The left is celebrating the passage of a new tax on soda and sugary drinks in Philadelphia. It’s the second tax of its kind, the first was in Berkeley, California. This victory will only embolden proponents.
CNN reports:
Philadelphia passes a soda tax
In a final vote of 13-4, the Philadelphia City Council on...
In another banner moment for the University of Missouri, student race activists hijacked a vigil for the victims of the Orlando terror attack this week.
The College Fix reported:
WATCH: Mizzou race activist hijacks Orlando vigil as gay community rebukes her
A vigil Monday planned by several University of Missouri student organizations was supposed...
Social justice warriors at Yale are angry that the study of English involves reading the work of old white men. In a move that defies history and logic, they have launched a petition which makes specific demands on Yale’s English Department to put an end to this travesty.
Robby Soave writes...
San Jose media appears to be following the same template used by San Diego’s press last Friday: Make the focus of the Donald Trump rally reports the protests that occur after the event, instead of the thousands of enthusiastic supporters who attended.
During the rally within an annex of the San Jose...
Last fall a large group of Dartmouth students who are also Black Lives Matter activists, marched into the school’s Baker-Berry Library and caused a disruption.
This was no small affair. Campus Reform reported that students in the library who were simply trying to study alleged physical and verbal assaults such as “F***...
Last fall, Yale sent out an email which encouraged students to show sensitivity in their choice of Halloween costumes. Erika Christakis, Associate Master of Silliman College responded to the email by reminding students of the importance of free expression. Her husband Nicholas Christakis, Master of Silliman College, defended his wife’s email.
My colleague...
Breitbart author/media personality Milo appeared at DePaul University tonight, and was met with a stage takeover and threats of violence.
Breitbart News has the details:
Milo Yiannopoulos’ event at DePaul University had to be cut short Tuesday night after protesters stormed the stage, blew whistles, grabbed the microphone out of the interviewer’s hand, and...
Ithaca, NY, loves it some Democratic Socialism of the Bernie Sanders type.
Ithaca is the second Most Pro-Sanders Zip Code in the nation, just behind the Mission District of San Francisco.
Here are the directions to my house, circa November 2008:
To live in...
My wife and I walked into a pizza place in Boston near the hospital one of my daughters has been in (*) when my wife noticed this poster about getting paid to protest.
The poster promised pretty good summer money, that certainly would be attractive to otherwise unemployable SJW’s.
The poster was by...
Madeleine Albright is set to deliver the commencement address at Scripps College. You would think that the nation’s first female secretary of state would be welcomed at the women only school but we live in strange times.
Back in April, students objected to Albright for being white, now they’ve decided the real...
Disgraced communist and former Obama “Green Jobs Czar,” Van “Cash for Clunkers” Jones, hasn’t been resting on his laurels since his abrupt 2009 middle-of-the-night departure from the Obama administration. He was busy serving at the front of the progressive campaign to diminish and demonize the Tea Party into obscurity, and he has...
The Family Policy Institute of Washington recently spoke with some students from Seattle University and asked them simple questions about gender and the differences between men and women.
Here’s a description from their blog:
The second episode in FPIW’s wildly popular College Kids Say the Darndest Things series launched Monday...
Harvard is instituting a new policy which will punish students who join single-sex clubs by prohibiting them from serving in leadership roles.
While many students are unhappy with the new rules, it was women at the school who recently staged a protest.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
Hundreds of Women Protest Harvard Sanctions
Continuing to mount...
Campus culture has drifted so far to the left that students at Georgetown are protesting Obama’s secretary of homeland security Jeh Johnson, who’s slated to deliver the commencement address for their School of Foreign Service.
Students have decided Johnson is too conservative on immigration to speak at the university.
Blake Neff reports at...
Harvard clearly thinks single sex organizations are a bad thing and they’re taking extraordinary measures to discourage students from joining them.
Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that progressives believe in choice.
The FIRE blog reports:
Harvard Brings Back the Blacklist for Final Club, Fraternity, Sorority Students
BOSTON, May 6, 2016—In a...
A decidedly progressive student group at Cornell University called Black Students United has sent a letter to school administrators saying they want the entire faculty to undergo training in diversity and a host of other garden variety issues in identity politics.
The Cornell Daily Sun has the story:
Cornell Black Students United to...
Student protesters at Ohio State University recently learned a valuable lesson. Mainly because the administration drew a line in the sand and told them calmly that if they persisted, they would be arrested and possibly expelled.
The way it was handled was brilliant. An administrator explained to the students that the people...
