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Colleges Seek to ‘Decolonize’ Curriculum in Effort to Increase Diversity

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 09, 2020 2 Comments

"Across America, people are toppling statues and lowering flags that symbolize and honor racism. But the real edifice of structural racism in this country is the education system – and that has to change."...

Washington and Lee University Offers Course on ‘How to Overthrow the State’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 06, 2020 31 Comments

For months now, Washington and Lee University in Virginia has been struggling over whether or not to strip Lee's name from the school, based on his association with the Confederacy. Yet the same school is now offering a course on how to overthrow the state. How's that for irony?

Bernie Sanders: We Will Mobilize People to Make Sure Biden ‘Becomes the Most Progressive President Since’ FDR

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 31, 2020 34 Comments

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told his followers that they will "be mobilizing people all across the country to make sure" Joe Biden "becomes the most progressive president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

Student Group at NYU Demands Black-Only Student Housing on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 25, 2020 59 Comments

A student group at New York University called 'Black Violets' is demanding what seems to be segregation. They want the school to offer housing for black students only. Have these students ever heard of the Civil Rights Movement?

https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1294956046650413056

President Trump’s Brother Robert Died, and Media/Anti-Trumpers Used It As Excuse To Bash The President

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 16, 2020 21 Comments

The left pretends that it is all about compassion and empathy, that it's pure of heart and overflowing with good intentions and tolerance. Anyone who watches them in action, though, knows better and is disgusted by them. The latest example is the outpouring of—in the words of one Twitter user—"hate, revenge, wrath and immaturity" at the news that President Trump's younger brother, Robert, passed away.

Massachusetts: Accused Rapist Bailed Out of Jail by Liberal Bail Fund Group Charged With Raping Again

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 09, 2020 40 Comments

A pro-bail reform group in Massachusetts posted bail for a twice-convicted rapist who has now been charged with yet another rape. The group called "Massachusetts Bail Fund" has as its slogan, “Free Them All.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEikmxEdI-w

Study Finds DC Journalists Are Living in a Bubble, Only Talking to Each Other

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 09, 2020 33 Comments

During the 2008 presidential election, a journalist-only list serve called 'Journolist' was exposed. In this online environment, left-leaning journalists were discussing the formation of narratives which supported Democrats and damaged Republicans. A new study has found that little has changed since then, and it seems Twitter is the new Journolist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfsnyZntEzk

Reporter Discovers The ‘Real’ Reason For Mega-Trucks: “to intimidate and kill pedestrians”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 05, 2020 92 Comments

If there is one thing that best illustrates the complete and possibly unbridgeable socio-cultural, moral, and political divide between leftist coastal elites and the rest of America it may well be trucks. Big trucks. Yuge trucks. The bigger the better trucks.

Black Lives Matter Road-Block Tactic Ambushes Drivers, Leading To Dangerous Confrontations

Posted by Stacey Matthews on July 28, 2020 98 Comments

As Black Lives Matter agitators have become more hostile and aggressive over the last couple of months, we've seen more and more of them taking over city streets and highways. Not just for march-throughs but for stationary "protests" that last for hours, and in some cases days and even weeks as we saw in Seattle with the CHAZ/CHOP occupation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVHIBL2wqyI

Politicized Entertainment: Networks Launch TV Shows Inspired by Black Lives Matter

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 23, 2020 31 Comments

If you've spent any time watching television in recent months, you have probably noticed countless advertisements from companies bending over backwards to ingratiate themselves to the Black Lives Matter movement. Now this is making its way into TV shows as well.

Black Portland Police Officer Says White Black Lives Matter Protesters Used Racist Slurs

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 18, 2020 34 Comments

Jakhary Jackson is a police officer in Portland, Oregon. During a recent interview, he noted that in his encounters with Black Lives Matter protesters, the police are more diverse than the mob. He also claims that he and other officers of color have been subjected to racial slurs by protesters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decp4c0Qug8

Trump Directs Treasury to Review Tax-Exempt Status of Colleges and Universities

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 11, 2020 66 Comments

President Trump revealed Friday in a pair of tweets that he has directed the Treasury Department to review the tax-exempt status of colleges and universities, saying many of them are "about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education." He is correct, they are.

Authors of Study on Race and Police Killings Seek Retraction Because Conservatives Cite It

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 07, 2020 73 Comments

An academic paper from 2019 defies the current progressive narrative about police targeting minorities. The paper has been cited by right leaning scholars, such as Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute. Now the authors of the paper are seeking to retract it.

https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-council-members-get-private-security-after-threats

Minneapolis City Council Members Who Voted to Defund Police Get Taxpayer Funded Private Security

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2020 33 Comments

The City Council of Minneapolis recently voted unanimously to defund the city's police department. Now certain members of the council claim they are getting threats, so they have been given private security. At taxpayer expense, naturally.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/woodrow-wilsons-papers-go-digital-leaving-microfiche-behind-180969283/

Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 27, 2020 20 Comments

As cancel anything pre-Marxist Black Lives Matters moves from Confederate cancellation to all of American history, Princeton University has caved to the radical left's demands that it remove Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtIa9ezuFpw

Phase Two In Push To ‘Abolish the Police’: Isolate Police Unions From Labor Movement

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 24, 2020 35 Comments

The recent efforts to oust police unions from the larger labor movement are alarming. Not because I am a fan of public unions, I'm not, but because of what it reveals about the tactics of the left in demonizing, isolating, and eventually destroying their target du jour.

VP for Research at Michigan State U. Forced to Resign After Blog Posts Deemed ‘Racist’

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 21, 2020 52 Comments

Dr. Stephen Hsu is a professor of theoretical physics at Michigan State University, where he also served as the vice president for research and innovation. He is now one of the latest casualties of the manic cancel culture currently gripping academia.

Vermont School Principal Placed on Leave for Criticism of Black Lives Matter

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 17, 2020 87 Comments

Tiffany Riley, the principal of Windsor High School in Vermont, has been laced on leave for a comment she made on social media about the Black Lives Matter movement. Riley's Facebook post prompted an emergency meeting of the local school board which was "uniformly appalled."

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