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Posted by Mike LaChance on October 12, 2016 33 Comments
Dennis Prager's YouTube video series known as Prager University, has enjoyed wide success and for good reasons. In each video, a noted academic, media personality, or other well known person, addresses a particular issue in a practical and straightforward way, usually in five minutes or less. There is nothing controversial about the videos, certainly nothing that requires an age rating for viewing so it's very strange that YouTube would restrict them in any way. The College Fix reports:
YouTube blacklists PragerU educational videos YouTube has placed 21 PragerU videos on “restricted mode,” a category meant for inappropriate and objectionable adult and sexual content...

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 11, 2016 13 Comments
The University of Virginia has placed a business professor on leave after comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan in a post on Facebook. Heat Street reports:
UVA Prof Put on Leave for Comparing Black Lives Matter to KKK The University of Virginia announced Friday that a professor has agreed to take leave after posting a Facebook comment that called Black Lives Matter racist and compared it to the Klu Klux Klan. In a Friday statement to the campus, Provost Tom Katsouleas slammed business professor Douglas Muir’s Facebook post, emphasizing the university’s commitment to fighting racism and social injustice.

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 10, 2016 15 Comments
A group called "Students for Reproductive Justice" recently held a workshop at Loyola University Chicago, a Catholic school, in which participants performed mock abortions using papayas. In addition to the sick moral equivalence of comparing a human fetus to a piece of fruit, the teachings of the Catholic Church are pretty clear on the issue of abortion. The College Fix reported:
VIDEO: Students at Catholic university perform mock abortions An unofficial abortion-rights group at a Catholic university hosted a “papaya workshop” last month that showed students how to perform abortions using a tropical fruit.

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 08, 2016 5 Comments
Despite feminists tearing down posters for the event last week, Christina Hoff Sommers finally spoke at California State University, Los Angeles. She was invited to speak by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the school and much to the chagrin of leftists, drew a sizable audience. Of course, like all non-progressives who attempt to make their voices heard on American college campuses today, her event required heavy security.
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