its fundamental principles were set forth in the Declaration of Independence. [...] The senator's office notes that, while the 1619 Project has received widespread criticism, some schools, including those in Chicago, Newark, NJ; Buffalo, NY; and Washington, DC, have already incorporated the project into their curricula.  The principal author of the 1619 Project is Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who wrote in June, "If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans."  In her "project," Hannah-Jones has attempted to revise American history by changing its start from 1776 to 1619, the year the first slaves arrived in what was then the colonies.  In her mind, therefore, anything that happened in America after that date relates to slavery.

Rutgers Declares Grammar Racist.  The English department at a public university declared that proper English grammar is racist.  Rutgers University's English department will change its standards of English instruction in an effort to "stand with and respond" to the Black Lives Matter movement.  In an email written by department chairwoman Rebecca Walkowitz, the Graduate Writing Program will emphasize "social justice" and "critical grammar."  Walkowitz said the department would respond to recent events with "workshops on social justice and writing," "increasing focus on graduate student life," and "incorporating 'critical grammar' into our pedagogy."  The "critical grammar" approach challenges the standard academic form of the English language in favor of a more inclusive writing experience.  The curriculum puts an emphasis on the variability of the English language instead of accuracy.

Does Mathematics = Western Imperialism?  Is mathematics next on the chopping block to be deconstructed as a form of "Western imperialism"?  A young woman describing herself as a teacher, Ph.D. student, and "social justice change agent," recently gained notoriety for tweeting, "The idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural," a product of "western imperialism/colonialism." [...] Rochelle Gutiérrez, an education professor at the University of Illinois, writes that "mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.  Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as the mathematical community is generally viewed as White." [...] [But] We all use Arabic numerals, and in my college math class, we learned that the concept of zero as a place holder came from India; that the Babylonians gave us the 360-degree circle and the 60-minute hour; that the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Chinese all had a rough idea of the value of pi.

Rioters Are Using Racial Discontent to Promote a Marxist Agenda.  [Scroll down]  It has become clear that it matters little to the Marxists and anarchists what a statue or monument represents.  All that matters to them is that it represents America's past, and therefore, it must come down.  It's also clear that they're not interested in resolving race issues.  Destroying monuments, burning churches, and looting businesses do nothing to bring attention to racism or to advance police reforms.  They're simply using racial discontent to forward their Marxist agenda.  Meanwhile, spineless politicians who agree with the rioters' agenda, if not their tactics, have told police to stand down.  After rioters in Baltimore recently tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus and tossed it into the harbor, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore native, blithely excused the behavior, telling reporters, "People will do what they do."  Many of these mal-educated rioters and politicians believe everything about America's past is based in racism.  They are fed this lie in schools and by institutions like The New York Times, which claims with great historical illiteracy in its 1619 Project that this country wasn't founded based on humanity's highest ideals in 1776, but rather in 1619, when the first slaves were brought to the New World.  The Times even absurdly asserts that the Revolutionary War wasn't fought to gain our independence but to keep slavery alive in the colonies.

Last Stand to Save America as Founded.  Far too many youths are Marxist zealot domestic terrorists because we've allowed leftist schools to poison their minds about their God, their family and their country.  Outrageously, across America, "yutes" are scolding, lecturing, and punishing their parents for being Christians, patriotic Americans and gun-owners. [...] Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and various other anti-Christian and anti-American hate groups do not want "brotherhood" as desired by Dr. King.  They want to punish white America.  They demand that whites physically kneel to blacks and beg forgiveness for their sin of being born white.  The people in these groups are wicked and must not be tolerated.

The Age of Conspiracy.  I have no doubt that we live in the Age of Conspiracy, as attested by most of what we read, see and hear in the press, the social media and the big digital platforms.  "Fake news," which accounts for the bulk of contemporary journalism, is plainly conspiratorial, intended to create that impression that what is not the case is the case.  The irony is that it is itself a conspiracy mounted against the truth.  The same motive applies to most academic discourse and institutional literature, as any sentient observer is aware.

Trump calls Wallace out over faux disbelief of what radicals are teaching our kids.  Fox News host Chris Wallace expressed disbelief when confronted with the indisputable fact that American children are being taught to hate their own country.  Speaking at Mt. Rushmore earlier this month, President Donald Trump correctly pointed out that "children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains."  Weeks later on Fox News' "Fox News Sunday," [7/19/2020] Wallace brought this quote up while speaking with the president for an interview that aired this Sunday.

Let's Take Back Our Kids, Already!  [Scroll down]  I wrote about a white friend who said her middle school son came home in tears after being taught how cruel his ancestors were to women, blacks, and American Indians.  Today, her son is an adult member of the Communist Party.  She cannot display an American flag for fear of retaliation by her son. [...] The good news is that the Marxist war against America unfolding in our streets has awakened millions to how public education has transformed our kids into an army of leftist walking brain-dead zombies.

Trump threatens tax-exempt status, funding for universities and schools over 'radical left indoctrination'.  President Trump on Friday said he is telling the Treasury Department to look into the tax-exempt status and the funding of "universities and school systems" over alleged left-wing bias, saying that children should not be "indoctrinated."  "Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education," Trump said in a pair of tweets.  "Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status... and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues.  Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!"

We Have Failed to Fight Anti-Americanism in Public Education.  I really think that we lost this culture and political battle to the teachers, teachers union, education.  I know the media's a major factor as well.  But there are far more people, kids, human beings in mandatory classrooms starting in grade school and then middle school and high school and college than watch the media every day.  I mean, schools have become, the education system, the public schools have become the propagandization and indoctrination center for the American people.

Black Lives Matter In Public Schools Is Turning Kids Into Little Marxists.  New York City is one of many school systems in the United States set to roll out Black Lives Matter (BLM)-themed lesson plans this fall.  According to the NYC Department of Education, teachers will delve into "systemic racism," police brutality, and white privilege in their classrooms. [...] Encouraging people to identify and condemn racism is an undeniably laudable undertaking by these school administrators.  That's not what's really happening, however.  By bringing BLM into the classroom, activist educators are allowing the most radically divisive movement in modern American history to warp children's worldviews.

Teacher, BLM activist says "2 + 2 = 4" is a "cultural" belief based on "western imperialism/colonization".  This lady on Twitter who describes herself in her bio as "she/her, teacher, scholar, social justice change agent, Chicagoan, PhD student, architecture enthusiast, wannabe math person, BLM always..."  has gone and fulfilled another George Orwell prophecy.

This fall, get the children back in school.  The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a needed opinion that is strongly in favor of getting children back to school this fall.  It's just what the nation needs right now in times that seem anything but normal.  "The AAP," the group's statement reads, "strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school."  "Schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and well-being," AAP's statement points out.

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The Deep State urgently wants children to return to the government schools, where they will be infused with anti-capitalist claptrap.  If the kids stay home and learn independently, and maybe run across a set of encyclopedias (It could happen!), they'll be a lot more difficult to indoctrinate once they return to the public schools.

Trump: 'Our Children Are Taught in School to Hate Their Own Country'.  President Donald Trump said during his speech before Mount Rushmore on Friday night that America's schools continue to indoctrinate America's children, and children are taught to "hate their own country."  Trump said during his speech on Friday [7/3/2020] that the left has become increasingly radical and influential within the many facets of American society.

America's Sovereignty Is Teetering on a Precipice.  We are at a historical moment where America's institutions of higher education, many of them founded and led by Christian leaders, have rejected their founders and become transmission belts for socialism and Marxist propaganda.  Using concepts such as "white privilege" and "systemic racism," these social justice warriors have inverted traditional concepts of equality, justice, and freedom as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution with its Bill of Rights.

5 Ways You Can Fight Back In The Cultural Civil War.  [#1] Choose and fund alternatives to public schools.  This is the big one.  The problem of public schools of course deserves many columns and books — and has them — but you can't leave it off any list of how to fight back.  Public schools have become indoctrination centers for the woke left.  Just look at the hordes of college-educated protesters screaming Marxist nonsense at the police.  What they learned in college has trickled down into our middle and high schools, even some of our elementary schools.  Arguably the number one thing conservatives can do to preserve our constitutional system and save the republic is to educate their kids anywhere but in public school.  Obviously, not everyone can afford private school, and not everyone is able to home school.  But now is the time to start thinking hard about educational alternatives.

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Great idea, but it's about 50 years too late.

Universities [are] Sowing The Seeds Of Their Own Obsolescence.  Universities are certainly teaching our youth to be confident, loud and self-righteous.  But the media blitz during these last several weeks of protests, riots and looting also revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification.  Many of the young people on the televised front lines of the protests are in their 20s.  But most appear juvenile, at least in comparison to their grandparents — survivors of the Great Depression and World War II.  How can so many so sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing?  Ask questions like these, and the answers ultimately lead back to the university.

The Coming Collapse of the Republic.  [Scroll down]  As I warned in 2012, there no longer is a culture war.  "What is occurring now is a pacification effort."  Its progress is why corporate America, including the now-absorbed Chick-fil-A and NASCAR, has turned decidedly to the dark side (shifted "left").  It's why prominent people, including Republicans such as Indiana senator Mike Braun, are bowing before terrorist group Black Lives Matter.  It's why mobs are enabled and good people hobbled for defending themselves from the mobs.  It's why we're seeing a complete cultural collapse — portending a political collapse.  This is partially due to a new "woke" generation having entered the corporate sphere and others of influence.  But what did you expect?  The apocryphal saying (no, it's not Lincoln's) informs, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."  Did you really think the Left could completely control academia for generations and that, somehow, it all would "stay in college"?

Why Are We Letting Democrats Steal from Us?  The New York Times' "1619 Project" is designed to infiltrate K-12 education by stealing U.S. history and replacing it with lies about America's "racist" founding.  It's no wonder students arrive at college primed for the propaganda being taught.  When San Francisco requires a high school to cover a 1936 mural about George Washington, Minnesota bans novels by Mark Twain and Harper Lee, and U.S. history is rewritten in the vision of liberals who see a racist in every white person, we should all feel victimized by what liberals are taking from us.

Intolerance threatens US - here's who to blame for 'cancel culture'.  Activists sue to block a Trump rally, the New York Times fires a non-compliant editor, Twitter "fact-checks" conservative voices.  Ivanka Trump, Sid Rosenberg, Erik Prince, Raymond Ibrahim, Jeh Johnson, Kevin McAleenan and countless others "disinvited" to speak on college campuses.  Wonder where today's "cancel culture" comes from?  It comes from college campuses, fueled by young people and abetted by an older generation that has not had the courage to say no.  This is how the slide toward totalitarianism begins.  Silencing the opposition is essential to creating "legitimacy" for despots like Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong Un; if political opponents have no voice, people will assume they don't exist.

School axes George Washington event, says it ignores 'significant role' of women, people of color.  A Nashville prep school for girls has ended its annual George Washington event after determining it wasn't inclusive enough in the wake of the George Floyd protests.  Harpeth Hall School announced last week that after "years" of discussion it was ending the annual "George Washington Celebration" — a tradition that began in 1913 and "experienced many evolutions over the decades," the school said in a statement to The Tennessee Star, The Daily Wire reported.  Ms. Hill said school officials determined the celebration "is not consistent with or relevant to the way that we teach history today," and that "it does not demonstrate the significant role that women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups play in our nation's history."

Why Are University Students So Stupidity-Friendly?  The contemporary political landscape is mired in a tsunami of bad ideas.  Who would have ever anticipated that defunding police departments, emptying out prisons, eliminating cash bail, free health care, free college, looting as a legitimate form of social protest politics, among other screwball ideas would go mainstream?  Socialism?  How did views resting on blatant falsehoods jump from the academy's ideological wet markets to the New York Times?  A full explanation must wait until passions cool, but in the meantime let me offer a personal account based on decades of university teaching where this nonsense initially metastasized from a few quirky campus ideas to a conquering idiocy.

Defund colleges, not cops.  The American left, from Black Lives Matterers to their knee-taking social-justice allies in their hydrangea-colored masks, has decided now is the moment to drain public resources from the custodians of public order.  I have an alternative.  Now is the moment to defund the colleges.  We should defund them because they are the root of the virulent anti-Americanism that feeds the riots, the looting and the learned helplessness that afflict the country.  And they have been feeding the protest culture for generations.  The chief lesson taught by our nation's colleges and universities is soft disdain for our country and its forms of self-government.  And the soft disdain ripens to outright antipathy for about a quarter of the graduates.

High School History Teacher Throws Out Textbooks For Radical Marxist 'History' Book.  A young high school history teacher, named Annie, posted a TikTok video raving about Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," which she explains will be her new classroom textbook.  Howard Zinn's 1980 left-wing revisionist history book, "A People's History of the United States," is a Marxist's take on American history.  This class warfare, victim narrative, famously praised by Matt Damon in his 1997 academy award winning movie, Good Will Hunting, has sold more than two million copies and gone through five editions.  In short, the book is a Marxist narrative whereby American history is viewed exclusively through the prism of race and class.  In her TikTok video, posted in the wake of the George Floyd riots, Annie explains she will no longer be using official textbooks in her classroom because they "omit a lot of the truth from our past."  Ironically, "A People's History" is replete with factual omission to twist history in order to fit a narrative of American shame.

Gingrich: Three generations of brainwashing in anti-American hatred are paying off for the left.  Newt Gingrich blamed "three generations of brainwashing" for the current level of anti-American hatred in the country.  The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives pulled back the curtain on how "freedom itself is at stake" in America, connecting the "educated ignorance" taught in the nation's schools for decades and the current manifestation of radical "Leftist Anti-American Theology."  The "brainwashing" Gingrich maintained in an op-ed published by Fox News Thursday [6/18/2020], may go back to a German-born University of California, San Diego professor, Herbert Marcuse, who taught on Marxism in the 1960s.  What followed was years of the left's takeover of academia.  "We have watched the hard left, the America-hating totalitarians who want to define acceptable speech, as they took over the academic world," Gingrich wrote.

How Our Anti-American Education System Made Riots Inevitable.  Injustice, unfairness, and bigotry are, indeed, an ineradicable part of life.  But America is not a systemically racist society.  Far from being fruit of a rotten tree, America's founding principles form the best recipe for racial harmony, and rebuke to inequality, yet devised by man.  Where does this poisonous anti-American idea, acceptance of which seems to be toppling institution after institution, come from, especially after the United States has advanced so far in living up to the promises of its birth?  As many of us warned years ago, the radical ideas born on campus have already metastasized across society.  Today, K-12 public schools across the country increasingly teach some version of the lie.  The error-ridden, America-hating 1619 Project, and its associated Pulitzer-endorsed, Common Core-compliant lesson materials, is already being taught in more than 3,500 schools across the country.  Anecdotally, ever more superintendents are responding to the current unrest by promising to adopt the 1619 curriculum.  The problem will get worse before it gets better.

Academia Fans The Flames Of Social Disorder.  Those of us who thought higher education could do little damage while it was shut down were sadly mistaken.  As Antifa-led demonstrators burned and looted American cities in the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop, academia, like the rest of the American Left, never let a crisis go to waste, even one they helped engender.  "Fittingly, the ideological handmaiden of this violence — academia — has already sprung into action," Heather Mac Donald wrote in City Journal on May 31, 2020.  "The chancellors and presidents of Harvard, the University of Arizona, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, among others, released statements over the weekend assuring their black students of their schools' commitment to racial equity, in light of the George Floyd death — an event wholly unrelated to the academic."  "No college leader denounced the violence."

Wokeness & the Endarkenment.  Science and math will always be safe from the ideologues.  That's what some people thought. [...] I'm getting emails from academics working in the sciences, talking about the rapid politicization of their departments, especially this week.  They read like letters smuggled out from behind the Iron Curtain.  I'm not kidding.  One of them forwarded me e-mails from his or her department chair, who writes like a commissar, instructing them all about what they are all going to be doing to make this science department woke.  The reader begged me not to post them, out of fear someone would identify him or her.  But I can assure you that this isn't from the head of a science team at Bugtussle A&M, but rather from a prestigious school.

Welcome to Maoist America.  This American cultural revolution began decades ago on our campuses and in our media.  Now it is taking over our streets.  But it is our schools, primarily, that have been the instigators of this.  In far too many cases, they have gradually turned into institutions resembling indoctrination camps.  This is true from kindergarten through PhD and from the Ivy League to bare bones community colleges.  Viewpoint diversity is a thing of the past with faculty meetings morphing into our own versions of Maoist "struggle sessions," teachers and professors first shutting their mouths if they disagree, then exercising what amounts to "self-criticism" to save their jobs or just to gain some peace. [...] And what is politically correct often changes from day to day, but, no matter what, conformity rules.  You have to be part of the program or you're out.  Even basic math is under assault. [...] Our media of course are products of the same educational system and have long been prepared to ratify and amplify these same behaviors and views.  The communications and journalism departments of our universities are literal fonts of group think, training students to be propagandists for the glorious new future.

Authors: Antifa Rioters Are the Tech Economy's College Discards.  The black-clothed Antifa activists who are leading the anti-police riots are mostly the discarded, angry college-grade workforce of an increasingly high-tech, globalized economy, say a variety of experts and millennials.  Colleges are producing many "graduates who've absorbed a worldview that trains them for "metropolitan elite" job types that turn out to be far scarcer than the graduates competing for them," writes Mary Harrington, a young writer at Unherd.com.

The Bloodletting and Wilding Is Part of An Agenda To Tear Down The Country.  I haven't had much time to reflect on the looting and riots that swept mostly (but not exclusively) large Democrat cities.  It was a wilding on a scale we've never seen.  It was a bloodletting and release of criminal fury.  We should be clear what is happening.  It is not protest over the death of George Floyd.  That is the spark, but not the fire.  This has been a long time coming.  At least a generation, maybe two.  The left methodically has taken control of key institutions to implement an anti-American, anti-Capitalist agenda.  You send your kids to public schools and college, where they are taught from their earliest years that America and capitalism are the sources of evil in the world, that we are a systemically racist society that consumes 'black and brown bodies,' while socialist and communist systems are more equal and fair.  It's all a lie, but it's a lie told by the teachers, professors, and administrators with power.  The real racists are the people who obsess about race, and who judge people based on the color of their skin.  When your kids emerge from the social justice warfare meat grinder, you don't recognize them anymore.

How to destroy civilization.  The violence that is exploding across the country now has almost nothing to doing with the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman.  That was merely the catalyst for a process that has deep roots in American culture.  The moral is:  ideas matter.  For decades now, our colleges and universities (and increasingly our grades schools) have been preaching a gospel of cultural self-hatred.  America, according to this gospel, is evil.  The country is inextricably racist and beholden to an irredeemably exploitative economic system.  The latest retelling of this creation myth is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning '1619 Project' whose fundamental message is that America was started as a 'slavocracy.'  According to this malignant fantasy, the Revolutionary War was fought primarily 'to protect the institution of slavery.'  At last count, elements of this disgusting bit of historical revisionism were being adopted in the curricula of some 4,000 school districts.

Univ. of Alabama professor instructs rioters on how to tear down monuments on Twitter.  A professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham is receiving backlash on Twitter Monday after she launched a series of tweets instructing protesters about how to successfully pull down monuments, as rioters torched the nation's capital over the weekend.  Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist who specializes in ancient architecture, says she is an expert on obelisks, the shape of the Washington Monument.  She noted obelisks "might be masquerading as a racist monument."

Where Is Cuomo's Apology for Killing 10,000 People?  I do not quite fathom the mind of the quintessential New York Democrat liberal.  I grew up in Brooklyn, surrounded by Democrats who really all were deeply conservative but had no other party to vote for in a one-party town that the Republicans abandoned, so they elected solid "Democrats for Reagan" types.  Then I went to college at Columbia in Manhattan, where I suddenly was submerged into a liberal muck.  All the non-STEM professors were radical left, and I was a social sciences major.  The political science classes all had Marx and Engels on every reading list.  By the time I graduated, I had been assigned to read Marx so often that I practically could quote his every anti-Semitic statement by heart.  The leftists were everywhere.

Coronavirus Vs. The Deep State Educational Complex.  The educational complex from pre-k to graduate school is controlled to a large extent by the Deep State.  Many 1960 radicals like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Angela Davis joined the educational complex with the intent of indoctrinating children.  1960s radical Jerry Rubin boasted, "We are stealing the youth of America right out of the kindergartens and elementary schools."  The Deep State believes children belong to the state.  This is an ancient idea that can be traced back to Plato.  It was popular during the French Revolution and advocated by Bertrand Barere and the Marquis de Sade who stated, "Do not think you can make good republicans so long as you isolate in their families the children who should belong to the republic alone."

California Public School Teacher Admits to Teaching Her Students That Trump is Fascist, Trashes Republican Students On Social Media.  A California public school teacher has bragged on social media that she is indoctrinating her students by teaching them that President Donald Trump is a "fascist," compares the administration to death cult leader Jim Jones in lesson plans, and trashes her Republican students on social media.  The unhinged teacher also compared the 2016 election results to the deadly 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

Dangerous Distinction.  Common sense can dictate the distance one keeps from others or the judicious use of self-mitigating practices.  But, common sense is the one thing the liberal and communist education curriculums try desperately to eradicate.  Communism doesn't work logically, to common sense it is irrational so common sense is the one thing that must be done away with.

On 4 Fronts, How China Quietly Infiltrates American Life.  Since 2003, hundreds of so-called Confucius Institutes have opened on college campuses around the United States.  Their activities have included pressuring schools to shut down events featuring the Dalai Lama and generally shaping the narrative about Tibet, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the existence of Taiwan.  The Confucius Institutes actually have little to do with Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher.  As Charles Horner wrote for the Claremont Review of Books, it would be more accurate to call them the "Mao Zedong Institutes," after the China's first communist dictator.  Although the Confucius Institutes operate under the guise of education, Horner noted, "they are really about keeping tabs on Chinese students in America, spreading propaganda, meddling in American politics generally, and performing espionage."

'Social Action' as a Bogus Alternative to True Education.  "Political Activism" means anything except openly promoting respect for the office of the presidency of the USA, whether it be held by a Republican or a Democrat.  In New York City, there are many teachers who consider even the Democrats far too "conservative."  This writer arrived at one department meeting, and one of the communist teachers was agitated because Kim Jong-un was getting bad press and being "victimized" for testing long-range missiles toward Japan.  Other teachers, without challenge or restrictions, passed out Progressive Worker (communist) newspapers to their students.  There are teachers who advocate for communist interpretations of history, economics, and current events on an almost daily basis.  One teacher who was teaching Advanced Placement European history spent an entire month presenting The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  When the students complained to the chair of the department that they needed to get off this one topic and study additional history, as their exam was coming up in May, the department chairperson did nothing.

A Howard Zinn Pandemic.  In the midst of a global pandemic, left-wing pundits and politicians spin the blame to comport with the propaganda coming from Communist China, the regime responsible for the virus's spread in the first place.  And as students are forced to take classes remotely, companies such as National Public Radio, Newsela, and the Zinn Education Project — with the assistance of U.S. taxpayers — are ensuring they get the left-wing version of current events along with their history lessons.

Coronavirus may kill noxious classroom leftism.  Because of the coronavirus, colleges and universities have sent their students home.  Most will finish the semester by holding their classes online.  Charlie Kirk, the dynamo who founded Turning Point USA, the largest conservative group on American campuses, sees an opportunity.  He's asked college students to capture video of indoctrination in their online lessons: [...] The pushback on Twitter was immediate, with negative responses ranging from personal insults against Kirk (the left's elitist snobbery is stunning) to insults against Trump-supporters to people comparing Kirk's tactics to Maoism.  On the positive side, people noted that this would finally give parents a chance to see what they're paying for, said they see indoctrination in their children's online content, and applauded the idea of transparency.  The most fascinating responses came from academics themselves, who are genuinely worried that their days of indoctrinating, instead of educating, are over.

Left-wing professors fear the sunlight:
Professors Are Scared that Online Lectures Will Be Shared by 'Right Wing Sites'.  According to a report by Campus Reform, professors at universities and colleges around the country are worried that their recorded online courses will be shared by "right-wing sites."  Many professors expressed concern that their classroom lectures on controversial issues like "immigration" would be picked up by conservative news outlets.  In a tweet thread, professors at different universities voiced their concerns to one another.  One user in the thread argued that conservative outlets have a "history of making misleading edits to remove context" and then sharing those videos "get professors in trouble."

A Hidden Benefit of the COVID-19 Virus Can Be Seen In America's Classrooms.  There is a hidden benefit to the COVID-19 disruption unknown to most.  This is an amelioration of the progressive brainwashing in most colleges and universities that may offer students and their parents a reprieve from these educational indoctrination factories.  For conservatives who have friends or loved ones, or are themselves attending college, COVID-19 carries with it a respite from the ongoing indoctrination.  With the coronavirus scare and the arrival of spring break, nearly every university, save Falwell's Liberty University, are now suspending face-to-face classes, and professors have been instructed to adopt the online mode of delivery for at least several weeks after students return, if not for the remainder of the term.  Since many professors still deliver their classes face-to-face, this mandate forces them to reformat their instruction into a more nuanced and less spontaneous style.  Being able to use the most recent progressive proclamations from MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post or New York Times will no longer be doable.

Coldwater High School in Ohio Tells FFA Members to Remove Their Trump Flags.  Local FFA (Future Farmers of America) members at Coldwater High School in Ohio were told they couldn't fly Trump flags on their tractors.  So the students held a pro-Trump tractor parade to Coldwater High School.

The Editor says...
Free advice:  Do not mess with the FFA kids.  They're as tough as nails.

Get Children Out of Public Schools, Warns Arizona Education Chief.  Former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas, who oversaw the state Department of Education, sounded the alarm about what is happening in public schools across America in an interview with The New American magazine's Alex Newman.  To combat the dumbing down of children and the promotion of globalism and extreme obscenity and sexualization, the best thing parents can do is remove their children from public school in favor of homeschooling or private schools, she said.  Douglas ran to repeal the Common Core national education standards, but the powers that be did everything possible to sabotage her efforts.  Douglas also made clear that Common Core was not the only problem.  "It's so far beyond Common Core," she said, warning about a "global agenda" infecting the schools.

Gun Control Activist David Hogg Targets Semi-Automatic Rifles.  Progressive curriculums in our schools and colleges teach budding white male mass murderers to be ashamed not only of their country, but their skin color, as well.  Their already-confused minds are methodically indoctrinated with the concept of white privilege, a political narrative designed to create racial guilt and self-loathing among white people.  Militant feminism further erodes the self-worth of young white males by stereotyping them with the invented malady known as toxic masculinity.  Message:  They're not only white and male, [...] they're also wildly cruel to women.

K-12: The World According to Orwell's 1984.  Most critics agree that George Orwell's 1984 is a supremely great novel.  But is it suitable for teenagers?  After all, this book is a grim portrayal of a totalitarian dystopia, and for many readers, it is a traumatic experience.  Several years ago, I argued that 1984 is too deep, dark, and unpleasant for high school students.  Let's protect them.  Now the political atmosphere has shifted wildly.  High school students praise socialism and even communism as if they know all about them.  These kids don't need to be protected; they need to be educated.  I believe that Orwell wrote his beautiful but terrifying book as a gift to the world.  Look what happens, he warns us, if you don't recognize danger.

Public School 'History' Lesson Compares Trump to Soviets, Nazis.  Taxpayers in Maryland are funding anti-Trump history lessons that compare the president to the Soviets and Nazis.  An unidentified teacher(s) inserted the propaganda into a slide show used in an advanced placement history class at Loch Raven High School in the city of Towson, according to the Associated Press.  A slide depicts President Trump above pictures of the Soviet Union flag and the Nazi Swastika. [...] The only thing "advanced" about this class is the instructor's Trump Derangement Syndrome.  If students are capable of drawing "their own conclusions," as the public school official spokesman suggests, then why not just teach students the historical facts?  For example, maybe students should know the Nazi Party, or the National Socialist German Workers' Party, were big government socialists.  But I guess then the students might conclude the Nazis and Soviets have more in common with the modern left than with President Trump.

Baltimore County High School Teacher's Lesson Slide Compares President Trump to Nazism and Communism.  [Video clip]

The Democrat Left is cruel and sadistic.  The Democrat party as currently constituted is not just socialist but verging on communist. Young people are no longer taught about the ravages of these ideologies, the death and destruction they invite.  They seem to no longer grasp the true nature of, their natural right to liberty.  They are not being taught self-reliance.  That they have been deprived of the glorious knowledge of these rights has been the cruel agenda of the left since Woodrow Wilson was President.

Kent State to Pay Hanoi Jane $83k for May 4 Commemoration Speech.  It's hard to believe, but May 4, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Kent State University, where Ohio National Guard troops fired on a crowd of students during a massive anti-Vietnam War protest, killing four students and injuring nine.  Witnesses, military and law-enforcement experts, historians, and activists are divided on whether the shooting was justified (that's a discussion for another day), but it appears that Kent State is going all-in on pouring salt in the wounds of America's Vietnam veterans.  In a move that surprised many in the Northeast Ohio area and beyond, Kent State President Todd Diacon announced that actress, activist, and (former?) communist sympathizer Jane Fonda will be one of the speakers at an anniversary commemoration of the shooting on May 3 — and she'll be paid a whopping $83,000 to ostensibly reminisce about her anti-war activism.

Seattle To Make Math Instruction All About Race, Downplay Right And Wrong.  When a blogger of American Mathematical Society writes of the urgent need for math to be "antiracist," it's time to start worrying.  In the post, blogger Tian An describes his experience teaching college-level methodology class to non-math majors, attempting to employ a social justice curriculum.  His starting point was the assumption that "mathematics operates as whiteness" because, in the view of critical race theorists, over the course of last several centuries, many prominent practitioners have been "white."  An did not go into specifics of his class, but when the Washington state superintendent of public instructions developed a curriculum along the same lines last year, it published the details online.  Because of the "urgent need for anti-racist education," the superintendent's office produced Seattle Public Schools' Math Ethnic Studies Framework aimed at "resist[ing] and liberat[ing] people and communities of color from oppression."

Soros Starts $1 Billion Anti-American University.  Radical anti-American financier George Soros recently unveiled a scheme to sink $1 billion into a new global university to fight nationalism and climate change, twin phantoms he emotes are "threatening the survival of our civilization."  Why is this a bad thing?  Because global warming is a hoax and nationalism — at least in a good nation like the United States — is a good thing, and because Soros is a living, breathing malignancy who has devoted the past several decades of his life to advancing evil in the world.

Democrats Hate What Trump Is Highlighting about Them.  Poorer Americans, many of them minorities, are harmed disproportionately when forced to send their children to failing schools.  The Democrats, buried in the pockets of the teachers' unions, have no room to maneuver on this issue.  The fiscal argument also strongly favors school choice since it is costing more by the year to send kids to public schools.  In the Northern Virginia area, where I live, it costs between $15,000 and close to $20,000, depending on the county, to educate each student every year.  To spend that much to send students into often unsafe environments where they are certain to fail is ludicrous.  As the president noted, "no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government school."  My only quibble is that schools are failing only when examined from an American perspective, since they are doing exactly what Democrats want, which is cranking out postmodern anti-American anti-religious future Democrat voters by the truckload.

Marxism Sugarcoated And Forcefed To Schoolchildren As 'Equity'.  Marxism is the philosophy that has led to the darkest levels of poverty for the Soviets, East Germans, Venezuelans, and all others who tried it.  But the neoliberals of the United States have decided to ignore things such as historical examples of utter failure, and instead chose to take a Utopian, pollyanna approach to the fairytale they crafted of socialism.  American elementary schools have spent the past decade rapidly introducing leftist and socialist curricula into classrooms of little children.  This type of leftist propagandization was previously reserved for older children in colleges and high schools.  But the Obama era, followed by the shock of Trump's election, catalyzed a more emboldened approach for leftist pedagogy.

Children in All 50 States Being Taught Revolutionary War Was Fought To Promote Slavery.  The New York Times' 1619 Project — a curriculum that makes the fantastical claim that a primary cause of the Revolutionary War was the colonists' desire to protect slavery — has been adopted in 3,500 classrooms across all 50 states.  For this reason, some of the nation's most renowned historians have called for The Times to correct this and other factual errors.  The Pulitzer Center, which is partnering with The Times to promote The 1619 Project, recounted in its 2019 annual report, "Good journalism, innovative educational resources, and deep community engagement are absolutely essential to bridging the divisions that threaten to rip our democracy apart.  It is this belief that has driven the Pulitzer Center for the last 14 years."

Academic Lunacy Turned up to 11.  Crazy academic job advertisements are a dime a dozen these days, which is one reason I've stopped covering them closely.  But sometimes an institution goes the extra mile, such as Champlain College in Vermont, where this job ad sounds like it was written by the Bernie Sanders campaign: [...]

Red China's infection of US classrooms.  Dangerous menaces are spreading from mainland China to the United States.  Surgical masks and Big Pharma vaccines, however, won't protect this nation from its infiltration.  The problem doesn't lie with bats.  It lies with America's batty pursuit of globalization at all costs.  Chinese Communist Party agents are using our suicidal pathologies — blind worship of "diversity," naive exaltation of "cultural exchange" programs, and reckless surrender of our education system — against us for economic espionage, intellectual property theft and world dominance.  While Beltway blowhards rail against foreign interference in our elections, Beijing's hijacking of our classrooms ensues with hardly a peep of political resistance.

Critics blast California bill to mandate climate change lessons, call it brainwashing and indoctrination.  Teaching California students about climate change may soon become mandatory.  Public school teachers in California would be required to teach students as young as six-years-old about climate change under a recently proposed bill.  The bill, AB 1922, seeks to require the science area of study to include an emphasis on "the causes and effects of climate change."  But several critics of the bill contend the effort is really an attempt to brainwash and indoctrinate students, and that the curriculum would only teach students a biased view on climate change.

America's College Professors Are 95 Times More Likely To Donate To Democrats Than Republicans, Study Shows.  College professors in America are vastly more likely to donate to Democrats than they are to Republicans, according to a new study.  The study, conducted by Heterodox Academy Director of Research Sean Stevens and Brooklyn College Professor Mitchell Langbert, found that by a ratio of 95:1, college professors across the country donated heavily to Democrats over Republicans.  Campus Reform reported that the study "looked at the political donations of 12,372 college professors at universities in 31 states and the District of Columbia during the past two election cycles in 2015-16 and 2017-18."

Democratic professors outnumber Republican ones by 9 to 1 ratio, according to new data.  Democrats outnumber Republicans by a ratio of nearly 9 to 1 among college professors, according to new statistics published by Brooklyn College Associate Professor of Business Management Mitchell Langbert and Heterodox Academy Director of Research Sean Stevens.  Langbert and Stevens sampled the political registrations of 12,372 university professors and found that 48.4 percent are registered Democrats and 5.7 percent are registered Republicans, a ratio of 8.5 to 1.  As the authors note in their study, the Democratic Party advantage in the general population is only about 1.1 to 1, with 29 percent of Americans identifying as Democrats and 26 percent identifying as Republicans.

Indoctrination Education:  Public Schools Are Now Programming Facilities.  Today's children are being institutionally indoctrinated to be unreflective, uncritical automatons of the liberal cause — on immigration, climate change, abortion, and whatever the progressive cause du jour demands.  Preying on children is not just for predators anymore.  For instance, school walk-outs to ban firearms are not balanced with school walk-outs to uphold the vital Second Amendment and its protections against tyranny.  Those who label Donald Trump a tyrant do not teach children to study both sides and consider the importance of an armed citizenry when society is threatened with a tyrant.  The "climate justice warriors" have now taken America's schoolchildren hostage in their battle to impose their tyrannical carbon tax on the citizenry.  They encourage children to block traffic, lie in the streets, skip school — because "the world will end in 11 years!"

The Zinn Education Project:  Teaching Trump-Hate and Other Dogma.  In December, the Zinn Education Project (ZEP), a non-profit co-founded in 2007 by William Holtzman, one of Howard Zinn's Boston University students (class of 1974), to spread the lessons of Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, excitedly announced in a fundraising appeal that his goal of signing up 100,000 teachers had been reached. [...] ZEP's lessons are as un-political as Zinn's tract, which for forty years has been spreading communist disinformation through wildly distorted quotations of sources, omission of critical evidence, and plagiarism, as I discovered in writing Debunking Howard Zinn.  While Zinn lazily cut and pasted paragraphs from the historically suspect works of fellow radicals, he praised the Viet Cong by twisting the words of foreign service officer Douglas Pike to mean their opposite.

Pete Buttigieg's Comments on Slavery Show the Failure of Our Educational System.  Video surfaced on Saturday of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg saying in 2014: "It's an embarrassing thing to admit, the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing."  In saying this, Buttigieg demonstrated both his abject ignorance of the history of America's founding and the utter failure of the American educational system to teach that history.  No wonder this place is crawling with young socialists and America-haters.  Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is 37 years old; he reportedly attended Catholic schools, not public schools, in his youth.  At this point, however, that is a distinction with barely a difference:  both Catholic and public schools generally teach the spirit of the age, and that spirit dictates that the Founding Fathers, when not ignored altogether, should be presented as white male slave owners without any redeeming qualities.

Social Justice Education in America.  Social Justice Education in America is a comprehensive examination of the inner workings of social justice advocates at more than 60 universities and how they have insinuated themselves into the university system to propagandize students.  Administrators have transformed universities into training camps for progressive activism.  Most job postings for professors today demand conformity to the doctrine of social justice.  Entire campus bureaucracies are built on social justice, contributing to the skyrocketing cost of tuition.  Soon universities will be staffed entirely by people who teach activism and call it education.

The Destructiveness of the Liberal Child Mind.  The Left's takeover of our schools and media has brainwashed a whole generation.  We've got millions of befuddled biological adults walking about with the minds of kids, cheering on the likes of foolish teen Greta, who should be at home practicing for her soccer meet or piano recital.  Give any of these kinderlings or their kind the reins of adult power, and what you get is an utter economic and societal wreckage.  You get the squalor, poverty, and degradation of the socialism of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, and now Venezuela.  You do get nice slogans and cool tee-shirts emblazoned with "Health Care Is a Human Right" and "Medicare for All," but such things won't put food, let alone an MRI scanner or anti-cancer drug, on the table.

Lies Law Professors Tell.  [A] whole generation of law students has been trained to think that the 19th Century courts were heartless tools of malicious capitalists, and that enlightened reform came only with the virtuous 20th Century "progressives."  Does this kind of indoctrination have real world consequences?  You bet it does.  Law school is the only time when most attorneys undertake full-time education.  Many carry their law school experiences with them throughout their professional careers.  Law school affects how they serve clients and argue to judges and juries.  It probably affects how they vote.  If they become judges, it may affect how they decide cases.  Fortunately, some lawyers overcome the damage, but many never do.

It's Spreading Like the Plague — Social Justice Education.  More and more, education in the U.S. is turning into propaganda for statism.  What's taught is not knowledge that helps people to live their lives but rather beliefs that are calculated to turn them into obedient citizens of the welfare state.  The overseers of that state don't want people who can think, but people who won't question what the state does.  The National Association of Scholars has been doing its utmost to expose this spreading plague, and it has just released a new study on social justice education in higher education.

Chico State Professor:  College Republicans' First Amendment Rights 'Intensely Hurtful' to Students.  A professor at Chico State (CSU, Chico) referred to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as "poison," and suggested that she and other professors use the "immense privilege" they have as "tenured faculty" to protect students who are offended by their classmates exercising their First Amendment rights.  The instructor told Breitbart News that the First Amendment allowing the school's College Republicans to "voice their support for Trump and — the Republican Party" is "intensely hurtful" to many students on campus.  "The First Amendment protects our Republican Club students to voice their support for Trump and their support of the Republican Party.  That is intensely hurtful to many of our students on campus," CSU, Chico instructor Lindsay Briggs told Breitbart News.

The New Far-Left Curriculum Transforming Our Public Schools.  "Deep Equity," developed by the Corwin company, is quickly becoming the new standard curriculum being taught in our public schools. [...] Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson reported on the curriculum Friday, November 8, 2019.  Created by for-profit "education" company Corwin, owned by SAGE Publishing, Deep Equity is the latest example of how the "Left has abandoned education in favor of naked political propaganda," stated Carlson.  Corwin described its curriculum "as a teacher training program that is 'aimed at producing real school improvement for equity and social justice,'" Carlson related.  How does Deep Equity purport to accomplish this?  Mainly "by attacking the students on the basis of their skin color," said Carlson.  "According to Deep Equity, America is based on a hierarchy of various oppressions:  men oppress women, Christianity oppresses Islam, English oppresses Spanish, white people oppress everyone," the pundit continued.

Survey: Almost Half of Conservative Students Claim Their Profs Rant Against Donald Trump.  A new survey suggests that professors at American colleges and universities are frequently using their classrooms to rant against President Donald Trump.  The survey polled over 1,000 conservative college students around the country, finding that almost 50 percent had experienced anti-Trump rants in the classroom.

A Safe Space Society Is A Totalitarian Nightmare.  As the undisputed star of the new film No Safe Spaces — the hit documentary on academia's descent into Orwellian tyranny features a quick shot of a lawyer letter I wrote to some collegiate gulag apparatchiks — I wholeheartedly recommend that you go see it.  Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager take you on a guided tour of the insanity and evil that has gripped academia, and it's utterly terrifying.  You need to see it not merely to gape at the freak show but to learn what's coming for society as a whole.  The dreary conformity factories that pretend to be providing our next generation of leaders with a higher education have instead embarked on a campaign of indoctrination designed to manufacture a generation of goose-stepping creeps who use their bizarre collection of buzzwords and fetishes as weapons to suppress any kind of dissent.  And the problem is that this PC Nazism is not just limited to academia.  Eventually, these daddy-issue cadres are going to get out into the world and contaminate all of our institutions even worse than they are contaminated now.

Leninism: The Highest Stage of Progressivism.  How far will the Left take political science?  We all know as well, when the political Left wants legitimacy, it does not turn to the people but to academics, as it has in the impeachment inquiry.  Factions within the political science profession, bored by the dominant behaviorist and quantitative approaches to the discipline, have agitated for more connection between scholarship and its policy implications.  One example is the journal Perspectives on Politics, launched in 2003 as a publication of the American Political Science Association, the professional association of political science founded in 1903 in the midst of the Progressive era.  The journal's distinctiveness lies in its avowed "attention only on work that in some way bridges subfield and methodological divides, and tries to address a broad readership of political scientists about matters of consequence."  What this amorphous language actually means is plain:  In these pages, the Left is free to indulge its pleasures and fantasies.

Mayor Pete's Rainbow Army.  [Scroll down]  Why anyone would think that Pete Buttigieg is qualified to be president is a mystery.  An even greater mystery would be why a conservative evangelical girl would spend her college break knocking on doors for a cultural radical to be president of the United States.  Actually, it's no mystery.  The answer is right in front of you:  she's in college.  This promising young lady went to an elite university in the northeast.  End of story.  In no time, Hillary-like, she was fundamentally transformed — fully converted from Bible-believing evangelical to LGBTQ-crusading leftist.  It took only two or three semesters.  That's no surprise.  That's the job of these colleges, after all.  That's what they do.  From day one, orientation day, when your son or daughter is asked which gender pronoun he or she prefers, young Americans are overwhelmed with obsessive, unrestrained, unhinged identity ideology.  They are force-fed a nonstop toxic diet of race, gender, and sexual identity.

The obsessive, intolerant, despicable do-nothing-but-obstruct Democrats.  It is the Left that has undone the tenets of Martin Luther King.  It is the Left that has branded any words they don't like as hate speech and destroyed higher education in America with trigger warnings and safe spaces.  Universities have infantilized college students for a couple of decades now.  Our pseudo-professorial class has indoctrinated its students and taught them nothing but intolerance for the slightest word of opposition to their prescribed, permitted speech with which they've been inculcated.  They have severely handicapped many thousands of young people.  Ask one of them who Mao was?  Stalin?  The Holocaust?  Socialism?  About America's founding?  They know nothing, by design and what they think they know is so wrong.  But ask them about transgenderism, institutional racism, homosexuality, white privilege, etc.  They will wax rhapsodic with their infinite knowledge of those topics, each of which is relatively meaningless in the grand scheme of this once great nation.

Five Reasons to be Thankful for School Choice.  The children being educated (or indoctrinated) in today's schools will be the lawmakers, business owners, police officers, teachers, and lawyers of the future.  You'll encounter them in everything you do — from shopping at the grocery store to getting a cavity filled.  Do you really want to live in a society comprised of citizens who can't do basic math?  Or be neighbors with people who have no idea what caused the Civil War or what happened during the Holocaust?  Or how about living in a town where the mayor believes, as a Massachusetts public school district does, that condoms should be handed out to five-year-old children?  Some of these scary scenarios are inevitable, regardless of what school system our nation adopts.  However, our country is assuredly doomed if we continue down the current path of widespread government control of education.  The good news is that the education choice movement is growing.

Teachers Strive to Ensure Students 'Unlearn' Thanksgiving 'Myth'.  Teachers across America are striving to have their students "unlearn" what progressive activists say is nothing more than a "feel-good" Thanksgiving "myth."  "Thanksgiving became a national holiday during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, and the myth of familial relations between colonial settlers and Native Americans has persisted in American culture ever since," says Education Week.

42 charged in Harvard-Yale football protest.  Students and alumni from both schools occupied the midfield of the Yale Bowl during Saturday's halftime protest.  Some held banners urging their colleges to act on climate change.  Other signs referred to Puerto Rican debt relief and China's treatment of Uighurs.

Education Is Not About Your 'Lived Reality'.  [Scroll down]  If education is merely about your "lived reality," why should you cast yourself into an abyss of debt to get it?  Do you not have that reality already?  But I know the answer.  Education is not about reality at all, in the sense of what is objectively true.  It is about political action.  Its swindlers and their marks want power, not truth.  And what power?  Not the power of a liberally educated mind.  It is the power rather of being a lemming of tomorrow:  leading rather than following the lemmings tumbling over the brink.

Grand Valley State University Kills Pledge of Allegiance Tradition.  Students at Grand Valley State University in Michigan voted last week to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at student government meetings over concerns that it is discriminatory and oppressive.  According to a report by The College Fix, Grand Valley State University students voted last week to end their tradition of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before student government meetings.  Student activists argued that the pledge was oppressive and discriminatory against international students.  The students voted last week 22-10 in favor of the Pledge ban.

Detention, Socialist Style (or How I Never Learned Math).  I've lived in America now for over 20 years and have spent the better part of those years engaged within the American academy.  The strange thing about the current trajectory of American schools is that it is becoming worse than anything I experienced during my childhood in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.  Naturally, that feels in many ways like a bizarre thing to say.  I know how extreme it sounds, but I have come to the conclusion that education in America is both ambiguous and insidious.  In Communist Yugoslavia at least we could know for certain what the regime we were living in was all about. [...] In America, we are now witnessing an education so poisonous, so devious, so unnatural that it wears not just one mask, but many.  It insists on the concepts of sharing and solidarity as long as you don't question the leftism of the teachers.  It wears a mask of coddling and care but with a totalitarian intent.

WSJ: Veterans Feel Betrayed by Colleges that Undermine American Values.  U.S. Air Force Veteran Rob Henderson penned a column for the Wall Street Journal this week in which he made the case that veterans feel betrayed by colleges and universities that seek to undermine American values.  Henderson expressed concern that campus activists actively seek to destroy the American values that veterans have risked their lives to defend.  Henderson noted that college students often boast about their opposition to basic American values, like the First and Second Amendments.

UC Berkeley Instructor:  Rural Americans Are 'Bad People'.  An instructor at UC Berkeley argued that "rural Americans" are "bad people" who have made "bad life decisions" in a tweet that he has since deleted.  UC Berkeley instructor Jackson Kernion said that "rural Americans" are "bad people" in a tweet last week.  Kernion, a graduate student studying philosophy, has taught ten courses at UC Berkeley over the past few years.  The tweet, which was highlighted this week by Campus Reform, was deleted after it sparked criticism from other Twitter users.

Young Americans' Date with Socialism.  Universities in America have finally accomplished convincing young adults to abandon the most successful and free form of government in favor of a system that has a historical failure rate of 100%.  It is a sobering reminder of how successful the propaganda of the leftist media and higher education system has been when one realizes that socialism is viewed by nearly half of the millions of young Americans as a sociable way of life — a better way of life where they feel people work together for the good of everyone, where the wealth generated by the sweat of the worker is not accumulated into the bank accounts of a small group of the mega-wealthy.

Witness to Public Schools Brainwashing.  he U.S. education system is brainwashing today's youth to believe that capitalism is evil while also indoctrinating students with utopian, false, and fairy-tale notions about socialism and communism.  Although this may sound like hyperbole, I have experienced this miseducation first-hand.  Long story short, while teaching U.S. History, World History, Economics, and American Government for five (long) years to high school students in the Chicago suburbs and in Bluffton, South Carolina, I was absolutely shocked and dismayed.  In both of my experiences, the "state standards," which dictate the curriculum, were chock full of pro-socialist, anti-capitalist rhetoric.

Racist Instructor Exposed at WSU in Anti-White Rant.  Michael Moreno, a student at Weber State University, recently released audio of his instructor, Ryan Wash, going on a strange, racist anti-white tirade in which he questioned the existence of space.  As disappointing as it is, this is par for the course when it comes to the far-left's takeover of academia.

Next Generation of Americans Will Embrace Socialism If We Lose 'War on History'.  As young Americans are losing an understanding of civics and American history, they increasingly embrace socialism.  An annual poll conducted for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation again found that the younger generations have a far sunnier view of socialism and communism than their elders.  Some of the findings from the YouGov survey, released Oct. 28, were deeply worrisome.  According to the poll, 70% of millennials responded that they are likely or extremely likely to vote for a "socialist."  About 50% said they have an unfavorable view of capitalism.

Don't Let the Deep State Divide Us.  [Scroll down]  See, I think the left is played out.  Lefty street activists?  They are play-acting at Revolution, Baby, the spoiled children of the ruling class.  Entitlement politics?  Played out, because the broad middle class has its entitlements and is not going to allow "their" money to be spent gigantic new programs.  Medicare for All?  It would merely give the educated bureaucratic class jobs-for-life administrating a nightmare.  Green New Deal?  It would give the educated activist class jobs-for-life conjuring up new follies to replace the follies of wind and solar and plastic straw bans.  Deep state intelligence professionals?  Play-acting at spying, jockeying for Deputy Acting Assistant Director jobs, but not willing to get their hands dirty.  See what I am saying?  These people are merely actors, strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage.  But they do not have a clue what they are doing.  They are just reciting the lines taught them by their teachers and professors.  And what they have been taught is a lie.

The Source of the Media's Post-Truth Analysis.  The source of the left-liberal bias in journalism is no mystery.  You need look no further than the faculty of any journalism or communications department at any American university.  But what really needs to be understood is how the people in the fake news business came to be liberated from feeling any obligation to tell the truth. [...] For some time now, something called postmodernism has ruled on American campuses, and a core idea of the postmodernists is that claims to truth are meaningless.

Exposing the Fraud of Socialism.  People seem shocked that recent polls show millennials are enamored of socialism — an economic system that reasonable and educated Americans have long known is disastrous.  They shouldn't be; this has been a long time coming.  The latest survey by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation shows that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist.  Adding insult to injury, only 57% believe the Declaration of Independence "better guarantees freedom and equality" over "The Communist Manifesto."  The worst part of this is that it is real, not a parody piece in "The Onion."  Now do you finally believe that our schools and universities, Hollywood and the liberal media are brainwashing our kids?  Are you taking this seriously?

College kids' hard left turn means trouble ahead for America.  If college kids' political views are a clue to the nation's future, America is headed over a left-wing cliff.  Consider:  A recent Chegg/College Pulse poll found 69% of students say they'd vote for a Democrat in 2020, while just 23% back President Trump. [...] That survey highlighted other eye-opening trends:  College kids back the Green New Deal 2 [to] 1, and two-thirds want Medicare for All.  And get this:  The Yale study says 32% of college kids believe it's sometimes OK to "shout down" campus speakers, and 31% are actually OK using "physical violence" to stamp out "hate speech" or "racially charged language."  The dangers there are obvious:  Who decides what speech deserves to be silenced, even perhaps with violence?  And what kind of society are we headed for when that kind of thinking becomes so prevalent?

Teacher indoctrinates 6 year-olds telling them that Donald Tump is a criminal and cheated to win presidency.  [Video clip only, followed by numerous comments.]

Closing Schools to Indoctrinate Educators in 'White Privilege'.  By longstanding tradition, on the third weekend in October, Minnesota schoolchildren are granted a four-day holiday so that their teachers can attend an indoctrination boot camp — otherwise known as the "Minnesota Educator Academy" or "MEA" — sponsored by Education Minnesota, the state's teachers union.  Billed by the union as an opportunity for professional development and for educators to connect with their colleagues across the state, the Academy is a poorly-disguised effort for leftists to further their agendas by promoting radical race theory and the progressive concepts of "white privilege" and "Islamophobia" to the individuals charged with educating our next generation.  The most recent MEA which was held last week in St. Paul was no exception and the conference itinerary made no effort to hide the political thrust of its efforts.

Woke Evangelists Spread the Gospel.  [Scroll down]  The nation's teachers' unions are certainly not lacking in woke zealotry.  At their convention in July, the National Education Association's new business items — proposed directives and projects for action during the coming year — included incorporating "the concept of 'White Fragility' into NEA trainings/staff development, literature, and other existing communications...."  One adopted item pushes for "reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States," and another publicizes the union's "vigorous defense of immigrants' rights:  defending the right to asylum, ending the criminalization of border crossings, opposing child separation, the construction of a border wall, and immediately shutting down immigrant concentration camps."

College majors and jobs in America:The good, the bad, and the ugly.  [Scroll down]  The problem with academic selection these days is this:  Leftist radicals now running humanities and related "studies" departments have systematically replaced the study of Western literature, philosophy and history with ideological indoctrination consigning our rich literary, historical and cultural traditions to the trash barrel.  Marxist academic committees systematically replaced western tradition and culture with "alternative" tracts, texts and historically selective readings.  All focus on various flavors of anti-American, anti-Western and Marxist thought.  Ruthless replacing history, literature and the arts with Marxist-flavored ideology deprives today's students of historical, social and artistic context.  As a result, students who choose to major in these "disciplines" have wasted their money on an academic dead end.  Their diplomas mean nothing to most employers.  In fact, most employers know a likely HR problem already lives within these graduates' heads.  Consequently, earning a BA in these areas today will likely get you a job at McDonalds and not much more.

San Diego City College Labels 'MAGA' as 'Covert White Supremacy'.  San Diego City College hosted an event allegedly examining "white supremacy" earlier this month, which labeled "Make America Great Again" as an instance of "covert white supremacy."  An event examining instances of "white supremacy" at San Diego City College referred to the phrase, "Make America Great Again" as an instance of "covert white supremacy" that is currently "socially acceptable," according to a report by Campus Reform.

All the indoctrination is paying off:
How College-Educated Whites Are Polarizing And Fracturing The Democratic Party.  Elizabeth Warren's rise in the polls (and Joe Biden's stumbles) will start obscuring what the first eight months of the presidential primary campaign revealed to many:  the Democratic Party is fractured along lines of ideology, identity, and age (if age is not a subset of identity).  A new survey suggests college-educated whites are driving fissures into the Democratic rank-and-file. [...] A follow-up study showed progressive activists have among the most distorted views of their political rivals.  Moreover, "Democrats' understanding of Republicans actually gets worse with every additional degree they earn.  This effect is so strong that Democrats without a high school diploma are three times more accurate than those with a postgraduate degree."

30 of The Biggest Lies & Hoaxes Perpetrated on The American People.  [#8] The Education System:  It has been designed to indoctrinate children with disinformation, teaching them about fabricated historical events, and pumping them full of false narratives.

Palm Beach County teacher 'reassigned' after calling President Trump an 'idiot' on student test.  Granted, it's Palm Beach County, Florida, where Democrats struggle to accurately count votes and protect school children, but the Trump Derangement Syndrome on display at a middle school still catches you by surprise.  A Watson B. Duncan Middle School teacher was "reassigned" after giving students a quiz that described President Donald Trump as an "idiot," WPBF reported.  The quiz contained a multiple-choice question asking students to pick the person in question based on a series of descriptions.

Teacher investigated for quiz question calling President Trump an 'Idiot'.  A Florida teacher is under investigation for giving her students a quiz with a question that referred to President Trump as an "Idiot."  A student at Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens took a photo of the multiple-choice question that read: "45th Pres; 2017; Republican; Real Estate businessman; Idiot."  That didn't sit well with the student's dad, who took to Twitter with his gripes.  "This was an actual question on my daughters middle school test today," Cameron Cary wrote.

San Francisco Schools Indoctrinating Kids as Young as 5 With Anti-Trump, Anti-American Propaganda.  Last week, 3 San Francisco schools took students as young as 5-years-old to a local "Close the Camps" rally.  Liberals are starting their brainwashing before children even learn how to read and write.

Democrats Expect Terrified Children to Lead the Climate Propaganda Push.  Social media have amplified society's cultural upheaval, increasing anxiety and depression in American children.  Adults have foisted the entire globe's problems on a small group of so-called youth activists.  This unprecedented politicization of America's children is causing irrevocable psychological damage.  Vermont is the Petri dish where progressive experiments are easily conducted on children, whether it is widespread displays of Black Lives Matter flags in schools, transgender surgeries for children, or third-trimester abortions.  Youths are encouraged in Vermont to protest, by numerous organizations, teachers, and government officials.  They protest race, sex, guns, nudity, marijuana, and border children.  Currently, there is a week-long protest to rescue the planet from climate change.  But these young people are not being taught to change the world.  They are being made anxious, barraged with dire warnings about the imminent end of the planet.  Mobilizing them through fear is reckless endangerment of an entire generation, solely on left-wing ideological grounds.

It Won't Be Academics Like This Who Reclaim 'American Excellence' From Bad Ideas.  Thirty years ago, nobody was more prepared than I to treat graduate school as a boot camp for scholarship.  I was a young man ready to be molded.  Instead, I encountered professors who were — there is no other way to put it — a gaggle of petty, bitter, and incestuous fools who seemed to either hate their students or view them as tools to further their own small-minded ends.  That, or sleep with us.  There were a couple of exceptions, but even those guys were weird or broken.  It says something that the most normal professor I encountered in graduate school was the extremely odd and reclusive aesthetician and novelist William H. Gass. [...] My graduate professors were a pack of blithering idiots.  What's worse, they were representative.  Anthony Kronman, former dean of the Yale Law School, portrays the opposite impression of late twentieth-century academia in his book, The Assault on American Excellence.

Blame academia for the insanity at Thursday's Dem debate.  [Scroll down]  For those who are wondering how the Democrats could have produced such a distinguished slate of the sanity-challenged, it is because of radical liberal control of America's colleges and universities.  The Marxist radicals of yesterday became college professors of today, seizing ideological control of much of America.  Just as Saudi-funded Salafist religious schools have radicalized large swaths of the Islamic world, American universities are radicalizing an increasingly large share of America.  This is aided by the fact that nearly 70% of kids now go to college, where most of them are taught not to think.  Every candidate on stage is convinced that the lion's share of Democrat primary voters are radical Marxists. [...] These candidates should know their voters, since every one of them is likely a product of America's universities.  It is hard to overstate the damage this institution is inflicting on America but that outcome was on fully display during the Democrat debate.

Left-wing principal of DC school fails to protect Trump-supporting student.  The principal of a high-performing magnet high school located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. has jeopardized the safety of one of his students because of her support for President Trump.  Jayne Zirkle, a senior at School Without Walls High School, known as "Walls," will spend the rest of the school year taking classes online.  The severity of threats and harassment coming from her classmates has made it impossible for her to attend the public school without fear of physical harm.

Ideological Discrimination in Academia Is More Complicated than You Think.  Many right-of-center students (especially those who are grade-obsessed) self-censor, fearing that their professors will punish them for their political and cultural views if they were to express them in class discussions or assignments.  It's easy to understand why they are concerned.  The dearth of ideological diversity in the professoriate is significant; in social-research fields, the left-to-right ratio is roughly 10:1.  Professors rarely assign readings by conservative or libertarian intellectuals, let alone engage with such thinkers in a charitable way.  Faculty regularly make off-topic jabs at Trump or the Republicans, or even end up digressing into full-on rants.

Bucknell University To Host Antifa Leader Who Promotes Political Violence.  On the American college campus, the constant advance of extremist ideas goes on.  Sometimes, those ideas are put into direct action in the form of violence, such as when radicals attack speakers and physically prevent audiences from gathering to hear them.  But the more insidious aspect of the advance takes the form of invitations to propagandists in the garb of scholars who defend and encourage violence while attempting to mask their deeply totalitarian motivations in a superficial and mendacious veneer of moral self-righteousness and academic respectability.

Howard Zinn's American Holocaust.  If anyone wonders why youngsters today are less patriotic and more inclined toward socialism, they need look no further than the most popular "history" textbook in the United States, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States — a one-sided work written from the perspective of a Communist activist that contains a plethora of distortions and outright lies.  In 2012, the director of the American Textbook Council noted that Zinn's text had sold two million copies and was the "best-selling survey of American history."  By 2018, it was estimated that the book had sold more than 2.6 million copies.

University of Alabama dean quits a day after tweets emerge where he described the US flag as 'representing a systemic history of racism'.  A black dean at the University of Alabama has resigned after a conservative website highlighted old tweets he sent linking the US flag with racism.

On Destroying America.  Our education system has been decimated.  Marxist teachers and professors are everywhere.  Young people are being bombarded constantly with secular socialist propaganda, teaching the young to be non-judgmental.  Accept every form of degeneracy.  Children come home from school questioning their grandparent's values because many of their parents are already on board.  They are no longer taught Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln, Judeo-Christian values.  Instead they are taught Malcolm X, Lenin, Mao and the transsexual that reads to them at the local library.  Government schools have virtually eliminated parental authority.

L.A. Students Enthusiastically Sign Petition To Protect Unborn Eagles; But When It Comes To Unborn Babies...  In the video below, Prager University's Will Witt asks students in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles to sign a petition supporting the protection of unborn eagles.  All are happy to sign.  Then, he tells them about his "other" petition which supports the rights of unborn babies.  They quickly lose their enthusiasm.

University of Alabama Dean:  American Flag and Police Represent 'Systemic History of Racism'.  A series of resurfaced tweets from Dr. Jamie R. Riley, the University of Alabama's assistant vice president and dean of students, show he once believed the American flag and police in America are racist.  "The [American flag emoji] flag represents a systemic history of racism for my people," Riley wrote in a September 2017 tweet.  "Police are a part of that system.  Is it that hard to see the correlation?"

We Must Say No to the 1619 Project in Schools.  In 1967, I was a black 18-year-old from the Baltimore ghetto who was a freshman at the prestigious Maryland Institute College of Art.  Progressives are tripling-down on infecting youths with their insidiously evil lie that all American white men are racist.  And yet, I was a poor black kid attending college thanks to scholarships from two white senators and white Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer.  A required course was, "The History of Ideas."  The first day of class, the professor passionately trashed Christianity, America, and President Abraham Lincoln.  I felt like my head would explode as the professor crushed every tenet of my Christian upbringing and reasons why I loved my country.

Proposed California Curriculum Riddled With Anti-Police Rhetoric, Anti-Israel Bias.  A proposed California schools curriculum includes anti-Israel programming and also aims to teach students a one-sided view of police officers and police brutality.  The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, proposed by the California Department of Education, includes anti-Israel bias and aims to teach students about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led anti-Israel initiative.  The curriculum also has students study issues of police brutality and asks teachers to find incidents of bias by police in their own communities.

A Lost Generation In Love With Socialism.  Following the weekend social media circulation of clips from The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) conference in Atlanta, and news that the political affiliation of at least one of the mass shooters leaned far to the left, the reality that more and more young people are embracing a violent form of socialism is moving from amusing to disconcerting.  A consequence of this fascination with socialism, says Charlie Copeland, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), is revealed in the results of a recent poll from Insights College Pulse which shows 30% of college students believe China to be the most powerful country in the world, compared to 48% who said the United States.  "There is clearly a problem of education if you don't understand that the U.S. has a quarter of the number of people [that China has], but our economy is twice as large," Copeland told Townhall.

The war against 'discriminatory' knowledge and competence embraced by higher education.  You've heard of "Latinx," which is used to address "a person of Latin American origin or descent" in a "gender-neutral or nonbinary" way.  Prepare to be introduced to the term "Mathematx," which refers to a way to "reconceptualize" mathematics. [...] It is obvious Gutiérrez believes math should be just another tool to be used in the social justice war on all things exceptional.  Her attempt to paint the purely rational as somehow unethical is sadly illustrative of modern-day progressives.  "Reconceptualizing" mathematics in a "nonbinary" way is patently absurd.  "Binary" is a mathematical term.  "Skills can perpetuate discrimination?"  That's entirely the point.  Discriminating the skilled from the unskilled in any given discipline makes all of us richer, all of our lives better and safer.

The Ideological Roots of 'The Squad' in Academic 'Postcolonial' Theory.  To understand the ideological goals of the so-called "Squad" of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, one needs to understand the academic theories labeled colonial and postcolonial studies.  Many of us "people of color" who have direct or indirect ties to other parts of the third world have seen this nonsense being peddled many times before.  What we are witnessing, despite the veneer of watermelon politics, is not just Marxism, or Alinkyism, or socialism, or communism, or Black Pantherism, or eco-fascism.  We are seeing iron-fisted colonial and postcolonial theory acting itself out on the national stage.  The study of European colonialism and its aftermath, post colonialism, is a combination of all of those leftist social, economic, and environmental projects rolled into one, presented under the auspices of a systematic academic canon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Excellence.  Unlike the campus rebels of the '60s, today's student activists don't want more freedom to act, speak, and think as they please.  Usually they want less.  Most strange:  Today's students are not chafing under some bow-tied patriarchal WASP dispensation.  Instead, they are the beneficiaries of a system put in place by professors and administrators whose political views are almost uniformly left-wing and whose campus policies indulge nearly every progressive orthodoxy.  So why all the rage?

California Wants To Teach Your Kids That Capitalism Is Racist.  The state of California is taking a page out of Malcom X's book to ensure that future generations of students know that capitalism is an inherently 'racist' — and just as bad as the patriarchy, white supremacy and 'ableism,' according to a recent Op-Ed by Stanford University Hoover Institution research fellow Williamson M. Evers.  At issue, the state's Department of Education has solicited public comments on a new "Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum" until Aug. 15, which will dictate how public school teachers can instruct their students in the field of "ethnic studies."  It was created by an advisory board of teachers, academics and bureaucrats, and "It's as bad as you imagine," writes Evers.

Gallup, Darwinism, and Scientism.  Darwinists are invariably the product of an educational system that has as little to do with free thought as the educational systems of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.  Groupthink, instead, is what these institutions create and nurture.  There are no longer "schools of thought," but simply "settled science" and its detractors (those with free and thinking minds).  It is Darwinism, not its alternative theories, that is an intolerant system of blind faith that brooks no reconsideration, no conflicting scientific opinion, and no independent thought.

An Angry Old White Guy on 'AOC Plus Three'.  In academia, if you point out that your female colleague's letter to the editor is not a piece of peer-reviewed research and is not a qualification for promotion, you are sexist.  If you note that the African-American candidate for a faculty position lied when he said that H.D. Laswell, one of the luminaries in social science, was his mentor, you are a racist.  If you protest that coming out as a lesbian, as your application for promotion is being reviewed, is not exactly an academic qualification, you are a homophobe.  Students are commonly taught that all whites are racists, and only whites can be racists.  Such definitions are incorporated in orientation presentations for new students and in compulsory sensitivity training.

Adams: How To Confront And Cross Examine Incompetent Marxist Educators.  [Scroll down]  The student in question attends a public high school.  Last year, he took a world geography class that was taught by a socialist.  In the class, the teacher tried to advance his socialist ideas.  In the process, he claimed that a) communist countries founded on Marxist principles are "not that bad," and that b) students' unfavorable impression of communist nations is the result of brainwashing by their parents.  That kind of indoctrination is arrogant.  It is also disappointing for at least two reasons.  First of all, we expect to hear about socialist professors using the college classroom for indoctrination.  But it is truly disappointing to hear this happening in a high school setting.  Second, it is deeply disappointing to hear of teachers going beyond merely propping up socialism (to the point of defending communist regimes) and actually attacking the students' parents in the process.  These parents are the very people who pay the taxes that allow the teacher to earn a living.

The American Left's Army of Dupes.  Having been brainwashed by segments of the education and entertainment establishment into believing the United States is an evil nation with an equally evil past, a gullible segment of society is susceptible to the demagoguery that has succeeded in creating legions of mind-numbed robotic machines repeating ad nauseum these talking points.  They not only regurgitate these talking points, but too many consider it a sacred duty to volunteer and join a new crusade, known as Antifa, to defeat, by any means necessary, the hordes of fascists currently running amok throughout the nation.

Maricopa College Enrollments Decline Due to Left-Wing Policies.  Occasionally, we board members heard complaints.  Parents objected to a movie scene in a religion class that depicted Jesus making love to Mary Magdalene.  At a scheduled event, speakers from the American Civil Liberties Union and Black Lives Matter criticized law enforcement — with no representation from the other side.  At one college, students were urged to go on a 4-day bus excursion, "Bridging Cultures," paid for through donations to the college.  The teacher in-charge described it as a worthwhile cultural experience.  Later we discovered that the main point was for the students, as a captive audience away from home, to listen to speakers highly critical of President Trump and his policies.  We could do nothing due to the instructors' "academic freedom" — which allows teachers to do or say whatever they choose as long as it does not break the law.

What Conservatives Get Wrong about the Campus Wars.  Much of the debate about campus culture would have you believe that the average college student is hellbent on tearing down the patriarchy.  One wakes up in the morning, wallows in grievance, and proceeds to spend the day railing against the evils of privilege.  I attend Harvard University, one of the places most associated with such snowflakery. [...] But most students do not subscribe to the madness.  Contrarian conservatives repudiate it and find sanctuary in the Republican Club.  Others are too focused on studying and partying to care.

Politicizing UC Berkeley Graduation Ruins it for Parents.  At the commencement of University of California, Berkeley recently, Chancellor Carol T. Christ delivered the commencement speech, along with barbs and jabs at President Donald Trump, according to several parents who attended the graduation ceremony at Memorial Stadium. [...] "The chancellor used her speech as a political platform," one parent said.  "I was there to support the kids and their efforts — not to have to hear someone drone on about politics."  And then the parents said they and their graduates left the ceremony early, "out of disgust."

Red Ed.  The almost comical thing about the U.S. is that most people persist in believing that the top educators are harmless, nice, pleasant, typical Americans.  But the field of education has been a whirlpool or cesspool of socialist-communist-collectivist thinking for more than 120 years.  Throughout that time, these subversives operated covertly but belligerently.  They were the tireless termites in our basement.  At first, John Dewey wanted to call himself what he was, a socialist, but he realized that the public wasn't ready for the S-word.  He urged the Socialist Party of America to change its name.  Dewey ended up calling himself a Progressive, a Liberal, or a Democrat.  Point is, explicating American history is difficult because the Left was always hiding and lying.

Did Your Child Return From College a Better Person?  Did your son or daughter (or niece or nephew, grandson or granddaughter) return home from college:
    More, less or equally kind a person?
    More, less or equally respectful of you, his or her parent(s)?
    More, less or equally grateful to you for the monetary sacrifice you made to enable him or her to attend college?
    More, less or equally proud to be an American?
    More, less or equally respectful of religion?
    More, less or equally wise?
    More, less or equally committed to free speech?
    More, less or equally open to hearing views he or she disagrees with?
I think I know the answers to those questions, in most instances.

School's Purpose is Indoctrination.  The main indoctrination stories you hear are those of radical professors on college campuses, outlandish majors created to forward social justice movements, and, on occasion, a political outburst by a high school teacher.  Although these issues need addressing, by far the biggest — and the one that should scare everyone the most — is the silent indoctrination.  Indoctrination is no longer dependent upon the political beliefs of teachers.  We are now past that.  Course material is blatant political propaganda.  Not just the course material for gender studies and similar.  The core curricula of grade school through college.  Sciences, economics, literature — any core course you can think of is politically influenced.

Church Hosts Summer Camp to Train Grade School Kids to Be Antifa Activists.  There's so much wrong here it's hard to know where to start.  The first thing that struck me, before anything else, was the mask-clad, fist-raising elementary school kids in the illustration.  Teaching incoming 4th-8th-graders how to riot, become members of antifa, and join a communist revolution seems a bit much — even for Portland, Oregon.  Notice the star on the mask and the raised fist.  Classic imagery from the USSR, China, and other violent Marxist revolutions in the 20th century.  One might immediately think of the Brown Shirts, except that Nazis and antifa hate each other.  Antifa formed in the 1930s to oppose the rise of the Nazi party and to try to bring a Marxist revolution to Germany.  Rather, the imagery is eerily reminiscent of the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, or Pioneer Youth.  Lenin established this organization to replace the Boy Scouts, which he outlawed after the Bolshevik revolution.

K-12 Education Has Become Progressive Sunday School.  As a teacher and a former public school student, I have become intimately acquainted with the inner workings of the Progressive Liberal Sunday School catechizing the youth of America.  Over 50 million young people attend the public schools every year where — to an overwhelming extent — their minds are prepared to accept and think uncritically about basic Progressive Liberal doctrines by the priests and priestesses who teach their classes.  Within the schools that teach the teachers, Social Sciences — which the university Schools of Education fall under-registered Democrats outnumber Republican Professors by a margin of over 10 to 1.

The End of Legitimacy and the Collapse of Democracy.  College professors, who in another era fought loyalty oaths tooth and claw, now succumb to writing a statement lauding diversity and their commitment to it as a condition of employment, retention and promotion.  They do so without so much as whimper.  Thought control, however, is still thought control.

The High Cost of Education in America — Indoctrination.  There is a clear reason why the left has free college education as one of its "policy" platforms.  They realize that their ideological domination in our culture is dependent on the indoctrination of our children.  This is what we see happening on our college and university campuses across America.  Now, we can even see this reach going not just into high schools but down into our elementary schools.  Who could have ever imagined that little boys and girls of elementary school age would "identify" as a different gender?

The University System Is the Progressives' Seminary.  [Scroll down]  What's happening isn't education; it's indoctrination.  It's not necessarily a conspiracy, and I suppose more often than not it's not always even malevolent.  But it doesn't change the deleterious effects of hearing only one side persuasively argued.  For a student majoring in anthropology or communications at one of these elite universities, it is possible to go four whole years without encountering a single Republican professor.  Elaborating on the study, we know from it that "despite the variability, none of the 51 colleges had more Republicans than Democrats.  According to the survey, over a third of them had no Republicans at all."

What We Have Become?  Influence like the Frankfurt School, a German communist think tank that found a home within the American university system in the early to mid twentieth century that has now spread to the public schools, a problem we have yet to deal with or even recognize.  I do not feel bold in my prediction that if we do not get a handle on our current leadership's ignorance, their dabbling in areas they know nothing about, especially among the youthfully oblivious, their willingness to totally change the order of society with us as their test bed, their presumption that freedom can co-exist along with socialism or collectivism, that we will all die or be enslaved, and it won't be from climate change.

Environmental indoctrination in our schools.  Ever wonder why kids come home from school often sounding as if they had received woefully inadequate instruction in everything from English, history, and civics to mathematics, science, and other traditional fields of learning?  That's because, in far too many K-12 classes across the country, these subjects have been pushed aside in favor of a curriculum specifically designed to set children on a path toward progressive indoctrination of their impressionable young minds.  This is not a new development; it's been gradually tightening its grip on our education system (public and private) ever since the poisonous progressive ideas of John Dewey and his acolytes started making their way into school curricula during the last century.  Over time, the discipline of history has given way to "social studies," and the teaching of science has undergone a noticeable politicization.

Minnesota Students Assigned to Color Reverential Photos of Rep. Ilhan Omar.  In her short time in Congress, freshman U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar has made a name for herself as a vehement anti-Semite.  She infamously invoked age-old anti-Semitic tropes when she tweeted "It's all about the Benjamins [$100 bills], baby," accusing the pro-Israel organization AIPAC of donating to politicians in order to secure favorable treatment of the Jewish state.  Omar is also an ardent supporter of the Hamas-funded Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.  Now it appears that despite her highly controversial record and short career in public service, schoolchildren in Minnesota are being taught to venerate the fledgling politician.

NYC Department of Education: 'Individualism' Is 'White Supremacy Culture'.  The New York City Department of Education has instructed its teachers that "objectivity" and "individuals" are "white supremacist" concepts.  According to a report from the New York Times, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza gave a presentation about "white supremacy" culture.  In the lesson, Carranza claims that concepts like "perfectionism," "paternalism," and "objectivity" are part of "white supremacy culture."

Public school indoctrination is paying off!
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism.  Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some form of socialism would be a good or bad thing for the country.  While 51% of U.S. adults say socialism would be a bad thing for the country, 43% believe it would be a good thing.  Those results contrast with a 1942 Roper/Fortune survey that found 40% describing socialism as a bad thing, 25% a good thing and 34% not having an opinion.

Left-Leaning, Anti-Christian Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines Proposed in Michigan.  A task force in Michigan has released a new proposal recommending dramatic changes to the social studies guidelines for teaching K-12 public school students.  Critics charge that the recommendations would foster politicized teaching, anti-Christian bias, and promote a leftist vision of America's history and ideals that our nation's founders would find difficult to recognize.

Surprise! Learning about Cotton in School Is Racist Now.  I currently live in Arlington, Va., and do not vote in local elections.  It's not that I don't want to vote, but there is literally no one [...] on the ballots who could even pretend to be anywhere close to being a conservative.  The problem isn't my lack of desire, it's that I don't have anyone to vote for.  As one of the most progressively leftist communities in this country, my local government is completely devoid of any representation of my beliefs and values.  So, I was not surprised to read ARLNow's article about an Arlington elementary school teacher who has found herself in hot water for having her students study cotton.

Planting of Cotton at Arlington Elementary School Prompts Discussion.  A cotton plant growing at Campbell Elementary School drew criticism online today, but Arlington Public Schools said allegations that staff were going to make kids "pick cotton" was a misunderstanding.  "At no time, never, was the school going to have students pick cotton," said APS spokesman Frank Bellavia.

Fifth Grade Girl Protests Students Giving Nazi Salute.  That Causes A Ruckus.  A fifth-grade girl, who was deeply upset and called out other students participating in a "living history" project who were giving the Nazi salute, was removed from the class, with a teacher writing that the young girl "was disrespectful with her tone and body language to me and Mrs. J[redacted] while we were trying to discuss her behavior with her."

From Indoctrination to Education:  Salvaging the University.  The promise of higher education has become a trap for tens of millions of Americans.  The promise:  Every one of us and our children could go to college, earn a degree, and set off on a good career, secure in the knowledge that we had gained the tools necessary for a productive life.  The trap:  Years (usually more than the advertised four) of indoctrination in the classroom and, more harshly, the dormitories, followed by decades of crushing debt, all made far worse by the realization that our degrees have qualified us for very little.  It wasn't always like this.

Why are so many Democrats so reprehensible in exactly the same way?  [The political] left has done such terrible damage over the years.  They have destroyed academia, especially our once great universities.  Few of them today permit free speech or freedom from the forced acceptance of all things politically correct.  They no longer value critical thinking, so they do not teach it.  They indoctrinate.  Students who deviate from the new rules that seem to have leapt off the pages of Orwell's 1984 will be harassed, punished.  They have terrorized the young with their frightening exhortations of man-caused global warming hysteria.  They are working hard to obliterate the absolute truth of gender.  Science and biology [notwithstanding].

The Brainwashing of a Nation.  [Scroll down]  The political brainwashing campaign in this country targets the upper class and the middle class.  The best subjects for brainwashing are intelligent and emotionally vulnerable. [...] That's why the Left aims most of its brainwashing efforts at high school and college students.  It's why it prioritized control of the educational system and the entertainment industry above all else.  Both of these have become highly profitable brainwashing industries: one sugar-coated, and one bitter.  Classrooms and campuses provide physical control over students for nearly two decades of their lives.  That control was initially used for simple dogmatic preaching.  Then it escalated to cult behavior with classroom role-playing rituals encouraging mass expressions of love and hate, transformations of sexual and gender identity, detachment from friends and family, and violent displays of pain and rage.  The modern American identity politics campus looks a whole lot like Jonestown or a Hitler Youth rally.

San Francisco School May Destroy George Washington Murals For "Traumatizing" Students.  Imagine having something on the walls of your high school as fascinating as an original 13-panel history of George Washington's life painted by a communist protege of Diego Rivera — and wanting to destroy it.  The artist, Victor Arnautoff, was a respected painter and professor, not some hack brought in to brighten up the kiddies' surroundings.  He was commissioned to paint the series in 1936 by FDR's Works Progress Administration, making the murals part of U.S. history in more than one way.

High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They 'Traumatize' Students.  A high school in Northern California — George Washington High School, to be specific — is mulling over a push to remove two 83-year-old murals from its hallways.  Critics advocating for their removal say they are offensive to Native Americans and African-Americans.  They say the pair of panels "traumatizes students and community members."

University of Virginia:  No Class.  [The comments are the best part of this article.]

7 Years Later Shows Me Why I Am Thankful for Breitbart.  In an April 23 article on a Powerline blog titled, AP History Textbook Calls Trump "Racist," Questions his Mental Stability, Paul Mirengoff reports that by 2020 AP high school students will be reading from a text that characterizes the President as someone whose opponents questioned his mental health, and as someone who ran a campaign that permitted racists to come out of the American shadows.  Mirengoff exposes the textbook author's intent in citing "Clinton supporters'" concerns about Trump as opposed to citing objective facts as "a device to plant the idea that President Trump is mentally unstable, a proposition for which there is no basis other than raw hatred of the man."

Teacher Rejects President Trump as Subject of Student's "Hero" Essay.  Sixth grade student Bella Moscato and her family have gone public after the middle schooler's teacher assigned her class to write an essay on a person they consider a hero — and then rejected Bella's proposal to write about President Donald Trump. [...] That teacher, says Bella, rejected Trump as a subject of her essay "because he spreads negativity and says bad stuff about women."  According to Bella, this statement was made in front of the whole class as well as another faculty member.  Her teacher then told her to pick a different individual to profile in her assignment.  "The thing I didn't get is she was okay with someone doing Barack Obama, but not okay with doing Donald Trump.  That's what got me angry and I didn't like that," Bella explained.

Many University Campuses Are Playgrounds for Insanity.  If you think the left hasn't taken over university life in America, you are probably not paying close enough attention or in denial.  I'm not just talking about the liberalism of the professors and the core curriculum but about all of college life.  There are glaring examples of leftist extremism everywhere you turn, and they're so loony that even sane liberal parents should be concerned.

The ideologue who wrote the textbook calling Trump and his supporters "racists".  Yesterday [4/23/2019], I wrote about the AP U.S. History textbook By the People that calls President Trump and his core supporters "racists" and suggests that the president is "mentally unstable."  Today, I want to write about James W. Fraser, the author of this egregiously biased left-wing book.  Stanley Kurtz blew the whistle on Fraser a year ago.  Rereading Stanley's piece made my blood boil, just as it was simmering down.  Fraser isn't just a hard-leftist.  Stanley shows that, at a minimum, he's a communist sympathizer.  That phrase went out of style decades ago, perhaps for the best.  But applying it to Fraser actually gives him the benefit of the doubt.

AP U.S. History textbook calls Trump "racist," questions his mental stability.  I have written repeatedly about the hard-left bias in the teaching of AP American History.  I finally got tired of writing such posts and abandoned the beat.  But now, I learn that, beginning in 2020, many Advanced Placement students will be using an American History textbook that suggests President Trump is mentally ill and that depicts him and many of his supporters as racists.  The book asserts that "[Trump's] not very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters."  What connected with a significant number of primary voters was Trump's strong opposition to illegal immigration and his concern over terrorists entering the U.S. The textbook effectively characterizes these concerns as "not very-hidden racism" and those who share them as racists.  This is controversial, to say the least.  I consider it slanderous.

Too many school teachers hate capitalism, and are vowing to get rid of Trump in 2020.  School teachers are the largest single occupational group contributing to socialist Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign.  As Breitbart notes, "A disproportionate number of those to whom we have entrusted the task of passing our values on to the next generation disagree with those values and would prefer a "revolution."  So many school teachers in North Carolina joined Marxist May Day protests organized by #RedforEd, the four largest school districts shut down for the day.  #RedforEd talks about hirer wages and Medicare for all.  They pretend to be bi-partisan.  They are anything but mainstream.

Yes, the Green New Deal Could Happen.  Democrats are like conniving teenagers asking for a 3 a.m. curfew knowing their parents will squawk and say no, but negotiate down to 1 a.m. when that's what the kid was going for in the beginning. [...] The reverse happens with speech codes.  So the Left wants to constrain what can be whispered in polite company.  There can be no thoughtful discussion of the consequences of gay marriage, transgenderism and discrimination against women, whether it's a good idea to destroy historical monuments, and on and on.  The only thing that is okay to talk about is what they deem correct and only in a way positive to their point of view.  By doing these two things:  proposing huge, absurd, monstrous ideas that expand the scope of socialist ideology and then constraining language that might be critical of it, they control the game.

Academia's rabid left taking new swings at leading intellectuals who don't conform.  The rabid left has been rampant on college campuses since the 1960s, but never has it been as emboldened as it is now, not content to just spew crazy things, but to censor conservatives and independent thinkers.  What's standing out now is that they are no longer going for the small fry — students, untenured assistant professors, conservative academics who really do say malapropistic things ... they're going for the bigs now.

Parents Raise Concern over SAT Essay Question on Bernie Sanders' Op-Ed.  The commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education (DOE) responded Thursday in a press statement to the concerns of some parents who reported their children taking the recent SAT test were requested to write an essay on an excerpt from a 2014 op-ed by current presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).  "The column in question was probably a poor choice, in hindsight," said Commissioner Frank Edelblut.  "However, it doesn't affect the ability of students to be able to read and process the concept of the piece and whether or not the author made a persuadable argument — which is the purpose of the essay in the first place."

Washington State Resorts to Shock Tactics, Indoctrination to Teach Tribal History.  Washington State is in the process of implementing a new mandatory curriculum on Native American history in its public schools.  Proposed lesson plans are now up on the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction's website.  And some parents in the state are highly disturbed by the content of those lessons which they say indoctrinate students in a one-sided leftist understanding of American history and could be traumatizing for young children.

When Christian Colleges Teach Students to Fear, Not to Think.  Christians are called to be strong and courageous.  But that's not what Christian students are being taught on many Christian college campuses today.  Too often, they're taught to fear and to hide behind a false pretense of grace while extending none.  Christian writer, speaker and author Matt Walsh was protested by college staff and students, at Baylor University, who didn't want to hear a Biblical perspective on culture-shifting issues.  How dare a Christian father speak Biblical truths about abortion, marriage and gender!  That's "hate speech."  This is intolerable in a day and age when many define their own subjective truth which cannot, apparently, be subjected to any level of scrutiny no matter how civil the discourse.

Don't Assume Good Intentions from Campus P.C. Pushers.  [Scroll down]  Watch your step, professor.  Outside of class, students hear a nonstop mantra of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion, along with catechisms against -isms and -phobias.  It has primed them to sniff out discrimination in its subtlest forms whenever it is aimed at historically disadvantaged identities.  Now, with the sensitivity questions added to the evaluation form, the classroom is another setting of scrutiny, with the professor in the dock.  Course evaluations matter.  They can affect tenure, promotion, and salary.

Texas Students To Be More Dumbed Down.  The 2019 Texas legislature is rushing headlong into expanding technology in K-12, forcing children into more "personalized learning," a euphemism for replacing teachers with digital screens.  Ignoring volumes of proof that digital learning has lowered academic achievement and created mental and psychological problems, states spend $5 billion each year of taxpayers' money on technology.  Removing children from the "dangerous influences" of parents and day teachers is a goal of UNESCO, the educational arm of the U.N. founded in 1946.  Through computers, children are being brain mapped and their mindsets changed to accept a socialistic One World Order.  Extensive data mining of personal student information is being via digital learning, a violation of a student's Fourth Amendment rights to privacy.

UNESCO Programs Continue In U.S. Schools, Promote One-World Government.  Although the U.S. has now withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the tentacles of the radical organization remain deeply entwined in America through education.  Founded as the United Nations' education agent, the purpose of UNESCO is to influence school curriculum to change the worldviews and beliefs of students.  In a 1949 pamphlet about using the classroom to promote "world understanding," UNESCO said:  "As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can only produce precarious results."  To counter that, schools should use various means to "combat family attitudes."  This mission to remove children from their parental influences as early as possible and place children in public schools where government approved attitudes are taught is found in the agenda of Progressives to expand public pre-K.

Public university to offer course in 'Angry White Male Studies'.  The University of Kansas is offering a course on the study of "angry white men" for the fall 2019 semester.  Students will explore the role of "dominant and subordinate masculinities" as they connect to "rights-based movements of women, people of color, homosexuals and trans individuals."  "Angry White Male Studies" (HUM 365) is cross-listed under both the Humanities department and the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies department at KU.  It is an option to satisfy a Humanities course requirement.  The humanities are the study of how people process and document the human experience.  In other words, the course falls under the umbrella of English literature, modern languages, history, and philosophy.

Parents say teacher told daughter she could not choose President Trump as her hero for report.  As bizarre is it may sound, anti-Trump bigotry appears to be spreading across the country.  Last month a Florida bus driver ripped a "Make America Great Again" hat off a child's head in rage.  At the start of this month an anti-Trump zealot in California harassed and berated an elderly Starbucks supporter at a Starbucks.  And according to the latest reports, last week a New York teacher prevented an 11-year-old student from choosing President Donald Trump as her hero for a class assignment.  If this isn't bigotry, what is?

White Vermont Schools Display Black Lives Matter Flags.  In what appears to be a practice unique to Vermont, yet more of the Green Mountain State's schools have elected to officially fly the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag.  Since Montpelier High School, in the state's capital, became the first public school in the nation to display this flag (for the month of February 2018), a number of other Vermont schools have followed suit.  Most recently, the Town of Rutland's public schools board "voted unanimously to fly the flag for 400 consecutive days starting April 12 — the 158th anniversary of the start of the Civil War."  Vermont is an odd venue for such protests.  The first state to abolish slavery (in 1777), Vermont had numerous residents serve and die in the Civil War.

Pence Delivers Powerful Response To Students Enamored With Socialism.  Speaking at Rice University's Baker Institute on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a stinging rebuke to students who protested his appearance and a harsh dose of reality to students who have become enamored with the concept of socialism.

Even More University Corruption.  Professor [Carl] Salzman argues that for most of the 20th century, universities were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge.  There was open exchange and competition in the marketplace of ideas.  Different opinions were argued and respected.  Most notably in the social sciences, social work, the humanities, education and law, this is no longer the case.  Leftist political ideology has emerged.  The most important thing to today's university communities is diversity of race, ethnicity, sex and economic class, on which they have spent billions of dollars.  Conspicuously absent is diversity of ideology.  Students are taught that all cultural values are morally equivalent.  That's ludicrous.  Here are a few questions for those who make such a claim. [...]

Unfathomable 7th grade assignment 'Trump Against American Values' has people fighting mad.  A middle school teacher in Texas faced death threats and angry parents after a school assignment appearing to be critical of President Donald Trump was called out by a state lawmaker.  The Houston-area teacher, who was not identified, was accused by a Texas state congressman of violating the "sacred trust" of parents sending their children to public school after it was learned that she gave her 7th grade students an assignment to review an essay titled, "Trump Against American Values," the Houston Chronicle reported.

Houston Teacher Caught Indoctrinating Kids with Anti-Trump Reading Material.  A Houston-area teacher was caught indoctrinating the children.  She was teaching them to see President Trump as a threat while inculcating them with social justice values — Marxism.  The unnamed teacher had seventh-grade students read ten student-written essays to test reading comprehension.  One essay was titled "Trump Against American Values," and it said some of the President's policies "have gone against what Americans value most, like freedom of opportunity" and that "we have witnessed insensitive remarks toward other racial and cultural groups."

Climate Lies, Child Abuse And The Truth.  Hitler had a infamous program which was popularly known as "Hitler Youth."  He wasn't stupid.  Grabbing teens and indoctrinating them is a lot simpler than trying to do the same thing with more-fully developed reasoning skills.  Having children run tropes and flat-out lies is a shopworn tactic of demonic monsters world-wide for thousands of years.  Today it goes on in America and elsewhere. [...] The reason we don't let children make policy decisions is that they're insufficiently experienced and too-easily influenced.

7 Reasons Conservatives Are Losing the Culture Wars.  [#2] Schools:  No socialist, terrorist bomber, anti-white professor, anti-American professor, radical feminist, or radical Marxist should ever be allowed to teach in our universities.  When we take the worst of us and put them in charge of molding the next generation of minds, it shouldn't shock anyone that it has an incredibly negative impact on the culture.  It also shouldn't surprise us that the history, values, and philosophy that made America successful to begin with are either largely ignored or misrepresented by Leftist teachers who want to replace it with something new and inferior.  Yet our school systems are overwhelmingly run by people with this kind of mindset from top to bottom.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Progressive University.  How is it, considering the economic nonsense she spouts, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could graduate cum laude from Boston University, with a degree in international relations and economics?  Worse, how is it that her generation could embrace the very economic system that destroyed Eastern Europe and collapsed Venezuela, which sixty years ago was one of the top three economies in the world? [...] It is no accident that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spouts socialist banalities.  This is what colleges teach. [...] Political correctness produced the activist scholar, who, in the true Marxist sense of the word "praxis," demands to use university resources for tribal leftist political activism while arguing that activism be considered a glorified substitute for scholarship.

Study: Social and Emotional Learning, the 'New-Age Nanny State'.  A new study released Monday [3/11/2019] finds the most popular education topic today is social and emotional learning (SEL), which amounts to the "psychological training of children starting at a young age."  The Boston-based, privately funded Pioneer Institute published the study, "Social-Emotional Learning:  K-12 Education as New-Age Nanny State," which asserts SEL is the latest panacea in a long line of so-called progressive "education reforms" that only serves to distract from the fact that American public school children are failing academically.

Ted Cruz Calls Out 'Socialist' Universities for Bias Against Conservatives.  More Republicans need to speak out in this way, especially when Democrats demand free college for everyone.  Why should taxpayers fund political indoctrination centers for the left?

Arizona High School Suspends Girl Just for Holding a Trump Flag.  A high school student in Gilbert, Arizona, was suspended from her school because she dared to hold a Donald Trump flag to take some pictures.  The outrageous punishment occurred last Friday at Perry High School when teen Logan Jones was suspended after a security officer criticized her for posing for photos with the Trump flag and a Trump sweatshirt.

The Plague of the Good Little Girls in Congress.  There seems to be an emerging conventional wisdom that the freshmen Democratic women in Congress really don't know what they are saying, poor little things, so we shouldn't really take their anti-Semitic statements seriously.  Note to all non-Democratic men and women:  Do not try this at home!  But I do not think that we are giving congresswomen like Sandy O, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib enough credit.  To me they are perfect products of our lefty educational system.  Ask yourself:  If you went to school and college in the United States today and believed everything your teachers taught you, how would your worldview be different from Sandy O, Omar, and Tlaib?

Ted Cruz calls universities 'nutty' and 'socialist' for avoiding controversial speakers.  Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called university leaders who decline to host controversial speakers "nutty" and "weak" in an interview Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, saying the censorship was to avoid debate over failed socialist ideas.  "You look at what is happening at our universities where they've really gone nutty," Cruz said in an interview with the Washington Examiner's Larry O'Connor, criticizing campuses for what he described as shutting down free speech.  "It's really a sign of weakness."  Cruz labeled university leaders who censor speech "socialists" and said they do not want to have a real debate over policy because they know their ideas have failed.

Perry HS students say they were 'disrespected' for wearing MAGA gear on 'USA Day'.  Several students at Perry High School say they were disrespected by staff and asked to leave campus because they were wearing "Make America Great Again" attire.  Friday [3/1/2019] was the last day of "Spirit Week" at the high school and it was dubbed "Party in the USA Day."  "We just wore all of the America stuff we had, obviously Trump is the president so we wore Trump stuff because he's the leader of our country, right?" said sophomore Morgan Dupuis.  At least eight students in MAGA gear were brought to the office at the end of the school day.

Crazy Commie Prof at UC Davis Says Police "Need to Be Killed".  The colleges and universities in our nation have gone very far-left and lie to our youth as part of their Marxist indoctrination.  This English professor is a standout at UC Davis and that is saying something.  Professor Joshua Clover has published work on critical theory, political economy, and Marxism.  He made his anti-police comments during an interview in 2016, according to The California Aggie.

California professor reprimanded for saying police 'need to be killed,' reports say.  The university said in a statement:  "The UC Davis administration condemns the statement of Professor Clover to which you refer.  It does not reflect our institutional values, and we find it unconscionable that anyone would condone much less appear to advocate murder. ... We support law enforcement, and the UC Davis Police Department and Chief Joe Farrow have been and remain critical partners to our community."  Clover, whose work focuses on critical and political theory, political economy, poetry, poetics and Marxism, wrote to The Aggie, saying, "I think we can all agree that the most effective way to end any violence against officers is the complete and immediate abolition of the police."

11-Year-Old Docked Points for Not Bashing Trump.  To say that some people dislike Donald Trump may well be the understatement of the year.  It's hard to imagine any duly elected president seeing so many protests, yet here we are.  It's so bad that now an 11-year-old in Annadale, New York, was docked 15 points on a homework assignment because she failed to answer a question demanding students bash Trump: [...]

The Credible Press:  An Autopsy.  I attended journalism school some time ago, yet I recall well the preaching of objectivity as if it were the Hippocratic Oath for the future guardians of truth roaming the beige halls of my alma mater.  But even then, at the dawn of the 21st century, the writing (pun intended) was on the wall; despite their good intentions, my professors made clear their radically progressive political slants, as was their right, but they never forced their opinions or punished opposing views to my knowledge.  Nevertheless, many of my classmates absorbed their politics like a sponge (myself being the rare exception) and entered their professional lives as full-blown advocates.  The chain reaction of indoctrination is now plain to see — the tact of their predecessors must seem like a weakness to today's openly partisan media class who wear their political philosophies on their sleeves like $1,000 cufflinks.

Calif. College Board Cancels Pledge of Allegiance Because It Is 'White Nationalist'.  According to Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees President Robert Miller, the Pledge is "steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism."  So, the board will no longer recite the pledge at meetings.

The Progressive Race to the Bottom.  [Scroll down]  We are also reaping the fruits of the new university run by hard-core leftists who have indoctrinated a generation with progressive envy and anger, while offering them little education.  The resulting ignorance and arrogance make a lethal combination.  Professors now in their late sixties can remember old-fashioned liberals of the 1970s and 1980s whose politics were incidental to their professional expertise, but there is now almost no one left in the academy who recalls such dinosaurs.  Instead, after the early 1980s, now-tenured progressives sought to produce leftists who took over and produced socialists.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a valuable reminder of how university education results in self-importance coupled with witlessness.

Home Depot co-founder:  Socialism 'comes right out of the universities.' He's not wrong.  Home Depot billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus said Friday that the growing appeal to socialism in America comes out of the universities.  Marcus, during an interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, discussed the deterioration of socialist Venezuela and Cuba, comparing the situations in those countries today with the realities there decades ago, pre-socialist rule.  Marcus called the economic downturns in each of those countries, Cuba, in particular, a "perfect example of socialism gone wrong."

Why is Fake News Accepted by so Many?  [Scroll down]  Account should also be taken of the lack of diversity of political opinion in universities, since they have a responsibility to educate those who will become reporters.  Education should emphasize the necessity to be free of bias in scholarship, and the dangers of curtailment of free speech on university campuses, ideological conformity, and outright discrimination.  But studies show that political correctness pervades the campus, and that political leaning of faculty is overwhelmingly leftist and friendly to the Democratic party. [...] Figures for some colleges such as Wellesley, Swarthmore, Williams, indicate the ratio of the faculty is 120 [to] 1 liberal.

The Left vs. Logic.  A statement cannot refute itself and be true, be logical.  The postmodern mantra, "There is no absolute truth!" — usually said with great didactic gusto, is such a statement.  "There is no absolute truth," is an absolute statement and therefore argues against itself.  How can one stay sane if one actually believes such tripe?  One can't.  College professors love to play this dishonest shell game with their students.  Slip ideas around fast enough, which is easy once ideas are distanced from their source, and you can convince anyone of anything.  Do we wonder why our young people drink themselves through high school and college?  Why the drug overdose problem is what it is?  They are being driven to madness.

Notre Dame to cover up murals depicting Christopher Columbus in the New World because they portray stereotypes of Native Americans.  The University of Notre Dame will cover 19th century murals on campus that depict Christopher Columbus in America due to their stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans.  Notre Dame President Rev John Jenkins announced the news on Sunday [1/20/2019], saying the murals' depiction of Columbus as a "beneficent explorer and friend of the native peoples hides from view the darker side of this story."

Related topic:  Notre Dame sells out.

Colleges Are Breeding Grounds for Civil War.  We have become a nation of angry people.  Too many of us carry a chip on our shoulder and find racism everywhere, sexism everywhere, misogyny rampant, homophobia out of control.  It is no wonder we have masked leftists lashing out with violence, a new congresswoman making profanity-laced speeches demanding President Trump's impeachment.  We now have a Democrat majority House of Representatives with scores of avowed communists in their ranks who are in no mood to cooperate with the system as founded, but to overturn it.

University [of Florida] Sued for Being [an] 'Assembly Line For One Type of Thought'.  The University of Florida is being sued for favoring some speech, giving liberal students generous budgets to promote their ideology on campus but restricting the 1st Amendment for conservatives.  The complaint was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of the non-partisan Young Americans for Freedom.  The issue is that the school arbitrarily gives a budget to some student groups, but not others.  "State universities are uniquely expected to be a free marketplace of ideas, not an assembly line for one type of thought," said ADF Legal Counsel Blake Meadows.  "University of Florida administrators are limiting YAF members' First Amendment freedoms by forcing them to pay into a system that funds opposing viewpoints.

12-Year-Old Boy Named Trump Bullied, Ridiculed, Punched on Bus; Is Forced to Change his Name.  An 11-year-old Delaware boy named Joshua Trump was forced to change his last name after liberal indoctrinated children at the school bullied him and beat him.  Joshua's parents said it was so bad they decided to use the boy's father's name at the school from now on.

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Where are the "zero tolerance" anti-bullying enforcers?  On the other hand, why wasn't he known by his father's name in the first place?

James Comey, Menace to Society.  Education, K-12 and university is now all about, only about, indoctrination.  Dead white males like Shakespeare, Dickens, and Twain, are verboten.  Anyone who thinks their son or daughter will become educated on any university campus (except Hillsdale and a few others) is sadly misguided.  They will return from college spouting all the race, class, gender, and climate change nonsense that is the stuff of "education" today.  They will have learned nothing but contempt for all those people who do not agree with their newfound, professor-inculcated intellectual superiority.

We're all in gender studies 101 now.  Manhattan Institute scholar and author Heather Mac Donald appeared on the Mark Levin show this weekend to discuss how campus culture has begun to surface in American politics.  Social justice warriors used to be confined to college campuses, now their world view has been adopted by many elected officials.  Mac Donald points out that college students are indoctrinated upon arrival to believe they are either victims or oppressors and that this paradigm is worsening the problem it is supposedly solving.  She uses the Kavanaugh hearings as an example of the advancement of the progressive concept of campus 'rape culture' and the diminished value of due process.

44 Percent of Young Americans Believe Barack Obama Had "Bigger Impact" Than George Washington.  According to a recent survey, 44 percent of Milennials believe that Barack Obama had a "bigger impact" on America than George Washington.  The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG) released a survey conducted by YouGov and commissioned by FLAG, the results of which are disturbing and demonstrate a dearth of belief in American exceptionalism and in comprehension of basic American political tenets.

Survey Shows 1 in 5 Millennials Sees U.S. Flag as 'Sign of Intolerance and Hatred'.  A survey released on Nov. 27 found that one in five millennials views the American flag as "a sign of intolerance and hatred," and two in five think it is okay to burn Old Glory.  The "State of American Patriotism Report," which was designed to assess the patriotism and historical knowledge of young Americans, also revealed that six in 10 millennials (ages 22-37) believe the United States is racist and sexist.

Why Are So Many Millennials Ignorant Anti-Americans?  A new YouGov poll asked more than 1,000 people aged 14 and up about their knowledge of the country's history and institutions, and their patriotic feelings toward the U.S. The nationwide survey, sponsored by the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, produced some alarming results.  Basically, it found younger generations — millennials (age 22-27) and Gen Z (age 14-21) — are less likely to love and respect the country.  And they're less informed about American history, and way more likely to embrace socialism.  Is that just evidence of youthful ignorance?  Or is it the result of a school system that indoctrinates children in leftist ideology?

Teacher Evacuates Classroom Because Student Is Wearing MAGA Hat.  A teacher was caught on camera berating a student for wearing a Make America Great Again hat in class.  The teacher lectures the classroom for several minutes.

Democratic Socialists of America's Plan to Infiltrate America's Public Schools.  The Democratic Socialists of America is serious about recruiting young people to become teachers and change agents in our education system.  Fox News and Campus Reform exposed the DSA's infiltration of America's public schools, but the best example of the DSA's intent is the Young Democratic Socialists of America's pamphlet "Why Socialists Should Become Teachers."  In this 19-page document, the YDSA lays out its case for taking over public schools in every district in our country.  The organization is well-organized, well-funded, and committed.  This YDSA recruiting piece is filled with the usual socialist slogans and clichés.  In the second paragraph, they admit that "halting charter school legislation" is a priority along with raising taxes "on the corporations and extractive fossil fuel industries that exploit our people."  (Never mind that those same businesses provide heat, light, food, fuel, and clothing for "our people.")  In the opening paragraphs they identify their enemy as successful business, the "ruling class" (whoever that may happen to be), and a capitalistic economy.

Fruits Of College Indoctrination.  A recent Brookings Institution poll found that nearly half of college students believe that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.  That's nonsense; it is.  Fifty-one percent of college students think they have a right to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree.  Nineteen percent of students think that it's acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking.  Over 50 percent agree that colleges should prohibit speech and viewpoints that might offend certain people.  One shouldn't be surprised at all if these visions are taught and held by many of their professors.  Colleges once taught and promoted an understanding of Western culture.  Today many professors and the college bureaucracy teach students that they're victims of Western culture and values.

Brave 6th Grade Girl Records Unhinged Teacher in 15 Minute Anti-Trump Rant.  Sixth grader Josie Orihuela got tired of her history teacher constantly trashing the American president.  So one day she recorded her teacher smearing President Trump in a 15 minute rant.

China Infiltrates American Campuses.  The main points of contact for Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) chapters in the U.S. are often intelligence officers in the embassy and consulates.  China's Ministry of State Security uses CSSA students to inform on other Chinese on campus.  Let us get the FBI to round up Ministry of State Security agents who, up to now, have been given free rein to operate in America.  Putting these agents behind bars or even just revoking their visas will end many of the activities that endanger American campuses.

9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up.  To keep their teaching licenses, many teachers have to regularly attend conferences like these for usually taxpayer-sponsored "professional development."  Nowadays teacher licensing mandates often specifically require teachers to learn Common Core-themed things.  So basically, to keep their jobs, teachers have to learn more about Common Core.  The Standards Institute helps them fulfill that job requirement.  It did so this year by using Common Core as a Trojan horse to insert wildly leftist, arguably racist, indoctrination.

Dartmouth prof: 'If we don't abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us'.  Dartmouth College lecturer Mark Bray made the argument to abolish capitalism in a recent op-ed for Truthout, linking capitalism to the prioritizing of profit over the environment and everything else.  The professor has previously donated half of the profits from his book chronicling Antifa to the organization, written an introduction to an Antifa comic book, and tweeted glowingly about Antifa flags made by kids at a summer camp.

Democratic Socialists of America's Plan to Infiltrate America's Public Schools.  When James O'Keefe's Project Veritas exposed the Deep State's unelected, unaccountable operatives working on "company" time to disrupt President Donald Trump's agenda, it also revealed that many of these officials are affiliated with, and inspired by, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  The DSA is also infiltrating America's public schools.  The Democratic Socialists of America is serious about recruiting young people to become teachers and change agents in our education system.  Fox News and Campus Reform exposed the DSA's infiltration of America's public schools, but the best example of the DSA's intent is the Young Democratic Socialists of America's pamphlet "Why Socialists Should Become Teachers."  In this 19-page document, the YDSA lays out its case for taking over public schools in every district in our country.  The organization is well-organized, well-funded, and committed.

Triggered by Trump Week in Higher Education.  Here's an important question.  How can you study anything related to Trump if his existence gives you PTSD?

Prof Allegedly Offered Students Credit to Vote for Beto O'Rourke.  Some people on the left have truly lost their minds over Beto O'Rourke.

Abbott goes after college professor who said 'we must show up for Beto'.  Gov. Greg Abbott offered a curt remark to a professor from Del Mar College in Corpus Christi who said he would offer extra credit to students that vote in the upcoming elections, and suggested that Texans back Beto O'Rourke.  "People like this don't belong on the state payroll," wrote Abbott of the Del Mar Political Science professor, Adrian Clark.  Sometime this week, a screenshot of the professor's Facebook comment was shared with KRIS 6 News, reading:  "I am offering extra credit for my students for voting beginning tomorrow!  We must show up for Beto to paint Texas blue!"

Professor calls for harassing Republicans at restaurants, sticking 'fingers in their salads'.  The University of Mississippi has condemned a tweet by a faculty member that called on activists to abandon civility and harass Republican senators in public.  "Don't just interrupt a Senator's meal, y'all," James Thomas, an assistant professor of sociology, tweeted from his @Insurgent_Prof account on Oct. 6, the day Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was sworn into the Supreme Court.  "Put your whole [...] fingers in their salads," he wrote.  "Take their apps and distribute them to the other diners.  Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out.  They don't deserve your civility."

American universities are now 'mob' assembly lines.  Imagine that a person selects you to fill a position you have always dreamed of having.  Before you step into your new role, groups of people suddenly begin to accuse you of wrongdoing in a whole variety of areas of your life.  None of the accusations carry any proof and your family and friends all come to your defense.  Nonetheless, people currently inside the organization believe that just the fact that the accusations are being made, coupled with the discomfort you seem to be causing people, is enough reason to not let you step into the position.  I'm talking about the recent confirmation process of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, right?  Wrong.  I'm talking about what has been happening on college campuses to conservative professors and students for the past two decades.  That is where the Kavanaugh mob was trained.  That is where fresh mob members are currently being produced for future battles.

Conservative Christians Unwelcome at the University of Oklahoma.  Last month, the campus newspaper at the University of Oklahoma, the O.U. Daily, began a systematic attack on law professor Brian McCall for his religious and social views.  Once an average college newspaper, in recent years, the Daily has degenerated into a publication entirely devoted to promoting radical leftist ideology.  The young staff live in an anxious and insecure world permeated with racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, inequality, and social injustice.

University of Michigan Bans Professors from Withholding Support to Pro-Israel Students.  The University of Michigan is acting now to prevent professors from refusing support to students with opposing political views.  In September, Breitbart News reported on University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold, who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student that was looking to study abroad in Israel.

SF School Board Replaces Pledge of Allegiance With Maya Angelou Quote.  Here are some "fab" quotes from Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party, that the San Fran School Board may want to use in future meetings:  A lie told often enough becomes the truth.  The goal of socialism is communism.  One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

San Francisco school board president drops Pledge of Allegiance.  The San Francisco school board's new president broke with protocol Tuesday night by deciding to skip the Pledge of Allegiance before a meeting, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.  In its place, Steven Cook recited a quote from the poet Maya Angelou:  "When you learn, teach.  When you get, give."  Cook told The Chronicle he chose not to enforce the pledge because of his disappointment with the political climate. [...] The Pledge of Allegiance, while required by state education code, is rarely enforced by schools, district officials said.  District spokesman Gentle Blythe said it is not required for school boards.

College Administrator Forced Out for Conservative Religious Views.  In a brazen act of irrational discrimination against an administrator, simply because of his religious views expressed in a book that he had written, the University of Oklahoma Law School removed Brian McCall late last week from his post as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. [...] McCall will retain his teaching position (for now).  Apparently, he did not express any of these views in the classroom, nor did he display any discriminatory viewpoint against anyone who did not follow these views.  McCall's personal religious views only came to light when a student journalist, Drew Hutchinson, wrote two articles about them in the college newspaper.

Delusion on Campus.  We are constantly lectured about how the increasingly distant past has apparently permanently marginalized various identity groups, so they must be handed ever more power in the present.  But aren't those who are being paid to do this lecturing part of the powerful?

That's Zinncredible.  I've never bothered to declaim on the fundamental shoddiness of Howard Zinn's scandalously popular People's History of the United States, in part because I simply can't get through it.  Every few pages offer egregious errors of fact and even more tendentious interpretations of facts, such that it is impossible to take seriously.  I'd rather read Heidegger or grind my teeth.  Certainly an honest history of America (or any country) should include its crimes, mistakes, oppressions, and manifold other defects, and many bland history textbooks can be faulted for doing this poorly (or not at all).  But Zinn's approach includes only that aspect of the American story, and supposes that the evils and shortcomings of America represent the whole of America.  And that explains the book's enormous popularity:  it becomes a balm for people who wish to think poorly of America, and as an intellectual boat anchor to sink the republic we have.  A book so biased and so agenda-driven actually cuts off sensible evaluation of past events, and what they might tell us about today.  It is possible, though, that even some liberals may be having second thoughts about Zinn, or are coming to recognized that Zinnified history contributes to the campus nihilism that is starting to make their lives increasingly miserable.

Gavin Newsom featured in 1st-grade textbook with Abraham Lincoln, MLK. Parents are angry and shocked.  A California school textbook touting Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom as a "champion for people's rights" has angered parents who are shocked by the "propaganda."  A suburban school district in Sacramento is under fire for featuring the Democratic Party candidate for governor on a page in a first-grade textbook along with President Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., KTXL-TV reported.  "Sometimes, Gavin helped marry people.  Some marriages were not between a man and a woman.  He made sure that people's rights were respected." the page in the book stated about the former San Francisco mayor who was once married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News host and current girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr.

California Schools Pushing Racist, LGBT, SJW Agenda on Children.  In his community of Elk Grove, CA, Greg Burt, the Director of Capitol Engagement with the California Family Council, is in the midst of reviewing some new state approved curriculum published by textbook publisher Pearson Press, that parents were encouraged to review Sept 10.  Burt took a picture of a first grade lesson on Citizenship featuring Gavin Newsom as the "Champion of People's Rights."  It's curious why Gavin Newsom, the former Mayor of San Francisco and California's Lt. Governor, made the pages of an elementary textbook when former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, or current Gov. Jerry Brown are not in it.  This is campaign hype; Newsom is running for Governor, but isn't the Gov yet.  In a second grade textbook Burt shared, the lesson on honesty did not feature "Honest Abe" Lincoln as most of us were taught, but instead chose a cross-dressing politician few have ever heard of.

Diversity Ideology Killed the University.  Now, It's Choking Out Civilization.  In 2016, a student petition at Yale University called for dismantling the college's decades-long requirement that English majors take a course covering Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Wordsworth.  Reading these authors "creates a culture that is especially hostile to students of color," complained the students.  Sadly, there was by then nothing remarkable in this demand.  Attacks on the canon as an instrument of exclusivity and oppression have flourished since the 1980s, when Jesse Jackson famously joined Stanford University students in chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go."  But in the past few years the worldview behind such antagonism has become even more militant, transforming not just universities but the world at large.

Yale Law Professors Cancel 31 Classes So Students Can Protest Kavanaugh.  Professors at Yale Law School, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's alma mater, cancelled class on Monday to allow students to protest Kavanaugh's confirmation in light of sexual assault allegations made against him.  One professor, James Forman, cancelled his Criminal Law class in an email to his students, writing "I just received a request to cancel class on Monday.  I understand that some students want to go to D.C. to protest or otherwise engage with the Kavanaugh hearings.  Criminal Law is cancelled"

The Problem With All Those Liberal Professors.  In recent years, concern has grown over what many people see as a left-of-center political bias at colleges and universities.  A few months ago, Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of business at Brooklyn College, published a study of the political affiliations of faculty members at 51 of the 66 liberal-arts colleges ranked highest by U.S. News in 2017.  The findings are eye-popping (even if they do not come as a great surprise to many people in academia).  Democrats dominate most fields.  In religion, Langbert's survey found that the ratio of Democrats to Republicans is 70 to 1.  In music, it is 33 to 1.  In biology, it is 21 to 1.  In philosophy, history and psychology, it is 17 to 1.  In political science, it is 8 to 1

Cruz: Chinese Want Mexico Radio for Propaganda.  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must block the sale of a Mexican radio station over concerns the station will be used for Chinese information warfare, according to Sen. Ted Cruz.  Separately, a group of prominent U.S. scholars warned American universities that host Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes on campuses that the institutes are furthering Chinese influence operations.  Cruz stated in a letter sent Tuesday to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai that the commission should not approve the radio station deal because government regulations permit halting the sale of stations when there is anticipated "objectionable programming and harmful interference by foreign stations."

Student council members:  Ice cream is not 'inclusive' enough.  Student council members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking the school to change the ingredients in its official ice cream to be more 'inclusive.'  The students say that minority students of certain religious backgrounds cannot enjoy the ice cream, which contains beef gelatin, without violating their religious beliefs. [...] UW-M's official ice cream, the Babcock, contains a beef gelatin additive, which according to the legislation, "renders certain communities such as the Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and vegetarian unable to enjoy it without violating their beliefs."

The Editor says...
This is America.  Assimilate or leave.

History Expert Sounds Off on School Textbook That Has Inaccuracy on 'Almost Every Other Page'.  Conservatives have long complained about schools' use of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.  But, a popular AP U.S. History textbook, The American Pageant, written by Thomas Bailey, David Kennedy, and Lizabeth Cohen, is also riddled with inaccuracies.  That's according to Daniel Oliver, chairman of the board of the Education and Research Institute.  "Almost every other page" has liberal bias, Oliver charged during an interview with Townhall on Tuesday [9/11/2018].  His "favorite" example, he said, is the book's section on Alger Hiss.  It's well known that Hiss was a communist who was supplying information to the Soviet Union, Oliver relayed.  He was convicted of perjury in 1948.  Yet, in The American Pageant, the authors write that Hiss was being chased by Richard Nixon, a "red hunter," and that he got caught in "embarrassing falsehoods."  Oliver calls the description "extraordinary" and "ridiculous."

Enemies Within.  For decades, we have allowed the American left (public education, Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and fake news media) to indoctrinate our children, teaching them that America [is bad] and is the greatest source of pain and suffering for people both here and abroad.  We're still allowing leftists to mold and shape our kids into their anti-Christian radical progressive image as early as preschool.  Consequently, we have young adults in positions of power and influence who literally hate their country.  Like sleeper cells, leftist young enemies-within operatives are seeking to bring down by any means necessary America as founded, openly advocating violence and treason.

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being.  The curricular fetish of "social justice," which is destroying the university as an institution of higher learning, continues to metastasize.  Indeed, the university as a social and cultural institution is a slow-motion train wreck picking up speed:  equity hiring, affirmative action, anti-conservative and overt leftist politics, the "diversity and inclusion" myth on which the academy prides itself, groupthink, speech codes, snitch lines, trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggressions, the attack on academic freedom — the list goes on.

Social Justice books your kids are reading for college.  Each year, Campus Reform comprises a list of the most controversial books that have been chosen as "summer reading" material for incoming students.  This year, universities chose books that focus largely on social justice themes of incarceration, police brutality, sexuality, and immigration.

UC Berkeley Offers Class on "Deconstructing Whiteness".  The University of California, Berkeley, is offering a course entitled "Deconstructing Whiteness" this semester on campus.  The course, which was first reported on by Campus Reform, will focus on the negative aspects of "whiteness" and the responsibility of white people to take stands against white supremacy movements.  The course will also address concepts like "environmental racism," gentrified food practices, and "white comfort/coddling."

Berkeley Lets Students Teach 'Whiteness' Courses.  The University of California Berkeley students are being given the opportunity to organise their own courses discussing topics such as; 'Deconstructing Whiteness', 'Palestine', and 'Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research'.  The new program is being offered through the DeCal program, which allows students to create their own courses and even receive credit for them.  All it takes is a faculty member and department chair to approve their far-left topic, and they're free to teach other students about how horrible white people are.  And yet somehow, these people think they live in a white supremacist society with white supremacist universities!

School Gets Equipped With 'Social Justice' Manuals That High-5's Islam, Black Panthers & Che Guevara.  Here's another taste of the 'fundamental change' President what's-his-name had promised.  Where are all those 'Separation of Church and State' radicals now?  In Portland — of course it would be Portland — there is a new teacher's handbook.  It's chock-full of inspiring quotes, and important dates like holidays (Except Thanksgiving.  That's now called 'National Day of Mourning'), anniversaries of protests, and quotes from such wonderful and inspiring people as Che Guevara or founders of the Black Panthers?  Objection to the ideas or indoctrination of 'See You ta The Pole' events are so yesterday.  Now they WANT indoctrination and activism.

YDSA Urges Socialists to Infiltrate Public Education.  Do not make the mistake and think that democratic socialists are just a group of welfare state extremists.  Their goals are much broader and much more dangerous to the free market and free society structures.

YDSA urges socialists to infiltrate public education.  The Young Democratic Socialists of America are encouraging socialists to become teachers in order to exploit the "political, economic, and social potential the industry holds."  The pamphlet argues that education is a "strategic" sector for socialists to infiltrate because it is already heavily unionized, and also offers a platform to engage entire families in campaigns for socialist policies.

College offer courses on 'queering' children, the Bible.  This school year, colleges and universities across the country will be offering courses on "queering" children, the Bible, and theology in general.  Pomona College, for instance, will offer a course arguing that "the figure of the Child" is used to "justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness."  Courses on "queer theologies," meanwhile, will be taught at Harvard Divinity School, Swarthmore College, the University of San Francisco, Eugene Lang College, and the University of Pennsylvania.

The Editor asks...
Which university offers a course about "queering the Koran?"

English prof assigns Trump-bashing books in rhetoric course.  A University of Colorado at Colorado Springs rhetoric course requires students to read textbooks that bemoan the "Trump effect" and describe Trump supporters as prejudiced against immigrants, Muslims, and LGBTQ+ individuals.  The course, which fulfills a graduation requirement, also assigns supplementary readings from liberal outlets, such as an "NPR piece about fake news" and a New York Times op-ed questioning whether Breitbart is "an ethical rhetor."

University gives radical leftist Noam Chomsky $750k contract.  The University of Arizona will pay Noam Chomsky, a radical leftist professor who has previously expressed support for the terrorist group Hezbollah, a total of $750,000 over three years to teach a course on politics.  Chomsky's $250,000 annual salary dwarfs the compensation offered to other UA faculty members, according to Judicial Watch, which notes that the average engineering professor at UA earns only about $80,000.

Harvard Professor Calls For Academic Blacklisting Of Trump Administration Members.  In an op-ed for the Boston Globe, Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, calls for what is effectively an academic blacklisting of members of the Trump administration, who, Rodrik contends, should be prohibited from receiving "even a semblance of honor or recognition" from the gatekeepers of higher learning.  "Universities should uphold both free inquiry and the values of liberal democracy," writes Rodrik.  "The first calls for unhindered exchange and interaction with Trumpist views.  The second requires that the engagement be carefully calibrated, with not even a semblance of honor or recognition bestowed on those serving an administration that so grossly violates liberal democratic norms."

Why Normal Americans Hate the "Elites".  It requires a peculiar sense of self-worth to think that your approval is needed to legitimize a president who was elected by the American people.  Left-wing academics may think that ordinary Americans don't notice their arrogance, but they are mistaken.

Atlanta school removes Pledge of Allegiance from morning ritual.  An Atlanta charter school will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance as part of its morning meeting agenda.  Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School on Grant Street announced the change Tuesday [8/7/2018] in a statement from elementary campus president Lara Zelski.  The decision was made "in an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community," Zelski said.  "Over the past couple of years it has become increasingly obvious that more and more of our community were choosing to not stand and/or recite the pledge."

Update:
School reverses Pledge of Allegiance policy after criticism.  An Atlanta charter school moved the timing of its recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance as the school year started, but reversed course after the move attracted criticism.  The Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School's early all-school meeting of students and parents had traditionally included the pledge, until this year.  Elementary campus principal Lara Zelski notified parents that the pledge was being moved to classrooms because of concerns from some parents and students.

Elementary School Puts Pledge Of Allegiance Back Into Morning Meeting After Backlash.  A Georgia elementary school put the Pledge of Allegiance back into its morning all-school meeting Thursday after backlash from parents and politicians.  The Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School (ANCS) reversed course on a policy that moved the Pledge of Allegiance from an all-school morning meeting — which included parents — to individual classrooms, after parents and students raised concerns, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Teaching Good Little Girls to Hate and to Fear.  [J[ust when we deplorables had finished digesting the incomparable Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along comes another tasty dish:  the New York Times' pet racist and sexist, Sarah Jeong.  AOC's claim to fame is a B.A. at Boston University, which explains everything.  So I wondered about Korean-born Sarah Jeong.  Sure enough, says La Wik:  ["]She attended the University of California Berkeley and Harvard Law School, where she was editor of Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.["]  [Expletive deleted]  Of course, Jeong is an anti-white racist and an anti-male sexist, for that is what she was carefully taught by her lefty teachers and administrators.

Colleges: A Force for Evil.  Johnetta Benton, a teacher at Hampton Middle School near Atlanta, was recorded telling her sixth-grade students, "America has never been great for minorities."  In a tirade, she told her class:  "Because Europeans came from Europe ... you are an immigrant.  You are an illegal immigrant because you came and just took it. ... You are an immigrant.  This is not your country."  To exploit young, immature young people this way represents an act of supreme cowardice.  The teacher should be fired, but I'm guessing that her colleagues share her sympathies.  At the same school, students were given a homework assignment that required them to write a letter asking lawmakers for stricter gun control laws.

LSAT prep test disparages Trump in practice questions: 'unfit,' racist, tax cheat.  The "Trump Bump," a reported spike in the number of students taking the Law School Admission Test following Donald Trump's election, does not appear to be the only way the president is influencing LSAT test-takers.  One LSAT study guide directly and implicitly mentions the president in a manner that some may consider inappropriate in a purportedly neutral educational resource.  The LSAT Prep Book, published by the Windham Press imprint Test Prep Books, includes at least two questions related to Trump in its most recent guide, which was first published in December 2016 and reprinted May 24, 2018, according a copy obtained by The College Fix.

Check Out This Undeniable Proof Of Public School Anti-Trump Indoctrination.  Public school textbooks are far left trash.  It's been that way for some time, but of late, especially with the stunning victory of Donald Trump in 2016, this bias now screeches from every page.  Check out this example from a current AP history text that high school juniors are forced to read across the nation.  Factual point of reference:  Donald Trump earned more minority, female, union workers, and under-30 votes than any Republican candidate in generations.

The Origins of Our Second Civil War.  In the 1980s, the universities embraced two antithetical agendas, both costly and reliant on borrowed money.  On the one hand, campuses competed for scarcer students by styling themselves as Club Med-type resorts with costly upscale dorms, tony student-union centers, lavish gyms, and an array of in loco parentis social services.  The net effect was to make colleges responsible not so much for education, but more for shielding now-fragile youth from the supposed reactionary forces that would buffet them after graduation.  But if campus materialism was at odds with classroom socialism, few seemed to notice.  Instead, the idea grew up that one had no need to follow concretely the consequences of his abstract ideology.

Protesters Demand Northeastern University Ends Partnership With ICE.  Protesters at Northeastern University demanded the school end its research partnership with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency during rallies on Wednesday afternoon [7/11/2018].  Students, faculty and community members marched around the school's quad chanting, "ICE has got to go."  According to the New York Daily News, Northeastern has received $2.7 million from ICE since 2016.  The highest potential earning is "listed at over $7.7 million over an five-year period."

Columbia Grad School Tells K-12 Teachers How to be 'Agents of Social Justice'.  Teachers College, Columbia University hosted a workshop instructing K-12 history teachers on how to be "agents of social justice" on Tuesday [7/17/2018].  The school offered "How Can Social Studies Teachers Be Agents Of Social Justice?" and 14 similar courses on the "Racial and Cultural Literacy" day of its multiple-day "Reimagining Education" training directed at K-12 teachers.  While the "agents of social justice" workshop instructed teachers on how to incorporate "critical race theory" into their curriculum as a means to initiate "student-school-community activism," another Tuesday course told teachers how to help students forge "equity-based historical narratives."

Russian Bots vs.  Media/Academia/Hollywood — Which Had A Bigger Impact On The Election?  Academia, on the humanities side, overwhelmingly leans left.  What effect does this have on the voting habits of students?  Since Trump's election, we've seen a video of a university teacher likening Trump voters to "terrorists."  We hear of professors denouncing Trump as "racist" and predicting a dystopian future.  No doubt during the election many professors let their opinions and preferences be known to their students.  Years ago, an American Enterprise magazine study confirmed what we already know, that our college and university faculty, whether big or small, north or south, east or west, private or public, are mostly left-wing.  What effect does our left-wing academia have on the electorate?

An Insidious Inside Job.  John Dewey and his supporters, a century ago, did not think of themselves as traitors, nor would they use the word coup.  But they organized themselves in exactly that fashion.  A few hundred professors of education took control of Columbia's Teachers College, et al. with the goal of creating "progressive" teachers who could be sent out to the public schools of America to create a new kind of citizen, more cooperative and pliable.

Student Highlights 'Shocking' Backlash After Classmate's Pro-Trump Comment During Debate.  A California high school student said that a pro-Trump classmate received backlash after he voiced his support for a border wall during a class debate.  Shaina Chen, 17, said Saturday on "Fox & Friends" that during a debate about race in politics, the classmate stated:  "We should build the wall."  Chen said the suggestion was met with "awkward silence" from the rest of her class.

Texas college no longer promises 'freedom of thought'.  Lone Star College-Tomball removed an online registration form for student activities shortly after Campus Reform revealed that the document promised students "freedom of thought," but not freedom of speech.  Quade Lancaster, a student who alleges that he was demoted from his position as student government president due to his conservative views, believes school officials removed the page "in an attempt to cover their tracks."

The Left and Children.  Tens of millions of U.S. children who are stuck in government schools are not only being taught that homosexuality and same-sex "marriage" are normal, but that biology doesn't determine a person's sex.  Because of liberalism, children are being read to by drag queens, "entertained" by drag queens, and even turned into drag queens!  Because of liberalism, children in government schools are being provided with a study guide on transgenderism that instructs kids that a gender-deluded lifestyle is just another choice for a young person to make.  Because of liberalism, children in government schools are being provided with a George Soros-funded "sexual health toolkit" that, among other immoralities, and in spite of the significant health disparities suffered by homosexual teens, instructs them on homosexual behavior, including sodomy.  Because of liberalism, those who wish to flee the immoral and unhealthy homosexual lifestyle are being hindered from doing so, and in this backwards process, liberals have banned the Bible.  Because of liberalism, in addition to invading girls' locker rooms and bathrooms, and as I warned would be the case, boys are taking trophies from girls.

California school board votes to name elementary school after illegal immigrant activist/journalist.  At a divisive time for U.S. immigration policies, a California school board has decided to name a new elementary school after an award-winning journalist who disclosed in 2011 that he had been living in the U.S. illegally.

Today's Professors Don't Teach, They Indoctrinate Progressivism.  There is a dangerous trend that is taking place on college campuses across America and the Western world.  It's been building for decades, but it's never been more dangerous or disturbing than it is today.  No longer do our Universities strive to be places of higher education — teaching our kids science, math, history, literature, or critical thinking — today, their highest goal is to indoctrinate our kids to think as they do and to act in a manner accordant with their philosophy of progressivism.  Today's professors were radicalized while at University in the 60s and 70s, and they never left their ivory towers.  Now, with no real problems to protest they manufacture them and demand that their little soldiers' go out and force the culture at large to bend to their radical beliefs.

Homeschooling Rates Skyrocket As Parents Are Waking Up To Liberal Social Engineering & Violence.  Homeschooling rates are skyrocketing as parents are continually getting more and more upset at the leftist social engineering taking place in public schools.  The indoctrination is getting so bad, that some parents are even concerned about liberal violence against those who reject the brainwashing.

Liberal Columnist Slated To Teach Anti-Trump Course At Ivy League College.  Liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is slated to teach an Anti-Trump undergraduate course at Harvard University during the 2018-2019 school year, Campus Reform reported.

Moronic NYU Professor Compare American National Anthem To Nazi Salute.  If you weren't already disgusted with how far left the American university system has gotten, this should pretty much set you over the edge.  You may remember former Drexel and present NYU 'scholar-in-residence', Professor George Ciccariello-Maher, from his now infamous "All I want for Christmas is white genocide" tweet that went viral last year and ultimately sparked enough backlash that Drexel terminated him.  Ciccariello-Maher's twitter account is a sickening mix of anti-American, anti-male, and anti-white rhetoric (ironic considering he is a white American man) but this sort of far-left self-hatred is far too common these days.

Dartmouth Survey Finds Democrat Students Are the Most Intolerant.  This completely defies the accepted narrative but conservative students know it's true.

More Scenes From The Decline Of Evergreen State College.  Kirsten Shockey of Oregon had her son enrolled at Evergreen.  Her daughter was considering going there too, but after watching the school's response last year, she dropped it from her list.  She tells the WSJ, "The way identity politics played out looked to us like a university going from a place of learning to a new type of antiintellectualism."  She added, "This is about where the alt-left seems to be taking us."  And it's not just people looking in from the outside who are sick of the left-wing mob.

Liberal Lies And Slanders Are A Slippery Slope To Trouble.  [Scroll down]  Just look at the one area where American liberals have nearly total power, academia.  There's no freedom of speech there, none.  Conservative speakers, on the rare occasions they are invited in, are immediately driven back out.  Professors punish students who refuse to buy into liberal lies about our country, about the climate scam, and about whether the list of all possible genders consists of more than boys and girl and that is all.  Squads of purple-haired and pierced mutants who can't figure out which bathroom to use wander our campuses, a SJW stasi seeking out and punishing dissent.  That is the liberal utopia — total control of the flow of ideas, total submission to the liberal elite.  They would eagerly turn the whole country into Gumbo State University if they could, and we normal people would all end up majoring in Obedience with a minor in Toiling to Subsidize Deadbeats.

Homogeneous:  The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty.  In this article I offer new evidence about something readers of Academic Questions already know:  The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic.  Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free — having zero Republicans.  The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but nevertheless absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation.  Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.

Are good parents at breaking point with schools?  Public-school advocates in some parts of the country need to decide which they want more:  a captive audience of children to saturate in liberal dogma, or a broader base of support for public education.  As long as there are good parents out there with a worldview different than that of state officials, education bureaucrats won't have it both ways.  The ongoing debacle of the application of the "California Healthy Youth Act" in Orange County is a classic example of a public school system doing its best to alienate good parents.  The Orange County Board of Education's general counsel, Ronald Wenkart, recently advised the Board that while this state law specifically allows a parent or guardian to excuse a child from all or part of the school's "comprehensive sexual health education and HIV education" program, parents may not opt their children out of instruction about gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation if that instruction does not include discussion of reproductive organs.  If you find this bizarre and confusing, you're not alone.

California Bill Wants To Drop Washington/Lincoln's Birthday And Replace It With Communist Holiday.  The California Assembly discussed Thursday [5/10/2018] a bill that would replace Abraham Lincoln or George Washington's birthday with International Socialist Workers' Day as a paid holiday.  California Democrat Assemblyman Miguel Santiago introduced Bill AB-3042, which would allow schools to replace Washington Day and Lincoln Day with Presidents' Day and install an "International Workers' Day" — conventionally known as "May Day" — as a second holiday.  "I'm aghast that a bill like this would be able to get through committee," California Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper said to the Assembly.  "Are we in competition to be the laughing stock of the United States?"

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Yes, such a competition is apparently underway, and California is far ahead, although New York is catching up.

Study: Profs at top schools are 'overwhelmingly Democratic'.  A recent study conducted by a professor at Brooklyn College finds that faculty members at most of the top-ranked schools in the country are "overwhelmingly Democratic," with more than 10 Democrat professors for every Republican.  Nearly 40% of the colleges surveyed did not have a single Republican on their faculty, whereas just one school was devoid of Democrats.  The two military colleges in the sample came close to having even D:R ratios.

Study: Nearly 40 Percent of Top Liberal Arts Colleges Have No GOP Professors.  A new study found that 39 percent of "top-tier liberal arts colleges" in the United States don't have any Republicans on their faculties.  The study by the National Association of Scholars also found that the Democrat-to-Republican ratio was 10.4:1 among 8,688 Ph.D.-holding professors.  The ratio is 12.7:1 when two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis, are removed from the sample.

George Washington U. Students Petition to Get Rid of 'Offensive' Colonials Mascot.  More than 200 George Washington University students have signed a petition calling for the school to adopt a new mascot and nickname because the current moniker, Colonials, is "extremely offensive."  "The historically, negatively-charged figure of Colonials has too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression," the petition reads.  It suggests alternative nicknames such as "Hippos" or "Riverhorses."  The Colonials mascot was adopted in 1926 to honor the school's namesake, George Washington, and is intended as a reference to colonial America and the Continental Army.

Whatever the Left Touches it Ruins.  In the words of Harvard professor Steven Pinker — an atheist and a liberal — outside of the natural sciences and a few other disciplines (such as mathematics and business), "universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance."  If you send your children to a university, you are endangering both their mind and their character.  There is a real chance they will be more intolerant and more foolish after college than they were when they entered college.  When you attend an American university, you are taught to have contempt for America and its founders, to prefer socialism to capitalism, to divide human beings by race and ethnicity.  You are taught to shut down those who differ with you, to not debate them.

Democratic professors outnumber Republicans 10 to 1, study shows.  There are more than 10 professors affiliated with the Democratic Party for every faculty member who is a registered Republican, according to a new study.  Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of business management at Brooklyn College, reviewed the party affiliations of 8,688 tenure-track, Ph.D.-holding professors at 51 of the top 60 liberal arts colleges listed in U.S. News and World Report's 2017 rankings.  Nearly 60 percent of all faculty members were registered as either a Republican or a Democrat, and of that sample, there were 10.4 times as many Democrats as Republicans.

The ex-husband of Barbara Bush-basher Prof. Randa Jarrar speaks out.  Randa Jarrar, the Fresno State University tenured professor who demonized Barbara Bush shortly after her death and mocked her critics by pointing out that she has tenure and cannot be fired from her six-figure job shaping young minds, ought to become a poster child for the depths to which academia has sunk.  Her status is under review according to university officials, no doubt worried about alumni giving declining, so there is a decent possibility that she will become a cause célèbre on the left, should she lose her job.  More attention on her would be perfect, as far as I am concerned.

Social Justice Bullies.  We were happy to see that New York University had found a constructive way to shut down campus social justice bullies.  Administrators called their parents and told them that if they continued to disrupt the school's educational mission, they would be suspended and would lose their financial aid.  End of protest.  And yet, NYU is the exception to the rule.  George Leef explained in National Review that victimhood culture has infested universities because administrators are too weak to oppose it.  And far too weak to shut it down.  Does this have anything to do with the fact that these schools have all become effective or actual matriarchies?

High school history text:  Trump deranged, all whites racist.  Many are contending that the updated Advanced Placement (AP) high school U.S. History textbook published by Pearson reads more like a New York Times op-ed — a political tool replete with teaching that President Donald Trump is mentally ill and that his supporters and most whites are racist.  The AP Edition of the giant school publishers' text, By The People, carries on the anti-Trump narrative when covering the 2016 presidential election, portraying him and white Americans as racists living in the past who are yearning to oppress minorities — similar to the way those from the pre-Civil Rights movement era and the time of slavery did.

Is It History, Or Is It Propaganda?  Fox News reports on an AP American History textbook that tells our kids what happened in the 2016 presidential election.  From Hillary Clinton's point of view, of course: [...] This sort of ignorance and bias is rampant throughout American education.  Some have suggested that it is parental malpractice to send your children to a public school.  In many areas of the country, that proposition is hard to deny.

N.J. professor caught bashing conservative student.  A New Jersey college professor is being investigated by school officials for classroom footage of him berating a conservative student with "F--- your life!"  Students who registered for Howard Finkelstein's Sociology 105, Intercultural Communication course at Brookdale Community College say it has devolved into polemic against 23-year-old Christopher Lyle.  Footage obtained by NJ Advance Media on Tuesday [4/17/2018] shows Mr. Finkelstein hurling an expletive at the student during a discussion on sexual harassment.

The Enemy in our Schools.  "If you've read Marx, there's really no reason to read Howard Zinn," notes author Daniel Flynn, but many have read Zinn's million-selling A People's History of the United States. [...] As [Daniel] Greenfield learned, students have eNotes to explain Zinn and there are teaching editions for college and high school.  An "entire spin-off industry" was busy adapting Zinn's vision for lower grades, with works such as A Young People's History and "a plethora of lesson materials is offered to teachers through the Zinn Education Project."  As the Zinn project website now explains, the goal is "to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula."

Prof cheers death of Barbara Bush, then hides behind tenure.  A California State University, Fresno professor has come under fire for cheering the death of Barbara Bush and claiming that she will "never be fired" due to her tenure status.  In a series of tweets on Tuesday, academic Randa Jarrar gleefully celebrated the death of the former First Lady, calling her a "witch" and an "amazing racist."

Progressive professors behaving badly.  Two professors, one in California and one in New Jersey, are reportedly under investigation by their employers for behavior that at a minimum is rude and arrogant and that, some hope, could cost them their jobs.  I believe that both are exemplars of the moral hazard that accompanies the exalted status accorded professors, often aggravated by the practice of granting tenure.  Tuesday evening [4/17/2018], following news of the death of Barbara Bush, Professor Randa Jarrar, who teaches creative writing at Fresno State University, violated the norms of decency when she tweeted: [...]

High School History Book Says Trump is Mentally Ill, Supporters are Racists.  Conservatives have been making the argument for years that public schools are no longer about teaching kids what they need to know to be prepared for the real world and instead have become indoctrination centers for the left.  Some might think that's some sort of tinfoil hat nonsense, but it's the truth and a new high school history textbook is proof.  This textbook apparently teaches that President Trump is mentally ill and his supporters, along with all white people, are racists.

Anti-Trump American history textbook blatantly biased,' critics say.  A new Advanced Placement honors American history textbook has not been distributed to students yet but it's already stirring controversy for being anti-Trump and suggesting his supporters are angry xenophobes.  Tarra Snyder, a student at Rosemount High School in Minnesota, who saw a copy of the book sent to her school, told Fox News she was "appalled" after seeing how "blatantly biased" the newest edition of "By the People:  A History of the United States" was toward Trump and his voters.  She said it also glossed over all issues then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced during her campaign.

Video: 'White Privilege' Indoctrination In Our Public Schools.  [Sean] Fitzgerald sheds light on the stealth ways this radical programming is being introduced, as well as its devastating effects on students.  The video was produced in conjunction with the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Stop K-12 Indoctrination campaign.  [Video clip]

AP U.S. History Text:  White, Christian Americans Finding It 'Difficult to Adjust' to Becoming Minority.  A soon-to-be-released updated edition of an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History textbook teaches students that white Christian Americans are finding it "difficult to adjust" to becoming a minority and puts forward the perception that President Donald Trump's election occurred because his apparent "racism connected with a significant number of primary voters."

New Pamphlet:  "Leftist Indoctrination in Our K-12 Public Schools".  The Freedom Center's new pamphlet documents how the Left is subverting our students' education[.]  The same "progressives" who have made American higher education into indoctrination chambers for cultural Marxism, identity racism and other anti-American ideas are now targeting our K-12 public schools.

Leftist Indoctrination In Our K-12 Public Schools.  One of the most dangerous developments of the last few decades has been the subversion of our universities by radicals who in the 1960s first tried to burn them down and then, after this strategy of destruction failed, decided to get on the tenure track to take them over.  Their generational long march succeeded, possibly beyond their wildest expectations. With the exception of a few rear guard actions by brave conservative students, American higher education is now an indoctrination center for cultural Marxism, identity racism and other anti-American ideas.

Virginia Delegate Supports Code of Ethics to Reign in Teachers' Political Activism.  Like the federal Hatch Act, [Dave] LaRock's resolution — inspired by conservative pundit David Horowitz — would prevent individuals from using their position to promote their political views or support a specific candidate.  "That's exactly what is happening in schools," LaRock said.  "I think many teachers are using their position as a role model and an educator."  Teachers are "imposing their own personal views — very often their pretty extremely liberal views — on kids through lessons and comments and sometimes even bullying kids that don't agree with their liberal viewpoint," LaRock said.

Indoctrination, bias and racism have no place in a classroom.  Hampton Middle School has a problem.  The school in Hampton, Georgia managed to make national news twice in one week.  A sixth-grade teacher from the school was caught on tape ranting against Trump's slogan of Make America Great Again.  "Maybe he's talking about it was great during segregation in the '60s.  Is that what he's talking about?"  "He must be talking about when it was great for Europeans," Johnetta Benton sneered.  "Because when it comes to minorities, America has never been great for minorities."  Josie Orihuela, the Cuban-American student who tried to argue with her teacher, was told that she had no right to complain because her European ancestors have killed millions.  The teacher, who was supposed to be talking about Black History Month, also claimed that all Americans were illegal immigrants who had stolen the land.  "When you say immigrants are killing folks, that's us.  That's you, you, you, you and you," she said, pointing at the different students, including Josie.  Josie had been named after her grandfather, who had fled Castro's Cuba, and had Cherokee ancestry.

The Battle of Woke Island.  [Scroll down]  In the world of the campus, one's status and moral authority increases with the number of victim groups in which one claims membership.  This is the postmodern dogma of "intersectionality" that promotes solipsism at the personal level and division at the social level, that forbids the "cultural appropriation" of one victim group's tastes, symbols, language, and commodities by another group, and requires members of the victimizer group — cis-gendered white males — to recognize, confess, and atone for their "privilege."

Can America Survive the Latest Plague?  A mob of foreigners planning to march across the United States border knowing in advance that numerous sanctuary cities will break federal law and welcome them in.  Unidentified individuals being allowed to vote in U.S. elections, riots at universities with the intention of preventing any discussion that does not agree with theirs.  These realities are all happening now and are all symptoms of a political plague that has been visited upon America and most of Europe. [...] The primary vehicles used to spread this insidious cognitive disorder at alarming rates consist of a leftist propaganda network known as the mainstream media, and indoctrination to leftist ideals via an overpriced monopolized leftist education system.

America Is In Utter Jeopardy.  The big jeopardy that America faces is a series of self inflicted wounds that have been strategically foisted upon our beloved land of liberty.  Number one is government school indoctrination instead of real education of young Americans.  If the education process is not soon decentralized and returned to more local and state control, American students will possibly be permanently locked in last place educationally, rendering them unable to intellectually compete with their counterparts from around the world.  A close second is that our civilization has been on a slippery slope away from the awesome values, principles and fundamental beliefs that provided the foundation to build America the beautiful into the envy of the world.

This brave sixth grader recorded her teacher's ugly rant about Trump and minorities and told her story.  A Georgia middle school teacher's rant about President Trump forced the school district to respond to an "extremely unfortunate" incident that was brought to light by a student.  The Henry County school district responded to an audio recording of sixth grade teacher Johnetta Benton which was captured by one of her students at Hampton Middle School.  Josie Orihuela began recording the audio once Benton began her lecture as she was introducing a video to celebrate Black History Month.  The teacher reportedly gave students a 15-minute monologue about how "America has never been great for minorities," taking a jab at Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."  [Video clip]

Sixth-grade teacher delivers 15-minute rant claiming Trump's MAGA slogan is a call to bring segregation back.  A sixth-grade teacher has delivered a shocking classroom rant claiming that President Donald Trump wants a return to segregation and accused white students of being the progeny of 'European' mass murderers.  Student Josie Orihuela recorded the incident last month at Hampton Middle School near Atlanta, where social studies teacher Johnetta Benton was delivering a lesson for Black History Month.  Josie began recording just after Benton turned off a film the class was watching and pronounced that that 'Make America Great Again' could be a precursor to 'trying to bring back segregation,' the student told Fox News.

Profs claim higher ed rankings promote 'whiteness'.  In a recent academic journal article, two instructors from Michigan State University argue that the stock imagery common on higher-ed ranking websites promotes the hegemony of "whiteness."  Additionally, the two academics claim that such websites also perpetuate "homonormativity," a word that is used to describe privilege within the LGBT community.

Harvard Conference 'of Color' an Exercise in Hating Whitey.  Harvard University's Graduate School of Education held its Annual Alumni of Color Conference earlier this month in Cambridge, Mass.  These annual conferences are distinguished by their radical perspective, wherein the USA is depicted as a racist society in need of a complete restructuring. [...] These people are seeking an alternative to capitalism.  However, Harvard University is far and away the most highly endowed of all universities in the USA, with an endowment of over $35 billion.  During the year 2015 alone, Harvard alumni giving topped $650 million.  The very students, alumni, and professors organizing this conference are the direct beneficiaries of these resources.  Capitalism has enabled these endowment funds to flow into the coffers of Harvard, yet the organizers of the conference wish to repudiate capitalism as a model for ongoing progress.

Minnquisition.  Last fall in Thinking Minnesota magazine, Katherine Kersten authored, "Whose values?  Educational Excellence Threatened by Ideology in Edina Schools."  As she learned, district bosses were more occupied with "white racism," dressed up as a concern for "equity" but in reality "an oppressive ideology with authoritarian undercurrents that steamrolls students and intimidates parents."  Some Edina parents had never heard of the "white privilege" concept until it turned up in an eighth-grade class on "21st Century Literacy Skills."  On social media, one parent noted, "this is a mandatory class!" and part of the official curriculum.  It also featured tests, and if students failed to answer in politically correct fashion, teachers took points away.

Former officer speaks out about 'stage one of brainwashing' our kids in schools.  A visit to his son's school left one former Tucson police officer shocked — at what he did not see.  Brandon Tatum believes he discovered "stage one of brainwashing" kids after a visit to his son's classroom, as he watched the students get ready to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

'Highest IQ Man In The World' On Colleges: 'They're A Breeding House For Parrots'.  Christopher Michael Langan has been called the "smartest man in the world" for having an IQ said to be anywhere from 190 to 210.  In this piece from Scout Productions, Langan says colleges are a "breeding house for parrots," democracy is a recipe for rule by "mediocrity" and says if he ran the world he'd institute a benign "anti-dysgenics" program.  [Video clip]

Outrage after California HS magazine cartoons depict Trump as Nazi, police as KKK members: report.  Police and parents in California were reportedly outraged after students at a high school magazine published cartoons depicting President Donald Trump as a Nazi and an officer wearing KKK garb while aiming a gun at a black child.  "The Pawprint," a student publication at the prestigious Bonita High in LaVerne, featured two provocative cartoons that were apparently pulled from Google Images, Fox Los Angeles reported.  One drawing shows a swastika hiding underneath Trump's hair.  Another portrays a uniformed police officer in a white hood pointing a pistol at a baby-faced black child holding a bag of skittles, in an apparent reference to Trayvon Martin — the teen who bought the candy before being shot by George Zimmerman in 2012.

The Penn Law School Mob Scores a Victory.  The campus mob at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has scored a hit.  Prof. Amy Wax will no longer be allowed to teach required first-year courses, the school's dean announced last week.  Now the leader of Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania wants Ms. Wax's scalp.  According to a weekend newspaper report, if she isn't fired within a week, "he plans to make things on the West Philadelphia campus very uncomfortable."  Ms. Wax's sin this time was to discuss publicly the negative consequences of affirmative action.  Her punishment underscores again the dangers of speaking uncomfortable truths in a university setting.  The academic left has been gunning for Ms. Wax since last August, when she co-wrote a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed calling for a return to the "bourgeois culture" of the 1950s.  She was branded a white supremacist for advocating personal responsibility, even though the op-ed criticized "the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites."

March for Our Minds — Stop Indoctrinating Kids.  March for Our Lives and the school walkout isn't about gun violence; it's about indoctrination.  And there's no age limit.  Sixteen years ago, David Horowitz and the Freedom Center unveiled the Academic Bill of Rights to protect intellectual diversity on college campuses.  But now the same indoctrination and intolerance urgently demand that the Freedom Center step in to protect K-12 students from political abuse.  The ugly scenes from the student walkout haunt our screens as the classroom organizers of the left work to turn students into the latest anti-American protest movement after Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

On Today's Despicable Misuse of Children.  Today [3/14/2018] students were excused from classrooms all across America to participate in demonstrations in favor of firearms bans of one sort or another.  These were anything but spontaneous actions organized by children.  Rather, the anti-gun demonstrations were condoned, if not sponsored, by school administrations that are almost universally liberal.  And the teachers' unions played a part too.

The Left and Distraction:  Pulling It All Apart.  Our university system is a shadow of itself.  That was the plan:  take over the university system, and make it in the image of their leftist heroes.  Make the youth of America believe insane things that aren't true or helpful.  Deconstruct, and make them hate their own culture.  Wow, were they successful.  That education remake has gone farther, down into our K-12 public schools, and into many private schools as well.

Report: Liberal Student Orgs Get 20-Times More Funding Than Conservative Groups at UW-Madison.  At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the vast majority of money allocated to student organizations goes to left-leaning groups, according to Campus Reform.  The higher education watchdog reported that students paid more than $48 million in mandatory fees in 2017, with approximately $1.5 million of that going to student organizations.  Left-leaning organizations received 95 percent of that funding, compared to just 4.5 percent for right-leaning groups.  That means each student paid an estimated $7.60 towards leftist causes, and just $0.36 towards conservative groups.

Texas Public School District Emails Encouraged Staff to Switch Parties to Influence GOP Primary.  Amid accusations of "political advocacy" leveled against several Texas public school districts by Attorney General Ken Paxton, emails obtained from one jurisdiction under review highlight commentary advocating for political party switching in primary elections and the promotion of a single slate of candidates — all on an official communication network.  Several Texas school districts recently came under fire over purported "political advocacy" campaigns involving the state's March 6, 2018 primary election.  Six days before early voting began, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged these schools violated education and election codes.

When a picture is worth a thousand nervous breakdowns.  Just another example of mind-blowing stupidity on campus?  More proof that many college students will be unable to function in a society that doesn't care how woke they are?  Yes, and more. [...] Minorities, feminists, gays — any group told they are "marginalized" — are, in fact, in complete control of campus thought.  They are not snowflakes or marginalized in any way.  They are dominant.

Yesterday's Communist Is Today's Progressive.  Thanks to a "progressive," anti-intellectual educational system we have created a generation of students who can't read or write as they function like zombies attracted to materialistic greed and outraged at the latest perceived instance of "injustice".  As Leonard Peikoff in The Ominous Parallels writes, students today are "brainwashed into feeling that their minds are helpless and they must adapt to 'society', that there is no absolute truth and that morality is whatever society says it is."

Democrats Stonewall Ed Civil Rights Nominee As Anti-Semitism in Schools Rises 94%.  Democratic obstruction in the Senate has left the Department of Education without leadership in its office of civil rights at a time when anti-Semitism has risen by 94 percent in U.S. schools.  Kenneth Marcus, the Trump administration's nominee to be assistant secretary for civil rights, has been stalled since Oct. 30.  Marcus is the founder and president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing civil rights of the Jewish people.  Marcus was not confirmed out of the Senate HELP committee until last month on a party line vote and now awaits confirmation before the entire body.  While the permanent position to lead the civil rights division remains vacant, news broke this week that anti-Semitism is surging throughout America, particularly in K-12 schools.

An education in how things went so wrong.  [Scroll down]  In essence, other than in a few hundred private schools and among home schools, there is no such thing any longer as traditional education — the kind of education that insists on students learning not just the fundamentals of knowledge, but also the moral, religious and cultural underpinnings that give that knowledge meaning and significance.  Progressive education does not believe in moral, religious or cultural absolutes, but rather only believes in questioning those absolutes and replacing them with relative truths, i.e., convenient lies.

College defends art professor who desecrated American flag.  Lisa Rockford, an assistant professor of art, covered Old Glory in white paint, cut the flag in half and laid it on the ground like a door mat.  The artist had reportedly set up a camera to take photographs of people unknowingly stepping on the flag.

Don't know much about history...  This new poll, put out by a couple of political science professors, places President Trump at rock bottom in its rankings of all the U.S. presidents.  Worse than Warren G. Harding.  Worse than James Buchanan.  Worse than Franklin Pierce.  Worse than Jimmy Carter.  And certainly worse than Barack Obama, who correspondingly rose to the top ten in the same estimation of the same political scientists.  After bringing us the Iran deal, Obamacare, the one-way love-fest with Castro, the unmaskings, the IRS targeting of dissidents, the global apology tour, the SEIU thugcraft, the politicization of the Department of Justice, and Ben Rhodes, he's top ten!

High school bans 'outdated and racially offensive' national anthem from rallies.  Student leaders at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area have decided that the national anthem is racist and outdated and have banned it from school rallies.  According to multiple area news outlets, the Associated Student Body at California High School in San Ramon made that decision based on a phrase in the rarely-played third verse.  "It was brought to our attention that the national anthem's third verse is outdated and racially offensive," Ariyana Kermanizadeh wrote in an open letter.  "We had nothing but good intentions by removing the song so that we could be fully inclusive to our student body."

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The first verse of the national anthem is the only part that is ever sung at schools or public events.  There are other verses, written in the context of the War of 1812, but hardly anyone — especially high school kids in California — is aware of the existence, let alone the lyrics or the implications, of the second and subsequent verses.

California teacher who slammed military refuses to quit, but is condemned by city council.  A Southern California city council member and teacher who called members of the military the "lowest of our low" was condemned Tuesday [2/13/2018] by his council colleagues — some of whom demanded he resign.  Gregory Salcido, who was placed on leave from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, was heard on a video denigrating members of the military in a rant directed toward a 17-year-old student wearing a U.S. Marine Corps sweatshirt.  "They're not like high-level thinkers, they're not academic people, they're not intellectual people; they're the frickin' lowest of our low," he said.  "I don't understand why we let the military guys come over here and recruit you at school.  We don't let pimps come in the school."

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When a public school teacher can see no difference between a Marine recruiter and a pimp, and the administration is aware of it and yet retains that teacher, then the school is actively engaged in anti-American indoctrination.

College syllabus refers to POTUS as an 'orange reality star' and 'white supremacist'.  A California State University-Dominguez Hills lecturer recently used her political science course syllabus to assert that President Trump was elected by "appealing to hatred and bigotry," even labeling him a "white supremacist."  Dr. Brooke Mascagni included the language in her syllabus for an "American Political Instituions" course, which is worth three credit hours at the California institution.  "The President of the United States won the 2016 election by appealing to hatred and bigotry," the syllabus declares, according to images obtained by Campus Reform, adding that "just about everyday, a new scandal breaks or evidence of corruption emerges."

The Demons of Higher Ed.  None of this will come as a shock to anybody who's followed the follies and failings of traditional nonprofit higher ed: the politicized and hyperspecialized curricula, the astronomical prices, the ever-expanding armies of administrators, the diminishing quality of teaching.  All this at institutions that pay no taxes and that, in the case of state universities, receive hundreds of millions in direct appropriations every year.

Military-bashing California teacher pulled from classroom, city council duties pending investigation.  The Southern California teacher facing a firestorm after he was recorded by a student bashing the military in a profane classroom rant has been placed on administrative leave and removed from all assignments he'd be given as a city councilman.  Gregory Salcido, the El Rancho High School teacher and elected Pico Rivera city councilman, will not be able to enter the classroom while school officials conduct an investigation into the recording, the Whittier Daily News reported late Monday [1/29/2018].  "One thing we are telling people for sure is that the commitment of the board and the superintendent and the staff is to really get to the bottom of this for the community," School Superintendent Karling Aguilera-Fort told the paper.

California Teacher Suspended After Profane Rant Defaming American Military Personnel.  The danger of allowing cell phones in schools is that students can record moonbat instructors barking their vicious lies and send them viral, forcing even educrats who likely agree with Salcido's point of view into damage control mode.  He is out of the classroom while school officials "conduct an investigation."  Why was student Victor Quinonez, who wants to be a Marine, recording his teacher?  "He has a history of being anti-military," the student said, of Salcido.

California professor encourages 'abolition of white democracy'.  A California professor's controversial social justice lecture on "the abolition of white democracy" has gone viral after a student videotaped the anti-Trump presentation and shared it online.  During the talk, Diablo Valley College Professor Albert Ponce labeled President Trump a white supremacist and encouraged students in attendance to violate American laws.  "So we begin with the fact that we exist in a white supremacist, patriarchal, heteronormative, capitalist system," Ponce says at the outset of his one-hour talk, "White Supremacy in the U.S."  The speech was the first in DVC's Social Justice Lecture Series for the 2017-2018 academic year.

So much for "keeping an open mind," and "a diversity of ideas."
Students hate Trump's SOTU — before it even happens!.  Donald Trump's State of the Union address is coming up this Tuesday [1/30/2018], but some students must have gotten a sneak peek, because they already hated it.

Real Americans vs.  Our Effete Elites.  The American left today is fascist.  They intend to dictate to every citizen what they can say, do or think.  And they are indoctrinating our young people, our elementary through university students, with their radical intolerance.  College students no longer learn about the horrors of communism and fascism, both products of the far left.  No, they are being trained to be mind-numbed, doctrinaire leftists.  They learn to renounce their country, our Constitution, to abhor themselves if white, to see themselves as a victim and so superior if black, Hispanic, etc.

Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson.  [Dr.] Peterson deviates from the leftist academic canon — a conservative, traditionalist, moralist anti-political correctness psychologist academic.  He objects to the speech police and the tyranny of the left.  He that a totalitarian-speech police state is developing in Canada, and, by instinct and conviction, he objects strongly to the "good speech" laws demanding the use of concocted or inapposite pronouns and labels preferred by the little darlin's of the newly concocted gender-identity claxon, cowbell, and tin drum army.  Peterson objects to speech police tactics, and he does it eloquently.  That's a threat to and dangerous for the academic poobahs who live and breathe censorship and intellectual tyranny.

Grade School's Anti-Border Wall Posters Describe Police as Predators.  [W]hy would teachers at an elementary school expose children to a self-proclaimed "international network of aspiring revolutionaries?"  A spokesperson for the local school district told the Todd Starnes Radio Show they were not aware the posters originated from an organization with anarchist leanings.  The spokesperson also refuted the National Public Radio station's report that the posters included the organization's website.  "There was no website link on the posters at the school," the spokesperson said.  "It appears that a related or original poster design included a link to a website at the bottom of the poster, but that was not included on the posters at the school."  Over winter break, construction workers noticed the propaganda posters and tore them off the walls — prompting outrage from the school district as well as local residents.

Prof Caught Preaching Violent Overthrow Of American Democracy.  [Scroll down]  To be fair, the Albert Ponces of the contemporary academic world are a dime-a-dozen.  While the drivel that he espouses is obnoxious, and while it can't fail to jolt the sensibilities of many to see and hear a professor at a taxpayer-subsidized institution engage in educational malpractice by substituting anti-American preaching for teaching in the liberal arts, the tragic truth of the matter is that Ponce [...] is indistinguishable from the vast majority of his colleagues in academia in these respects.  Nevertheless, it is good and just that this video is going viral, there has been a backlash, and that parents of current and prospective DVC students can discover for themselves the depths of the cesspool to which radical leftist academics have reduced our institutions of higher learning.

Exam questions blast Trump as bigot, tout Hillary as unifier.  The final exam for African Studies 161 asked students whether Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric was "anti-Mexican," "anti-Muslim," "anti-woman," or "all of the above."  Another question described Hillary Clinton's 2016 concession speech as being focused on "breaking down barriers and bringing people together," asking only that students identify which groups her overtures addressed.

Prof Calls for Overthrow of 'White Democracy,' Violate Laws of 'White Man's Constitution'.  he video above features Diablo Valley College Professor Albert Ponce telling his class they "must destroy" the foundation's of the United States because it was built on laws created by white men.  The footage was published last week by The Red Elephants after a student sent in the video taken during a lecture called "White Supremacy in the USA." [...] The laws written by Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers in the Constitution should be violated, Ponce argues, simply because they were written by white men.  The professor believes our founding document "should be called a white man's constitution."  This from a man who considers Karl Marx "one of the most profound thinkers in the history of Western philosophy."

Five things professors actually said in 2017.  Most Americans expect college professors to be beacons of knowledge and wisdom, or at least to exercise more maturity than their teenage students.  Every year, however, Campus Reform comes across professors who unashamedly make outrageous, preposterous, and downright absurd remarks in their classrooms and on social media, denigrating conservatives and their viewpoints.  In 2017, President Trump's first year in the Oval Office brought academic rage to new heights as professors frequently blasted the Commander-in-Chief and berated his voters, traditional conservatives, and anyone who does not embrace progressivism.

Swarthmore College offers a course in 'queering God'.  One of the nation's most prestigious liberal arts colleges is advancing a "queer theology" agenda with hopes of destabilizing traditional beliefs about what the Bible says about gender and sexuality.  Swarthmore College, founded by Quakers, is offering courses in "queering the Bible" and "queering God."  The courses were first reported by Campus Reform.  "Queering the Bible" is a one-credit class that surveys "queer and trans readings of biblical texts."

Professor: 'Mathematics Itself Operates as Whiteness'.  A math-education professor at the University of Illinois wrote about some of the more racist aspects of math in a new anthology for teachers, arguing that "mathematics itself operates as Whiteness."  "Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White," Rochelle Gutierrez wrote, according to an article in Campus Reform.  Confused?  Think that math is just math?  Well, you're wrong; math might as well be called "white math," because as Gutierrez explained, "curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."

Why I Quit Teaching.  Three reasons determined my course of action.  For one thing, administration had come to deal less with academic issues and more with rules of conduct and punitive codes of behavior, as if it were a policing body rather than an arm of the teaching profession. [...] For another, colleagues were increasingly buying into the politically correct mantras circulating in the cultural climate.  The dubious axioms of "social justice" and equality of outcome, the postmodern campaign against the Western tradition of learning, and the Marxist critique of capitalism now superseded the original purpose of the university to seek out truth, to pursue the impartial study of historical events and movements, and to remain faithful to the rigors of disciplined scholarship.  Most of my colleagues were rote members of the left-liberal orthodoxy: pro-Islam, pro-unfettered immigration, pro-abortion, pro-feminist, anti-conservative, anti-Zionist, and anti-white.  Departmental committees were now basing their hiring protocols not on demonstrated merit, but on minority and gender identities, leading to marked pedagogical decline.

The Whiteness Protection Program.  As a criminology professor, I spend a lot of time counseling students who are getting abused in the classroom.  In fact, any white male that decides to become a police officer can expect to be attacked viciously by Marxists trying to "transform" the criminal justice system indirectly through classroom indoctrination.  These people aren't criminal justice professionals.  They aren't even teachers.  They are tenured bigots invading an institution they wish to destroy.  They are sort of like the atheists who enter seminary just to undermine religion.  To make matters worse, the typical criminal justice department also requires students to take several sociology classes.  In these classes, tenured white feminists routinely preach about white privilege while directing virtually all of their vitriol towards white males.  Ironically, the lectures of many of these unhappy women are fueled by five-dollar white mochas.  I like to call them Starbuck Stalinists.

Yale Claims To Have Cured Conservatives By Turning Them Into Liberals.  [Scroll down]  And you wonder why people are increasingly turned off by institutes of higher education.  This sort of pseudoscience doesn't require a post-graduate degree to pick apart.  Yale's starting premise is that people who feel "unsafe" (or afraid) are more likely to adopt conservative viewpoints.  They base this on a belief that people who dwell on, "the dangers of terrorism and immigration" are most likely to be afraid of immigrants and thereby adopt conservative positions on immigration and border security.  As usual, this is labeled as being anti-immigrant in the usual fashion of what passes for leftist analysis.

College Campuses And The Origins Of The New Totalitarianism.  Whereas the essence of democracy, as Tocqueville so brilliantly notes, is compromise and conciliation, the essence of totalitarianism is that truth is whatever the movement says it is.  Different ideas are to be quashed.  The individual who believes that politics is a series of negotiations or deal making is hardly a totalitarian.  By contrast, the diversity administrator who organizes a bunch of pubescent thugs who have been inculcated in the belief that truth is that which advances the interests of their identity and those who share it, is a totalitarian.  He or she is no different from those who mobilized Hitler's Brownshirts to shut down intellectuals whose ideas were not sanctioned by the Nazi movement. [...] This is the campus mentality that prevents conservative speakers from setting foot on campus and disrupts their speeches when they do.  They have either the wrong identity or the wrong ideas and sometimes both.

Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials.  I teach in a law school.  For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials.  Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn.  But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don't know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings.  Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.  They cannot learn until their minds are freed from that prison.

Is Anti-American Sentiment the Biggest Threat to the Nation?  A Jamaican-born professor of philosophy has had enough of hearing invectives spewed against America, especially in the classroom.  Prompted to challenge the derision of the American Dream and the depiction of America as a white supremacist nation, Dr. Jason D. Hill of DePaul University wrote an open letter to journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Coates's 2015 book, titled "Between the World and Me," is often required reading to depict the black American experience to students.  Hill calls such required reading "child abuse" or "child neglect."  Hill is disturbed by the growing anti-American orthodoxy that he hears on American campuses, and believes Americans need to be fortified with a rational pride that recognizes what is great about America.

Professor who calls Antifa violence 'vital' is giving proceeds of his propaganda to Antifa.  Mark Bray is a foppish son of privilege who did the bare minimum to stay in the history Ph.D. program at Rutgers University while he served as Occupy Wall Street's spokesperson.  Now that he's the leading academic booster of Antifa, he still can't bring himself to condemn the movement's violence against words when asked directly by a reporter.  Even worse, he's going to start funding these thugs with the proceeds from his new "handbook" on Antifa.

Public school in Minnesota requires English course aimed at eradicating white privilege.  A public high school in Minnesota implemented a required, race-based English course aimed at eradicating "white privilege," but it wasn't billed that way to students or parents, according to a public policy organization.  "Pre-AP English 10 constitutes an abuse of parents' trust, taxpayers' money and — most importantly — vulnerable children," Katherine Kersten, a senior policy fellow for the Center of the American Experiment, told Fox News.  "Edina citizens should hold district leaders accountable for substituting political indoctrination for a real education."

Liberal Teacher Confronts Latino Student Over His Support For Trump, Gets Crushed With Facts.  Within the heated political exchange, the liberal teacher perpetuated the notion of rampant anti-black racist police shootings in America, claimed she was "smarter" than the dictionary, suggested FBI statistics were bunk because the organization is "seeded" in white supremacy, and accused the Latino student of being a brainwashed "radical."  Although the 12th grader cited statistics and facts, the teacher maintained her victimhood narrative and carried on the debate for what the student said was well over the ten minutes captured on camera.

Having 'white nuclear family' promotes white supremacy, says New York professor, report says.  A City University of New York sociology professor reportedly said in a tweetstorm last week that "the white-nuclear family" promotes racism, prompting a backlash on social media.  Jessie Daniels, described as an expert on "the Internet manifestations of racism" on her CUNY page, infuriated social media users after reportedly saying that white families promote racism by default.

Undermining America.  Students at the University of Virginia want to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder.  Students at the University of Missouri also want Jefferson's statue gone.  Why?  He was a slave owner. [...] What goes unappreciated is just why America's leftists' movement attacks the Founders.  If they can delegitimize the Founders themselves, it goes a long way toward their agenda of delegitimizing the founding principles of our nation.  If the leftists can convince the nation that men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were good-for-nothing slave-owning racists, then their ideas can be more easily trashed.  We find the greatest assaults on our founding documents on the nation's college campuses.

Why Should We Care About Crackpot Professors?  Higher Academia is obviously liberal.  It always has been.  Increasingly though, it seems that higher academia is instead moving away from arguing for communism or a larger federal government and instead, as McKellop does, views its purpose as ingraining in our society the idea that America is an inherently evil place.

The End of the University?  Colleges and universities have become flashpoints for the most heated culture war conflicts of the day.  Our former institutions of higher learning are now the sites of anarchic violence against the few conservative speakers who manage to get invited on campus.  With a Republican in the White House, academics with a far leftwing bias indoctrinate students more aggressively than ever before.  Some of those same professors, and timid school administrators, are under literal siege from radicalized minority students demanding racial payback for perceived oppression.  Instead of allowing their worldviews to be expanded by the campus diversity they claim to value so highly, students wail about racist and sexual "microaggressions" and retreat into segregated safe spaces.  Universities have degenerated into circuses of irrationality and radicalism.

School district pulls 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from reading list; 'makes people uncomfortable'.  "To Kill a Mockingbird" is being removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district.  The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum this week.  School board vice president Kenny Holloway says the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."

Reassessing Orwell to Understand Our Times.  Orwell's warnings about totalitarianism written in novel form in Animal Farm and 1984 came shortly after Freidrich Hayek's Road to Serfdom was published at the end of World War II.  But it took the shocking revelations from books on Nazism and Soviet Communism, by scholars like William Shirer and Robert Conquest in the 1960s, to really make Orwell relevant for teaching to the masses educated in American public schools. And it was not just an academic exercise insofar as Stalin's successors Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin were at that time rolling tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush all resistance — enforcing the "Iron Curtain" over eight countries in Eastern Europe — the Soviet model of totalitarian control and subservience to Moscow.  Reading Orwell, it was thought, would help American students appreciate their freedoms and gain perspective and critical faculties so as to understand socialist totalitarianism and its defining features:  1) the institutionalization of propaganda designed to warp and destroy people's grasp on reality, and 2) the fostering of group think, conformity and collectivism designed to eliminate critical and independent thinking.

How Leftism Can Ruin a Once-Proud School District.  Kathy Kersten is a Senior Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, the organization I run.  Her column in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune is titled "Racial identity policies are ruining Edina's fabled schools."  The column is drawn from Kathy's much longer article in the current issue of Thinking Minnesota, the Center's quarterly magazine, but it also includes some new material.  Kathy's Star Tribune article describes the obsessions with race and liberal politics that pervade the Edina public school system.

Nevada professor suggests Trump deserves blame for Las Vegas massacre.  A university professor in Las Vegas was filmed in class this week suggesting President Trump deserves some blame for the city's shooting massacre because "all he's done" is "encourage violence."  "Right when he got elected, I told my classes, three semesters ago, that some of us won't be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die," University of Nevada, Las Vegas history professor Tessa Winkelmann said Thursday [10/5/2017], according to video obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  "Other people will die because of this.  And we've seen this happen, right?"

Parent furious over teacher's 'shooting at Trump' quiz answer.  A teacher at Wyoming's Jackson Hole High School on Thursday gave her students a multiple choice quiz that referenced shooting President Trump.  Parent Jim McCollum told me he was furious about the question — especially since the quiz was administered four days after the Las Vegas massacre.  "This is not right.  You don't do that to a sitting president — you respect the office," McCollum told me in a telephone interview.  "They used Trump's name — insinuating gun violence and shooting the president."  "As torn apart as the country is right now, I could not tolerate that and let that go without saying something," he said.

Harvard Professor Says NRA Is a 'Domestic Terrorist Organization'.  Harvard University Professor Jonathan L. Walton called the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization" during a speech at the campus's Memorial Church.  "We have to have the courage to call the NRA exactly what it has become — a domestic terrorist organization that places profit above the lives of the American people," Dr. Jonathan Walton said at the Memorial Church of Harvard University.  Walton's remarks were made available as a blog post on Harvard's website.  Walton, a Professor of Christian Morals and a minister at the Memorial Church at Harvard University, argued that America is "sick."

Journalism Alert:  Washington Post Interviews Third-Graders Who Hate Trump.  Whitney Houston may have warbled that the children are our future.  But they're not great political analysts right now.  The folks over at The Washington Post seem to have forgotten this particular fact, so they decided to head over to four third-grade classes around Washington D.C. to hear what the tykes have to say about the issues of the day.  Unsurprisingly, the small children thought and spoke like small children, which meant they sounded like Leftists.  As the Post acknowledged, "While the students were diverse socioeconomically, they were — like the Washington region as a whole — exceedingly un-diverse when it came to politics.  In the three classes where I asked how many students would have voted for Hillary Clinton, all hands went up."

Antifa violence 'vitally worth doing,' says NYU librarian.  A New York University librarian praised Antifa violence as "vitally worth doing" in an essay about the recent rise of violence on the far-left.  April Hathcock argues that since "an explicitly peaceful movement" like Black Lives Matter faces "similar scrutiny" to Antifa, leftist protesters might as well employ violence in pursuit of their goals.

Teachers desecrate American flag — Inside a school library.  Is it permissible to desecrate the American flag for educational purposes?  That question is at the center of a raging firestorm in suburban Chicago after a public high school allowed teachers to desecrate an American flag — in the school's library.  It was a one-day exhibit at York High School on Sept. 26.

Chicago-area school board member defends likening American flag to 'toilet paper'.  A Chicago-area school member says she isn't backing down from comments she made on Facebook equating the American flag with toilet paper, saying the flag is a meaningless piece of cloth and "a false symbol of hope" for black people.  In a post on her personal Facebook page supporting NFL players who kneel during the national anthem, School District U46 board member Traci O'Neal Ellis wrote, "That flag means nothing more than toilet paper to me," The Chicago Tribune reported.

Arizona teacher has 4th-grade class recite altered Declaration of Independence.  An Arizona public school district says one of its teachers broke school policy when she reportedly had her class recite an altered version of the Declaration of Independence.  A 4th-grade teacher at Salk Elementary School in Mesa altered a poster of the historical document by crossing out two instances of the word "men" in the second and third sentences and substituting it with "humans," a local ABC affiliate reported.  She then had students recite the altered version in class, the station said.  Parent Elizabeth Vaillencourt said she complained about the teacher's actions to school officials, and that the school reacted by putting her child in a different class.

Thugocracy rising: 19% of college students support violence to silence dissent, study shows.  Early results from a Brookings Institution study on the First Amendment's standing among college students foreshadow an ominous future for free speech rights. [...]
  •   44% of all students said "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment, while 16% answered "don't know."
  •   51% of all students said shouting down speakers to silence them in a public forum is acceptable.  Over 60% of Democrats agreed compared to roughly 40% for Republicans.
  •   19% of students supported violence as a means of shutting down speech deemed unacceptable.

College kids: 20 percent OK with First Amendment violence.  The Brookings Institute conducted a survey of 1,500 college students around the nation, and found fully 44 percent think hate speech — whatever that is — isn't a First Amendment right.  About half that think violence is an OK form of protest.  The indoctrination of the next generation is nearly complete.  The left's years and years of hard work at shutting down dissenting political views is paying off big time.

Berkeley receives $100K to 'honor the legacy' of the Black Panther Party.  The radical Marxist revolutionary organization from the 1960s, the Black Panthers, will be the subject of an academic study conducted by the University of California-Berkeley to discover and honor the group's legacy.  The study is being funded by the American taxpayer via a grant for about $100,000 from, curiously, the National Park Service.

Antifa professor 'privileged to teach future dead cops' was obsessed with hating cops.  Trying to impress with his oh-so-ironic perspective, John Jay College adjunct professor Michael Isaacson declared on Twitter last month that he was privileged to teach "future dead cops." [...] But it was far from an over-the-top indiscretion made in the midst of a heated argument, as some tweeters get themselves in trouble for.  Teaching at the John Jay College for Criminal Justice, New York's top school for students interested in law enforcement careers, Isaacson made a string of rabid, anti-cop statements over the past years, all of them perfectly in line with that of someone utterly hostile to cops.

Oberlin College Begins to Follow Mizzou and Evergreen State Down the Tubes.  It isn't just the tail-spinning University of Missouri and Evergreen State.  Colleges that succumb to social justice warriors will all pay a price: [...] The rest of academia isn't far behind in the race to achieve maximum moonbattery — and the consequent financial ruin, as students who want to learn something more useful than sensitivity training head elsewhere for their education.  Big Academia is obscenely expensive and corrupt to the core with pernicious hard left ideology.  The free market will produce superior alternatives.

Enrollments, budgets fall short at universities known for 'social justice warfare'.  Universities known for being hotbeds of campus protest and liberal activism are struggling with declining enrollments and budget shortfalls, and higher education analysts say that's no coincidence.  Take Oberlin College.  According to a document leaked to The Oberlin Review, the school's student newspaper, the small liberal arts college famous for social justice hoaxes has had trouble attracting and retaining students, missing this year's enrollment mark by 80 and racking up a $5 million budget deficit in the process.

Berkeley Students Want To Name Campus Building After Cop Killer.  Ever since Charlottesville, the tyrannical left has been on the rampage, trying to purge anyone and everyone who had an improper thought.  Well, except for Margaret Sanger, apparently.  I guess she's cool.  That's the mentality at work at the University of California-Berkeley, where students have been battling with administrators to purge the name of a past university president from one campus building.

Teacher compares Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan to swastikas.  A Georgia high school teacher compared the President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan to a swastika and ordered students wearing t-shirts supporting the president to leave her classroom.  The incident happened Aug. 31 at River Ridge High School in Cherokee County — north of Atlanta — and it was all captured on video.

Evergreen State College Follows University of Missouri Into Ruin.  The wages of moonbattery is ruin.  Mizzou is learning it.  So is Evergreen State College.

Judge Richard Posner: 'No value' in studying the U.S. Constitution.  Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner sees "absolutely no value" in studying the U.S. Constitution because "eighteenth-century guys" couldn't have possibly foreseen the culture and technology of today.  In a recent op-ed for Slate, Judge Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, argued that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post-Civil War amendments "do not speak to today."

Texas School Sheds 'Robert E. Lee' for 'Student Safety'.  A Texas high school cited "student safety" concerns as the reason for shedding its nearly 60-year-old Confederate namesake, General Robert E. Lee.  This marks the second time in a week that public education officials in the Lone Star State used the rationale to strip a slice of history from a campus.  North East Independent School District trustees held a special meeting Tuesday night where they voted unanimously, 7-0, to change the name of Robert E. Lee High.  Last Thursday, Midland ISD administrators framed "student safety" to nix a few bars of the southern favorite "Dixie" out of their school fight song.

Math Education Org Prints Articles Using 'Math for a Certain Social Agenda'.  The world's largest mathematics education organization has printed articles in its multiple journals that "use math for a certain social agenda," the director of publications confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.  The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has accepted articles to print in its practitioner journals and research publications that "align some aspect of math to a social issue," said publications director Eleanore Tapscott on Tuesday [8/29/2017].

Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of 'Bourgeois' Behavior.  Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility?  Not so fast!  According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is "hate speech."  The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the rapidly shrinking boundaries of acceptable thought on college campuses and the use of racial victimology to police those boundaries.

How American Anarchy Parallels China's Cultural Revolution.  China's Cultural Revolution was triggered by a group of students at Beijing University, the most elitist college in China.  They called themselves the Red Guards because they worshiped China's communist dictator Mao and his socialist/communist ideology feverishly.  In their manifesto, they questioned the usefulness of knowledge, and condemned their professors and university administrators for harboring "intellectual elitism and bourgeois tendencies" and for stalling China's progress towards a communist utopia.  Mao immediately realized that he could use these over-zealous and ignorant teenagers as a political tool to purge his enemies and shape society to his own liking.  He elevated the Red Guards' status by appearing at a massive Red Guard rally on August 18, 1966 at Tiananmen Square.  This event lent Red Guards political legitimacy, and officially kicked off the Cultural Revolution.  The Red Guards' ideas quickly spread from colleges to high schools.  No one on campus dared challenge the Red Guards.  Capitulations from school authorities only emboldened them.  They led students to strike, refusing to take classes from people who were deemed less than ideologically pure.  Professors, teachers, and school administrators were paraded and forced to make numerous public self-criticisms about "transgressions" against government-sanctioned orthodoxy.  Soon, college entrance exams were suspended and many schools, from universities to high schools, were closed.  The entire education system was paralyzed.

Math is 'unjust and grounded in discrimination,' educators moan.  Two national organizations of math teachers are on a mission to prove that math education is "unjust and grounded in a legacy of institutional discrimination."  In a joint statement, the groups complain that making students "master the basics" leads to "segregation and separation," and call on math instructors to adopt a "social justice stance" in the classroom.

Thomas Jefferson, 'emblem of white supremacy,' targeted in UVa. students' list of demands.  University of Virginia students have issued a list of demands regarding a statue of Thomas Jefferson on campus because his visage allegedly serves as "an emblem of white supremacy."  President Trump asked reporters on Aug. 15 if violence in Charlottesville over historical monuments would inspire campaigns against the nation's third present.  A coalition of minority student groups answered his call less than one week later with a list of demands for administrators.

Oberlin Council gets rid of Columbus Day.  With enthusiasm, the Oberlin City Council changed the second Monday in October from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.  The unanimous vote for the resolution was anticipated, though it was not without opposition.  Council voted about 8:15 p.m.  Monday [8/21/2017] after nearly an hour of public comment from people for and against replacing the federally recognized holiday.

Sounds like a Complete Reassessment of Academic Priorities.
Georgia State Launches 'Multicultural Competence and Peer Education Ambassadors' Program. Georgia State University has launched a program for students to serve as "Multicultural Competence and Peer Education Ambassadors" (MAP).  The MAP ambassadors will work 12 hours per month to "train and educate the Georgia State University community in multicultural competence, allowing them to explore the world through a more progressive perspective."  "Cultural competence and identity affirmation are highly integral for the success of our students," the ambassador position description explained.

Too politically correct?  Board drops 'Lynch' from school names.  A school board in Portland, Ore., has dropped "Lynch" from the names of two elementary schools, claiming it had negative connotations and made some people feel uncomfortable.  The move Wednesday evening [8/9/2017] by the Centennial School District's board also included a slight alteration to the name of a third school.  But the move has sparked criticism, including on social media, from some community residents and former students.

Purdue Dean Wants Engineering Dept. to 'De-Center Western Civilization'.  When one thinks of the Progressive subversion of higher education, many people assume that the hard sciences are devoid of the kind of social justice agenda one finds in the humanities.  But in a fascinating piece for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, engineer Indrek Wichman complains that engineering education has become more about social engineering than actual engineering.  "A phalanx of social justice warriors, ideologues, egalitarians, and opportunistic careerists has ensconced itself in America's college and universities," he writes.  "The destruction they have caused in the humanities and social sciences has now reached to engineering."  Social justice warriors, Wichman continues, "have sought out the soft underbelly of engineering, where phrases such as 'diversity' and 'different perspectives' and 'racial gaps' and 'unfairness' and 'unequal outcomes' make up the daily vocabulary.  Instead of calculating engine horsepower or microchip power/size ratios or aerodynamic lift and drag, the engineering educationists focus on group representation, hurt feelings, and 'microaggressions' in the profession."

Women's Studies Prof: 'I Wish Someone Would Just Shoot' Trump.  Donald Trump isn't everyone's cup of tea.  Some people love him, some people hate him, and some of us just watch the left howl over the guy while personally feeling kind of "meh" about him as president.  But some Leftist academics, for example, hate him so much they wish for assassination.

College Professor Argues in Favor of Murdering Newborns.  Once you let a handful of black-robed oligarchs decree that it is your "right" to kill your baby, a slide down the slippery slope is inevitable.

University of Chicago Professor — It Should be Legal to Kill Newborns.  Professor Jerry Coyne, a biologist at the University of Chicago, has convinced himself that murdering infants is morally fine because infants are too stupid to know they're being murdered. [...] He says that if a child in the womb looks like they will have a genetic condition, they ought to be murdered.  This is an arbitrary decision, because what we considered to be life ending conditions 100 years ago are now treatable.  This is an arbitrary decision, because sometimes genetic tests and fetal scans give inaccurate results.

Prominent UK College Will Replace Portraits of School's Founders Because They're Bearded White Men.  King's College London, a prominent university in the UK, announced it will be replacing some of the portraits of the school's founders in the main entryway because they are white, which, apparently, is "intimidating" to minority students.  The entryway will instead feature a "wall of diversity" of black and ethnic minority scholars.  The changes are being implemented by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, whose dean of education, Patrick Leman, explained that the reason for the change was because the entrance was full of "busts of 1920s bearded men."  The inclusion of more diverse modern scholars will make the entrance feel less "alienating," he said.

Star Teacher:  Schools Are Subjecting Pupils to 'Left-Wing Brainwashing'.  A teacher who fronted a major recruitment drive for the Department for Education accused schools of "indoctrinating" pupils "from a very young age" in the wake of the EU referendum, it has emerged.  In an article penned for the Conservatives for Liberty group shortly after the Brexit referendum, computer science teacher Calvin Robinson said he was "not at all surprised that the majority of young people voted in line with a Left-wing agenda to remain in the undemocratic, or even anti-democratic European Union.  "Schools have been grooming children towards this decision for years."

Liberal Bias Starts Long Before College.  In my own experience, during my years at a public high school, I had a teacher who aired his left-leaning political views on a daily basis, during class hours, when we were supposed to be learning biology. [...] It was frustrating that the only reason we learned certain things was so that we did well on statewide standardized tests.  Every aspect of our education revolved around these tests.  There was absolutely no room for critical thinking.  Teachers would ask us, for example, what we thought about a Shakespeare play, and if we didn't have the exact answer that they were looking for, crafted in the exact phrasing that was present on their curriculum guides, we were shot down.

Alabama school bans Reagan, Coulter, Levin summer reading list.  The summer reading list for Gene Ponder's AP Government and Economics class at Spanish Fort High School in Alabama is causing some trouble. [...] [Students] could choose from books like "God & Government," "Black Rednecks and White Liberals," "Liberty and Tyranny:  A Conservative Manifesto," "FairTax:  The Truth," and "48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School)."  In other words, Mr. Ponder was providing the children with an alternative to the liberal propaganda that has saturated public school textbooks.

Prof calls whites 'inhuman [...],' says 'let them die'.  A professor at Connecticut's Trinity College seemingly endorsed the idea that first responders to last week's congressional shooting should have let the victims "f*****g die" because they are white.

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One would presume that a college professor would have the ability to express himself without resorting to profanity.  Apparently that is now too much to ask.

Professor: 'white marble' in artwork contributes to white supremacy.  A University of Iowa professor recently argued that appreciation of "white marble" used in classical artwork contributes to "white supremacist ideas today."  Professor Sarah Bond demonstrates in an article published in Hyperallergic that "many of the statues, reliefs, and sarcophagi created in the ancient Western world were in fact painted," meaning the "white marble" often seen in such pieces of art were intended to be colored.

Here Comes Progress.  Over the past couple weeks, Evergreen has leapfrogged over Yale, Mizzou, and even Berkeley to become the most eagerly self-castrating school of higher learning in the US of A.  Reaching back to the 1970s, the school has hosted an annual "Day of Absence" in which nonwhite students and faculty were encouraged to skip school and reflect elsewhere on how [bad it was] to go to a racist school with racist teachers and racist students and racist buildings with racist libraries full of all that racist knowledge, even though their educations were likely almost entirely funded by racist white taxpayers.  The annual holiday was supposed to underline what college life would be like without black people, which presumably would make white students feel bad about themselves and possibly even lead to mass self-sterilization in the hope of building a better future.

Why kids can't think.  Students are repeatedly taught that capitalism and profits are bad, corporations are greedy and the rich don't pay their fair share.  They are taught that government is a benevolent entity that helps the poor.  They should be taught that capitalism is what caused the United States to lift people up and that socialism destroys countries and holds people down, such as Venezuela, Cuba, and the Soviet Union.

High School Art Display:  "Burn in Hell, Trump".  A New York school district has launched an investigation into a student art show that included profane references to President Trump.  The art show at Shen High School featured a dozen drawings of the president's face.  Above the drawings was a sign that read, "Draw on Me."  On a nearby table was a box filled with markers.

Muslim activist critical of Israel is cheered at graduation.  A Muslim-American activist whose role as a commencement speaker had come under protest from critics opposing her stance on Israel was given a standing ovation by graduating students Thursday after she told them they must commit to demanding change.  "We in this room together must commit to never being bystanders to poverty, lack of jobs and health care," Linda Sarsour told graduates of the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.  Critics of Sarsour who don't like her views on Israel had spoken out against her being the keynote, but the school administration stood behind the decision, with the dean saying it was important to listen respectfully to differing ideas.

Evergreen State's Racist Safe Space Hell.  "I'm George Bridges, I use he/him pronouns."  That was how the president of Evergreen State College, a man with a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Criminology and the backbone of an incontinent weasel began his apology to the radical leftists who had terrorized his school, shouted racial slurs at a professor and other students, and driven an entire class off campus.  Then he paid respect to the "elders past and present of the Squaxin Island Tribe."  The university was once a place of reason and learning.  It is now a sick, sad totalitarian joke.  From now on all official Evergreen State events must begin by stating that it is built on stolen Indian land.  The president's pronoun was an admission of his cisgender privilege.  It was the first of a series of ritual humiliations that he would undergo.  And no one deserved them more than George Bridges.

Minnesota yearbook: Behead Trump.  I have some bad news for the kids at Brainerd High School in Minnesota — your 2017 yearbook is not so much a celebration of you as it is an anti-Trump propaganda book.  The 2017 edition of the yearbook included a section titled, "Trump 2k17-2k20? How do you feel about him?"  And let's just say I'm surprised the Secret Service hasn't paid a courtesy call to the campus.  "I would like to behead him," one student declared.  "I do not like him."

Student's Quote on Wanting to See Trump Beheaded Makes Brainerd High School Yearbook.  A post in the Brainerd High School yearbook from a student about wanting to see President Donald Trump beheaded is drawing scrutiny on social media.  The post appears on a page titled "Trump 2k17-2K20? How do you feel about him?"  "I would like to behead him," reads one student's response.  "I do not like him."  Mark Johnson, the assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service field office in Minneapolis, confirmed the agency is investigating the matter.

Social-Justice Math Class: 'Math Has Been Used as a Dehumanizing Tool'.  A new online course instructs math teachers how to incorporate social-justice ideology into their lessons by discussing how mathematics has historically been used to oppress people.  The class — titled "Teaching Social Justice Through Secondary Mathematics" — was developed by Teach for America and is being offered through edX, according to an article in Campus Reform.  "Do you ask students to think deeply about global and local social justice issues within your mathematics classroom?" the course overview asks.  "This education and teacher training course will help you blend secondary math instruction with topics such as inequity, poverty, and privilege to transform students into global thinkers and mathematicians."

Teachers Instructed to Use Math to Indoctrinate Kids in Social Justice.  There are some subjects one thinks would be immune from the input of social justice warriors.  While social studies are ripe for their meddling — as are literature and even science these days — a subject like math should be resistant to their tampering.  Well, one would think that.  Unfortunately, a report at Campus Reform shows that such an assumption would be wrong.

College Prof: 'College Campuses Are NOT Free Speech Areas'.  What's the opposite of diversity?  UNIVERSITY!  You're now only allowed one opinion on campus:  It's a LEFTIST opinion.  This is why you pay the big bucks for tuition, folks.  To make sure that the college students come out with the 'correct' worldview.

California Schools Approve New Policy For Students: 'It's Okay To Break The Law, Police Are Evil'.  The Los Angeles School Board is taking modern day liberalism to a whole new level.  They have created a mantra to not only ignore Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents also known as ICE, but to also ACTIVELY do their best to take illegal actions against them if they were to see ICE ever to set foot on their school grounds.  It was a unanimous approval for a set of policies that the board members said would provide families with a much higher level of protection when it came to federal immigration raids.  Among this set of new policies it was also stated that no immigration officer will be given any permission to be on campus without first getting clearance from the superintendent of schools.  Until that happens they will be denied access to school property EVEN if they arrive with a legally valid subpoena.

Another day, another capitulation to the threat of force on a University of California campus.  Handing over control of mandatory brainwashing sessions to a group that has resorted to the threat of force is another step toward handing control of the university over to organized mobs, enforcing heartless indoctrination sessions.  I was a spectator of the late 1960s/early 1970s takeovers of many campus buildings by leftists, and I watched as the consequences of the surrenders that followed unfolded.  That is how academia took its left turn, with recruiting handed over to the activists, who staffed up two generations of leftists and brought us today's academy.

UC Santa Cruz agrees to all demands from black student group.  Students protesting what they believe is a "hostile climate" toward black students at the University of California Santa Cruz were locked inside an administrative building for three days until they scored a sweeping victory Thursday [5/4/2017].  Members of the university's African/Black Student Alliance organization took over Kerr Hall Tuesday [5/2/2017], locked all of the doors, covered the windows with slogan-filled posters, and vowed to not leave until their demands were met.

Potemkin Universities.  College campuses still appear superficially to be quiet, well-landscaped refuges from the bustle of real life.  But increasingly, their spires, quads, and ivy-covered walls are facades. [...] At most universities, if a scheduled campus lecturer expressed scholarly doubt about the severity of man-caused global warming and the efficacy of its government remedies, or questioned the strategies of the Black Lives Matter movement, or suggested that sex is biologically determined rather than socially constructed, she likely would either be disinvited or have her speech physically disrupted.  Campuses often now mimic the political street violence of the late Roman Republic.  Campus radicals have achieved what nuclear strategists call deterrence:  Faculty and students now know precisely which speech will endanger their careers and which will earn them rewards.

Will Fascism Come to America through Its Colleges and Universities?  The biggest cowards in our country today are many, if not most, of our college and university administrators followed closely by a fair amount of their faculty.  They are allowing their institutions to be taken over by a monolithic world view that is increasingly totalitarian and antithetical to the diversity of opinion on which the search for truth depends. [...] This restrictive attitude toward viewpoint diversity is pervasive throughout our colleges and universities, even though the freedom of speech enshrined in the First Amendment is arguably the most important of all principles on which this country was founded.  Yet only a tiny minority of those responsible for our higher education have the courage to defend it.

How Conservative States Should Handle Academia.  In fact, the Orwellian control of academia by the left virtually guarantees that tens of millions of young Americans will not only lack knowledge — that can be remedied by study and reflection — but have instead noxious stews of pseudo-knowledge percolating out of their ears and guiding (or rather misguiding) their whole lives.  There is precious little conservatives can do in places like the People's Republic of California.  The so-called "Berkeley Free Speech Movement" of the early 1960s was a fraud from beginning to end.  Nearly all the faculty and university administration comprised people who were radically leftist, and it was only the method of protest (screaming obscenities) that bothered anyone.

'Communism for Kids' Turns Deadly Ideology Into a Fairy Tale.  In order to make the deadliest ideology of the 20th century palatable to young Americans, "Communism for Kids" is coming to a bookstore near you.  This newly released book from MIT Press "proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism."  The death toll from communist regimes in the 20th century is well-documented.  One study found that more people were killed under communism than homicide and genocide combined, and only 9 million more people were killed in World War I and World War II combined than under governments of this ideology.

The Greatest Threat to America Isn't Islam — It's the Left.  For more than a century, the left has waged a relentless jihad on the West.  In the 19th century, Karl Marx saw Christianity as the cultural carrier and defender of capitalism and launched an intentional attack on religion in general, and Christianity in particular.  He believed that, if Christian values could be undermined, it would be much easier to replace capitalism with utopian socialism.  As an articulate intellectual, Karl Marx attracted many academics to his cause, and gradually left-wing radicals took over western universities.  From this position of intellectual power, they were slowly able to poison the minds of most young people by feeding them lies that effectually turned them into enemies of their own civilization.  The left has been insidious in accomplishing this feat by subtly rewriting academic history textbooks.

How the Media Try to Lay Waste to the Trump Administration.  In "Public-School Students Take On Fake News," The New Yorker magazine describes how an after-school program launched by nonprofit Mighty Writers "teaches media literacy to kids."  Media literacy, in this case, means being taught to hate and disparage our President. [...] This is nothing but pure indoctrination of future generations under the guise of public service.  Our children are being taught not to differentiate between facts and lies, but to blindly repeat radical left-wing dogma.

Teacher wears profane anti-Trump jacket — in classroom!  Cheryl Judy is the art teacher at Sherman Junior & Senior high School in Boone County, West Virginia.  She is also a self-described liberal.

From Dept of the Obvious:  Liberal "ideological uniformity marginalizes law professors".  From the Department of the Obvious comes a recent research paper confirming what we already knew, law professors as a group are very liberal.  Paul Caron of Pepperdine Law School (aka TaxProf) highlights the research paper and commentary on it, bragging how BYU And Pepperdine Are The Most Ideologically Balanced Faculties Among The Top 50 Law Schools (2013).

Repudiating the Obama Vision for Higher Education.  We are all aware of the undue influence the federal government has had on local control of K-12 education.  This began with No Child Left Behind under President George W. Bush, and moved to new levels of federal control under Common Core.  No Child Left Behind was at least a legislative initiative, passed by Congress.  But Common Core was initiated through the Executive Branch and was developed and implemented through state departments of education — composed of appointed, not elected, officials — that got on board because of Race To The Top moneys being used as an inducement for participation.  All of this was unconstitutional because the Tenth Amendment relegates control of all powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution to the several states.  Common Core got around this by saying the federal government is not telling the states what to teach, but if the states would get on board (they all got on board), the federal government would supply the standardized tests that would give the states greater feedback about whether they were meeting "standards."  Thus, states would begin teaching to the tests, the tests would be controlling, but the federal government on a technicality would not be literally "in control" of state education.

Levin: The left has completely taken over our education system.  Here's how and when it happened.  Friday night [4/14/2017] on his radio program, Conservative Review editor-in-chief Mark Levin dug deep into the systemic problems within our system of education in America.  Why are our college campuses and public schools run amok with left-leaning, socialism-loving young people who despise America's founding and its basic conservative principles?  It didn't happen over night, "it was in planning over a hundred years ago!" exclaimed Levin.

Fresno State Reports Own Professor for 'Trump Must Hang' Tweet.  Virulently anti-Trump professors — by which I mean "most professors" — feel pretty invincible.  After all, when a video recently surfaced of a professor comparing the election of Trump to a terrorist attack, the student filming it got punished.  So imagine Fresno State professor Lars Maischak's surprise last week when his tweet demanding President Trump be hung was reported to law enforcement by Fresno State's president: [...]

Taxpayer-Funded University Student Senate Drops American Flag Requirement, Citing Diversity.  The student senate at the University of California, Davis voted to stop requiring the American flag at senate meetings.  Student senators at the taxpayer-funded school decided to change a rule requiring the display of the U.S. flag because "the concept of United States of America and patriotism is different for every individual," reports Campus Reform.  UC Davis student senator Jose Meneses introduced the bill, Senate Bill 76, which prompted the change.  In the bill, he observed that the student senate had frequently been flouting its own rules about displaying the flag, anyway.

Students Act like Little Fascists Because They Refuse to Grow Up.  Fascists are not people who have been duped into committing horrible atrocities; they are, instead, people who obstinately refuse to grow up and for that reason insist — with brutal violence if need be — that the world parrot back to them their own narrow prejudices and idiotic ideas.

Republican Complacence in the Face of Public University Radicalization.  Herein lies a cautionary tale.  If publicly funded higher education can be hijacked in America's most conservative state, under the noses of a legislature with lopsided Republican majorities in both houses, and with a Republican governor and Republican lieutenant governor, it can (and likely will) happen in your state — if you let it.  Gregory L. Fenves, president of the University of Texas at Austin since 2015, is apparently intent on remaking the place in the image of his alma mater (B.S., 1980; Ph.D., 1984), the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught for 20 years before moving in 2008 to UT as dean of the engineering school. [...] While Fenves has steered clear of the flagrant cronyism and corruption that plagued the university under Powers, he has promoted a left-wing political agenda that is even more troubling.

Metastasizing Academic Cancer.  College diversity agendas are little more than a call for ideological conformity.  Diversity only means racial, sex and sexual orientation quotas.  In pursuit of this agenda, colleges spend billions of dollars on offices of diversity and inclusion, diversity classes, and diversity indoctrination.  The last thing that diversity hustlers want is diversity in ideas.  By the way, the next time you hear a college president boasting about how diverse his college is, ask him how many Republican faculty members there are in his journalism, psychology, English and sociology departments.  In many cases, there are none, and in others, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans might be 20-to-1.  Nearly 100 percent of political campaign contributions from liberal arts faculty go to Democrats.  At Cornell University, for example, 97 percent of contributions from faculty went to Democrats.  At Georgetown University, it was 96 percent.

Socialist indoctrination in the public schools is paying off:
Poll: Most young people say gov't should pay for health care.  A GenForward poll says a majority of people ages 18 to 30 think the federal government should be responsible for making sure Americans have health insurance. [...] The most popular element of the law is allowing young adults to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26, which is favored by 75 percent of 18-30 year olds.

Academia:  The New Gestapo.  When Chester Evans Finn, Jr., a former United States Assistant Secretary of Education, observed in 1989 that university campuses had become "islands of repression in a sea of freedom," he was anticipating a troubling and prevalent trend now poisoning academia, namely, the suppression of free speech.  With alarming regularity, speakers are shouted down, booed, jeered, and barraged with vitriol, all at the hands of groups who give lip service to the notion of academic free speech, and who demand it when their speech is at issue, but have no interest in listening to, or letting others listen to, ideas that contradict their own world view.  This is the tragic and inevitable result of a decades of grievance-based victimism by self-designated groups who frame their rights and demands on identity politics and who have been successful in weaponizing this victim status to stifle debate.

Your Tax Dollars At Work:  Subsidizing Elite Colleges That Produce Intolerant Bigots.  In early March, distinguished author and social scientist Charles Murray was scheduled to talk at Middlebury College, a Vermont school that charges $64,000 a year in tuition.  Several students erupted in noisy demonstrations that ended up with the 74-year-old Murray being shoved and Middlebury political science professor Allison Singer in a neck brace.  The attack was so vicious and unwarranted that even some liberals who normally ignore such outbursts when they target conservatives were shocked.  They should hardly have been surprised.  Elite schools that cater mainly to the children of wealthy parents have become havens for militant, narrow-minded and often-violent bigots.

Socialism's Rising Popularity Threatens America's Future.  How did we get here?  The popularity of Bernie Sanders, whose 2016 presidential campaign was marked by an altruistic spirit and a consistent value system, is of course not the cause of this movement in public opinion but rather an indicator of it.  Many Americans have forgotten the lessons of the Cold War and the disasters witnessed in the crumbling economies and failed polities of Communist and socialist countries in the 1990s.  Communism was on its last leg, it appeared, and its little brother socialism was not far behind.  Little did we know that the fires of socialism were being stoked in corners all across America where it is held in higher regard than in nations that have suffered under it.  It is obvious where such thinking abounds and continues to spread:  in our colleges and universities.  The ideologies of professors and educators have proven stronger than facts:  The "benefits" of socialism and Communism are taught from the Ivy League to the local community college.  A generation has been taught a lie, and they now believe it.

Today's Riot-Prone Mobs Are A Product Of America's Cult-Like Education System.  Today's street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision.  The radical Left's systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies.  It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free.  Those features include freedom of expression, civil discourse, the Socratic method of figuring out truth, value of the individual, and a common knowledge of the classics of history and literature that help us understand what's universal in the human experience.  All of that had to go.  Now, as we see students marching to demonize as "fascists" proponents of free speech, their ignorance is in full view.  This is really a full frontal attack on the rule of law, the Constitution, and a system of checks and balances that guards against the consolidation of centralized power.  That's the whole point of the education these students have been fed.

Some on the Left Now Criticize the Students They Created.  In the last few weeks, there has been a spate of columns by writers on the left condemning the left-wing college students who riot, take over university buildings, and shout down speakers they differ with.  These condemnations, coming about 50 years too late, should not be taken seriously. [...] Here's the problem:  It is the Left that transformed universities into the moral and intellectual wastelands most now are.  It is the Left that created the moral monsters known as left-wing students who do not believe in free speech, let alone tolerance.  It is the Left that has taught generations of young Americans that America is essentially a despicable society, racist and xenophobic to its core.  It is the Left that came up with the lie that the university has been overrun by a "culture of rape."  It is the Left that taught generations of Americans that everyone on the right is sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, racist, and bigoted.  It is the Left that is anti-intellectual, teaching students to substitute feelings for reason.

Obama's Snowflakes.  It is not necessary for the hard-left to win over a majority of their targeted demographics.  They only need to create a vocal, domineering minority that gets their hands on the levers of power and money.  Nowhere do we see the success of this strategy more than on college campuses.  Jobs for radicals was Obama's major jobs initiative:  get progressives hired on campus, where they recruit thousands of young people, encouraging vulnerable kids to major in grievance studies, then use threats and funds from the federal government, and campus agitation to require more hiring of grievance professors and staff, more power for the hard left.

The Left's Romance with Violence.  Modern liberal culture has built an educational system politicizing every study of nature and human value, a system of intellectual slavery that is good only for the master.  The system binds generations of students to an ideological post; and their ability to reason effectively extends no further than the length of their chains, for their instruction is the only truth they need to know. [...] Their handbooks tell us that self-reliance is now considered anti-social; that intellectual honesty serves only to weaken one's commitment to the new liberal order, and that a personal sense of right and wrong can only stain the collective purity of correct thought.

SJP: Jew-Hatred Dressed Up As 'Justice'.  Founded at UC Berkeley in October of 2000, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a highly influential campus organization with chapters based at approximately 200 American colleges and universities, where it organizes and sponsors anti-Israel events and campaigns — more actively than any other student group in the nation. [...] The most significant and influential supporter of SJP is American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which was established in 2005 by none other than SJP co-founder Hatem Bazian.  Writes Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD):  "AMP provides speakers, training, printed materials, a so-called 'Apartheid Wall,' and [financial] grants to SJP activists.  AMP even has a campus coordinator on staff whose job is to work directly with SJP and other pro-BDS campus groups across the country.  According to an email it sent to subscribers, AMP spent $100,000 on campus activities in 2014 alone."  Further, AMP has co-sponsored events with various SJP chapters.  At least eight of AMP's current board members, key officials, and close allies were previously members of now-defunct Islamic extremist groups that funded terrorist activities.>

The suspension of a conservative student is lifted three months after he defended himself and Donald Trump.  Donald Trump's victory, said human-sexuality instructor Olga Perez Stable Cox, was "an act of terrorism" — one made worse because "the people leading the assault are among us."  She said the nation is back to "being in a civil war," made references to white supremacy, and argued the election attacked "our sense of what it means to be an American and the things that we stand for."  One of those "among us" was Caleb O'Neil.  A campaigner for Trump and student in Cox's class, O'Neil recorded a video of the diatribe and brought the matter to the attention of school officials.  When it became clear nothing would come of his complaint, O'Neil said he released the video on social media.  It went viral, and quickly became a national news story because it reinforced the kind of intimidation conservative students often complain about.  Instead of dealing with the instructor, the Orange Coast College administration — and the union representing faculty members — criticized the student for undermining the college's commitment in open dialogue.  In mid-February, the administration sent O'Neil a letter that reads as if it came from the pen of a Soviet-era bureaucrat.

Another Teacher Exposed as a Leftist Radical.  [Scroll down]  It seems today, teachers are doing everything but teaching.  They join and sometimes organize protests, marches and sit-ins.  They advocate for every wacky liberal cause imaginable, and from the sound of some, they appear to not know enough to teach the subject for which they are being paid.  But really, many are being paid to indoctrinate — not teach.  And the last thing they want to do is be discovered as fraud activists merely posing as teachers, which is why some are unilaterally demanding they not be recorded in class.

Iowa senator wants political balance among university professors.  A bill in the Iowa Senate seeks to achieve greater political diversity among professors at the state's Board of Regents universities.  Senate File 288 would institute a hiring freeze until the number of registered Republicans and Democrats on the university faculty fall within 10 percent of each other.  "I'm under the understanding that right now they can hire people because of diversity," said the bill's author, Sen. Mark Chelgren, R-Ottumwa.  "They want to have people of different thinking, different processes, different expertise.  So this would fall right into category with what existing hiring practices are."

Don't spend a cent on colleges that teach Leftist indoctrination.  Thursday evening [2/16/2017] on "The Mark Levin Show," Conservative Review's editor in chief covered the story of Southern California college freshman Caleb O'Neil, who was suspended for videotaping his instructor vilifying President Trump after the election.  The professor in question, a gay Latina, referred to Trump's election as an "act of terrorism."  O'Neil took the recording to the local chapter of College Republicans, which shared the video after complaints to school administration led nowhere.  For this, he was punished.

Student who recorded his professor describing Trump's election win as 'an act of terrorism' is suspended by Californian college.  A Republican student who filmed his professor describing Trump's election win as an 'act of terrorism' has been suspended by his college.  Caleb O'Neil filmed Olga Perez Stable Cox, 66, labeling the president a 'white supremacist' during a psychology and human sexuality class at Orange Coast College, California, in December.  He anonymously sent the clip to the college's Republican body for it to be shared online, prompting a barrage of complaints against Cox who critics said should not thrust her political views on students.

Orange Coast College student suspended for secret recording speaks out.  An Orange Coast College student who faces a suspension for secretly filming a teacher in class making anti-Donald Trump comments filed an appeal Wednesday [2/15/2017] with the school.  Flanked by his attorney and students who came out in support, Caleb O'Neil, 19, spoke publicly about his experience for the first time during a news conference at the Costa Mesa college.

Teacher: I Lost $100 Bet Because Trump Wasn't Shot.  Jane Germaine said her son's English teacher at Rancho Campana High School told the class that she lost a $100 bet because President Donald Trump had not been shot on Inauguration Day.  Mrs. Germaine tells me the teacher's remarks were troubling.  "A public school teacher using classroom time to share with students how she lost a bet because the president was not shot on Inauguration Day is beyond reprehensible to me and I do not see how the school district does not find this troubling as well," she told me.  And it turned out not to be the first time she's heard about teachers at the high school making politically-charged statements in the classroom.

The Handmaidens of Hatred.  Hatred of Americas founding principles was pushed early on by Howard Zinn, the loony Marxist who now controls the narrative of our history books.  His writings were filled with partial truths, half-truths, and outright lies about American history.  He cleverly inserted himself into the lexicon of hate in the attempt to help the global communist revolution come to America.  He has become the most widely read historian today — and has taught an entire generation, and an entire party, to hate their own country.

Today's Riot-Prone Mobs Are A Product Of America's Cult-Like Education System.  Today's street theater is the culmination of decades of radical education revision.  The radical Left's systematic attack on the study of Western Civilization has essentially been an attack against the study of any and all civil societies.  It is an attack on the features that make a society civil and free.  Those features include freedom of expression, civil discourse, the Socratic method of figuring out truth, value of the individual, and a common knowledge of the classics of history and literature that help us understand what's universal in the human experience.  All of that had to go.  Now, as we see students marching to demonize as "fascists" proponents of free speech, their ignorance is in full view.

Duke University Training Students For Anti-Trump Activism.  Duke University is sponsoring a workshop for the purpose of training students to engage in activism against President Trump's administration.  LGBTQA activist Mandy Carter will lead the February 15 event, which is titled "Ideas for Activism in the Time of Trump."

Teacher fired after writing 'Only good Trump supporter is a dead Trump supporter'.  While substitute teacher David Colin was supposed to be watching students in Rutherford County Schools, he was instead posting about his hatred for Donald Trump supporters on Facebook.  "The only good Trump supporter is a dead Trump supporter," Colin allegedly wrote at 9:29 a.m. Nov. 9.

Study: Liberal-to-conservative faculty ratio in academia will blow your mind.  As the largely conservative "Greatest Generation" faded into retirement in the 1990s, "Baby Boomers" holding increasingly liberal worldviews came to dominate university faculty.  Studies released by the Heterodox Academy, tasking themselves with studying the evolving hegemony of "progressives" in academia, have revealed a significant lack of diversity in political thought encompassing various universities and academic departments.  So dominant is leftist ideology that across university departments in nearly all states, an average ratio of 10:1 exists among faculty who identify as liberal versus conservative.

Principal says Trump is worse than 9/11 terrorist attacks.  The principal of a fancy New York City private school says the election of President Trump is worse than the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.  Steve Nelson, principal of the Calhoun School, fired off a hate-filled email to parents blasting the president.  He also said Trump's election would be more devastating than Vietnam, Watergate and the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

California College Prohibits Recording Lectures After Professor's Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant.  Clearly they afraid of further humiliation because their so-called "professors" can't control themselves.  Let's reverse roles and pretend there was a professor somewhere who enjoyed anti-Obama diatribes.  We surmise secret recordings of this person would be widely available moments after recording and the media would gladly run with it 24/7.  But a nutty professor goes crazy over and Trump and hey, we can't have the public seeing that.

College Warns Against Recording in Class After Prof's Anti-Trump Rant Goes Viral.  Shortly after the election, Orange Coast Community College professor Olga Perez Stable Cox launched into a tirade during her class on human sexuality, calling Donald Trump a "white supremacist" and Mike Pence "one of the most anti-gay humans in this country."  While it's unlikely she was the only professor to make such statements, she did have the misfortune of being recorded by a student who was less than appreciative of her behavior.  OCCC claims they've launched an investigation.  However, their target seems to be students, and not the professor.

College Forbids Classroom Recordings After Video of Prof Trashing Trump Goes Viral.  Orange Coast College has forbidden students from making in-classroom recordings without permission after a video went viral last semester showing one instructor describing Donald Trump as a "white supremacist" and his election as "an act of terrorism."  Signs posted on campus warned students that unauthorized recordings were prohibited under the Student Code of Conduct and California Education Code.  California law also prohibits the recording of private conversation without the consent of all interlocutors.

California professor in hiding after video of her anti-Trump rant surfaces.  She talked tough about Trump and her supporters — and now she has gone into hiding to avoid the criticism, including death threats.  Olga Perez Stable Cox, a professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., left the state Monday after a video of her anti-Trump rant during a lecture was posted on Facebook, the Orange County Register reported.  "Our nation is divided.  We have been assaulted.  It is an act of terrorism," Cox said in the video.

The Editor says...
If a left-wing indoctrinator can't tell the difference between an election and an assault, or an act of terrorism, he or she is unfit to teach.

A professor called Trump's election an 'act of terrorism.' Then she became the victim of terror.  For weeks now, nightmares have been jolting Olga Perez Stable Cox awake several hours before sunrise.  Sometimes she's able to fall back asleep, but more often she finds herself lying in the dark, body tossing and thoughts racing, until she's reduced to tears.  The morning offers fleeting distractions but no permanent relief — a cup of coffee, some Christmas decorating, maybe a phone call from concerned friends.  But the blinds in her home will remain closed, her door will remain locked and the formerly outgoing professor — a woman who has always thrived by connecting with others — will spend another day isolated by fear, weeping, too scared to walk outside.

The Editor says...
I see.  A professor goes on a misguided rant and gets caught on video, and is now portrayed as the victim by the Washington Post.

Oh wait — now she has no regrets.  Just depends on which newspaper you read.

OCC instructor: No regrets calling Trump's election 'an act of terrorism'.  A community college teacher who attracted national attention for describing the election of Donald Trump as "an act of terrorism" said her comments were meant to comfort her students, not ignite political controversy.  Olga Perez Stable Cox defended her statements — secretly videotaped by a student in clips that went viral online and made national news last month.  "I didn't say anything wrong or do anything wrong.  I didn't say anything that thousands of Americans weren't feeling or saying," Cox, 66, said in a recent interview at her home.  "I don't regret it."

Too many Democratic shills are working on college campuses.  Everyone knows higher education is inundated with liberalism.  But according to a new study, the problem may be more extreme than anyone realized.  The study, published in Econ Journal Watch, examined the ratio of Democrat tenure-track professors to Republican tenure-track professors at 40 elite private and public colleges.  Of more than 7,000 professors included in the study, only 314 were registered Republicans.  The most elite among the 40 schools, Ivy League institutions, were comparatively more liberal, but all the institutions analyzed in the study revealed the same overarching theme:  Democrats dominate academia.

High school teacher stages mock assassination of Trump.  A Texas high school art teacher has been placed on administrative leave after video surfaced showing her "shooting" President Donald Trump inside a classroom while screaming, "Die!"  The Secret Service field office in Irving tells me they are aware of the incident, but declined further comment.

Dallas teacher 'assassinates' Donald Trump in class with water pistol.  A Dallas high school art teacher is in hot water for firing a water pistol at a projection of Donald Trump during last Friday's inauguration.  The teacher yells "DIE!!" while repeatedly firing the gun.  The incident appears to take place in a classroom, but it's unclear whether students were present.

Presidential protestors don't understand America.  It's time that Americans demand that their schools once again teach American history (so students know that the popular vote winner does not always win the presidential election), American government (so they know we are a republic and not a democracy), the Constitution (so they understand our bicameral federal and election system), and absolute truth (that personal opinion must submit to truth and reality).  If we don't make these changes, we will not want to imagine, much less experience, the horrifying results from Abraham Lincoln's warning that "the philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

The Brainwashing of a Nation.  Why are the hallowed halls of the Ivy League institutions offering worthless degrees designed to keep graduates from obtaining economic independence and thus remain perpetually immature students?  Because that was the whole plan, wasn't it?  Take the young brains and promise them the world without them having to work hard for anything.  Make them feel that everything is a right that others have to pay for.  Fight against the status quo of a good work ethic to achieve success.  Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and other protest organizations were perfect examples of blind subservience to Marxist dogma and ignorance of reality.

Teacher draws Trump as Hitler.  A classroom conversation about President Donald Trump's inauguration took a very ugly turn when a California high school teacher drew a caricature of the president as Adolf Hitler.  It happened Friday [1/20/2017] when an English teacher at Verdugo Hills High School drew a Hitler mustache on President Trump's face.  A student in the classroom reportedly posted video of the image on Snapchat.  A source with ties to the school sent me a series of photos taken from the video.  "The teacher told the students that Trump and Hitler are one in the same," said the person who sent me the photographs.

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The Trump-hating  teacher  leftist indoctrinator is black, but I guess that's supposed to be irrelevant, because the news coverage doesn't mention it.

Student group sues after members arrested for handing out copies of Constitution.  Student members of the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at Kellogg Community College are suing their school after they were arrested for passing out copies of the U.S. Constitution.  The group says that on Sept. 20, 2016, KCC students Michelle Gregoire, Brandon Withers and three others were in an open area in front of KCC's Binda Performing Arts Center handing out pocket Constitutions and talking with students about YAL.  The students allege in their federal lawsuit that campus administrators and security approached them and told them they were violating the school's Solicitation Policy because they were passing out the Constitutions without prior approval.  They were also informed they could not engage in such activity at that particular location.  The students allege that an administrator told them that "engaging [students] in conversation on their way to educational places" violated the Solicitation Policy because it was an "obstruction to their education" to ask them questions such as "Do you like freedom and liberty?"

Schools to black out Trump's inaugural address.  Students at Independence High School in Williamson County, Tennessee, will not be allowed to watch President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration during class on Friday, according to one student and her mother.

Michigan teacher won't let students watch Trump inauguration speech.  A teacher in Michigan reportedly will not allow his fourth-grade students to watch President-elect Trump's inauguration speech Friday.  In an email to parents Monday, Brett Meteyer said he will let students watch Trump's inauguration ceremony, but will not show the speech because he fears what the 45th president could say.

NEA urges teachers, students to protest Trump at schools.  The National Education Association is urging students and teachers to skip school Thursday to protest the presidency of Donald Trump at school.  Promoting a "National Day of Action" on Thursday, the NEA said, "On Thursday, January 19, the day before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, thousands of students, parents, educators and community members from across the nation will hold rallies in front of school buildings to inclusively stand up for all students."

Twenty Non-Questions on Campus.  Merriam-Webster defines dogma as "a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or doubted."  On too many college campuses, certain beliefs are promoted just that dogmatically.  Students are not allowed to challenge them. [...] Those beliefs are:
  •   There is a campus rape culture that encourages the sexual assault of women.
  •   A woman accusing a man of rape has vastly more credibility than a man who claims his innocence.
  •   The earth is getting dramatically warmer due to human activity, and altering that activity can stop or slow this trend.
  •   Israeli settlers and the Israeli government are as bad as or worse than Palestinian terrorists.
  •   Fundamentalist Christians are morally the same as Muslim terrorists.
  •   Any military action in the Middle East creates more problems than it solves.
  •   Criticizing Islam as a religion of terrorism is an example of Islamophobia.
  •   Religious freedom is less important than acceptance of sexual minorities.
  •   Society would generally be better off if traditional religion disappeared.
  •   Marriage between those of the same sex should be seen as the same as marriage between those of different sexes.
  •   Trans women (men who identify as women) should be allowed to use the same facilities as biological women.
  •   The physical differences between men and women play no role in economic disparities between them.
  •   A woman has a right to an abortion for whatever reason she chooses.
  •   Black men are targeted by the police.
  •   Anti-Hispanic racism is an important part of what motivates those who oppose immigration reform.
  •   President Obama has been criticized more than previous presidents because of his race.
  •   Raising taxes on the wealthy will improve our economy.
  •   Political conservatives are either greedy manipulators exploiting the marginalized, or sincere dupes voting against their own economic interests.
  •   There is little if any correlation between hard work and economic success.
  •   The United States is more damaging to the world than other western industrialized nations.

Anti-Trump Derangement in Los Angeles Schools.  As Inauguration Day nears, "Post-Traumatic Trump Disorder" is ubiquitous.  Many of the president-elect's supporters "suffer" from excessive jubilance, bordering on ecstasy, while many of his detractors are wallowing in angst, panic, and rage, and the latter, PTTD group is making life miserable for children across the country.  Los Angeles may be ground zero for the disorder.  The United Teachers of Los Angeles — or, more aptly, the United Trump-Loathers Association — led by its radical, agenda-driven president, Alex Caputo-Pearl, is planning a major demonstration before school on January 19, the day before the new president is sworn in.  The demonstrators are being instructed to launch a tweetstorm to Trump (#schooltrump) and hold symbolic shields at school sites, to show that "educators are united with our students and our communities against Trump's racially charged and anti-immigrant proposals and that we will continue to fight attempts to privatize public education."

Teachers in Philadelphia plan a Black Lives Matter week.  A teachers' organization in Philadelphia is encouraging teachers to wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts and buttons and provide lessons on the movement every day for one week.

Study:  Psychology Textbooks [are] Riddled with 'Politically Correct' Nonsense.  The study, titled "Education or Indoctrination:  The Accuracy of Introductory Psychology Textbooks in Covering Controversial Topics and Urban Legends about Psychology," was published this month by Christopher Ferguson, a professor at Stetson University.  Ferguson analyzed 24 commonly assigned introductory psychology textbooks, and examined how each text handled a number contentious topics, and sought to determine whether the topics were presented in a "fair, comprehensive and accurate" fashion.  Topics included "media violence," "stereotype threat," "evolution and mating choices," and others issues related to gender, race, and child development.

Professor tweets 'all I want for Christmas is white genocide'.  The Caucasians among the tender young minds exposed to Professor George Ciccariello-Maher at Drexel University are on notice that their teacher wants them exterminated because of their race.  Not exactly a welcoming atmosphere.

Warning to Democrats:  The rules have changed.  After decades of indoctrination in the public schools and universities, a population of newly minted liberals has filled the big cities and the coasts, feeling entitled to win elections, even when they don't vote.  Merely disagreeing with them incites them to anger, sometimes to violence.  Thus, they rarely if ever hear what we conservatives have to say.  They vilify middle America.  If you respect unborn life, they label you a woman-hater.  If you weary of your child's school being overcrowded with illegal (and illiterate) aliens, they call you a hater.  If you lose your job to a foreigner, they regard you as an angry white bigot.

Tucker Grills SUNY Prof. Who Said Trump 'Embodies White Power Movement'.  Tucker Carlson debated a New York State college professor who sent an email to 600 colleagues believed to have voted for President-elect Donald Trump, asking why they did so.  SUNY-Geneseo mathematics Professor Tony Macula asked colleagues to respond to why they "voted for a candidate who embodies the white power movement endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi[sm].

California professor caught on video calling Trump's election 'terrorism'.  A professor at a California college was caught on video calling Donald Trump's election an "act of terrorism," saying the nation had been "assaulted" — and the local teacher's union was quick to threaten the student who made the recording once it was posted online this week.  [Video clip]

A fascinating peek into the mentality of the liberal bubble.  Frederick deBoer is newly-minted PhD in English working at Brooklyn College in support roles ("Academic Assessment Manager"; "WAC Coordinator") lacking the crucial word "professor" in his title.  His blog post titled, "condescending, certain, and incoherent" is drawing a lot of attention, including a link on heavyweight Instapundit.  The picture deBoer paints is of people who seem to be in a collective trance.  Their assumptions are mistaken for facts, and are never enumerated, much less discussed.  They remain hazy, varying from person to person, because those assumptions are never challenged: [...] Unless people like deBoer can yank the leftists out of their political trance, they will be digging their own political graves.  At least 70% of the country laughs at the extremes of campus leftists.  Political strategies based on a shared fantasy have a poor chance of success.

Parents fuming over Pledge of Allegiance 'waiver'.  Florida's Pledge of Allegiance waiver shouldn't surprise those who are keeping up with the attack on patriotism in our public school system.  What is surprising, though, is who's responsible for it.

Student Kicked Out Of Class For Disagreeing That Trump Election Was As Bad As 9/11.  From President Krista Newkirk on down, the Converse community invested a huge part of its identity in Democrat Hillary Clinton shattering the last remaining glass ceiling in America.  The only acceptable sentiments to express since Wednesday have been grief and outrage.  Feelings are so raw that the few contrarians on campus have become targets.  One student even claims she got kicked out of class after she challenged her professor's comparison of Trump's election to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Ohio State Student After Attack: 'The Left Is More Scared of Trump Than of ISIS'.  A student at The Ohio State University compared her college's response to Trump's victory to its response to the stabbing attack earlier this week.  She noted, disturbingly, that liberals seemed more scared of a Trump presidency than an attack inspired by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS).  "After this terrorist attack I've truly learned that the left is more scared of conservatism and Trump and Republicans than they are of ISIS and terrorists," Mackenzie, a student who wished to keep her last name anonymous, said on Sean Hannity's radio show Thursday [12/1/2016].  "After the election, my professors went crazy," Mackenzie told Hannity.  "I remember calling my mom and saying, 'You would think Hitler just got elected and massacred half the country.'  It was ridiculous.  Trump was called a Nazi, a rapist, a white supremacist, one of my professors actually said we should be terrified because Mike Pence believes women don't have the right to exist, or deserve to exist is actually what she said."

Hampshire College relents after veterans protest, raises American flag on campus.  The American flag once again flies over Hampshire College.  A tumultuous November in Amherst, Massachusetts, that involved stolen and burned American flags may be followed by a calmer December.  Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash announced Friday that a moratorium on flying the flag has ended.  The decision comes less than one week since roughly 1,000 veterans descended upon the campus to protest the flag's absence.

Hampshire College returns US flag to full staff; president denies playing politics.  Hampshire College in Massachusetts raised the American flag back to full staff Friday after outraged veterans protested the school's decision to stop flying all flags across campus.  The college in Amherst had lowered the U.S. flag to half-staff after Election Day.  The flag was found burned on Veterans Day, and the school chose to stop flying it — and any other flags — a week later.

Ohio State Knife Attacker Abdul Artan Was Taking a Class About Microaggressions.  Before he was shot dead while attempting to murder a bunch of people with a car and a butcher's knife, Ohio State University student Abdul Artan — a Somali-born Pakistani immigrant who reportedly became radicalized after learning about injustices committed against fellow Muslims — was enrolled in a class called "Crossing Identity Boundaries."  In fact, he had a group project on "microaggressions" due later this week.  The assignment, worth 15 percent of his grade, required students to find a dozen examples of microaggressions on social media and explain which identity groups were the victims, according to the syllabus.  The purpose of the class is to promote "intercultural leadership" and transform students into "actively engaged, socially just global citizen/leaders."  It seems to go well beyond merely educating students, though — it actually requires them to become social justice activists.

Castro Defender:  He Was 'A Symbol For People Seeking Freedom, Opportunity'.  A history professor from a western New York college clashed with Tucker Carlson over the merits of late dictator Fidel Castro's decades-long rule in Cuba.  Rene de la Pedraja told Carlson that much of the anger professed by Cuba toward the United States stems from assassination attempts on Castro stretching back to 1959.  De la Pedraja, a professor at Canisius College in Buffalo, said Castro was often a "symbol throughout the world for people who are seeking freedom or seeking opportunity."

College Declines American Flag — But Will Take U.S. Taxpayer Dollars.  The Boston Business Journal reports, Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. may decline to fly the U.S. flag — but has no plans to decline any of the more than $7 million it and its students recieved from the U.S. government last year.  Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash announced the decision to stop flying any flags on the school's flagpole for a period of time following a burning of the flag on the campus after the presidential election.

See College Students' Responses When Asked to Compare Castro to Trump.  College students in the nation's capital thought it was a "tough question" whether former Cuban President Fidel Castro or American President-elect Donald Trump is more favorable.  [Video clip]  Many students could not give a clear answer whether they thought Castro, the Cuban dictator who died last week, or Trump was a better leader.

Hampshire College Removes U.S. Flag as Offensive.  After the tragic shooting in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, perpetrated by a young man who was shown on social media with the Confederate "battle flag," there was a national uproar to remove that flag's presence from all public buildings in the state, and eventually across the nation.  In South Carolina, Governor Nikki Haley quickly led an effort to take the flag down from the Capitol grounds.  Some even advocated digging up Confederate heroes out of public parks.  As other "Confederate" symbols came under assault, many warned that elimination of all Confederate heritage symbols was not the ultimate goal of those calling for their removal, predicting that the U.S. flag and other American symbols of national pride would soon be under attack.

Less than 3 percent of Ithaca College professors identify as Republicans.  Ithaca College has a total of 10 Republican professors between three schools: humanities, sciences and business — and four of the 10 teach in the much smaller School of Business, a survey of professors' party registrations reveals.  Of the 27 departments researched, many lacked even one Republican professor, including the History, Philosophy and Religion, and Politics departments.  Overall, 46.5 percent of professors researched are registered as Democrats, while only 2.6 percent are registered Republicans.  In total, 182 Democrat professors were identified compared to 10 Republican professors, a ratio of nearly 20 to one.

Enemies of Language.  [Scroll down]  Campus "safe space" is another vocabulary distortion.  Such places are often set-aside spots that actually discriminate on the basis of race or gender.  Likewise, college "theme houses" often admit residents on the basis of segregation by ethnicity or race — in a way that would have been considered deplorable during the Civil Rights movement.  Indeed, the word "segregation" has now virtually disappeared from our vocabulary because it could more likely apply to left-wing rather than right-wing protocols.  "Microaggression" is certainly not aggression as usually defined.  Instead, the term seeks to stifle free expression on the principle that one can still be dubbed a racist or sexist by saying something that normally would not offend anyone — at least not without arcane academic inventions of bias.  Both right-wing Nazi Germany and the left-wing Soviet Union banned old words and created new words that furthered political agendas and warped reality.

GWU Students:  Police Protection Is 'Violence' Because Cops Supported Trump.  Protesting students at George Washington University (GWU) claim forcing them to accept police protection during their marches is "violence," because many police officers supported President-elect Donald Trump.  In a list of demands assembled by several progressive student groups, GWU protesters say school officials should find a way of guaranteeing their safety during marches that doesn't involve police.  "The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the United States, has formally endorsed President-Elect Donald Trump," the list says.  "The FOP includes over 10,000 members in Washington D.C., many of which have jurisdiction over GW's campus.  Placing us in these officers' care is an act of violence, especially for Black students."

George Washington University Students Bark That Police Protection Is an "Act of Violence".  This is what happens when children reach physical if not mental adulthood without ever receiving needed spankings or even hearing the word "no": [...] What this has to do with black students is anybody's guess, but there would be plenty of criminals of color running riot on campus, assaulting and robbing the precious snowflakes like marauding Vikings, if the police were not there to maintain law and order.  The District consists largely of ghetto.

American flags, patriotism now triggering college students.  States and municipalities have pulled down the Confederate flag to avoid hurt feelings, but now Old Glory is under attack, this time from college students triggered by the flag's association with the Nov. 8 election results.  Since Donald Trump was elected president, college students across the country have mourned, protested and walked out of classrooms in despair.  Unable to cope with someone getting elected whom they disagree with, these college snowflakes have begun taking their frustration and fear out on the American flag and patriotism.

College lowers flag to half-staff, then removes it, after Trump's win sparks campus fury.  A Massachusetts college's attempt to placate upset students and faculty after Election Day backfired and then prompted officials to remove the U.S. flag from campus.  Individuals at Hampshire College were so enraged at Republican Donald Trump's Nov. 8 victory over Hillary Clinton that its U.S. flag was stolen one night and then burned before dawn on Veterans Day.  Officials lowered a third replacement to half-staff due to claims the flag represents "racism and hatred," but anger by military veterans and their families prompted the school to remove it entirely.

City school teaching kids to HATE Trump.  After being spoon-fed hateful liberal propaganda their entire lives, is there any wonder young people are rioting over the election of Donald Trump?  Our children are being taught by their teachers to be angry from a young age — and there's little parents can do to stop this outrageous indoctrination, because authorities encourage it!  San Francisco's public schools have been offered a classroom lesson plan that calls our country's president-elect a racist, sexist man who became president "by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base."  The union that represents city teachers posted the plan on its website and distributed it via an email newsletter to its more than 6,000 members.  The school district has more than 57,000 students who may be required to learn this to pass.

Higher education is awash with hysteria.  That might have helped elect Trump.  The morning after the election, normal people rose — some elated, some despondent — and went off to actual work.  But at Yale University, that incubator of late-adolescent infants, a professor responded to "heartfelt notes" from students "in shock" by making that day's exam optional.  Academia should consider how it contributed to, and reflects Americans' judgments pertinent to, Donald Trump's election.  The compound of childishness and condescension radiating from campuses is a reminder to normal Americans of the decay of protected classes — in this case, tenured faculty and cosseted students.

Maryland college calls 'America'-themed parties 'divisive and harmful'.  Students at Loyola University Maryland were recently pressured to abort plans for an "America"-themed party over concerns they might "oppress" others.  An annual "Senior 200s" celebration organized by Loyola's student government became a cause for concern after Republican Donald Trump's Election Day victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.  "I encourage you to reconsider this plan in light of the legitimate concerns raised by so many," the school's executive vice president, Sarah Donovan, told student government members in emails provided to the Daily Caller.

'Sanctuary Campus': Stanford Students Demand Illegal Alien Refugee Camp.  Students at Stanford University, an elite private institution in Silicon Valley that costs $47,940 per year to attend, marched Tuesday [11/15/2016] to demand that the lush Palo Alto grounds be turned into a "sanctuary campus" to shelter illegal aliens facing deportation under President Donald Trump.

San Francisco Teachers' Union Provides Anti-Trump Curriculum: 'Do Not Tell Them That We Have Lost'.  The United Educators of San Francisco, the union that represents teachers in the city's public schools, released a controversial guide Wednesday to teaching public school children about Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the recent election.  The guide, called the "Lesson Plan on the November 2016 Election," informs teachers that "a racist and sexist man has become the president of our country by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base," and suggests they teach children the same.

Mock assassination of Trump stirs controversy at San Antonio school.  A skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump by two 10th grade students at Marshall High School provoked anger and dismay from the parents of a student who watched it unfold last week.  Harold and Melinda Bean said that in the skit, entitled "The Assassination of Donald Trump," one of the boys made a gunfire sound effect with his cell phone as the other boy, portraying Trump, fell to the ground in mock death.  All of the students were required to submit descriptions of their English class presentations beforehand to be approved by their teacher, the parents said, but these two students in particular changed their skit afterward.

U.Va. professors ask president to stop quoting Thomas Jefferson.  Hundreds of students and faculty at the University of Virginia have asked the school's president to stop quoting President Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, because of his slave-owning past.  The letter garnered 469 signatures before being sent to University President Teresa Sullivan on Friday [11/11/2016], The Cavalier Daily reported.

The totalitarian impulse flourishes at George Mason University.  George Mason University is showing disturbing signs of embracing a totalitarian impulse, even though it is supported by the taxpayers of Virginia.  Consider that its admissions director, Andrew Bunting, did something astonishing: publicly called supporters of traditional marriage and of Donald Trump "worthless trash."

Pro-Israel Artist Threatened with 5 Years in Jail for Anti-Terror Posters at GMU.  It's not a story out of the Soviet Union though Oleg Atbashian, an artist, activist and commentator, had gotten in trouble for defying the authorities there too.  "Back in my Soviet dissident days, when I was collecting signatures in defense of Andrei Sakharov, I was screamed at, threatened, and lectured by the KGB and Communist funcionaries.  What I never imagined was that in the United States, the land of the free, I would not only be subjected to similar treatment, but go to jail," Oleg writes.  But that's exactly what happened to him.  Oleg's mixture of art and satire took off with Communists for Kerry.  He's the mastermind behind The People's Cube and his tweaking of the radical left and its alliance with Islamic terrorists allowed him to continue the same fight he had pursued in the days of the Soviet Union.  But as the US comes to resemble the USSR, political satire and activism carries a serious price.

Pomona College sends students to protest Trump.  On Friday [11/11/2016], Pomona College's Draper Center for Community Partnerships informed the Pomona community that it will provide students with funding to participate in Saturday's anti-Trump rally in downtown Los Angeles. [...] Information in the form includes a link to the Facebook event page of the protest, named "March in Los Angeles against Trump!"  The march's event page states that "it is our time as a movement to unite and fight back against Donald Trump and what he wants to do to this country!"  Further information on the form included a number to reach an on-call dean via Campus Safety "in event of arrest or other emergencies," as well as a link to a guide on protesters' rights.  A similar protest on Friday in Los Angeles resulted in the arrest of 187 adults and eight juveniles, although the Saturday demonstration was described by national media as more "peaceful."

Some New York City students allowed to skip class to join in Trump protests.  History teachers at an elite New York City high school reportedly allowed their students to skip class Tuesday [11/15/2016] to join protests at the Trump Tower despite objections from fellow educators.  Sources told the New York Post reported that about 200 kids from Beacon High School in Manhattan joined other students in the city to demonstrate in front of Trump Tower.  However, English teachers at the same school firmly opposed the history teachers' decisions.  The students' English teachers told them that they'd be penalized if they skipped out on their class.

Adopting 'sanctuary campus' status urged at Oberlin.  Students and faculty today will march in support of making Oberlin College a sanctuary campus in response to the election of Donald Trump as president.  A petition was submitted to college President Marvin Krislov on Monday [11/14/2016] by a group of six faculty members asking him to investigate how the college could become a sanctuary campus as a way of offering protection.  With the petition, Oberlin joins a national movement of colleges and universities asking to be a sanctuary campus in reaction to Trump and his campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

Hundreds walk out of Stanford classes, demand 'sanctuary campus'.  More than 500 Stanford University students, faculty and staff members walked out of classrooms and ducked out of jobs Tuesday [11/15/2016] in a protest of the policies of Donald Trump, the latest in a wave of Bay Area and national demonstrations against the president-elect.  Some of the Stanford dissidents, though, came with a concrete demand for the university's administrators:  investigating the possibility of the South Bay campus serving as a sanctuary against the sort of millions of deportations Trump has said he'll seek as president.

The Editor says...
That's nothing that a search warrant and a big ugly raid couldn't overcome.

Report: Students Demand That Their Classmates Remove 'Trump/Pence' Flag Because It Is 'Harassment'.  A student at St.  John's University in Queens, N.Y., is claiming that his classmates received a letter from some of the residents in their dorm, Century Hall, demanding that the students take down a "Trump/Pence" flag displayed in their window on the grounds that it constitutes "harassment."  "This may not matter to you," explains the letter, a photo of which was sent via e-mail to National Review by a senior who asked to remain anonymous "for professional reasons."

College Faculties Are Mostly Leftist and Becoming More So.  A paper recently published in Econ Journal Watch, "Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology," shows that something almost everyone believes to be true — that college faculties in the social sciences are predominantly left of center — is in fact true. [...] Authors Mitchell Langbert, Anthony Quain, and Daniel Klein describe themselves as classical liberals who find both major parties to be "by and large, horrible," so the study can't be dismissed as merely partisan griping.  They describe their findings modestly, writing, "Other than indicating that Democratic-to-Republican ratios are even higher than we had thought (particularly in Economics and History), and that an awful lot of departments have zero Republicans, and that, yes, the ratios are higher at more prestigious universities and lower among older professors and among professors with higher-ranking titles, and that there are some regional effects, the paper does not offer new results of any great consequence."

The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Trump Hysterics.  [Scroll down]  College campuses all over the country sent blast emails to their students expressing their heartfelt understanding of the horror they must be experiencing due to the election results.  They offered numerous locations of "safe" or "supporting" spaces they could come to for relief.  In almost all cases, it was the administrations and faculties who were melting down as hysterically as Rachel Maddow did on MSNBC.  On numerous campuses, students marched and rioted, vandalized and burned stuff to protest Trump's victory.

Quit Whining, Liberals.  You Brought Trump on Yourselves.  Readers of PJ Media are likely familiar with the explosion of political correctness on college campuses.  While the trend traces much further back, the recent fracas reached a fever pitch in the fall of last year:  students complained that Halloween costumes constituted "cultural appropriation" and "microaggressions."  The very idea of a microaggression — where speech or actions not intended to be insulting can be interpreted that way anyway — is arguably anti-free speech.  But students took the idea and ran with it, demanding censorship.  Fro[m] then on, things just started getting worse.  A state university had a "stop white people" event for RA training.  Racially segregated housing is making a comeback — only now it's black dorms ruled off limits to white people.  Last month, University of California-Berkeley students formed a blockade to keep white people from using a bridge.  Oh, and if you even disagree with "safe spaces," you're a white supremacist.

A Public University Makes Students Choose Between Their First Amendment Rights And Graduation.  Just how desperately college and university administrators want to control what students say lest anyone take offense or feel "harassed" is revealed by a policy adopted at Iowa State University (ISU).  ISU students are told that they must abide by the school's policy against "harassment" of anyone in the university community.  Students must complete a "training program" consisting of 118 slides online, covering the university's non-harassment policies and procedures, and then pledge never to violate them.  But what if a student thinks that the ISU policy goes way beyond preventing true harassment and amounts to an abridgement of his rights under the First Amendment?

Math professor urges students to vote for Hillary Clinton.  A math professor recently went on a tangent in class, telling students that this is the "scariest" presidential election he's ever witnessed and that students should vote for the candidate who does not detest women and immigrants — a clear jab at Republican candidate Donald Trump. [...] While [Professor Peter] Rosnick insisted he was not telling students who to vote for, he used common Democrat talking points against Trump as he spoke to students on Oct. 21 about the upcoming election.

College textbook: 'Capitalism explains the persistence of poverty'.  Newsflash — colleges are teaching the opposite of truth.  In today's example comes word of a college textbook that states "the basic tenet of capitalism — who gets what is determined by private profit rather than by collective need — explains the persistence of poverty."  The textbook, In Conflict and Order:  Understanding Society, is required reading for a sociology class at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Campus Reform reports, adding it also instructs students that American exceptionalism has "racist overtones."  "In a section on 'Cultural Values in the United States,' the book explains why American values such as 'competition,' 'work,' 'progress,' and 'individual freedom' are detrimental to society," Campus Reform adds.  "According to the authors of the book, the United States' emphasis on hard work causes Americans to 'assume that poor people deserve to be poor' as opposed to recognizing a 'social system that systematically thwarts efforts by the poor.'"

Textbook claims American exceptionalism has 'racist overtones'.  A sociology textbook in use at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne teaches that American exceptionalism has "racist overtones" and that capitalism is to blame for "the persistence of poverty."  The book also asserts that American values such as "competition," "work," "progress," and "individual freedom" are detrimental to society.  "In Conflict and Order" is the only textbook used in the introductory Sociology course, which also fulfills a 3-credit general education requirement.

2,000 Seattle teachers wear 'Black Lives Matter' shirts to class.  About 2,000 Seattle educators wore Black Lives Matter shirts at their schools Wednesday to call for racial equity in education.  Schools across the district held "Black Lives Matter at School" rallies before classes began for the day.  Students, parents and teachers also wore stickers and buttons emblazoned with the "Black Lives Matter" slogan.  The purpose of the day was to affirm that "black lives matter in the public schools," according to organizers, who are members of Social Equality Educators, a group of educators within the Seattle teachers union.  Teachers also wanted to show their support for John Muir Elementary, which had its "Black Men Uniting to Change the Narrative" event canceled last month after receiving a threat over teachers' plans to wear Black Lives Matter shirts.

Seattle teachers to wear 'Black Lives Matter' T-shirts for a week, sparking debate.  About 1,000 Seattle Public Schools teachers will wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts all next week in what they say is a bid to raise awareness about racial injustice within the school district.  Throughout the week, they're encouraging teachers to have race-related lesson plans and they're offered resources to guide the conversation.  From the TV screens to social media to the classrooms at Garfield High, students are talking about racial injustices and Black Lives Matter.

Cultural Marxism Is Destroying America.  How is it that eight years after Obama promised a post-racial America and fifty-two years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, Americans are more divided by race than ever before?  It is certainly not for lack of resources being thrown at the problem.  American universities have Black Studies Departments, corporations have diversity trainers and racial staffing quotas and the mainstream media covers race issues constantly.  Despite all of this, the divisions keep worsening.  This trend is not being driven by white prejudice.  It is being driven by ideology.  The reason race relations in America continue to deteriorate is the cultural Marxist philosophies being taught relentlessly in schools and colleges across the nation.

Students instructed to compare Hitler to Trump.  Instead of parsing participles, a public high school English teacher has been using her classroom to wage an ugly propaganda campaign against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters.  "Basically, the only people who seem to be safe from this guy are white Christian males," the teacher said in a classroom discussion recorded by a student.  "Am I missing anything?  Oh, American — white, Christian, male Americans."  The unidentified teacher at North Carolina's Cedar Ridge High School even made students watch speeches delivered by Hitler and had them compare them to speeches that Trump had delivered, outraged parents tell me.

N.C. history teacher stomps American flag during free speech lesson.  A history teacher in North Carolina is facing backlash after he reportedly stomped on the U.S. flag as part of a lesson on free speech.  A parent's Facebook picture showing Lee Francis standing over a crumpled flag in his class at Massey Hill Classical High School has gone viral with more than 10,000 shares, The Fayetteville Observer reported.  Sara Taylor, whose child attends Massey Hill but is not enrolled in Mr. Francis' class, wrote that the teacher first asked students for a lighter or scissors to destroy the flag.

The Editor says...
Here's an idea:  Try walking on a Black Lives Matter flag, or a Black Liberation flag and see what kind of reaction you get.

Georgetown students say U.S. Constitution taken 'too seriously'.  An education watchdog's Constitution Day interviews on Georgetown University's campus revealed no shortage of students who said the document is outdated.  Campus Reform asked Georgetown students, who have an average SAT score of 1460 and a high school GPA of 4.01, what they thought of the document George Washington said he would "never abandon."  They overwhelmingly disagreed with the nation's first president and Revolutionary War hero.

Princeton Professor Wants High Schools Teaching How To Be Activists For Illegal Immigrants.  An activist Princeton University professor is urging high schools to teach students how to advocate for immigration reform for illegal immigrants to the United States.  Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an assistant classics professor at Princeton, writes in an op-ed in the New York Times that he is pro-immigration reform and that high school students should be taught about how to fight for illegal immigrants in school.  He also does not differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.

High school football fans told to stop chanting "USA, USA".  Patriotism is under fire in Western Michigan.  The OK Conference, representing 50 schools, has announced a crackdown on fans chanting, "USA" at football games.  They are also implementing strict rules on flags and political banners.

Professor Tears Down Students' 9/11 Memorial Posters.  Students watched Thursday morning [9/8/2016] as a professor at Saddleback College tore down their posters memorializing the lives lost to terrorism on 9/11.

Taxpayer-Funded Universities Are Forcing Social Justice Indoctrination On Every Student.  In the wake of the swarm of Black Lives Matter protests that engulfed America's campuses last academic year, administrators at a number of taxpayer-funded college and universities are forcibly indoctrinating students with required social justice training.  The University of Missouri, Oregon State University, Virginia Tech and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are four public schools at which bureaucrats have instituted mandatory social justice curricula, according to Inside Higher Ed.

What a School Letting Students Opt Out of Pledge of Allegiance Says About Our Patriotism.  A Florida elementary school recently caused a stir on social media when a man posted an image of his niece's waiver from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.  The waiver form asked parents if they would like to opt their child out from "standing and placing his/her right hand over his/her heart" and reciting the pledge.  The infuriated uncle wrote on Facebook, "My niece brought this home from school today... What is happening to our country?!?"

This is left-wing political indoctrination, not education:
Bias Alert:  Professor says Trump is so bad, class doesn't have to be balanced.  Gettysburg College Prof.  Kathleen Iannello announced in an Op-Ed penned for Philly.com that she will not even try to treat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP choice Trump equally because, in her mind, Trump is a "lightning rod for promoting further hate."  "My approach for the fall semester will be boldly honest:  It is a disservice to students to attempt to provide balance when I know that balance is an offense to the truth," Iannello wrote.

The Editor says...
So much for a diversity of ideas, wholesome debate, two sides to every story, and agreeing to disagree.  This professor is a little too sure she's absolutely right, and it's easy to see that her assertion — that Donald Trump promotes hate — is obviously questionable, if not entirely false.

Man upset after niece brings home waiver to 'be excused from reciting' Pledge of Allegiance at school.  A Florida man is upset after his niece brought home a Pledge of Allegiance waiver that asked parents to sign and return the form if they'd like their child to "be excused from reciting" it.

OSU course weaves 'critical animal studies' into feminism, social justice.  The Ohio State University will be offering a course on "critical animal studies" this fall to explore how societal structures "facilitate and underpin animal subjection in its various levels and forms."  The course will be taught by Tobias Linne, a Swedish professor who developed the curriculum at Lund University.

Why Do People Still Donate to Universities?  According to The [New York] Times, some college alumni are awakening to the fact that their beloved alma maters are nothing like the decent, open, tolerant, committed-to-learning places they remember.  Rather, nearly every college and university in America has become the least open, the least tolerant, the most hate-filled and the most anti-American (and, of course, anti-Israel) mainstream institution in America.  As stated in the article:  "Alumni from a range of generations say they are baffled by today's college culture.  Among their laments:  Students are too wrapped up in racial and identity politics."

Bernie Is a Mainstream Democrat.  At this point, people who are willing, even eager, to support a full-blown Commie are legion — and growing.  This is not surprising, given the daily onslaught of left-wing propaganda from Hollywood and the media and the relentless indoctrination in our public schools and universities.  How could we expect this unanswered barrage not to produce poisonous fruit in our society, especially among young people?  Whether or not Sanders is or should be considered a laughingstock, the movement he is leading is real, and it is a sobering reminder of how far Americans have drifted from our founding principles.

Julie Bosman at the New York Times is shocked that anyone would call them "government schools."
Public Schools? To Kansas Conservatives, They're 'Government Schools'.  Erica Massman, a moderate Kansas Republican, refers to the building where her daughter attends fourth grade as a public school.  Ms. Massman's mother, whose politics tilt further to the right, calls it something else: a government school.  "My mother, who is a Tea Party person, started saying 'government schools' all the time," said Ms. Massman, recalling when she first heard the phrase around 2010.

Comey and the Will to Power.  [Scroll down]  That is how vile these people are.  So determined to protect their own power, influence and affluence, they will lie, cheat, steal and blame innocent people for their own crimes.  They appoint and confirm people like James Comey and Loretta Lynch who know they must do their bidding to keep their jobs.  There is no honor in our government anymore.  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where we find ourselves at this moment in time.  We are a crippled America; crippled by the success of the Marxist left and their mission to inculcate our youth with their doctrine of moral relativism, entitlement and antiAmericanism.  Two generations of our youth know little or nothing about the Constitution or the men and women who brought it to fruition.

Public Schools Told To Help Students 'Recover' From Trump Rhetoric.  An official in the Washington education department has sent an email to the state's schools urging them to prepare students for "increasing levels of fear and anxiety" because of the so-called "Trump effect."  Teachers are told to create "safe places," plan for "recovery" from election rhetoric, incorporate election-related lessons in the classroom, and provide students with "protection" who are exposed to the rhetoric.  The email, which was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, was sent out by Mike Donlin, program supervisor of the School Safety Center for the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.  Donlin sent the email to a mailing list of school officials in charge of complying with state law concerning harassment, intimidation, and bullying in schools.

Orlando Massacre Shows We Must Stop Teaching Children to Hate America.  The founders knew that the constitutional republic they were crafting required a single nation with one national identity smelted out of different ethnicities.  Right away, in 1776 in fact, they came up with the concept of E Pluribus Unum.  To instill the new creed into the immigrants already flocking to America, they set an educational system that would create a nation with one national identity.  Starting in the early 1800s with the Common Schools and continuing later through the Ellis Island period, American schools Americanized new comers.  As historian Mark Edward DeForrest put it, the Common Schools had, ["]a large role in assimilating and educating the offspring of the immigrants then moving into the United States from Europe.  The schools did not simply educate students in the basics of the English language or the Three Rs.  Rather, the schools were actively involved in promoting the values and beliefs that were considered part and parcel of the American experience.["]  Schools taught that being an American required a belief in individual liberty and that rights are granted to us by virtue of our existence, not through government action.  These principles united all people who came to this country in deeply rooted patriotism.  For the past three decades, for reasons that will also require analysis (though at a later date), we have been doing exactly the opposite.  The new model, exemplified by the bestselling historian Howard Zinn, is to present America as a spectacular experiment in oppression.

Milwaukee schools:  Almost half a million bucks for Black Lives Matter curriculum.  The Milwaukee Public Schools have set aside $471,073 in next year's budget "to create a 'cultural studies curriculum'" and to enhance overall school performance via "facilitation of meaningful dialogue and support on issues surrounding race and trauma faced in communities and schools."  This amount almost equals that allocated for College Access Centers, Universal Driver Education, and Advanced Studies of World Languages combined.

Milwaukee Public Schools Will Spend Almost $500,000 Pushing Black Lives Matter.  Public schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are planning to spend nearly $500,000 of taxpayer money implementing a program that furthers the goals of Black Lives Matter.  The $471,073 outlay in the proposed 2016-17 budget for Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is included as one of many partnerships the district is pursuing with outside organizations.  The partnership with Black Lives Matter is described as an effort to create a "cultural studies curriculum" and improve school performance through the "facilitation of meaningful dialogue and support on issues surrounding race and trauma faced in communities and schools."

Angry Yale students petition to 'decolonize' the school's English department and stop forcing students to take 'Major English Poets' course filled with white male writers.  Yale University has found itself embroiled in controversy once again this year after English students complained that courses in the department were 'hostile' to students of color.  Under the most fire is the Major English Poets course, a prerequisite for undergraduates in the major to study the works of at least seven major poets, all of whom are white men.  An anonymous petition has demanded the department not only change the English 125/126 course, which has existed since 1920, but abolish it entirely.  It also asks that the major's pre-1800/1900 requirements be changed to include literature relating to 'gender, race and sexuality'.

Years After Hiroshima Comes the Blah.  Americans educated in the schools and universities of this great republic have been taught (or should I say propagandized) for over two decades that President Reagan was an intellectual lightweight and a warmonger.  There is a lot of evidence cited.  Through President Reagan's eight scary years in the White House columnists at the New York Times and the Washington Post, along with mainstream media and the professoriate in general, regularly came up with endless evidence of how the President was building up our military and threatening nuclear warfare with the Soviets.

Campus Activists Are More Radical and Troubled than You Think.  Americans have become accustomed to student activism.  Progressive Boomer parents and grandparents fondly remember their days in the quad, protesting the Vietnam War.  My generation's liberal activists built their anti-apartheid shantytowns and rallied for more faculty diversity.  Hollywood and mainstream historians have whitewashed these movements, emphasizing their idealism, overlooking their violence and oppression, and proclaiming student protest as a virtual rite of passage for the good American citizen.  The whitewashing continues to this day.  Leftist riots are excused and often even celebrated, victim status grants moral authority — regardless of the "victim's" ideas or tactics — and conservative speech (no matter how peaceful or reasoned) is deemed suspect at best and "violent" at worst.  But the whitewashing has to stop.

The Big Uneasy.  [Scroll down]  In mid-November, a thousand students at Ithaca College walked out to demand the resignation of the president, who, they said, hadn't responded aggressively enough to campus racism.  More than a hundred other schools held rallies that week.  Protests continued through the winter.  Harvard renamed its "house masters" faculty deans, and changed its law-school seal, which originated as a slaveholder's coat of arms.  Bowdoin students were disciplined for wearing miniature sombreros to a tequila-themed party.  The president of Northwestern endorsed "safe spaces," refuges open only to certain identity groups.  At Wesleyan, the Eclectic Society, whose members lived in a large brick colonnaded house, was put on probation for two years, partly because its whimsical scrapbook-like application overstepped a line.  And when Wesleyan's newspaper, the Argus, published a controversial opinion piece questioning the integrity of the Black Lives Matter movement, some hundred and seventy people signed a petition that would have defunded the paper.  Sensitivities seemed to reach a peak at Emory when students complained of being traumatized after finding "trump 2016" chalked on sidewalks around campus.

USDA Awards $746,827 to Improve 'Shopping Practices of Adolescents'.  Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Thursday [5/19/2016] six universities have been awarded nearly $3.8 million in funding by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for programs designed to help fight obesity.  The USDA's program descriptions for the six grants include:
  •   $746,827 to the University of Kentucky for the testing of the program "Smart Shopping."  According to the program description, Smart Shopping is "aimed at improving the shopping practices of adolescents with the ultimate goal of increasing fruit and vegetable intake."
  •   $797,995 was awarded to the University of New England, Biddeford, Maine for the "Supermarket Science: Multipronged Approaches to Increasing Fresh, Frozen and Canned Fruit and Vegetable Purchases" program.
  •   The University of Maryland received $943,287 for a program designed to enhance implementation of school wellness policies.  The efforts['] goal "is to create health promoting school environments that support healthy growth/development of children to prevent obesity."

Fla. Student Handbooks to Offer Pledge of Allegiance Opt Out.  Starting in July, Florida schools will give students an opt-out option for the Pledge of Allegiance in their student handbooks and an atheist group is working to make sure it's in the pages.  The American Atheists and Central Florida Freethought Community have sent a letter to school districts informing them, "We will, after the start of the 2016-2017 school year, request a copy of your district's student handbook(s) to verify compliance with Florida's law requiring your district to notify students of their rights under the Constitution."  The requirement to publish the opt out in the school handbook and to excuse students from standing during the Pledge of Allegiance is inside a lengthy school choice bill Florida lawmakers passed into law earlier this year.

The Dry Rot of Groupthink in Academia.  Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited — and then disinvited — to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.  Mr. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and, perhaps most relevantly, author of a very insightful book titled "Please Stop Helping Us:  How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed."  In short, Jason Riley's views on race are different from the views that prevail on most college campuses.  At one time, 50 years ago or earlier, exposing students to a different viewpoint was considered to be a valuable part of their education.  But that was before academia — and the education system in general — became virtually a monopoly of the political Left.

Liberal Graduation Speakers Outnumber Conservatives 4-to-1.  According to Campus Reform, out of the top 100 universities, 40 of them are featuring explicitly liberal speakers at their commencement ceremonies.  Only 10 are hosting speakers who are either openly conservative or who have donated to conservative/Republican politicians.

Faculty Worries About Naming Law School After Scalia Because of His 'Offensive' Views.  The university that plans to rename its law school after Antonin Scalia is facing some inside resistance.  On Wednesday [4/27/2016], the faculty senate at George Mason University passed a resolution questioning whether they should be using the late Supreme Court justice's name because of his reputation.  The resolution said Scalia made "numerous public offensive comments" about LGBTQ people, people of color, and women; and said he was a polarizing figure to the detriment of the country, running "counter to the values of a university that celebrates civil discourse."  The faculty also voiced concern that using his name would rebrand George Mason as a conservative school, rather than as "an unaligned body."

Why the Left Loathes Western Civilization.  This month, Stanford University students voted on a campus resolution that would have their college require a course on Western civilization, as it did until the 1980s.  Stanford students rejected the proposal 1,992 to 347.  A columnist at the Stanford Daily explained why:  Teaching Western civilization means "upholding white supremacy, capitalism and colonialism, and all other oppressive systems that flow from Western civilizations."  The vote — and the column — encapsulated the left's view:  In Europe, Latin America and America, it loathes Western civilization.  Wherever there is conflict between the West — identified as white, capitalist or of European roots — and the non-West, the left portrays the West as the villain.

Feds spend $3,071 for kids to raise red paddles to protest donuts.  A group of children was gathered around the exhibit, paddles in hand eager to denounce another food deemed unhealthy by the National Institutes of Health.  The game is called "Go, Slow, and Whoa!"  Think Red Light, Green Light, but for educating kids on the danger of white bread.

Reforming Academia in 2016.  Since the 1960s, an Alinsky-styled, Jacobin fueled movement that recognizes that power truly emanates from those centers that disseminate knowledge, has worked to gain control of places like American universities.  Professors like Bill Ayers in Chicago — who wipes his feet on an American flag before a photo op selfie for a magazine — follows in the lineage of self-styled academic radicals such as Ward Churchill and Noam Chomsky.  In their essential view, there is one profound evil in the world — the conventional America.  All of our traditions, all of our economic and cultural practices, and religious faiths, are code words for direct suppression and oppression of minorities they define and manipulate through the terminologies of academia.  It is difficult to complete sentences in front of these academic radicals who have made a profession of taking offense.

Multiculti education guru denounces showing up on time, hard work, and clear language as part of white oppression.  Heather Hackman of the Hackman Consulting Group apparently is a big deal in educational circles concerned with denouncing "white privilege."  School districts all over the country spend big bucks sending teachers and administrators for indoctrination into White Privilege Theory.  The St.  Paul public schools, for instance, have spent millions of dollars on this mission.  Blake Neff of the Daily Caller News Foundation has been attending the 17th Annual White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia, where Hackman enunciated a set of ideas that sound suspiciously close to white supremacy, and which made explicit the notion that teachers in government schools are now expected to be political indoctrinators more than teachers of any useful knowledge and skills.

'Million Student March' Organizer Clashes With Cavuto.  This year's "Million Student March" took place Wednesday [4/13/2016] on college campuses across America.  Activists called for tuition-free public college, the cancelation of all student debt, a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers and a divestment from private prisons by all colleges and universities.

Attacking Our Nation's Founders.  During Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles.  Students at a Christian-based university, such as Liberty, do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument.  But it is featured at many other universities, as well as primary and secondary schools. [...] Ignorance of our history, coupled with an inability to think critically, has provided considerable ammunition for those who want to divide us in pursuit of their agenda.  Their agenda is to undermine the legitimacy of our Constitution in order to gain greater control over our lives.  Their main targets are the nation's youths.  The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.

Sometimes the anti-American indoctrination comes from other students.
California college students object to 'white feminist' Madeleine Albright as commencement speaker.  She is a liberal icon and was America's first female secretary of state, but not everyone at a California college is thrilled that "white feminist and repeated genocide enabler" Madeleine Albright has been lined up to give next month's commencement address.  Soon after officials at all-female Scripps College, in Claremont, Calif., announced Albright would speak to graduates, an article in the school paper derided the Czech-born diplomat for her skin color and previous policy positions, and other students posted their concerns on social media, according to The Claremont Independent.

The Questions Liberals Never Have to Answer.  Liberals do a poor job of defending their beliefs with facts, logic or debate, but they have become unparalleled masters at keeping their opponents' side of the argument from being presented at all.  We have kids who are never exposed to conservatism in high school who go to college where the professors are liberal; then they graduate and get their information from their local paper and all TV outlets except for Fox which are liberal, and they watch ostensibly non-political Hollywood-produced liberal movies and TV shows that reinforce left-wing viewpoints.  As if that isn't enough, liberals go to great lengths to convince people that their opponents are so cruel, evil, racist and despicable that their arguments are tainted by default and shouldn't be considered at all.

The hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.  University students across the country — at Amherst, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UC Berkeley and dozens of other campuses — are caught up in yet another new fad.  This time, the latest college craze is a frenzied attempt to rename campus buildings and streets.  Apparently some of those names from the past do not fit students' present litmus tests on race, class and gender correctness.

First-Grade Teacher Defends Her Decision to Take Kids on Black Lives Matter March.  A first-grade teacher in North Carolina who took her students to a Black Lives Matter march without the consent of parents is defending her actions after being criticized in a scathing op-ed in the Daily Caller published Wednesday [3/16/2016].  That teacher, Ms. Bernal-Martinez of Central Park School for Children in Durham, told progressive North Carolina news outlet Indy Week that it was actually the decision of the students to attend the march.  She said her students chose to investigate the background of the Black Lives Matter movement and wanted to get involved following their investigations.

First-Grade Teachers In Durham Enroll Kids In Black Lives Matter March.  Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina has enrolled grade-school students in a "Black Lives March and Rally" scheduled for March 17, 2016.  The teachers can opt-in or opt-out their classes, but parents have not been given a choice.  Stef Bernal-Martinez, a teacher of 6-year-old children, signed up all the children in her class for a "Black Lives March and Rally" to take place during the school day, at the city's downtown Central Park and Farmer's Market.  Ms. Bernal-Martinez describes herself as a "Radical Queer Progressive Educator" and "white-passing Xicana."

The Editor says...
If you find out that your 6-year-old child's teacher is a "radical queer progressive," that's an excellent reason to start homeschooling.  If you don't, you will probably spend a lot of time every evening un-teaching all the junk the poor kid was taught at school that day.  You might as well do the teaching yourself.  It can be done.

School Pledges Allegiance to International Flag?  I've been telling you for quite some time that your local public schools have been co-opted by liberals and turned into anti-American — public indoctrination centers.  Nothing illustrates that point better than an incident that happened at grade school in New York City. [...] The children were told to paste the flags of 22 other nations over the Red, White and Blue.  That's right — Old Glory was covered up — desecrated by flags from mostly Spanish-speaking nations.

NYC Kindergarteners Pledge Allegiance To 'International Flag' Made from a Desecrated American Flag.  A story from Sean Hannity's website has been tearing up social media on Saturday [3/5/2016] and with good reason.  It seems kindergarten children in New York City, under the direction of teachers and with the approval of the parent teacher association, desecrated an American flag in order to praise multi-culti internationalism as superior to and authoritatively above the United States.

America is on the Road to Declinistan.  [Scroll down]  In the age of reality television and social media, college students cannot identify Joe Biden but resoundingly know Kim Kardashian.  They have no idea who fought in and won the Civil War but know that Snookie appeared on The Jersey Shore.  Hollywood elites are distressed over alleged discrimination against black actors who live in $10 million homes, ignoring the real tragedies occurring in inner cities where blacks are killing each other in record numbers.  Progressives co-opted K-12 education with Common Core and an anti-American AP U.S. History curriculum.  College campuses are rapt with progressive professors more obsessed with their hatred of democracy and capitalism than teaching facts and promoting critical thinking.  Radical 1960's crazies are now respected professors and their hate speech against America and Israel is common in lectures.

Black Law Students at Georgetown: We are shaken and angry at conservatives' response to Scalia's death.  After the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, an unusual debate unfolded at Georgetown University Law Center, not only over the legacy of the conservative scholar, but whether political correctness and a left-leaning bias had stifled the possibility of open discourse in academia.  Two professors questioned a laudatory memorial announcement that was issued by the law school; one publicly argued that the campus community would not mourn Scalia, who is one of the university's most prominent alumni, calling him "a defender of privilege, oppression and bigotry."

Weimar America.  No one can figure out how and why America's youth have borrowed a collective $1 trillion for college tuition, and yet received so little education and skills in the bargain.  Today's campuses have become as foreign to American traditions of tolerance and free expression as what followed the Weimar Republic.  To appreciate cry-bully censorship, visit a campus "free-speech" area.  To witness segregation, walk into a college "safe space."  To hear unapologetic anti-Semitism, attend a university lecture.  To learn of the absence of due process, read of a campus hearing on alleged sexual assault.  To see a brown shirt in action, watch faculty call for muscle at a campus demonstration.  To relearn the mentality of a Chamberlain or Daladier, listen to the contextualizations of a college president.  And to talk to an uneducated person, approach a recent college graduate.

Is Our Children Learning?  It's true that each generation thinks the one following is a collection of self-involved ignoramuses.  Still, the transformation of American colleges and universities into indoctrination sweatshops is a signal tragedy.

Georgetown Professor Complains After School Shows Respect For Antonin Scalia.  Two professors at Georgetown University's law school have made a very public protest after the school's dean made a statement honoring deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  Given that Scalia earned his bachelor's degree from Georgetown, it would seem fitting for the school to honor such an illustrious alumnus after his passing.  Georgetown University Law Center dean William Treanor thought the same way, and made a short public statement the day of Scalia's death.

College students taught America created ISIS, war on terror worse than 9/11.  ISIS was borne out of President George Bush's decision to send troops to the Middle East after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and in actuality the war on terror has caused more harm than 9/11, college students across Washington were taught recently.  The lesson came via scholar Phyllis Bennis, who gave a series of talks at three colleges in Washington titled "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror," also the name of her latest book.

White students undergo weekly 'deconstructing whiteness' program at Northwestern University.  White college students are undergoing a weekly "deconstructing whiteness" program at Northwestern University.  The "6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white" launched in January and runs through March, according to the university's website.  Students enrolled chose to do so — it is voluntary.  A spokesman for the prestigious private university located outside Chicago declined to give The College Fix details on the program, such as how many students enrolled and how it's been received so far.

Dumb, Dumber and Democrat.  The Democrats purposely created a narrative of nasty and divisive class envy, destroyed our educational system particularly through Common Core, and wildly helped millions of people become addicted to a life of entitlement.  These do-gooders demonically created a dependent constituency who will obediently be there when it is time to pull the voting lever, whether legal or not.  The two pillars sustaining today's Democratic Party are the elites and the losers.  Remember the so-called and once important "middle class"?  Although occasionally still referenced in stump speeches, these hard-working blue-collar factory laborers, veterans, police and fire-fighters have been relegated to the back of the Democrats' busload of newly-found victims.  "Black Lives Matter," men in dresses and harboring dangerous illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities are the new protected class and assured Democrat voters.

Uncle Bernie Sanders Is Brainwashing Our Uneducated Youth.  Lovable Bernie is essentially propagandizing a generation of gullible American young people who don't have anything near the education or experience to understand what is happening to them.  His task is made simpler because his Democratic Party opponent is demonstrably and obviously corrupt and in danger of prosecution.  She has also been pushed so far to the left by Bernie's success (and her own fears) that no serious questions about socialism are even asked.  Our educational system, which, even at the college level, rarely looks at socialism from a results-oriented perspective, exacerbates this situation.  Yet those results sit just below our southern border in catastrophic form for all to see, though few, especially among the young, have the background or, frankly, even the interest, to look.

The regrettable decline of higher learning.  What do campus microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes and censorship have to do with higher learning? [...] In fact, today's campuses mimic ideological boot camps.  Tenured professors seek to indoctrinate young people in certain preconceived progressive political agendas.  Environmental studies classes are not very open to debating the "settled science" of man-caused, carbon-induced global warming — or the need for immediate and massive government intervention to address it.  Grade-conscious and indebted students make the necessary ideological adjustments.

The Good News in American Higher Education.  [Scroll down]  Sixties Radicals have dominated the academy since, well, the 1960s.  This hegemony may be coming to an end, at last.  Besides the reality that the oldest radicals are retiring and dying off, there is also growing recognition that such an overwhelming one-sided tilt is not just bad for classroom discussions, but is also destructive to entire fields of inquiry and the disinterested pursuit of truth on which the entire academic enterprise is predicated.  Ironically, aging leftist college professors who still think they are "fighting the man," actually have been "the man" for decades now.

A Retrospective on the Obama Years.  [Scroll down]  America's college campuses have always been a home field for the left.  It's a rule of life that socialism, progressivism and liberalism tend to flourish in an environment where tenure reigns and where intellectual adventurism is supposed to blossom without the burden(s) of waking early, going to work, and paying the bills.  But today's college scene is a bridge too far.  Seems not a day goes by without a media report of some college professor gone off the progressive deep end.  Indeed, we are becoming desensitized to stories of "speech codes", "bias-free guides", "safe zones", and "trigger warnings".  And it's all to do with an aggrieved, fearful left now turned against free speech. [...] Worse, a new wave of student-brats is more than willing to take over a dean/president's office to make its point.

HISD board votes to rename 4 schools named after Confederate loyalists.  The Houston school board voted 5-4 Thursday [1/14/2016] to rename four campuses named after Confederate loyalists and postponed decisions on four others amid community concerns.  Trustees agreed to kickstart the process of renaming Henry Grady, Richard Dowling and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson middle schools and Robert E. Lee High School.  Now, a committee at each school, including a teacher, student, parent and alumni, will be charged with proposing a new name.  The policy calls for the superintendent then to make recommendations to the board for a vote — to take place in May, according to the meeting agenda.

The Editor says...
Do you really want to send your kids to a school named after Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Robert Mugabe, or Ron Karenga?  You can bet that Stonewall Jackson's name will be replaced by the name of his polar opposite:  some left-wing activist — almost certainly black, probably female, and possibly a homosexual.

Public school recruits students to work for Hillary Clinton campaign.  A public high school in Maine was caught red-handed trying to recruit students to work on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as a "community service opportunity" — without the knowledge or consent of parents.  Could you imagine the national media firestorm had the school been recruiting for Donald Trump's campaign?  Students at Marshwood High School in South Berwick received an email from the Clinton campaign — urging them to sign up for positions as unpaid "fellows".

The American Left and the Death of Political Discourse.  Much has been made of the precipitous decline and near death of political discourse in the United States.  Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language.  However, this factor is a symptom of a current underlying and foundational dilemma:  the inability of not only the general public but nearly all of the so-called societal leaders and opinion makers to generate an original thought, as well as a stubborn refusal, because of a rapidly evolving totalitarian mindset on the Left and their total domination of the Democratic Party, to use reason and logic when confronted with irrefutable facts and arguments.  These traits can be explained, insofar as the general public is concerned, as the consequence of their subjection for the past forty years to a woeful and deliberately incomplete education bordering on indoctrination.

So, It's 2016.  [Scroll down]  Our own college students, many, but not all of them black, are making up ridiculous imaginary racism on campuses that tie themselves in knots to avoid racism.  Then they attack the colleges that coddle them and protect them from having to do a day's work.  Then the professors join in out of sheer terror at the sight of angry black students.  These pitiful specimens are attacking institutions (that used to be) of higher learning and screaming obscenities at anyone who even dares to not bow down to them.  They are roving gangs of stormtroopers demanding an end to the First Amendment because free speech makes them feel "unsafe."  That's the real problem:  the attack on the Constitution.  The universities deserve their fates.  To kowtow to the Sturmabteilung of the race thugs is suicide.  But for the universities to become petri dishes for brewing up the toxins of dictatorship — that's scary.  Because of course the real attackers of safety are the Black Lives Matter and their pals.  These guys are dangerous.

The 13 Most Ridiculously PC Moments On College Campuses In 2015.  It seems like 2015 has just been so full of examples of extreme political correctness on college campuses that it might be easy to forget just how full of them it's been.

Harvard Apologizes for 'Social Justice' Placemats After Outrage.  Harvard officials were forced to apologize Wednesday [12/16/2015] after a university office distributed placemats that promoted political opinions about race and justice.  The placemats, which recently turned up in an undergraduate dining hall, appeared to brand Americans worried about the U.S. accepting tens of thousands of refugees from Syria Islamophobic.  They also encouraged political opinions about allegations of racism at Yale University, the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police officers, and the school's decision to change the title of "House Master" because some argue that it relates to slavery.  Two Harvard deans penned an apology note to community members after students expressed outrage at the placemats and claimed they promoted political stances.

Professor Aims To Turn Elementary Students Into Social Justice Warriors.  A professor at the taxpayer-funded Montclair State University in New Jersey is hoping to train teachers to get excited about social justice.  The professor's name is Bree Picower, associate professor of Early Childhood, Elementary Education, and Literacy Education at Montclair, and the workshop she teaches is called "Social Justice Curriculum Design for the Elementary Classroom."  "This workshop is designed to help teachers visualize social justice education by providing examples of projects, making social justice in K-6 setting accessible, practical, and achievable," the workshop's description reads.

Sanity wins out, school brings back Santa and the pledge.  Sanity — and Santa — have been restored at a Brooklyn public elementary school where St. Nick was banned, the Pledge of Allegiance was dropped and Thanksgiving was replaced with a "harvest festival."  The good news arrived at PS 169 in Sunset Park on Monday morning [12/14/2015], a day after The [New York] Post exposed the bizarre PC extremism of Principal Eujin Jaela Kim.  District 15 Superintendent Anita Skop stormed in the front door at 9:50 a.m., and minutes later, two fifth-grade boys were brought to the main office to lead a recital over the public address system of the Pledge of Allegiance, teachers told The [New York] Post.

15 Excerpts That Show How Radical, Weird And Out of Touch College Campuses Have Become.  How radical, weird and out of touch have liberals on college campuses gotten since Obama came into office?  It's worse than you ever thought and although there is an almost unlimited number of problematic incidents to choose from, these 15 are particularly effective at getting across how bad things have become.  [Example #1:]  "College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims.  The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low:  Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns — insulting, childish concerns — that Muslim students would be offended."

America's Indoctrination Mills.  If you think college is bad, wait until to find out what is going on in America's elite high schools.  The mania over political correctness and victim culture does not begin in college.  It begins, as Prof. Jonathan Haidt discovered, in the indoctrination mills that prepare children for college.  It's a bit much to say that they are schools at all.  Parents are clearly worried about the abuse that is systematically visited on boys.  They are surely also worried about the way that their daughters are being turned into a revolutionary vanguard.  Whatever you think about helicopter parenting, you might consider that parents might very well want to protect their children from the leftist culture that prevails in high school.

Thought Terminated: Kafka at Kansas University.  [Andrea Quenette, a thirty-three year-old assistant professor of communications was] forced by her judges to read what was in effect a confession of guilt prepared for her by the accusers (the self-same judges).  She was then bullied into sitting quietly as her judges took turns condemning her.  When, during this tribunal straight from the depths of twentieth-century totalitarianism, Quenette attempted to read her own prepared statement of clarification and apology, the students refused to hear it.

Muslims at SDSU Stage 'Anti-Islamophobia' Rally.  Members of the Muslim Students Association at San Diego State University (SDSU) held a rally Monday [11/23/2015] rally against Islamophobia after a reported attack that the group is highlighting as a "hate crime."  A list of demands posted on Monday to the SDSU Muslim Students Association Facebook page includes:  zero tolerance for "Islamophobic" speech; mandatory training for faculty, staff and students; increased coursework offered on Islam; more money for the Center for Intercultural Relations; and "that the SDSU administration address, alleviate, and eliminate systems of oppression that disproportionately target students of color, womyn [sic], and all marginalized students on campus."

The Editor says...
These demands presume that white males are never marginalized.  The longer the school administrators keep quiet about this nonsense, the harder it will be to restore order and sanity someday, when the adults once again take over.

The grievance generation.  These leftist kids are agitated.  Angry.  This the hangover effect, I suspect, from the shattered utopian dreams of Hope and Change.  I have noticed in recent months that these students attend my lectures not to learn anything — they know everything already — but hoping that I will slip up or say something they can label as offensive or that violates their eight-volume campus speech code.  When I ask them what they want, a typical response is a "radical transformation of the economy" to reduce income inequality, racism, sexism, and, of course, to end climate change.  Government will command these changes to achieve this transformation.  These are young Stalinists who are willing to suspend almost every basic freedom and civil liberty for "the greater good."

Columbia student activists: Protest with us, or else!.  [Scroll down]  Another student wearing a T-shirt with the words "Kill White Supremacy" called Columbia a "white supremacist institution."  She led the crowd in a progression of chants including "I love black people," "I love all black people" and "I love queer black people," before adding "I love black criminals" and "I love black people who steal."  "Raise your hand if you're a little bit uncomfortable," she said as a smattering of hands went up.  "It's okay if you're uncomfortable right now.  This university was built on stolen land on the backs of my ancestors — and that is uncomfortable."

Years of socialist indoctrination are now paying off:
Million Student March aims to fight for free college tuition and cancellation of student debt.  On a recent Tuesday at the City College of New York in Manhattan, a handful of students, activists and professors sat in a small circle casually planning a revolution.  Surrounded by other students typing on their laptops in a basement lounge a few escalator rides down from street level, the group's conversation flowed easily from the mundane — how many fliers each could hand out in 15 minutes — to their lofty goals:  The cancellation of all student debt, free tuition at public colleges and universities, and getting campus workers a minimum wage of $15 an hour.

University officials agree to rip up Constitution in undercover video.  Conservatives have long accused academics of shredding the Constitution, figuratively speaking, but a Project Veritas sting operation recently caught them doing it literally.  Undercover video released last week showed administrators at Yale, Cornell, Syracuse, Vassar and Oberlin agreeing to rip up copies of the Constitution handed out off campus after an investigator posing as a student described the document as "triggering" and "oppressive."

University drops pledge, flag from Veteran's Day service.  Patriotic students are infuriated after the Pledge of Allegiance and the Presentation of Colors were removed from Seattle Pacific University's Veteran's Day chapel over fears they might offend people.  The university's Military and Veteran Support Club was outraged by the chaplain's decision.  They called it a "slap in the face" of every soldier who fought, sacrificed and died for our freedoms.

Dept. Of Education Issues Guide Urging Schools To Help Illegals Apply For Amnesty.  The Department of Education is out with a new resource guide encouraging schools and educators to help illegal aliens apply for amnesty under President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).  The document, which was released on Tuesday [10/27/2015], also urges schools to provide welcoming environments for illegal alien students by hosting events such as "Undocumented Week."

California student forced to remove American flag shirt deemed 'gang related'.  A 12-year-old California honors student violated his school's dress code for wearing a patriotic T-shirt administrators claim is "gang related," Fox 40 reported Tuesday [10/27/2015].  Dustin Cole, a student at Yuba Gardens Intermediate school in Olivehurst, arrived home last week wearing the T-shirt his mom had bought him inside out, according to the station.

American Flag Shirt 'Gang Related,' School District Says.  This back-to-school season, Lori Carpenter bought a simple, patriotic T-shirt from Kohl's for her son, Dustin Cole.  She said she bought it because she liked the American flag design and the blue color.  However, last week when Dustin came home from school she noticed he was wearing the T-shirt inside out.  "I asked him why," Carpenter said.  "He said he was 'dress coded' at school because the stars were gang related."

Report: 99.51% of top liberal arts professors' contributions go to Democrats.  Only one undergraduate professor from the top 50 liberal arts colleges has donated to a Republican presidential candidate in the current election cycle.  According to FEC third quarter reports released October 16, 47 professors at the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the country, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, have given to presidential campaigns.  Of those 47 professors, Hamilton College History Professor Robert Paquette was the sole donor to a Republican candidate, giving $150 to Carly Fiorina's campaign.

High School Bans Pro-Trump Clothing for Supposed Racist, Offensive Theme.  A high school in Arizona has banned pro-Donald Trump clothing at a Friday football game because it would be "racist" or "offensive."  Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona — with a student body known as "The Tribe" — is set to face off against Marcos de Niza High School Friday [10/23/2015] in an anticipated rivalry game.  The game was supposed to have a "USA" theme.  But that theme was considered problematic and thrown out.

You can bet that the game started right after the national anthem was played.  But please don't wear a patriotic shirt to the stadium — that would be offensive!
Arizona High School Bans Patriotic Gear From Football Game.  Administrators at Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona, have issued a mandate to students about what they can and cannot wear to a football game against rival Marcos de Niza — wear what we approve of or you will not be admitted.  The reason?  The school paper reports "the administration decided it was best to avoid any possible offensive connotations the theme would have."

Why the Left Keeps Winning?utm_source=akdart.  Millennials emerging from universities are not only loaded down with student-debt and increasingly uncompetitive degrees.  In some cases, they confront unsettled job-markets, especially in Western Europe.  Given that many have also been thoroughly immersed in liberal-left ideas for at least three years, we shouldn't be perplexed that they start viewing socialist solutions as attractive alternatives.

Mini-Fascists in Training.  Everything old is new again on the progressive side of the scale.  These little mini-fascists in training basically want a localized Kristallnacht on the school paper for the same reason the first one happened — hatred.  Rather than a religion, modern college leftists hate ideas that differ from theirs.  But the hatred burns just as deeply.

High School Students Revolt After Principal Cancels 'American Pride Day'.  Students at a Wyoming high school took matters into their own hands last week by festooning themselves in the colors of the American flag after the principal and an assistant principal canceled "America Pride Day" over concerns that some immigrant students could feel sad and left out.  The scene of the red, white and blue brouhaha was Jackson Hole High School in Jackson, Wyo., reports the Jackson Hole News&Guide.

Harvard Alum Prove They Are as Irrelevant as Global Warming.  The study of 2,716 Harvard Business School graduates, some of the most powerful people in the U.S economy, shows that by a large margin they think the worst thing that faces this country economically is "rising income inequality". [...] The income equality myth is most maddening because as our friend at Political Calculations has pointed out previously, wages have stayed remarkably stable over the last 40 years.  The thing that has changed is the composition of households — which conveniently is how social scientists measure income inequality. With more single parent households — encouraged by the mostly liberal elite — of course income by household is going to be dropping at the lower end of the scale.

Black Lives Matter leader lands Yale teaching gig.  [Scroll down]  Readings for the course includes Ta-Nehisi Coates's book "Between the World and Me," a Huffington Post article titled "How The Black Lives Matter Movement Changed the Church," the book "Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by author Derrick Bell," Leah Gunning Francis' book "Ferguson & Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community," and a New York Times article titled "Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us."  According to Campus Reform, McKesson last worked in the Minneapolis public school system as a human resources administrator.  According to his LinkedIn profile, his only teaching experience was between May 2007 and June 2009, when he was a middle school math teacher.

#BlackLivesMatter Protester Deray McKesson to Teach at Yale.  Prominent #BlackLiveMatter protester Deray McKesson will be teaching at Yale Divinity School this fall as a guest lecturer.  The Twitter activist will speak as part of the Transformational Leadership for Church and Society lecture series.  Other lecturers include Democratic Senator Chris Coons and liberal United Church of Christ minister Nancy Taylor.  Both are Yale Divinity alumni.

Deray McKesson Will Be Teaching at Yale — Yes, THAT Deray McKesson.  Deray McKesson, one of the most vocal leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, will be teaching a one credit course at Yale Divinity School this fall as a guest lecturer.  McKesson, whom the university describes as a "civil rights activist and social media leader" will teach a course titled "Transformational Leadership in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," as part of Yale Divinity School's "Transformational Leadership for Church and Society" program.

College Promises to Punish Students Who Heckled Mandatory Play.  A liberal arts college in North Carolina is pledging to identify and potentially punish students who heckled a play about sexual assault the college forced them to attend.  "It Stops Here," an original play produced by students at Greensboro College, was first performed last Wednesday before a crowd of students, but the performance didn't go as planned. [...] Notably, though, the hecklers do not appear to have been invading the performance to disrupt it.  Rather, attendance at the play was mandatory for all incoming freshmen at Greensboro, as well as for some older student-athletes who were required to attend by coaches.

Public University To Cough Up $3,500 For 'Hoodies Up' Speech From Trayvon Martin Personal Injury Lawyer.  Close to four years after George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in 2012, and over two years after Zimmerman was acquitted in a criminal trial, an attorney for Martin's family is still cashing in on the case with speaking engagements.  Later this week, on Sept. 10, attorney Jasmine Rand will deliver a lecture entitled "I Am Trayvon Martin: Hoodies Up" at the taxpayer-funded University of Georgia, reports The College Fix.  Rand will receive $3,500 for her speech, a school spokeswoman indicated.

Colleges brainwash students into believing 9/11 was our fault.  Not all of us will be mourning 9/11 victims and their families this Friday on the 14th anniversary of the attacks.  Hundreds of college kids across the country will instead be taught to sympathize with the terrorists.  That's because their America-hating leftist professors are systematically indoctrinating them into believing it's all our fault, that the US deserved punishment for "imperialism" — and the kids are too young to remember or understand what really happened that horrific day.  Case in point is a freshman-level English class taught at several major universities across the country called "The Literature of 9/11" — which focuses almost entirely on writings from the perspective of the Islamic terrorists, rather than the nearly 3,000 Americans who were slaughtered by them.

Nine Signs of the Impending American Collapse.  American pre-university education, with its inbred pedagogical and curricular decrepitude, has been further compromised by the entrenching of the Common Core program, characterized by coercive federal intrusion and string-attached funding, monopoly publishing and testing, elimination of pivotal American figures and historical events, a leftist disposition, and a powerful pro-Muslim bias.  Higher education is in no better shape.

Rutgers teacher who said US worse than ISIS has history of bizarre statements.  [Scroll down] "It is in fact a deadly ideology that has led to the murder of more than 100 million people across the world," Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation told FoxNews.com.  Regimes operating under the banner of Marxism killed between 85 million and 100 million of their own citizens in the last century according to the Black Book of Communism published by the Harvard University Press, both through mass starvation caused by government takeovers of farms and also mass murders of citizens thought likely to resist communist policies.  "Professor Kumar and other so-called educators like her are doing a disservice to our young people by teaching them a narrow and wrongheaded version of history," Smith said.

University Language Guide Says Not to Use the Word 'American'.  I had a revelatory moment when reading this story.  Someone was actually paid to write this "language guide" that recommends not using certain words because they aren't "inclusive" enough, or don't reflect "diversity."  Someone sat around dreaming up reasons why some words that were historically innocuous, or even generated pride, had suddenly become objectionable.  What kind of loon would apply for a job like that?  No matter.  The University of New Hampshire's "Bias Free Language Guide" reinforces the notion that the elites at our universities have gone stark, raving mad, with the promise that their insanity will only get worse.

Revised AP U.S. History Standards Will Emphasize American Exceptionalism.  The company behind Advanced Placement courses for U.S. high school students will release a revision to the standards for AP U.S. history on Thursday morning [7/30/2015], after significant pushback from conservatives who claimed the redesigned course framework, released last year, painted American history in too negative a light.

The Editor says...
If there had been no public outcry, the anti-American curriculum would have become a permanent feature.  Left-wing brainwashing in the schools must be vigorously opposed wherever it crops up

Disastrous Consequences of Lib Indoctrination from the 60s to Obama.  Churchill said, "If you're not a socialist when you're 20, you have no heart.  If you're not a conservative by the time you're 40, you have no brain."  Churchill's point is youths are idealistic.  Liberals (Leftists) have been allowed to exploit the idealistic nature of our youths from kindergarten through college, making everything about fairness and not offending.  High school grads who cannot read their diplomas are well-schooled in guilt and anger over "White Privilege" and "Social Justice."

Leftist Power in the Classroom.  The Buffalo Parent-Teacher's Organization in Buffalo, New York, which is fronting for the New York State United Teachers and the Buffalo Teachers Federation according to Board Member Carl Paladino, posted it on the Facebook page, Buffalo Schools:  Believe, for the children to see.  The program is highly visible, it's leftist, it's propaganda and it's supported with tax dollars — $500,000 to be exact.  The subtitle of the article is:  "The problem here, my fellow whiteys, is that racism does still exist in America today.  In fact, it's alive and kicking, and shows itself readily to anyone what actually wishes to see it.'"

The Coming Confrontation.  The 1960's brought about a progressive indoctrination and reform on college campuses.  Teacher's unions contributed to the degradation of education.  Being socialist in nature, administrations hired progressives to administer and change education and to propagandize the citizenry.  Nothing has changed, we still have college professors ranting against the "white privilege" they are so fond of, but no one else can find.  You can't easily find American History classes that don't blame America for the woes of the world, but you can learn women's studies, gender equity, you can learn how mean "whitey" is and, best of all, how to effectively riot.

The Coming Confrontation.  We now have a Democrat party that spreads half-truths, propaganda, and tells outright lies to its citizens.  In our schools, our children are being turned into good little Marxists with indoctrination into such areas as lifestyle, climate change, and immigration.  Together, with our media, they have slowly inculcated all aspects of our lives, both moral and political.  They further these ideas by encouraging a vast populace in this country to become dependent on government, and looking to one political party to bail them out, turning a challenging time into a hammock of irresponsibility where people can relax in Marxist splendor, while others work to pay for them.

White Professor: All Whites Should Commit Mass Suicide For Being Complicit In Slavery.  Why would any reputable college hire someone condoning mass suicide?  Newsflash to a brain dead social justice warrior... we are not responsible for what others did in the past.  If that were the case, everyone on the planet would be dead for one offense or another.  What a self-loathing, liberal, nut job.  Now this unhinged fascist claims his Tweets were sarcasm and we are just too dense to 'get it.'  Sorry professor... we 'get it' all too well.

Professor Blames Whites For Her Menstrual Problems.  Zandria Robinson, the recently-departed University of Memphis professor who described "whiteness" as synonymous with "terror," had even more old tweets resurface Thursday [7/2/2015], in which she blames whites for every lethal riot in U.S. history, blasts Dick and Jane stories for being "heteropatriarchal," and even attributes her menstrual disorder to white "microaggressions."

Memphis professor behind racist tweets resurfaces at crosstown school.  Zandria Robinson, who taught sociology at University of Memphis until resigning on June 11, had previously posted on Facebook and Twitter that she did not want her daughter attending school with "snotty privileged whites," apparently ramped up her social media rhetoric after leaving the job.  In a series of tweets that began June 26, nine days after white racist Dylann Roof gunned down nine African Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church, Robinson wrote that "whiteness is most certainly and inevitably terror" and said she expected to see "thinkpieces about how more mental health services could prevent white people from acting how they are conditioned to act."

Professor: White People Are Conditioned to Commit Mass Murder Like in Charleston.  A professor at the University of Memphis suggested that the Charleston shooter was not mentally ill but rather just another example of "white people acting how they're conditioned to act."  Assistant professor of sociology Zandria Robinson — whose Twitter account is promoted on the school's official website — posted a tweet following the Charleston shooting suggesting that the killer's actions were a result of his whiteness: [...]

Micro-totalitarianism.  [Scroll down]  You might think that this is just another crazy idea from Berkeley.  But the same concept appears in a report from the flagship campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana.  If you just sit in a room where all the people are white, you are considered to be guilty of "micro-aggression" against people who are not white, who will supposedly feel uncomfortable when they enter such a room.  At UCLA, a professor who changed the capitalization of the word "indigenous" to lower case in a student's dissertation was accused of "micro-aggression," apparently because he preferred to follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style, rather than the student's attempt to enhance the importance of being indigenous.

Totalitarianism on Campus: UC Professors Instructed Not to Say ' America is the Land of Opportunity'.  If I didn't know any better, I would say that this article at The College Fix is clever satire, but what is going on under University of California President Janet Napolitano is all too real and part of a growing trend of totalitarianism on campus.  Standard conservative ideas have become verboten at some universities where offering a right-of-center opinion about American life is considered a "microaggression."

SC High School Folds On Flag Ban When Student Shows Up With Squad Of Veterans.  Protesters lined the street in front of a South Carolina school Thursday morning after administrators had forced a student at the school to remove an American flag from his truck the previous day.  Wednesday morning [5/13/2015] administrators from the York Comprehensive High School pulled a student out of class and made him walk to the parking lot where they had already removed an American flag and a POW/MIA flag from the back of his truck, The Herald reported.

Liberal speakers dominate college commencements by six-to-one.  Conservatives are essentially unwelcome on the annual college commencement speaker circuit — when politicians, the famous and infamous don a graduation robe and make a speech.  According to the Young America's Foundation's annual survey of speakers at the nation's top 100 universities, liberal speakers dominate the field.  Among the top 100 campuses in the nation, liberal speakers outnumber conservatives 6-to-1.  Among the top 50, the ratio increases to 9 liberals for every one conservative.  And among the elite top 10 universities, there were no conservatives invited to speak whatsoever.

Scholar: Under New AP Standards, 'American History Will Not Be About America'.  Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, sees America being fundamentally transformed by a host of pernicious Obama policies, including education initiatives which are nationalizing school curriculum without a single vote.  This month, America's best and brightest high school students will take a controversial new advanced placement U.S. history (APUSH) test crafted by many of the same ideologues — including David Coleman — who birthed the unpopular Common Core standards for math and English.

Frequently Challenged Books.  The top ten most frequently challenged books of 2014 include:
[#1] The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.  Reasons:  anti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs/alcohol/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence.
[#2] Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi.  Reasons:  gambling, offensive language, political viewpoint.
[#3] And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell.  Reasons:  Anti-family, homosexuality, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group.  Additional reasons: "promotes the homosexual agenda."
[#4] The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison.  Reasons:  Sexually explicit, unsuited for age group.
[#5] It's Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris.  Reasons: Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group.
[#6] Saga, by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples.  Reasons:  Anti-Family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
[#7] The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.  Reasons:  Offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence.
[#8] The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky.  Reasons:  drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group.

Johns Hopkins University's Student Government Opposes Chick-Fil-A Due To 'Microaggressions'.  The student government at Johns Hopkins University decided Chick-fil-A is not welcome on campus, as its existence would cause "microaggressions" against the gay community.  The College Fix obtained a copy of the Johns Hopkins University Student Government Association's resolution, "A Resolution Regarding the SGA's Opinion on Current and Future Chick-Fil-A Development Plans."  The resolution attempts to prevent Chick-fil-A from operating on campus "in a current or future sense."  The student government stated it "vehemently opposes" Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's opposition to gay marriage.

Georgia university cancels classes amid uproar over American flag protest.  Student demonstrators who walked on an American flag to protest racism have sparked a counter movement, prompting a south Georgia university to cancel classes Friday [4/24/2015] ahead of a rally expected to draw large crowds of flag supporters to Valdosta.

Rutgers Students Earn Credit for Course on Hillary, Field Trip to Clinton Global Initiative.  First-year students at taxpayer-funded Rutgers University have been studying Democrat candidate for president Hillary Rodham Clinton during a one-credit course titled "A Woman for President?"  The course features guest lectures from former Clinton campaign staffers and a field trip to the Clinton Global Initiative.

The Brownshirts Are Back. And They're in Our Universities.  It is not news that virtually all American universities are decidedly leftist institutions.  Few Americans, however, are aware of how inhospitable they have become to free inquiry and free discourse, and how hostile they are to anyone who stands up for Western values and against the global jihad — as some recent developments illustrate.  What is happening in American universities today has a clear historical parallel.

Philly Students Send Get-Well Cards to Mumia Abu-Jamal.  [Marylin] Zuniga, a recent Columbia University graduate who spends her off-duty hours doing yoga and DJing, according to her school bio, teaches third grade at the Forest Street School in Orange, New Jersey.  And she apparently thought it would be a good idea to have her third grade students make get well-cards for [Mumia] Abu-Jamal, who, in spite of seemingly endless appeals and pleas from Ed Asner, stands convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

N.J. teacher suspended over third-graders' 'get well' letters to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.  An Orange elementary school teacher has been suspended for having her third-grade students write "get well" letters to an inmate convicted of killing a cop, school officials announced today [4/10/2015].  In a statement provided by Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee, district officials sharply criticized the assignment given by teacher Marylin Zuniga to write letters to former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.  School officials said they "vehemently deny" having prior knowledge of the assignment, and said Zuniga neither sought prior approval nor notified parents about this "unauthorized activity."

A Kennedy whitewash.  Imagine an eighth grader, presented with a portrayal of Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late patriarch of the "royal family" of American politics.  The student would learn nothing but legends about "the greatest senator of all time," as Sen. Ed Markey proclaimed.  On the occasion of the opening of an "Edward M. Kennedy Institute" in Boston, "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley oozed, "Another New England superstar was honored today.  Politics was his game, and we'll have his story next."  There was not one discouraging word — not even the word "liberal" — applied to arguably the single most left-wing senator of all time.

Does wearing American flag incite violence? Supreme Court lets stand ruling.  The US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not take up a major First Amendment case testing whether school officials in California violated the free speech rights of three high school students who were told they could not wear American flag T-shirts at school because it might upset students of Mexican heritage.

School Named After War Hero Forces Child to Shave Off Military-style Haircut.  Adam Stinnett looks up to his older stepbrother — a soldier in the U.S. Army.  So when it came time to get a haircut, the seven-year-old told his mother he wanted a basic military-style cut.  And that's exactly what he got — high and tight — just like his stepbrother. [...] "I have the utmost respect for the military and its members," the principal wrote in an email to Amy [Stinnett].  "However, we are not a military school and the boy's haircut is against our rules."  She tried to reason with the principal — but it was a lost cause.

Student group demands California university rename building after convicted cop killer.  A black student organization at the University of California at Berkeley is demanding the university rename a building on campus after Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther, convicted cop killer and the first woman named to the FBI's Most-Wanted Terrorist List.  A jury convicted Shakur of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1979.  She escaped prison and fled to Cuba.  The FBI calls her a domestic terrorist.  In 2013, the agency added her to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List, alongside several members of Al Qaeda, airline hijackers and bombers.

Parents: No Notice That 8-Year-Old Would Sing at 'Black Lives Matter' Event.  The event, called "Black Lives Matter," was held at Orange County High School last week.  The program listed skits like, "I Can't Breathe," "Does my Black Life Matter?" and "They Don't Really Care About Us."  One couple spoke out this morning on "Fox and Friends" because their eight-year-old daughter was part of the show.  They were only informed that their daughter would be part of a "Motown Medley," but said the true theme of the performance was not disclosed ahead of time.

Muslim Students Protest Campus Screening of 'American Sniper' at University of Missouri.  The University of Missouri students association confirmed that a campus screening of American Sniper would continue as originally scheduled after a Muslim student had protested the showing of the film earlier this month, calling it "blatant racist, colonialist propaganda."  According to the Missourian, the film is scheduled to be shown on April 17 and 18 at the campus's Wrench Auditorium as part of a regular campus film series.

Professors: US flag symbolizes racism, should not be displayed on campus.  A group of university professors has signed a letter showing their solidarity with students who tried to ban the American flag at the University of California, Irvine — because they said Old Glory contributes to racism.  "U.S. nationalism often contributes to racism and xenophobia, and that the paraphernalia of nationalism is in fact often used to intimidate," read a letter obtained by the website Campus Reform.

American flag, others banned in UC Irvine student area.  In a push for what has been described as cultural inclusion, the student government at UC Irvine has voted to ban the display of all flags — including the American flag — in an area of the campus.  A resolution adopted Thursday by the legislative council of the campus' Associated Students calls for removing all flags from the common lobby area of student government offices.

University of California Bans the American Flag as 'Offensive'.  The Associated Students of University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) have decided that the American flag is "offensive" and has now banned Old Glory from the "inclusive space" on campus.  Once again we see the idiocy, anti-Americanism and loathing for the USA that our colleges are teaching our kids.

Barron's AP Test Prep Guide: Clarence Thomas Is A Fascist In League With KKK.  The latest version of a top-selling study guide for the Advanced Placement European History exam explains the French Revolution with a chart which identifies Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a fascist and pairs him with the Ku Klux Klan.

Seniors vote for Communism-themed prom.  They're calling it "prom-munism." Seniors at an Albuquerque school want their prom to have a Communism theme.  Seniors at Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School near I-25 and Paseo del Norte voted online this week for the theme of their prom this year.  "They wanted prom-munism, so that's what got voted for the most," said senior Sarah Zachary.

Cleaning up the Boondoggles.  Since the late 1960s state universities have established departments and "learning" centers that have nothing to do with education and everything to do with advocacy for a certain narrow points of view — say minority studies, feminist studies, advocacy for the poor, the people with eating disorders, the chronic bedwetters — that sort of thing.  State governments too have allowed taxpayers' dollars to be skimmed off into similar projects.  Now state governments, recently taken over by conservative Republicans — possibly even by Tea Partiers — are closing down such boondoggles and provoking howls of indignation from the so-called aggrieved.

Black oppression being taught in Florida high school Earth science class.  Once again, this mother asked that she remain anonymous for fear of retribution — can I just stop and ask, what sort of a tyrannical society do we live in now that we have to live in fear of retribution for exposing the truth?  Anyway, she's a small business owner, and she doesn't want to affect her business or of course put her son in harm's way.  In her email to me she said, "Over the past several months my son had been complaining that (Ezekiel Edmonds) his science teacher wasn't teaching science.  I finally asked him for proof.  My jaw dropped when I received the text from my son with a video recording."  [Video clip]

English Professor Gives Students Extra Credit For Attending Rally Against Scott Walker's Budget.  The professor is Beth Lueck.  On Wednesday [2/18/2015], Lueck notified students in her freshman English class about the exciting extra-credit assignment.  "UWW students have organized a non-partisan [sic] rally with students, faculty, and community members on the UW Whitewater campus against Gov. Walker's proposed $300 million cut to the UW system, along with speaking out against attacks on shared governance and faculty," Lueck wrote.  Protest organizers asked participants to meet outside the school library.

Social Justice Warriors Come to Campus.  Back in February 2014 a group of 30 Dartmouth students commandeered the president's office to announce a "Freedom Budget":  70 specific calls for greater diversity, eliminating sexism and heterosexism, an improved campus climate for minorities and gays, banning the term "illegal immigrant," offering a class on undocumented workers in America, creating a professor of color lecture series, and harsher penalties for sexual assault, among many, many others. [...] Keep in mind that in a few decades such folk may be among our national leaders.  Particularly troublesome is how these presumptuous, self-centered warriors think that if they think something is good, it must be good, so case settled.

Brown University Student: ROTC Is 'State-Sanctioned Violence'.  A Brown University student wrote a controversial column last week in the school newspaper, The Brown Daily Herald, in which he called ROTC an "organization of criminals" and "state-sanctioned violence."

School worksheet tells kids GOP thinks helping poor 'waste of money,' parent claims.  A Wisconsin mother claims her 16-year-old son's classroom assignment last week described Republicans as opposed to helping the poor because "it's a waste of money."  The woman said her son, a junior at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisc., was asked, along with other students, to complete an assignment about different views on the political spectrum while in a U.S. government and politics class on Thursday [2/5/2015].

4th Grade Reading Assignments: Black Panthers, Police Brutality, Need for Amnesty.  Fourth graders in Wake County, North Carolina have been assigned one book that involves the Black Panthers and racism, and another involving a father's murder, police crackdowns on Mexican unions, and immigration to the United States.  According to Stop Common Core North Carolina, a parent reported 4th graders have been told to read the book One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia, in which three sisters are sent by their negligent mother to a camp run by the Black Panthers.

Hamas On Campus.  Anti-Israel activists at the University of California, Davis heckled Jewish students and shouted "Allahhu Akbar" at them during a vote last week on a resolution endorsing a boycott of the Jewish state, according to video of the event obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.  The commotion erupted late Thursday evening [1/29/2015] as pro-Israel students attempted to counter a student government resolution to divest from Israel as part of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

University of California Students Chant 'Allahu Akbar' During Anti-Israel Vote.  Pro-Hamas students at the University of California at Davis chanted "Allahu akbar" at Jewish students filing out of a student government vote calling on the college to divest from companies who do business in Israel.  The 8 to 2 vote passed the council on Thursday [1/29/2015], the latest in a series of council resolutions passed by students at UC campuses at Berkeley, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Irvine, and Riverside.  The council urged the university regent to divest from companies like Caterpillar Inc. and Raytheon, which provide military equipment to Israel.

Left Wing Loons Protest The Teaching Of Economics.  Left wing lunatics are now protesting the teaching of economics, because, well, they're radical commies and economic literates don't help to promote their world view.

Common Core: Continuing the lies that Divide America.  It is easy and natural to teach children the story of America in a way that fills them with pride.  I know this because I've done it.  I've had classrooms children from every background.  By June they were proud to call themselves American and crying when listening to the "Star Spangled Banner".  But I am one teacher in a school district with 1.1 million kids.  Besides, Common Core tells me exactly what to teach.  My students are tested on exactly what the experts want them to know.  I am rated on whether they have "learned" the information that the creators of Common Core have deemed is a proper education.

U.S. College Chancellors Admit BDS Goal Is the Elimination of Israel.  Twenty-two groups wrote to nine University of California (UC) Chancellors today, demanding they publicly state their commitment to upholding UC policies which prohibit academic student employees (ASEs) from using their instructional positions to promote a boycott of Israel.

The Flight from Reason on Campus.  The university is often said to be the first place in our society to look for the truth.  Unfortunately, it is now one of the last places to find it.

UCLA law professor learns Ferguson-related exam question taboo.  Law school exams often present legal conundrums ripped from headlines of the day, but one UCLA law professor is apologizing for basing a test question on what is apparently a taboo subject — the fallout from the police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Mo.

Professor Makes Students Recite 'Anti-American' Pledge of Allegiance.  Some college students are blasting their professor for forcing his politics on them by making them recite what they are calling an "anti-American" version of the Pledge of Allegiance.  On "On The Record" tonight, Caleb Bonham, editor of Campus Reform, explained that this occurred at Metropolitan State University in Denver, where Professor Charles Angeletti had his students recite an amended pledge during his American Civilization class.

"This Isn't Education, It's Indoctrination"
Notre Dame Offers Seminar On White Privilege.  The University of Notre Dame is offering a one hour credit seminar discussing the critical issue of white privilege.  The class is being offered in the spring semester of 2015.  In the course registrar, the course is listed as Sociology 25280 and is named "White Privilege Seminar."  The course will meet eight times next semester for two hours each time.  The course description goes into more detail as to the logistics of the class.  "This six-week preparatory class is designed to educate and train White Privilege Conference delegation participants on the definitions of, historical/current paradigm of, and causes/effects of white privilege."

Berkeley erupts in violent protest over police, racism, and 'whaddya got?'  My general impression is that many of the protestors had little grasp of either the details of the incidents in Ferguson and New York, or of the violent intent of the revolutionaries who seek to spread chaos and unrest.  They were probably genuinely surprised to learn that police could and would lawfully deploy force and declare a gathering illegal once violence was used by demonstrators.  But in mass gatherings, the initiative always lies with those willing to use physical means.  And in the wave of demonstrations currently underway, a well financed and organized core of people are exploiting the fates of Michael Brown and Eric Garner to sow violence.

Liberal indoctrination generates gleeful exhibition of hatred:
Denver Police Officer Crushed by Vehicle During School "Mike Brown Walkout".  A police officer remains in critical condition as a result of a Denver High School student Ferguson protest walkout.  Four officers responded to students marching down the street, as the officers tried to protect the students from traffic a motorist slammed into the police.  One officer was horrifically injured as his body was run over and dragged by a vehicle.  Details now surface of the protesting students cheering the injury and chanting "hit him again, hit him again" while marching around the fallen officers.

Denver student protesters cheered when car struck officer, union official says.  Denver high school students protesting recent civilian deaths involving police chanted "Hit him again!" after a car struck four bicycle officers — injuring one critically — Wednesday night [12/3/2014], the city's police union charged.  Officer John Adsit underwent six hours of surgery Thursday for injuries sustained in the accident and was in critical, but stable condition.  But the reaction of young students, reported by the Denver Post, left residents stunned and members of the Denver Police Protection Association angry.  Students were heard chanting and cheering after the officers were hit.  Teachers looked on and did not intervene while the students chanted, Fox 31 Denver reports.

Arabic Immersion School Coming to Texas.  The Houston Independent School District (ISD) will be adding its first Arabic Language Immersion Magnet School in Fall 2015.  The district's Board of Education voted unanimously to approve plans for the new specialty public school campus at its November 13 meeting.  In response to the vote, Houston ISD Superintendent Dr. Terry Griersaid in a district news release, "Houston is one of the world's leading energy capitals and it has strong economic ties to the Middle East."

Anti-gun School Administrators Dishonor Veterans On Their Day.  The Eau Claire Area School District set a new low for the actions of anti-gun school administrators Tuesday when they put a halt to what had been a Veterans Day tradition in the Wisconsin city.  The school district barred a local veterans group, the Patriotic Council, from conducting their traditional Veterans Day program on school grounds because it includes veterans carrying rifles and a 21-gun salute with blank ammunition.

The Leftist and Islamic War on the Family.  The classroom and popular cultural inflate the self-esteem of the next generation by assuring them of their moral superiority to their parents and offering them independence from the authority and values of their parents in exchange for accepting the values and authority of the benevolent liberal state.

University Instructor: U.S. Troops Worse than the Islamic State.  A University of Arizona instructor is facing criticism for claiming that the U.S. military is "a greater threat" than the Islamic State (IS) and for portraying American soldiers as anti-Muslim rapists who commit crimes on par with — or even worse than — IS itself.  University of Arizona instructor Musa al-Gharbi — who also serves as an academic affiliate at the university's Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts (SISMEC) — drew the controversial comparison between IS (also known as ISIL or ISIS) and U.S. soldiers in a recent column arguing that America's moral outrage at IS's crimes is hypocritical.  Al-Gharbi's comments, published in the online publication TruthOut and several other places, attracted outrage from experts who said that taxpayer funds should not be supplementing a university that encourages such dialogue about current events.

Communism for Kids.  [Scroll down]  In this case the author seems to be setting up the story for some kind of reversal wherein the apparent utopia turns out to be false and another start must be made toward the immanentization of true communism — which, like the English-language edition of Adamczak's book, is always right around the corner but never quite gets here.  Since applied Marxism has to date produced nothing but violence, there is plenty of material for stories where things don't quite work out.

New Program: Producing Do-Gooder Little Snitches.  There is a new program being started at Deer Park ISD here in the Houston area.  We have all heard of Crime Stoppers by now, where you can anonymously call in a crime in progress or a fugitive tip.  Well this same thing is being marketed in a downloadable AP for kiddies cell phones in school.  It's being offered by the Safe School Program which has been in place since 1997.  Money?  Oh yes, depending on what is reported, pay-offs range from 100 smackers to 1000 big ones.

Teddy Bears and Anti-White Ethnic Studies.  The California school district of El Rancho is dropping its geography requirement and replacing geography with an ethnic studies requirement.  As nearly everyone understands by now, ethnic studies programs amount to government-funded racial polarization. [...] As one brave teacher described the ethnic studies program he was part of:  "The basic theme of the curriculum was that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites."  These programs are problem enough already, and now a legitimate educational subject is being pushed aside in favor of ethnic separatism.

Teaching American Students They're Victims Is A Grave Disservice.  Goddard College's recent decision to have its students addressed from prison by a convicted cop killer is just one of many unbelievably irresponsible self-indulgences by "educators" in our schools and colleges.  Such "educators" teach minorities born with an incredibly valuable windfall gain — American citizenship — that they are victims who have a grievance against people today who have done nothing to them, because of what other people did in other times.  If those individuals who feel aggrieved could sell their American citizenship to eager buyers from around the world and leave, everybody would probably be better off.

Harvard Students Think America Is A Bigger Threat To Peace Than ISIS.  Campus Reform drops by the campus of Harvard University to ask students: "What is a greater threat: America or ISIS?" The students — at least the ultra-pretentious, ultra-annoying ones chosen for the clip — definitely did not disappoint.

Teacher indoctrination.  Students at several Jefferson County, Colo., high schools walked out to protest the school board's recently proposed curriculum review committee that seeks to promote patriotism, respect for authority, free enterprise, plus the positive aspects of U.S. history.  The teachers union, whose members forced two high schools to close by calling in sick, is against the implementation of performance-based pay.  The union has encouraged and applauded student protests against what it's calling academic censorship. [...] This kind of teacher indoctrination is by no means restricted to Colorado.  Many teachers, at all grades, use their classroom for environmental, anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda.

MoveOn.org Sponsors Colorado Students' Petition to Stop Curriculum Censoring.  On October 2, students protesting what they believe to be an attempt to censor their curriculum in Jefferson County, Colorado, brought a petition to the Jefferson County Board of Education meeting, courtesy of MoveOn.org.  Students delivered over 3,700 pages of more than 41,000 signatures to the board.  The petition at MoveOn.org is titled "Don't Allow the Censorship of American History."

Two Denver-area high schools shut down in history course controversy.  Classes were canceled [9/29/2014] at Golden and Jefferson high schools after 81 percent and 70 percent of teachers called in sick respectively.  Some students who had the day off hit the street to protest against a proposal from the board's new conservative majority to review the history course to make sure it promotes patriotism and doesn't condone social disorder.

How textbooks are biased toward favoring tax hikes.  "Let those who will, write the nation's laws," economist Paul Samuelson once said, "if I can write its textbooks."  Samuelson may have been more correct than he realized.  A new study looks at how public finance textbooks treat the issue of raising taxes to pay for government spending on public goods such as roads and bridges.

Denver Students Protest Instruction in Capitalism, Patriotism, Respect for Authority.  You know things have gotten bad when students are protesting a school board proposal to change U.S. history classes to promote patriotism, capitalism and obedience to authority while putting less emphasis on historical civil disobedience and social strife.  Students walked out at the thought of it.  They and their parents have been taught socialism. Free market capitalism and respect for authority is out, angry protests are in.  This has been going on for two days and it is being encouraged by the teacher unionistas.

Colorado students stage walkouts to protest proposed curriculum.  Hundreds of high school students in Colorado's second-largest school district staged a walkout on Wednesday [9/24/2014] to protest proposed changes to a history curriculum that would stress patriotism and discourage civil disobedience.

'A' Is for Agitation: What's Really Going on in Jefferson County Schools.  There's a big battle brewing in the Jefferson County, Colorado, school system.  The manufactured controversy over a proposed curriculum review is generating national headlines.  But the fight is not about what misguided students and biased reporters say it's about.  "Censorship" is a red herring.  The real issue is union control.  Here's the deal:  Public school teachers in this Denver-area district walked out of their classrooms this week to protest the implementation of performance-based pay.  The JeffCo school board approved the new compensation system last week, which rewards the most highly effective teachers with 4.2 percent raises, effective teachers with 2.4 [percent] raises and inferior teachers with nothing.  Only 2 percent of teachers received no pay raises.

Colorado students walk out over anti-protest curriculum.  At issue were proposed changes to the curriculum, which would include a new committee to promote "positive aspects" of U.S. history and avoid material to encourage or condone "civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law."  The school board's proposed changes, in turn, are in response to the new Advanced Placement U.S. History course frameworks introduced by the College Board this year.  Those guidelines have drawn criticism from conservative groups, including the Republican National Committee, who complain that the new framework "reflects a radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation's history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects."

College Student Forced to Remove American Flag from Balcony, 'Could Offend Foreign People'.  A San Diego State University sophomore was forced to remove an American flag from his balcony after apartment managers said foreigners could find the display offensive.  Brad Smith, who had just moved into the Boulevard 63 apartment complex in San Diego last month, told ABC 10 News that he received a written notice to remove the flag a few days ago.

Ninth Circuit Affirms That It's Illegal To Wear American Flag Shirts On Cinco De Mayo.  It's official:  the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.  The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.

D.C. Public Schools homework assignment asks 6th graders to compare Bush to Hitler.  A D.C. public school gave a sixth grade class a homework assignment that required students to draw comparisons between former President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler.  The assignment was given out this week at McKinley Tech Middle School in Northeast and has angered at least one parent who complained about the homework.

D.C. Public Schools Hides Teacher Who Told Students to Compare Bush to Hitler.  Godwin's law made a surprise appearance in the District of Columbia Public Schools system when a McKinley Middle School teacher recently instructed 6th-grade students to compare George W. Bush to charismatic genocide-perpetrator Adolf Hitler.  On Wednesday afternoon [9/10/2014], D.C. resident Matt Ashburn tweeted a photo of the homework assignment, which instructed kids to compare and contrast (based on a Scholastic text and an AP article) the former president and the fascist dictator.  The teacher's identity is being withheld by the school and DCPS.  "We will not release the teacher's name," Melissa Salmanowitz, press secretary for DCPS, told The Daily Beast.

Why the College Board Demoted the Founders.  The growing dispute over the College Board's new Framework for AP U.S. History (APUSH) turns around these clashing views of the American story.  The creators and defenders of the new APUSH Framework are adherents of a radically revisionist approach to American history.  That is why the Framers and the principles of our Constitutional system receive short shrift in the new AP guidelines, and why the conflict between settlers and Indians has taken center stage instead.  The College Board claims that teachers are perfectly free to illustrate the new Framework's themes by citing great figures of American history.  The problem with this is that the Framework's core concepts have been thoroughly shaped by the revisionist perspective.

Redesigned American History framework deletes Martin Luther King, Jr. from lessons.  What does the College Board have against George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr?  Although these men are two of America's greatest heroes, the College Board's "redesigned" Advanced Placement U. S. History (APUSH) Framework shoves them aside.  Washington's contribution is limited to a sentence fragment referencing his Farewell Address.  King fares even worse — the Framework completely omits the nation's greatest civil rights leader.

FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents.  Cuba's communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week.  Cuban intelligence services "have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use to the [Cuban intelligence service]," the five-page unclassified FBI report says.  It notes that the Cubans "devote a significant amount of resources to targeting and exploiting U.S. academia."

Utah teacher: 'Too much risk' reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.  It's now a legal liability to recite the full Pledge of Allegiance.  "I retired from teaching just last year, and although I would recite the pledge with my class, it was only on special occasions," Shauna Gertsch, a former elementary education teacher from Salt Lake County, tells The Daily Universe.  "There was just too much risk reciting the pledge often ... we walked on egg shells with both parents and administrative faculty."

Readin', Writin' and Social Justice Agitatin'.  It's back-to-school season across the country.  But in an increasing number of districts, "back to school" doesn't mean back to learning.  Under the reign of social justice indoctrinators, academics are secondary to political agitation.  Activism trumps achievement.  In Massachusetts, the John J. Duggan Middle School will open on August 25 with a new name and mission.  It is now a "social justice magnet school."  As a hiring advertisement for teachers explained earlier this year, the emphasis will be on "helping students develop the necessary skills to analyze and synthesize information and to generate empathy by looking at multiple sides of important issues facing the world, be that hunger, water quality, racial barriers, child labor or imbalance of power."

The 13 Most Rabidly Leftist, Politically Correct Colleges For Dirty, Tree-Hugging Hippies.  College campuses in America are frequently teeming with all manner of liberals and trustafarian socialists who drive Volvos.  Some of these schools are worse than others.  Some are just egregiously awful.  Here, The Daily Caller presents the 2014 rankings for the most annoying, rabidly politically correct, dirty-hippie, tree-hugging colleges and universities across the fruited plain.

Princeton Professor Makes Dubious Declaration.  Professor Danielle Allen, at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, has proposed a closer reading of the Declaration of Independence in order to prove that the country was intended to be socialist all along.  Yes, that's her thesis, and this woman is on the Board of Trustees and has a MacArthur 'Genius' Award.  On the other hand, she's a professor of sociology, a field with a penchant for ideology.

CA Union Wants Convicted Cop Killer Compared to MLK Jr. in School Curriculum?!  Megyn Kelly tonight [7/29/2014] took on Johanna Fernandez, coordinator for Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, over a union-backed plan to teach students about convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.  A California labor union wants a school district to teach children that Abu-Jamal is a civil rights hero, comparing him to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Amnesty: The Death of America.  Traditional America is being diluted, deliberately, in two ways, the public school system and illegal immigration.  It should not be news that our education system has been and is currently controlled by "experts" with a worldview 100% opposite the worldview of our founders.  Today's left, and likely even our president, would say that the way many of us were taught American history was a lie.  For generations public education has not fostered pride in America.  Nowadays, the products of the public school system believe America has a shameful past and is racist, sexist, homophobic and more.  The classroom is a place where the focus is on one's "home" country, and that country is not America.  In fact, if you identify as being American, you are questioned about your ancestry and background.

Rep. Joe Garcia: "We've Proved that Communism Works".  It is no surprise that young people are enamored of communism.  Their teachers have been indoctrinating them for years into the utopia of "social justice," "environmental justice," the "evil" middle class, and the spectacular equality for all as envisioned by Marx, Engels, and Lenin.  Communism is "cool" in the land where wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt is a hypocritical political statement made while enjoying capitalist amenities.  But we expect them to mature eventually and give up the absurdity that communism has not succeeded because the wrong people were in charge.

Back to Work.  The widespread substitution of indoctrination for education in America produces lots of young people who have been conditioned to believe that their inflated sense of self-worth and moral superiority are marketable skills.  Unsurprisingly, many end up in politics, or working for non-profits and NGOs, or in civil service jobs — secular clerics all — called to redistribute other people's money and proscribe unapproved thought or behavior with righteous gusto.  In this progressive utopia-in-progress, causing someone who has victim status to feel uncomfortable for any reason warrants a public lashing by the media. Expressing a non-approved opinion, even in private, on sex, gender, race, marriage, immigration, or the environment can destroy careers, businesses, and families.

Radical Lefty Teacher Whines That Fireworks Are Too Much Like 'Pretend War'.  Writing for a website called The Zinn Education Project, the teacher, Bill Bigelow, also manages to criticize American firework displays on the Fourth of July because "the United States is waging war with real fireworks around the world." [...] Bigelow then gets to the real reason for his rant, which is to criticize American middle-school and high-school history and social studies curricula for not being sufficiently leftist or revisionist.  The entire point of the Zinn Education Project, after all, is to promote Howard Zinn's book "A People's History of the United States" in taxpayer-funded public school classrooms.  Zinn, who died in 2010, called himself an enthusiast of "democratic socialism."

16 Reasons Why the United States is Going to Hell in a Handbasket.  [#9]  Government [run] school systems are nothing more than indoctrination centers for our children, a place where they can be groomed and molded to the liking the government via propaganda that was designed by trained psychoanalysts to make future generations of American citizens into subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state. [...] Now school is like a prison where everything is watched and monitored and any form of free expression is suppressed and quickly beaten down. [...] They are also training children to be dumbed down adults that can not think for themselves, to have no personal beliefs, thoughts or opinion other than what they are told by the "authorities" via the government controlled main-stream media.

Dems End Up Believing their Own Lies.  [E]very student attending college today gets the racist-sexist-homophobe agenda force-fed to them.  Those college teachers may know tolerance and universal values in their hearts, but they aren't teaching any of it to the students.  Today, ordinary liberals in politics and culture believe the liberal lies that the professors have taught them, from sexism to climate change, as young people have always done.  When the kids blunder into reality, it's almost comical.

The education establishment's success.  Americans fall easy prey to charlatans of all stripes because of the education establishment's success in dumbing down the nation.  Nowhere has this dumbing down been more successful than it has in creating a historical amnesia. [...] The National Assessment of Educational Progress tests students in grades four, eight and 12 on several broad subject areas every few years.  Just 20 percent of fourth-graders, 17 percent of eighth-graders and 12 percent of 12th-graders were at grade-level proficiency in American history in the 2010 exams.  Because students don't learn American history, they learn little about our founding principles and they fail to learn why America is an exceptional nation.

Unions encouraging legislatures to promote labor history education.  Unions and their allies are trying to flex their muscle in state legislatures, pushing for labor history to be included in social studies curriculum and hoping a new generation of high school students will one day be well-educated union members.

The indoctrination continues until the very last day of school.
Obama blasts GOP at high school graduation, tells students to vote Democrat.  They're barely old enough to vote, but graduating seniors at a Massachusetts high school were encouraged Wednesday [6/11/2014] by President Obama to boot Republicans from office and help the administration enact more of its agenda.  Speaking at the commencement service at Worcester Technical High School in Worcester, Mass., the president slowly transitioned from delivering a pep talk to leading a political pep rally.

Controversial Principal Allegedly Strikes Patriotic Song from School Ceremony.  A Brooklyn elementary school principal with a reputation for banning patriotic songs has reportedly forbidden students from marching into a school assembly to a tune called "Stand Up for the Red, White and Blue."  According to a story published Sunday by the New York Daily News, Public School 90 Edna Cohen School principal Greta Hawkins will not allow 54 pre-K students from walking into a June 19th ceremony to the song which was scheduled to play over the school's broadcast system.

Chicago schools remove 'incendiary' immigration query, deny Sheriff Joe link.  A Chicago Public Schools test question that had seventh-graders read anti-immigration commentary by a fictitious Bush administration official and conservative writer whose name sounds like controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has been scrubbed from the curriculum — and officials say the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

White Privilege.  The average parent has no idea of the devious indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. [...] Jacqueline Battalora, professor of sociology and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University, informed conference participants that "white people did not exist before 1681.  Again, white people did not exist on planet earth until 1681".  That's truly incredible.  If Professor Battalora is correct, how are we to identify William Shakespeare (1564), Sir Isaac Newton (1642), John Locke (1632), Leonardo da Vinci (1452) and especially dear Plato (428 B.C.)?  Were these men people of color, or did they not exist?

Condi Rice Is Snubbed, Angela Davis Is Embraced In Academia.  After the outrageous disinvitation of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Rutgers University's commencement, leftist radical Angela Davis is hailed and feted at UCLA.  Can higher education get any crazier? [...] The honor to Davis — and the standing ovations, the gushing words from UCLA's chancellor, the glossy brochures and $43,000 honorarium — came around the same time Rice was effectively dismissed as commencement speaker at Rutgers based on leftist protests about her tenure as secretary of state during during 9/11 and the Iraq War.

Time to Mount the Academic Ramparts, Clean House, and Free the Serfs.  Our colleges and universities have become infectious breeding grounds of the left, fattening their tills as the students are yoked to untenable loans to pay for often useless educations they provide.  The federal government encourages this bubble, undermines free speech and due process on campus by regulation and encourages young people to enslave themselves in this way.  Is there a way out?

Protesters wave American flags outside school that banned them on Cinco de Mayo.  Free-speech supporters rallied outside a Silicon Valley high school Monday morning after the 9th Circuit Court upheld the school district's decision to ban students from wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo.  About 30 people silently held American flags outside of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, the San Jose Mercury News reported.  "No trespassing" signs and a large fence now surrounds the school, where a nationwide controversy erupted four years ago.  Latino students had complained after four Live Oak students came to the school on the Mexican holiday wearing American flag T-shirts.  Administrators told the students to turn the T-shirts inside out or go home.

Lesson has schoolkids comparing Martin Luther King to cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.  A lesson plan asking students to draw parallels between late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal is an "absolute disgrace," the widow of the fallen officer told FoxNews.com.  Maureen Faulkner, whose husband Daniel was gunned down in Philadelphia on Dec. 9, 1981, said the latest effort to glorify Abu-Jamal's past using a lesson plan posted on the Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District's website is akin to advocating violence to young students.

Is free speech intended for everyone? Or just liberals?  What is it about liberals that makes them so afraid of free speech, free thought and free expression of ideas, especially on college campuses?  You may have heard about the absolute terror which faculty and students at Rutgers University greeted the news that former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been chosen as the commencement speaker at this May's graduation ceremony.  Professors at both of the college's campuses voted to ask the university to disinvite Rice because of her role in the Iraq War, naming her a "war criminal" for her role in the George W. Bush administration.

A quiet coup ratchets up the propaganda quotient in education with Advanced Placement exams.  While alarm bells are loudly ringing over the Common Core, a much quieter, yet potentially devastating, coup is underway, enabling the progressives to subvert secondary education.  In classic leftist fashion, the vehicle chosen to propagandize our youth into seeing America as a fundamentally racist, unworthy, and unfair society in need of "fundamental transformation" revolves around a wealthy non-profit organization that enjoys a near-monopoly on a prestige-generating market niche.  The Heartland Institute alerts us to what's going on, as the College Board Advanced Placement Examination is being turned into a vehicle to denigrate American History.

Teachers union boss wants schools to teach 'social justice'.  Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis wants schools to teach social justice, not "consumerism," she said in a video.  Lewis spoke about ways to avoid "consumerist" messages while teaching subjects typically seen as apolitical, like math, at the annual conference of the Network for Public Education, a progressive advocacy group that backs public schools.

Parent Appalled Over Essay Asking 8th Graders If They'd Rather Be Slaves Or Factory Workers.  A Detroit-area mother is fuming over an essay question that asked middle school students if they would rather be slaves or factory workers.  Tina James, whose 13-year-old daughter attends Novi Middle School, told WWJ's Vickie Thomas that she almost couldn't believe an 8th grade American History assignment that asked students:  "Which would you rather be: A slave or a factory worker during the Industrial Revolution?" [...] The essay was assigned to be completed in class, and the teacher stated that he did not want any parental involvement.

Dartmouth Caves to Student Threats.  [Scroll down]  The initial student letter called for greater diversity in the faculty and post-doctoral program as well as an increase in enrollment for Black, Latino, and Native American students to 10 percent of the student population each.  The anonymous students also demanded that all students be required to take classes on "social justice" and "marginalization," that gender-neutral housing be available for all students, and that restrictions on the use of the term "illegal immigrants" be imposed.  In response to the demands for racial quotas, Dartmouth plans to allocate $1 million to hire faculty "who bring diverse perspectives to campus."  Another $30 million will also be spent to bring in more minorities for the post-doctorate program.

The 'Before Obama' and 'After Obama' history lesson for school children.  With Common Core spoon-feeding school children a steady school-day diet of anti-American propaganda, it's prime time for parents to school their own children in the true chronicled History of the one nation the rest of the world still cherishes as the escape hatch to freedom and liberty.

Harvard writer: Free speech threatens liberalism and must be destroyed.  If this Harvard University student got her way, free speech on campus would be abolished and professors with dissenting views fired, because radical leftism is the only permissible political philosophy and the First Amendment is a barrier preventing modern colleges from fulfilling their proper role as indoctrination camps.  Her name is Sandra Korn.  She is a senior at Harvard and columnist for the Harvard Crimson.  In a recent column, Korn unambiguously insisted that the university should stop guaranteeing professors and students the right to hold controversial views and pursue research that challenges liberalism.

School Textbook Calls Reagan Sexist, Slams Conservatives.  A sophomore at the University of South Carolina was shocked recently to find a school textbook presenting as fact the claims that Ronald Reagan was a sexist and that conservatives think people are incapable of charity and those on welfare are "lazy."  The book also claims that rich people find that having poor people around is "useful" because it allows them to have a class of people to "look down on."

University of Alabama Removes 'Offensive' Pro-Life Display.  An administrator at the University of Alabama removed the pro-life display of Bama Students for Life last week without notification, claiming that some students found the display "offensive."  The display, which featured abortion-related facts, photos of women who died as a result of abortion, and two small pictures of aborted babies, was among numerous other displays by other student organizations.

Common Core: How The Left Will Grow Its Power in America's Schools.  In 2012, terrorist and activist Chicago professor Bill Ayers told his followers that the left had "absolute access to the community, the school... the classroom," and that is where it should do its "movement-building."  In October of 2009, when speculation had arisen that Ayers had been the real author of Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father, the activist was in Washington D.C. to present a keynote address at a conference sponsored by the Renaissance Group.

Outrageous Leftist Propaganda Buried In Elementary Math Lessons.  By now, it is common knowledge among millions of parents that the public school system has been overtaken by leftist ideologues.  Federal curriculum guidelines offer a bounty of highly partisan — and often completely false — leftist propaganda, while conservative thought is roundly ridiculed in government-approved texts.  While these trends are abundantly obvious in certain subjects, some parents might believe empirical disciplines like mathematics would be a safe haven from such inappropriate ideology.  Tragically, the left's ever-widening grasp on the next generation is firmly implanted across the educational spectrum.

Academic Poison: Professor Says Bin Laden Was A 'Freedom Fighter' In Required Textbook.  One of the more "through the looking glass" aspects of modern American academia is that the most profoundly ignorant people have been put in charge of higher education.  At first glance, one would assume that this man knows quite well that his interpretations aren't at all empirical and that he is lying merely to promote an agenda.  In the narrow-minded bubble world of college politics and history professors, however, his conclusions are accepted as fact, despite being wildly interpretive and inaccurate.

Progressives' welfare state dream is really a nightmare.  A recent column in Rolling Stone magazine revealed a recurring and troubling trend with young Millennials who have been brain-washed by professors preaching the Progressive dream of a welfare state.

Schools Groom Children for Life in Police State USA.  Government schools have always been the source of indoctrination and inadequate education, but the rise of security hysteria and zero-tolerance policies has made them into veritable conditioning centers for life in the American police state.  As a matter of policy in most compulsory government schools, students are subjected to warrantless searches of their bags and lockers, dog sniffs, and are even being forced to give urine samples without probable cause.  Drug enforcement and education takes on a variety of different forms.  In Indiana, police officers subjected a class of 5th graders to a "simulated drug raid" in a "drug awareness" event that resulted in one student getting attacked by the police dog that was demonstrating how it might search children for drugs if the police were crashing a party at someone's home.

The Denaturalization of America.  Human nature is stubborn and recalcitrant to brute force.  It must be subdued through a carefully administered program of indoctrination aimed at countering the inevitable lessons of normal experience, within the mind-stunting machinery of an artificially restrictive and pre-packaged pseudo-world.  In the more subtle, developmental instantiations of the totalitarian state, these re-education camps have a prettified name:  public schools.

Colleges Substitute Western Greats With Gender Studies.  Parents pay a fortune to send their kids to big-name colleges, and they expect strong scholarship in return.  More and more, what they're getting ranges from drivel to leftist indoctrination.

Liberal Professor Tells White Male Students To Commit Suicide To Benefit Society.  Noel Ignatiev, a professor at Massachusetts College of Art, has for years advocated the total elimination of Caucasians.  During his final lecture before retirement last Monday, he told his white male students "you don't deserve to live.  You are a cancer, you're a disease."

Obama no match for Liberty the 'Talking Horse'.  Public education bureaucrats, who gave history a backseat for the advance of propaganda, assume children do not want to be proud of their own country — and they assume wrong. [...] Children will never look into a mirror and see the negative unless they are indoctrinated.

Obama biography, required reading, tells fourth-graders that white Americans are racists.  Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President Barack Obama is required reading for fourth-graders.  They say the book contains a host of controversial elements, not least of which is that it casts white Americans who disagree with Obama's politics as racist.  Fourth-grade students at Bluffview Elementary School were instructed that they would be tested and graded on the book's contents, reports EAGnews.org.  The book, called simply "Barack Obama," is published by Lerner Publications.

Thanksgiving lesson teaches hate and racism.  According to the Department of Public Instruction website, this approach was first recommended in 1977.  This Thanksgiving lesson is based upon a "likelihood, the 'First Thanksgiving' in colonial America was proclaimed in 1637 to commemorate the murder of approximately 700 Pequot Indians at Mystic Fort."  This disgusting hypothesis is based on the admitted supposition of the late Professor William Newell of the University of Connecticut.

Jewish dad questions homework assignment, gets investigated for being a 'neo-Nazi'.  Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., wants to know why the president of the local teacher's union thinks he's a neo-Nazi after he complained about a classroom assignment that he believed to be biased. [...] Last week, his daughter's eighth grade American History class at East Pennsboro Middle School was asked to analyze a New York Times story about the recent government shutdown.  Barry, who said he is a registered independent, read the story and then read a list of questions his daughter was required to answer and he immediately determined the assignment was "grossly slanted."

Teacher's union head investigates whether parent is a neo-Nazi.  A Pennsylvania father is steaming mad after the head of a local teacher's union suggested he may be a "neo-Nazi" for questioning a school assignment.  Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., expressed concern after his daughter brought home an assignment analyzing a New York Times article discussing the recent government shutdown.  Examiner.com first reported the story.  The assignment asked questions like, "Whom do you hold most responsible for the government shutdown?" and "Do you feel it is principled or irresponsible for politicians to threaten a shutdown?"  Barry thought it was an exercise in indoctrination.

Loving and Hating America.  As I've documented in the past, many leftist teachers teach our youngsters to hate our country.  For example, University of Hawaii Professor Haunani-Kay Trask counseled her students, "We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is.  The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it."  Some universities hire former terrorists to teach and indoctrinate students.  Kathy Boudin, former Weather Underground member and convicted murderer, is on the Columbia University School of Social Work's faculty.  Her Weather Underground comrade William Ayers teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Bernardine Dohrn, his wife, is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.  Her stated mission is to overthrow capitalism.

Checking Your Kids' School Assignments.  Have you checked your kids' school assignments lately?  You might be shocked if you do.  Sixth-grade children in a history class in the Bryant School District in Arkansas (whose website brags that the district "has embraced" Common Core standards) were assigned a project to update the U.S. Bill of Rights because it is "outdated."  They were instructed to "prioritize, revise, omit two and add two amendments."

Unhinged: What liberal NC professors think of opposing views.  Make sure to read the whole thing, and if you're a parent who is paying or who will be paying for your daughter and/or son to attend UNC-CH, Duke, or any of the other universities mentioned in the piece, question what you're money will be paying for.

Student Indoctrination.  William Penn, Michigan State University professor of creative writing, greeted his first day of class with an anti-Republican rant.  Campus Reform, a project of the Arlington, Va.-based Leadership Institute, has a video featuring the professor telling his students that Republicans want to prevent "black people" from voting.  He added that "this country still is full of closet racists" and described Republicans as "a bunch of dead white people — or dying white people"

California college bars student from handing out copies of Constitution.  The Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, but don't try to pass out copies of it at Modesto Junior College in California.  A student at the school who tried to pass out pocket-size pamphlets of the very document that memorializes our rights got shut down on Sept. 17 — a date also known as Constitution Day.

Colleges Recruiting Students to Propagandize Wikipedia.  A new program developed by FemTechNet and titled "Storming Wikipedia" will apparently hit fifteen universities, including Yale, Brown, and Penn State, beginning this year.  The program gives students college credit for writing "feminist thinking" into Wikipedia entries.  There are 300 students registered for the course, according to course facilitator Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California's Pitzer College.

Catholic University to Welcome Communist Leader.  With no room for opposing views or questions, Seattle University is planning to host a talk, complete with a book signing and reception for Angela Davis, on October 17. [...] "It would be difficult to find a speaker who contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church on more levels than Angela Davis.  Stalin, maybe?  She is a notorious feminist, Marxist, communist, socialist who engages in pro-abortion, pro-same-sex "marriage" activism," James Bascom wrote for TFP Student Action, a group whose goal is "Defending Moral Values on Campus."

Professor Tells Class Republicans "Raped" America.  A Michigan State University professor said Republicans were a bunch of "dying white people" who "raped this country" and wanted to prevent "black people" from voting in a secretly recorded tirade during the first day of a creative writing class, Campus Reform reported.

Michigan State investigates professor who tells students Republicans 'raped this country'.  Campusreform.org, an online news organization part of the conservative Leadership Institute, posted the video on Tuesday [9/3/2013], claiming to have received it from a student in the classroom.  In the video, MSU professor William Penn berates Republicans in front of about 400 students in his Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities lecture-hall class on Thursday [8/29/2013].

Re-education at George Mason.  This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty.  You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training."  This is a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression to which I shall refuse to submit.

Immigration and America's Broken Civics Education System.  [Scroll down]  Most colleges and universities no longer require students to take a basic course in U.S. history or government (less than 20 percent, according to the American Council of Trustees and Alumni), and those students who happen to take U.S. history as an elective are not likely to hear much praise for the land of the free and the home of the brave.  In its recent study of the history curriculum in Texas universities, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) found a preoccupation with the themes of race, class, and gender injustice.

Professor backs statement that God is racist, says 'I have tenure. I can't get fired'.  Anthea Butler, the Ivy League religious studies professor who called God a white racist after the Trayvon Martin verdict last week, doubled down on her statement and denounced the conservative media outlets that criticized her.  Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a blog post for Religious Dispatches last week arguing that most Americans worship a "white racist god with a problem" who is "carrying a gun and stalking young black men."

Teaching with Eyes Closed.  Although individual instructors may hold conservative views, teachers as a group are firmly progressivist, committed to "social improvement" through state intervention.  Solidarity with the putatively oppressed has led schools to embrace a variety of ameliorative causes, most recently, in Canada, a gay-oriented anti-bullying campaign that is at times stridently anti-Christian (though also, ironically enough, pro-Muslim) and a zealous environmentalist philosophy that teaches children to condemn oil and gas production.

Being Schooled About Transgenders.  Education these days involves indoctrination, far more than teaching children to think clearly and to recognize demagoguery and propaganda.  Too often, our schools — from pre-school to graduate programs — are saturated with so-called "progressive" ideology.  Even when they cannot read or do basic math, children can spout the latest cultural truism [...] They know where to buy condoms or obtain birth control; they "know" that global warming is the greatest threat facing mankind.  And, today, it is becoming perfectly normal for "transgender" students to pop in and out of whichever bathroom they want to use.

Napolitano Leaving DHS Under Cloud of Suspicion.  [Janet] Napolitano is a poor choice to lead the University of California system, a position usually filled by an academic, not a highly partisan politician. [...] Napolitano is an extremist zealot who will stop at nothing to achieve her progressive agenda and stamp out conservatism.

Hating America.  University of Southern California professor Darry Sragow preaches hate to his students in his regulation of elections and political finance class, recently telling them that Republicans are stupid, racist losers and that they are angry old white people.  A few years ago, Rod Swanson, a UCLA economics professor, told his class, "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world."  Penn State University professor Matt Jordan compared supporters of the voter ID laws to the Ku Klux Klan.

Deliver Us From Evil: Black Professor Spews Hate.  [Scroll down]  Around 15 years ago, a white friend of mine said her son came home from middle school extremely upset — in tears.  The poor kid was devastated, suffering with overwhelming guilt for being white after learning all the horrible things white men did to blacks, women, and Native Americans.  His liberal agenda operative teacher actually implied that he should feel guilty.  Today, that same kid, my friend's son, is a twenty-something-year-old zealous member of the Communist Party.  He believes that white males and capitalism are the greatest sources of evil in the world.

Blacklisted by Higher Education.  Professor Mary Grabar has put together a chilling book revelation of how much more liberal and groupthink our universities have become even since the 1980s and 1990s, when political correctness first started seeping into academic life and poisoning young impressionable minds seeking knowledge; instead they are daily subjected to an incessant brainwashing of leftist ideology and the rewriting of history.

Meet the journalism professor who says NRA members are treasonous, should be executed.  In a bizarre op-ed in The Charleston Gazette last week, journalism professor Christopher Swindell argued that the National Rifle Association "advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America."  Stirring words, to be sure, but Swindell was hardly done — not even close.  He also said that the NRA is guilty of "treason" "worthy of the firing squad."

Communist Indoctrination Included in Common Core for First Graders.  Reading, writing and arithmetic are out — Communist indoctrination is in!  The radical left is indoctrinating first graders in communist doctrine disguised as educational tools for first graders.  The indoctrination is part of the Common Core curriculum for elementary students.

Obama should end up on Mount Rushmore say a third of George Washington profs surveyed.  According to a survey of George Washington University professors, some 30 percent generally endorse the eventual addition of President Barack Obama's face to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.  The survey, conducted and reported by The College Fix, is hampered by an extremely limited sample size.  Nonetheless, the results are fascinating.

Defending Indoctrination as 'Academic Freedom'.  Even at a leftist bastion such as USC, Professor Dekmejian can be considered an extremist.  In a mere twenty minutes of recorded classroom footage, Dekmejian repeatedly hurls insults at every Republican president since Reagan, claiming that they were "lazy" and that they "lied to the American people," while praising Jimmy Carter for "still going around doing good things."

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Bevy of Domestic Terrorists Teaching at College.  Controversy ensued when the news broke that Kathy Boudin, former member of the Weather Underground who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder, received the position of adjunct professor at Columbia University.  While it may be ironic that Boudin received a teaching position at a university she was plotted to bomb, she is not the only former domestic terrorist to receive such a position.

Common Core GED textbook: "9/11 hijackers were poor Afghanis".  Adult basic education and GED programs, with about 800,000 students taking GED tests each year, serve a segment of society that escaped government schools, including many homeschoolers.  But the national propaganda effort called the Common Core Curriculum is spreading its tentacles to them.

Immigrants More Likely to Identify as Liberal, Put International Law Over Constitution.  A country whose educational institutions are less patriotic and more liberal will play a crucial role in the shaping of a less patriotic and more liberal population.  Immigrants who tend to get their identity more from education than national culture (tellingly immigrants are more likely to rank professors higher than soldiers, in contrast to native-born Americans) are more likely to lean left.

Duval [County] teacher tells 4th graders to give up [their] constitutional rights.  One Duval County parent tells WOKV his son doesn't even know what his constitutional rights are, so he's shocked a teacher told the ten-year-old to write a letter on his willingness to give them up.

School Crossword's Definition of 'Conservatism' Outrages Mom!  Tamra Varebrook's 8th-grade daughter came home recently with an assignment on liberalism versus conservatism that shocked and angered her because of how it characterized one of the political ideologies.  "I looked at it, and reading the description of 'conservatism' being that we are the party that wants to restrict all personal freedoms struck me as pretty much incorrect," she said.

USC Professor Rants in Class Against 'Stupid and Racist' Republicans.  The professor's name is Darry Sragow.  He openly endorses illegally suppressing Republican votes.

Video captures professor ranting against Republican Party.  A professor at the University of Southern California (USC) appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and "losers."  In a 15 min. video secretly captured by USC student Tyler Talgo, political science Professor Darry Sragow also appears to endorse the illegal suppression of Republican votes.

Johns Hopkins's and Planned Parenthood's troubling extremism.  We know Johns Hopkins University is devoted to diversity, because it says so.  Its "Diversity and Inclusion Statement," a classic of the genre, says the university is "committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion ... by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of students."  Hopkins has an Office of Institutional Equity and a "Diversity Leadership Council" that defines "inclusion" as "active, thoughtful and ongoing engagement with each other."  Unless you are a member of Voice for Life (VFL), an antiabortion group.

Facing the Hardest Truth on Public Education.  Were public schools better twenty, forty, or sixty years ago?  Of course they were.  But it no more follows from this that public education is not such a bad idea than it follows from the fact that the welfare state of sixty years ago had not yet incorporated socialized medicine that socialism is not such a bad idea.  Today's extensions of progressive control over an ever-increasing range of our lives did not arise from nowhere; they were made possible by earlier, gradual insinuations of the concepts and moral perspectives of tyranny into the modern West's soul.

Tale of two terrorists.  Despite the misgivings of some, it is reported that Kathy Boudin urged the use of "anti-personnel bombs."  In other words, she wanted to kill people not just damage property.  Before they could act, her fellows were killed in the townhouse explosion.  The townhouse itself collapsed; Boudin fled.  She reappeared over a decade later driving the getaway car for the rag tag mix of Weathermen and Black Panthers who held up a Rockland County bank in 1981, murdering three in the process.

This Is Columbia University.  People who ask how it is possible that a convicted killer — a participant in a failed plot to blow up a social dance attended by 18-year-old draftees and their dates; a murderess who abetted the cold-blooded massacre of three law-enforcement officers, including the first African-American on the Nyack police force; a woman whose actions left nine children fatherless and who has shown no genuine remorse for that — should be hired as an adjunct professor at an elite school like Columbia University haven't been paying attention to what's happened to our educational system from kindergarten to the university level, which has long been under the academic thumb of a Left that is comfortable supporting Islamic supremacists and anti-American terrorists both at home and abroad.

Mom Claims 5th-Grade Son's Quiz Blames 9/11 Attacks On United States.  Kara Sands posted on her Facebook page earlier this month a quiz her fifth-grade son at Flour Bluff Intermediate School took after watching a video entitled "Remembering September 11th."  One of the questions on the quiz asked "Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?" with the correct answer being "Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere."  Sands called it "propaganda."

Department of Education "Kids Zone" Features Communist Quote from Mao.  This isn't a generic quote about education being a good thing.  It's actually a quote about the need for Communist indoctrination among Communist Party members.

Texas School Teaches 9-11 Hijackers Were "Freedom Fighters".  I'm beginning to wonder what in the world is going on in Texas!  First I told you how the public school system in Texas is being infiltrated with CSCOPE curriculum that teaches that the Founding Fathers, who were involved in the Boston Tea Party, were "terrorists."  Now, word is that in a Texas high school, students are told to refer to the Jihadists who hijacked planes on 9-11 to attack America should be referred to as "freedom fighters," not terrorists.  Students at Lumberton High School were not only told this nonsense, but they have also been told to stop referring to the Holocaust as Genocide.

Wisconsin Education Officials Want Students to Wear 'White Privilege' Wristbands.  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that heavily emphasize racial issues in public schools, EAGnews.org has been finding.  Some feel that one of those programs — an Americorps operation called VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) — may go a bit overboard by encouraging white students to wear a white wristband "as a reminder about your (white) privilege."

Federal judge: Arizona can ban classes promoting 'racial resentment against 'whites.  A federal appeals judge has upheld most of a 2010 Arizona state law that prohibits school districts from offering coursework that endorses the overthrow of the United States government or stokes resentment toward a race or class of people. [...] The ruling stems from a case concerning a school district's intervention to forcibly alter coursework in a controversial Mexican-American studies program in Tucson schools.  The highly race-conscious program taught history, civics and literature from a pointedly Mexican-American vantage point.

Texas Student Disciplined for Refusing to Recite Mexican National Anthem, Lawsuit Says.  A Texas couple claims their daughter's school district tried to force her to sing the Mexican national anthem and recite that country's pledge of allegiance against her will — then punished her for standing her ground.  When the teen refused to participate, arguing it was against her beliefs as an American, she was eventually thrown out of the class and then given a failing grade for that day's assignment, the lawsuit says.

We Have Ted Cruz's List: Harvard Law Really Is Littered with Communists.  It turns out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was correct when he claimed Harvard Law School had significant numbers of what might reasonably be called "communists."  Anyone who knows the Ivy League knows the question shouldn't be, Who at Harvard is Marxist?  but Who at Harvard isn't Marxist?

American Student Punished for Refusing to Recite Mexican Pledge.  A Texas high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against her school and her teachers after she was punished for refusing to salute and recite the Mexican pledge of allegiance.  The Thomas More Law Center filed the suit on behalf of Brenda Brinsdon alleging the McAllen Independent School District violated the 15-year-old girl's constitutional rights when she was forced to recite the Mexican pledge and sing the Mexican national anthem.

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This is America.  Teach the kids about America.

Title IX for our boys.  Large urban school districts are losing students at an alarming pace.  They're going to charter schools, to online schools and to home-schooling.  But now there's another reason for parents to think about moving their children out of public schools — the boys.  It seems that teachers — overwhelmingly female — just might be prejudiced against boys and it's hurting their grades.  Stereotyped as "naughty," boys quickly learn that they are thought of as dumber and more trouble than girls.  And that has consequences.

Midtown teacher includes questions about slavery in elementary school math homework.  A furor over slavery has erupted at a Midtown elementary school, after a teacher handed out math homework that include questions asking kids to tally the killing and beating of slaves.  The shocking questions were given to at least one class of 9-year-olds at PS 59 in Manhattan — which included the kids of United Nations personnel.  The inflammatory queries were only uncovered after a student teacher was asked to hand them out to a second class.

Teacher Reportedly Refused to Grade Student Reports on Guns.  An English teacher at Denton High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area allegedly refused to grade two student reports because they discussed guns.  MyFoxDFW.com reports that the teacher, Dewey Christian, told his students to write a report on anything they wanted.

Wisc. University Stands By Campaign To Teach Diversity By Writing 'Unfair' On White Students' Faces.  The University of Wisconsin Duluth-Superior is standing by a controversial campaign launched in 2012 to increase public awareness about racial favoritism by writing "unfair" on students' faces along with a variety of grievances supposedly shared by minorities against Caucasians.  The university released a statement last week defending the project and saying that the campaign is prepare to enter its second phase.

Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry Grathwohl.  If people dedicated to the complete destruction of the United States as a constitutional republic became power-players in the public school establishment, would you expect them to build an education system that fostered and preserved the tenets of republican citizenship as understood by America's founders?  Would you continue to support the public schools, and send your children there?

College: Fire professor who forced students to vote for Obama.  A tenured professor who forced her students to sign pledges that they would vote for President Barack Obama last November should be fired, the college's president recommended.  Sharon Sweet, an associate professor of mathematics at Brevard Community College in Florida, is guilty of electioneering, harassment, and incompetence, according to a three-month investigation into her classroom behavior leading up to the November election.

Professor Blocks Students From Using Fox News as Source for Assignment.  Students and parents at West Liberty University in West Virginia are expressing concern and even outrage over an assignment handed out by professor Stephanie Wolf in which she told her students which sources they couldn't use in their research.  While The New York Times, The Huffington Post and others were given the clear, The Onion and Fox News were the two outlets she said were off limits.

Indoctrinating Children: 'Palestine Solidarity' in the Classroom.  Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman is an anti-Israel activist and English professor who has taught at Boise State University, al-Quds University, the American University of Beirut, and other universities in the Middle East.  In The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), she has assembled a guidebook for American high school teachers on how to teach the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Students Told to Stop 'USA!' Chant, Take Off American Flag Bandanas.  Four California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting "U.S.A! U.S.A!" and wearing American flag bandanas during a basketball game.  While their punishment has since been rescinded, school administrators said "the incident is far from over."  Oxnard Union School District superintendent Gabe Soumakian told Fox News Radio that "we need to pursue this further" and "work with teachers and students and the community about the concept of cultural proficiency."

20 Reasons America Is Becoming An Increasingly Nonfunctional Society.  [#15]  Schools have moved away from teaching reading, writing, history, morality, and patriotism for the benefit of the students to pushing self-esteem and liberal indoctrination for the benefit of the teachers' unions and salaries of professors.

What Our Society Has Become.  The United States Constitution, and its concepts of limited government, State sovereignty, liberty, and a political system governed by the people is being tossed aside as nothing more than an archaic obstacle to progress.  Federalized, our schools have become indoctrination centers that spit out compliant citizens hailing that central government is the new god of the new age.  Television programs, all the way down to the cute little yellow feathered Street for toddlers, reinforces the mental programming of the youngsters, and the news media and entertainment industry reinforce the teachings not only for the children, but to ensure the proper re-education of the older folks that might still remember what America was like when it was still truly free.

Texas Middle School Students Being Asked To Design Flags For A New Socialist Nation".  You know America is changing when leftists have even infiltrated Texas schools.

'We Are Undocumented And Unafraid, Because This Is What We Learned In School'.  On Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show this morning [2/2/2013], Cristina Jiménez, leader of United We Dream, an organization that advocates on behalf of illegal immigrant youth, declared "we are undocumented and unafraid, because this is what we learned in school."  In American schools of today, dominated by government employee unions, she's likely only too accurate about what's being taught.

Loyola Students: Professor Required Us to Attend Van Jones Lecture.  An event this past Wednesday [1/23/2013] at Loyola University Chicago featuring former Obama administration official Van Jones strayed far from the marketed title of "2013 MLK Celebration," instead encouraging students to embrace a "new patriotism" and the "ugly-unequal founding" of America.

Pallor Games.  "A Wisconsin high school is under fire after parents discovered that the 'American Diversity' class taught students that minorities had historically been oppressed by white people," reports London's Daily Mail. [...] The parents aren't objecting to their children being taught historical facts about, say, slavery and Jim Crow, but rather to the curriculum's tendentious view of contemporary America.

Superintendent seeking termination of teacher accused of stomping on American flag in class.  The superintendent of a school district that has received national attention because of a teacher's controversial lesson plan has decided to recommend that teacher be terminated after allegedly throwing down the American flag and stomping on it in front of his classes.

South Carolina teacher on leave for stomping on American flag in front of class.  A high school teacher in South Carolina is under investigation and has been placed on long-term administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students.  Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., reprised the unpatriotic deed in three classes over the course of one day, reports local NBC affiliate WIS.

S.C. teacher quits after stomping flag.  A South Carolina high school English teacher who stomped on a U.S. flag said Friday [3/29/2013] he has resigned effective the end of the school year.

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Chapin teacher got $85,000 in flag stomping deal.  Lexington-Richland 5 paid former Chapin High teacher Scott Compton $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge, part of a settlement that led to his resignation after he stomped on an American flag during a class lesson.

The Role of 'Educators'.  John Dewey saw the role of the teacher, not as a transmitter of a society's culture to the young, but as an agent of change — someone strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want a different kind of society.  A century later, we are seeing schools across America indoctrinating students to believe in all sorts of politically correct notions.  The history that is taught in too many of our schools is a history that emphasizes everything that has gone bad, or can be made to look bad, in America — and that gives little, if any, attention to the great achievements of this country.

Every Idea Is an Incitement.  After I got tenure, I left the political Left and became a conservative Republican.  I know you've never had a conservative professor before and you are probably wondering what to expect.  In a nutshell, you can expect to hear the truth about a number of things for the very first time in your college career.  And that means you can probably expect to be offended from time to time.

Unmitigated propaganda in the New York Times:
Let's Give Up on the Constitution.  As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is.

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The writer of the article immediately above is identified by the New York Times as "a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University," which tells us a lot about the potential for anti-American indoctrination at Georgetown.  He never gets around to his alternatives to the Constitution, but apparently he would prefer that the America-hating Marxist, Barack H. Obama, be pronounced America's not-so-benevolent dictator, bypassing the ballot box.  The whole article sounds like sedition to me.

Subverting the Constitution.  Louis Michael Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, is no fringe figure.  He is a pillar of the left wing legal establishment, graduate of Harvard Law, former clerk for Thurgood Marshall, and notable figure in the Leftist "critical legal theory" movement. [...] Seidman has taken to the pages of the daily bible of the progressive establishment, the New York Times, to lend respectability to a movement to subvert the Constitution, and turn to an undefined system which inevitably means the loss of our safeguards against tyranny.  All expressed in superficially reassuring prose.

Hey! Let's have a 'Burn the Constitution Day!'  I don't believe the Constitution is holy writ nor do I think that the Founders had all the answers for today's America.  But all public officials and members of the military swear fealty to our founding document for a reason; it is the most visible, the most tangible representation of our sovereignty as a nation.  We don't have kings, or castles, or ancient ruins to which we can point and say our sovereignty lies within.  It is the Constitution that unites us as a people.  And positing the notion that we should just throw it away is outrageously stupid and disquietingly radical.

Georgetown Law professor: Scrap 'archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil' Constitution.  Georgetown Law professor Louis Michael Seidman writes that the time has come to scrap the Constitution.  In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation's foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America's troubles.

Professor: I Want NRA Vice President's "Head on a Stick".  Campus Reform has reported that University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis has called for NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre's "head on a stick" during a rant on his Twitter page.  Loomis also called the NRA a terrorist organization.

American Schools Replace Great Fiction With Government Propaganda.  Forty-six states have surrendered control of school curricula to the federal government under the remarkably successful and sweeping "Race to the Top" challenge.  By entering the challenge — with no promising of winning the money — states agreed to replace local school district curricula with federally mandated subjects and standards:  the common core state standards.  The process took less than two years, and ensures that the federal government will dictate every aspect of a child's learning forever.

A New Low From The California Federation Of Teachers: Urine Indoctrination.  If anything raises questions about the fitness of the California Federation of Teachers to be around kids, just look at its new video pushing class warfare doctrine by graphically depicting "the rich" urinating on the poor.  The angry, hate-filled cartoon video was placed right up top on the California Federation of Teachers' website, where children could see it, if it's not already being shown in classrooms.

96 percent of Ivy League professors' donations went to Obama.  Ivy League educators overwhelmingly supported President Obama with their campaign donations in the presidential election, reinforcing the suspicions of critics who say their bias also shows up in the classroom.  Some 96 percent of faculty and staffers at the eight universities who donated wrote their checks to Obama, and at Brown University, just one professor contributed to Mitt Romney's bid, according to a study by student political advocacy group Campus Reform.  In all, the employees of the prestigious schools sent more than $1.2 million to President Obama and just $114,166 for Romney's campaign — a ratio of more than 10-to-1.

Thanksgiving Celebrates Our 'Original Sin,' 'Views Virtually Identical To Nazis,' Journalism Prof Preaches.  Forget all that turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, today should be a day of fasting and atonement for American "sin."  That's according to Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin.  Jensen, known for his hard-left politics, also calls Thanksgiving a "white-supremacist holiday."

Emulating Dictators.  As if Obama's "Youth Brigade" wasn't bad enough last election season, now a pro-Obama song ad has been released by advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners titled, "Future Children Project, Re-electing President Obama."  Through the song's lyrics, they are using children to promote Obama's un-American, un-Constitutional agendas such as global warming, homosexuality, animal rights, welfare, green energy, government control of education, and a disdain for parents.

Is It Time to Get Your Kids Out?  Beware of what authority figures tell you about what happened before your birth.  Why do modern proponents of evolutionary theory self-edit the full title of Charles Darwin's revolutionary book "On the Origin of Species"?  It is because it would reveal that Charles Darwin advocated racism rather than science.  Darwin's book is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."  It is an undeniable fact that throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the "hate God" movement was led by highly educated scholars.  Scientists, biologists, and professors propagating philosophies obsessed with Darwin's On Origin of Species attack the foundation of biblical Christianity.  The perpetrators of this revolutionary mindset jumped on the "God is dead" bandwagon initiated by Friedrich Nietzsche.  Thereafter, the concept of "favored races" seeded the explosion of racism in the 20th century.  They do not represent the common man.  Hiding behind all their obsession with partiality for Darwinism is at its core a social philosophy rooted in racism.  These racist Darwinist philosophical evil theories grew into a worldwide holocaust of hundreds of millions of souls suffering and dying under the boot of the Marxist state:  Collectivisms known as communism, socialism, nazism, and fascism.

Lies We Shouldn't Have Told Our Children.  [#3] You are the product of blind, random mutations.  You have no purpose or meaning.  That's a doozy — especially when we couple it with the last lie.  We accept without thinking what a profound effect that has on kids.  Darwinian evolution is one of the most dangerous and debilitating falsehoods we've allowed in, and since we've permitted the school system to clothe that lie in a white lab coat and lionize all statements called "science," we have left our kids in a very dark wood with no way out.  And, what's worse is that our government, in order to cement the lie, spends billions of dollars each year to convince our kids that God isn't.  If, for 12 to 20+ years, we send them off to schools that are devoted to the myth of religious neutrality, where the God of the Bible is either never mentioned or openly attacked, why are we surprised that our children lose their way, lose their faith right when they need it the most?  An hour of Sunday School a week isn't going to counter that massive indoctrination.

Evolution is neither theory nor fact.  Just because some claim evolution is both a theory and fact, no matter how credentialed they are, or firm in their belief, does not make it so.  There are significant scientific problems that arise from calling evolution something other than hypothetical. [...] Evolution has never been witnessed by anyone, ever.  Without witnessing something happening, the results cannot be replicated.  For both reasons, evolution is hypothetical, not theoretical.  Adaptation has been witnessed by various species, but not a single species has been observed to go beyond adaptation.  Genetically, all species remain the same.  There has never been a single case witnessed where anything goes beyond adaption to a genetically unique species.  Since evolution has never been witnessed, it cannot be duplicated.  Without both, evolution remains hypothetical.  The rules do not stop just because people want to make an exception.

Killing science when no dissent is allowed.  In 2008, Ben Stein released a documentary film, Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed, that addressed the absolute intolerance within academia and the media for even a mention of "intelligent design" as opposed to unguided evolution with regard to the origin of life.  The editor of a scientific journal connected to the Smithsonian lost his job for publishing an article by Steven C. Meyer that referenced intelligent design.  Journalists who addressed the issue have been fired and professors have lost their jobs if they admitted to considering it a viable theory.  As one might expect, the Wikipedia page on the film mocks it as propaganda.  Say the words "intelligent design" and the Darwinian cult hears "creationist."

Since we're canceling people for racism, can we talk about Charles Darwin?  [Scroll down]  I do think it's time for the left's own rules to be applied to one of their most cherished and beloved heroes.  Even by the most generous of measures, the intellectual and philosophical heritage of Charles Darwin is one of the most hideously racist legacies one can fathom.  And yet, his inherently racist dogma is not only presented in public schools across America, it is state and federal policy that every student in America demonstrate proficiency in understanding and applying his dangerous ideology.  Set aside the colonialist rage against the Spanish conquistadors just long enough to recognize that it was Charles Darwin himself who wrote in his diary after encountering the "savages" in Tierra del Fuego, "one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow creatures."

The Biochemistry Challenge to Darwin.  Dr. [Ronald] Cherry asks the obvious question:  where did the essential DNA code to run the cells come from, and how would the first strand of DNA, devoid of its cellular environment, initially run the cell — big if — the cellular environment had to be present to protect the DNA so it could run the factory.  Dr. Cherry provides a lot of questions about the chicken/egg mystery, and points out the inadequacy of the self-creation theory, but there is no answer to this chicken/egg question, since there is no way to explain the circular puzzle.

Zero probability for self-generated life.  The life functions of a single human cell are far more complex than the world's most capable supercomputer, and impossible for man to duplicate using non-living materials due to that complexity and the sub-microscopic size and fragility of cellular components.  The complexity and rapidity of life-requiring DNA transcription into ribosomes, ribozymes, and messenger RNA, and then by ribosomal translation into enzymes and other proteins, boggles the mind.  A host of simultaneous purpose-driven enzymatic reactions are required in a membrane-protected milieu of proper pH and electrolyte concentration.  Under this fantastic DNA-orchestrated arrangement, our 37 trillion cells produce a hundred thousand trillion enzymes and other proteins per second.  Where did the life-sustaining initial DNA-encoded information come from?  How could the DNA wrap itself inside an interactive outer cell membrane and supply itself with the necessary enzymes, ribosomes, energy production, etc., when all of those cellular components are prerequisites for the functioning of DNA?  There are no rational pathways for self-assembled DNA-dependent cellular life.

A simple proof of intelligent design.  One of the biggest, and most consequential, debates in science is the question of whether the universe, and the life it harbors, are intelligently designed, or whether we all exist only by random chance.  Many minds far greater than mine have debated the matter pro and con for years.  I have the audacity to propose a simple theorem that will put the matter to rest.  Here it is:  Randomness can operate only within nonrandom parameters.  The truth of that utterance is manifold, and its implications are all-embracing.  Acceptance or rejection of that simple statement decides whether we, as a society, accept moral principles that cannot possibly come from the human mind, but only from the Supreme Being.

Another scientist challenges Darwin's theory.  Dr. Marcos Eberlin, a physical chemist who specializes in spectrometry and supervises a large lab in Brazil that has produced hundreds of doctoral level scientists, is former president of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, author of more than 1000 research papers, and has written a book that makes a strong case for another nail in the coffin of Darwin's theory of evolution of species. [...] It is silly to propose that random chemical changes that occasionally find a survival benefit can create complex functionality of the magnitude described in any cell, much less the many living single to multi-celled and of course the higher forms of life.

Gallup, Darwinism, and Scientism.  Darwinists are invariably the product of an educational system that has as little to do with free thought as the educational systems of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.  Groupthink, instead, is what these institutions create and nurture.  There are no longer "schools of thought," but simply "settled science" and its detractors (those with free and thinking minds).  It is Darwinism, not its alternative theories, that is an intolerant system of blind faith that brooks no reconsideration, no conflicting scientific opinion, and no independent thought.

Descent of Man.  The full title of Darwin's most famous work included some stark words:  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.  Darwin envisioned the spontaneous formation of simple life evolving into higher forms through the pitiless forces of nature selecting the fittest.  Darwin demonstrated how he believed evolution shaped man in his subsequent book The Descent of Man.  In it, he theorized that man, having evolved from apes, had continued evolving as various races, with some races more developed than others.  Darwin classified his own white race as more advanced than those "lower organisms" such as pygmies, and he called different people groups "savage," "low," and "degraded."  Darwin wasn't the first to propose biological arguments for racism, but his works fueled the most ugly and deadly racism.  Even evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould wrote, "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory" (Ontogeny and Phylogeny, 1977).

Educators Want to Focus More on Junk Science.  Educators have called for national teaching guidelines for science in schools around the nation — and they called for the curriculum for Middle Schools to focus more on the junk sciences like Evolution and Global Warming.  They felt that the nation's schools now focus too much on hard science like Chemistry, Biology and Physics.  Educators felt that other countries such as Germany and Japan have those things covered and there really isn't any money in those types of things.  Plus they require higher math skills and IQ levels that we just don't see in America.

Americans no Longer Live in a Scientific Society.  Enormous problems with evolutionary theory have been known for decades.  Yet the "scientific" community is utterly disinterested in addressing the holes in Evolution.  The fact that evolutionary theory is based upon probability is not helpful because the numbers are so astronomically opposed to the outcomes.  For example, Fred Hoyle calculated a single enzyme had a random chance of occurrence of 1x10⁴⁰⁰⁰⁰.

Guns, Guns, Guns.  If people are just grown-up animals, more articulate versions of the creatures who eat each other's young, and sometimes their own young, there is as much use in wondering about the nature of evil as there is in trying to understand why a killer whale kills. [...] But evil just can't be controlled.  Not with the sort of zero tolerance policies that confuse object with subject, which ban pocket knives and finger shootings to prevent real shootings.  That brand of control isn't authority, it's authority in panic mode believing that if it imposes total zero tolerance control then there will be no more school shootings.

How Penn Tried To Buy Amy Wax's Silence.  The University of Pennsylvania tried to cut a deal with Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who endured years of disciplinary proceedings over her controversial remarks.  The school offered to water down the sanctions against her if she agreed to stop discussing — and criticizing — her treatment at the hands of the university.  She refused.  So Penn announced Tuesday that it was suspending Wax for a year at half pay and stripping her of an endowed chair.  The sanctions, which also include a permanent loss of summer pay, were immediately condemned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which framed them as a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom.  "After today, any university under pressure to censor a controversial faculty member need only follow Penn's playbook," the group wrote in a statement. "Faculty nationwide may now pay a heavy price for Penn's willingness to undercut academic freedom for all to get at this one professor."  But behind closed doors, the school was prepared to let Wax pay a much lower price — provided she keep her mouth shut [...]

Are Fat Jokes an Existential Threat to American Universities?  [Scroll down]  These guidelines, if enforced, will undermine all campus social interaction save those among the closest friends.  Why risk forwarding an email joking about the unintelligible Indian accent of your calculus TA? Imagine surviving a life on 100% bland language?  Jokes, sarcastic comments, biting criticism, and similar unflattering comments are part of human discourse, a staple in literature and the theater.  To remove them in the name of minimizing harm is to sanitize human existence and as is true for all utopian schemes, defies human nature.  Indeed, given Shakespeare's bawdy depiction of women and characterization of usurious Jews, assigning Shakespeare to undergraduates may be defined as "hate mongering," and thus grounds for terminating the instructor.

Federal court rules conservative kids have no free speech rights.  In a ruling that completely contradicts long standing court rulings that had insisted the first amendment allowed students to wear T-shirts and armbands with whatever political statements they wished, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on June 9, 2024 ruled that a Massachusetts middle school had the right to censor and ban a 12-year-old boy wearing a shirt that said "There are only two genders."  This story is a follow-up of a blacklist story from May 2023.  At that time 12-year-old Liam Morrison was forced to leave Nichols Middle School when he refused to remove his T-shirt that said "There are only two genders."  He later came to class with the T-shirt shown in the picture to the right, with the words "only two" covered with the word "censored."  He was once again sent home, and subsequently his parents sued.

Get Up, Stand Up, Don't Give Up the Fight:  Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them.  Over the course of The Rutherford Institute's 42-year history, we have defended countless young people who found themselves censored, silenced and denied their basic First Amendment rights, especially when they chose to exercise their rights to free speech and religious freedom.  In case after case, we encounter an appalling level of ignorance on the part of public school officials who mistakenly believe that the law requires anything religious be banned from public schools.  Here's where government officials get it wrong: while the government may not establish or compel a particular religion, it also may not silence and suppress religious speech merely because others might take offense.  People are free to ignore, disagree with, or counter the religious speech of others, but the government cannot censor private religious speech.  Unfortunately, you can only defend your rights when you know them, and the American people — and those who represent them — are utterly ignorant about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate.

Teen gets diploma he was denied for praising Jesus during graduation speech.  Micah Price got his high-school diploma on Wednesday — five days after the rest of his classmates.  And Jesus was the reason.  The Kentucky teenager had his diploma withheld for professing his Baptist faith in his graduation-ceremony closing speech.

Kentucky High School Student Denied Diploma After Honoring Jesus During "Off-Script" Graduation Speech.  A high school in Kentucky withheld a Christian graduate's diploma when he reportedly went off script during his graduation speech to praise Jesus and encourage others to seek Him.  As the New York Post reported Thursday, Micah Price gave a commencement speech at Campbell County High School in Alexandria, Ky., on May 24.  He reportedly was permitted to praise Jesus Christ by school officials but ended up ticking them off after asking other Christians to find God.  WKRC notes administrators approve the speeches that students rehearse.

High schooler forced to apologize for praising Jesus in graduation speech in order to get diploma.  The Kentucky high schooler has been forced to apologize for speaking about his faith and praising Jesus at graduation in order to get his diploma after furious school administrators withheld it.  Micah Price received his diploma from Campbell County High School on Wednesday — five days after the now-infamous ceremony where the teen told his peers that Jesus "is the way," WXIX reported.

Student suspended for truthful statement.  Catholic teenager Malachy O'Kane was suspended from his Ontario public high school for 6 days because he wore a sweatshirt reading, "There are only two genders."  O'Kane, 16, was suspended earlier this month, the second day he wore the shirt to the Granite Ridge Education Centre in Sharbot Lake, a small Ontario municipality in between Toronto and Ottawa.  One of the school's counselors told Malachy that he was not allowed to wear the shirt because the school considers it "hate speech."  Ironically and hypocritically, the school itself, which serves children from kindergarten to Grade 12, prominently displays controversial ideological-political messaging — including LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter images — on its walls.

The Left's Long War on Using 'Illegal Aliens'.  We're now apparently in the era where using the term "birthing person" makes you a thoughtful speaker and saying "illegal alien" gets you suspended — at least if you're one North Carolina high schooler.  Last week, "in Davidson County, North Carolina, 16-year-old student Christian McGhee was suspended for three days for using the term 'illegal alien' in class when clarifying the word 'alien' in a vocabulary lesson," writes Donna King, editor in chief of the Carolina Journal.  "A classmate reportedly threatened to fight Christian over his word choice, but both students and their teacher insisted the exchange was innocent, and the other student's outrage was in jest," adds King, who notes the absurdity of politically correct terms such as "birthing person" and "uterus owners" in her column about the incident.  So to recap:  Christian, a teenager, reportedly didn't call someone an illegal alien, but simply asked the teacher if he was referring to an illegal alien or, say, a little green creature.  But even voicing the term was enough to get him suspended.

16-Year-Old Student Suspended After Using Term "Illegal Alien" in English Class.  A 16-year-old student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina, faced a three-day suspension last week, the Carolina Journal reported.  The cause?  His use of the term 'illegal alien' during a vocabulary assignment in English class.  The Carolina Journal has omitted the teenager's name due to his minor status and in order to safeguard his privacy.  Similarly, The Gateway Pundit has also chosen not to disclose the student's identity.

The Intellectual Wasteland of Our American College Campuses.  I am one of the listed constitutional conservative speakers that the Young America's Foundation (YAF.org) deploys to speak on college and university campuses.  As well, I often get the opportunity to address college and high school conservative students at YAF summer conferences.  It is always a pleasure to support and encourage these future leaders.  It is utterly shameful how these young people are treated by school administrations, teachers/professors, and their peers simply because they embrace a differing philosophy of governance from the prevailing mantra of progressive socialism and Marxism.

Elementary School Denies Request to Start Prayer Club, Approves 'Pride Club'.  In 2015, religious freedom seemed compromised when a Washington high school football coach was fired for praying with his team after a game.  Joe Kennedy waited roughly six years for the Supreme Court to hear the oral arguments for his case.  He was represented by a Christian nonprofit legal organization, First Liberty Institute, which took the position that "no teacher or coach should lose their job for simply expressing their faith while in public."  This was a notable case in 2022, and recent events have caused the issue to resurface.  Earlier this year, Laura, an 11-year-old girl who attends Creekside Elementary in Washington state, requested to start an interfaith prayer club at her school.  But her request was denied.  When Laura and her mom approached the principal about the matter in February, they were informed that the school's budget for clubs had been finalized in October.

K-12 Public Schools' Digital Policies Are Ripe for Persecuting Conservative Students.  Many of the district's students and parents are unaware that Fairfax County Public Schools offers administrators, counselors, and teachers a program called Lightspeed Systems.  It is essentially an unrestricted power for multiple school employees to surveille students' computer screens in real time.  While his classmates were taking their test, the teacher was spending her time figuratively watching over the student's shoulder to see what he was reading.  Lightspeed is a new program in Fairfax County Public Schools and its use has not been codified into the district's Acceptable Use Policy.  An Acceptable Use Policy in a K-12 educational setting outlines guidelines and expectations for the appropriate use of technology resources within the school community.  It serves as a framework to ensure that students, teachers, staff, and other stakeholders understand their rights and responsibilities when using digital devices, networks, and online services.

Harvard Fires Professor For Telling Truth About COVID Mandates.  Harvard University, like so many other formerly "elite" institutions, embarrassed itself during COVID.  Universities, ostensibly devoted to searching for truth and fact, revealed a long-formenting truth in 2020:  they no longer viewed themselves as truth-based instructional organizations.  Instead, their sole focus and goal is indoctrination.  Pushing an ideological message, promoting progressive activism and ensuring that identity and nonsensical anti-truth is privileged over objective reality.  That concerning shift in priority has been underway for decades, but rose to the forefront rapidly in 2020, shoved by necessity and opportunity.  Harvard, as well as their ideological allies in the media, demanded conformity with prevailing narratives over the pursuit of truth.  Because the "wrong" people could potentially be correct.  And even 4 years later, after the prevailing narratives conclusively being proven wrong on masks, lockdowns, school closures and a host of other COVID-related issues, they're still cracking down on anyone who spoke out against the abandonment of their core principles.

YSU students protest installation of former GOP congressman as new president.  Students at Youngstown State University in Ohio held a protest against newly installed president Bill Johnson because he was previously a Republican politician.  The students initially held a meeting on Jan. 8, in which they discussed how to keep the school accountable for hiring Johnson, according to The Marietta Times.  He served as an Ohio congressman from 2011 until stepping down on Jan. 21.  At the 90-minute gathering, students discussed holding a walkout on Johnson's first day as president of the school, as also noted by The Marietta Times.  The outlet further reported that this idea even "seemed to garner unanimous support" among attendees.

Youngstown State U. Students Protest New School President Because He is a Republican.  We saw this same thing happen when Ben Sasse was named as president of the University of Florida.

The New Right Activism.  For fifty years, establishment conservatives have been retreating from the great political tradition of the West — republican self-government, shared moral standards, and the pursuit of eudaimonia, or human flourishing — in favor of half-measures and cheap substitutes.  The first of these substitutes is the self-serving myth of neutrality.  Following a libertarian line, the conservative establishment has argued that government, state universities, and public schools should be "neutral" in their approach to political ideals.  But no institution can be neutral — and any institutional authority aiming only for neutrality will immediately be captured by a faction more committed to imposing ideology.  In reality, public universities, public schools, and other cultural institutions have long been dominated by the Left.  Conservative ideas and values have been suppressed, conservative thinkers have been persecuted, and the conservative establishment has deluded itself with impotent appeals to neutrality.

Claudine Gay's Most Grievous Sin.  Claudine Gay's sudden resignation from Harvard has been an eye-opener.  Why would Harvard appoint a serial plagiarizer with an undistinguished scholarly record as its President?  Or a person with such limited administrative experience?  Nevertheless, this disaster is even worse.  Claudine Gay is intent on promoting the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) agenda whose aim is to radically transform the United States, including universities such as Harvard.  Nor is she alone in her radical quest.  According to one sampling of universities, the average university employes some 45 functionaries responsible for promoting the DIE program to recruit additional Black faculty across all departments.  Make no mistake, the DIE agenda is all about making racial identity, not merit, central to everything.  Hard to imagine an agenda more antithetical to American higher education than DIE.  This is not just an abstract philosophical dispute.  The DIE commissars exercise power over faculty appointments, promotions, and departmental budgets while mobilizing students to cancel conservative speakers.

Claudine Gay made a career out of taking down black male professors who were insufficiently leftist.  It is worth mentioning that the mechanism by which Roland Fryer was semi-canceled was the accusation of sexual harassment.  You can find the story in this documentary made long before Gay's current travails:  [Video clip]

College pays fired conservative professor $185,000 to avoid free speech lawsuit.  A political science professor and former police officer effectively fired by St. Philip's College earlier this year after allowing debate on topics such as gender ideology and police brutality has received a $185,000 settlement.  The college's agreement with Will Moravits also included a neutral job recommendation, and in turn he agreed to not work for any Alamo Colleges District schools in the future, he said.  The San Antonio-based St. Philip's is one of five in the community college district.  Moravits, in an interview last week with The College Fix, said the settlement was reached in September and warded off a federal lawsuit he was prepared to file against the district that alleged its leaders infringed on his constitutionally protected free speech rights and academic freedom.

2 Angry Leftists Arrested At Penn State After Vandalizing And Flipping Riley Gaines' Table Before Speech.  Two people were detained by police on Tuesday on the campus of Penn State University after appearing to cause a disturbance during Riley Gaines' appearance at the school, according to videos circulating on social media.  Videos posted to X, formerly Twitter, by The College Fix show two individuals approaching a table on campus where Gaines was expected to attend for the Real Women's Day rally.  One individual is seen knocking objects off the table.  Another person is seen shouting in the face of someone, calling him "transphobic" in reference to a sign he is holding.  The person then flips over the table.  [Video clip]

Punishing 'Hate' but Not Criminals.  [Scroll down]  Now "bad thinking" apart from actual behavior becomes the target of law enforcement.  Criticize Islam's treatment of women, and you are called Islamophobic; defending it makes you a sexist.  For some, mis-gendering a trans person is hate speech.  Countless colleges now enact speech codes to shield students from psychologically harm.  In fact, such hate — not behavior — has been characterized (p. 95) as a poison that psychologically debilitates its victims, causing high blood pressure and drug addiction.  We now enforce laws against what Orwell called "thoughtcrime." [...] Hate can also be expressed through inanimate objects.  The battle flag of the Confederacy is now widely banned as a symbol of hate since it, allegedly, glorifies a political order that brutalized African-Americana and thus will trigger painful reactions among today's blacks.  Meanwhile, college campuses abound with anti-hate campaigns that demand shouting down "offensive" speakers, creating anti-bias squads to spy on students uttering derogatory remarks about those in protected groups, and scrutinizing syllabi for offensive language.

Harvard is named Worst school for free speech - scoring Below zero.  Harvard University has been ranked the worst school for free speech in the U.S. - with the Ivy League institution being awarded zero points out of a possible 100.  The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression releases a similar list of rankings for American institutions of higher education every year.  For 2023, Harvard - which has never performed well by FIRE's standards - was dubbed an 'abysmal' place for free speech.

The Gadsden Flag Kid Just Secured Total Victory.  On Monday, the story of a Colorado child being booted from school for having a Gadsden Flag patch on his backpack went viral.  As RedState reported, school officials claimed the flag was prohibited because it had its "origins in slavery." [...] On Monday, the story of a Colorado child being booted from school for having a Gadsden Flag patch on his backpack went viral.  As RedState reported, school officials claimed the flag was prohibited because it had its "origins in slavery."  [Tweet with video clip]

State University Issues 'Inclusive' Language Guide That Excludes 'Mother' and 'Man'.  If you want to be "inclusive" in modern America, your first step is to start excluding things.  Among the most commonly discarded undesirables:  words.  Apropos of exclusionary inclusion, the University of North Carolina (UNC) has issued edicts concerning what anyone should ever say.  The school's Student Affairs Communications department is trying to help students communicate by telling them to shut up — at least concerning certain syllables.  The Inclusive Language webpage provides a list of all the language that must be excluded.

The Remaking of America.  [#1] Free expression.  In large swatches of American society — particularly the corporation, the media, the government, the public schools, and the university — it is suddenly dangerous to speak freely.  At a DEI workshop, politely object that "whiteness" does not account for all the challenges of "marginalized peoples," and you will become either ostracized, reprimanded, or perhaps fired.  Suggest to a class that man-made climate change and the state remedies for it, are still under debate — and your career and livelihood are endangered.  In 2020, state that Covid lockdowns would do more eventual damage than the virus — and your career was through.  Express doubt that there are more than two biological sexes, and if an athlete or high school principal you will be shunned or rendered professionally inert.  The government, in league with social media, censors the news.  "Liberal" universities often first require McCarthy-era type "diversity" statements for one to be hired.  Commissars review syllabi to spot incorrect or improper speech or insufficient DEI zeal.

SIUE officials must pay $80,000 and take free speech class to settle lawsuit.  Three professors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will take training on the First Amendment in order to settle a lawsuit from a conservative Christian graduate student who alleged discrimination.  The settlement won by Alliance Defending Freedom also required SIUE officials "to revise both their policies and student handbook to ensure students with varying political, religious, and ideological views are welcome in the art therapy program" and pay $80,000, according to a news release from the legal nonprofit.  ADF's victory on behalf of Maggie DeJong came a little over a year after the art therapy student sued her university after it issued "no-contact orders" against her and asked her peers to report her for "harmful rhetoric."

President of Thomas Jefferson university resigns after 'liking' unapproved tweets.  Dr. Mark Tykocinski recently resigned as president of Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University after coming under fire for "liking tweets" critical of COVID vaccines and trans surgeries for kids. [...] You know the concept of free speech is out the proverbial window when one can no longer even make a one-word 'comment' on someone else's speech!  This news would be distressing to Thomas Jefferson, were he alive today, as he and the rest of the founders knew that 'democracy' is impossible without the absolute right to freedom of speech.

I don't know anybody who went to college and expected to be "confortable."
Professor made student 'uncomfortable' with open debate, gets fired.  A conservative professor and former police officer lost his job at St. Philip's College in San Antonio after he allowed debate on topics including homosexuality and policing, the second professor at the school to be forced out in the last semester.  Will Moravits told The College Fix that in all his class discussions he tells his students that the classroom "is a place where all opinions are welcomed and encouraged, but not required.  I also remind them that if they feel uncomfortable, they have my permission to excuse themselves from the discussion."  Moravits' situation should not be confused with that of Johnson Varkey, a biology professor at St. Philip's who says he was fired for teaching that sex is determined by chromosomes.

Fourth Circuit Rules Against North Carolina State Professor Who Spoke Out Against Diversity Policies.  The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University.  Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.  The school declared such views as insufficiently "collegial" and retaliated against him.  Now a divided panel has ruled that such views are not protected by the First Amendment — potentially opening up even greater retaliation against conservative, libertarian, and dissenting faculty.  Rather than punish them for failing to echo the views of the schools, they can now be fired for their lack of collegiality in speaking against such policies and hires.  Just when you thought things could not get worse for the dwindling number of dissenting faculty, the Fourth Circuit just found a way.

Professor Ordered To Complete Free Speech Training After Failing Student For Using 'Biological Woman'.  A professor who failed a student for using the term "biological woman" in an assignment was officially reprimanded and ordered to complete free speech training.  Adjunct instructor Melanie Nipper, 29, received an official reprimand from the University of Cincinnati weeks after she gave her student Olivia Krolczyk a 'zero' on her final project proposal for using the term "biological woman" in Nipper's class, Gender in Popular Culture.  Obtained by The Cincinnatti Enquirer, the June reprimand stated, "To prevent any further violation of [the free speech] policy, you must complete training on the requirements of the Campus Free Speech Policy.  Through the end of Academic Year 2024/2025, you must submit all syllabi to ... me at least two weeks prior to the beginning of classes for review and approval."

Today's blacklisted American: Anyone who dares to criticize the left at Bakersfield College.  They're coming for you next:  Though this story begins with an announced lawsuit by professor Daymon Johnson against Bakersfield College in California for repeatedly threatening him and his colleagues whenever they dared to write or say anything that dissents from the university's decidedly Marxist and leftist ideology, this story really is about blacklisting and the desire of the academic left to silence all dissent, by any means necessary.  The left is made up of close-minded thugs and goons, and if you think I am overstating the case, then read the opening words from Johnson's lawsuit, filed by the Institute for Free Speech and quoting John Corkins, one of the trustees of the Kern Community College Board of Trustees that controls Bakersfield:  [...]

College allegedly fired biology professor for teaching sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y.  A Texas community college fired one of its biology professors for teaching his students that sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes, according to a new report.  First Liberty Institute, a law firm that defends religious liberty for Americans, sent a letter to St. Philip's College in San Antonio on behalf of the professor, Dr. Johnson Varkey, demanding the institution reinstate him after he was fired in January 2023.  "When teaching the human reproductive system, Dr. Varkey also stated that human sex is determined by chromosomes X and Y, and that reproduction must occur between a male and a female to continue the human species," First Liberty stated in its letter.  "In the course of teaching Human Anatomy and Physiology, he made these statements in every class for 20 years, without any incident or complaint."

Wokeness is literally the end of real debate.  The woke don't want to debate you, they want to dominate you and they demand that you comply.  Credit to James Lindsay who wrote about this back in 2020.  But even before that I'd seen this aspect of the woke movement in operation.  It was one of the noteworthy aspects of the 2017 takeover of Evergreen State College.  The students were not shy about telling people who could speak and who could not.  And even before that there were aspects of the Occupy movement in 2011 that were clearly aimed at demanding compliance rather than at persuasion.

What the Left Has Left for America.  In our Animal Farm left-wing world, free speech is "hate speech" and "individual liberty" is selfish privilege.  The ACLU transmogrified into an activist group targeting conservative expression deemed "hateful."  Universities' "hate speech" codes and "free speech" zones are Orwellian.  They are subtexts for ensuring that any prominent conservative speaker should expect to be shouted down, threatened, slandered, and run off campus — sometimes violently — for infringing on the "safety" of the marginalized and vulnerable.  Social media, Google searches, and internet access are warped by corporate efforts to alter the flow of information.  Once dangerous censorship has become a noble effort to silence "misinformation" and more dangerous "disinformation" — as adjudicated by ignorant 20-somethings at computer screens in Silicon Valley and obsequious 30-somethings in government cartels.

San Francisco Teacher Suspended For Singling Out White Male Students In Class.  A San Francisco teacher has been suspended for singling out and discriminating against her white male students.  Lowell High School teacher Nicole Noel Henares allegedly made the white male students in her English class stand "as a group" and answer whether they "felt like a minority" last fall, according to a letter from the San Francisco Unified School District to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which was obtained by Fox News.

Mayo Clinic professor suspended after saying testosterone improves athletic performance.  A Mayo Clinic College of Medicine professor was recently suspended — and remains under the threat of termination — after he told a news outlet his stance on trans-athletes in women's sports and plasma treatments for COVID-19.  Administrators suspended Professor Michael Joyner without pay for a week, citing his "use of idiomatic language" and comments he made in a June 2022 New York Times article as justification for the disciplinary actions, according to a March 5 disciplinary letter that recently came to light.  The memo also told him to refrain from speaking to the media unless given permission.

Woke Prof Brags About Failing Student Over Saying "Biological Female," Cites Transphobia, White Supremacy as an Excuse.  We've heard from the University of Cincinnati student who received a zero grade for using the term "biological female" to describe females who were born that way biologically.  Now, her gender studies professor is speaking out to give her — I think "her" — side of the story.  Melanie Rose Nipper, adjunct professor of sexuality studies at UoC, brags you're goddamned right she gave the student a zero grade.  The professor's personal belief is that "biological woman" is bigoted towards "transgender women."  If a student wants a passing grade, those personal beliefs must be affirmed.  Note: The student's project was on "transgender" women competing against "biological" women in sports.  [Tweet]

The escalating madness of woke dogma on college campuses.  Once an arena of dueling beliefs, colleges have been taken over by a woke left agenda that will tolerate no dissent.  Just a few weeks ago, on the campus of San Francisco State University, Riley Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer, was nearly mauled by an angry group of protesters who took issue with her message that biological men have no place in women's sports.  She was chased down a hallway and practically held captive, all because she had the audacity to stand up against the left-wing mob.  The administration of San Francisco State never offered the 23-year-old swimmer an apology.  Instead, it sought to cast her as the aggressor.

Professor hurls students' pro-life display after profanity-laced tirade: 'triggering my students'.  A professor at a New York public college appeared to shout down pro-life students before snagging and throwing items in their display, accusing the students of spreading "propaganda" and "triggering" other students.  Hunter College students were manning a table displaying pro-life literature earlier this month when they were confronted by an angry professor, who shouted profanities at the students before tossing materials off the table, video of the interaction shows.  "You're not educating [...], this is [...] propaganda," the professor tells the students in a clip posted to Twitter by Students for Life of America.  "What are you going to do like anti-trans next?"  The aggressor in the situation was art professor Shellyne Rodriguez, who a Hunter College spokesperson confirmed works at the school as an adjunct assistant professor.

Liberal Professor At Hunter College Attacks Pro-Life Students.  Shellynn Rodriquez at Hunter College verbally and physically attacked students handing out pro-life leaflets.  [Video clip]

Northwestern Student Body Freezes Funds for College Republicans Due to Posters for Conservative Speaker.  Northwestern University's Associated Student Government suspended the funding for the College Republicans due to objections to posters for an event featuring writer and critical race theory critic James Lindsay.  The justification was a poster featuring a skull and crossbones, an objection that seemed more of a pretense than a principle.  This move reportedly came after Lindsay's speech was the subject of protests on campus.According to the Daily Northwestern, one of the posters displayed a skull and crossbones that was superimposed over the LGBT Pride flag.

Like a Tweet, Lose Your Job.  The president of Thomas Jefferson University may lose his job for liking tweets from Alex Berenson on his personal account.  The episode marks a warning against those in mainstream institutions that any deviation from prevailing orthodoxy — no matter how minor — will not be tolerated.  Mark Tykocinski, a Yale trained molecular immunologist, became president of the university in 2022.  Last week, a reporter from The Philadelphia Inquirer went through his personal Twitter account which had under 300 followers.  The Inquirer reported that Dr. Tykocinski had liked tweets from Berenson that criticized transgender surgeries for children and the efficacy of mRNA Covd vaccines.

Michigan School District Sued for Banning "Let's Go Brandon" Sweatshirts.  A pair of students from Michigan are taking legal action against their school district because they were not allowed to wear sweatshirts to class with the political phrase "Let's Go Brandon" printed on them.  The middle school students claim that they have the right to protest against the President of the United States.  However, the school district argues that the sweatshirts are indecent and that they have the authority to ban such material.

Yale Editorial Denounces the Politeness of Pro-Life Students; Questions Right to Speak on Campus.  On occasion, we will discuss student editorials as an insight into the view of free speech on our campuses.  This week, one such editorial has attracted attention from Yale Daily News due to its chilling statements about free speech.  The editorial by Hyerim Bianca Nam is striking in its rejection of the core values of free speech and its expression of anger over the civility and logical arguments of pro-life students. [...] The editorial perfectly captures the rising intolerance and orthodoxy on our campuses.  Nam insists that even allowing such debates is "an insult to our personhood, experience and rights."  This is consistent with other editorials that we have previously discussed.  A Berkeley columnist denounced civility and called for violent resistance.  Dartmouth faculty and students demanded that the university shutdown a conservative newspaper.  Wellesley editors endorsed shutting down conservative speakers and said that "violence may be warranted."  We have also documented repeated incidents where university newspapers have fired writers and editors for questioning Covid masks, challenging systemic racism claims, or holding other opposing views.  There has also been a repeated attack on civility as racist or reactionary.

Tenured professor who challenged social justice funding [was] fired in [a] secret board vote.  California's Bakersfield College has fired a tenured history professor formally charged with "dishonesty" for disagreeing with colleagues on diversity issues, including a proposed "racial climate task force" to supersede the gridlocked diversity committee on which he served.  The secretive move against Matthew Garrett followed a contentious public meeting on his fate Thursday.  The Kern Community College District Board of Trustees, whose vice president publicly compared Garrett to livestock that should be culled before apologizing for the remark, apparently held an unrecorded vote without public notice Thursday, either in closed session between morning and afternoon open sessions or after the public meeting.  Local media were confused, with KGET reporting that Garrett's status remained unknown as of noon Friday.  "There was an outpouring of community support and the room hit capacity; several people were turned away," Garrett told Just the News early Friday morning before learning of the vote.

Dismantle DEI Ideology.  For now, the adults at the Stanford Law School appear to be in charge.  In a March 22nd letter addressed to the "SLS Community," Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martínez unequivocally repudiated the shoutdown of federal judge Kyle Duncan by Stanford law students earlier this month.  The law school's Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Tirien Steinbach, who had lectured Duncan about his allegedly injurious presence on campus, has been placed on leave.  That is the good news.  Martínez's letter is one of the most thorough defenses of academic free speech to come from a college administrator in recent years.  However, she has declined to discipline the students involved in the heckling.  Distinguishing those students who had engaged in punishable conduct from those who had not would be too difficult, she claims.  Moreover, the hecklers had not been warned that they risked sanctions.  Punishing the hecklers would also leave unpunished those who did not literally disrupt the event but whose vulgar signs or insulting personal questions were outside the norms of civil discourse.

Federal Judges Say They Won't Hire Clerks From Stanford Law School.  James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, the circuit court judges who announced last year that they would no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, are adding Stanford to the boycott.  "We will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future," Ho, who sits on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, said Saturday evening in a speech to the Texas Review of Law and Politics, a transcript of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.  The clerkship moratorium, like the one on Yale, will exempt current law students.

Theologian fired, called 'terrorist' by Bible college for tweet against homosexuality.  A Bible college in the United Kingdom has allegedly fired a professor and threatened to report him as a "terrorist" for tweeting against homosexuality.  Aaron Edwards, a theologian at Cliff College in England, was removed from his position after sending the tweet, Fox News reported.  "Homosexuality is invading the church.  Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this [because] they're busy apologizing for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it's true," Edwards posted to Twitter in February.  "...If sin is no longer sin, we no longer need a Saviour," he added in the post.  According to Edwards, he was told to take down the tweet by Cliff College, but refused, he said in an interview with CBN News on March 21.

Liberal College Professor Placed on Leave for Suggesting it's OK to Murder Conservative Speakers.  A professor at Wayne State University has been placed on leave after suggesting on social media that rather than shouting down conservative speakers on campus, it's OK to murder them instead.  Higher education in America has become completely dominated by the radical left.  That's likely why this person felt free to make these comments.  The left does not want to debate ideas.  They want conservatives silenced.

Professor Suggests Murder as Alternative to Shouting Down Speakers.  An English professor at Wayne State University apparently had an overheated reaction to the fiasco at Stanford Law School.  He thought the protesters did not go far enough, and he took to Facebook to say so.  "I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down,"he began, and he concluded with "The exemplary historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Symon Petliura, rather than trying to shout him down.  Remember that Schwarzbard was acquitted by a jury, which found his action justified."  The president of Wayne State has now announced that the professor has been suspended and his social media post referred to law enforcement.

Communist Front Group Organized Shout-Down of Conservative Judge at Stanford.  The main organizers of the Stanford shout-down of the conservative judge Stuart Kyle Duncan last week were associated with the National Lawyers Guild, a Communist front group with its roots in the 1930s radical left.  Alan Dershowitz gives a brief history of the NLG and how they have been trying to stifle conservative viewpoints at university law schools.  They have chapters at more than 100 schools, and their plans to disrupt the speech of conservatives have only just started.  According to Dershowitz, the NLG tries to create the impression that the shout-downs are spontaneous expressions of anger.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Stanford Law Dean Stands by Apology to Judge, Suspends Colleague Who Disrupted Lecture.  Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez released a detailed letter Wednesday criticizing the students who heckled federal judge Kyle Duncan and announcing that DEI administrator Tirien Steinbach, who interrupted his lecture, is now on leave.  Martinez declined to submit to calls that she retract her letter of apology to Duncan and emphasized that Stanford's speaker disruption policy was violated by both students and administrators.  At an event hosted by Stanford's Federalist Society earlier this month, Duncan, who sits on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, was expecting to give a wide-ranging lecture on recent decisions that Court had handed down.  However, audio and video of the event revealed that the judge was immediately heckled upon beginning his talk, with students shouting obscenities at him.

What Happened to Stanford?  Students at Stanford Law School recently shouted down visiting Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan.  He had been invited to give a lecture by the school's Federalist Society.  The judge never even got the chance.  The law school students drowned him out.  They flashed obscene placards.  They screamed that he was "scum." One yelled he hoped the judge's own daughters would be raped. [...] Note these were ostensibly not teenaged undergraduates.  Instead, they were wannabe adult professionals, in law school to learn jurisprudence and to enter the elite American legal system that is supposed to have protocols separating it from the mobocracies prevailing abroad. [...] When an exasperated Justice Duncan called out for a university administrator to restore calm, his podium was instead hijacked by Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach.  She then gave her own preplanned, scripted lecture that sided with the disruptive protesters!

The Stanford Free Speech Debacle Is Another Reason Universities Need To Fire 99.9% Of Their Administrators.  If you are at all curious about how the war on campus free speech has evolved since student arsonists torched the University of California at Berkeley in 2017, look no further than the angry mob of infantile Stanford law students who shut down a talk by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan last week.  Intolerant campus leftists have been shouting down speakers for years now, but what transpired at Stanford law school last week was special: The students' effort to squash intellectual diversity was condoned and even enforced by a prominent university administrator.  Ducan, who had been invited by the Stanford Federalist Society to give a talk titled "Covid, Guns, and Twitter," was driven from the podium by Stanford Law School's Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach.  Due to heckling, Duncan asked an administrator to control the students, who were violating Stanford's free speech policies.  That's when Steinbach stepped in, took the podium from Duncan, and personally chastised him with prepared remarks.

Antifa Tried to Overrun UC Davis Building Where Charlie Kirk Was Speaking.  Violent antifa protesters were arrested at the University of California — Davis campus on Tuesday after clashing with law enforcement officers and students outside a building hosting an event with Salem radio host and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.  The demonstrators, clad in black and many using umbrellas to conceal their identities, smashed through windows, tossed eggs, used pepper spray, and blocked people from entering the building.  According to UC Davis, one officer was injured.

Stanford Students Rip Woke Dean Who Led Heckling of a Federal Judge, Demand Ouster.  Stanford Law School students savagely criticized the school and one of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion deans in a piece in the school's publication, "Stanford Review," with this simple but powerful headline atop its front page: "Fire Tirien Steinbach."  As RedState's Jim Thompson reported, Steinbach, Stanford Law's Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, joined students in heckling and screaming at Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Kyle Duncan who was attempting to deliver a speech.  When the judge asked for an administrator to intervene, Steinbach instead piled on and launched into a six-minute tirade claiming Duncan was "literally denying the humanity of people."

Stanford Tells Federalist Society Students To 'Reach Out' to Diversity Dean Who Encouraged Disruption of Their Event.  Hours after Stanford University apologized to Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan for the disruption of his talk last week, administrators encouraged members of the law school's Federalist Society chapter, which sponsored Duncan's visit, to "reach out" to the same administrators — including the diversity dean — who aided and abetted the melee.  Leaders of the Stanford Federalist Society received an email Saturday night from acting associate dean of students Jeanne Merino, who stood by silently as students disrupted Duncan's talk.  Merino pointed them to "resources that you can use right now to support your safety and mental health" — and discouraged them from tweeting about the event "until this news cycle winds down."

Jonathan Turley Tears Into Stanford Law School After They Dig Deeper Hole.  As RedState previously reported, all hell broke loose Thursday at Stanford Law School after triggered students effectively shut down Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee, as he attempted to give a speech at the invitation of the school's Federalist Society group.  To quickly recap, video of the event showed the woke mob repeatedly heckling and shouting at Duncan, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judge, with no intervention from the school administrators who were in attendance beyond Tirien Steinbach, the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Judge Duncan comments.  The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium covers the plight of free speech in higher education.  He contacted Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan after he was made the object of the Two Minutes Hate at Stanford Law School with the support of one Tirien Steinbach, the law school's associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion.  As Steve Hayward noted in "Stanford University disgraces itself," Judge Duncan was beyond inclusion.  His inclusion at an event sponsored by the Federalist Society was an inclusion too far.

Stanford Law Student Shout-Down Reflects Normalization Of Intimidation Of Conservative Judges.  A crowd of jeering Stanford Law School students shouted down, yelled profanities and sexual mockery ("you can't find the clit") at Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan.  Stanford Law School Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Tirien Steinbach then intervened, not to admonish the students, but to spend several minutes berating the Judge for having the audacity to appear at Stanford Law School, which was traumatic to the students given his conservative judicial decisions: "Is the Juice" of his appearing "worth the squeeze" on students, she asked.

Federal Judge Decries Disruption of His Remarks by Stanford Law Students.  Fifth Circuit appellate judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, who was shouted down by Stanford Law School students as administrators looked on in silence, says the protesters behaved [badly.]  Now, in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Duncan is calling on the school to discipline the students who disrupted his talk and to fire the school's associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, who stepped in during the event to chastise him and deliver what the judge described as a "bizarre therapy session from hell."  Duncan's remarks come after nearly a hundred students at Stanford Law School disrupted his remarks in brazen violation of Stanford University's free speech policies.  One source of the students' ire was Duncan's refusal, in a 2020 opinion, to use a transgender sex offender's preferred pronouns.  The Stanford event, which was sponsored by the law school's chapter of the Federalist Society, got so out of hand that federal marshals eventually escorted Duncan from the building.

Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest.  In May 2014, Greg Lukianoff invited me to lunch to talk about something he was seeing on college campuses that disturbed him.  Greg is the president of FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and he has worked tirelessly since 2001 to defend the free speech rights of college students.  That almost always meant pushing back against administrators who didn't want students to cause trouble, and who justified their suppression of speech with appeals to the emotional "safety" of students — appeals that the students themselves didn't buy.  But in late 2013, Greg began to encounter new cases in which students were pushing to ban speakers, punish people for ordinary speech, or implement policies that would chill free speech.  These students arrived on campus in the fall of 2013 already accepting the idea that books, words, and ideas could hurt them.  Why did so many students in 2013 believe this, when there was little sign of such beliefs in 2011?

Famed Texas Tech Basketball Coach Suspended for 'Racial Insensitivity' after Quoting Bible Passage.  Texas Tech has suspended men's basketball coach Mark Adams for what the school is calling an "inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment."  According to the school, Adams was encouraging a player to be more receptive to coaching and "referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters."  Adams apologized to the team after he found out the player was upset about the use of the Bible verse, a source told ESPN.

What Happened at Georgetown Law with Covid?  For questioning Covid restrictions, Georgetown Law suspended me from campus, forced me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, required me to waive my right to medical confidentiality, and threatened to report me to state bar associations. The Dean of Students claimed that I posed a "risk to the public health" of the University, but I quickly learned that my crime had been heretical, not medical.  Just before I entered Georgetown Law in August 2019, I watched The Paper Chase, a 1973 film about a first-year Harvard Law student and his experiences with a demanding professor, Charles Kingsfield.  The movie has the standard themes of law school:  teaching students how to think, challenging the premises of an argument, differentiating fact patterns to support precedent. [...] Two years later, I realized that Georgetown Law had inverted that script.  The school fired a professor for commenting on differences in achievement between racial groups, slandered faculty members for deviating from university group-think, and threatened to destroy dissidents.  Students banished cabinet officials from campus and demanded censorship of a tenured professor for her work defending women's rights in Muslim-majority countries.

Third grader victorious after battle with school over 'Jesus Loves Me' mask.  Third grader Lydia Booth said it was "sad" and "confusing" when her Mississippi school district told her she couldn't wear a face mask with the words "Jesus Loves Me" on it.  Lydia's mom, Jennifer, said she was equally confused when Lydia told her what had happened.  "I was looking around, and all these kids had words all over their masks," she told Fox News Digital.

Looking To Tamp Down Controversy, Yale Law School Restricts Access to Free Speech Panel.  In March 2022, hundreds of students at Yale Law School disrupted a panel with Kristen Waggoner, a conservative lawyer who has argued religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court, arguing that her presence was a "slap in the face" to "queer students."  Yale's response to the incident left the school with egg on its face:  Though the protest clearly violated Yale's free speech policies, which do not allow protesters to disrupt speakers, not a single student was disciplined.

How the left rejected genetics.  If you're looking for an interesting long-read this week that speaks to the roots of many divisions in America between the right and the left or conservatives and liberals, you might want to check out this piece from the New Yorker about Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden.  It was published more than a year ago, but it's been making the rounds again recently, and I think it's even more relevant today than it was then.  Harden, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, had enjoyed a skyrocketing career in her field, studying behavior genetics.  (The study of the influence of genes on character traits and life outcomes.)  Her work revealed that while no person is "hard-wired" by their genes to any particular personality traits or destiny of success or failure, our genes really do create a significant impact on how we turn out.  She was widely published and respected in the biological sciences.  But upon taking a new role at an institute traditionally populated by sociologists, journalists, and economists, she quickly learned that her new, primarily left-leaning colleagues wanted little to do with her.  They only associated genetics research in humans with eugenics and there was a decidedly political tone to their criticism.

America has not bottomed out yet — ask Stanford.  One of our formerly great universities teaches us this week that we are still headed down.  Stanford announced that "American" is hate speech.  That's because it ignores the part of the Western Hemisphere that is outside the boundaries (I'll avoid the hateful, racist, anachronistic word "borders") of the United States.  It effectively eliminates Mexico, which after all is in América del norte.  And Brazil, which is in América do Sul.  Baloney.  The fact that people of the United States refer to themselves as "Americans" (and so does the rest of the world) does not mean that they are the only Americans.  The people of Germany and elsewhere sometimes refer to Germans as Europeans, and they indisputably are.  That doesn't mean anyone thinks the French and Spanish are not.  The worst that can be said about Americans and the rest of the world refering to people of the United States as "Americans" is not that it's wrong, but that it's imprecise.  It fails to specify which Americans are being referenced.  But Stanford objects to "American" not on the grounds that it is imprecise, but on the grounds that it's racist.  It's a dig at all the Americans who are in Latin America and, for that matter, Canada too.

U.S. Court of Appeals Rule MAGA Hat Is Free Speech.  The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the case Dodge v. Evergreen School District decided a Washington middle school teacher was exercising his free speech rights while wearing his red MAGA hat at school training sessions.  Middle school teacher Eric Dodge started to wear his MAGA hat to school meetings in 2019 but principal Caroline Garrett threatened disciplinary actions against Dodge if he continued to wear the hat.  Dodge claimed principal Garrett called him a racist and a homophobe for wearing the hat and stated, "you need to have your union rep" if you wear the hat to school anymore.

NC State broadcaster benched for 'illegal aliens' reference while calling game.  Longtime North Carolina State radio broadcaster Gary Hahn has been indefinitely suspended for making a politically incorrect remark while calling his team's college football bowl game.  During Friday's coverage of the Duke's Mayo Bowl pitting the NC State Wolfpack against the Maryland Terrapins in Charlotte, NC, Hahn provided listeners with a score update from the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl which was being played in El Paso, Texas.  But his added color commentary proved to be his undoing despite it being truthful.

North Carolina professor was fired for criticizing critical race theory: Lawsuit.  A professor is suing the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction after he was allegedly fired for criticizing critical race theory while teaching at a state-organized summer program for incoming high school seniors.  The lawsuit, filed by the conservative free speech law group the Alliance Defending Freedom, says David Phillips, an English professor from North Carolina, was abruptly fired from his summer teaching job at the Governor's School, a four-week program for high-performing high school seniors in North Carolina after he openly criticized critical race theory.

American, grandfather, brave and master: Words Stanford University includes in its index of 'harmful language' because they are 'ableist, sexist or racist'.  Stanford University has published an index of 'harmful language' that it wants to eliminate because the terms are 'ableist, ageist or racist' — including the word American — as it calls for US citizen to be used instead.  The University revealed the plan in May, and wants to remove the words from its IT systems and websites, with grandfather, brave and master are also on the list.  The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative will also aim to educate people about the impact that 'racist, violent and biased' words have.

Kansas supreme court justice resigns from law school over climate hostile to free speech.  A justice on the Kansas Supreme Court will no longer serve as an adjunct at the Kansas University Law School due to what he sees as a weak response from the administration when it came to a conservative event.  "I write to let you know that... I will not be renewing my teaching relationship with KU Law next fall," Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall wrote a letter to the dean of the University of Kansas School of Law.  Stegall had objected to students and administrators' reactions to a lunch-hour with a lawyer from the Alliance Defending Freedom, sponsored by the student chapter of the Federalist Society.  "My understanding, from participants, is that... there was a significant uproar from members of the student body and faculty," Stegall wrote.  Associate Dean Leah Terranova and Professor Pam Keller "pressured the students to cancel the event," Stegall wrote.

Detroit School Board Trying To Cancel Dr. Ben Carson By Removing His Name From A School.  The Detroit school board is trying to remove Dr. Ben Carson's name from a high school that was named in his honor.  This is cancel culture.  They are obviously going after Carson because he is a Republican who worked for the Trump administration.

Today's blacklisted American: Half of today's students support the death penalty for some speech.  This is no longer a land of the free:  According to a new poll, half of today's college students now believe that the death penalty is justified for some people should they dare express an opinion that offends.  Specifically, the students were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the statement:  ["]Violence in response to offensive speech is not a new phenomenon.  In some cultures, some types of offensive speech even merit the death penalty.  Some speech can be so offensive in certain cases that it merits such harsh punishment.["]  [A]cross the board, 43% to 55% of students from private and public schools, from all types of majors, from all levels of income, and from across the political spectrum, all agreed with this statement.  The results were remarkably consistent.  Tolerance was not their watchword, but oppression and dictatorship.  If you say something that offends, half of today's students feel justified in calling for your death.

The Editor says...
I wonder how many of the same "students" oppose the death penalty for murder or treason.

Trinity College Pulls Down Students' Patriotic Flags — While BLM and Trans Ones Fly Free.  Officials from Connecticut's Trinity College removed two students' patriotic flags, one the "Blue, Green, Red Line" flag, with the lines representing police, military, and first responders, and the other an American flag with the Gadsden snake on it.  Why were they taken down?  Because they were "offensive." [...] Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter and trans pride flags on nearby buildings were left alone.

Death Penalty for Hate Speech?  Some College Students Think So.  A new poll from McLaughlin & Associates offers a grim picture of the minds of college students. [...] Perhaps the most concerning was how 48 percent of those polled agreed that "some speech can be so offensive in certain cases that it merits such harsh punishment like the death penalty."  The first part of the statement was that "violence in response to offensive speech is not a new phenomenon," which is true.  Of that 48 percent, 20 percent strongly agreed.

Students demand professor be fired for stating a fact.  Persecution is now cool!  After decades of quiet effort by leftists to eliminate all conservative teachers from the halls of education, we are now seeing the results:  Students at the University of Southern Maine are boycotting the classes of one education professor, Christy Hammer, while also insisting she should be fired, simply because she stated in class this basic fact of biology:  that there are only two sexes.

Violent Student Protesters Shut Down Tomi Lahren Speech at University of New Mexico.  Fox News personality Tomi Lahren visited the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque Thursday to speak to the campus Turning Point USA chapter but had to be escorted to safety by New Mexico State Police after a violent mob shoved into the Student Union, past campus police protecting the doors to the auditorium where she was speaking, and nearly into the auditorium itself while chanting, "[...]!"  Lahren, her father, and several members of the TPUSA chapter were barricaded in a back room in the student union for 45 minutes while campus police called in reinforcements from the Albuquerque Police Department and the New Mexico State Police, according to an Instagram Live video Lahren posted shortly after getting to safety.

Columbia University is [the] worst college in [the] nation for free speech: report.  A leading free speech organization ranked the best and worst college campuses for freedom of speech and New York's top school, Columbia University, came in dead last.  On Wednesday, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released its third annual College Free Speech Rankings for the 2022-2023 school year.  In partnership with College Pulse, they surveyed nearly 45,000 students from more than 200 colleges — making it the largest ever survey about campus expression.  The University of Chicago came first for campus free speech, scoring 77.92 points out of 100.  Four public universities rounded out the top five:  Kansas State University, Purdue University, Mississippi State University and Oklahoma State University.

Bias hotlines popping up at schools across US may foster culture of fear: experts.  Bias hotlines have been popping up at universities across the US in recent years — but experts fear such initiatives are becoming "more pervasive and more repressive" than ever.  New York University is among the handful of colleges that publicly advertise a specific "hotline" — including on the back of student ID cards — as a way for them to anonymously file complaints about discrimination, harassment and a string of other issues.  Other universities across the country appear to only have online portals, or other methods, in place for lodging complaints under their own bias response systems.

Meet the Woman Antifa Militants View as One Of the Biggest Threats in Texas.  If you think Antifa are not operating in large numbers in Texas, you are sadly incorrect.  I'm a 22-year-old from Denton, Texas and an unapologetic conservative activist.  I spent much of my time at the University of North Texas, from which I just graduated, leading its main conservative student group, the Young Conservatives of Texas.  And for that, Antifa and the far-left here have sought to intimidate me into silence by doxxing me and my family, and threatening me with violence and even death.  My first experience with far-left extremists from the Dallas-Fort Worth area was during my senior year at UNT when I began to speak about my political and religious beliefs.

Guilt by Association and the Shunning of Amy Wax.  Amy Wax, a tenured law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a nationally renowned thorn in the side of the academic establishment.  She is well known on the public speaking circuit and regularly appears on conservative media outlets, where her unvarnished criticism of American higher education plays well to its detractors.  After years of controversy, Theodore Ruger, dean of the law school at Penn, has apparently had enough and has called upon Vivian Gadsden, chair of the faculty senate, to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Wax.  I will leave it to others to weigh the veracity of the claims raised in the dean's complaint, as well as what sanctions if any should be imposed on Wax.  Even so, one of the accusations against her stands out as troubling on its face, not because of what she is alleged to have done, but because of its focus on guilt by association.  Allegedly, Wax invited a white supremacist to speak to one of her classes, though details of the event are limited.  Absent further context, this particular charge should send a chill down the spine of every academic who cares about unfettered inquiry.

Brazen Falsehood.  The University of Pennsylvania Law School's campaign to purge Professor Amy Wax from its ranks for challenging the emerging woke left orthodoxy in higher education is now reaching a fever pitch.  Just last month, Law School Dean Ted Ruger made a formal charge to the faculty senate to bring "major sanctions" against Wax, suggesting they strip her of tenure and remove her from her position.  Dean Ruger's bold assertion is that Wax has failed to adhere to the standards of her profession and, therefore, should potentially be removed from its ranks.  The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) posted Ruger's letter sent to the faculty senate chair online.  It demonstrates, with stunning clarity, just how low the standard of argument and analysis has sunk at the highest levels of American academia.  Wokeism is destroying higher education, and it is nowhere clearer than in the anti-intellectual rhetoric issued by high-level administrators such as Ruger when faced with perspectives with which they disagree and about which they patently know almost nothing.

University of Michigan medical students walk out of pro-life speaker's keynote address at White Coat Ceremony.  Dozens of incoming University of Michigan Medical School students walked out of a pro-life keynote speaker's address, after a previous petition to get the speaker removed failed.  Shortly after Dr. Kristin Collier, a pro-life assistant professor of medicine at UMMS, took to the stage Sunday to address the new students at their White Coat Ceremony, several dozen people got up from their seats and headed for the auditorium doors, video of the ceremony showed.  A video of the walkout on Twitter quickly amassed over 200K likes.

Judge stops Idaho university from punishing Christian students for opposing gay marriage.  A judge issued a temporary block to a university policy that censored three Christian students who had expressed opposition to same-sex marriage on religious grounds.  Students Peter Perlot, Mark Miller and Ryan Alexander sued the University of Idaho over a policy in which they were barred from talking with a student about their views on same-sex marriage.  The three belong to the University of Idaho chapter of the Christian Legal Society, which holds traditional views on the definition of marriage and sexual ethics.  In an order released last week, Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the university's policies against the plaintiffs.

85 Percent of Liberal College Students Support 'Reporting' Their Professors for 'Offensive' Comments.  Would George Orwell, author of the iconic dystopian novel "1984," be proud?  Oh [...], no.  He'd admonish us with a stern "I warned you."  Yup, "Big Brother" is alive and well in today's America, and that reality is nowhere more apparent than on college campuses — on Twitter and Facebook, as well, but we'll get there.  According to the 2022 American College Student Freedom, Progress, and Flourishing Survey, 56 percent of undergrads support "reporting" professors who "say something offensive." Worse, but totally predictably, 70 percent of independent students also support the idea, while 85 percent of liberal students agree.

A Big Win for Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court.  On October 23, 2015, high school football coach Joseph Kennedy knelt at the 50-yard line and bowed his head for a "brief, quiet prayer."  The game was over and Coach Kennedy prayed alone.  It was a quiet, reflective moment for the coach to exercise his religious beliefs.  The school district objected, informing him it was "unconstitutional."  Three days later, after a football game on October 26, Coach Kennedy "again knelt alone to offer a brief prayer as the players engaged in postgame traditions." Some adults joined him on the field as he prayed.  That would be his final game.  Shortly thereafter, the school district put Coach Kennedy on leave and prohibited him from participating in any capacity in "football program activities."

Student sues Illinois college for silencing her conservative views on behalf of woke students.  A Christian art student is suing an Illinois college, claiming the school censored her conservative views after complaints from classmates.  "I was alarmed when I had received three no-contact orders that prevented me from having direct or indirect communication with these three students.  Essentially, they were restraining orders that applied to on and off-campus," graduate student Maggie Dejong said on "Fox & Friends First" Friday alongside Tyson Langhoffer, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.  Dejong said at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, she routinely participated in classroom discussions on contentious issues such as race relations and religion, often expressing a conservative viewpoint.

Campus conservatives are pressured to keep quiet — or else.  Prompted by the leaked draft of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization majority opinion, first-year Yale Law School student Shyamala Ramakrishna posted to Instagram that "the members of [Yale Law School's conservative Federalist Society] are conspirators in the Christo-fascist political takeover we all seem to be posting frantically about on Instagram dot com." She continued, "So why are they still coming to our parties/laughing in the library/roaming these weirdly high school-esque halls with precious few social consequences and without unrelenting daily confrontation?"

Race-Based Illness at the Best of the Best.  It looks like the long persecution of Professor Joshua Katz by his employer Princeton University has come to an end.  The Washington Free Beacon reported last week that the school president "passed his recommendation that Katz be stripped of his tenure and fired to the university board of trustees," and the board rubber-stamped it Monday [5/23/2022].  The whole episode nicely exemplifies the cowardice and incompetence of the liberals who run elite institutions in the United States today.  The ostensible cause of the termination is a relationship Katz had with a student many years ago, an impropriety that was handled and closed long before the current controversy began.  In truth, this current situation has nothing to do with Katz's private history.  The older matter is a false pretext for his termination.  Katz's current sin originates far from the Princeton campus, on the website Quillette, where on July 8, 2020, he published a piece called "A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor."

Yale Students Call for 'Unrelenting Daily Confrontation' Against Roe Opponents and Tossing the Constitution.  Some Yale law students are calling for the "unrelenting daily ostracization" of people who disagree with them on abortion — as if they don't ostracize them already anyway.  But in addition to giving conservative students migraines because of their constant caterwauling, the frothing radicals want to toss the Constitution too.  They don't say what we should replace it with.  Because that would require actual thought — something the radicals are unfamiliar with.  They do a great job emoting and wailing and gnashing their teeth, but when it comes to thinking, it's as mysterious as Oak Island.  A first-year law student, Shyamala Ramakrishna, is beside herself with grief and paranoid fear about "conspirators in the Christo-fascist political takeover we all seem to be posting frantically about."  She means those mild-mannered lawyer types in the campus Federalist Society.  Yale Federalists may be upper-class twits, but "Christo-fascists"?  Really now.

Pennsylvania College Reins in Free Speech After Hillsdale Professor's Talk Leaves Left Grumbling.  Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has given us yet another disturbing example of modern American colleges' disdain for free speech.  David Azerrad, a professor at Hillsdale College's D.C. campus, gave a lecture at Saint Vincent on April 8, "Black Privilege and Racial Hysteria in Contemporary America," and the speech rubbed Gary Quinlivan the wrong way.  Quinlivan is co-director of the program series at the private Catholic college about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, where Azerrad spoke.  In a letter addressed to the school's students and faculty, Quinlivan accused Azerrad of "minimizing the role of several highly accomplished African Americans" and that "his theory as to why Kamala Harris was selected as VP on the basis of her standing solely as an African American woman [was] demeaning in many ways."  Quinlivan added that "the speaker's presentation was not consistent with the Benedictine values of hospitality and respect for all people."

3 Colleges Get Their Just Deserts.  [#2] Shawnee State University:  Another school in Ohio, Shawnee State University, just agreed to pay $400,000 in damages to 20-year philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether, along with his attorneys' fees.  The school had punished Meriwether for refusing a male student's demand that the professor refer to him as a woman, using female titles and pronouns.  According to the professor's lawyers at Alliance Defending Freedom, the male student "became aggressive, physically circling him, getting in his face, using expletives, and even threatening to get him fired."  Meriwether offered to refer to the student under any name he wanted instead of using pronouns, but the student and the university said that wasn't good enough and that Meriwether supposedly had created a "hostile environment."  Meriwether sued, saying that the university was violating his religious beliefs as a Christian under the First Amendment.

Race and American Exceptionalism.  This past Thursday evening at the University of Buffalo (UB) I was invited by the Young America's Foundation Chapter at UB to deliver a presentation on "Race and American Exceptionalism."  Before I even arrived, the nature of my visit was made controversial when students on the campus ripped down flyers and even conducted a campus walking protest.  Therefore, I knew this would be quite the hostile environment.  The question I have is, why?  Why is it controversial for a 61-year-old black man who was born in a blacks only hospital in the South to discuss said topic?  After all, I have had quite the incredible experience of enjoying the blessings of liberty, freedom, and individual rights in this Nation.  I grew up in the same neighborhood that produced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and attended a small black Catholic elementary school that was located across the street from his final resting place, near the intersection of Boulevard and Auburn Avenue, in the Old Fourth Ward.  What is controversial and upsetting about a black man who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army and commanded hundreds of troops in combat?  Especially knowing that his Dad, born in 1920, was a World War II Army Corporal who served in a segregated Army.  One would think that to be a story of American exceptionalism.

University of Buffalo student is 'hunted down' by woke mob screaming 'no justice, no peace,' after she invited prominent black Republican to speak.  A University of Buffalo student said she was 'hunted down' by a woke mob screaming 'no justice, no peace,' after she invited prominent black Republican Lt. Col. Allen West to speak on how he overcame racism.  Therese Purcell, president of the Young Americans for Freedom, a campus club that organized the event, said she and her fellow members only wanted to bring these open dialogues of racism to campus.  But protests erupted at the event, leading to an angry mob that chased Purcell, leaving her afraid of what would have happened if she wasn't able to hide from them.

Lieutenant Colonel Allen West Showed Up To Buffalo University To Give A Speech, A Mob Destroyed The Event.  In a dramatic scene at the University of Buffalo, a leftist mob forced Allen West to be escorted out by police from his campus lecture — as nearly 200 gathered outside the venue chanting and eventually chasing conservative students.  According to footage obtained exclusively by Young America's Foundation, Allen West was escorted out by several police officers into a squad car to his hotel, facing screaming leftists who attempted to disrupt their event featuring YAF speaker Lt. Col. Allen West.  The event was part of YAF's Preserving American Liberty and Freedom Lecture Series.  Leftists even attempted to break down the doors to the reception following the event.  The wild scene comes on the heels of leftist pushback to Allen West's lecture, titled "America Is Not Racist."  Protestors took part in a walkout during the school day on Thursday, as other leftists planned to infiltrate and disrupt the event.  [Video clip]

Universities give a pass to racial slurs, death wishes, defamation against conservatives.  In California public universities, professors who refused to grade on a racial curve or censor racial slurs from a germane class discussion got removed from the classroom.  A student got punished twice for the same set of private racist comments.  By contrast, a diversity official who used a racial slur against Clarence Thomas and wished for the death of the hospitalized Supreme Court justice, and a dean who called justices "sexual predators" and "racists," received mild administrative criticism.  A Federal Reserve slot likely awaits a Michigan State University economist who tried to cancel a University of Chicago peer for criticizing the Black Lives Matter organization over its support for the "defund the police" movement.  The incidents throw a spotlight on the differential treatment of race-related speech in higher education, in which even redacted slurs can provoke official sanctions.

College Officials:  The Most Witless People On Earth.  Day after day we read of cases in which a speaker was shut down on a college campus, a group was denied a forum or chased from the public square, or free inquiry was snuffed out because there might be words uttered or written that could "hurt" someone.  Will the administrators and professors who refuse to punish this behavior, and even sometimes support it, ever understand that the invented grievances aren't about offense but about having power over others?  Just this week, The College Fix reported that a University of Virginia student wrote in The Cavalier Daily that it was dangerous for former Vice President Mike Pence to speak on campus.  In the mind of that student, speech that bothers her is "not entitled to a platform."  Earlier this month, The Fix covered the story of a black, female Christian scholar who won't be returning to Christopher Newport University after spring semester because she tweeted an unapproved but entirely harmless opinion.

More than 11,000 CUNY students sign a petition to CANCEL an opera show about Emmett Till's lynching because it was written by a white woman.  At least 12,000 students at the City University of New York have signed a petition to cancel an opera about Emmett Till, the victim of a high-profile 1955 lynching in Mississippi, saying that the school should no longer host the show because it was written by a white woman.  John Jay College of Criminal Justice student Mya Bishop created the Change.org petition in an attempt to halt the continuation of 'Emmett Till, A New American Opera' at the school's Gerald W. Lynch Theatre.  In the petition's description, she wrote that the show is all about playwright Clare Coss' 'white guilt' rather than the appalling killing of Till, 14, for allegedly flirting with a white woman.

Yale Law students tried to shout down a speaker, now a judge says maybe they shouldn't get clerkships.  Earlier this month a group of student protesters shut down a scheduled speech at UC Hastings College of Law in San Francisco by Ilya Shapiro.  After about 30 minutes of rude interruptions, Shapiro gave up and the even was canceled.  The school sent out a notice reminding students that shouting down speakers violated the school's code of conduct but no one was ever punished for those violations.  Last week there was a similar attempt to use the heckler's veto during a panel at Yale Law School on the topic of free speech. [...] The mob does not want any authority called in to deal with their behavior no matter what they do.  Kristen Waggoner, the ADF attorney told the Beacon, "We must change course and restore a culture of free speech and civil discourse at Yale and other law schools, or the future of the legal profession in America is in dire straits."  FIRE put out a tweet thread today agreeing the disruptions of the panel were not defensible.

Concordia University professor suspended after he wrote article criticizing school as 'woke'.  Concordia University Wisconsin officials suspended a professor over an essay he wrote that criticized them as being "under the influence of Woke-ism."  In an essay that was published on Feb. 14 in the Christian News Missouri, Dr. Gregory Schulz wrote the search criteria for a new university president include someone who exhibits a "demonstrated belief in and commitment to equity and inclusion and who promotes racialized diversity in all its myriad forms."  "These are aggressive-progressive Woke mantras," Schulz wrote.  "This Wokeness — with its dismissal and replacement of sacrosanct texts — is also anti-Lutheran inasmuch as it defies what I have been teaching and publishing as 'the first principle of Lutheran thought:'  'But God cannot be treated with, God cannot be apprehended, nisi per Verbum, except through the Word,'" Schulz wrote.  "Woke-ism at CUW, exacerbated by the (Board of Regents) committees' handling of the presidential search, is burdening the consciences of my students and my religious colleagues on faculty.

Substitute teacher fired for voicing support of Russia's invasion into Ukraine.  Some teachers haven't gotten the message yet.  Parents are not sitting back and allowing the wrong lessons to be taught to their school-age children.  A substitute teacher in Arlington, Virginia learned the hard way on Tuesday that parents don't want their children to be told that a teacher supports Putin and his decision to invade Ukraine.  Substitute teacher John Stanton, age 65, was teaching an eighth-grade Spanish lesson last Friday at Swanson Middle School.  He used the first ten minutes of the 90-minute class to talk to the students about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  He told a reporter on Tuesday that he hoped to offer students an opposing viewpoint, which he stated is rarely heard.

Christian Speaker Gets Canceled by Christian College for Teaching Christian Students Christian Ideas.  We're living in transformative times.  The country has moved away from Christian principles, and that migration includes institutions of faith.  Of course, there are differing iterations of Christianity; but the most traditional one is being fervently phased out.Case in point:  On Valentine's Day, Gordon College welcomed speaker Marvin Daniels.  Marvin is the executive director of community development organization The Hope Center.

Progressive SUNY Binghamton professor rebuked for race, gender policy.  SUNY Binghamton officials have rebuked a professor who said white students should clam up in class and let others lead academic discussions.  A syllabus for Ana Maria Candela's sociology class alerted students that she would be calling on non-white coeds first.  Candela wrote that "if you are white, male, or someone privileged by the racial and gender structures of our society to have your voice easily voiced and heard, we will often ask you to hold off on your questions or comments to give others priority and will come back to you a bit later or at another time."  Student Sean Harrigan shone a light on the pigment-specific pedagogy after he filed a Title IX discrimination complaint to the school.

You Can Call White People Evil, But Don't Criticize Affirmative Action.  [Scroll down]  Georgetown's law school took a very different position after law professor Ilya Shapiro tweeted criticism of Biden's decision, one opposed by 76% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats and non-whites, to only consider black women for the Supreme Court.  Shapiro correctly pointed out that choosing a Supreme Court Justice based on race would lead to a lesser choice.  As the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and minorities, agree.  But Georgetown, which did not suspend a professor calling for the murder and castration of white men, decided that the constitutional professor's speech had to be condemned and prohibited.  Shapiro, who was to lead the law school's Constitutional Law Center, got a lesson in how Georgetown views free speech and academic freedom, when it placed him on administrative leave.  Dean William Treanor described Shapiro's tweets as "appalling" and insisted that they, "are at odds with everything we stand for at Georgetown Law and are damaging to the culture of equity and inclusion that Georgetown Law is building every day."

Dartmouth Cancels Ngo Event after Vermont-connected Antifa Threats.  Dartmouth College administrators canceled an on-campus appearance by conservative journalist Andy Ngo's Thursday night after a deluge of online threats from Antifa members.  Ngo, who has built a national reputation covering violent, far-Left protests often given little attention by the mainstream media, was set to appear at an event hosted by the Dartmouth College Republicans and the conservative activists of Turning Point USA.  New Hampshire Journal was turned away at the door of Moore Hall by Dartmouth security on Thursday evening.  The college security officer said the event was changed to be an online appearance, but he would not say why the change was made.  "That's a decision above my pay grade," the security officer said.

Law student government rejects free speech group because debate can cause 'real harm'.  For the second time recently, Emory Law School in Atlanta is dealing with a controversy involving a student-run organization seeking to squelch debate in the name of preventing harmful speech.  Its Student Bar Association, the law school equivalent of student government, denied a charter to the Emory Free Speech Forum (EFSF) in part based on the "lack of mechanisms in place to ensure respectful discourse and engagement" at its events, such as a moderator.  This could cause a "precarious environment" and "potential and real harm" on fraught topics such as race and gender, "when these issues directly affect and harm your peers' lives in demonstrable and quantitative ways," the rejection letter said.

Too many whites attend campus concerts, says Oberlin College newspaper columnist.  The student newspaper at an Ohio college known for its left-leaning politics published a column addressing the number of white students attending campus concerts.  "When there are so few resources for non-white students on campus, it can be upsetting when concerts headlined by artists of color are dominated by white students," wrote Kayla Kim, a first-year student at Oberlin College.  In the Dec. 10 column titled "Concerts Need to Be Better for Students of Color," Kim claimed that whites, who comprise the majority of the student population, take over events by displacing black students in the front rows.  "It's hurtful when white students do not hold themselves accountable for their actions in such a space," she wrote.

Conservative journalist's Princeton talk given in secret location as students protest, denounce event.  Journalist Abigail Shrier spoke to Princeton University students at a private event on Wednesday [12/15/2021], discussing everything from free speech and academic freedom to gender ideology and parental rights.  The talk was held at an off-campus venue, the location of which was revealed solely to RSVP'd guests just a few hours before the event due to "threats and harassment" organizers said were leveled against Shrier and student groups co-hosting the lecture.  That along with Princeton's remaining coronavirus restrictions necessitated the heightened security measures, Adam Hoffman, publisher of The Princeton Tory and a student organizer of the event, said in his introduction of Shrier.  But the talk did represent the start of a recommitment "to the relentless pursuit of the truth," Hoffman said, adding that he hoped his peers' scare tactics would no longer suppress open debate at the Ivy League institution.

Catholic University Threatens to Expel Student for Posting Flyers Advertising Conservative Speaker.  A Catholic university is threatening to expel a student for posting flyers advertising an off-campus appearance by a conservative commentator because the flyers mentioned the school's name.  James Dowling, a student at Saint Louis University (SLU) and a member of the SLU College Republicans, was told last week that he faced serious disciplinary action for failing to comply with administrators' requests to take down the flyers, which he was posting off campus on December 1, shortly before the scheduled appearance by author and podcaster Matt Walsh.  The flyers were about as noncontroversial as they could get.  "SLU College Republicans & Young America's Foundation Proudly Present:  Matt Walsh at Saint Louis University," they read, adding the time and place of the event and the website at which additional information could be found.  They also included a photo of Walsh.

Indiana teacher who exposed CRT teaching put on leave, has email locked, banned from school buildings.  An Indianapolis school administrator who went viral for explaining how his district is pushing Critical Race Theory on children has been locked out of his email and Google Drive accounts and been told to work from home because he was causing other staff members "anxiety."  "As of one hour ago, Indianapolis Public Schools has suspended my access to email & Google Drive," Indianapolis district science coordinator, instructional coach, and administrator Tony Kinnett posted on Twitter along with a screenshot.

Indiana Educator Who Exposed CRT Banned From School.  An Indianapolis Public Schools administrator who leaked student trainings infused with critical race theory (CRT) was banned from school buildings and locked out of his email Wednesday [11/24/2021].  "I am currently banned from going to any IPS school building or hosting any professional developments," Tony Kinnett posted on Twitter Nov. 24, sharing a screenshot of his work email login.  He confirmed that the actions came in response to the Daily Caller News Foundation report, describing warnings he had received from human resources over his "whistleblowing."  Kinnett provided a video to the DCNF featuring an equity administrator who lectured middle school students about systemic racism permeating all aspects of society, including related to the environment.

Students suing Yale Law show America's elites have a low opinion of minorities.  Yale Law School is failing.  For reasons that appear to be associated with her support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's nomination, the school seems to have a vendetta against Professor Amy Chua.  Chua was banned from teaching Yale Law's important "small group" classes after being accused of, well, something.  A deep-dive investigative report by The New York Times found no evidence that Chua had actually done anything wrong.  As the Times reports it, Yale Law School gave way too much credence to unsubstantiated and anonymous student complaints, in a manner that makes a mockery of the principles of justice that any law school should stand for.  Now things have taken a turn for the worse.

Teen Sues New Hampshire School Over Punishment for 'Only Two Genders' Comment.  A New Hampshire student is suing his high school for violating his right to free speech and religious beliefs after being disciplined for stating there are only two genders.  The freshman and football player for the school, identified as "M.P." in the lawsuit, received a one-game suspension for violating the school district's transgender student policy.  The student made the comments on a school bus and then later in a text exchange with another student off school grounds.  The student's attorney, Ian Huyett of the Manchester-based Cornerstone Policy Research, said his client is seeking permanent relief from the school policy under protections for free speech and religious belief in the state constitution.  Huyett said the student is a practicing Catholic and has the constitutional right to hold the belief that there are only two genders.  "As the United States Supreme Court has said, students do not check their First Amendment Rights at the schoolhouse gate," said Huyett.

USC engineering professor faces backlash for Blue Lives Matter Flag outside his office.  A professor at the University of Southern California is facing backlash for refusing to remove the pro-police Blue Lives Matter flag outside his office insisting that the message black lives are disproportionately at risk of police violence is a 'lie.'  James Moore, professor of engineering and policy, has ignored repeated calls to take the flag down from students and administrators who he says live in a 'progressive bubble.'  Moore spoke with Fox & Friends on Friday to defend his stance.  'I feel a responsibility right now.  I wanted to communicate to progressively-oriented students that there's a competing point of view,' he said.

Student suspended for 'only two genders'comment sues school.  A New Hampshire student-athlete is suing his school district after he was suspended from a football game for allegedly expressing his view that there are "only two genders."  The lawsuit, filed on Nov. 4, said that the suspension in September was in violation of the student's constitutional right to free speech and the New Hampshire Bill of Rights because he expressed his religious beliefs, The Portsmouth Herald reported.  The plaintiff is also aiming to prohibit enforcing Exeter High School's gender-nonconforming student's policy because of what he says is its infringement on his First Amendment rights.

Tales From the Gulag.  A couple of weeks ago I published an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the tyranny that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies are imposing on universities and scientific institutions.  This includes excluding talented scientists who are not effective enough in displaying their DEI allegiance, enforcing ideological adherence among faculty and students, and suppressing debate on the topics of merit, quotas, free speech, and a range of gender and race issues.  In that article, I gave a piece of partial evidence of the gulag-like environment currently existing in higher education.  Numerous faculty responded to an earlier Wall Street Journal piece by me about ideological corruption in science, through emails in which they indicated they were writing under pseudonym accounts out of fear that colleagues or university officials might find out that they supported my concerns.  Happily, in response to my most recent piece, no respondents suggested they were shielding their identities, although a number indicated they were writing from their "non-university" email addresses — just in case — or felt comforted by now being retired and free to write.  What they present, in summary, is a chilling perspective of the pervasive and divisive atmosphere that is continuing to develop in educational and scientific institutions.

Samford disinvites historian Jon Meacham after student anti-abortion protest.  Samford University has uninvited Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham from inauguration ceremonies for the school's new president after student protest. [...] He was invited to speak at an event Nov. 3 to honor the inauguration of the university's new president and reflect the importance of civil discourse, according to the university.

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When someone is politely or formally requested to attend an event, but then the request is withdrawn, he is disinvited.  If he shows up anyway, then he is uninvited.

Students at Washington & Lee University in Virginia are banned from passing out flyers for Republican gubernatorial candidate.  Republican students at Washington & Lee University in Virginia have been banned from displaying campaign material in support of GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, claiming lobbying for a politician violates the private university's policy and threatens its tax-exempt status.  During an annual activities fair at the liberal arts school in Lexington on September 12, College Republicans President Lillian Gillespie displayed campaign materials at the club's booth in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin in time for the November 2 elections, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reported.  But soon after, members of the club were told by Director of Student Activities Kelsey Goodwin that their display violated the private university's policy and that they had to remove all materials endorsing political candidates.

Plain English Lost on the High Court of Australia.  Coral reefs can be messy, and so can court cases.  And so it is with the case of Peter Ridd, sacked by James Cook University because he exercised his intellectual freedom.  The only thing that is neatly settled from this case is apparently 'the science', never mind that this is only because anyone who publicly disagrees with it is censored or sacked.  In the case of Peter Ridd, even after he managed to raise over A$1.4 million to appeal his sacking by James Cook University all the way to the High Court of Australia, he lost.  In a unanimous decision handed down this morning [10/13/2021], the Court concluded that Dr Ridd's right to intellectual freedom is constrained by the procedural requirements of James Cook University's Code of Conduct.  The High Court found his freedom of speech is limited only to his area of expertise.  Those freedoms do not extend to issues about how the University is run, or whether the pronouncements made by its research institutions are trustworthy.

University of Michigan professor ousted from class after playing Othello film where [an actor] wore blackface.  A University of Michigan music professor is facing backlash after showing the 1965 film "Othello" with star Laurence Olivier in blackface, a school official announced.  David Gier, dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, said a new professor will be taking over the class previously taught by Bright Sheng to "allow for a positive learning environment," The American Spectator reports.  "Professor Sheng's actions do not align with our school's commitment to anti-racist action, diversity, equity and inclusion," Gier said last week, adding that Sheng has been reported to the Office of Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX.

Washington state school bans teacher from hanging pro-police flag in her classroom because it's too 'political' — but BLM and Pride banners are allowed.  A teacher in Washington state says she was forced to take down the pro-police flag she hung in her classroom to honor her brother, over claims that it was 'too political.'  'They told her that it's controversial to have that flag up,' Chris Sutherland, the teacher's brother, told The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.  'That it makes kids and staff feel unsafe, which to me, that does not make sense at all.'  He said his sister, who has not been named, hung the Thin Blue Line flag on her bulletin board to support him, a former police officer with the Marysville Police Department who served as a resource officer during the fatal Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting in 2014.

Survey: 23% of college students support violence to stop a speaker they disagree with.  In a worrying trend for free speech on college campuses, a growing number of students are expressing support for shouting down a campus speaker they disagree with, or even using violence to stop a speaker, a new survey finds.  The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit group that supports free speech in institutions of higher education, published its 2021 College Free Speech Rankings on Tuesday.  The rankings assess the free speech climate on various college and university campuses by surveying the students who go to school there.  The survey gathered the opinions of more than 37,000 students at 159 of "America's largest and most prestigious campuses," FIRE said in a news release.

Triggered, Racist Snowflakes Tell White Students With Police Lives Matter Sticker To Leave 'Multicultural Space.  This was the infuriating situation yesterday at Arizona State University when a couple of triggered, leftist students confronted two white students in a 'multicultural space.'  The confrontation started over a Police Lives Matter sticker on one of the student's computers.  The triggered woman, whose voice can be heard throughout the video, called the sticker offensive and asked the young men to leave.  The woman said the men were 'making the space uncomfortable apparently because they are white.  [Video clip]

Man Attacked and Accused of Being 'White' in 'Multicultural Space'.  The absurdity that transpires daily on college campuses around the nation would shock most people, and the introduction of racial politics into nearly everything has only made things worse.  Another perfect example of that happened recently at Arizona State University.  Per a now-viral video, a student was attacked and accused of being "white" in a "multicultural space."  At another point, he's accused of "violence" for having a sticker on his laptop that offers support to the police.  [Tweet with video clip]

Blackballed professor at NC State sues.  Stephen Porter, a tenured professor at North Carolina State University, has just filed a lawsuit against the university and several of its faculty for blackballing him for simply disagreeing with them on issues of politics and policy.  The introduction of the legal filing outlines clearly the actions of the university's faculty, designed to destroy Porter's academic career: [...] Porter's crime was daring to dissent from the leftist ideology that the administrators and many fellow teachers were trying to introduce into the program.  His first sin was questioning the inclusion of a "diversity" question in the student course evaluations, thus encouraging students to evaluate their professors not on their ability to teach but on whether the teacher made subjects such as race and ethnicity a component of their courses.

Ohio private school expels students because their MOMS launched campaign against woke curriculum and Critical Race Theory.  An Ohio private school has expelled three students whose moms led a coalition campaigning against Critical Race Theory being taught to their children.  Columbus Academy sent a letter to parents Andrea Gross and Amy Gonzalez informing them that their children will not be reenrolled at the school, where tuition fees cost up to $30,000 a year.  The school said Gross and Gonzalez leveled 'false and misleading attacks' on the school and its leadership through their 'inflammatory' campaign, including making claims that students were being subjected to bomb sniffing dogs on campus.

Forget About Making Peace with the Islamic World.  Today leftists and all those who shout out the vacuous phrase, "peace and justice," have turned those once noble words into soiled and tarnished rags.  They have become the very folk who, through one of life's supreme ironies, shout down dissenting voices and thus become guilty of the very violent behavior they claim to oppose.  The universities and colleges have become hotbeds of radicalized students who chant slogans of peace and justice yet howl down invited speakers with whom they disagree.  Free speech withers on today's university campus while tenured professors, smiling indulgently, espouse the monolithic message of the Left, which tolerates no disagreement.

Five reasons not to be optimistic about America's future.  [Scroll down]  Next, we are experiencing a concerted assault on free speech, from which all our rights emanate.  Free speech is regarded by the Left as an outdated concept.  The cancer known as political correctness is a way of stifling free expression in favor of socially controlled thought.  As liberals take over our colleges and universities, they are indoctrinating young people to believe that conservative ideas amount to hate speech and should be suppressed.  The result is that today's students are demanding limitations to free expression.  In a poll of 800 undergraduates, 51 percent favored codes limiting free speech on campus.  30 percent said the First Amendment is outdated.  Where do we go from here?  Free speech is being replaced with the thought police, political correctness, and the cancel culture — all of it enforced by the woke crowd.

Michigan high school violates federal law by opposing religious language in grad speech: complaint.  Michigan student Elizabeth Turner is fighting back after her public high school told her not to include certain religious content in her upcoming valedictory speech for graduation.  Hillsdale High School Principal Amy Goldsmith took issue with the portion of Turner's draft that mentioned her belief in Jesus Christ, according to a complaint obtained by Fox News.  Sent by First Liberty on Wednesday, the complaint alleges that the Michigan school violated federal law allowing private religious speech at school events.

Female student, 29, faces disciplinary action by university after fellow classmates complained about [her] 'offensive and discriminatory' comments.  A student who said women were born with female genitals and the difference in physical strength between men and women 'was a fact' is facing disciplinary action by her university.  Lisa Keogh, 29, who studies law at Abertay University in Dundee was reported to university chiefs by her classmates after she said that women were not as physically strong as men.  The mature student, who is in her final year, is now facing a formal investigation by the university for the alleged 'offensive' and 'discriminatory' comments.

Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court to Allow Schools to Censor Student Expression Online.  The Biden administration and a Pennsylvania school district urged a skeptical Supreme Court this morning to let school districts suppress free speech by students on social media if they deem it potentially disruptive to school operations.  The case, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., court file 20-255, was heard April 28.  The Biden administration was represented in the 112-minute telephonic hearing by Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart.  The petitioner, the school district in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, was represented by Lisa S. Blatt.  The student involved in the case, known in court documents as B.L., was represented by David D. Cole, who is the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.  B.L., or Brandi Levy, was a minor at the time the lawsuit was initiated and legal files reduced her name to initials to protect her identity.

Canceled at Georgetown.  Social justice activists routinely demand that we "see race," call out disparities and feel personal shame about them, and commit to improving outcomes for minorities.  But William Treanor, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, has sent a clear message to those who try to answer that call: verbalizing your commitment to social justice won't protect you — and may even destroy your career — if an angry activist decides to "cancel" you.  Last month, Georgetown Law adjunct professor Sandra Sellers told a colleague privately on Zoom, "I hate to say this — I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower [graded] ones are blacks."  Some black students, Sellers said, did well, but the overall pattern made her "feel bad."  Sellers was not aware that her conversation was being recorded and uploaded to the aptly named "Panopto" software system.  If someone had chosen to, he might have clipped her words and posted them to Twitter with the caption:  "We need more white professors like this, who feel shame about how badly law schools are failing students of color.  Thank you, Professor Sellers!"  Instead, Sellers' words were clipped and posted by Georgetown Law student Hassan Ahmad with the caption: ".@GeorgetownLaw negotiations professors Sandra Sellers and David Batson being openly racist on a recorded Zoom call.  Beyond unacceptable."  That day, without speaking with Sellers, William Treanor condemned her "reprehensible statements," which he declared "abhorrent."  The next day, against his own university's policies, Treanor fired Sellers without an official investigation.

Cop-supporting coffee shop owner bullied off Boise State demands $10M from university in tort claim.  A coffee shop owner who left Boise State University last year after activists complained about her support for police has filed a tort claim against the college seeking $10 million in damages.  The March 24 claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, alleges slander, contract interference, fraud, and violations of constitutional rights, among other things.  Sarah Jo Fendley is owner of Big City Coffee, a shop in Idaho's capital city that closed its brand new extension on the Boise State campus in October 2020.  It was widely reported at the time that the closure happened because of Fendley's support for Thin Blue Line, a nonpolitical campaign to support police officers.

Ex-UVA student can sue school after asking questions during a panel got him expelled: judge.  A former University of Virginia medical student can proceed with a lawsuit against the school over his expulsion — which stemmed from questions he asked about the nuance of microaggressions during a panel discussion that led to him being branded a threat, a federal judge has ruled.  Kieran Bhattacharya sued the prestigious state university for violating his First Amendment rights and a judge denied the school's attempt to have it tossed last week, court records show.  The trouble for Bhattacharya began in October 2018, when the then-second-year medical student attended a panel discussion on the subject of microaggressions.  The term is defined by Merriam-Webster as "a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority)."

Federal judge flays Wayne State for bias against Christian student club.  Public university officials violated the constitutional rights of a Christian student group and will now face a trial to set the compensatory damages for that violation, a court ruled this week.  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship had operated continuously at Michigan's Wayne State University "since the 1930s" — until campus officials stripped its recognition in 2017 for "requiring that its faith leaders profess to be faithful," U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland wrote in a scathing 83-page ruling.  "The uncontested facts demonstrate" that the taxpayer-funded institution and two officials violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause and the club's rights to "internal management, free speech, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, and free exercise as a matter of law."

The Silencing of Voices on College Campuses.  "She and I talk openly in one another's homes, but we know we can't talk to anyone else."  This is not a historic quote from the days of Stalinist suppression in the Soviet Union.  It is message I recently received from a graduate faculty professor in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) field referring to the secrecy with which she talks to her friend who works in university student services.  Today on college campuses, faculty are afraid to speak about a number of issues for fear of being verbally mobbed and denounced by angry students and faculty colleagues.  I know.  Faculty, students, and administrators at the University of Rhode Island have recently denounced me for daring to write in 4W.pub, a feminist public forum, that humans cannot change their sex and children are not born the wrong bodies.  I wrote that the belief that people can change their biological sex is a fantasy.  Now, such commonsensical statements are deemed so offensive that I must be condemned by publicly issued university statements.

6th Circuit Reaches Right Conclusion on 'Preferred Pronouns.' Other Courts Should Follow Suit.  In a victory for free speech, the rule of law, and common sense, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has ruled that a philosophy professor could not be forced to use a transgender student's "preferred pronouns," and that his suit against the university for violation of his First and 14th Amendment rights could proceed.  The court's decision is the first of its kind, and establishes a needed boundary against American culture's new, brutish sexual orthodoxy.  At least within academia, one can no longer be compelled to say things one doesn't believe.

U. of Cincinnati Declines Contract Renewal for Professor who Said 'Chinese Virus'.  The University of Cincinnati refused to renew the contract of a professor who was placed on leave last year after using the term "Chinese virus" in an email that he sent to a student.  The University of Cincinnati has declined to renew the contract of adjunct instructor John Ucker, who had taught at the university since 1996, according to a report by the Cincinnati Enquirer.  "For students testing positive for the chinese (sic) virus, I will give no grade," wrote Ucker last year in an email to a student, Evan Sotzing, who said he would have to miss an in-person lab due to having been possibly exposed to the Chinese coronavirus.  Sotzing subsequently posted a screenshot of the email to social media, where it went viral.

Duke University launches investigation after a printout of George Floyd's toxicology report was pinned to a Black History Month display.  Duke University has launched an investigation after a printout of George Floyd's toxicology report was pinned to a Black History Month display.  The flier, which insinuated that Floyd died of a drug overdose, appeared next to a photo of him Saturday [3/20/2021] on a bulletin board on the third floor of a dormitory.  Each compound in his system was underlined with pink pen and, at the top, was written: 'Mix of drugs presents in difficulty breathing!  Overdose?  Good Man?  Use of fake currency is a felony!'

Christian Students Wins Legal Challenge Against University of Iowa.  Christian students have won a legal challenge against the University of Iowa after school administrators banned the Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) student group from campus for requiring its student leaders to affirm the Christian faith.  A federal appeals court has ruled that university officials who kicked BLinC off campus because of its faith can be held personally accountable for the harm they caused, according to a press release from Becket Law, a non-profit public interest law firm that defends religious expression.  Becket Law says that the university had claimed the Christian student group was in violation of its nondiscrimination policy, despite allowing other religious groups to select faith-compliant leaders, and even encouraging other groups — such as fraternities and sororities — to select leaders based on other characteristics covered by its nondiscrimination policy.

North Carolina State University Makes Students Take Diversity Training That Cancels 'Whitesplaining'.  If you're white, you may at some point have "whitesplained."  But attendees of North Carolina State University aren't likely to make your mistake — not, at least, after undergoing the school's mandatory diversity training.  As reported by Campus Reform, NCSU is mandating all its students take an online diversity course.  According to the outlet's reported access, "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Students" purports to provide "learners with the information and skills necessary to create a respectful and welcoming environment for everyone." [...] Those with privilege, the course teaches, get the benefit of "tone-policing."  That's where you nullify someone's argument on the basis of their emotional state.  And why do you do something so stupid?  That would be, to "preserve the status quo."

New Jersey district pays $325K in Trump yearbook censorship.  A New Jersey school district is paying $325,000 to a former New Jersey teacher who claimed she was forced to digitally edit a Donald Trump T-shirt worn by a student in a yearbook photo.  The Wall Township school board approved the settlement agreement with Susan Parsons on Tuesday, NJ Advance Media reported.  The district made no admission of wrongdoing or liability.  The money will be paid by the district's insurance carrier.  Parsons was the high school's yearbook adviser when she said a secretary acting on behalf of the principal ordered her in 2017 to remove "Trump Make America Great Again" and make it appear as if the student was wearing a plain navy blue T-shirt.  "That has to go," the suit alleged Parsons was told.

Georgetown University fires professor for violating a taboo on discussing Black academic performance.  A conversation on the academic performance of Black law students between two faculty members teaching at Georgetown following a Zoom session was recorded and posted online without their knowledge.  As a result, one of them has been fired and tearfully apologized, while the other one is "on leave until the investigation by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action is complete," for failing to react in outrage over what the Dean of the law school termed "reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students."  Both professor are adjunct faculty, meaning they are professionals brought in teach students with their real world experience, and they have no tenure protections.

Posh Manhattan school warns against saying 'mom and dad,' assuming gender, wishing 'Merry Christmas,' and much more in 'inclusive language' guidebook.  A posh, private school in Manhattan has issued language recommendations to staff, students, and parents, advising them against using unwelcoming terms such as "mom and dad" and "Merry Christmas" that make assumptions about students' home lives.  Grace Church School in NoHo — which costs more than $57,000 a year to attend — believes the woke 12-page "inclusive language" guide will go a long way towards removing "harmful assumptions" from communication and making the campus a more "welcoming and inclusive" space.  Instead of saying "mom," "dad," or even "parents," the school suggests using terms like "grown-ups," "folks," "family," and "guardians" when communicating about life at home.  And instead of saying "boys and girls," "guys," or "ladies and gentlemen," individuals should stick to more generic terms such as "people," "folks," "friends," and "readers."

The Editor says...
As a deplorable flyover bumpkin, I've never heard of NoHo.  But I suppose it doesn't matter.

Supreme Court sides with Christian students silenced on Georgia campus.  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a former Georgia college student who sued his school after it prevented him from expressing religious views in a free-speech zone on campus.  The 8-1 decision, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, said that Chike Uzuegbunam — who was silenced by Georgia Gwinnett College officials even after he had obtained a permit to proselytize and handout religious literature — can seek nominal damages despite the fact that the school ultimately changed course and Uzuegbunam subsequently graduated.  In a very rare alignment of votes, Chief Justice John Roberts was the lone dissenting justice in the case.

SCOTUS, 8-1: You better believe students can sue colleges over "speech zone" First Amendment violations.  That gasp heard after this ruling dropped comes from every college and university with a "free speech zone" and policies that impose heckler's vetoes.  Plaintiffs suing over restrictions on speech and religious expression on campus only need to establish "nominal damages" to gain standing, the Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision, not necessarily actual damages.  That opens up a vast new field of litigation that attorneys all across the country will rush to meet. The 8-1 ruling in Uzuegbunam v Preczewski from Justice Clarence Thomas does not actually settle the case in favor of the students, but the writing is on the wall for Georgia Gwinnett College.

College Pays Out Settlement After Conservative Student Ousted from Manager Role.  Arizona State University reached a settlement with one of its students on Thursday [3/4/2021] following that student's decision to sue the school for allegedly violating her First Amendment rights.  Rae'Lee Klein was removed from her position as station manager of ASU's Blaze Radio in September after tweeting out a New York Post story about Jacob Blake — a black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, back in August — with the caption, "Always more to the story, folks.  Please read this article to get the background of Jacob Blake's warrant.  You'll be quite disgusted."  Klein shared the tweet in an effort to provide additional context to the shooting.  The Post's story showed that, at the time of the shooting, Blake was wanted in connection with three charges related to an alleged sexual assault, the victim of which was the very woman who called police to the scene of the shooting.

John Eastman's Statement on His Retirement from Chapman University's Fowler School of Law.  The political science faculty, for example, made numerous false statements of fact and law in their diatribe against me.  They asserted, for example, that I have made "false claims" about the 2020 presidential election which "have no basis in fact or law and seek to harm the democratic foundations of our constitutional republic."  Had they bothered to discuss the matter with me, they could have learned that every statement I have made is backed up with documentary and/or expert evidence, and solidly grounded in law.  For example, it is a fact that partisan election officials and even partisan-elected judicial officials in numerous states altered or ignored existing state laws in the conduct of the election, the instances of which are well documented in the petition for writ of certiorari I filed in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the President.  And it is clearly established law that Article II of the Constitution assigns to the legislatures of the state, not anyone else, the sole, plenary power to determine the "manner" for choosing presidential electors.  And it is a fact that numerous legislators wrote to Vice President Pence indicating that their electoral votes were problematic at best because of these illegalities and urging him to delay the electoral count proceedings long enough to allow the legislatures in the contested states time to review whether their electoral slate was legally certified.

Trump-supporting legal scholar resigns from university under duress, issues troubling statement.  Conservative legal scholar John Eastman has announced "with mixed feelings" his immediate resignation from Chapman University as a result of what he describes as a hostile work environment, allegedly created by left-wing colleagues.  Eastman, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle, was one of the lawyers challenging the outcome of Election 2020 on behalf of President Trump and spoke at the rally in D.C. on January 6, the latter of which may have been the deal-breaker.  Apparently, 169 faculty members and three members of the Orange County, Calif., school's board of trustees attempted to get him canceled by signing and publishing a letter containing "false, defamatory statements" about him, Eastman contends.

Law prof. who rallied Capitol crowd with Giuliani and questioned Kamala Harris' citizenship will retire.  The California law professor who drew outrage for his fiery speech with Rudy Giuliani before the Capitol riot and his unfounded attacks on Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' citizenship has agreed to retire.  Chapman University announced John Eastman's departure Wednesday night after the private college in Orange County previously condemned Eastman's remarks but stopped short of firing him.  "Dr. Eastman's departure closes this challenging chapter for Chapman and provides the most immediate and certain path forward," Chapman President Daniele Struppa said in a statement.

The Ways Colleges Legally Silence Non-Conforming Scholars.  Radicals on campus do more than just "cancel" speakers.  Failure by administrators to stand firm alters the atmosphere at colleges as well as, eventually, our system of government.  The most profound consequences may come less from ideological zealots than from our own cowardice to oppose them.  Some colleges now respond to ideological intimidation not by defiantly defending their principles, but by devising furtive techniques to eliminate politically incorrect faculty.

Univ of Mich dept releases list of acceptable words, Tucker and Mark Steyn offer some words of their own.  The University of Michigan's "Words Matter Task Force" has issued a list of about two dozen words/phrases that could be offensive and lack inclusivity, along with a list of more politically correct replacement terms. [...] However, the initiative also seeks to replace benign terms such as "brown bag," and "long time no see," and "picnic.  The recommended substitutes are "lunch and learn," "it's been a while/I haven't see you in ages," and "gathering," respectively.  [Video clip]

To Keep Turning Point USA Students "Safe," Palm Beach County Officials Lock Them Out of Conference.  Turning Point USA, the conservative student action group founded by Charlie Kirk, is holding its annual Student Action Summit in Palm Beach County, Florida this weekend.  Featuring speakers like Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., and Mike Pence, the event sold out quickly — especially given the fact that county officials slapped a capacity requirement on the event to enable social distancing protocols.  As the event was underway Saturday, Palm Beach County officials suddenly stopped allowing students to enter the convention center lobby to register, saying the event was over capacity, and stranding hundreds of students outside the door — packed like sardines.  Of course, in that environment rumors start quickly and are amplified on social media.  It was reported that TPUSA was attempting to do same-day registration at the convention center, that they were unregistering attendees, and that they oversold the event.  TPUSA officials tell RedState that none of those rumors are true.

Students at University of Oregon Attempt to Remove College Republicans from Campus.  Student activists at the University of Oregon are attempting to remove the College Republicans from campus for attending a "stop the steal" rally.  Members of the university's student government are working to "deplatform" the club by cutting off its organizational funding and revoking its status as an official campus group.  The governing body has yet to dissolve the club, though it unanimously passed a resolution calling for "cultural competency training" for all organizations during a meeting with College Republican leaders.  Student activists have since called on the group to condemn white supremacy and political violence, a condemnation it has issued several times.

Elementary school principal is suing school district after being fired for sharing conservative memes on her Facebook page.  The principal of a Pennsylvania elementary school who was fired after being accused of posting politically conservative posts on to her personal Facebook account is suing to get her job back along with $500,000 for the 'emotional turmoil' she has been put through.  Amy Sacks, who had been a teacher for 20 years posted on Thanksgiving Day that the Perkiomen Valley School District and Superintendent Barbara Russell 'decided that the First Amendment Freedom of Speech has no place in public schools and that teachers and administrators are unfit to serve if they hold and express political beliefs that are right of center'.  The outburst came after Sacks was removed from her post as the principal of Evergreen Elementary School in July.

Texas A&M Threatens Student with Investigation, Possible Discipline for Posting Trump Signs.  Campus Reform tells us about student Dion Okeke (Class of 2022) finding himself on the receiving end of a threatening letter from one Jessica Welsch, who is Student Code of Conduct Office Assistant Coordinator.  In the letter, Welsch demands Okeke's presence at a meeting in January regarding an "incident" that occurred in November 2020.  Okeke's crime?  He placed Trump signs on campus prior to the election.  The campus police were aware, and after initially trying to stop him on a claim of "ground damage," allowed him to proceed.  But they or someone reported him to the university, involving Welsch's office.

Harvard graduate students start petition to ban Trump officials from school.  A group of Harvard University students circulated a petition aimed at keeping Trump administration officials from teaching, attending or speaking at the Ivy League school — but not everyone was on board with their "progressive" agenda, according to a report.  The petition, drafted last week by students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, got a less than enthusiastic reception by those attending the Kennedy School of Government and the Business School, Fox Business reported.  Sources with direct knowledge of the matter told the outlet that petition organizers later changed the wording in the petition to say that Team Trump officials should be held "accountable" before they set foot in the prestigious institution.

High school forces student to remove pro-Trump face mask, allows pro-Biden masks: warning letter.  David Ferguson wore a face mask that reads "Trump 2020 Make America Great!" to Northwest Rankin High School in Mississippi.  Assistant Principal Lewis Bradford told him to remove it because the dress code bans "political" messages.  He has not worn it since that day more than a month ago, fearing punishment.  Not only was Bradford's claim about the dress code false, but Northwest Rankin High has "[a]pparently" allowed students and teachers, "without reprimand," to wear face masks and other clothing supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, gay rights and the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a legal warning letter sent on Election Day [11/3/2020].

Sorority apologizes for congratulating Amy Coney Barrett.  The Kappa Delta sorority deleted and apologized for a congratulatory message for Amy Coney Barrett, who was a member of the sorority during her time at Rhodes College.  The sorority tweeted an image of a statement, saying "KD alumna Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.  While we do not take a stand on political appointments, we recognize Judge Coney Barrett's significant accomplishment.  We acknowledge our members have a variety of views and a right to their own beliefs."  The next day, the sorority deleted the tweet and posted an apology statement. [...] The organization stated that it was "deeply sorry" for the "hurtful" original statement.

The Editor says...
Don't ever apologize to an internet mob.

Sophomore at University of Kansas is put on probation by her sorority for 'unbecoming' behavior after she shared a Candace Owens post criticizing Black Lives Matter.  A University of Kansas sorority member has been put on probation for 'unbecoming' behavior after she shared a Candace Owens post criticizing Black Lives Matter.  Sophomore Katherine Lauer was rebuked by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority after reposting a tweet from the black conservative commentator in which she said BLM was 'the most flagrantly racist organization in America'.  Owens wrote on September 23:  'Black Lives Matter is an organization of white men, using the faces of dead black people, to raise millions of dollars toward electing white Democrats into positions of power.'

Education Department Investigates University for Removing Critic of Affirmative Action.  The Education Department is investigating the University of Pittsburgh for free-speech violations and false statements, after the university took action against Professor Norman Wang for publishing an academic paper critical of race-based affirmative action.  The university removed Wang as program director at its medical center solely due to his paper.  The Education Department is also examining whether the university engages in illegal racial preferences in admissions and hiring.  The Education Department outlined its concerns in a letter to the University of Pittsburgh, [...] Dr. Wang's criticism of affirmative action was mild and not racist in any way.  Indeed, Dr. Wang explained how race-based affirmative action harms some black and Hispanic medical students by setting them up to fail.

University investigated baseball coach after he criticized Black Lives Matter.  The University of South Carolina Aiken recently investigated longtime head baseball coach Kenny Thomas for a social media comment critical of Black Lives Matter.  While the university appears to have completed the investigation, campus officials have not directly said what rules Thomas was accused of violating.  Thomas commented on someone's Facebook post that included a photo of a Clemson University football helmet with a Black Lives Matter sticker on it.  Thomas wrote in mid-September, according to WJBF, "It is 100% shameful, I promise you will never see anything like this on my field.  I support the Blue and not ashamed to say it!"

Arizona State Student Sues After Being Terminated Over Report on Jacob Blake's Criminal Record.  An Arizona State College student is suing after she was fired from the college's radio station for tweeting about Jacob Blake's previous accusations of sexual assault.  "Attorney Jack D. Wilenchik has sent a letter to the public university instructing them to either rehire Rae'Lee Klein, a Cheyenne, Wyoming native, at Blaze Radio or provide monetary damages for violating her First Amendment rights," Fox News reports.  Klein tweeted a link detailing sex assault claims against Blake in August, describing the reason for the 911 call that led Kenosha cops to the encounter with Blake.

Today in Maoist Madness.  Every day brings news of another racially-inflected instance of someone being canceled or otherwise denounced, like evolutionist Richard Dawkins being disinvited from a lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, because someone discovered that he says harsh things about Islam (as a militant atheist, he says harsh things about Christianity, too, but that has never been a bar to his appearing on a campus for some strange reason), or the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and three other prominent galleries, which recently announced that they are "postponing" a planned exhibit by Philip Guston, a modern artist who the museum fears will trigger some museum goers because some of his cartoons include depictions of Klan robes.  I have never heard of Guston, but he apparently holds all the correct political views, so what's the problem?

The Progressive Medusa.  College has long ceased being a sheltered place to acquire the inductive method of thinking and disinterested empiricism, along with mastering a body of general, shared knowledge to equip the student to be aware of his past and present world.  Instead, higher education seeks to teach millions of American youth how to think "correctly."  In 21st-century America, "correctness" centers around memorizing unquestioned near-religious commandments — identity and racial politics, redistributionist government, affirmative action, abortion on demand, anti-Westernism, climate change, transgenderism, open borders, police defunding, iconoclasm, and agnosticism or atheism.  All that cannot be queried without being socially ostracized, professionally hounded, or sometimes even physically threatened.

The University as Madrasah.  A study of campus speaker and teacher disinvitations and disruptions by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that since the Trump administration took office in 2017 there have been 113 attempts or actual incidents of speaker cancellations, protests, or disturbances at public and private colleges.  In 76 of these cases, the controversy came from individuals and groups with leftist political leanings and 24 came from those on the right.  Objections from the right were based upon the guest speaker's involvement with crime or terrorism, anti-Semitic sentiments, or conflicting values about sexual orientation or abortion at religious schools.  Challenges from the left were more combative and targeted speakers, politicians, radio hosts, writers, lawmakers, and Trump cabinet and family members with staunch conservative viewpoints and support for the current presidential administration.  By a ratio of three to one, conservative speakers were more likely to have their college appearances canceled or disrupted than those campus darlings promoting left-wing causes.

Self-censorship in the US.  [Scroll down]  The survey also found that younger Americans under 30 were more concerned than older Americans that their political opinions could harm their careers.  That young people especially are afraid to speak their minds — the survey suggests this is because they "have spent more time in America's universities" — is particularly worrying for the future robustness of American democracy.  It is, however, not surprising.  American campuses have steered a "leftist" course for decades.  The tilt has had familiar consequences:  the proliferation on campus of "safe spaces", trigger warnings, de-platforming of conservative voices and a "cancel culture" aimed at professors and students who do not conform to an on-campus political orthodoxy that has become increasingly totalitarian.  Most recently, the dean of University of Massachusetts Lowell's School of Nursing, Leslie Neal-Boylan, was fired by the school after writing "Black lives matter, but also everyone's life matters" in an email to students and faculty.

Trump painting controversy sees legal action from a Washington Parish high school student.  Ned Thomas was participating in the school's "Seniors Paint Your Parking Spot" program and had his design approved by the principal, only to have it painted over after a paid artist completed the image.  "I woke up and I had missed calls from our principal and told me, 'I'm sorry, but it had to be painted over.'  The school board office had forced the school to do it.  I was just quite shocked and I didn't know what to think exactly and I went out there and it was gone," said Thomas.  Thomas says he's a big admirer of the Commander-in-chief and feels it should be okay to have a painting of a US President, but he was told that the school superintendent says it was too political.

The Editor says...
I'd like to know if there was any BLM artwork approved by the same school.

USC Professor Who Used Chinese Word That Sounds Like English Slur 'Not Dismissed Nor Suspended,' Admin Says.  The University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business' dean is on the defensive after receiving widespread backlash for his handling of an incident in which a communications professor at the school used a Chinese word that sounded like a slur in English, a new email obtained by National Review shows.  Professor Greg Patton was giving a lecture about the use of "filler words" in speech during a recent online class when he used the word in question, saying, "If you have a lot of 'ums and errs,' this is culturally specific, so based on your native language.  Like in China, the common word is 'that, that, that.'  So in China it might be 'nèi ge, nèi ge, nèi ge.'"

Professor Suspended for Saying Chinese Word That Sounds Like English Racial Slur.  If 2020's rampage of stupidity couldn't go any further, a story out of Los Angeles might just convince you the modern-left has literally ruined everything.  University of Southern California Professor Greg Patton, in the process of teaching a class was discussing standard vocal patterns in different cultures.  In explaining the Chinese pattern of using the word "that", which translates into Chinese as "nega," Patton said the word in quick succession which led to students questioning his use of the word.

USC Suspended a Communications Professor for Saying a Chinese Word That Sounds Like a Racial Slur.  Greg Patton is a professor of clinical business communication at the University of Southern California.  During a recent virtual classroom session, he was discussing public speaking patterns and the filler words that people use to space out their ideas: um, er, etc.  Patton mentioned that the Chinese often use a word that is pronounced like nega.  "In China the common word is 'that, that that that,' so in China it might be 'nega, nega, nega, nega,'" Patton explained to his class.  "So there's different words you'll hear in different cultures, but they're vocal disfluencies."  But because the Chinese word nega sounds like n****r, some students were offended and reported the matter to the administration.

English class focused on antiracism forbids 'disparaging commentary'.  An English 101 class offered this semester at University of Louisville is focused on antiracism and forbids "disruptive language" and "disparaging commentary," according to its syllabus.  The syllabus for "Introduction to College Writing," subtitled "commemoration and public memory," begins by reminding students "2020 marks 157 years since the Emancipation Proclamation, and fewer for the years elapsed since Chattel slavery as an American institution was formally ended across the union."  The scholar teaching the class, graduate teaching assistant Kendyl Harmeling, continues by telling her students America is systemically and institutionally racist, and that the university was built on that legacy, which she acknowledges.

Syracuse Professor Put on Leave for Calling COVID 'Wuhan Flu'.  This week, many college students and professors will begin classroom instruction for the first time since March.  One Syracuse University professor, however, has already been asked to leave campus for his rhetoric regarding COVID-19 on a class syllabus.  Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Dr. Jon Zubieta distributed a Chemistry 411 syllabus that referred to COVID-19 as the "Wuhan Flu" and the "Chinese Communist Party Virus."  Most syllabi now have a reference section dedicated to addressing social distancing, mask requirements, and other COVID-related issues in the classroom.  Syracuse students immediately took to social media, labeling the professor as xenophobic and demanding that he be immediately disciplined.  The result:  removal of Dr. Zubieta from the classroom until a full investigation has been completed.

The Editor says...
Well, at least he didn't call it Kung Flu, Wu Flu, Egg Drop Croup, Bat Gobbler Flu, or Flu d'etat.  I mean, if you're gonna get suspended anyway, why not resort to derisive mockery on the way out?

Wisconsin College Cancels Vice President Pence's Speech Due To 'Escalating Events' In Kenosha.  A private Wisconsin college near Kenosha is cancelling plans to have Vice President Mike Pence speak at a commencement ceremony due to the "escalating events" in Kenosha, the Associated Press reported.  Wisconsin Lutheran College, which is private, is located roughly 40 miles away from Kenosha in Milwaukee, and Pence was scheduled to deliver an address this weekend, which follows the violent riots in Kenosha that erupted Sunday after the shooting of Jacob Blake by police, according to the AP.

College Faces Backlash from Students and Alumni for Inviting Mike Pence to Speak.  This is a Christian school, which just goes to show that progressives have poisoned pretty much every campus in the country.

Christian college faces backlash for inviting VP Pence to speak.  Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to speak at the Wisconsin Lutheran College Commencement on Saturday, but more than 200 students and alumni have denounced the decision.  In an open letter to the college, the group called the invitation for Pence to speak "disrespectful" and "problematic."  The letter said, "the mere invitation of a Vice President of an incredibly divisive and controversial ticket to speak in a swing state months before an election is ignorant and deceptive."

Low-level SWATting:
Fordham University Sent Cops To Investigate A Student For Criticizing Communist China And 'Black Lives Matter' On Instagram.  Fordham University is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly violating a student's free speech after administrators called the cops on him for Instagram posts.  On his personal account, Austin Tong posted pictures with a legally obtained gun and criticized China's handling of the Tiananmen Square massacre.  Tong also posted about the death of St.  Louis Police Captain David Dorn, who died trying to stop rioters from looting a friend's pawn shop.  While the school's website suggests that students enrolled at the university will have "the freedom of inquiry required by rigorous thinking and the quest for truth," its reaction to Tong's posts shows otherwise.  Fordham officials reportedly considered the social media posts "grotesque" and "racist," and sent "two uniformed public safety officers" to the Tong family home in Long Island, New York to "discuss the Instagram posts" and evaluate whether Tong "presented a danger to himself and others," according to the U.S. DOE investigation.

The Editor says...
This wouldn't be an issue if the cops had any common sense.  Why should they respond to a request like this, with no evidence of a crime?

Iowa State University Instructor Warns Anti-BLM, Pro-Life Views Are 'Grounds For Dismissal'.  An Iowa State University instructor's syllabus warned students that anti-Black Lives Matter and pro-life viewpoints are "grounds for dismissal."  Instructor Chloe Clark's English 250 syllabus includes a "giant warning" advising students that only certain views would be permitted during her classes.  "I take this seriously," she notes at the end of the warning.  "Any instances of othering that you participate in intentionally (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, sorophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, body shaming, etc.) in class are grounds for dismissal from the classroom," Clark wrote in the syllabus, a copy of which was provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation by the Young America's Foundation (YAF).

The administrative torment of UCF Prof. Charles Negy.  I had heard of Charles Negy, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF).  What I heard seemed like a particularly egregious example of cancel culture that is purging academia and imposing uniformity of opinion, particularly with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement.  Having looked into it more, it's worse than I realized.  Negy's alleged crime that sparked the controversy was two tweets questioning the orthodoxy of systemic racism and white privilege.

Student faces punishment for Trump image during Zoom class.  A student at New Jersey's Stockton University is fighting back after the university threatened to punish him for using an image of President Trump as his background during a class held via Zoom.  Doctoral student Robert Dailyda declared on Facebook he's had enough of "the leftist agenda of BLM and the white self haters."  He faces six charges, including harassment and cyberbullying, and may have to attend a "social justice workshop" if found guilty.

Students won't accept professors who oppose Black Lives Matter.  As Black Lives Matter has grown in popularity at colleges and universities, and as multiple professors have been fired, disciplined, or boycotted for opposing the Black Lives Matter agenda, Campus Reform asked students if professors who oppose the group should be allowed to teach.  Most students said no.  "I wouldn't feel comfortable with a professor teaching that isn't for Black Lives Matter," one student said.  Other students even called for sanctioning or removing professors who oppose Black Lives Matter.

Syracuse University Tacitly Endorses Harassment, Intimidation of Conservative Student Journalist.  When Adrianna San Marco arrived at Syracuse University in the fall of 2019 for her freshman year, she was stunned at the blatant anti-conservative bias he witnessed from her fellow students and professors.  San Marco knew that most college campuses aren't bastions of free thought or tolerance of conservative viewpoints and that Syracuse had denied Young Americans for Freedom permission to establish an official chapter on campus in February 2019, but still thought they might try a little harder to hide the overtly political targeting.  A political science major, San Marco is also interested in political journalism and commentary.  She became a conservative columnist for the student newspaper, The Daily Orange, and also wrote for Lifezette and Law Enforcement Daily.  In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests, on June 5, she penned an op-ed at Lifezette titled:  "Why Institutional Racism is a Myth."  Her piece cited numerous studies and wasn't emotion-based, so, predictably, leftist heads exploded — especially the ones at Syracuse University.

Michigan School Fires Popular Teacher For Saying 'Trump Is Our President'.  A Michigan school district fired a popular high school teacher and coach after he pointed out that "Trump is our president" on social media.  Varsity baseball coach and social studies teacher Justin Kucera said Walled Lake school district officials hauled him into a closed-door meeting after he indicated his support for President Trump's speech to reopen schools.  He told the Washington Free Beacon the Walled Lake Western principal and district superintendent gave him an ultimatum: be fired or resign.

Despicable Behavior Of Today's Academicians.  The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans.  The study found:  "The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot.  In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were."  For political reasons, the authors of the study sought its retraction.

West Virginia U. Police Chief Faces Calls for Firing over Pro-Police Flag in Home.  The police chief at West Virginia University was forced to apologize after students noticed a "thin blue line" American flag honoring police on display in his home during a Zoom video conference.  The chief apologized to the community after acknowledging the "hurt" his flag caused.  According to a report by Campus Reform, West Virginia University Chief W.P. Chedester apologized last week in response to the outrage that erupted after students noticed a "thin blue line" American flag on display in Chedester's home during a video conference.  The American flag with a blue stripe was created to honor police officers.

'Conservatism is racism' claim promoted by George Washington University's diversity office.  Students attending George Washington University are being encouraged to read an anti-racism syllabus that casts conservatism as "incompatible" with Black Americans who seek freedom.  The university pulled a Google document containing the syllabus this week and its Office of Diversity ignored inquiries when contacted by The Washington Free Beacon.  Writer Chrissy Clark detailed the office's "Solidarity Resource Syllabus," which includes "Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same," by San Francisco State University Robert Smith.

Marquette incoming freshman says [her] admission was threatened over pro-Trump video.  An incoming freshman at Marquette University said the Milwaukee school threatened to cancel her admission after she posted a TikTok video expressing support for President Trump — and that she has been threatened for it, according to a report.  Samantha Pfefferle shared the video — titled "When the libs find their way to your page" — in which she dances along with captions such as "When people see that I support Trump," "Then try to hate on me" and "And think I'll change my views," The College Fix reported.

UMass Lowell Nursing Dean Reportedly Fired After Saying 'Everyone's Life Matters' in Email.  The cancel culture that is rampant on American college campuses right now has just claimed another victim.  A nursing dean at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, has reportedly been fired after saying in an email that "everyone's life matters."  Where does this end? [...] In one of the most disturbing aspects of this case, as noted by Professor Turley, if you go to the university's web page about Dean Leslie Neal Boylan, it is blank.  She has already been erased.

Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings [are] not biased against blacks.  Michigan State University leaders have successfully pressured Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation after the Graduate Employees Union launched a campaign to oust him from his role.  This came after the union, which represents teaching and research assistants, crawled through years of blog posts and interviews Hsu had conducted and criticized him for sharing content on genetic differences among different races.  But the main thrust to oust Hsu came because the professor touted Michigan State research that found police are not more likely to shoot African-Americans.

Priest Canceled for Preaching Solidarity Over Racial Division.  Father Daniel Moloney is the latest victim of cancel culture's inquisition against all who question the Black Lives Matter movement.  Moloney was forced out of his job as the Catholic chaplain of MIT last week after a university administrator deemed his writings on the death of George Floyd "deeply disturbing" and the Archdiocese of Boston asked him to resign.

Vermont Principal Put On Leave For Not Agreeing With Black Lives Matters.  We have yet another teacher suspended or put on leave for merely expressing her opinion of Black Lives Matter on her personal Facebook page.  After Tiffany Riley wrote that she does not agree with the BLM, the Mount Ascutney School Board held an emergency meeting to declare that it is "uniformly appalled" by the exercise of free speech and Superintendent David Baker assured the public that they would be working on "mutually agreed upon severance package."  The case magnifies concerns over the free speech rights of teachers on social media or in their private lives.  As we have previously discussed (with an Oregon professor and a Rutgers professor), there remains an uncertain line in what language is protected for teachers in their private lives.  There were also controversies at the University of California and Boston University, where there have been criticism of such a double standard, even in the face of criminal conduct. [...] Some intolerant statements against students are deemed free speech while others are deemed hate speech or the basis for university action.  There is a lack of consistency or uniformity in these actions which turn on the specific groups left aggrieved by out-of-school comments.  There is also a tolerance of faculty and students tearing down fliers and stopping the speech of conservatives.  Indeed, even faculty who assaulted pro-life advocates was supported by faculty and lionized for her activism. [...] This is not about BLM. It is about free speech.

Ivy League Professor Says Intimidation Campaigns Gaining Ground On Campus.  Cornell University law professor William Jacobson thought he had grown callous to petitions for his ouster.  Activists — including students, faculty, and alumni — have called for his firing on numerous occasions since he launched the popular conservative website Legal Insurrection in 2008, but the campaign against him has taken personal attacks to new levels in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody.  "On [the Black Lives Matter] issue, you cannot deviate one iota or they will try to get you kicked out of the school, they will falsely accuse you of being racist, they will do a 'name and shame' campaign against you," Jacobson told the Washington Free Beacon.  "It's been a problem for multiple decades in academia."  BLM supporters, in a coordinated effort with the Black Law Student Association, Cornell alumni, and law school faculty, are calling on the school to sack Jacobson for publicly critiquing BLM's ideology.

There's an effort to get me fired at Cornell for criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement.  There is an effort underway to get me fired at Cornell Law School, where I've worked since November 2007, or if not fired, at least denounced publicly by the school.  Ever since I started Legal Insurrection in October 2008, it's been an awkward relationship given the overwhelmingly liberal faculty and atmosphere.  Living as a conservative on a liberal campus is like being the mouse waiting for the cat to pounce.  For over 12 years, the Cornell cat did not pounce.  Though there were frequent and aggressive attempts by outsiders to get me fired, including threats and harassment, it always came from off campus.

Cornell law professor says calls for his firing over protest criticism almost 'totalitarian'.  Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson said he's "never seen" anything like the backlash he's facing from some students and staff at his school, who are calling for him to be fired for blog posts he wrote that fact-checked and criticized elements of the George Floyd-related protests.  "This is so far beyond political correctness," the tenured professor said Thursday [6/11/2020] in an exclusive interview on "The Ingraham Angle."  "This is almost a totalitarian type of mentality that everything you say and everything you do is watched and, if you don't tow the party line completely, you're ostracized."

Thank you for your support in this time of cultural purge.  This isn't a controversy I sought out.  They came after me, I didn't come after them.  All I ever asked from Cornell Law School was to let me do my job in the building and on the campus, and to otherwise leave me alone.  But being left alone no longer is an option.  In these cases, where someone is isolated and doesn't have a platform, groveling is the outcome the bullies have come to expect.  That's not me, however, so I defended myself the only way I could — by casting sunlight on what was happening to me.

Illinois teacher says term 'white privilege' is as offensive as N-word.  An Illinois school has launched an investigation after a teacher claimed "white privilege" was as offensive as the N-word, according to reports.  The Palatine High School teacher, who was not identified, prompted backlash when she said in since-deleted Facebook posts that calling out white privilege was racist, news station WGN-TV reported.  "I find the term 'white privilege' as racist as the N-word.  You have not walked in my shoes either so do not make assumptions about me and my so-called privilege," she reportedly wrote.  The educator, who teaches social studies, apparently then went on to call Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton "race-baiters," the outlet said.

Ivanka Trump's commencement speech was canceled because social justice is a disease.  Academia is where the absolute horror called "social justice" multiplies, so it was only predictable that White House adviser Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president, would be the latest casualty of that sick ideology.  A commencement address previously recorded by Trump was set to air Saturday at Wichita State Tech's graduation ceremony in Kansas.  She had been invited back in February to deliver some remarks, but on Thursday, an assistant professor at Wichita State University, the tech school's parent campus, wrote a whiny letter to faculty about how "horrified and disgusted" she was by Trump's scheduled appearance.

University suspends professor for criticizing Barack Obama, Kamala Harris in tweets.  "You now have to prove you're not guilty instead of them proving that you are."  That's what a conservative instructor told The College Fix in an exclusive interview Monday [5/18/2020], hours after his university suspended him from teaching scheduled summer classes because of his tweets.  John Tieso is already considering legal action against the local news station that first connected his Twitter account to his adjunct professor job at Catholic University of America.  He hasn't ruled out suing the university, either.  According to the professor, WUSA9 went digging for dirt on him after it saw one of his tweets.

Graduation canceled...except for 'students of color' and 'LGBTQIA+' students.  St. Olaf College in Minnesota plans to host three virtual graduation ceremonies for different groups of minority students, while others must wait until next year to celebrate their completion of college.  "Self-identified domestic students of color, international students and LGBTQIA+ students" at the Minnesota school will receive their own virtual graduation ceremonies at the conclusion of this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, per an administrative email.  Meanwhile, graduation for the rest of the class of 2020 has been "rescheduled for a date in late May/early June of 2021," according to the school's website.  The three virtual graduation ceremonies for students in minority groups were announced by and will be hosted through the Taylor Center for Equity and Inclusion.

College plans virtual graduation, but only for minorities.  A liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, will conduct a virtual graduation ceremony this year because of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.  But not for all students.  Only if they are "students of color, international students and LGBTQIA+."

Baylor U. Denies Official Recognition for Turning Point USA Chapter.  Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has denied official recognition for the Turning Point USA club on campus.  The school has not provided any reasoning for its decision.  According to the students who have been trying to get their TPUSA club off the ground for months, Baylor has provided little communication and hasn't explained its decision to deny recognition for the club.

Lawsuit: U. of North Texas Prof Fired for Saying 'Microaggressions' Are 'Garbage'.  A professor at the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom that he was fired for saying that "microaggressions" are "garbage."  A "microaggression," in the language of left-wing academia, is a small and often unintentional slight that allegedly contains prejudicial judgments.  According to a report by The College Fix, Professor Nathaniel Hiers of the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit that he was fired from his position as a full-time math professor over his criticism of the concept of "microaggressions."

Recording a video with your smartphone?  Sacramento State wants you to get permission first.  California State University-Sacramento is considering penalties up to expulsion for students who record audio or video on campus without prior permission, drawing alarm from press freedom and First Amendment groups.  The draft policy, already referred along by the Faculty Senate's executive committee, applies content-based restrictions to a host of depictions, including productions by film students that simulate sexual assault, drug use or "activities involving a weapon."  While a Sacramento State spokesperson told the student newspaper that the draft would not cover students simply posting video on social media, the wording is broad enough to cover that activity.

UChicago coed threatened with violence for saying socialism more dangerous than coronavirus.  Current death toll due to coronavirus: more than 3,000 and counting.  Current death toll due to socialism:  roughly 100 million and counting.  Evita Duffy, a self-described conservative Hispanic woman, writes in an op-ed in the Chicago Maroon, the University of Chicago's student newspaper, about what happened after she pointed out how socialism is more dangerous than the coronavirus: [...] Duffy had participated in the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics' social media campaign on the importance of voting.  The institute gave students a prompt, "I vote because," and then students filled in a whiteboard giving their reasons.  A parade of students predictably proffered a litany of progressive responses, such as "medicare for all," "universal health care shouldn't be considered a radical idea" and "children shouldn't be kept in cages."

Virginia School Tells Students to Quit Flying "Offensive" US Flags from Vehicles.  So the Virginia high school students formed a caravan of vehicles with US flags when they drove to school the next day.

Virginia High Schoolers Told Not to Display American Flags on Their Vehicles — It Backfires.  Students were told not to fly the American flag on their vehicles at a Virginia High School this week because the flag is potentially disruptive and offensive.  What?  Last time I checked a little patriotism was a good thing unless you ask an America-hating liberal.

These 10 Colleges Are Ranked 'Worst of the Worst' for Curbing Free Speech.  The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group dedicated to standing up for free-speech rights on U.S. college and university campuses, this week released its annual report chastising the Top 10 schools where it says those rights are most infringed.  Among the schools taken to task in this year's report, "The 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2020," are Harvard University, a repeat offender, and six other East Coast schools.  The ninth annual report explains why each college or university made the list, ranging from Babson College, which fired a professor over an "innocuous" joke in a private social media post, to the University of Scranton, where the student government refused approval for the startup of a student chapter of a national organization, Turning Point USA, because the group supports conservative causes.

Academics are trying to get my paper retracted — and some of them haven't even read it.  In late December I published a paper in the academic journal Philosophical Psychology defending the study of race differences in intelligence.  This topic arouses strong emotions.  But I am a philosopher, and the job of philosophers is to confront issues dispassionately, guided only by reason and evidence.  This activity may lead us to question orthodoxies and challenge taboos, but that is what philosophy is all about.  Or at least it's supposed to be.  Some philosophers were very unhappy that my paper had been published.  They began attacking it, the journal and me on social media.  In most cases, it was clear that these critics had not actually read what outraged them so much.  They criticized me for ignoring issues that the paper discussed at length, and they attacked me for saying things I never said.

Yale Kills Popular Art History Course over Study of White, Male Artists.  Yale University announced this week that it is killing off a popular art history course after students claimed that they were "uneasy" over the course's focus on white male artists.  According to a report from Yale Daily News, Yale University announced this week that the popular course, "Introduction to Art History:  Renaissance to the Present," will no longer be offered.

Freedom of Speech No More?  [Scroll down]  At Berkeley, "war is peace," "freedom is slavery," and "ignorance is strength."  But things go from bad to worse when we arrive at Evergreen State College in Washington.  During the spring of 2017, the little college in the woods was transformed into the national headquarters of the LGBTKGB.  For years, Evergreen has held a "Day of Absence" event, where minority students and faculty stay off campus to show just how much they contribute to the university.  Around the same time that Berkeley was being torn apart by protests, the script was flipped at Evergreen:  "students of color" demanded that whites stay off campus for the Day of Absence.

American colleges are veering into academic 'police state' territory.  The assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice just issued a statement reminding that America is not a "police state," and neither should be the college campuses that dot the landscape of this country.  The very fact the DOJ has to release this statement shows how very far America's freedoms have fallen. [...] And in a statement on the DOJ website, Dreiband elaborated with this:  "The United States of America is not a police state.  Repressive speech codes are the indecent hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes.  They have absolutely no place in our country, and the First Amendment outlaws all tyrannical policies, practices and acts that abridge the freedom of speech."  Yet college campuses, with increasing frequency, have in fact, in some instances, become breeding grounds for police state-like hits on the First Amendment.

The Era of 'Good' Fascism?  The university is usually the canary in the mine of bad ideas and worse customs, and their fascistic view of the future has already arrived.  Incoming students on many campuses are asked to select the proper racial background of their future roommates; if students can practice such racial segregation, will they soon be free to state which particular ethnic or racial background they do not prefer to associate with? [...] The First Amendment is already curtailed on campus by "hate speech" codes.  If a student is accused of sexual harassment or assault, he will quickly learn that the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments do not really apply to the accused at most colleges.  Try giving a lecture in opposition to radical climate change theory, late-term abortion, or affirmative action on a college campus, or wearing a MAGA hat in the campus "free-speech zone."

Heather Mac Donald on confrontation with student protesters: 'Welling tide' of hatred consuming college campuses.  Conservative speaker and author Heather Mac Donald said Thursday [12/19/2019] that there is a "welling tide" of "hatred" consuming college campuses.  Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Ainsley Earhardt, Mac Donald recounted her recent experience coming under fire from student protesters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.  "I was there to say to students: 'you are the most privileged individuals in human history.  You have unfettered opportunity to learn," she explained.  Mac Donald said that 50 minutes into her talk, half the people in the auditorium stood up and started chanting 'my oppression is not a delusion,' 'your racism is not welcome,' 'your sexism is not welcome,' 'your homophobia is not welcome'... 'you are not welcome...'  "So, I addressed what had just happened and said this is a perfect demonstration of the closed-mindedness that is being cultivated by adults, frankly, on campuses.  And then proceeded with my talk to a half-empty room," she explained.

Aggressive, frenzied mob attacks conservative students, destroys their display.  It's not uncommon for conservative students to face pushback on campuses when they table and tout their principles, but an incident Thursday [11/21/2019] at Binghamton University appears to be one of the more extreme examples in recent times — and the frenzied attack was caught on video.  Cellphone footage obtained by Young America's Foundation shows that a joint tabling event by the College Republicans and Turning Point USA chapters at the State University of New York at Binghamton descended into chaos Thursday afternoon as a swarm of students surrounded their conservative peers.

Intellectual conservatism group denied: may 'cause stress to the student body'.  Two female conservative students who recently tried to obtain official club status for an Intercollegiate Studies Institute chapter at Hobart and William Smith Colleges had their request denied, reportedly over concerns it may "cause stress to the student body."  The nonprofit Intercollegiate Studies Institute explores intellectual conservatism, such as free markets and Constitutional liberty, and supports campus chapters across the nation.  It prioritizes educating minds over campus activism to allow students to learn about principles they might not hear from their typical college professors.

Students want UNCC to fire security head due to past work at Guantanamo Bay.  Former commander of Guantanamo Bay John Bogdan is now the associate vice chancellor for safety and security at UNCC.  While Bogdan was in charge of the notorious prison, he came under serious scrutiny.  Channel 9 found a letter to a federal judge from military attorneys representing Guantanamo prisoners.  In the letter, the judge is asked to examine whether Bogdan is fit for the job.  They said he installed listening devices disguised as smoke detectors and instituted degrading bodily searches to harass prisoners.  "The things he's been accused of doing, that's not something you want on your college campus," UNCC senior Greg Mateo said.  "He does create fear by his presence."

Reagan economist's speech shut down by protesters at Binghamton University; two arrested.  A speech by former Reagan administration official Arthur Laffer was shut down by protesters at Binghamton University in New York on Monday, resulting in two arrests.  The university issued a statement condemning the individuals who disrupted and ultimately shut down a lecture by Mr. Laffer, who served as an economic adviser to the late President Ronald Reagan and was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump.  "The University is incredibly disappointed with the events that happened tonight, particularly given that demonstrators were provided an adjacent lecture hall to engage in a counter discussion," the statement read.  "The protestors chose instead to infringe on the expressive activity of others and to prevent those who wished to hear the speaker from doing so.["]

College Student President Threatened With Impeachment for Inviting Donald Trump, Jr. to Speak.  There is no more insufferable authoritarian lout in the world than a woke college student.  I feel the same way about them that I felt about some of the politically active hippies when I was in college: you want to grab them by the shoulders and try to shake some sense into them.  It wouldn't do any good.  They're woke and you're not and that makes them oblivious to reason and the truth.  At the University of Florida, the sins of the father can apparently be visited upon the son.  The student body president is being threatened with impeachment for inviting Donald Trump, Jr. to speak on campus.

University of Florida visit by Trump Jr. has another president facing impeachment.  The student body president of the University of Florida is facing his own impeachment threat for allegedly spending $50,000 in student fees to invite Donald Trump Jr. to speak at the Gainesville campus.  The university's Student Senate passed a resolution Tuesday to oust Michael Murphy for malfeasance and abuse of power over the alleged misuse of public funds.  More than 100 students and alumni signed the formal resolution for his impeachment, The Tampa Bay Times reported.

University of Virginia Cancels 21-Gun Salute to Appease Snowflake Students.  The University of Virginia canceled the 21-gun salute portion of its annual Veterans Day ceremony — citing gun violence.  James Ryan, the university's president, posted a statement on Facebook explaining that there were concerns about firing weapons on school property in light of recent school shootings. [...] As you might imagine — the outrage among veterans and military supporters has been severe.

'Abolish ICE': Protesters shut down event with Thomas Homan at UPenn.  An event at the University of Pennsylvania featuring former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Thomas Homan as a speaker was shut down by protesters before it even started last week.  Students chanted, "Go home, Homan," and held signs that read, "Abolish ICE," as Mr. Homan sat alongside former Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Tulante and former ICE Public Advocate Andrew Lorenzen-Strait on a panel called, "Detention and Deportation from Obama to Trump," at the university's Perry World House on Wednesday [10/30/2019].  According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, the speakers sat and watched the disruption for 15 minutes before an organizer finally announced that the event had been canceled.

Nevada Student Arrested Knocking Over Turning Point USA Table.  A University of Nevada-Reno student has been charged with property destruction and disturbing the peace after knocking over a Turning Point USA table on campus.  The TPUSA activists were promoting an upcoming speech on campus by the group's founder Charlie Kirk when Kevin Edsel began cursing at them and flipped the table over.

North Carolina school officials cancel football game after cheerleaders' Trump 2020 banner.  A week after authorities placed a North Carolina high school cheerleading squad on probation for displaying a pro-Trump banner before a football game, school officials abruptly canceled the school's Friday night [9/20/2019] game due to safety concerns. [...] A Twitter post made Friday afternoon after game was called off said that a rally to support the cheerleaders was "still happening" across from the school, even though the game was canceled.

School cancels football game days after cheerleaders are punished for pro-Trump banner.  A North Carolina school district nixed a Friday night high school football game because of security concerns, days after cheerleaders there were placed on probation for unveiling a pro-Trump banner.  Stanly County Schools said it canceled the North Stanly High game because it had received "additional information that could compromise safety measures our schools have in place for sporting events."  The district did not specify the nature of that information.

Duke University student government rejects Christian group over LGBTQ stance.  Duke University's student government has rejected a national Christian organization as an official student group because its policy excludes LGBTQ individuals from leadership positions.

Leftists Upset Because A Conservative Dares To Speak At An Ohio College.  Around 200 protestors marched outside of Galbreath Chapel at Ohio University to protest right to work laws and a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation speaker who gave a speech at campus on Monday, September 16, 2019.  The protest came in response to Ohio University scheduling William Messenger, staff attorney at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, as a campus speaker.  Based on the protest's event on Facebook,having someone like Messenger speak gives a platform for a cause that "would surely be filled with lies and deception."

The Editor says...
I suspect that most of the lectures at Ohio University are "filled with lies and deception."

High School Cheerleaders Disciplined for Posing with 'Trump 2020' Banner.  A group of high school cheerleaders in North Carolina were placed on probation after being photographed with a large banner that read "Trump 2020" at a football game, according to the New York Post.  The incident took place on August 30th at an "American Night"-themed game at North Stanly High School.  In the photo, seven cheerleaders and two male students were pictured with the banner and wearing patriotic outfits, as part of the game's theme.

High school cheerleaders are put on probation for the rest of the year for displaying a Trump 2020 banner.  Cheerleaders from a North Carolina high school have been put on probation after they held up a flag in support of President Donald Trump before a football game.  The North Stanly High School cheerleading squad was placed on probation on Monday for waving the Trump 2020 banner last month during a home game.  Members of the squad posed for photos with the banner on August 30 before the game in Stanly County, which is about 50 miles northeast of Charlotte.

Wesleyan University President Insists 'Safe Spaces' Promote 'Intellectual Diversity'.  The president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, argued in favor of safe spaces in a recent op-ed, suggesting that they "promote intellectual diversity" and remove "the threat of harassment or intimidation." Campus climates across the country after the spread of safe spaces, however, have shown an increase in sensitivity, hostility, and Groupthink among students, leaving conservative students to bear the brunt of "safe space policies."

Why Victimhood and Fear Won't Preserve Liberty.  Thirteen years ago, I filed a lawsuit on behalf of two brave young women — Ruth Malhotra and Orit Sklar.  They were students at the Georgia Tech, they'd faced unconstitutional censorship at their school, and they sued to challenge four blatantly unconstitutional policies, the school's speech code, its speech zone, its student-fee-funding policy, and a "safe space" training program that explicitly condemned traditional Christianity.  If you think outrage mobs are new, consider what happened next.  Ruth and Orit faced a torrent of campus hate.

College To Pay Students For Violating Their Free Speech.  The University of Florida (UF) agreed yesterday to pay their Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) student chapter $66,000, and amend their school policy to allow conservative groups to have access to more financial resources.  In December of last year, the UF student YAF chapter filed a lawsuit against the school for allegedly violating students' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Our Free Speech Crisis.  Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racist microagressions:  "America is a melting pot"; "America is the land of opportunity"; "Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough"; and "There is only one race, the human race."  The latter statement is seen as denying the individual as a racial/cultural being.  Then there's "I believe the most qualified person should get the job."  That's "racist" speech because it gives the impression that "people of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race." Other seemingly innocuous statements deemed unacceptable are:  "When I look at you, I don't see color," or "Affirmative action is racist."  Perhaps worst of all is, "Where are you from, or where were you born?"

Democrat Montana Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill.  The Democrat Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock, vetoed a bill that would have expanded free speech rights on campus across the state.  According to a report by Campus Reform, Montana Governor shut down a campus free speech bill that would have expanded free expression rights for Minnesota college students.  The bill, which was introduced by Republican state representatives, would have outlawed free speech zones that restrict where students are permitted to engage in activist speech.

Anarchists at UT Austin Threaten Incoming Freshmen With Doxxing if They Join Conservative Groups.  Blatant political intimidation.  Is the school going to do anything about this?

Anarchist group at UT Austin threatens to dox incoming freshmen if they join conservative campus clubs.  Earlier this month an anarchist group that consists of UT Austin students called the Autonomous Student Network shared a tweet threatening to dox students who considered joining the Young Conservatives of Texas and Turning Point USA during freshman orientation.

Alabama rep branded 'white supremacist' for pushing free speech bill.  Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Thursday banning free speech zones on publicly-funded state campuses.  House Bill 498, sponsored by Republican Rep. Matt Fridy, requires that outdoor areas of publicly-funded Alabama campuses are public forums, effectively eliminating their "free speech zones."  "The institution shall not create free speech zones or other designated outdoor areas of campus in order to limit or prohibit protected expressive activities," the bill states.  In addition to banning free speech zones, the bill also states that any public college or university in the state cannot deny benefits to student organizations based on their "sincerely held beliefs."

University ignores its own lawyer, refuses to recognize conservative club.  For the Young America's Foundation chapter at Santa Clara University, the third time was not the charm.  The administration at the Jesuit school dealt another blow to the conservative student group when a vice provost rejected its appeal of the student government's two refusals to recognize the chapter, YAF said Friday.  By finding that YAF did not face discrimination for its political views, in spite of remarks by student senators, the university appears to be ignoring its own lawyer.

Crenshaw applauds Texas free speech law, blasts 'coddled' students.  Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for signing a campus free speech law banning so-called free speech zones that allow only certain viewpoints to be expressed on college campuses across the state.  "The First Amendment is under constant attack by those who shut down ideas they can't contend with," Crenshaw said Monday [6/10/2019].  "The University is a place for students to grapple with new ideas and opinions, not be coddled."

Alabama Legislature Bans 'Free Speech Zones' On College Campuses.  In a victory for the First Amendment on campus, a bill that will effectively ban "free speech zones" on Alabama college campuses passed last week.  According to a report by a local news outlet, the Alabama state legislature voted in favor of a bill that will ban "free speech zones" on college campuses in the state.  In recent years, many colleges have restricted the areas on campus where free expression is permitted by creating "free speech zones," which are areas on campus where students are supposed to go when they want to engage in free speech.  Breitbart News has reported extensively on the topic.  Recently, courts around the country have begun to strike down these policies as a violation of the First Amendment.

Diversity and The Death of Free Speech.  This is an age of trigger warnings and safe spaces.  The notion of free speech is an illusion.  This is especially true on college campuses.  However, this wasn't always the case.  There was a time, not that long ago, when college students were encouraged to expand their minds further.  To do so, students were encouraged to open their minds, to consider and debate controversial opinions.  After all, the world is an unpredictable place, full of beliefs that are as divisive as they are varied.  College was designed to prepare you for the real world.  Please note that I use the word was for a very specific reason.  For millions of Americans, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press are inviolable principles.  An attack on any of these ideals is an attack on democracy.

While Democrats Search for Crumbs, This Too Will Pass Over.  Democrats and their Left appendages — the Mediacracy, Hollywood, and Broadway, academia — are suffused with totalitarian Leftist dogma, doctrine, and dominance.  A conservative cannot get hired beyond "spot work" in most of these fields, and will not get re-hired if too vocal about what he or she believes. [...] Thus, journalists speak to each other, and they all vote Democrat.  Hollywood, and Broadway award shows — Oscars, Emmys, Tonys — are dominated by virtue-signaling speeches condemning the President and mocking wholesome traditional American values.  At universities, free speech is shut down so completely that, beyond efforts to keep Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter off campus, the few conservative faculty who are hired need to keep their opinions to themselves for professional survival.

AP U.S. History textbook calls Trump "racist," questions his mental stability.  I have written repeatedly about the hard-left bias in the teaching of AP American History.  I finally got tired of writing such posts and abandoned the beat.  But now, I learn that, beginning in 2020, many Advanced Placement students will be using an American History textbook that suggests President Trump is mentally ill and that depicts him and many of his supporters as racists.  The book asserts that "[Trump's] not very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters."  What connected with a significant number of primary voters was Trump's strong opposition to illegal immigration and his concern over terrorists entering the U.S. The textbook effectively characterizes these concerns as "not very-hidden racism" and those who share them as racists.  This is controversial, to say the least.  I consider it slanderous.

Drawing the Line, At Last.  [Scroll down]  About 30 minutes into [Camille] Paglia's lecture, someone pulled a fire alarm, following the Middlebury precedent.  All 17 floors of the building where Paglia was speaking had to be evacuated into the nighttime streets of downtown Philadelphia, while protesters continued to chant:  "Trans lives matter!  We believe survivors!"  (The trans community apparently is allowed to use the "lives matter" trope without being accused of racism, unlike those naïfs who dared to suggest that "all lives matter" or "blue lives matter" during the height of the Black Lives Matter fury.)  On many other campuses, such tactics would have been greeted by either dead air from the administration or an expression of concern for the University of the Arts' wounded "survivors."  President David Yager, however, denounced the repressive mindset spreading from American campuses to the culture at large.  The suppression of speech "simply cannot be allowed to happen," he wrote in a campus-wide email the day after the shutdown.

Conservative views got prep-school student, 16, expelled, parents claim.  A Connecticut couple intends to sue their 16-year-old son's former prep school, alleging he was expelled for espousing conservative political views in class, according to a report.  Theodore and Sonia Mancini of West Hartford said their son, Michael Mancini, was "scrutinzed and tormented for his conservative views on subjects, views which he defended with facts," after a disagreement with students in English class at Cheshire Academy, the New Haven Register reported.  The teen disagreed with classmates who claimed William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" portrayed transgenderism in a positive light, saying it "was not historically accurate because up until the Twentieth Century that kind of behavior was frowned upon in England."

The Left Officially Loses its Mind.  This past Thursday night [4/11/2019], Daily Wire writer Michael Knowles came to speak at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).  A mob of thirty or so students and hangers-on heckled him, and one sprayed him with what proved to be a nontoxic substance.  While the campus police wrestled the student to the ground, his or her or "hir" colleagues chanted the lethal and long since discredited mantra, "Hands up, don't shoot."  For conservative speakers on college campuses, the disruption was business more or less as usual.  What was not usual, at least not in this part of the world, was the "official" response.  As quickly became clear, there are no "liberals" any more.  Their young have cowed them here and elsewhere into a cringing, uncritical embrace of the progressive menu du jour.  The missive UMKC chancellor Mauli Agrawal sent to the "campus community" after the event reads like a hostage letter.

New Hampshire teen forced to cover up Trump shirt, remove MAGA hat on school's 'patriotic day'.  A New Hampshire teenager said she felt ashamed and embarrassed when her high school principal reportedly told her she needed to cover up the "Make America Great Again" T-shirt and hat she wore for a patriotic celebration.  Ciretta Mackenzie, a freshman at Epping High School, told Boston 25 she had to borrow a friend's sweatshirt and took off the hat after being reprimanded for wearing the "MAGA" gear on Monday — which was "America Pride Day" at school.

Epping principal issues apology after student was told to cover Trump shirt.  The principal of Epping High School has apologized after a freshman was told to cover up her "Make America Great Again" Trump T-shirt earlier this week during the school's America Day.  In a letter addressed to the school community on Friday, Brian Ernest admitted his mistake when Ciretta MacKenzie was told to cover her shirt.  Ernest said he met with Ciretta's family and offered his apologies.

Conservative speaker who was assaulted by protester: 'This was a warning shot to conservatives'.  A conservative speaker who was assaulted by a protester Thursday [4/11/2019] while speaking about the differences between men and women says his attack was a "warning shot" by Leftists against conservatives and lambasted the university for allowing "political violence to fester on campus."  "I woke up this morning expecting an apology for being assaulted during a lecture that I was invited to give at the University of Missouri.  Instead, I was smeared baselessly as a bigot," Michael Knowles said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Friday.

Leftist Nastiness & Rage Know No Bounds.  Leftist mobs violently protest conservative campus speakers and harass conservatives such as Kirstjen Nielsen, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Pam Bondi, Mitch McConnell and Stephen Miller in public places. [...] Conservative students are shamed into silence on college campuses while their ideas are demonized in the surreal cause of promoting diversity and inclusiveness.  Leftist students vandalize pro-conservative posters and seek to eradicate tributes to conservatives — such as the efforts by students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to remove the name of Savannah native Justice Clarence Thomas from one of the campus buildings because he is "anti-woman." Anti-woman?  Just how crazed are these people?

No, the College Free-Speech Crisis Is Not a Right-Wing Conspiracy.  Do not be surprised when college presidents say, "I oppose free speech on college campuses," or law deans say that President Trump's executive order to require free speech on campuses is "unconstitutional."  The reason is simple:  college and university administrators and professors do not believe in free speech and do not wish to hear it in their institutions.  The opposition to free speech is a consequence of a different classification of speech in higher education:  There is correct speech, and there is hate speech.  Correct speech is about gender, racial, sexual, and ethnic oppression and victimhood, and the "social justice" initiatives to respond to it.  Any disagreement with either the analysis of oppression and victimhood or the solution is regarded as hate speech.  There is no intervening space for free speech.

College President Argues Against Free Speech on Campus.  Union College President David R. Harris recently penned an argument against free speech on college campuses, claiming that institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to manage speech by providing "constructive engagement," so that students can have an optimal learning experience.

Trump Free Speech Order [is] Already Working to Protect Students.  This past weekend I was speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Chicago.  During the question and answer session I had a student from Calumet College of St.  Joseph's in Whiting, Indiana raise his hand.  His question and his story were so compelling I had him come up on stage. [...] Our young man, Devin, shared the story about how he had been denied his request to start a TPUSA chapter on the Calumet campus because of a lack of interest on the part of the school and the related inability to get a faculty sponsor.  We are used to this at Turning Point.  Since our inception we have encountered difficulty in having our organization officially sanctioned on campuses across the country.

Christian conservative's talk on gender and marriage protested as 'hate speech' — at a Christian university.  Students at Baylor University are pushing to have Matt Walsh's speech on campus canceled.  Walsh is a Christian conservative writer for The Daily Wire and Baylor is a private Christian university in Waco, Texas.  Walsh was invited by Baylor's Young Americans for Freedom chapter to give a speech April 9 titled "The War On Reality:  Why the Left has set out to redefine life, gender and marriage."  Because of Walsh's well-known traditionally conservative opinions on the topics, some Baylor students started a petition to block the speech from happening.

Student files bias complaint against dorm roommate for watching Ben Shapiro video.  One evening last September, a Michigan State University student awoke from his nap to see his roommate sitting at his computer.  There was a video playing, and the student realized his roommate was watching a video of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.  The newly awoken student then took to his own computer to file a complaint with the administration's bias reporting system against his roommate for watching the Shapiro video.  "Ben Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African American community," the student wrote in his report against his roommate.  "I thought hate had no place on MSU's campus yet MSU has roomed me with someone who supports hate speach [sic]."

College student confronts teen wearing MAGA hat: 'It is a symbol of white supremacy'.  The police were summoned to Missouri Western State University when a black woman asked a white teen to remove his "Make America Great Again" hat.  On Friday [3/29/2019], university student Dossou Nidaye bumped heads with a campus police officer, upset that a visiting high school boy wore a MAGA hat, as reported by the campus newspaper, The Griffon News.  A video of Dossou's conversation with the officer was published by KMBC 9 News.  "It is a symbol of white supremacy.  I don't want to see that," she said.  "I wake up every day and I see my people getting killed — take that s*** off," she said.  "Let's all start wearing turbans and go to class and see how long it takes for them to come and attack us."

Berkeley law school dean:  Trump's free speech executive order is 'unconstitutional'.  In light of President Donald Trump's executive order on free speech, Erwin Chermerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law, and Howard Gillman, Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, penned an op-ed in which they state that the executive order does not help protect free speech on college campuses and that it is even "unconstitutional."  "[T]he order is so vague and ambiguous, it makes compliance by colleges and universities extremely difficult — and it is almost certainly unconstitutional," Chermerinsky and Gillmanwrote for the Los Angeles Times.

Berkeley Law School Dean Says Trump's Free Speech Executive Order is Unconstitutional.  It's a bit hard to take this from someone at Berkeley.  Has this dean seen what's been happening at his school in recent years?

President Trump Signs Executive Order on Campus Free Speech.  President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday requiring colleges and universities to uphold the First Amendment on campus if they want to receive federal research funding.  President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to protect free speech on college campuses.  The order calls for holding universities accountable "both for student outcomes and for student life on campus," by withholding federal research funding if a university or college does not agree to respect the First Amendment.

Trump tells universities to stop 'intimidation, pressure and abuse' of conservatives on campus or have their federal funding cut.  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday [3/21/2019] calculated to force universities to choose between restrictive on-campus speech codes and an annual gush of federal dollars.  'If a college or university doesn't allow you to speak, we will not give them money, it's very simple,' he announced in an East Room signing event, with conservative leaders and student activists gathered.

High School Teacher Suspended For Showing Fox News Documentary About Due Process In College.  A high school teacher in the wealthy suburban New York town of Bedford has been suspended for showing his students a Fox News documentary as part of a lesson plan to prepare them for college.  Mike Poplardo is an economics teacher at Fox Lane High School in Bedford.  In May of 2018, he spent two days on a "mini-unit" designed to prepare students for college.  During this lesson, he showed students the Fox News documentary titled "Fox News Reporting:  The Truth about Sex and College."

A Tale of Two Professors.  Last October 12, I related the persecution of University of Oklahoma law professor Brian McCall.  I have never met or spoken with professor McCall, but he is, by all accounts, as close to a saint as any of us is likely to meet in our lifetime.  This respected teacher and scholar was pressured into resigning from his position as associate dean for academic affairs.  Why?  Not because he did anything wrong.  He was deemed unworthy of holding an administrative position because he holds conservative views.  I'm not the only person to reach that conclusion.  The editorial board at the Oklahoman concluded "there's zero evidence McCall imposed his beliefs on others[.] ... McCall was targeted for being conservative and religiously devout."

If you love free speech, get acquainted with the Lindsay Shepherd case.  A great many people — including many strong advocates of free speech — have only a passing acquaintance with the Lindsay Shepherd matter.  This lack of awareness is unfortunate, because nothing more chillingly reveals the way in which universities are violating the free speech principle.

More Than 30 UT Students [Have Been] Doxxed for [the] Crime of Being Conservative.  More than 30 students at the University of Texas have been doxxed by a student antifa group, typically for the crime of joining conservative clubs or being spotted at lectures held by conservative speakers.  The doxxers — calling themselves Austin Autonomous Media (AAM) — are a small collective of UT students.  Since fall 2018, AAM members have snuck into conservative club meetings, taken photos of attendees, and posted students' names and emails online.  The AAM also typically posts students' phone numbers and employers.  For example, one young woman was doxxed for the crime of attending a pro-Kavanaugh rally.  "Call [employer redacted] to get her fired:  (512) XXX-XXX" the post said.

The Shocking Speech Wheaton College Doesn't Want You to Hear.  This is the tale of two lectures at Wheaton College, a Christian evangelical college in the suburbs of Chicago.  One was given in September 2017 and the other in November 2018.  Though only a year apart, the responses to the two presentations were universes apart.  The reaction is very telling and tragic for those who believe that a Christian education is different than a secular one.  The first speech was given by Dr. George Yancy, a philosophy professor at Emory University (huge thanks to Jamie Dean at World Magazine for excellent article on this and uncovering actual audio recording).  It was sponsored by Wheaton's Philosophy department and held in the esteemed Billy Graham Center on campus.  It was entitled:  "A Post-Racial America?  White Gazes and Black Bodies".  It can only be described as an expletive-laced, pornographic, racist, anti-biblical screed.  His theme?  "To be white is to be racist." [...] There was no backlash from Wheaton's leadership.  There were no letters sent out by any staff or student government leaders denouncing him or raising concerns about the hostile, f-bomb-laden speech.

Univ women's center removes student's blog because it 'challenges' pro-choice view.  The University of Idaho Women's Center removed a pro-life student's blog post because it "challenge[d]" the center's views.  Only after intense public pressure did the university apologize for the censorship and the women's center republished the post.

Young America's Foundation Scores Major Free Speech Victory Over UC Berkeley.  Young America's Foundation scored a major free speech victory Monday over the University of California-Berkeley.  After losing a lawsuit filed by YAF, the university must pay the organization $70,000 and rescind policies that discriminate against conservative speakers on campus.  "This landmark victory for free expression means UC Berkeley can no longer wantonly treat conservative students as second-class members of its community while ignoring the guaranteed protections of the First Amendment," YAF released in a statement.  "No longer can UC Berkeley place a 3:00 p.m. curfew on conservative speech.  No longer can UC Berkeley ban advertisements for Young America's Foundation-sponsored campus lectures.  And no longer can UC Berkeley relegate conservative speakers to remote or inconvenient lecture halls on campus while giving leftist speakers access to preferred locations."

Student diversity officials promise impeachment of VP who wrote 'illegal aliens'.  The Diversity and Inclusion Committee in Emporia State University's student government is pledging to impeach a student official for refusing to resign after using the phrase "illegal aliens" on Facebook.  In the now-deleted public post, Vice President Michaela Todd explained why she was voting for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach, who eventually lost the race.  One of his platform planks was to "put Kansans first, not illegal aliens," by reducing taxpayer funding of welfare used by such immigrants.  Todd later apologized, saying she didn't know "illegal aliens" was offensive to some people.

Middle school apologizes after student advised to turn GOP elephant shirt inside out.  A Florida mother says she received an apology from Kirby-Smith Middle School officials after an employee told her son to turn a GOP elephant shirt inside out.  "Spirit Week" at the Jacksonville school recently inspired one student to show off his conservative credentials, but the outfit didn't sit well with a staff member.  The family, who spoke to local reporters on condition of anonymity, said the shirt was described as a possible dress code violation.  "It was Nerd Day, so he wanted to be a Republican nerd," the student's mother said Oct. 12.

Principal 'replaced' after forcing student to remove 'Trump' jersey.  A North Carolina high school principal has been "replaced" after she forced a student to remove a Donald Trump baseball-style jersey.  The theme of last Friday's Harnett Central High School's football game was patriotism, yet somehow Principal Cindy Gordon thought the jersey was not appropriate for the theme.  WRAL reports Gordon told the student wearing the jersey that it was "causing parents to complain."

High School Makes Student Remove Trump Jersey at 'Patriot Day' Football Game.  A student in North Carolina was forced to remove a red, white, and blue USA sports jersey with Donald Trump's name on it that he wore to a patriot-themed school football game, according to reports.  The student's father, Mike Collins, slammed Harnett Central High School in Angier, North Carolina, for forcing his 18-year-old son to remove the Trump jersey.  Saying that the school's reason for its action was ridiculous, according to ABC 11.

HS Principal Boots Student from Football Game for Wearing 'Trump 45' Jersey After Liberals Complain.  A Harnett Central High School student was asked to remove his Trump 45 jersey at a Friday night football game.  Angry liberals complained to the principal who then told the boy to remove the jersey.  The student felt embarrassed that he could not wear a jersey supporting President Trump at the football game.

Kavanaugh flyers torn down, students threatened with violence.  A conservative student group at the University of Cincinnati posted pro-Kavanaugh flyers on campus, which were later torn down.  Students responded on Twitter to the group that posted the flyers with threats of physical violence.

The Politics of Hate and the Soul of Democracy.  The campus has become the Bonneville proving grounds of leftist violence.  At present, they have a monopoly.  They control who can speak and who can listen, and they receive little to no disciplinary action by perverted administrators who share their politics and salivate over their behavior, yearning to be out in the streets ganging up on unarmed conservatives.  Having a just cause gives moral license.  That's what is taught on campus.  Redeem your guilt of white privilege by going into the street and being baptized in hooliganism, feeling the "agro" of a soccer rioter while smashing your way to social justice.

Students Demand Professor Be Fired After He Champions Due Process, Says 'Accusers Sometimes Lie'.  Nearly 100 students at the University of Southern California attended a rally at noon on Monday demanding a tenured professor be fired after he sent a reply-all email last Thursday [9/27/2018] to the student body noting that "accusers sometimes lie."  "If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process than you are now," emailed Professor James Moore.

My Critical 'Critical Theory' Theory.  Everyone is buzzing today about the revelation of the three academics — James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian — who placed over a dozen complete hoax articles with various premier "cultural studies" or "identity studies" academic journals.  All three professors, it should be noted, consider themselves left of center, as does Alan Sokal, the New York University physicist who placed a hoax article about the supposed subjectivity of physics in the postmodernist journal Social Text 20 years ago.  (Yet somehow Social Text stayed in business instead of closing down in embarrassment, as they should have.)

Faced with trustee candidate who promotes free speech, Yale accidentally excludes his endorsements.  A Yale University alum who is running to become a trustee thought he'd get a boost from alumni endorsements published in the September/October issue of the alumni magazine.  There's only one problem:  The magazine unexpectedly didn't publish any "class notes."  James Kirchick needs about 2,000 more signatures by 11:59 p.m.  Monday in order to qualify for the ballot, he told The College Fix in a phone interview last week.  The conservative journalist and author of The End of Europe lost his best shot at publicity with rank-and-file alumni owing to the alleged goof by Yale Alumni Magazine, which operates as a department of the university.

There's Poisoning the Well, and Then There's Borking the Well.  Once upon a time, Elon University was a place that encouraged freedom of ideas and vigorous debate.  But as ideological homogeneity has prevailed upon "the most beautiful campus in America," that time is now past.  The school that welcomed Margaret Thatcher to dedicate its student center in 1995 would probably have the Iron Lady arrested for trespassing were she still with us.  In good conscience, I can no longer contribute to a school that has embraced intellectual intolerance and has abandoned reason for capricious "feelings."  Neither can I endorse my college when it continues to have among its staff a gleeful provider of resources for domestic terrorism.  But still, I held out hope that sanity there might yet prevail.  And then it was announced that Anita Hill is coming to speak at Elon University.

California High School Kicks Student Out of Class for Wearing NRA Shirt.  One school year has started off with confrontation for two teens in California.  The confrontation wasn't between students but between a teacher and students — over NRA (National Rifle Association) T-shirts.  A teacher at Lodi High School in Lodi, California, reportedly kicked a student out of history class for wearing an NRA T-shirt.  The teacher also lectured the sophomore and another classmate this past Friday about why guns are bad, according to CBS Sacramento. [...] "She was basically being attacked in class," said mother Charlene Craig of her daughter's treatment.  "He basically yelled at her, telling her that she would be writing an essay if she disagreed with him."

Colleges: A Force for Evil.  A recent Brookings Institution poll suggests that nearly half of college students believe that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.  Of course, it is.  Fifty-one percent of students think that it's acceptable to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree.  About 20 percent of students hold that it's acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking.  Over 50 percent say colleges should prohibit speech and viewpoints that might offend certain people.

College hangs up on student asking about free speech policy.  A student at Lone Star College-Tomball says school officials stonewalled him when he asked them to clarify the school's new "Free Speech Zone" policy, even hanging up on him twice.  Quade Lancaster was attempting to understand exactly what sorts of expressive activity students will be required to conduct within the zones, and whether speaking outside the zones could result in disciplinary consequences.

School Ordered To Shell Out $25K, Give Formal Apology to Pro-Trump Student Wrongfully Suspended.  The left used to claim to stand for free speech and diversity of opinions — yes, even controversial ones.  Nowadays, it looks like they've done a complete 180 on those principles.  Falling short of being truly "liberal," the left seems to be drawn toward repression, and all too often tries to silence and punish anybody who has a view they don't like.

School banned T-shirt, now must pay kid $25,000.  I don't know how much Addison Barnes paid for his "Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co." T-shirt but it is the best investment in his young life.  The 18-year-old wore it to school in Hillsboro, Oregon, on January 19.  Vice Principal Amanda Ryan-Fear freaked out and ordered him to cover the shirt.  He did, but he later changed his mind.  She suspended Barnes for 10 days for defiance.  In May, he sued.  U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman found the school district couldn't justify its censorship.

Two Stanford Psychologists On Gender Compliment Patrol.  Because complimenting students the wrong way can perpetuate gender bias, they say.  "Although 'Girls are as good as boys at math' explicitly expresses equality, we predict it could nevertheless suggest that boys have more raw talent," Eleanor K. Chestnut and Ellen M. Markman write in Cognitive Science:  A Multidisciplinary Journal.  "In statements with this subject-complement structure, the item in the complement position serves as the reference point and is thus considered more typical and prominent."

Progressive Child Abuse in the Schools.  Why does the left continue to ban conservative books?  Why do conservatives speakers who come to college campuses to speak increasingly receive such huge pushback from so many students and faculty?  We as a country need to come to the realization that most people on the left, in particular the overwhelming leftist majority within the academic field, have reached the misguided conclusion that there is no longer any room left for debate.  Shutting down any type of free speech contrary to leftist group-"think" is becoming part of the new accepted norm.  Civil discourse is becoming extinct.

The War on Curiosity.  Last March, protestors at Middlebury College in Vermont sent professor Allison Stanger to the hospital with a neck injury.  Stanger's crime?  She had the nerve to ask the protestors to allow the conservative/libertarian author Dr. Charles Murray to speak, and then to engage in a debate after his speech.  According to news accounts, after about 20 minutes of protestors shouting down Murray's ability to speak, "Professor Stanger then took the microphone and asked the students, 'Can you just listen for one minute.'  Many in the audience replied, 'no.'  She added that, 'I spent a lot of time preparing hard questions.'  Finally, she conceded that, 'You're not going to let us speak.'"  Stanger is a liberal professor who chose to combat Murray's ideas with words, not violence or the heckler's veto.  This was simply unacceptable to the protestors.

Wisconsin Court Tells University to Reinstate Conservative Professor.  Political science professor John McAdams is going to be reinstated at Marquette University following a victory at the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  He had been suspended by the school for writing a blog post critical of a graduate student.  The case started in 2014, when McAdams wrote a post criticizing a female student instructor for trying to shut down a debate about gay marriage.  He used it as an example of liberals suppressing free speech.  Yet, his post opened the instructor up to threats because he included a link to her personal website and her email address.

Students required to submit copy of Constitution before passing it out on campus.  David Schnall, Young Americans for Liberty chapter president at Kean University, told Red Alert Politics that he was required to gain approval and submit a copy of the Constitution in order to distribute it.  "I had to get approval from the Center for Leadership and Service to hand out [copies of the] Constitution," Schnall said.  "When I said I wouldn't go through the process they ignored me."  Schnall also said that he told the Center for Leadership and Service that he was not going to apply, but gave them the time and date for the distribution of the copies of the Constitution.  According to Schnall, the university repeated the policy, but did not enforce it when Schnall distributed Constitutions without submitting a request.

All Campus Speech Codes Are Incompatible With The First Amendment, And Should Be Abolished.  The U.S. Department of Justice joined a First Amendment lawsuit against the University of Michigan that claims UM's speech codes covering harassment, bullying, and bias were unconstitutionally vague.  In response, UM quickly stopped fighting the lawsuit and revised the language it uses to guide bias response team investigations.  The revisions may have temporarily ameliorated Michigan's bad press, but it did not resolve the underlying problem:  bias response teams, and the speech codes they enforce, use the power of the state to suppress unapproved speech and exert control over students.  Such state action repressing free speech is corrosive to our democratic republic.

Public university lets Quidditch Club choose its own leaders but not Christian group: lawsuit.  InterVarsity is making "second-class citizens" out of Wayne State University students by not letting non-Christians run for leadership posts in the Christian campus organization, according to the public university.  It's trying to get a federal judge in Michigan to dismiss the chapter's First Amendment lawsuit for derecognizing the club, which has maintained a campus presence for more than 75 years.

The Left Achieves Perfection.  The concept of free speech is central to America's definition of itself and to the health of our political system.  Everyone other than the most extreme Nazis and communists has agreed that people should be able to express their views, so long as they don't call for violence, without fear of reprisal.  But now the left has declared that "hate" speech — generally defined as anything the left doesn't like — is not in fact protected.  If someone says big government is bad, the left says not only that that person shouldn't be allowed to speak, but that it's okay for groups like Antifa to use physical violence to stop that person from speaking.  You know that the left opposes free speech when colleges, run by leftists in general, establish "free speech zones" and declare that any speech that the left finds odious is banned everywhere else.

University suspends student after 'some people said that other people said that she said offensive things'.  The University of Denver recently suspended a freshman student for fall quarter 2018 for having allegedly used several slurs frequently in everyday conversation, with the school saying that the behavior violated its harassment policy by creating "a hostile environment of divisiveness and disrespect."  The student, meanwhile, has denied any wrongdoing in the matter, and a campus watchdog group has raised serious concerns about the university's approach to the controversy.  Addison Puffer, an outspoken conservative and student government senator, claims that her suspension is unjust since most of the evidence against her is based on hearsay, and other individuals in a similar situation received warnings and were not suspended.

Prof files restraining order against student who 'glared' at her.  A Providence College student who erected a display promoting Catholic views on marriage has faced a staff-led protest, threats, and a restraining order from the vice provost.  The restraining order was filed after recent graduate Michael Smalanskas criticized an administrator for doing nothing to defend him after a cartoon appeared in his dormitory depicting him being violently raped.  The administrator also claimed that Smalanskas had "glared" at her for 5-8 seconds, adding that she was especially concerned because his father is a police officer with access to weapons.

Public university prohibits 'harsh text messages'.  As part of its code of conduct, a public university in Alabama prohibits its students from sending "harsh text messages," a policy that has earned it the worst possible rating from a campus free-speech watchdog group.  The University of West Alabama's Cyberbullying and Cyber Harassment Policy defines harassment as "conduct that disrupts the educational environment of the university."  Conduct that the university has defined as harassment includes "harsh text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles."

Valedictorian Claims High School Censored Graduation Speech.  An Illinois high school valedictorian has hired a lawyer after claiming that school officials demanded he remove all religious references from his graduation speech.  Sam Blackledge was set to deliver the speech at West Prairie High School on May 19.  According to the 18-year-old, school administrators informed him that he needed to take out anything that mentioned God and Jesus minutes before Blackledge was scheduled to go on stage.

Congressional hearing explores freedom of speech crisis on college campuses.  The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a joint hearing on Tuesday [5/22/2018] to continue the conversation about freedom of speech on college campuses.  With the intention to better understand the climate on college campuses, propose solutions, and uphold the First Amendment, the committees invited experts who are "at the forefront of this debate."  "There has been a trend of intolerance against those voicing unpopular ideas or speech being disagreeable or offensive, by some students and faculty at some colleges and institutions," said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.  "This is occurring across the ideological spectrum and even at law schools."  In opening statements by witnesses, there was widespread agreement on the increasing dangers accompanied with the suppression of speech that has alienated students, speakers, and faculty from being able to express opinions freely, without penalization by their respective schools.

Valedictorian Releases Graduation Speech Banned by School.  Sam Blackledge was told just ten minutes before graduation that he would not be permitted to deliver his valedictory address because it was too religious.  "They said they didn't want to make it a religious ceremony," Sam said on the Todd Starnes Radio Show.  "They told me that if I took out Christ I could say everything else."

Oregon school sued after refusing to allow student to wear pro-Trump T-shirt in class.  An Oregon high school is being sued for refusing to let a student wear a pro-Trump border wall T-shirt to class.  Liberty High School senior Addison Barnes told Fox 12 Oregon he was asked to cover up his "Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co."  shirt or go home.  The shirt also features a 2016 Trump quote:  "The wall just got 10 feet taller."  Barnes, 18, said he opted to go home after briefly covering up.  His absence was treated as a suspension, which was later rescinded.

Update:
Hillsboro's Liberty High School must allow student to wear pro-Trump T-shirt, judge rules.  Addison Barnes has one week to wear his "Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co." shirt at Liberty High School before he graduates.  A federal judge Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order, essentially barring the school for the rest of the school year from enforcing its earlier decision prohibiting Barnes from wearing the shirt.  U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman found the Hillsboro School District could not justify its censorship.  The judge said he balanced constitutionally protected speech with the orderly running of a school.

If the genders were reversed, there would be widespread outrage.
To Fight Patriarchy, Female Cornell Student Presents Thesis in Her Underwear.  A female student at Cornell University stripped down to her underwear — twice — before presenting her senior thesis to professors and other students.  The student was attempting to strike a blow against the patriarchy, repudiating her media arts professor's advice to dress up for the presentation.  Yet I can't help but wonder:  On what planet is this not a violation of Title IX, the federal anti-harassment statute that so many college administrators cite when cracking down on problematic, sexually charged behavior?

UC Berkeley: 'Hard to defend' free speech of conservatives who 'incite' liberal students.  A long-awaited report on free speech protections at the University of California, Berkeley, blames "hard to defend" conservative speakers for inciting left-wing students to violence.  A commission of Berkeley faculty, students formed in 2017 after violent and costly student protests called its commitment to free speech into question.  Their monthslong study of the issue resulted in the conclusion that "ultra-conservative rhetoric" by the likes of Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter only exists to "advance a facile narrative that universities are not tolerant of conservative speech."

Duke students outraged that admin won't punish 'hate speech'.  Duke University's Vice President of Student Affairs provoked outrage from some students by refusing to punish a student for an "offensive and racist" social media post.  The students became further incensed when Larry Moneta subsequently posted a tweet reminding students that "freedom of expression protects the oppressed far more than the oppressors."

Alabama teacher says school told her to change shirt with 'just pray' on it.  An Alabama teacher claims she was sent home by school officials Monday over a shirt with the words "just pray" on it.  Chris Burrell, a teacher employed with the Mobile County Public School District, told WALA she wore the shirt to work because it reminded her of Aubreigh Nicholas, a local 11-year-old girl who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 2017.  The shirt was created by "Aubreigh's Army," an organization that helps raise money for the girl's treatment.

Young America's Foundation Scores Victory Against Berkeley.  Young America's Foundation scored a legal victory against UC-Berkeley this week after a judge in San Francisco refused to dismiss the organization's lawsuit against the university for infringing on the First Amendment rights of conservative students and speakers on campus.  "Young America's Foundation looks forward to moving on to the merits of this case and vigorously defending our claims at trial.  This ruling allowing YAF's critical First Amendment case to move forward is a win for conservatives and free speech, and it shows that Judge Chesney believes there is significant evidence of Berkeley's work to suppress conservative speech," Young America's Foundation spokesman Spencer Brown released in a statement.  "Conservative students will finally have their day in court, and we are confident that the outcome of this case will be the restoration of students' First Amendment rights at the University of California, Berkeley."  The lawsuit against Berkeley is backed by the Department of Justice, which issued a statement of interest for the case in January.

Anarchy at Texas State University.  A recent incident at Texas State University is all too representative of the atmosphere with which those who deviate from the Creed of identity-politics must contend.  Connor Clegg, a young white Republican student and student body president, was impeached just two days before his term was set to expire.  Those students from such organizations as the Pan-African Action Committee, Latinas Unidas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Unit 6875-B, Texas Rising for LGBTQIA Equality, and the Student Community of Progressive Development who had been pushing for Clegg's ouster erupted in cheers when his impeachment was announced.  The reader will get one guess as to the charge that these groups brought against Clegg and that led to his removal.  The College Fix reports that Clegg was ousted "following allegations of racism," allegations that in turn fueled the charge that he failed to represent "all students."

CUNY Law School Students Disrupt Professor's Lecture on Free Speech.  A law professor was heckled and shouted down during a recent speech at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law by students who opposed his conservative views.  Josh Blackman, a professor at the South Texas College of Law, was invited last month by CUNY Law's Federalist Society chapter to give a lecture on "The Importance of Free Speech on Campus."  As he tried to give his talk, Blackman was repeatedly interrupted by protesters holding signs with slogans like "Rule of Law = White Supremacy" and "Oppressors are not welcome here."

Law school dean:  Disrupting free speech event was free speech.  The dean of the CUNY School of Law is speaking out in defense of student protesters who heckled a conservative speaker on campus recently, saying the "non-violent, limited protest was a reasonable exercise of free speech."  The students disrupted Josh Blackman for roughly eight minutes as he attempted to give a presentation in support of the First Amendment, shouting that "legal objectivity is a myth" and calling him a "white supremacist."

The Perversion of America.  Sarcastic humor about homosexuality is not yet illegal, of course, although it would be unwise to make any such jokes on a university campus in America, where the activist mobs are intolerant of anyone who refuses to participate in the compulsory celebration of "diversity" and "inclusion."  At Harvard University, for example, an evangelical Christian student group was recently "suspended" and "defunded" — to all intents and purposes, banned from campus — because it asked one of its leaders to step down after she became involved in a lesbian relationship.  Christianity is now practically prohibited at Harvard, a school founded by Puritans for the training of Christian clergy, one of those 21st-century ironies we're supposed to ignore, the same way we are expected to ignore how much Sen. Booker's interrogation of Pompeo resembles the anti-Communist crusade of Joe McCarthy:  "Are you now, or have you ever been, a homophobe?"

LGBTQ group leader caught ripping out pro-life flags from authorized campus display.  The LGBTQ group PRISM at The College of New Jersey takes no institutional position on abortion or the pro-life memorials that represent aborted babies.  But its spelling-challenged vice president, Courtney Woods, cares so much about the issue that she physically ripped out the flags in the "Graveyard of the Innocent" display set up by the campus Students for Life chapter, according to Students for Life of America.

CUNY Law students attempt shout-down of conservative law prof.  Disruptions of conservative speakers, even at law schools, has become a common tactic.  We've documented dozens of such incidents.  The tactic, even when it doesn't prevent the speech completely, is not merely the expression of disagreement.  It's an infringement of the speaker's right to speak, and the audience's right to hear that speech.  But it's more.  It's meant to create a toxic campus atmosphere in which there is a price tag to expressing non-progressive ideas.  It just happened again, to conservative law professor Josh Blackman from Southern Texas College of Law in Houston.

Public university bans Jewish group from campus over fliers.  The University of Texas at San Antonio has banned the David Horowitz Freedom Center from campus for posting fliers exposing students and professors who have publicly made anti-Semitic comments.  The UTSA Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine chapter issued a joint statement calling the fliers "blatantly racist and homophobic," and UTSA issued a criminal trespass warning against the Horowitz group.

Student Launches Pro-Life Walkout: 'I Want to Test if There's a Double Standard'.  A Sacramento, California, high school junior's plan for a national student walkout on April 11 is inspired by his pro-life values and his strong conviction that all students have First Amendment rights to stand for their principles.

To Restore Free Speech, Discipline is Necessary.  Some students at Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta have filed a lawsuit against the university, and for a very good reason.  They are members of the Young Americans for Freedom, and they allege they're the victims of discriminatory treatment by the administration.  The facts aren't complicated.  The group invited Katie Pavlich to visit the campus and speak, a reasonable choice given her editorship of TownHall, the right-leaning news site.  But Pavlich's profile promised to spark controversy and, hence, the need for more security.  So the administration added an extra $320 in costs for the event and billed the students.  YAF was also denied the chance to tap student activity funding to help cover the bill.

Student Banned From Christian Theology Course Allowed Back In Class.  A university announced Monday [3/19/2018] that it would allow a student back in a Christian theology course after he was booted upon saying there were only two genders.  Indiana University of Pennsylvania President Michael Driscoll permitted student Lake Ingle to re-enter the course and indefinitely suspended the student's academic integrity board hearing.

College Library Calls "God Bless You," "Merry Christmas" Oppressive Language.  The library at Simmons College in Boston has issued guidelines for language that may be considered oppressive to others, and among the phrases that are considered "microaggressions" are such greetings as "God Bless You," "Happy Easter," and "Merry Christmas" — because they are based in Christianity.  The guide, appearing on the private school's website, "is intended to provide some general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion as well as information and resources for the social justice issues key to the Simmons College community," the webpage explains.  The site offers hyperlinks to scores of videos, articles, and other resources on the wide-open areas of "diversity" and "inclusion," and includes eight subsections:  anti-oppression, anti-racism, anti-transmisia, anti-ableism, anti-Islamomisia, anti-sanism, anti-queermisia, and social justice zines.

Student Kicked Out of Class for Saying There Are Only Two Genders.  A religious studies major was barred from Christianity class at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for saying during class that there are only two genders.  Lake Ingle, a senior at the university, said he was silenced and punished by IUP Professor Alison Downie for questioning her during a Feb. 28 "Christianity 481: Self, Sin, and Salvation" lecture.  After showing a 15-minute TED Talk by transgender ex-pastor Paula Stone Williams discussing the "reality" of "mansplaining," "sexism from men," and "male privilege," the professor asked the women in the class to share their thoughts.  When no women in the class said anything, Ingle spoke up, challenging the professor on biology and the gender wage gap.  He told the class that the official view of biologists is that there are only two genders.

Gallup: 61% of College Students Says Campus Climate Deters Conservative Speech.  A new poll from Gallup reveals that an increasing number of students believe that conservative speech is deterred on college campuses.  According to a recently published Gallup poll, an increasing number of both conservative and liberal students think that political speech is stifled on their college campus.  An overwhelming 61 percent of students, compared to the 54 percent figure that was recorded the last time this poll was given, believe that campus climates prevent students from expressing themselves.

Poll: 3-in-5 students say campus climate 'deters speech'.  A new Gallup survey finds that 61% of college students believe their campus climate stifles free speech, up from 54% just one year ago.  While 92% of respondents said that liberal students are "able to freely and openly express their views," only 69% reported that the same could be said for conservative students.

Cincinnati professor forced out after claiming Muslim women are safer in U.S.  A University of Cincinnati professor is being forced to retire after he told a Muslim student that female Muslims are safer in the U.S. than in the Middle East.  University of Cincinnati assistant professor Clifford Adams has been placed on administrative for the remainder of the semester and will retire May 1, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Student barred from class for claiming there are two genders.  A student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was recently barred from attending a religious studies class that he needs in order to graduate after he questioned his instructor's claims regarding the "reality of white male privilege."  Lake Ingle said he objected to some of the claims made in a video featuring a transgender woman, and countered by arguing that there are only two genders and that the "gender wage gap" is a myth.

College Student Barred From Class For Claiming There Are Only Two Genders.  A student who attends Indiana University of Pennsylvania was barred from a religious studies course that he needed to complete in order to graduate after stating the fact that there are only two genders.  The student, Luke Ingle, was barred from class after objecting to claims made in a video featuring a transgender individual, countering with the argument that there are only two genders.

At U of Miami, Free Speech Is Expensive.  The Federalist Society at the University of Miami Law School proposed to bring in Charles Murray as part of a debate on free speech.  Ironically enough, the university responded by charging the Federalist Society for the cost of security for the event — security made necessary by liberals' proclivity toward violence.  The tab?  Nearly $8,000, a prohibitive sum for most campus groups.  Goodbye, debate on free speech!

College Republicans' Patriot Prayer rally disrupted by counter-protesters.  Five people were arrested as fights broke out and at least one American flag was burned Saturday after a college Republican rally in Seattle drew counter-protesters.  College Republicans at the University of Washington had invited members of Patriot Prayer, a group in Vancouver, Wash., to speak in the university's Red Square for a "freedom rally," the Seattle Times reported.

Professor Amy Wax and the Brownshirts on Campus.  Recently a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in league with a professor at the University of San Diego Law School made bold to write an essay for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Her name is Amy Wax, and I have no idea what her politics might be. [...] What I can tell you is that she is in very hot water today with vociferous students on campus and with her colleagues on the faculty.  There have been demands that she shut down and ship out.  In fact, the dean of her law school asked her to take a leave of absence next year and stop teaching a class to first-year students, who are presumably still very impressionable.  He explained that he was under "pressure" to oust her.  When she objected, he explained that he was a "pluralistic dean" who had to accommodate "all sides," though apparently not her side.

Former prof recounts her 'escape' from political correctness.  A professor who taught at California State University-East Bay for over 20 years recently published a book detailing how she "escaped" from the culture of political correctness on campus.  Loretta Breuning says her "ah-ha" moment came when she realized that she was lying to her students for "fear of sounding right-wing," and decided to take a stand against "ideological despotism."

American History Professor Denounces Those Who Believe in Limited Government as "Autistic".  Conservatives and libertarians — i.e., those who hold to the principles that this country was founded on and that produced its tremendous success — suffer from autism, according to Nancy MacLean, a history professor at Duke University. [...] Seems like it's all anti-Caucasian B.S. all the time in academia these days.  Note that leftists believe a color-blind philosophy like libertarianism is racist because it does not coercively benefit preferred darker races at the expense of hated whites.  Unsurprisingly, MacLean herself is a self-righteously self-hating white.

Vermont High School Becomes First in Nation to Raise 'Black Lives Matter' Flag.  A high school in Vermont on Thursday [2/1/2018] marked the beginning of Black History Month by raising a Black Lives Matter flag.  Montpelier High School is the first high school in the country to do so, WPTZ confirms.  The event took place Thursday morning in front of students from across the school district, faculty, and community members.

A Curriculum of Political Indoctrination in Edina's Public Schools.  An investigation by writer Katherine Kersten released today exposes systematic political indoctrination of students in Edina public schools, beginning as early as kindergarten, all while the district's long time reputation for academic excellence experiences a notable decline.

Race and IQ: A High School Science Fair Project Ignites a Storm.  [Scroll down]  In a saner time, Equality Dogma would be considered a vile heresy.  The truth here isn't hard to grasp:  There are differences within groups, but there are also differences among groups. [...] The McClatchy student's scientific methods might very well have been shoddy, but this wasn't what got his project scuttled.  Rather, The Sacramento Bee article quoted individuals who said the it was "shocking" and its creator "closed-minded"; it spoke of how people felt "upset" and "unsafe and uneasy."  What's notable is that no one quoted said the project's conclusion was wrong or untrue.

Black Lives Matter Infiltrates Public Schools with Globalism, Diversity, 'Queer-Affirming,' Common Core.  The Black Lives Matter movement is using Black History Month as a vehicle to insert its agenda into public schools across the country, using curriculum for elementary and middle school students that includes teaching diversity, globalism, and "queer affirming" lessons — all in formats conforming to the controversial Common Core framework.  The Progressive website reported on the Feb. 5-9 National Black Live Matter Week of Action in Our Schools taking place this year at schools in Seattle (where the movement started), Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.

Professor's hate speech toward Trump likely to go unchecked.  Imagine if a college professor ever said of Barack Obama:  "I wouldn't mind seeing him dead."  It would be the end of the egghead's career, tenure or no tenure.  Instead, consider the case of the ancient Barry Bluestone, a longtime UMass Boston "economist" now passing his dotage at something called, believe it or not, the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.

College defends art professor who desecrated American flag.  When Marine veteran Jess Karcher first saw the desecrated American flag at Broward College, he was confused.  Then, he became angry.  "It was extremely disrespectful to our flag and to every American," Karcher told the Todd Starnes Radio Show.  Karcher is a student at Broward College and on Jan. 26 he came across an American flag that had been desecrated as part of a faculty art exhibit at the campus art gallery.

Nebraska Governor revokes award given to educators who harassed conservative students.  Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., has withdrawn honorary "Nebraska Navy" admiralships from two University of Nebraska-Lincoln educators who led a protest against conservative student group.  Graduate teaching assistant Courtney Lawton and associate professor Amanda Gailey both made headlines last August after they harassed Turning Point USA chapter president Kaitlyn Mullen while she held a recruiting event on campus.  Omaha man Jay Grabow nominated Lawton and Gailey for the Nebraska Navy admiralship in a show of support of their protest against the conservative student group.  "I wanted to show them there are Nebraskans who are behind them and approve of their actions," Grabow said.

Socialist students protest memorial to fallen police officers.  A socialist student group at California State University, Fullerton held a protest Wednesday [2/7/2018] against a memorial to fallen police officers hosted by the College Republicans for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.  CR members expressed disappointment that the socialist group would seek to politicize the event, which was also designed to give students the opportunity to interact with campus police officers in a non-confrontational setting.

Christian Teacher Fired, Reported to Counter-Terror Unit After Telling Lesbian 'God Loves You'.  A Christian teacher in Bristol was fired and reported as a "radicalisation threat" after she answered questions from pupils about her beliefs, an employment tribunal has heard.  Svetlana Powell was dismissed from the T2 Apprenticeship Academy in Bristol in July 2016 after leaders at the government-funded college said students had been offended by comments the teacher made.

Kenyon College Cancels Play About Immigration; Starts 'Whiteness Group'.  [Scroll down]  The Good Samaritan's retraction comes serendipitously at the same moment as the creation of a new student group at Kenyon:  "the whiteness group."  The group was founded by a student, Juniper Cruz, and is notable not just for its name, but for its rules, which state that "no white person can ask a person of color questions; white people must try to answer their questions for themselves.  And no spreading rumors about what people say during the meetings."  If you were going to set out to create a more illiberal student group possible at a college, you would be hard-pressed to do so.

Demanding Students.  [Scroll down]  Moving along, students demand that their organizations and activities receive funding comparable to that received by clubs that "do not engage with the wider campus community" on "issues of diversity."  Supposedly, "Brothers of Diversity," the "African Student Union," "ASIA," and "First-Generation Student Org" didn't receive as much monies as did "Men's Ultimate Frisbee" and "Men's Hockey."  Since the college is guilty of "favoring" "non-essential diversity groups," it fails to support minorities.  The students demand as well that all new students be required to enroll in a "cultural competency training course" that will begin during orientation week and continue throughout their whole first year.  The Center of Diversity and Inclusion will determine the content of this training course, but it must be submitted to the student activists for review at least once a year.  Yet it's not just other students who these bullies require to enroll in a cultural competency program; faculty members must as well.

Judge forces Univ of Iowa to recognize Christian student group same as Muslim group.  The University of Iowa derecognized a Christian student group because it required leaders to abide by "sexual moral conduct" rules.  Now a federal judge has ordered the taxpayer-funded institution to treat Business Leaders in Christ the same as it treats a registered Muslim student club.

Prof uses American flag as doormat in college 'art display'.  A professor at Broward College in Florida cut an American flag in half, painted it white, and laid it on the ground as a doormat for a school art display.  A BC student who is also a Marine Corps veteran took issue with the display, and wrote a letter notifying the school's president.

Florida professor tricks students into walking on U.S. flag for art show.  A Marine Corps veteran who attends Broward College in Florida wants answers after attending a faculty art exhibit with a U.S. flag disguised as a doormat.  Jess Karcher says a "Full-time Faculty Exhibition" running Jan. 26 through Feb. 21 felt like a "kick in the gut" after he witnessed peers inadvertently walking all over the American flag.  The disabled veteran provided pictures of BC Assistant Professor of Art Lisa Rockford's project to the educational watchdog Campus Reform on Monday [1/29/2018].

New York City professor tells pro-life marchers to 'sit down and shut up'.  A New York City college professor said she supports women marching — unless they're against abortion.  New School professor Jennifer Begeal tweeted Friday that pro-life students and activists participating in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., should "sit down and shut up."  Begeal, who teaches digital storytelling at The New School, took to social media Friday [1/19/2018] to lambaste the anti-abortion marchers for not supporting myriad liberal causes, Campus Reform reported.

Students file complaint, tear down 'racist' pictures of Kate Steinle.  Students at the University of California San Diego filed a complaint and triggered an administrative probe after pictures of Kate Steinle were hung on campus.  Gregory Lu said he hung up 150 posters picturing Steinle with the caption, "She had dreams too," on Dec. 7.  Four days later, he said he received an email from the Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination asking to meet with him.

You can bet Michelle Obama would be welcome any day of the week.
Ivanka Trump's surprise visit to Connecticut school angers some parents.  A surprise school visit by Ivanka Trump drew ire from some parents of a Connecticut academy, with one who yanked their child from class to protest the first daughter and White House adviser's father, President Trump.  "This should have been brought to our attention, although I do understand security reasons.  I think we should have had the choice to send our child to school or keep them home," Karey Fitzgerald, a Norwalk Early College Academy parent, told News 12 Connecticut Monday [12/18/2017] following Ivanka Trump's appearance.  "Only one parent withdrew their student for the school day Monday after hearing of the visit," Brenda Williams, Norwalk Public Schools Chief Communications Officer told Fox News on Wednesday.  "With the exception of those who were directly participating, the visit was kept confidential for security reasons, and parents understood that."  Trump, however, seemed unaware or impervious to the complaints.

Florida lawmakers want stronger college free speech rules amid First Amendment flareups.  Rising up in defiance to Richard Spencer, hundreds of University of Florida students sounded off in a deafening chant.  "Go home, Spencer!" they shouted, as the exasperated white nationalist paced the stage, pleading to be heard.  Were the students exercising their fellow First Amendment rights?  Or were they breaking the law by taking his event off the rails?  That would be up for debate under a new "campus free expression" bill filed in Florida this week.  The part that may attract attention is the proposal that no student, faculty member or staffer can materially disrupt a scheduled campus event.  That would include a student making a scene in the audience of a speech.  "There could be a cause of action against that student," said bill sponsor and freshman state Rep. Bob Rommel, R-Naples.

Lawyer: Free Speech Isn't For Conservatives.  Lawyers have to defend their clients.  It's what they do.  But there are limits to what they should do.  To claim outside a courthouse that there's legal justification for snatching the papers containing the words of someone else's talk because the talk is somehow "hate speech" and therefore not protected is laughable.  Except it's not a laughing matter.  Chipping away at free speech isn't in the best interests of anybody, except for totalitarians.  But there was Jon L. Schoenhorn, the lawyer for speech-snatcher Catherine Gregory, walking out of a courthouse Wednesday [12/13/2017] in Vernon, Connecticut and defending the act of walking up to a lectern and grabbing someone else's papers and then trying to leave the room.  That's what Gregory did November 28 during an appearance by Gateway Pundit correspondent Lucian Wintrich at the University of Connecticut.

I go to UC Berkeley and I'm watching free speech slip away.  College students need to step up and stop the pervasive suppression of free speech on college campuses.  I enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, because of the school's message that everyone's voice counts — that the home of the free speech movement still values intellectual discourse and divergent opinions.  Unfortunately, political extremists are doubling down on efforts to shutter free speech at Berkeley and on other college campuses across the nation.

Video shows Trump supporters being kicked out of campus coffee club.  Fordham University is investigating an incident on campus after a video appeared to show several members of the campus College Republicans group being kicked out of an on-campus coffee shop for wearing President Trump's famous red "Make America Great Again" hats.  In the video posted by the conservative news site Campus Reform, the self-identified president of Rodrigue's Coffee House, which is run by a student club, tells the students that she is removing them to ensure the safety of other customers, saying that their hats violate the shop's policies.  "I am protecting my customers," the president says in the video.

Texas State newspaper fires anti-white column's author as backlash escalates.  A Texas college student newspaper says it has fired the author of an anti-white "Your DNA is an abomination" column that has sparked an all-out backlash on campus, including a threat of defunding from the student body's president and calls for editors to resign.  The column, which ran in Tuesday's edition of "The University Star" at Texas State University, called white people "an aberration" and accused them of being oppressors who "shouldn't exist."

Campus newspaper editorial: 'Your [white] DNA is an abomination'.  A new opinion piece in a Texas State University student newspaper tells white students, "Your DNA is an Abomination."  "When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered — whether they've been professors, peers, lovers, friend, police officers, et cetera — there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider 'decent,'" student author Rudy Martinez writes in the University Star.  Without much biological explanation, Martinez informs white readers, "You were not born white.  You became white... You don't [care]."  Later in his rant, he calls the police "fascist foot soldiers" and says a "white supremacist inhabits the White House."

School District to Consider Punishing Students Who Say "Terrorist".  A school district near Allentown, Pennsylvania says the best way to end hate speech is to ban hateful words.  The Saucon Valley School District is considering a policy that would ban five words if they are used in a hateful way, according to local news reports.  One of the words that could be banned is a derogatory word for a woman — the other is a racial slur typically used in rap music.  The other words on their proposed list include retarded, terrorist and gay. [...] The policy was reviewed but not voted on at Tuesday's [11/28/2017] school board meeting.

Stanford dean caught on film engineering disruption of Robert Spencer speech on Islam.  I spoke at Stanford University last week, and Stanford administrators and Leftist students made sure that as few people as possible heard me. [...] In the days before I arrived on campus, the student-run Stanford Daily and Stanford Review published article after article denouncing me in the most lurid terms.  It was claimed that I "give license" to the "oppression" of Jews, and that Muslims at Stanford were endangered by my work.  It was charged that I have incited a mass murderer and approved of restricting the right to vote.  My work was characterized, without any specific examples, of being not only inaccurate, but also inflammatory, offensive, hateful, and dishonest.

The intellectual arrogance of suppressing campus speech.  Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell's observation that "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts," a student-written op-ed that ran in the September 25th issue of The Daily Princetonian argued that conservatives should not have the benefit of free speech, and do not even have the right to expect its protection because, given their ideological stance, "they are appealing to a right that does not exist" for them.  "In my belief," student Ryan Born continued in this astounding piece of sophistry, "when conservative ideas are opposed, there is no right that is being infringed."

Socialist group calls for 'extermination' of capitalists.  The Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter at Iowa State University has repeatedly posted threatening tweets about conservatives, but the school maintains that the comments are a form of free speech.  In one tweet, the group said that "the only dope worth shooting" is Donald Trump, and more recently it posted a message calling for the hanging and extermination of "capitalists."

Student leader says the First Amendment doesn't apply to Ben Shapiro.  Earlier this month, when Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro went to the University of Utah to deliver a speech, he was greeted by a mob of leftist student protesters demanding that he not be allowed to speak.  Dan Harris of ABC's Nightline was also there to film a segment with Shapiro, which aired on Friday [10/20/2017].  Harris also interviewed students and faculty at the University of Utah about Shapiro's speech.  In one of the most stunning and infuriating displays ever of honest, unashamed progressivism, the leader of the student organization opposing Shapiro's First Amendment right to speak, Sean Taylor, outright states that Ben Shapiro should not have the right to speech and that the Constitution is not a "relevant" document.

UC Santa Cruz College Republicans meeting disrupted by leftist protesters, three arrested.  Leftist protesters interrupted a College Republicans meeting Sunday night in the library at the University of California, Santa Cruz, calling members "fascists," "racists" and "white supremacists" during a lengthy demonstration that ended in three arrests.

Ivy League Teaching Assistant Says She Calls On Black Women First, White Men Last.  An Ivy League teaching assistant tweeted Monday [10/16/2017] that she calls on black female students first and white male students last. [...] [Stephanie] McKellop is a marriage and family historian "with interests intersecting in areas of gender, sexuality, the body, and race."  She examines how marriage intersects with prostitution and human trafficking, and is currently focusing on folk and popular marriage and divorce conflicted with state and church powers in colonial Carolina.

Princeton op-ed:  Conservatives have no right to free speech.  An op-ed in the Princeton University student newspaper attacking conservatives' right to free speech has triggered an impassioned response from many students, and even a professor.  The column contends that conservatives don't deserve the "right to speech" because "if conservative arguments were strong... they would not meet political opposition."

New College Student Survey:  Yes, Speech Can Be Violence.  [Scroll down]  It's simply evidence that in the abstract students will claim to be open-minded.  They'll claim to value different views — right until the moment they really get offended.  For example, 81 percent agree with the statement that "words can be a form of violence."  A full 58 percent of students believe that colleges should "forbid" speakers who have a "history of engaging in hate speech."  And what is hate speech?  The definition the students liked was staggeringly broad.  Two-thirds agreed that hate speech is "anything that one particular person believes is harmful, racist, or bigoted."  They further agreed that hate speech "means something different to everyone."  Given these realities, it should come as no surprise that large numbers of students believe that interruptions or even violence are appropriate to stop offensive speech.  Almost 40 percent believe that it's "sometimes appropriate" to "shout down or disrupt" a speaker.  A sobering 30 percent believe that physical violence can be used to stop someone from "using hate speech or engaging in racially charged comments."

Minnesota is Ground Zero in the Left's efforts to brainwash young people.  When Donald Trump won the election last November, anarchy and partisan bullying paralyzed the high school.  "I felt like the school was descending into mass hysteria," one student said of the day after the election.  Another said Trump's victory was treated as "the end of the world as we know it."  Students reported "[e]very teacher was crying in class, one even told the whole class 'Trump winning is worse than 9/11 and the Columbine shooting.'"  The sheer volume of "liberal propaganda that was pushed every single day in class this year was worse than it's ever been — and you're bullied by the teachers and every student if you dare speak against it." [...] Children have to watch their language and self-censor for fear of incurring the wrath of teachers.  "My kids have written things they don't believe just to survive," one mother told [Katherine] Kersten.  "They know exactly what the teacher wants.  They almost don't see anything incorrect in doing that anymore, because it's so engrained.  They have endured enough public shaming to say they will not put themselves in that position again.

'Witnessing Whiteness' influencing lessons for children at St. Louis school.  Using a handful of crayons, some St. Louis educators are teaching students as early as pre-kindergarten about racial differences after the teachers volunteered for "Witnessing Whiteness" training.  About half of the administration at The College School signed up for 10-week voluntary training sessions aimed at highlighting and healing racial differences between their students — from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade.  During one recent lesson, a teacher asked pre-k students to use different shades of crayons, ranging from beige to brown, to make sure the youngest students recognized different skin colors, The St. Louis American reported.

The New World's Oldest Villain.  To the best of my discernment, Indigenous Peoples Day exists for those who think it's a noble idea to honor those who were too technologically backward to defend their own land.  Perhaps its first emergence as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day happened in South Dakota, which in 1990 decided to host Native American Day on the second Monday of October.  Two years later, the incurably Americaphobic city of Berkeley, CA swapped out Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day.  Now a total of four states — South Dakota, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii — refuse to celebrate Columbus Day.  Major municipalities that have chosen to turn their backs on the renowned [Italian] explorer include Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Denver, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Austin, and, of course, Portland, OR, which should be officially crowned as America's Whitest White-Hating Town.  In schoolrooms across the nation, Columbus is increasingly being depicted as a villain rather than a hero — someone who trampled on the gentle and progressive natives just because he wanted to be [a contrarian] and impede their inevitable progress.

A high school student lost his parking pass over his Confederate flag license plates.  A high school student in Pittsburgh had his parking permit revoked following controversy over his car's Confederate flag license plates, according to 14 News.  14 News on Monday [10/9/2017] reported that Randy Roscoe Jr. says that the tags were ripped off his truck at Brashear High School last Thursday.

Why Conservative College Kids Should Be a Protected Class.  [Scroll down]  The backlash was swift.  Perhaps I went into it too naively.  After all, I was a student at a women's college, a hotbed of militant feminism.  I should have expected it.  But after a while, the angry comments and diatribes students emailed me gave way into something more pernicious — being targeted on campus.  Students started yelling, quite literally, when they saw me on campus.  One student followed me around twice in the local grocery store, trying to accost me.  They'd come up to me at my campus desk job, demanding an apology for what I'd written.  One student would take pictures of me when she saw me at the library.  Then, the death threats came in.  Not from strangers on the internet, but from fellow students.

Conservative students catch liberal vandals in the act.  In anticipation of Charlie Kirk's appearance Thursday [10/5/2017] at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, several students have repeatedly vandalized advertisements for the event.

Illiberal Libs on Campus — It's Worse than You Thought.  But now we have an important broad-based study that documents just how intolerant those liberal snowflakes really are.  John Villasenor of the Brookings Institution surveyed 1,500 undergraduates around the country and found a disturbing number of them don't have a clue as to what the First Amendment is about.  And large numbers of students have little interest in even listening to opinions they don't like.  The survey asked if the First Amendment protects "hate speech"?  It does, but a stunning 44 percent of the students said that "hate speech" is not protected by the Constitution.  Thirty-nine percent said it is.  The survey also asked about what actions the students thought was allowable to silence speakers they don't like.

Cornell students move to ban 'hate speech'.  A Latino student at Cornell University overheard somebody chanting, "build a wall," so now the student government passed a resolution condemning "hate speech."  Whatever that is.  Seriously — what is hate speech?  Read the First Amendment, and it's not mentioned there.  In fact, the whole concept of the First Amendment was in order that government could not intrude on a citizen's right to express speech deemed by some as offensive — a sort of constitutional right to say hateful things.  Cornell students — and not just students, but the ones who serve on the student government and therefore, ought to know better — just don't seem to be grasping that point.

Calling Out Terrorist Supporters is a Hate Crime?  Campus police have opened a hate-crime investigation into the David Horowitz Freedom Center after its informational posters were circulated around UC Berkeley exposing various radical students and faculty as "terrorist supporters."  The probe comes as Berkeley shuts down the planned "Free Speech Week" that was to have gotten underway Sunday.  Free Speech Week was to be hosted by Milo Yiannopoulos, whose speech on the campus in February was shut down by the violent left-wing radicals of Antifa, the pretended anti-fascist activists.  The environment on campus at that time and now is like a scene out of the science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, in which authorities organize the extinguishing of free expression instead of protecting it.

Free speech week:  The circus is back at Berkeley (and there are plenty of clowns).  The circus is returning to the University of California, Berkeley, as a sequel to rioting in February by black-clad protesters angered by the campus visit of conservative speaker Milo Yiannapolous.  The goal of the protestors then and now is simple: demonize and silence conservatives.  Shamefully, the Berkeley rioting was permitted by a hands-off attitude by university administrators.  After a now-departed chancellor and his aides ordered University of California police to stand aside, rioters set fires, inflicted $100,000 in damage to university buildings, and prevented Yiannapolous from speaking.

Princeton's campus newspaper disbands editorial board after string of right-leaning opinions.  Leaders of the student newspaper at Princeton University have disbanded the publication's independent editorial board, a move that comes after the group put forth a string of right-leaning opinions, including denouncing the women's center for its radical feminist agenda and arguing in favor of due process.  "The top editors of the Prince have no involvement in what we write," said Jack Whelan, a member of the dissolved editorial board, in an interview with The College Fix.  "The reason why were we were destroyed is the opinions we published on a regular basis were more conservative than the opinions published on a daily basis in the Princetonian as a whole."

Students offered extra credit to determine their level of 'white privilege'.  Students in a sociology class at San Diego State University can earn extra credit if they take a quiz to determine their level of "white privilege."  Professor Dae Elliott offered the option to her sociology class students, a "White Privilege Checklist" that includes 20 questions that aim to illustrate that "racial privilege is one form of privilege."

UC-Berkeley braces for riots over conservative Ben Shapiro's speech on campus.  The campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and the area around it, looks like it's bracing for a military siege.  Six buildings have been shut down and put off limits, large concrete blocks have been placed in roadways, police are enforcing a huge perimeter around one of the buildings and the school's administrative staff will leave two hours early.  It's all for Thursday evening's [9/14/2017] speech by conservative Ben Shapiro — or rather for the possibility left-wing activists may use violence and vandalism to stop the speech, something that they have done before.

The Thought Police Strike Again.  [Scroll down]  Universities in Britain are now even holding workshops to "deal with right wing attitudes in the classroom". Instead of being intellectually diverse, universities are trying their utmost to impose homogeneity of thoughts and ideas.  So-called "right wing newspapers" are banned from certain universities.  Recently, the at the City University of London, the student union, devoid of irony, fascistically voted to ban some conservative tabloids in order to "oppose fascism".  Dozens of personalities, conservative and liberal alike, have been prevented from speaking on many U.S. campuses.

School district apologizes after teacher bans Trump shirts.  A Georgia school district has apologized after a teacher told two students that their shirts promoting President Donald Trump's campaign weren't allowed in class.

Brickbat:  Make School Great Again.  Officials with Georgia's Cherokee County school system have apologized after a teacher ordered two students out of her classroom because they were wearing "Make America Great Again" shirts.

U.C. Berkeley Will Provide Counseling to Help Snowflakes Recover From Ben Shapiro.  University of California, Berkeley — home of the Free Speech Movement — is so open-minded that it will actually allow mainstream conservative Ben Shapiro to speak to a limited number of students on Thursday [9/14/2017].  This is a very big deal, so educrats are making special arrangements: [...] According to campus liberals, speech with which they disagree is literally violence, so permitting it is bound to take a toll on their fragile psyches.

Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed.  American progressives have fnally gone all the way to a totalitarian vision, demanding control over not just your behavior, but your thoughts and beliefs.  This as the price of simply living without being attacked. [...] Do you believe in traditional marriage but don't care that gays marry?  Think it's OK teenagers take hormonal injections to swap genders but it's not right for your kids?  Don't really give a hoot about someone who identifies as "xe"?  Well, too bad, sucker.  The new dispensation doesn't care for your waffling.  Going forward, your private beliefs must align with your public stance.  No exceptions made or allowed.

Have Colleges Completely Lost Their Minds?  At this point, maybe the best thing to do is just sit back and watch colleges and universities destroy themselves.

Mr. Shapiro Goes To Washington:  The Congressional Testimony.  In order to understand what's been going on at some of our college campuses, it's necessary to explore the ideology that provides the impetus for a lot of the protesters who violently obstruct events, pull fire alarms, assault professors and even other students — and the impetus for administrators who all too often humor these protesters.  Free speech is under assault because of a three-step argument made by the advocates and justifiers of violence.  The first step is they say that the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identity of the person making the argument.  The second step is that they claim those who say otherwise are engaging in what they call verbal violence.  The final step is they conclude that physical violence is sometimes justified in order to stop such verbal violence.

Minnesota High School Gives Anti-American Order, Students React The Very Next Day.  Specifically, on the first day of school, administrators at ROCORI High School, which gets its name from an acronym combining the names of Rockville, Cold Spring, and Richmond, the three towns that the school serves, informed students about several changes that were made to the school's High School handbook over the summer.  One of the changes involved banning flags from vehicles.  According to the revised policy, "students are [no longer] allowed to display flags or banners from their vehicle while parked in the ROCORI High School parking lot."  Unsurprisingly, many students were outraged by the school's new rule.  But rather than take over the school, like students did in Evergreen, or engage in a riot, like students did in Berkeley, they decided to peacefully protest the policy by gathering in the school parking lot the next afternoon.

How The Republicans Beat Campus Censorship.  Back in January of 2016, I sent a letter to UNC-Wilmington President Jose Sartarelli, which was copied to all 16 members of the Board of Trustees.  I later published the same letter on Townhall.com.  In my letter, which you can read [elsew]here, I accused the university of having at least two policies that clearly violated the First Amendment.  I then asked the administration to work with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to do an audit of our policies and then revise them towards the goal of attaining a coveted green light rating from FIRE.  For those not familiar with the FIRE rating system, a green light simply signifies that a school has no policies that threaten free speech.

Mayor of Berkeley:  No Conservative Speakers Allowed on Campus Because It Might Make Antifa Riot.  I was raised to believe that I was 100% responsible for my reactions, no matter what the other person was doing or saying.  Perhaps that's an out-dated, old-fashioned way of thinking, but I don't care.  That is the way that my children will grow up and I won't make any excuses for their bad behavior.  The Berkeley Mayor doesn't share my beliefs, and think that Antifa should be treated like a toddler who needs to be pacified by being denied stimulus.  Because apparently they aren't going to be held responsible for their own violent and destructive behavior.

UT fires teacher whose tweet blamed Harvey on Texas GOP vote.  A tweet suggesting that the devastation of Hurricane Harvey was "instant karma" for the red state of Texas has cost a University of Tampa professor his job — making him just the latest academic fired for off-duty speech.  The University first distanced itself from sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey on Monday.  But a tide of online outrage continued.  A #FireKenStorey hashtag spread far beyond the university.  Angry Facebook comments piled up.  "Don't think this is a school we will be looking at for my daughter anymore," one commenter said.  An alumnus wrote, "Good thing I already paid you, because I'll never send the school another dime again."  On Tuesday morning [8/29/2017], the university fired him.

Bret Weinstein files $3.8M tort claim against Evergreen State College.  Evergreen State College may soon face a $3.8-million lawsuit in connection with its handling of the the 2017 "Day of Absence" protests against biology professor Bret Weinstein.  Students at the Olympia, Washington institution who wanted a day without white people on Evergreen State College's campus in May went wild over Mr. Weinstein's refusal to take part. [...] "[Evergreen] failed to set and enforce necessary boundaries in the workplace on campus, selectively has chosen not to enforce its student Code of Conduct, and sent the unmistakable message that the school will tolerate (and even endorse) egregious violations (and even crimes) purportedly to advance racial social goals, diminishing the collegiate experience for all, and fostering a racially hostile work and retaliatory environment for faculty and staff," Mr. Weinstein's attorney said in a statement provided to Campus Reform.

Seven students punished for 'blockade' of conservative speaker.  Claremont McKenna College has suspended five students and placed two others on "conduct probation" for their roles in physically blockading a conservative speaker this spring.  The students were among a group of roughly 170 protesters who successfully shut down a planned speech by conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald.

Here's the latest word you're not allowed to say: 'derpy'.  Tracking the long and growing list of words banned by the regressive Left is becoming onerous, but we carry on.  Here's the latest no-no:  "derpy."  How do we know?  Because two scholars have just publicly apologized for using it, agreeing with a peer who called their use of it out as an ableist slur.  The Urban Dictionary defines it as silly, ridiculous, awkward or clumsy.  But to social justice warriors who see microaggressions in every corner, it's an ableist slur.  In other words, offensive to people with disabilities, they believe.

Feminist geographers encourage colleagues not to cite research of white men.  Two feminist geographers are encouraging their colleagues to be more mindful about citing the research of white males because doing so contributes to "the reproduction of white heteromasculinity of geographical thought and scholarship."  Writing in "Gender, Place & Culture:  A Journal of Feminist Geography," Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne argue that considering an author's gender, race or sexuality prior to citation can be an effective "feminist and anti-racist technology of resistance that demonstrates engagement with those authors and voices we want to carry forward."  The authors point out that whether an academic's research is cited by his peers has significant implications for promotion, tenure and influence.  Therefore, to cite only white men "does a disservice to researchers and writers who are othered by white heteromasculinism."

California Democrats Target Conservative College Students.  California state senator Josh Newman, Fullerton Democrat, was the key vote to approve Jerry Brown's recent $5.2 billion tax hike that jacks up what Californians will pay for gasoline, diesel fuel, and vehicle fees.  At the California State University in Fullerton, College Republicans Amanda McGuire, Ryan Hoskins and Brooke Paz led efforts to recall Newman.  The state Democratic Party responded by changing the rules on recall elections and targeting the three students with a lawsuit.  "This lawsuit intends to stop the petition from circulating and halt the recall process, falsely citing deceptive messaging as grounds for suing," explains a press release from the College Republicans.  According to the Republicans' secretary Ryan Hoskins.  "This lawsuit is the definition of frivolous and more than an obstruction of the very processes that every Californian should hold dear."

Campus police told students to stop touting the benefits of fossil fuels on campus: lawsuit.  A lawsuit has been filed against Macomb Community College after its campus police tried to stop a group of students from handing out information touting the benefits of fossil fuels.  Three students working to advance their arguments at the Michigan college in late April were threatened with trespassing by the officers because the students did not have official permission from administrators to engage in public expression on campus, alleges the lawsuit, filed last week.  The lawsuit claims the college's policy requiring a 48-hour pre-approval in person and in writing for expressive activity is a violation of students' First Amendment rights.  The suit also takes issue with the fact that even after such permission is obtained, the speech zone at the community college's Central Campus is only about .001 percent of the entire 230-acre campus.

College students testify:  Free speech under assault on campuses.  College students and professors delivered a dire warning to Capitol Hill Tuesday [6/20/2017] that free speech on campus is coming under "attack," telling lawmakers that conservative views are in danger of being "shut down."  Students who say they've faced "considerable backlash" for exercising First Amendment rights testified as part of a packed panel of witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  "In classrooms, liberal arguments are often treated as unquestionable truths," said Zachary Wood, a 21-year-old student at Williams College in Massachusetts.

The Culture Police.  Recently at Evergreen College in Washington state, students demanded that white people leave the campus on a "Day of Absence."  One liberal white professor protested.  His classroom was stormed as he was teaching.  He was shouted down with "F" bombs and accusations of racism by the mob that invaded his lecture. [...] What we are witnessing is not state dictatorship but a new phenomenon — the rise of a totalitarian culture which seeks to control everything and everybody.

Duke Process of Law.  Duke is the most fundamentally racist and sexist university in America.  If you don't believe me just ask Paul Griffiths — an Oxford educated now-former Professor at Duke Divinity School (DDS).  Just last semester, Griffiths, who is white, expressed opposition to a Racial Equity Institute "diversity" program that was being pushed by one of his so-called colleagues.  Expressing his opposition to the program resulted in a charge of racial and sexual harassment by a white professor named Thea Portier-Young.  Rather than face a kangaroo court that refused to provide him documentation of relevant evidence in advance of his hearing, Griffiths resigned his tenured position.

Trump slogans are photoshopped out of New Jersey high school yearbook.  A New Jersey high school has censored out mentions of Donald Trump in their yearbook and now the school is investigating the 'possible violation of First Amendment rights'.  One student at Wall Township High School in New Jersey had submitted a Donald Trump quote that wasn't included with her picture.  Two others had Trump logos on their clothes either cropped or edited out of their pictures.

Update:
NJ Yearbook Advisor Suspended for Altering Photos of Kids Wearing Trump Shirts.  We're sure a paid suspension will teach this moonbat a lesson.  She should be fired and the school should replace every yearbook.

Court Ruling Trashes Tenure, Opens The Door To 'Borking' Of College Professors.  In the fall of 2014, Marquette University political science professor John McAdams did something that thousands of academics do every day — he wrote a blog post expressing his opinion about something.  That post, however, wound up getting him kicked off campus, suspended from teaching, and ultimately terminated from his job.  A court has now ruled his termination is perfectly legal, despite the fact that he holds tenure.  This case, which would have strained the imagination of Franz Kafka, badly undermines one of the remaining defenses against leftist inquisitions against faculty members who dare to question any aspect of "progressivism" or criticize anyone in a espouses politically correct views

Meet the Fat, White LARPer at the Center of the Evergreen State College Madness.  I am a bit late to this Evergreen College nonsense, and for that, I apologize to you all profusely.  There's so much insanity here that I am ashamed to have missed out on it for this long.  In case you missed it, a professor at the university, Bret Weinstein, objected to some nonsense progressive retardation and said that other professors were afraid to speak their minds on the issue.  His point ended up being proven, since after his semi-private email chain was leaked by the nasty piece of work who runs the school newspaper, radical activsts have demanded his suspension and threats to his safety forced him to hold his last class off-campus.  These are some of the comments that caused him to be branded a racist.  Read this and tell me if you can find any kind of racism whatsoever. [...]

The Left's Road Leads To Manchester.  I hadn't heard of Salman Abedi before he murdered all those little girls and their friends and family members at the Ariana Grande concert, but when I recently spoke at Truman State University in Missouri, the University at Buffalo, and Gettysburg College, and then at an event in Iceland, I discussed the belief system that incites people such as Salman Abedi to violence.  I explored the ways in which jihad terrorists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims, and the texts of the Qur'an and Islamic law that call upon Muslims to wage war against those who do not believe in Islam.  For this, the three universities and the Icelandic press treated my presence in the country as if Josef Goebbels had stopped by for a visit.

After black professor blocks College Republicans from campus event, club files grievance.  The Orange Coast College Republicans Club says it has filed a grievance with the school demanding officials reprimand a black professor who denied Republican club members entrance to an African American/Women's round table event on campus.  The group claims that Jessica Alabi, a sociology and gender studies instructor, shut down their attempt to attend the Women's History Month event in March.  Emails published by the club this week obtained through a public records act request largely corroborate the claim.

So much for "freedom of association."
Principal photographed with Confederate monument protesters is 'removed from campus'.  A New Orleans school principal has been "removed from campus" after a photo emerged showing him standing at the Robert E. Lee statue in front of a Confederate flag.  Crescent Leadership Academy superintendent Tracy Bennett-Joseph confirmed Monday (May 22) that Principal Nicholas Dean was removed from campus.  She said the school's management was investigating.

Michigan law would suspend students for suppressing speech.  A Michigan state senator recently introduced a bill that would require public institutions to suspend students found responsible for disrupting speech.  Some senators questioned the need for such a law, arguing that the First Amendment already guarantees the right to free expression, but free speech advocates counter that school administrators routinely defy that requirement.

Guilty of hate until proven leftist.  At Bethune-Cookman University's commencement on Wednesday [5/10/2017], U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed throughout her address and many graduates turned their backs on her.  Apparently, free speech and good manners are not part of the academic experience at the historic black college in Daytona Beach, Fla.  Mrs. DeVos' main crime is that she's part of the hated Trump administration.  That's enough to trigger the heckler's veto.  Since the 1960s, colleges have been in the grip of leftism, which is distinguished from liberalism by its predictable Marxist cant and taste for violence.  Disagreement is "hate speech."

Pro-life Fresno students sue professor over literal erasure of free speech.  A group of group of pro-life students at Fresno State in California learned some rough lessons in free speech and the legal system recently, leading to a court case which will no doubt receive national attention.  It seems that the group, Fresno State Students for Life, made plans to write some pro-life messages in chalk on the sidewalks outside the school library and obtained the required permits for a public display from the school.  When the time came, they crafted their messages, including one which read, "You CAN be pregnant & successful" on the pavement, but quickly received an unexpected surprise.  One of the professors from the school showed up and informed them that their free speech was in "the wrong place" and he would be coming back to clean up the unwelcome display.

Black college cancels GOP senator's commencement speech to protect 'marginalized' students.  Republican politicians and officials should probably decline invitations from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) for the foreseeable future.  Days after students at Bethune-Cookman University booed and heckled Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Texas Southern University withdrew an invitation to Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to address its graduating students.  According to Fox News, the HBCU said it was disinviting Cornyn because it wanted students to remember their commencement "positively for years to come," and that couldn't happen if a white conservative politician was their speaker.

Washington Post Urges All Colleges to Censor 'Racist and Offensive' Speech.  In response to the racist banana episode at the American university, which has sparked outrage at the campus and is now under the investigation by the FBI as a hate crime, Washington Post wrote an editorial using the threatening episode as a pretext to declare that all colleges should censor any speech that might be deemed racist.

Historically black university cancels Republican senator's speech.  U.S. Senator John Cornyn will no longer deliver the commencement address at Texas Southern University this weekend, the school said on Friday, after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed at another historically black university.  More than 800 people signed a petition started by a Texas Southern University student who opposed the university's invitation to the Republican senator to speak at Saturday's [5/13/2017] graduation in Houston.  The petition said Cornyn's backing of DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, among other things, showed that he supported "discriminatory policies and politicians."

Students' Insult to DeVos Embarrasses HBCUs.  It was embarrassing to see the students jeering and turning their backs on an invited guest who had done them no harm.  The president of the college had to scold them as if they were in kindergarten.  True, Mrs. DeVos supports school choice, but so does Senator Cory Booker; yet, if that slightly beige, pedicured senator had been the speaker, the students would have been lining up to take photographs with him.

Liberals Angry That Betsy DeVos Will Give Speech at Historically Black College.  This is a perfect example of how conservatives can never win in the minds of the left.  If DeVos didn't do this, she would be criticized for ignoring HBCs.  If she does go, it's framed as controversy.

The End of Diversity.  We have come full circle in the last 30 years.  In my youth, the Boomer Progs preached tolerance to us.  My first class in college, on the first day, I was harangued by a little French girl, telling all of us about how America was a racist and sexist society.  Americans were intolerant!  The Boomer Prog teacher nodded along until I foolishly pointed out that the word tolerance means to put up with something you don't like.  Therefore, the little French girl was telling me she did not like black people, but was willing to put up with them.

Florida Student Loses Credit for Using Word 'Man' in History Essay.  A student at the University of Florida lost points on an essay assignment for his decision to use the word "man," instead of the word "humankind."  Student Martin Poirier received a B-minus on an essay assignment, despite his professor's claim that the paper was "thoughtful."  The reason?  He dared to use the word "man," instead of "humankind."  "Thoughtful paper, although the writing-mechanics errors are killing you," Professor Jack Davis wrote at the bottom of the paper.

Tufts And Brandeis College Administrations Promote Terrorist Propaganda, Silence Opposing Views.  While welcoming anti-Israel and pro-Hamas speech on campus, Brandeis has also exhibited hostility towards those who are critical of Islamic terrorism.  In April 2014, under pressure from students and faculty, the Brandeis administration acted to withdraw an honorary degree that had been offered to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born women's rights activist and critic of radical Islam who has condemned the mistreatment of women in Muslim countries, and especially the practice of female genital mutilation.  Eighty-seven Brandeis faculty members signed a petition citing Ali's "extreme Islamophobic beliefs" as a reason why the honorary degree should be rescinded.  Showcasing the university's blatant hypocrisy, Brandeis had previously awarded an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner, who has a long history of anti-Semitic statements, among them the claim that "The biggest supporters of Israel are the most repulsive members of the Jewish community."

Therapeutic Universities and Soft Despotism.  [Scroll down]  Identity politics programs also find such offices to be useful allies for reinforcing their ideological agendas.  Identity politics is predicated on victimhood, and victimhood generates demands for compensatory programs and services.  Minority students and women presumably are being psychologically wounded by racism and sexism, and thus should have services that apply therapeutic balm to their psychic wounds.  Given the rarity these days of legal or violent expressions of sexism or racism, victims must look to psychological effects like "low self-esteem" or subjective perceptions of "microagressions" as evidence of "unconscious racism" and other occult biases.  The therapeutic services offered by the university validate this victim narrative, as do sexual harassment policies, "hate speech" codes, and other policies all backed up by badly written federal and state laws.

The Roots of Campus Progressivism's Madness.  The first thing to know is that the picture that is painted in the media of campuses as incubators and hotbeds of far-left radicalism is, too often, accurate — and depressing.  What's more, too many of the most politically active liberal students understand neither free speech nor one of its prime functions:  to discover what's true.  And why would they?  After all, free speech and truth itself are nothing more than oppressive, white-supremacist social constructs!

Repeal and Replace Our Universities.  Political intolerance is now the official policy at colleges and universities across the United States with violence or the threat thereof as the means of enforcing extreme leftist orthodoxy.  In February, a proposed speech by former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos precipitated riots at the University of California Berkeley as protesters smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper-sprayed innocent individuals, and set fires in the street.  The speech was cancelled.  Conservative commentator Ann Coulter was forced to cancel her speech at Berkeley, after law enforcement sources announced that there was a "99% chance" of violence from left-wing activists if the speech was held.

A Road Map for Dealing With Campus Radicals.  The examples are well-known:  The shout-down/shutdown of Heather Mac Donald at Claremont McKenna College; the riots sparked by Milo Yiannopoulos at Berkeley; the experience of Charles Murray at Middlebury College, where he and professor Allison Stanger were physically assaulted by a mob.  Stanger was sent to the hospital with injuries.  She said she feared for her life.

White, female student 'glares' at peers, gets reported as bias incident.  Gone are the days when saying something that hurts another's feelings is a bias incident.  Now just looking at someone funny can get you reported to the campus Thought Police.  It happened at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where an unnamed "white, female student" was reported to the university's bias incident reporting system.  Her crime?  Glaring at two female peers.

College Speaker Whines About Prison But Fails To Mention That She Tortured and Killed A Man.  Convicted felon Donna Hylton spoke on a civil rights panel at a fancypants college earlier this month but completely failed to mention that she — along with several others — kidnapped a man, forcibly sodomized him with a steel pole and then tortured him to death.  When a student at the event asked Hytlon about the heinous crime, a second panelist loudly berated the student for having "embarrassed" Hylton.

The Cowards of Academia.  Now that student mobs at universities around America (and elsewhere in the West) have silenced conservative speaker after conservative speaker, it has dawned on a small number of left-wing professors that the public is beginning to have contempt for the universities.  As a result, a handful of academics at a handful of universities have signed statements in support of allowing "diverse" views to be heard at the university.  These statements are worthless.  While some of the professors who have signed these statements might sincerely believe that the university should honor the non-left value of free speech, one should keep in mind the following caveats. [...]

It's Time to Crush Campus Censorship.  The courts have failed.  The culture is failing.  Unless Congress acts, we may lose not only free speech on college campuses, but free speech in America.  In the memorable phrase of my friend, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education president Greg Lukianoff, college students are "unlearning liberty," carrying the virus of censorship and oppression beyond the university and into the nation.  The courts are failing not because the underlying legal doctrines are flawed but because the remedies for censorship are completely inadequate.  As of right now, there is a far greater financial incentive for a university to keep its sidewalks shoveled in the winter than to protect one of our nation's founding liberties.

UC Berkeley surrenders to the fascists.  [Scroll down]  When in 1957 then-governor Orville [sic - Orval] Faubus [Democrat] of Arkansas similarly agreed with the anti-integration mobs seeking to prevent black students desegregating Little Rock's Central High School, he instructed the National Guard to "preserve the peace" by turning away the black students.  How is that different from U.C. Berkeley factotums announcing that Ann Coulter's talk would be canceled to preserve the peace? [...] The arrogant left-wing academics accommodating fascistic students across the land by failing to punish disrupters of conservative speeches do not realize it, but they are in an existential crisis.  Higher education is a vast and rich industry that feeds at the public trough and is squandering centuries of public goodwill and support.  An accumulating mass of insults to common sense by radical leftists on the faculty and in the student body is eroding that support and eventually will see support for strong measures.

Student activists demand college 'take action' against conservative journalists.  Several black activists at Pomona College, associated with the Claremont Colleges, have sent a letter to the college president asking administrators to "take action" against conservative journalists from the student publication The Claremont Independent.  The president, David Oxtoby, posted an email defending the right of Black Lives Matter critic Heather Mac Donald to speak.  Mac Donald was physically threatened and forced to cancel a lecture at Claremont following protests against her appearance.  The activists claim that "free speech" is incompatible with "truth" and therefore should not be protected.

Wellesley Student Newspaper Threatens Students Who Do Not Conform to Progressive Values.  Students at the all-female Wellesley College, the alma mater of both Hillary Clinton and Madeline Albright, are threatening their peers who refuse to tow the progressive line in a recently published column in the student newspaper.  As a part of a wider conversation on hate speech on campus, the student editors of The Wellesley News penned a column ironically titled "Free Speech is Not Violated At Wellesley," that claims that students who "refuse to adapt their beliefs" will be treated with hostility by their peers.

Notes for a White Kid in University:  An Introduction to the Blindingly Obvious.  If you are a white student in college, you doubtless hear daily that white people are evil, the principal cause of everything wrong with the world.  Whiteness is bad, white people are bad.  We are to blame for everything.  If you believe this, you are being gamed.  What you are being told is nonsense.  If you have the intelligence and self-respect to think for yourself, ask:  "What have other races and ethnic groups accomplished in the world compared to what we white people have?" This question will be shocking to you because you have been carefully programmed not to think such things.  But ask.  I think you will find that the groups who complain the most have accomplished the least.

Public University Threatened to Punish Student Over His Refusal to Remove Trump Sign from Dorm Window.  A student at the University of South Alabama is taking heat from administrators for failing to remove a Donald Trump sign from the window of his dorm room.  Student William David Meredith has been threatened with disciplinary action by administrators over his refusal to remove a Donald Trump campaign sign from the window of his dorm room.

Wellesley College Students: 'Hostility' Is Warranted Against People Who Say Anything Offensive.  The editorial staff of Wellesley College's student newspaper recently wrote that anyone who dares utter a politically incorrect thought should be met with "hostility."  The editorial started out as an explainer about why there's not a free speech problem on their campus and that their reputation as "house flowers who cannot exist in the real world" is entirely unfair.  Then things get weirder.  The student editors say it's fine to suppress and deny people the right to speak their minds if their thoughts offend others.

Who's Unsafe on Campus?  Quivering students at the University of Notre Dame launched a protest last week against the school's decision to invite Vice President Mike Pence as commencement speaker.  Activist Imanne Mondane told the campus newspaper that she and her peers felt "unsafe" and threatened by "someone who openly is offensive but also demeaning of their humanity and of their life and of their identity."  In other words:  The mere presence of a public official whose policy positions veer from acceptable left-wing norms is a public safety hazard.

Threats to Conservative Students.  Whether it is female Republican students at places like St. Olaf College and Cornell University being accosted, cursed at, threatened with physical violence and, in the latter case, actually assaulted; Cal State Fullerton Trump supporting students being assaulted by an instructor; a riot at Berkeley; or College Republicans being targeted by name as "fascists" and encouragements made to make their personal information public so that decent folks can "punch fascists" — bullying, intimidation, and threats of violence against conservative students have become staples of campus life.  While this phenomenon is an outrage in itself, equally outrageous is the fact that it has been permitted to occur and recur.  It's inconceivable that college administrators and faculty would permit these outrages if white Republican conservative students were the perpetrators and their victims were, say, black, gay, or transgendered.  But because it is only conservative and moderate students who are being victimized by leftists, not only has no real action been initiated to stop these attacks.  In some instances, faculty and administrators have even encouraged them.

Constitution-wielding student sues college over speech policies.  A Pierce College student has filed a lawsuit challenging the school's free speech zone after he was stopped for handing out copies of the Constitution outside of the tiny zone.  The free speech zone, which covers just 0.003 percent of campus, is reportedly the size of approximately three parking spaces.

Language Police At Fancypants College Deem The Word 'Homosexual' Offensive Now.  Emerson College, a fancypants school dedicated solely to communication and performing arts, has officially deemed the word "homosexual" to be offensive.  "Use gay or lesbian when describing people who are attracted to members of the same sex," school officials instruct in the guide.  "Avoid the use of homosexual and homosexual relationship."  The guide does not appear to provide any reason for this rule in its 1,440-word "inclusive language" guide.

Homeschooling: Restoring Parents' Right to Raise Their Children as God Intended.  Teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic became minor goals a long time ago.  The number one priority of public education is producing good liberals.  Leftists dominating public education have given us students who hate their country; white kids taught to feel guilty; black kids taught to feel justified in resenting whites.  They're taught that same-sex marriage is normal and that opposing it is the same as racial bigotry.  They're taught that having babies harms the planet and that recycling is saintly.  Our kids are also taught that their parents owning guns contributes to gun violence and opposing illegal immigration is racist.  Independent critical thinking has also been removed from public education K through college.  Teachers and professors demand total brain-dead submission to their leftist point-of-view.  Free-thinking students are demeaned and even physically assaulted by fellow students.

10 Things Trump Could Do to Drive the Left (Even More) Crazy:  Campus SJW Edition.  [#10]  Call for a repeal of "hate crimes" laws.  These laws represent totalitarian efforts to police thought, he should say.  A murder is no less a murder and assault is no less an assault if it is done for reasons other than what we deign to call "hate."  And who determines what "hate" is, anyway?  If Congress will not repeal these laws, insist that they begin to include terms like "redneck," "hick," and "hillbilly" to the list of hate-speech terms and those who are subjected to those epithets among the protected classes.

Students Denounced As Racist For Wearing US Flag Colors.  Students from one Iowan high school recently apologized to the principal of another Iowan high school when people found their choice of red, white and blue attire offensive.  Supporters of the Des Moines North High School basketball team, many of whose players are from refugee families, were offended when fans of Valley High School's basketball team wore red, white and blue last week, The College Fix reports.  "This is an example of BLATANT racism," said Ty Leggett, a Valley High School alum, on the Valley High School — WDMCS Facebook page.

College Students Support Freedom For Muslim Singers But Not Christian Photographers.  Alliance Defending Freedom asked students at the University of Wisconsin if they thought a dress designer should have the freedom not to design a dress for Melania Trump.  They said "absolutely."  The students also thought a Muslim should have the right to turn down singing at a Christian church.  But when they are asked if a Christian photographer should have the right not to photograph a same-sex wedding, their answers uncomfortably change.

Harvard going Orwell, protecting students from conservative websites.  The Harvard University library system is now in the business of warning away students from polluting their minds with dissident information that might raise uncomfortable questions in Liberalville.  Can't have the youngsters questioning the orthodoxy of the left!  Thus, we have the spectacle of Harvard librarians rating political websites and warning away students and faculty, lest their minds become confused by viewpoints that might disturb the liberal mindset.

You won't believe the 50 websites Harvard has labeled "Fake News".  Your betters at the Harvard University Library have published a guide to "Fake News Sites" that includes a bevy of real news sites that happen to lean right.  Among them:  the Heritage Foundation, Conservative Review, and Wikileaks, the latter of which has revealed (whether you agree with its approach or not) some very real news indeed.  This, my friends, is a dangerous game.  Just as Snopes and Politifact are reliable Democrat public relations outlets (remember when the latter played both sides on 'If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It'?), anyone claiming to be an arbiter of truth is inherently suspect.  Because progressives always get it wrong, I'll repeat.  The market is the only arbiter for media.  The marketplace of ideas dictates who wins and loses.

Harvard library circulating 'fake news' list, which, of course, includes just about every conservative news site.  A few conservative critics predicted early on that the recent obsession with fake news would lead eventually to right-of-center newsrooms being lumped with the bad actors.  It looks increasingly likely that those critics were onto something.

Fake Professor Calls Free Beacon 'Fake News'.  Fake professor, feminist, and activist Melissa "Mish" Zimdars has deemed the Washington Free Beacon "fake news" on a list that is now being distributed as a media guide by Harvard University.  Zimdars, a Donald Trump critic and Carly Rae Jepsen fan, is an assistant professor at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, whose research focus includes "social justice."  She has organized liberal protest rallies against student debt and refers to conservatives as the "DARK SIDE."  She created her fake news list, "False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical 'News' Sources," shortly after Hillary Clinton's defeat in the presidential election.  The list, which Zimdars has already edited because news sites mistakenly appeared on it, features numerous conservative outlets.

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One thing you can certainly say about akdart.com:  It isn't "Clickbait-y."

University Language Guide Deems 'Homosexual' and 'Housewife' to Be Offensive Terms.  Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales is instructing its students and teachers to not use "potentially discriminatory" words like "homosexual" and "housewife."  There are a total of 34 no-no words listed on the school's "Code of Practice on Using Inclusive Language" list, which aims to promote "fairness and equality through raising awareness about the effects of potentially discriminatory vocabulary," according to an article in The Independent.  Other forbidden words include "mankind," "forefathers," and "Miss/Mrs."  The code also suggests some replacements.

Teaching students to obey the law is now controversial.  How politically correct of a culture have we become that we cannot even talk about enforcing immigration law?  Evidently, bending over backwards so to not offend anyone has essentially destroyed our educational backbone.  According to a school district in Washington state, a teacher talking about reporting illegal immigrants goes too far.  Even as we see college campuses looted and holding riots whenever a conservative speaker threatens them with a different point of view, educators talking about the law just cannot be tolerated.

The Rampant Incivility of the Left.  It has become increasingly a staple of left-wing political bombast to compare one's adversaries to the primary villains of World War II.  Today, about 5% of the U.S. population has any recollection of those years.  It has, therefore, become far too easy to demean and diminish the genesis and consequences of that fateful period as the education establishment, dominated by the Left, deliberately avoids teaching the realities of that era.  Thus, opening the door for the demagogues to miscast those years for their own ends.

Florida Teacher Punished for Pro-Trump Facebook Post.  An elementary school teacher in Florida was demoted this week to desk duty, after posting on Facebook in support of "mass deportation."  Angry leftist parents then began to call the school to complain.  Veronica Kochkis' post has since been removed, but originally said, "The funny thing about immigrants staying home is the rest of us who pay for them are at work like we've always been.  Looks like less mouths to feed today.  Have fun while you still can.  So glad to hear about massive deportation.  Let's make America great again.  Thanks Donald Trump!!"  Kochkis teaches at Parkside Elementary School, where the young children are 96% minority races.  According to school statistics, 70% of students are Latino, and 20% are Haitian.  A petition for her firing was signed by 3,000 parents.

Yale Student Group Wants to Force Fraternities to Admit Women, Gives Sororities Free Pass.  A Yale student group has waged a war on the university fraternities and will use Title IX to force them into admitting women — while letting female-only sororities off the hook.  Engender, a group led by students of Yale, claims it will lobby the university — citing Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on gender, and internal Yale policies against discrimination — to issue sanctions against male-only fraternities.  Will McGrew, a co-director of the organization, told Yale News that it's a "logical next step" to approach the Yale administration "because all of these organizations fall under the purview of Yale legally, either because they are registered as Yale organizations or it is literally all Yale students that constitute them."

The Left Silences Debate.  This week the nation's top debate coaches released their recognition of the top collegiate policy debate teams.  This exceptional group of sixteen teams receives pre-bids to the National Debate Tournament at the end of March and will have strong potential toward winning the national title in debate at the tournament to be held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. [...] Incredibly, Berkeley's teams and one other team from California who made the cut, will not attend the National Debate Tournament.  That is because the state of California has banned all university related personnel from traveling to four states around the nation:  Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, on the specious grounds that these states have all passed "anti-LGBT legislation."

Is It "Deeply Offensive" to Enforce the Law?  It is, apparently, if the law relates to immigration.  At Penn State, someone put up posters urging students and others to report violations of the immigration laws.  This is the poster:  [Photo] Is it a civic duty to report illegal aliens?  That is certainly a defensible position.  In general, citizens should cooperate with law enforcement.  But Penn State's administration didn't see it that way.

Report: 'Bias Response Teams' Creeping onto University Campuses Across US, Threaten Free Speech.  So-called "Bias Response Teams" are creeping onto university campuses across the country.  This was the conclusion of the first national survey of Bias Response Teams done by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).  The report identified 232 public and private American colleges and universities that had bias response teams on their campuses in 2016, affecting around 2.8 million students.  BRTs encourage students to formally report on other students and faculty members whenever they perceive that someone's speech is "biased," which threatens free speech.

Campus Capitalist Group:  We Were Denied Official Status Over Concerns We Make People Feel 'Unsafe'.  The student senate at Santa Clara University has voted against giving official status to the school's chapter of Turning Point USA after concerns were raised that approving the pro-capitalism group would be "against [the students'] humanity."  According to the minutes from the meeting, sophomore senator Alex Perlman said he believed that "the benefits [of] being part of this organization" were "outweighed by the amount of people who feel uncomfortable with people being part of this charter organization."  Multicultural Center Director Issac Nieblas said that "the organization ... is against our ideals as a Jesuit philosophy and against our humanity and senators need to think about that before voting."  Several attendees expressed concerns that some other schools' chapters of the group had invited alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to their campuses.  And TPUSA petitioner Caleb Alleva told the Daily Caller that the general idea behind the opposition was that having the group on campus would make people feel "unsafe."

Student government rejects pro-capitalism club, says it's 'against humanity' to allow it.  Santa Clara University's student government recently voted to deny a pro-capitalism campus club official recognition, citing the possibility that the group may invite conservative speakers, and that allowing it would be a stand against "humanity."  Santa Clara University's student senate voted 16-10 on Feb. 2 to deny the conservative club Turning Point USA official status.  That decision severely hampers the group's ability to spread its free market message on campus, as the group cannot use campus funds to invite speakers without official recognition, and must recruit a staff member to book space for its activities.

Berkeley's Shame.  On the University of California's oldest campus, named for one of the most important philosophers of the 18th century (Schopenhauer thought so, anyway), Breitbart editor and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was invited by a campus political club to make a speech about the events of the day, and this was prevented by riots — not protests, but the violent destruction of property with explosives by a brick-throwing mob that promised further and worse violence if Milo Yiannopoulos were permitted to speak.  And so Yiannopoulos was prevented from giving his talk.

16 Most Ridiculously PC Moments on College Campuses in 2016.  [#4] The "War on Harambe":  More than one college banned references to the Late Great Harambe in 2016.  Resident assistants at the University of Massachusetts warned students that "any negative remarks regarding 'Harambe'" were "direct attack[s] to our campus's African American community" and that certain Harambe jokes were "sexual assault incidences."  Clemson University banned "any reference to Harambe" from dorm spaces over concerns of "racism" and "rape culture."  A poster at Florida State University warned students that Harambe Halloween costumes were "cultural appropriation."  Note:  Harambe is not a culture; he was a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Why is Freedom So Frightening to Some People?  "Hate speech" was supposed to segregate out speech that disagreed with or offended them so much that it exceeded the boundaries of that which was protected by the free speech clause of the Constitution.  Also if you killed someone or beat someone up while saying something vile, then they would put you away for longer.  You have perhaps noticed that calling people "deplorables" does not apparently qualify as hate speech, nor do the tweets and Facebook rants in response the election of Donald Trump, even those about assassinating him, though the Secret Service frowns on that.  This year has also seen a significant rise in the occasions when innocent children in college refuse to hear an invited speaker who might disagree with their ideas.  Neither students nor their adult supervisors seem to realize that an educational institution is where you are supposed to have your ideas challenged.

U. of Maryland students 'demand' that 'American Sniper' never be screened again on campus.  A coalition of student groups at the University of Maryland — spurred in part by the election of Donald Trump — has issued a list of 64 demands to the school's administration, including a call to "prevent" on-campus movie screenings that could be deemed offensive by Muslim students.  That demand was just one of nine expressed by Muslim student groups within the so-called ProtectUMD coalition, which sent the letter of demands to the administration late last month, the Diamondback student newspaper reported Monday [12/12/2016].

Christian university denies conservative students' request to form campus club.  Faculty leaders at Samford University — a private Christian university in Alabama — have temporarily denied a request from conservative students to form a campus club due to the "inflammatory" wording of their founding documents.  The students had sought to launch a Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the school, but an email to the students from Shannon Ashe, the chair of the Campus Life Committee, explained why that request has been rejected — for now.

42 Things You're Not Allowed to Say At Virginia Tech.  Fifty years ago, students protested for free speech.  Now, they're protesting against it.  Last spring, groups at Virginia Tech collaborated to produce a list of 42 different expressions which offend them.  Posters reminding students of the forbidden speech remain scattered across campus today, The College Fix reported. [...] The list of forbidden expressions was compiled at a series of weekly meetings hosted by the NAACP, the Muslim Student Association, and the Jewish Student Union.

Political Correctness Deep in the Heart of Texas.  The widely disparate official responses to two recent campus protests at UT speak volumes.

Don't speak to media, Hampshire begs students.  Hampshire College is cracking down on free expression after veterans protested its decision to remove the American flag from campus, forcing activists to petition the White House for redress.  Hampshire President Jonathan Lash announced via email Tuesday [11/29/2016] that "no protestors [sic] will be allowed to come on campus" and that "media are prohibited from speaking directly to students."

A Posse for Your Thoughts.  If the English language had an equivalent of the endangered species list, it would be growing exponentially.  This year, for example, the use of gender identifying pronouns such as he, her, his, and him are strongly being discouraged by the censors and administrators on college campuses.  Now the speech police are playing a new game in which words that were previously considered perfectly acceptable for all to use are now only allowed to be spoken by certain races and ethnicities when used in certain contexts.

NYU Brings Back 'Deplorable Professor', Awards Him a Raise.  Liberal studies professor Michael Rectenwald, the man behind the controversial @DeplorableNYUProf account, has been promoted by prestigious New York University and given a raise days after the University had put him on a paid leave for criticizing politically correct culture on campus.  Michael Rectenwald was promoted from clinical professor to full time professor on Monday [11/14/2016], a source said to the NY Post.

People's Cube Artist Faces 5 Years in Prison for Hanging Up Anti-Terror Posters at GMU.  The artistic genius behind the highly acclaimed conservative satirical site The People's Cube has been arrested and released on $8,000 bail for putting up pro-Israel posters to combat a pro-Islamist conference at George Mason University.  He now faces the prospect of five years in prison for allegedly committing a "class 6 felony."  Beloved satirist Oleg Atbashian (who has contributed to PJ Media) has gotten in trouble for defying authorities before:  "Back in my Soviet dissident days, when I was collecting signatures in defense of Andrei Sakharov, I was screamed at, threatened, and lectured by the KGB and Communist functionaries," Oleg says.  "What I never imagined was that in the United States, the land of the free, I would not only be subjected to similar treatment, but go to jail."

Who Knew It Was A Crime To Hang Anti-Terrorism Posters?  My friend and compatriot Oleg Atbashian found that out the hard way.  Imagine my surprise this morning to find out he had been roughed up and arrested in Fairfax, Virginia.  His crime was hanging anti-terrorism posters on the university campus.  Oh, and bonus... he wasn't even read his rights.

DePaul: Fundraiser for Terrorist Welcome, Ben Shapiro Not Welcome.  The Young Americans for Freedom chapter at DePaul University invited Christina Hoff Sommers and Ben Shapiro to speak on campus.  At some point, the administration decided not to allow Ben Shapiro on campus over supposed security concerns, even threatening him with arrest if he set foot on campus.  In an ultimate twist of irony, the subject of Shapiro's speech was free speech on campus.

Two College Students Under Investigation Over Trump Celebration Victory Lap.  Two Babson College students are reportedly in trouble after their idea of Donald Trump victory celebration was too much for some to handle.  According to a Boston Globe report, the two fraternity brothers placed a large Trump flag in the back of a pickup truck and drove through the streets of nearby Wellesley College, a women's liberal arts college that also happens to be Hillary Clinton's alma mater.

Rutgers student newspaper fires columnist for attempting to write 'illegal immigrant'.  The campus newspaper at Rutgers University fired a student columnist after he confronted editors who would not let him use the phrase "illegal immigrant" in a piece about illegal immigration.  The term does not actually appear in the final Daily Targum column written by Aviv Khavich, a sophomore engineering student at the New Jersey university.  An editor changed every mention of the highly politicized phrase to "undocumented alien" or "undocumented immigrant" without the author's approval.  The column is titled — ironically, it turns out — "Enforcement of law is not anti-immigrant."

Censoring Language as Offensive Violates the Constitution.  The 14th Amendment says that no state can pass a law that denies anyone equal protection.  This means that a tiny group of people cannot have a right to censor language as offensive, and no one else.  So far no one has explained, in constitutional terms; why one person, who claims to be offended, has the right to shut down the speech, clothing, or legal actions of everyone else.  At first glance this looks ridiculous, and it is.  But like many other liberal power-enabling concepts, those perpetrating it intend to repeat it so often that it becomes accepted by a majority of Americans.

Which Of These Academics Got Suspended?  Here are three rants from academics at three top American universities, made this semester, about fellow professors.  Can you guess which of the three led to the professor being punished?

University of Texas:  No cowboy or Indian costumes.  Students at the University of Texas in Austin have been advised not to wear cowboy boots or cowboy hats on Halloween.  Students were issued a 29-point checklist to ensure they avoid any controversial or offensive trick or treat regalia.  Students were issued a 29-point checklist to ensure they avoid any controversial or offensive trick or treat regalia.  Telling a Texan not to wear cowboy boots is like telling Colonel Sanders not to fry chicken.  Students were issued a 29-point checklist to ensure they avoid any controversial or offensive trick or treat regalia.

Yale Student Survey Reveals Conservative Views 'Unwelcome' on Campus.  According to a report by the Yale Daily News, a recent survey revealed that conservative views are "unwelcome" on the Ivy League school's campus.  Of the over 2,000 students from across the political spectrum who participated in the survey, over 75 percent agreed that Yale "does not provide a welcoming environment for conservative students to share their opinions on political issues."  "Anybody who supports Donald Trump or is a Republican is just hated," said one survey respondent, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of backlash from liberal students.  "I just get the general vibe that Republicans aren't respected for their beliefs as much as maybe the liberal people are."

Student protesters campaigning for safe spaces 'block white students' at Berkeley university.  Protesters demonstrating for "safe spaces" for people of colour and LGBT students formed a human chain at a US campus, reportedly designed to stop white people getting to their classes.  In a video of the demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley, protesters are heard shouting "Go around!" at white students while they are seen allowing BAME people through the blockade.  One demonstrator tells a student who is trying to make his way through:  "This is bigger than you.  This is about whiteness."

Berkeley students barricade bridge, force whites to cross creek.  Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a violent protest on campus Friday [10/21/2016] to demand additional segregated "spaces of color" for non-white students.  The demonstration began at a key bridge on campus, where the protesters made a human chain to prevent white people from crossing, instead directing them to "go around" by trudging across the stream.

Report:  Mizzou among worst schools for viewpoint diversity.  The report by Heterodox Academy ranks 150 schools on their commitment to viewpoint diversity, placing schools like Yale, Harvard, and Brown at the bottom of the list.

Horowitz: Is the University of Chicago a Safe Space?  Across the country campus activists are seeking to make universities "safe spaces" for facts and ideas that make them uncomfortable and which they can't refute.  The University of Chicago recently took a small but brave step to oppose the regressive environment of the university culture by announcing it did not support "trigger warnings" or "safe spaces" — both of which are antithetic to a university education and to a democratic society in general. [...] As a result of the purge of conservatives from college faculties over a 40-year period, universities have come to resemble one-party states.  Consequently, students who pay $50,000 or more a year for a liberal education are getting fleeced.  You can't get a good education if they're only letting you hear one side of the story.

Don't say 'man up,' 'like a girl,' Chico State athletes say.  Students at California State University-Chico are being treated to an educational campaign instructing them to avoid phrases like "man up" and "like a girl."  The campaign was adopted at the urging of the Chico State Student Athlete Advisory Committee, which hopes that the poster campaign will lead students to avoid potentially offensive terms.

Campus police to probe 'offensive' Halloween costumes, students told.  Members of Tufts University's Greek system have been told they could face "serious disciplinary sanctions" — including a possible investigation by the campus police — for wearing Halloween costumes that offend peers or make the campus community "feel threatened or unsafe."  The warning was part of a letter to the presidents of fraternities and sororities on campus signed by various Greek Life council leaders, who asked the chapter presidents to relay the message to their members.

Catholic university prohibits 'Unborn Lives Matter' posters on campus.  The nation's largest Catholic university told a group of pro-life students that it could not display posters reading "Unborn Lives Matter," lest they provoke the Black Lives Matter movement.  In a letter to the College Republicans, DePaul University president Father Dennis Holtschneider said the posters contained "bigotry" veiled "under the cover of free speech," the Daily Wire reported.

California university deems 'man,' 'secretary,' 'male nurse' not inclusive enough.  "Secretary" is an exclusive word that's inappropriate to use, California State University Fullerton told students on a handout about gender-inclusive language.  Instead, use "administrative assistant," the guide said.  Also off-limits:  "Mankind," "man the desk/phones/tables," "hey guys," "man-made," "workmanship," "hey, dudes!" and "the common man."  And don't even think about using "man" or calling someone "Mrs. or Miss," or more than a dozen other words and phrases.  As part of its Inclusive Language Program, CSU Fullerton also invited students to let the University know what words or phrases "you want people to eliminate."

Survey Finds High Support For Communism Among Millennials.  If anyone needed new evidence that millennials have been deprived of a basic education, a new survey provides it with findings about their high acceptance rates of mass-murder-enabling ideologies such as socialism and communism.  Today, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) released a unique "Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes towards Socialism," gauging Americans' attitudes toward socialism, communism, and related ideas.  Data firm YouGov conducted the polling, which informed much of the report.  We've known millennials had a thing for Bernie Sanders' brand of socialism for a while, but these numbers show a generation sadly misinformed about the historical and present realities of life under communism and socialism.

The Academic Curtain.  One of the few things that could penetrate the "iron curtain" were ideas conveyed on radio waves.  "The Voice of America" network broadcast to the peoples of the Soviet bloc, so that they were never completely isolated, and hearing only what the Communist dictatorships wanted them to hear.  Ironically, despite the victory of democracy over dictatorship that brought the Cold War to an end, within American society there has slowly but steadily developed in too many of our own colleges and universities a set of restrictions on what can be said on campus, either by students or professors, or by outside speakers with views that contradict the political correctness of our time.  There is no barbed wire around our campuses, nor armed guards keeping unwelcome ideas out.  So there is no "iron curtain."  But there is a curtain, and it has its effect.

Conservative columnist fired from Mizzou student paper.  A conservative columnist was fired from the University of Missouri's student newspaper after writing a column that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement.  The newspaper claims that Chris Vas was terminated because he coordinated with a friend to share his columns in a social justice-themed Facebook group using "inciting language."

University of Wisconsin System Spent $2.7 Million on Speakers, But Conservatives [are] 'Notably Absent'.  A top state lawmaker is calling for the University of Wisconsin to bring more conservatives to campus, saying they were "notably absent" in 2015, a year the university system spent $2.7 million on guest speakers and lecturers.  "Intellectual diversity should be an expectation on every college campus in the U.S., not only in Wisconsin," Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told Heat Street.  "Our universities should not have a rigid ideological filter.  Every side of an issue should be present in a discussion and debated openly, and it should include conservative perspectives."  The top-paid speaker across the 26 schools was Kathy Obear, co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute, who spoke at the UW-Platteville campus on three separate occasions, earning $45,000.

U. Wisconsin System Spends Millions on Speakers But No Conservatives.  There's not enough balance in the ideas being presented to college students.  The University of Wisconsin system isn't the exception here, it's the rule.

Conservative YAF group blocked from forming campus club.  Students seeking to form a Young Americans for Freedom club at Roger Williams University were shut down by a student government subcommittee, which voted unanimously on Tuesday to reject the conservative group's bid for official recognition.  The student-driven YAF club sought support to host patriotic events, showcase educational efforts on the Constitution, free market, liberty and free speech, and bring high-profile conservative speakers to campus — but members of the school's Student Senate Clubs and Organizations Committee decided that mission was too similar in scope to the already-approved RWU College Republicans.

Unhinged Progressives Week in Higher Education.  We tend to think of safe spaces and other progressive concepts as a joke but no one on the left is laughing.  In fact, they're freaking out.  Conservative students get no concessions.

Crucifix, Trump chalkings reported as 'hate incidents' at UW-L.  More than 1-in-10 "hate incidents" reported to the UW-La Crosse "Hate Response Team" were deemed fake or frivolous.  Among the reports that were considered legitimate were the display of a Crucifix, the mere existence of a Christian student group, and an off-campus blog post about life as a white student.

UNCW defends free expression after prof destroys Trump chalkings.  The University of North Carolina at Wilmington is responding to a professor's vandalism of pro-Trump chalkings by reminding the community that contrary opinions are not threats.  Earlier this week, English professor Hannah DelaCruz-Abrams took matters into her own hands after encountering chalk messages that she considered "racist" and "hateful," washing away the slogans and posting photos of the aftermath on social media.

North Carolina high school teacher made her students compare speeches by Hitler and Trump, say outraged parents.  Parents in North Carolina claim a high school English teacher compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during lessons.  Families of students enrolled at Cedar Ridge High School were outraged after students in the teacher's class complained of their teacher's habit of injecting her political views into the lessons, according to Fox News.  One unidentified student even recorded a lesson during which the teacher is heard saying that 'only white, Christian, male Americans' are safe from a potential Trump presidency.  'Basically, the only people who seem to be safe from this guy are white Christian males,' the teacher is heard saying.

Teacher: Kids wearing Trump gear are racist.  A high school teacher in Long Island, New York apparently has a problem with people who want to make America great again.  Veronica Welsh, a teacher at Smithtown High School, is facing significant backlash after she called students who support Donald Trump racist.  "This week is Spirit Week at Smithtown HS West," she wrote on her personal Facebook page.  "It's easy to spot which students are racist by the Trump gear they're sporting for USA Day."

The Editor says...
Apparently, "Republican" is a race.  Who knew?

Taxpayer-Funded College Bureaucrats Deem 'American BBQ' Theme 'Offensive,' Force Students To Change It.  Students at taxpayer-funded Ramapo College of New Jersey attempted to organize a themed barbecue to kick off the new school year but administrators decided the theme — "American BBQ" — was "offensive."  Consequently, students say, the administrators forced the students to ditch the "American BBQ" theme — and to describe the event as just a run-of-the-mill barbecue.

High school apologises after students took a 'Make America Great Again' banner to a football game.  A Christian school in Alabama has caused a stir after a pro-Donald Trump banner was unfurled at a football game.  The players of Briarwood Christian School ran through a large white paper sign that read 'Make America Great Again' and 'Trump the Tigers' before their match with Farfield on Friday evening [9/16/2016].  In a statement Briarwood Christian's Superintendent Barrett Mosbecker apologized for the banner although he did not say why it had been on display.

Student's 'Make America Great Again' hat sparks outrage at Calgary university.  The president of Mount Royal University in Calgary has reminded students about the importance of free speech after a now-viral video posted Thursday [9/15/2016] showed a female student berating a male student wearing a "Make America Great Again" baseball cap.  The woman, identified as Zoe Slusar, the former vice president of student life at MRU, proceeded to tell the man, identified as Matt Linder, that he was not allowed to promote "hate language" on campus.

Conservative College Students Lay Out Why They Resisted Liberal Indoctrination.  It takes a lot of courage to be a conservative on most college campuses today.  Two gutsy Turning Point USA activists remind us what they have endured and why they stand strong in this inspirational video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation.  While campus liberals clamor for "safe spaces" because they're required to read white authors like William Shakespeare in Yale's English classes, these liberal activists also taunt, jeer and threaten conservative opponents and fellow students.  We have yet to hear conservatives ask for "safe spaces" or claim they are being "bullied" by the left, although the intensity seems to escalate against campus conservatives.

Florida Prof Penalizes Students For Using The Term 'Melting Pot'.  A University of Florida professor is warning her students not to use the term "melting pot," unless they want to risk a hit to their grades.  Art professor Pamela Brekka's policy was first reported by Campus Reform after the website obtained images of the syllabus and online assignments for her class, Art Appreciation:  American Diversity and Global Arts.  The class, which Brekka taught over the 2016 summer term, helps fulfill the university's distributive requirement for the humanities, along with a separate diversity requirement.

College's Bias Incident Team cries foul over '3 blind mice' Halloween costumes.  A university "Bias Incident Team" took a carving knife to three students' "three blind mice" Halloween costumes last fall, saying the costumes mocked the disabled.  The incident took place at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, according to records reviewed exclusively by Heat Street.  The offending students had posted pictures of themselves in costume on Facebook.  The documents,which Heat Street obtained under open records laws, reveal that a member of the Bias Incident Team reported the students herself:  "There was concern about their choice as it makes fun of a disability," says the team's meeting minutes.

Student facing 50 day suspension for saying 'All Lives Matter'.  Politically correct tyranny is afoot at the University of Houston.  I was recently made aware of a student at the university who was suspended for 50 days by the student government association and ordered to attend diversity training over a reference she made about the Black Lives Matter crowd.  (She can still go to class but she can't participate in student government activities.)

How Cal State Canceled on Ben Shapiro After Liberal Students Compared Him to "The KKK".  Administrators at Cal State LA canceled a speech by conservative journalist Ben Shapiro after students complained that they feared for their safety and compared the event to an "undercover KKK meeting," according to e-mails obtained exclusively by Heat Street.  But once Cal State canceled the event, they faced a massive backlash from students, parents and alumni concerned that the University was infringing on free speech.  The Shapiro situation has since become a cautionary tale for campus administrators who single out conservative thinkers for censorship and cancellation.

New York Senate Passes Anti-'Hate Speech' Bill for Universities.  The New York senate has passed a bill which will prohibit universities from providing funding to student groups that "encourage hate speech."  Bill S8017, which was co-sponsored by Senators Jack Martins and Todd Kaminsky, is described as "relating to certain student groups that are ineligible for funding."  The legislation states that universities must "adopt rules that any student group that receives funding from the [university] that directly or indirectly promotes, encourages, or permits discrimination, intolerance, hate speech or boycotts against a person or group based on race, class, gender, nationality, ethnic origin or religion, shall be ineligible for funding."

Milo Mayhem:  Activists Storm Stage, Threaten Milo at DePaul Event.  Milo Yiannopoulos' event at DePaul University had to be cut short Tuesday night [5/24/2016] after protesters stormed the stage, blew whistles, grabbed the microphone out of the interviewer's hand, and threatened to punch Yiannopoulos in the face.  [Video clip]  Yiannopoulos attempted to continue the event, but protesters refused to leave the stage and the group of security guards (which DePaul forced both the organisers and Breitbart to pay for) refused to intervene.

So much for diversity of ideas.
Oregon High School Students Walk Out Over 'Build a Wall' Banner.  Students at Forest Grove High School in Oregon protested Thursday [5/19/2016] over a banner hung briefly in the school hallway this week that read "build a wall," per a report by Oregon Live.  Chief of staff for the Forest Grove School District Connie Potter said the sign, which was put up on Wednesday, was up briefly, but prompted a rather quick response by the reportedly about half Latino student body.  Potter said the sign was put up after the school's Unity Week.  According to her, students had put up "unity-type signs," and then a "build the wall" sign was hung over one of the posters.  She added that a teacher was able to remove the sign swiftly.

The Real Cost of Academic Discrimination against Conservatives.  One has to truly step into the world of "elite" higher education to understand its isolation and its sad intellectual mediocrity.  The men and women who populate our most culturally influential universities quite simply don't understand America and its citizens.  They view dissenters from the academic mainstream as a toxic combination of malicious and ignorant.  Defenders of the status quo tend to claim that this is simply the natural order of things.  Conservatives, the thinking goes, self-select out of the academy because they're more interested in commercial gain, less interested in intellectual pursuits, and repelled by the spirit of "open inquiry" and devotion to "critical thinking" that (allegedly) dominate higher education.

Obama's excellent lesson for dissent-crushing kids.  President Obama could've played to the crowd for his entire Rutgers University commencement speech; instead, he went out of his way to call out the kids for their intellectual cowardice.  Specifically, he slammed them for their protests against the planned 2014 commencement speaker, ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — protests so angry that Rice opted to withdraw.  "I don't think it's a secret that I disagree with many of the policies of Dr. Rice," the president said.  "But the notion that this community or this country would be better served by not hearing a former secretary of state or not hearing what she had to say — I believe that's misguided.  I don't think that's how democracy works best."

Darkness Flourishes at Vanderbilt University.  In case you missed the hoopla, I was almost run off the Vanderbilt University campus in 2015 by student protesters and petitions denouncing me for bigotry and hatred.  This was related to an opinion piece I wrote for The Tennessean about the Islamic faith and the need for Muslims to fully integrate themselves into our society.  As a high profile, black, conservative woman on the Vanderbilt faculty, I was a conspicuous target.

George Mason faculty kick and scream — over the Scalia name.  The ridiculous smear campaign against my law school's recent name change to "The Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University" and its subsequent acceptance of a $30 million donation has taken yet another disappointing turn [...]

America in Wonderland.  Rather than prepare the next generation to succeed in a competitive world, the administrative hierarchy on far too many college campuses are complicit in the new norm of allowing students to faint at the mere sight of or reference to anything they might slightly disagree with, while acquiescing to their demands for unlimited access to so-called safe spaces to escape this assault on their fragile sensibilities.  Meanwhile many of these same administrators and students condone or promote violence and/or the denial of freedom of speech against those who may harbor any opposing point of view counter to what they, in their cloistered world, consider to be an inviolate consensus.

University Bans The Use Of Chalk Because Someone Wrote 'Trump' On The Ground.  The special little snowflakes on college campuses are at it again.  This time, they've got their sights set on the latest threat to civilization:  chalk.  DePaul University officials are banning the practice of "chalking" after the school's College Republicans organized a chalking campaign on campus, during which offensive phrases such as "Make DePaul great again," "Blue Lives Matter," and "Trump Train 2016" were written on the campus' sidewalks.  Oh, the horror.  One student even claimed the messages made them feel "attacked".  "It's sad that even at a school as diverse and accepting as DePaul, I still feel attacked," the student wrote on DePaul's Facebook page.

Millennials brush off Founding Fathers, overwhelmingly oppose free speech.  The relationship between college students and free speech:  It's complicated.  A Gallup survey showed that 72 percent of college students said they opposed campus restrictions on "expressing political views that are upsetting or offensive to certain groups."  But asked whether "slurs" and other "intentionally offensive" language should be banned, they said they were all for it.

Students Claim Pro-Trump White Board Message Is 'Violence'.  Chaos erupted at an all-female university in California over the weekend after a Mexican-American student woke on Saturday [3/26/2016] to a pro-Trump message written on her white board.  The message, which simply read "#Trump2016," has been called an act of "intentional violence" in a university-wide email sent by Minjoo Kim, the student body president at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

P.C. — R.I.P.  It's time to connect the dots on the growing intolerance of the political left in America.  Recently, Forbes reported that of more than 400 of America's largest and most prestigious colleges and universities, 62% percent maintain policies that restrict a substantial amount of speech protected under the First Amendment.  Speech comes in many forms, but typically what is banned is student speech that "feels offensive" or "demeaning" toward groups and causes deemed politically correct.  On many campuses, students who question secular progressive orthodoxies — whether extreme environmentalism and climate change, socialist economics, multiculturalism and accommodation of illegal aliens or Islamists — fear grade penalties, harassment, and outright silencing.  In effect, speech codes chill freedom of expression and the competition of ideas.  Worse, it turns out that speech codes driven by political correctness foster coddled, weak-minded, and intolerant graduates — ill-equipped for employment and citizenship in the marketplace diversity of viewpoints that is the real world.

Shutting down free speech in college — and in politics.  Thus, college campuses today have become indoctrinators of ideology instead of incubators of ideas. Instead of welcoming debate between those with different ideas, professors and administrators have become protectors of left-wing orthodoxy against any challenge that might invite people to think for themselves.  The examples are too numerous to recite, but you are all encouraged to do a Google news search for "free speech on campus" to find numerous examples of the opposite.

Political Correctness Is A Mask For Leftists' Intellectual Insecurity.  2015 will undoubtedly go down as the year the Left's efforts to impose its absolutist ideology went well beyond targeting lecturers and graduation speakers invited to colleges.  In late spring, the University of California distributed a guide to forbidden classroom phrases, including "America is the land of opportunity" and "America is a melting pot," to faculty at each of its 10 campuses.  Later in the year, George Mason University professor Jagadish Shukla and 19 others went national with a letter to President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding they criminally prosecute any company or organization that denies climate change.

Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America's college campuses.  For 50 years, researchers have surveyed incoming college freshmen about everything from their majors to their worldviews.  On Thursday [2/11/2016], the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles released the latest iteration of this survey, which included 141,189 full-time, first-year students attending about 200 public and private baccalaureate institutions around the country.  According to the findings, the current crop of freshmen can lay claim to multiple superlatives.  Among them:  most willing to shut down speech they find offensive.

Student group upset Gonzaga won't allow the public to attend Dinesh D'Souza talk.  Gonzaga's College Republicans student group is upset that the university won't allow the public to attend a late-February talk on campus by popular conservative writer and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza.  "I was told he's a nasty guy and a homophobe and that's why it can't be open to the public," said Ben Dubois, a junior at Gonzaga and a member of the College Republicans.  Dubois said he hadn't expected any pushback from Gonzaga when D'Souza, whose books have made the New York Times bestsellers list, was invited.

High School Administrator Dismisses Students from Ben Shapiro Speech to 'Protect' Their Feelings: 'It's Starting to Cross a Line'.  On Tuesday afternoon [12/8/2015], Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro spoke at Otay Ranch High School, near San Diego.  A capacity crowd of over 450 students turned out to hear the speech, sponsored by Young America's Foundation, at the largely-minority public school.  They listened with interest — until a school administrator, Dean Nafarrete, dismissed the students halfway through the speech, telling them that Shapiro's conservatism "crossed a line."

Yale couple flees classroom amid free speech chill.  Anti-free speech demonstrators at one of America's most vaunted universities have claimed a pair of scalps — a husband-wife duo who say teaching is too much trouble in a campus climate "not conducive to civil dialogue."  Yale University professors Nicholas and Erika Christakis, who both have always gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews from students, said they have had enough, after an email she sent sparked a campus-wide controversy that soon pulled him in.

15 Excerpts That Show How Radical, Weird And Out of Touch College Campuses Have Become.  [Example #8:]  "'American,' 'illegal alien,' 'foreigners,' 'mothering,' and 'fathering' are just a handful of words deemed 'problematic' by the University of New Hampshire's Bias-Free Language Guide.  Saying 'American' to reference Americans is also problematic.  The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes 'U.S. citizen' or 'Resident of the U.S.'  The guide also tries to get students to stop saying 'Caucasian,' 'illegal Immigrant,' 'mother,' 'father' and even the word 'healthy' is said to shame those who aren't healthy."

Closed Minds on Campus.  [Scroll down]  The protesters may start with valuable observations, but then they drift into a mistaken idea of what a university — and even a society — should be.  Nowhere is this clearer than in the now-standard demand that all members of the university community attend a new battery of tutoring on the nature and power of racism.  The demand at Yale is for "mandatory diversity training for faculty and staff," plus orientation programs that "explore diversity and inclusion."  The University of Missouri protesters want a "comprehensive racial awareness and inclusion curriculum throughout all campus departments and units, faculty, staff, and administration."

The grievance generation.  These leftist kids are agitated.  Angry.  This the hangover effect, I suspect, from the shattered utopian dreams of Hope and Change.  I have noticed in recent months that these students attend my lectures not to learn anything — they know everything already — but hoping that I will slip up or say something they can label as offensive or that violates their eight-volume campus speech code.  When I ask them what they want, a typical response is a "radical transformation of the economy" to reduce income inequality, racism, sexism, and, of course, to end climate change.  Government will command these changes to achieve this transformation.  These are young Stalinists who are willing to suspend almost every basic freedom and civil liberty for "the greater good."

'Upsetting' Photo Sends University Into Panic.  A Massachusetts university is scrambling to protect its students from trauma after school officials discovered what they consider an "upsetting" image on a laptop.  Was it a terror threat?  No.  An armed lunatic threatening the school?  No.  The alarming "bias incident" involved a photo of a Confederate flag.  The image was displayed on a laptop at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts, according to Campus Reform.

The delicate little flowers on today's college campuses.  It seems like every week there's a new horror story of political correctness run amok at some college campus.  A warning not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes sparked an imbroglio at Yale, which went viral over the weekend.  A lecturer asked in an email, "Is there no room anymore for a child to be a little bit obnoxious ... a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?"  Students went ballistic.  When an administrator (who is the lecturer's spouse) defended free speech, some students wanted his head.

A World Of Their Own.  The New York Times has a series of articles examining the causes of why an entire generation "has become less tolerant of free speech" noting the growing list of subjects or persons that are now banned on campuses to prevent people from freaking out. [...] In defense of this trend, a recent graduate from Brown explained that certain points of view were intolerable to people and they saw no reason to endure it.  Therefore, a rising generation that simply wanted a "more inclusive and just world" has decided to exclude certain people and topics the way filters block unwanted signals.

Politically Correct Conditioning: It Starts Early In School.  Some can recall a time when our campuses of higher education were zones where free speech thrived.  That was another era, though.  Today's students want speech restricted. [...] In today's America, "free speech" and "First Amendment rights" tend not to include any expression that doesn't conform to left-wing ideology.

University of California scraps speech code after protests from free speech, Jewish groups.  The University of California's regents voted Thursday [9/17/2015] to scrap a proposed speech code after protests from free speech groups who called it a form of censorship, as well as from Jewish groups who said it did not do enough to address anti-Semitism.  About two dozen people gave input to the board of regents at their meeting at UC Irvine about the proposed "Statement of Principles Against Intolerance," which called for the university's 10 campuses to [b]e "free from acts and expressions of intolerance."  Among other things, the proposed statement would have prohibited "depicting or articulating a view of ethnic or racial groups as less ambitious, less hardworking or talented, or more threatening than other groups."

Tax Funded U. of Illinois Prevents College Republicans From Using U.S. Flag in 9/11 Memorial Display.  The tax funded University of Illinois has moved to prevent the College Republicans from using American flags in their 9/11 display because the U.S. flag is apparently evil and would "trigger" students who are Muslim into getting mad.  The College Republicans, though, weren't left on their own this time as a lot of students were outraged over the school's actions.  The school quickly backed down.

University of California considering recognizing a "right" to be "free from ... expressions of intolerance".  The policy specifically condemns the expression of particular viewpoints as "intolerant," as having "no place at the University of California," and a violation of others' rights to be "free from ... expressions of intolerance."  For instance, articulating a view that people with various intellectual disabilities are incapable of various intellectual tasks, or people with various physical disabilities are incapable of various physical tasks, would be condemned by the authority of the University. Articulating a view that there are cultural (or even biological) differences between ethnic and racial groups in various fields — condemned by the authority of the University, without regard to the arguments for or against the particular assertion.  It's just an up-front categorical rule; whatever you want to say along these lines, we don't want to hear it, we don't care what your arguments are, we'll condemn it, and faculty and students have a right not to hear it.

The Coddling of the American Mind.  Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities.  A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. [...] Some recent campus actions border on the surreal.  In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall.  The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as "Aren't you supposed to be good at math?" and "I'm colorblind! I don't see race."  But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression.  The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was "triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions."

TCU reinstates conservative student punished over anti-Islam tweets.  He had previously been placed on four years of probation, ordered to undergo diversity training, and perform 60 hours of community. He was also banned from his fraternity, football games and most university student facilities.  That was [Harry] Vincent's punishment for a series of messages he wrote on Facebook and Twitter referencing radical Islam and calling the Baltimore rioters "hood rats."  He also used the word "beaner" — a derogatory term to describe Mexicans.  An individual not affiliated with Texas Christian University objected to his postings and launched an online lynch mob, urging her followers to contact the university and complain.

UNH president offended by bias-free language guide.  The president of the University of New Hampshire said Wednesday [7/29/2015] he is troubled and offended by many parts of a "bias-free language guide" posted on the school's website, particularly a suggestion that using the word "American" is problematic because it fails to recognize South America.

Tyrants and Snowflakes.  At a time when government and institutional overreach has never seemed more extreme, tyrants at the helm are using every means at their disposal to stifle free speech.  Elsewhere — on alternative media and in universities, in particular — speech is being censored, ostensibly to protect the tender sensibilities of snowflakes — those infantile sad sacks who need protection from normal debate and such thoughts as have not before penetrated the bubbles they inhabit.

Will Your Sociology Professors Talk behind Your Back if You're Conservative? They Just Might.  Will everyone be whispering about you behind your back because you're a Republican?  Yes."  I was sitting across from a senior sociology professor of a respected institution in the Northeast when I heard these words earlier this year.  It was a one-on-one meeting for newly admitted (though not yet matriculated) grad students.  I knew both the Northeast and sociology tended to lean left, but it wasn't exactly how I expected to be welcomed to the program.

War on The Truth: It's a Progressive Disease.  You'd better think twice before you tell the truth about the emperor's new clothes.  Progressives are using the power of government to force society to go along with the insanity.  This goes on wherever progressives hold power.  Politically correct speech codes have been enforced on American college campuses for decades, where conservative and Christian students and faculty are routinely discriminated against and decried as "haters."

Obama Pressures Colleges to Adopt Unconstitutional "Speech Codes".  Under the Obama administration, the Education Department has pressured schools and colleges to restrict speech, including off campus speech, even when it is protected by the First Amendment, and is not severe and pervasive.  It claims this is required by federal anti-discrimination laws such as Title IX and Title VI.  It also expects colleges to investigate off-campus sexual misconduct by students, even though most federal appellate court rulings say schools have no such duty under Title IX.

Florida principal ousted after defending Texas cop.  A Florida high school principal, who defended the Texas police officer at the center of that infamous pool melee, has become the latest victim of radical speech police hell-bent on trying to silence public discourse.  Alberto Iber lost his job as the principal at North Miami Senior High School after he wrote a comment about the McKinney, Texas incident on the Miami Herald's website.

'He did nothing wrong': Florida principal ousted after defending Texas cop.  A Florida high school principal, who defended the Texas police officer at the center of that infamous pool melee, has become the latest victim of radical speech police hell-bent on trying to silence public discourse.  Alberto Iber lost his job as the principal at North Miami Senior High School after he wrote a comment about the McKinney, Texas incident on the Miami Herald's website.

Progressive Academics Shocked That Their Creatures Turn on Them.  Recently several progressive professors have publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by straying beyond the p.c. orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of other progressive shibboleths. [...] These incidents follow the complaints of other progressives like Kirsten Powers and Jonathan Chait that the intolerant ideology at the heart of progressivism is now getting out of hand — something that many of us have been writing about for nearly 3 decades.  That these progressives should now be shocked at such intolerance and persecution after decades of speech codes, disruptions of conservative speakers, campus inquisitions which ignore Constitutional rights, cancellations of commencement speakers, and ideological litmus tests imposed on new hires and curricula, bespeaks not principle, but rather indignation that now they are on the receiving end of the bullying and harassment long inflicted on conservatives and people of faith.

How Liberals Have Ruined College.  The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone — almost always a liberal — has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making.  Then, the silencing campaign begins.  The offender must be punished, not just for justice's sake, but also to send the message to anyone else on campus that should he or she stray off the leftist script, they too might find themselves investigated, harassed, ostracized, or even expelled.  If the illiberal left can preemptively silence opposing speakers or opposing groups — such as getting a speech or event canceled, or denying campus recognition for a group — even better.

Duke University Sides With Islamists Against Feminist Speaker.  Duke University's mission statement says it is dedicated to "promot[ing] an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry."  Yet when Asra Nomani, a journalist and author of two books, came to speak on "The Paradox of Women in Islam," the university almost rescinded her invitation.  The Muslim Students Association sent an email smearing her as a friend of "Islamophobes" and discouraged students from attending.

Pro-Life Banners Removed from USC; 'Approved in Error'.  A series of pro-life banners of images of 11-week-old fetuses in the womb saw mere hours of daylight at the University of Southern California on Tuesday [4/21/2015] prior to being removed by the same university organization that had initially approved them.  The light poles instead featured hand-written signs posted on them reading, "Women deserve the right to choose."

Handicapped Governor 'Does Not Represent Diversity' For University Of North Texas Grads.  Students at the University of North Texas have petitioned school officials to replace Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as the keynote speaker at the school's 2015 spring commencement ceremony.  A Change.org petition opposing Abbott's invitation to speak has garnered 2,435 signatories as of Tuesday evening [4/21/2015].  The petition focuses on the fact that some students have political disagreements with Abbott, a Republican.

'American Sniper' derailed by Muslim complaints at University of Maryland.  The University of Maryland joins the University of Michigan in the ranks of educational institutions with an "American Sniper" controversy.  Muslim student protests prompted the University of Maryland at College Park to announce the cancellation of the movie about deceased Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.  "American Sniper only perpetuates the spread of Islamophobia and is offensive to many Muslims around the world for good reason.  This movie dehumanizes Muslim individuals, promotes the idea of senseless mass murder, and portrays negative and inaccurate stereotypes," the university's Muslim Students Association said in its petition, Fox News reported Thursday [4/23/2015].

Why Are Colleges Cancelling 'American Sniper'?  The pattern of on-campus culture wars is now as familiar as the plot of a blockbuster film.  And no sooner did the University of Michigan's Center for Campus Involvement announce a screening of American Sniper than a wave of upset broke out.  Things escalated quickly.  The Michigan Muslim Students' Association organized an open letter campaign, boasting 200 signatures, against the event.

More about The Religion of the Easily Offended.

Shutting Mouths — and Closing Minds — on College Campuses.  Teacher tenure usually enters the public policy debate in a context disadvantageous to its defenders:  New York City public school teachers accused of sexual impropriety whose union keeps them employed; leftist professors who proselytize against Israel, the U.S. military, Republicans, and the very idea that America is a force for good; faculty members who hide intellectual laziness behind loony identity politics theory.  But as we say in the newsroom, that's only one side of the story.

Why Are US Colleges So Afraid of Letting Students Speak Freely?  "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech."  The words of the First Amendment couldn't be plainer.  Yet more than two centuries after the Bill of Rights was written, they remain the subject of fierce debate.  Actually, I should amend that (no pun intended).  These words would be the subject of debate — if debate were permitted.  But these days, apparently, we're all so thin-skinned that we can't bear to hear an opinion that challenges our worldview.  This is even true, ironically, at our institutions of higher learning.  Some colleges are far more interested in swaddling their students in a protective bubble than in teaching free speech.

Criticizing Hamas: the Newest Campus Hate Crime.  [Professor Andrew] Pessin referenced Hamas suicide bombings in the 90s making it clear that he was talking about terrorism.  As author of The God Question, he had respectfully condensed the views on religion from Christians, Jews, Atheists and Muslims, and was about as far from a bigot as any human being could get.  Described by students as "funny, insightful, engaging and passionate" and "one of the smartest people you'll ever meet", Professor Andrew Pessin was an unlikely target for a hate campaign.  But on the modern campus no one is safe.

Orwell in the Classroom: University Spends Money to Stifle Speech.  The program may seem "crazy" to many, but don't you dare call it that.  Because this is just one of many words and phrases that Orwellian social engineers at the University of Michigan deem are, well, not at all doubleplusgood.  It's part of a sensitivity-oriented "Inclusive Language Campaign" (ILC) at the public institution — funded to the tune of $16,000.

University of Michigan spends $16K on 'Inclusive Language Campaign'.  The University of Michigan has launched a $16,000 campaign aimed at teaching students that certain words are considered offensive and should not be used on campus.  As part of the new "Inclusive Language Campaign," dozens of posters have been plastered across the Ann Arbor campus warning students not to use words that could offend others, such as "crazy," "insane," "retarded," "gay," "tranny," "gypped," "illegal alien," "fag," "ghetto" and "raghead," The College Fix reported.

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This is typical left-wing doublespeak:  The Inclusive Language Campaign seeks to exclude the words it doesn't like.  All the words in their list have been widely acceptable until now, with the possible exception of raghead, which is likely to be offensive to those who wear cloth-like headgear.  As far as I know, transsexuals refer to themselves as tranny, and fag is British slang for a cigarette.  (Does no one play Scrabble at the University of Michigan?)  There is nothing to be gained by using derisive and offensive language just out of meanness, but one's choice of words should be a matter of self-control rather than forced compliance with Newspeak.

'Liberal,' 'Tolerant' Vanderbilt Muslims Seek To Bully Black Professor Into Silence.  A black Vanderbilt University professor's op-ed critical of Islamic terrorism has touched off a wave of protest by Muslim students and other critics.  The op-ed author is Carol Swain, a longtime professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt and a self-proclaimed political conservative.  Her op-ed, entitled "Charlie Hebdo attacks prove critics were right about Islam," appeared in The Tennessean (Nashville's main newspaper) on Jan. 15.  Swain, who opposes burqas and advocates stronger efforts at assimilation for American Muslims, argued that radical Islam "poses an absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored better than it has been under the Obama administration."

The Rich Liberals of Academe.  Few places in America have a more monopolistic stranglehold on thought, are more hostile to divergent voices, and are home to larger populations of complete hypocrites than college towns.  From coast-to-coast, cities like Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Madison, Gainesville, Austin are renowned for being hotbeds of liberalism.  Interestingly, while these pockets of supposed intellectual enlightenment pride themselves on being open, inclusive and tolerant in reality they are anything but.  The fact is that higher academia in America is tolerant of all thought and voices, so long as they're voices of agreement.

Leftists Believe in Free Speech... for Leftists.  This is about political free speech.  More specifically, it's about those Leftists/progressives who claim that certain political views or expressions will lead — usually tangentially or indirectly — to X and Y (where X or Y are deemed negative or violent).  In terms of concrete detail, all sorts of groups and individuals have been silenced in recent months and years by Leftist/progressive groups and individuals.

Virginia HS Student Denied, Then Permitted to Start Pro-Life Club after Attracting Media Attention.  School administrators at a Spotsylvania County, Virginia high school initially denied a student when she asked permission to start a pro-life club in her school.  But after the teen persisted, the school relented and gave her permission.

Intolerance 101.  Having a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and noted TV commentator as a guest speaker would normally be considered a coup for an academic institution.  But not if you're Scripps College — and not if that speaker is George Will.  Consider this a teachable moment, one that speaks volumes about the increasing intolerance on American campuses to honest and open debate.

You Will Be Made to Care.  Vanderbilt University has decided student groups on campus cannot determine their own leadership.  Consequently, a muslim can run the Christian group, a global warming skeptic can run the Earth First group, a Republican can run the College Democrats, etc.  You get the idea.  The rule came in part because, as you will not be surprised to learn, a Christian fraternity "had expelled several students for violating their behavior policy.  One student said he was ousted because he is gay."  Tish Harrison Warren wrote about this at Christianity Today.  Her Christian group allowed anyone to be a member, "[b]ut it asks key student leaders — the executive council and small group leaders — to affirm its doctrinal statement, which outlines broad Christian orthodoxy and does not mention sexual conduct specifically.  But the university saw belief statements themselves as suspect."

Moral Equivalence Is Usually Moral Negligence.  I don't know a single conservative who supports muzzling leftist thought or speech, no matter how repugnant he may find it.  Yet leftists are strongly supportive of various measures to suppress, even outlaw, conservative speech, from campus speech codes to the Fairness Doctrine.  There is no way to describe this disparity in terms of moral equivalence.  I sincerely believe there is a reason liberals engage in this behavior far more than conservatives.  It is because many of them believe that their ends, which they believe are vastly superior, justify their means.  I've seen it so much that I suspect it is inherent in leftist ideology.

God Redacted from High School Graduation Speech.  School officials rejected three versions of the young man's graduation address, and one administrator went so far as to redact every religious reference with a black marker — as if it were some sort of top secret government document.  "The first and second draft speeches proposed oppose government case law and are a violation of the Constitution," read a warning letter sent to the young man.  "The district is advising you that reference to religious content is inappropriate and that the two drafts provided will not be allowed."  So the 18-year-old Christian did what any red-blooded, Constitution-loving American would do — he defied school officials and thanked God anyway.

It's Personal: Confronting the Academy's Leftism.  To understand the big picture of leftist academic perfidy, you have to understand, first of all, the little picture:  the parochial experience of the average university department.  It is in this cell that all the ruinous behaviors fester.  Whether it's science, business administration, or English, it's roughly the same daily grind.  Imagine having to report to work every day so you can deal with ignorant people who think they're geniuses.  You show up, and they all talk down to you as if you are a moron, even though you know much more than they do.  You try to speak up, politely at first, and eventually not so politely, but it doesn't matter.  They will not let you talk.  If you force your way into the conversation, they will literally ban you from public venues; you will be blocked from listservs, deleted from the department newsletter, and prohibited from getting on meeting agendas.

America's Budding Tyrants.  From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand.  Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation.  Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization.  Once they gain power, as leftists have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed.  This is increasingly the case on university campuses.

The Rise of the Campus Brown Shirts.  You don't have to be an abject follower of Edmund Burke to realize that the role of a faculty member is to instruct and reveal received knowledge in as impartial manner as possible, not to fulminate on like an arrested adolescent as if he or she were still protesting the Vietnam War what feels like a hundred years later.  What this does is give the younger generation nowhere to go.  Some protest in youth is normal, but if the older generation is still taking up so much of the playing field, you leave the younger with no place of their own but the more bizarre and outré extremes.  Therefore someone like Hirsi Ali, who should be an international hero of human rights, becomes a villain.  And, as it did recently at Dartmouth, the word "fiesta" used by an Anglo for a heart disease benefit becomes an instrument of supposed racial oppression.

American academia and echoes of the Third Reich.  "We need to make our universities temples not of dogmatic orthodoxy," [Ayaan Hirsi] Ali declared in her prepared transcript, "but of truly critical thinking, where all ideas are welcome and where civil debate is encouraged."  That, however, is the exact opposite of what America's backward "progressives" want to take place in our educational system, lest their "feelings" be bruised by comments that just might possibly burst through the barricades of ignorance enforced by the politically correct elites.  In fact, as tirelessly pointed out by critics of American education today, the meretricious "diversity" movement includes everything from the ethnicity, race, and gender of the students, but not a whit about what really matters in thriving institutions:  intellectual diversity.  This intellectual diversity is exactly what Ali had to offer, as well as Rice, Murray, and many others who are denied their freedom of expression in venues where only the party line is permitted.

Unfree Speech.  It's hardly news that conservatives are not especially welcome on college and university campuses.  Speech codes are designed to restrict discourse and punish the exercise of fundamental rights.  Faculties are disproportionately left-wing in their politics.  Administrators are sometimes intimidated by mobs.  Conservative students can be marginalized and harassed.  Visiting speakers are assailed, shouted down, sometimes physically assaulted.

Five Ways Universities Quash Free Speech.  On Monday [5/12/2014], the Alliance Defending Freedom sued the University of Georgia for placing limits on free speech by restricting demonstrations and speeches to designated "Free Expression Areas" between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays.  All gatherings must be previously approved by the administration of the school.

The Closing of the Collegiate Mind.  Assaults on intellectual and political freedom have been making headlines.  Pressure from faculty egged on by Muslim groups induced Brandeis University last month not to grant Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the proponent of women's rights under Islam, an intended honorary degree at its convocation.  This was a replay of 1994, when Brandeis faculty demanded that trustees rescind their decision to award an honorary degree to Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  In each case, a faculty cabal joined by (let us charitably say) ignorant students promoted the value of repression over the values of America's liberal democracy. Opponents of free speech have lately chalked up many such victories: [...]

Policing thought crime.  I visit about a dozen campuses a year, and at nearly every one, it's common to hear tales about how the social or administrative policing of thought crimes is all the rage.  The latest buzz phrase is "microaggression."  These are allegedly racist, homophobic or sexist statements made by people with no bigoted intent.  Essentially, if someone can rationalize a reason to take offense that's all the proof required.  Microagressions are the new vectors for the "disease of evil thinking."  Off campus, things haven't been much better.

What's least free place in America? A college campus.  What is the least free place in the United States?  Prisons, certainly, but even prisoners enjoy the freedoms of mind and spirit.  The least free place for the freedoms of thought, expression and faith is most likely the college campus.  Colleges have become pressure cookers of conformity.  Of course, colleges don?t see themselves that way.  They proclaim their commitment to academic freedom and to tolerance of differing views. But when these declarations are put to the test, they often dissolve.

Duke University Student Groups Launch Word Police Campaign.  A pair of student groups at North Carolina's Duke University has launched a poster campaign to impress upon students that using some slang words is not acceptable on campus.  With their "You Don't Say" campaign, the student organizations Think Before You Talk and the LGBTQ organization Blue Devils United are trying to stop students from using slang such as "that's retarded," or "that's gay" to describe something that isn't cool.

Hawaii Students Sue for Being Ordered to Stop Distributing U.S. Constitution Pamphlets.  It sees college administrators are slow to learn.  We reported that California's Modesto Junior College (MJC) agreed to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by student, whom the college prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day.  The videotaped incident drew national media attention.  Now, a group of students in Hawaii are suing for similar reasons.

It's Official: At Dartmouth, The Word 'Fiesta' Is Racist And White People Can't Use It.  Another ridiculous politically-correct brouhaha has broken out at Dartmouth College, America's most hopelessly and disturbingly fragile Ivy League school.  This time, the fracas is over a fundraiser for cardiac care that the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Alpha Phi sorority had planned to jointly sponsor, reports Campus Reform.  Problems arose because a single student, junior Daniela Hernandez, was offended by the party's theme of "Phiesta."  As a result, the soiree, which was scheduled for Saturday, has been canceled by the presidents of the respective Greek organizations.

The Closing of the Academic Mind.  According to many of my colleagues, an orientalist is a person who writes about the Middle East from a "western perspective," which is when one does not unquestioningly support and affirm Middle Eastern and Islamic culture.  This does not mean that westerners are excluded from writing about the Middle East and Islam.  A westerner can do so successfully so long as their research is void of criticism.  Write anything else and you will find yourself labeled an orientalist and no graduate course will touch your work with a ten-foot pole.

Conservative professor wins promotion and 50k in discrimination case.  A federal court has let the world of American academia know that it is not OK to deny a promotion to a professor just because he or she is a conservative. A door has been opened to a nightmare for progressive academics who believe that conservatives are beyond the pale and deserve to be shunned, much as racists a generation or two ago believed that blacks could not possibly merit inclusion in the upper ranks of society.

Court rules bias at University of North Carolina-Wilmington against conservative professor.  A federal court Wednesday ordered the University of North Carolina-Wilmington to promote and give $50,000 in back pay to a conservative professor in what is described as a landmark anti-discrimination case.  The restitution was ordered three weeks after a jury found the university guilty of retaliating against criminology professor Mike Adams, a popular conservative columnist on Townhall.com, after denying him a promotion to full professor in 2006.  "This ruling sends a message to public universities:  Academic freedom isn't just for the Left, it's a constitutional right for all professors — even Christian conservatives," said David French, senior counsel at the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, which represented Mr. Adams.

Student Newspaper 'Liberty' Wins First Amendment Victory over Oregon State.  The lawsuit, filed in 2009 by supporters of the newspaper The Liberty, contended that the university president and other school officials permitted the official campus newspaper access to distribution bins, but school officials removed the bins for The Liberty.  The suit alleged that school officials confiscated distribution bins for The Liberty and tossed them onto a trash heap.  The bins, which contained copies of the paper, were allegedly removed without notice and thrown next to a dumpster.

Trigger warnings: New wave of political correctness hits campuses.  Hypersensitive students and professors all over the country are about to score another victory for political correctness if they succeed in their mission to normalize the use of "trigger warnings," which are intended to protect people from taking part in class discussions and media that might offend them.  Trigger warnings are most commonly attached to online news articles and blog posts.  They warn readers that the post contains specific, offensive content.  An article about sexual violence, for instance, might come with a trigger warning for rape victims.  The idea is to prevent post traumatic stress.  But censorship-inclined activists are now eager to force professors to attach trigger warnings to their syllabi.

Conservative prof who was denied promotion wins First Amendment lawsuit.  First Amendment enthusiasts are thrilled that Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, won his lawsuit against administrators who denied him a promotion because of his conservative, Christian views.  Adams joined the university in 1993.  He was an atheist at the time.  By the year 2000, he had converted to Christianity and become an outspoken political conservative.

A Federal Jury Speaks, and Academic Freedom Wins.  Yesterday [3/20/2014], in Greenville, N.C., a federal jury found that the University of North Carolina-Wilmington (UNCW) violated the free speech rights of conservative Christian professor Mike Adams. Specifically, the jury found that Dr. Adams's First Amendment-protected speech was a "substantial or motivating factor" in the defendants' decision not to promote him to full professor and that defendants could not prove they would have made the same decision in the absence of Dr. Adams's speech activity.

University appeals bias ruling for conservative prof.  A North Carolina university that lost a seven-year legal battle over bias against a conservative professor has decided to file an appeal, citing the "potentially excessive" cost of reimbursing him for attorneys' fees.  The University of North Carolina Wilmington issued a statement Thursday [5/29/2014] estimating that a federal judge's ruling in favor of instructor Mike Adams, a criminology professor who was granted tenure, back pay, damages and attorneys' fees in April, could cost the public university more than $1 million.

College Settles Lawsuit Filed by Constitution-Loving Student.  A college sued by a student prohibited from passing out copies of the Constitution expanded free speech protections and provided $50,000 to the wronged student as part of a settlement reached last night to end the lawsuit.  Robert Van Tuinen, who was banned from passing out copies of the Constitution last September, filed a lawsuit against Modesto Junior College in October.  A videotape of Van Tuinen being told he needed a permit and could only hand out the copies in a small area set aside for free speech at the college sparked widespread criticism.  Modesto has revised its policies to allow free speech in open areas across campus and agreed to pay Van Tuinen $50,000 as part of the settlement.

California college student teaches school $50,000 lesson on Constitution.  A California college student who was blocked last year from handing out copies of the Constitution gave his school a lesson in civics and the law, winning a $50,000 settlement and an agreement to revise its speech codes.  Robert Van Tuinen, 26, settled with Modesto Junior College just five months after his run-in with school officials on Sept. 17 — National Constitution Day.  Van Tuinen said he's more excited about getting the school to revise its speech codes, which previously confined the First Amendment to a small area students had to sign up to use.

The Idol of Equality.  [Scroll down]  The universities are probably society's worst offenders.  Under the guise of seeking race, class, and gender equity, they have denied free expression through "speech codes."  They have undermined traditional liberal-arts curricula on the grounds that they were not sufficiently sensitive to these same gender, race, and class issues.  And they have placed their institutions — from the selection of graduation speakers, to the hiring and promotion of administrators and faculty, to the criteria for admitting students and the scale on which they are graded — in service not to academic excellence or even civil liberties, but to a perceived equality of result.

Neshaminy student newspaper to resume 'redskin' ban.  Langhorne What started as a journalistic exercise at Neshaminy High School may end in a courtroom.  A law firm representing student newspaper editors has told school officials that the editors plan to resume their ban on printing the word redskin — and that any attempt to stop them would be unconstitutional.

College Kicks Out Afrobeat Band for Being "Too White".  Apparently bands now have to be the same race as the music they're playing.  That's going to be a problem.  So no more white rappers or black classical musicians are allowed. [...] America may be ready for a black man in the White House, but apparently it's not ready for a white Afrofunk band.

Band loses college gig because [they are] 'too white'.  A popular jazz band named Shokaboza that "blends jazz and old school funk, with a West African beat" has just been told by Hampshire College in Massachusetts that it is "too white" to be allowed to perform a scheduled Halloween party gig on campus.

Campus Roundup.  Amherst College in Massachusetts, long known as one of the most left-leaning liberal arts campuses in the nation, added several "diversity seats" to their Student Senate, which are reserved for groups that have been "historically silenced."  But when conservative student Ted Hertzberg applied for one of the seats citing the fact that only 2 out of 160 professors at the school are registered Republicans, he was rejected.  The other four applicants for the seats — an international student, a gay student, a Latino student and an Asian student — were all accepted.

School Violated U.S. Constitution, Texas Law by Censoring Christian Valedictorian.  Joshua High School officials didn't just act like a school bully when they turned off a valedictorian's speech after the speaker mentioned Jesus.  They also violated Texas law and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  Fox News' Todd Starnes reported that when a Christian valedictorian at Joshua High School referenced his faith in his graduation speech, school officials literally turned the microphone off.  The valedictorian has been accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy to become an officer, and Principal Mick Cochran threatened to write a letter to the Navy saying that this young man is of poor character, attempting to persuade the Navy to refuse allowing this talented student to attend.

The leaning ivory tower.  The left talks a lot about diversity and academic freedom, but it's rarely practiced.  With rare exceptions, the ideological spectrum of the commencement speakers sending graduates out into the real world ranges from far left to even further left.  There's an unwelcome mat in front of the ivory tower for Republicans and conservatives.

The Big Chill.  It's a well-known fact that on most college campuses, supposedly havens of academic freedom, you really have to watch what you say.  The vast majority of America's universities, both public and private, have speech codes that regulate the utterances of their students, professors, and administrators.  Some of those codes at private universities spring from the religious or ethical missions of the institution, and it's understandable that those campuses might want to forbid, say, swearing or pornography or insulting the institution's faith tradition.  But most campuses are avowedly secular, and what the speech codes enforce is political correctness.

Big Government's Abuses of Power.  [Scroll down]  Now the civil-rights divisions of the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have issued new speech codes for campuses, focusing on supposed gender insensitivities.  The result is that federal bureaucrats can restrict the constitutionally protected rights of free speech for millions of American college students — including during routine classroom discussions.

White House demands colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes.  The Justice Department and the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights have now effectively defined dating and flirting as "sexual harassment," in addition to demanding that colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes.  The definition is found in a May 9 Title IX Letter of Findings and Resolution Agreement involving the University of Montana.

Washington bureaucrats use force to suffocate liberty.  [Scroll down]  The Department of Education and the Department of Justice combined last week on instructions to the University of Montana to implement a breathtakingly broad speech code that is certain to violate thousands of students' First Amendment rights.  Preventing sexual harassment on campus is the pretext for the policy, which the government says is its blueprint for codes to be adopted by all colleges and universities.  Harassment is explicitly defined as including speech that isn't necessarily offensive to an "objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation."  In other words, it's sufficient that the listener is offended, regardless of intent or the particular facts of a given situation.

Feds to Students: You Can't Say That.  The first paragraph declares that the Montana findings should serve as a "blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country."  After outlining the specifics of the case, the letter states that only a stunningly broad definition of sexual harassment — "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature" — will now satisfy federal statutory requirements.  This explicitly includes "verbal conduct," otherwise known as speech.

Federal government mandates unconstitutional speech codes at colleges and universities nationwide.  In a shocking affront to the United States Constitution, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have joined together to mandate that virtually every college and university in the United States establish unconstitutional speech codes that violate the First Amendment and decades of legal precedent.

Say Anything Sexual That Offends Anyone on Campus, You Must Be Punished or School Can Lose Federal Funding.  The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is alarmed today at a letter from the Departments of Justice and Education to the University of Montana.

School Cancels Santorum Speech over Marriage Views.  A Michigan high school canceled a speech by former Sen. Rick Santorum after teachers became outraged over his opposition to gay marriage and threatened to stage protests and a possible work stoppage.  Santorum had been invited to deliver a upcoming speech on leadership by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Gross Pointe South High School.  But the speech was canceled on Monday [4/8/2013] after the school district's superintendent heard from angry teachers.

Intolerant Liberals at Macalester College.  If liberal academics were as open and tolerant as they claim to be, there would be a major soul-searching.  But of course, they are, as Bassem El-Remesh discovered, phonies, who mask their own intolerance in the Orwellian language of political correctness.

How Free Speech Died on Campus.  At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt.  At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran.  Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America:  the modern university [...]

School Lets Dems Register Students to Vote, But Not GOP.  Florida Republicans are outraged after a school district allowed a pro-Obama organization to conduct student voter registration drives and deliver speeches to classes — but denied the Romney campaign similar opportunities.  Pasco County Schools confirmed to Fox News that volunteers from Organizing For America were given access to as many as a half dozen high school and middle school campuses.

Philly Student Told to Lose Romney T-Shirt or Get Out.  No one made an issue of Samantha's political T-shirt until she got to geometry class.  "The teacher told me to get out of the classroom, I said no," Samantha said.  "She told me to take off my shirt and said that she has another one if I need one.  And then the teacher asked me... 'are your parents Republican?'  I said, 'I don't know.'  She said that's like her wearing a KKK shirt."

The Editor says...
It sounds to me as if the geometry teacher was equating Mitt Romney with the KKK.  Sounds like "hate speech" to me.

Romney T-shirt episode offers 'teachable moment' — for parents and teachers.  What happened to Samantha Pawlucy, also known as Romney Girl, most likely feeds into every conservative Pennsylvanian's perception of our city as a cesspool of Democratic liberals.  At her public school a week ago Friday, the Port Richmond sophomore says she was dissed on dress-down day because she had the temerity to wear a Romney/Ryan T-shirt, embracing the minority group our city least tolerates:  Republicans.  Geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon told Samantha that Charles Carroll High — a model of diversity with an enrollment that's one-third black, one-third white, and a third Latino — was a "Democratic" school.

Pro-Romney Student Bullied by Union Teacher, Gets No Support from Union.  The government sector unions that have funneled millions of dollars this election cycle to left leaning groups and candidates, have "no plans" to help a pro-Mitt Romney student who says she was victimized by a union member teacher for her political views and now fears for her life.  Samantha Pawlucy, a sophmore at Charles Carroll High School in Philadelphia, told local media outlets her geometry teacher, Lynette Gaymon, tried to throw her out of class for wearing a Romney/Ryan t-shirt and demanded Pawlucy take it off and now she is afraid to return to school for fear of being attacked.

Student in Romney t-shirt flap won't return to Carroll.  The next time Samantha Pawlucy returns to school, her father said, it won't be Charles Carroll High.  Pawlucy is at the center of controversy for accusing her math teacher of publicly humiliating her for wearing a Romney/Ryan t-shirt to school Sept. 28.  Her father, Richard, said her return to school Tuesday [10/9/2012] was so uncomfortable that the three high-school children in his home will not return to Carroll.

GOP candidate to protest school where teacher criticized student's Romney shirt.  Supporters of Samantha Pawlucy, the Port Richmond teen ridiculed by a teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney shirt, plan to bombard her school with patriotism Tuesday [10/9/2012].

Update:
Teacher who called Romney t-shirt 'KKK garb' under investigation.  The public school teacher who bullied a student wearing a pro-Romney t-shirt is being investigated, according to a spokesperson for the school district.  "We are in the midst of our process, the due process, of investigating," said Fernando Gallard, chief of communications for the School District of Philadelphia, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.  "We expect the process to be done within a couple of weeks or so."

Another update:
Philly teen who says she was mocked by teacher for wearing Romney T-shirt sues school district.  The family of a Philadelphia teenager who says she was mocked by her geometry teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt to class has sued the teacher and the school district.

6-year-old boy suspended and labeled 'potentially dangerous' for playing cops and robbers during recess.  New Mexico's governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, is a trailblazing maverick in the same way John McCain was — they are/were, complete traitors to the country, law, and heritage they pledged to uphold and defend.  On Friday, Lujan Grisham issued a proclamation (executive order) that denies the people their God-given right to self-defense by declaring an "emergency" and suspending the right to carry firearms on their person; everyone's talking about the order, me included, and rightfully so.  Naturally, at this point in time, I don't expect the order to be upheld, but that wasn't the point; it was a "ping" to gauge opposition and other metrical data, and it's no skin off Lujan Grisham's nose because the worst that will happen is a judge will slap down the order, and she'll move on, data gathering mission accomplished.  But while we're all being distracted by the madness coming from New Mexico, a governor going full Vladimir Lenin to infringe upon the right of the people to bear arms, a red state in the Deep South is also waging a war against an armed populace, albeit with a different and more strategic approach.

Alabama school suspends 1st-grader for making finger gun while playing cops and robbers, says outraged parent.  An outraged parent and gun rights groups are speaking out against an Alabama elementary school that suspended a first-grader, reportedly for making a finger gun.  Jerrod Belcher, whose six-year-old son J.B. attends Bagley Elementary School in Jefferson County, Alabama, says the school over-reacted to a game of "cops and robbers."  A notice of suspension shared with Fox News Digital states that Belcher's son committed a "Class III" infraction on September 1 by "using his fingers to shoot at another student."

When toting guns in high school was cool.  New York City high schoolers used to pack heat as often as they packed lunch.  This month, more than 100,000 city public school kids walked out to protest gun violence — but last century some students attended class armed with their rifles and practiced shooting on school grounds.  Many of the city's public high schools had shooting clubs and a few even had gun ranges on their premises, according to accounts from the Department of Education and others.  There were at least three shooting ranges in public schools, the DOE said, including Curtis HS on Staten Island and Erasmus Hall HS in Brooklyn. [...] Shooting clubs were popular in many schools, even if they didn't have gun ranges.  Members of the shooting club at Tottenville HS on Staten Island would bring their rifles to school, but the club would travel a few miles to Perth Amboy, NJ to practice, according to one alum who attended in the 1940s.

Violent students attack a young 2nd Amendment defender at Ohio University.  Kaitlin Bennett made a name for herself the day after she graduated from Kent State University in 1998 when she took a photo of herself holding an AR-10 in front of the Kent State sign.  She did so as a way of protesting the fact that during her years as a student there, campus policies kept her disarmed.  After graduating, Bennett went to work at Liberty Hangout.  As part of her work, Bennett interviews students on college campuses.  On Monday, she and Joel Patrick traveled to Ohio University, a public university in Athens, Ohio, to conduct interviews there.  Within minutes, a mob formed and quickly got violent, with the activists throwing objects and liquids at Bennett and Patrick for daring to support Trump and the Second Amendment.  Eventually, the mob tried to smash their way into the truck in which the two young people and their crew were traveling.

Vermont Is Going Insane.  Will the Rest of America Follow?  Last year, our nation's children walked out of high schools to complain about school shootings.  Encouraged by teachers and principals, these students proclaimed that they would finally end school violence by effecting changes to national gun laws. [...] Last year in Parkland, Florida, students were encouraged to protest against guns, and all students were released from school, even if they chose not to participate.  One 11-year-old sixth-grader who elected not to protest was struck and killed by a car at 10:27 A.M., when he should have been in school.  Who is responsible for this death?

Lawsuit: Florida College Student Suspended for Facebook Photo with Gun.  A student at First Coast Technical College in St.  Augustine, Florida, was suspended after she posted a photo of herself with a firearm on social media.  She has filed a lawsuit against the school.  According to a local news report, First Coast Technical College in Florida suspended a student who posted a photo of herself holding a legally purchased firearm on her Facebook page.

High School Suspends 2 Students for Posting Gun Range Photos on Snapchat, ACLU Files Suit.  Two male students at Lacey Township High School in New Jersey posted photos of guns on Snapchat.  One of the boys captioned his photo with "hot stuff" and "if there's ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go."  The photos were not taken at school.  They were not taken during school hours.  They did not reference a school.  They auto-deleted after 24 hours, which was well before the school became aware of them.  And yet, administrators at Lacey Township High School suspended the boys for three days, and also gave them weekend detention.  This was a clear violation of the students' First Amendment rights, and the American Civil Liberties Union has now filed suit.

Parkland teacher under fire for allegedly calling pro-Second Amendment student Kyle Kashuv 'Hitler' in class.  Officials at the Florida school where 17 students were gunned down during a mass shooting on Valentine's Day are investigating allegations a teacher compared pro-Second Amendment student Kyle Kashuv to "Hitler" and called him "dangerous."  The comments were allegedly made by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School American history teacher Gregory Pittman, an outspoken gun control advocate.  Pittman's reported remarks came after photos posted to social media showed Kashuv visiting a gun range with his father.

GA Teacher Assigns Students to Write Letters to Lawmakers Pushing for Gun Control.  The parent of a child whose teacher asked his students to pen letters asking Congress to enact stricter gun laws urged parents to "be vigilant" regarding what their children are taught and told.  According to a Blue Lives Matter report, the assignment from seventh-grade teacher Corey Sanders asked students "to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States."

David Hogg Says Teachers Are 'Very Understanding' When He Skips School for Gun Control Rallies.  Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg says his teachers are "very understanding" when he skips school for gun control rallies.  Axios asked Hogg, "How do you do all this and make sure you graduate?"  Hogg replied, "Good question.  Talking to my teachers and trying to work it out day by day.  I was supposed to do a math test yesterday, and I was like, 'Nah,' but it works out.  My teachers are very understanding."

Stop Making Children Into Moral Authorities.  On March 14, high school students from Parkland, Florida, led a school walkout in favor of gun control.  The media have already appointed student witnesses of the horror at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School untouchable moral authorities; their opinions are not to be questioned.  But now, the left has found even more sympathetic faces for its agenda:  kindergarteners.  According to The Wall Street Journal, "Schools are grappling with how to address the event with children as young as 5 years old and with finding ways for children who are too little to be told about school shootings to take part."  Children in pre-K at Manhattan Country School will sing, "If I Had a Hammer" and "Paz y Libertad."  Public schools like PS 321 in Brooklyn allowed children to do activities linked with the protests.

Teacher who called military 'lowest of the low' is fired.  A Southern California teacher who was recorded bashing the U.S. military in a profane classroom rant was fired Tuesday evening [3/20/2018].  Board of Education President Aurora Villon said the El Rancho Unified School District reached a unanimous decision to fire Gregory Salcido, a history teacher at El Rancho High School and elected Pico Rivera city councilman, the Los Angeles Times reported.

March for Our Minds — Stop Indoctrinating Kids.  March for Our Lives and the school walkout isn't about gun violence; it's about indoctrination.  And there's no age limit.  Sixteen years ago, David Horowitz and the Freedom Center unveiled the Academic Bill of Rights to protect intellectual diversity on college campuses.  But now the same indoctrination and intolerance urgently demand that the Freedom Center step in to protect K-12 students from political abuse.  The ugly scenes from the student walkout haunt our screens as the classroom organizers of the left work to turn students into the latest anti-American protest movement after Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

Teacher Punished for Questioning Anti-gun Walkout.  A California teacher questioned Wednesday's [3/14/2018] national anti-gun school walkout — then found herself in the cross hairs, being told not to come to work that day at all.  The story began last week when Julianne Benzel, a history teacher at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California, questioned the double standard reflected in the protest.  She stated that it was wrong for the school to support one walkout if they weren't willing to support those associated with other causes, such as one against prenatal infanticide (she used the common term "abortion").  Benzel's young charges didn't disagree.  "I didn't get any backlash from my students," she said.  "All my students totally understood that there could not be a double standard," related CBS Sacramento.  But her school was a different story.  As CBS also reported, "Benzel received a letter from her human resources department, informing her she's being placed on paid administrative leave."

'Get your facts straight, love': Ingraham's segment with Baltimore mayor overheats.  It didn't take long for a discussion between Laura Ingraham and Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh to go off the rails.  [Video clip]  Pugh appeared Wednesday night [3/7/2018] on Fox News Channel's The Ingraham Angle to discuss the mayor's decision to provide "free" busses for students who chose to ditch school on March 14 to attend March for our Lives anti-gun rally in Washington D.C.  It's no secret that Baltimore has been plagued with poverty and soaring crime, and Ingraham used the city's plight to drill Pugh's decision.  "You're funding buses, in part, to go down to Washington, and yet you have a budget deficit — " Ingraham said.

New Jersey Schools Are Pushing 9-Year-Old Kids to Join in March 14th Anti-Gun Walkout ProtestsRadical leftist groups are organizing massive anti-gun walkout protests on March 14th.  The protests are part of a nationwide effort by anti-Trump groups to strip Americans of their right to bear arms.  One New Jersey father with 9-year-old children received this letter from the school this week.  They are marching the children outside of school to hold a demonstration against legal gun owners.

Princeton [is the] only Ivy [League school] to refuse [a] free pass for gun control protesters.  Princeton University is the only school in the Ivy League that is not offering to give applicants a free pass for disciplinary sanctions imposed by their high schools for participating in pro-gun control protests.  Last week, high school students across the country walked out of class to demonstrate for gun control, and more than 175 colleges have pledged that associated punishments will not be an impediment to admission.

Teacher talks about safety after Florida school shooting, is told to get psych exam, go on leave.  By nearly every account Timothy Locke is one of the most beloved teachers in the Cherry Hill, N.J., school district.  Locke is a veteran of the Iraq war and for the past 17 years he's flavored his classroom lessons at Cherry Hill East High School with real-life experiences.  But on Feb. 22, the veteran school teacher was summoned to the principal's office where his bag was searched, he was placed on administrative leave and was ordered to undergo a physical and a psychiatric evaluation.  According to parents and students Locke's only crime was to address his concerns about school safety with youngsters in his Advanced Placement History class.  The teacher feared a similar attack could happen at Cherry Hill East.

Leon County, FL Public Schools Excuse Absences, Offers School Buses for 'Rally for Gun Control' at State Capitol.  Tuesday [2/20/2018], Leon County, FL School Superintendent Rocky Hanna announced his district will offer excused absences and bus transportation to what is described as a "rally for gun control" at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee.  "What better lesson for them to learn firsthand than for them to exercise their freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech," Hanna said according to a report from the Tallahassee Democrat's Ryan Dailey.

School orders 5-hour psych exam for student after he hands in anti-gun control presentation.  Manville High School senior Frank Harvey school officials are driving him out over an anti-gun control class presentation he received an "A" on last year.  Harvey was suspended Tuesday [9/27/2016] and ordered to undergo a five-hour psychological exam before he can return after he left a thumb drive in the school library that contained an anti-gun control presentation he gave as an assignment in April, NJ.com reports.  Someone found the thumb drive and turned it over to school officials, who then called police to interrogate the student.

Sacramento Democrats Made Students Sitting Ducks for Criminals/Terrorists.  If you carry a gun on a California campus you are breaking the law.  If you use your gun to stop a massacre or a terrorist event, YOU are in trouble for having a gun.  The great news for wannabee terrorists is that they can shoot up a California campus and not worry about the teachers, professor's staff or students shooting back or trying to stop you.  The Sacramento Democrats have students and professor's ducks in a shooting arcade, like at a Fair. [...] Think about this when you send your children off to a California college — they are not allowed to protect themselves from predators.  This, in a so-called free nation.

Common Core Takes Shots at the Second Amendment.  A study guide titled, "The Battle Over Gun Control," that was authored by an affiliate of the supposed neutral National Public Radio and in collaboration with the National Writing Project, is slanted heavily against the Second Amendment in favor of stringent gun control.  The guide begins by stating that it's "a battle over priorities:  the constitutional right to bear arms vs. an effort to reduce violence."  It continues:  "The U.S. has the highest gun ownership rate in the world and the highest gun violence rate of any wealthy nation.  It also has some of the loosest gun control laws."  From there it goes into the horror of Sandy Hook and makes the claim that every "attempt to enact moderate new gun control measures this spring was voted down in the Senate, due in part to the powerful political influence of gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association."

Conn. School Censors Vatican, Clears Planned Parenthood.  Controversy is flaring up at a Connecticut high school after a student alleged that its internet filter is biased against conservative websites.  Andrew Lampart, a senior at Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, told a local Fox station that he was conducting research for an in-class debate on gun control when he discovered that many pro-gun sites, such as National Rifle Association's homepage, were blocked by the school's filter.  Meanwhile, anti-gun sites remained easily accessible, he said.  Lampart says he then expanded his search and found additional red flags.  The state Republican Party's website was blocked, but not the state Democratic Party's.  Pro-life groups like the National Right to Life were blocked, but not Planned Parenthood or NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Jesus, Republicans and NRA banned on school website.  When Andrew tried to log onto the National Rifle Association's website, he realized there was a problem — a big problem.  "Their website was blocked," he told me.  Andrew decided to try the Second Amendment Foundation's website.  That too, was blocked.  His curiosity got the best of him — so Andrew tried logging on to several pro-gun control websites.  Imagine his surprise when he discovered the pro-gun control websites were not blocked.

Connecticut High School Blocks Student Access To Conservative Web Sites.  According to local news reports, a student at Nonnewaug High School was preparing for a class sponsored debate on gun control.  Hoping to do his due diligence in researching the topic, he attempted to access sources of information available online.  What he found was so upsetting that he confronted the school board at a recent meeting to demand answers.  The answers he was given by at least one administrator were even more shocking.

Workbook teaches kids that Second Amendment includes gun control.  A social studies workbook, used in an Illinois public middle school, is generating controversy among gun rights supporters because it claims that the Second Amendment permits only strictly regulated, registered gun ownership.

16-Year-Old Student Suspended for Refusing to Turn NRA Shirt Inside Out.  On March 11th the parents of 16-year-old Shane Kinney confirmed "their son was recently made to serve a one day in-school suspension" for refusing to turn his NRA shirt inside out or change shirts altogether.  Kinney is a sophomore at Grand Island High School in New York.

Gun Hating Principal Bans Mother From School For Having A CCW Permit.  Janina Dallas, the principal of McBean Elementary School in Hephzibah, GA, has involved the police department in banning a student's mother from the buildings and school property.  The mother banned is Tanya Mount.  What did Tanya do that was so dangerous that it warranted Dallas taking these extreme measures?

O.C. school apologizes for making girl remove NRA T-shirt.  A high school student who grabbed a National Rifle Assn. T-shirt in her hurry to find something to wear to school was confronted by campus officials who forced the student to remove her shirt or face disciplinary action, the girl's parents said. [...] "I felt like they were violating my rights, my freedom of speech," the sophomore said. "I want to be able to wear what I want to wear within reason."

Arizona police officer asked not to wear uniform at daughter's school.  A police officer who dropped off his daughter at her Phoenix elementary school was asked by the school's principal not to wear his uniform to the school because other parents were concerned that he was carrying a gun, MyFoxPhoenix.com reported.  Scott Urkov is a police officer for the Coolidge Police Department.  The department told him not to comment to media inquiries, but immediately after he received the no-uniform request, he posted on Facebook.

U.S. History Textbook Guts the Second Amendment.  Author John J. Newman has some explaining to do.  His textbook, United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination, literally rewrites the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.  On page 102 of Newman's book, the author cuts the Second Amendment in half and leaves out several key words.

Undoing the Brainwashing.  Some [...] parents may wonder how they can undo some of the brainwashing that has become so common in what are supposed to be institutions of higher learning. [...] For example, if the student has been led to join the crusade for more gun control, and thinks that the reason the British have lower murder rates than Americans have is because the Brits have tighter gun control laws, just give him or her a copy of the book "Guns and Violence" by Joyce Lee Malcolm.  As the facts in that book demolish the gun control propaganda fed to students by their professors, that can create a healthy skepticism about other professorial propaganda.

School suspends student for wearing NRA shirt, then has him arrested.  The Lefties may have lost the fight for gun control in D.C., but now they're apparently taking the fight to targets that are more their speed:  8th graders.

Prof at public univ under investigation for allegedly forcing students to make anti-gun posters.  A professor at a public university in Texas is under investigation from school administrators for allegedly forcing students in her graphic design class to create anti-gun posters for a personal anti-gun campaign she had launched.  Midwestern State University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Betty Stewart confirmed to Campus Reform Friday [4/5/2013] the school has launched an investigation into professor Jennifer Yucus' conduct after a student filed an official complaint on Thursday [4/4/2013].

Public university art students forced to design anti-gun propaganda.  An assistant professor of art and graphic design at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas is under investigation for allegedly forcing graphic design students to create anti-gun artwork for her own personal crusade against firearms.  Campus Reform broke the story and confirmed that officials at the public, taxpayer-supported school launched an investigation after receiving a student's official complaint last week.

School: Americans Don't Have Right to Bear Arms.  The father of a Connecticut child is furious after discovering that his son's school is teaching students that Americans don't have a Second Amendment right to bear arms.  "I am appalled," said Steven Boibeaux, of Bristol.  "It sounds to me like they are trying to indoctrinate our kids."

Schools Teaching Americans Do NOT Have A Right To Bear Arms.  Connecticut school is teaching students that Americans don't have a right to bear arms.  Did the Liberal Marxist Teachers Unions repeal the second amendment without telling us?

Maryland father appeals son's controversial pastry 'gun' suspension.  The father of a 7-year-old Maryland boy who was suspended for shaping a pastry into a gun has filed a formal appeal of his son's punishment.  William "B.J." Welch is asking officials at Park Elementary School in Baltimore to remove the offense from the second-grader's records, according to the Washington Post.

Maryland lawmaker introduces bill after pastry 'gun' suspension.  A Maryland lawmaker has introduced legislation after a 7-year-old boy in his district was suspended for shaping a pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun.  The Star Democrat reports that Republican Sen. J.B. Jennings introduced a bill that would prohibit schools from suspending students for seemingly harmless childish acts, such as playing games with fingers pointed like guns or chewing food into the shape of a firearm.

The Editor says...
Scroll down for the background on this story, where you see the words "breakfast pastry."  In a saner world, with intelligent professionals in charge of the public schools, and fewer lawyers waiting to pounce, incidents like this would never happen.  A little kid should be permitted to chew on any corner of his food without worrying about the resulting shape.  By exposing these stories to the light of day, and openly mocking the officials who make decisions based on irrational fear, perhaps "zero tolerance" can be slowed down.  I doubt if it will ever be halted completely, because the primary purpose of the public schools now appears to be instilling a fear and hatred of guns.  The government that wants to disarm the teeming masses must start by indoctrinating the school children.

Much more about this story, and many others like it, on the Zero Tolerance page.

You can't celebrate America, school says.  Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans.  "They said they didn't want to offend anyone from other countries or immigrants," a 16-year-old member of the student council told me.  "They just really did not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable."

Update:  Immediately upon being embarrassed by the news media...
Administrators reverse ban on American celebration at high school.  [A]fter a day of righteous Rocky Mountain outrage, the principal at Fort Collins High School reversed course and apologized.  Principal Mark Eversole sent a letter to parents announcing that next Monday would in fact be America Day.

The Editor says...
Apologies are easy.  Resignations are not.  Sensible parents and onlookers must wonder why the school administration is so fearful about offending that one person in ten thousand who would object to school children honoring America.

Homework Promotes Anti-American View of World War Two.  Bob and Sarah Fisher were checking their daughter's homework last week when a social studies assignment caught their attention — it criticized the United States for dropping the atomic bomb during World War Two.  "Both of our grandfathers were in World War Two and this worksheet makes it seem as if they were the bad guys," Fisher told Fox News.  The Fishers have a daughter in eighth grade at Victory Junior High School in New York.  They said the anti-American slant in the homework assignment was shocking.

Beating thy Enemy: The Education System.  [W]e have a hardcore leftist agenda that has been incorporated and deeply embedded into the national education canon, curricula, texts and teachers training programs.  The degree to which this indoctrination program is slanted in favor of the postmodern values of relativism, socialism and social justice and against the traditional Western Enlightenment values of individualism, objective truth, reason, logic and capitalism is stunning.  With teachers unions entrenched like a bad nail fungus and completely onboard with the social justice (nee anti-America) agenda, how do we unwind this Gordian knot?

Texas Lawmakers Blast 'Anti-American', 'Anti-Christian' Curriculum.  Texas lawmakers are putting educators on the hot seat after public school curriculum surfaced that promoted Islam and socialism while deconstructing American values and patriotism.  School children were exposed to lessons that labeled the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism.  They were also instructed to create flags for socialist and communist countries.  And they were also given in-depth lessons in the Islamic faith that included classroom readings from the Koran.

Moving from an Emboldened Left in 2012 to a Legal Insurrection in 2013.  During my lifetime, there has always been an undercurrent of collusion between our public school systems and anti-America, anti-freedom philosophies.  But they are now emboldened to profess the alliance in the open.

School art project encourages students to step on American flag.  Public school, public money.  Not exactly what most of us would recommend as far as art is concerned.

Kentucky High School Art Teacher Has Students Stand on American Flag.  As Kathleen Fox with The Paducah Sun reported, an art teacher at a Kentucky High School set up an exhibit where students were supposed to stand on an American flag while they wrote how they felt about it.  Art teacher Shand Stamper at McCracken High School in Paducah set a music stand with paper to write on on top of the flag so that students could contemplate their feelings and then note them.

The Big Lie Department.  [Scroll down]  Any poll respondent under the age of 40 is 90% likely to have been inundated with "America bad" notions during his grammar and secondary school years.  More, the percent of persons who hold "America bad" views varies directly with population density and inversely with distance from the ocean.  We're in the middle of a giant sorting process: one protracted over time and determined by moral and political values.  Polls such as the one referenced [earlier in this article] reflect that.  More to the point, they reflect the terrible power the Left's control over formal education has bequeathed them in the political sphere.

Paterson principal is under scrutiny for alleged Thanksgiving announcement.  School officials said Thursday that they were investigating a complaint that a high school principal made an inappropriate announcement before Thanksgiving break. [...] A purported recording of the announcement has been emailed among teachers and was sent to The Record and Herald News.  In the recording, a man can be heard saying: "We must very, very, very, very understanding to our Native Americans, who lost and sacrificed because of the scalping that took place on Thanksgiving.  They were invited to a dinner, and then their lives were taken from them."