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With some variation depending on role and discipline, college professors should enjoy wide latitude to speak their minds, but at the very least, this story proves the talk about valuing all people and their comfort and despising racism in all its forms is just that… talk: Controversial Rutgers associate professor and author Dr. Brittney Cooper…
Katherine Gregg frames her story about state health facilities’ challenges getting by without unvaccinated employees for the Providence Journal in terms of the government’s incompetence at replacing them: Despite promises made to the state Department of Health to bring in replacements for unvaccinated staff, neither the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital nor the Veterans Home has…
So, yeah… the statement that the school employees involved in this event didn’t know the details is no excuse: The superintendent of Hazard Independent Schools said “appropriate disciplinary action has been taken” after photos surfaced showing students giving lap dances to staff and wearing scant clothing Tuesday as part of Hazard High School’s homecoming week…
It’s not alarming that different countries might come to different conclusions, but stories like this one paired with the zealous refusal to humor doubts about COVID vaccines in the United States make for a distrusting society: Sweden has extended its pause of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 30 and younger due to heart-related…
I like John Steigerwald’s idea (via Instapundit): Instead of waiting for liberals to attack the Founders by attacking the statues that memorialize them, Republicans should be looking for places to put new ones, while, in the process, educating people about how Jefferson, who was born into slave ownership, helped to create the country that ended…
While reading this article by Katabella Roberts for The Epoch Times, keep in mind that it has proven to be possible for the United States to be an energy exporter very quickly. The world is facing a “real shortage of energy” that could lead to social unrest, according to Blackstone Inc. co-founder Stephen Schwarzman. “We’re going to…
This is such a great story, out of Louisiana: These guys for President. All of them. pic.twitter.com/xfdLgI7Ayp — Heath Mayo (@HeathMayo) October 23, 2021 A big part of what makes it powerful is the simple, plain honesty. Men simply have a way of being that can affect an atmosphere positively, especially if they’ve been conditioned…
The Providence Journal has mildly more detail on the saga of the University of Rhode Island student currently watching his life destroyed because a sent a stupid and racist message to a celebrity football player, and it’s kind of chilling: [Vice President of Student Affairs Kathy] Collins said the person in question is allowed to accept…
Stop everything! Boston construction companies aren’t hitting their equity targets! Rules in Boston that set minimums for the participation of city residents, women, and people of color as workers on construction projects are not being met by the vast majority of projects. City data obtained by GBH News shows that in the last five years,…
Although regrettable, I understand the value of activity on social media. Still, watching folks build up audiences there gives me a low-grade dread. We know Big Tech deliberately suppresses conservative voices and on a whim will shut us down. That is why we have to open up multiple, direct channels that we control (as much as…