Notes from the Resistance
Doug McGaw is a military veteran of Vietnam with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Combat Infantry Badge. [More]
Including that bio snip to presume he knows what he’s talking about on the right to keep and bear arms is what psychologists call “false authority” or “expert fallacy.“
And the danger to liberty of blindly following “war heroes” should be self evident.
[Via bondmen]
Oberlin College Sues Insurers For Refusing To Cover $36 Million It Paid Gibson’s Bakery For Defamation And Other Torts (Update)- .
Four insurance companies have told the college to pound sand. Have you ever rooted for insurance companies ever? There’s a first for everything. [More]
I’ve been following this story for some time because I have a bit of history with Oberlin.
We actually drove there yesterday to tour a Frank Lloyd Wright house deeded to the college, and I had time to stop in at Gibson’s and buy a t-shirt.
I’ve always liked Wright even though I am presumptuous enough to question some of his design choices. I learned about Fallingwater in college and his son’s Wayfarer’s Chapel was a regular place we’d take visitors to see when we lived nearby in SoCal.
Here’s the house, and also there was the weirdest non sequitur of a sticker on the back of a sign at the entrance to the property:
[Via Michael G]
Students demanding action to end crime near University of Cincinnati’s campus [More]
This is a job for People’s Safety Reimagined!
[Via Michael G]
Michigan Court: University Firearms Ban ‘Consistent With the Second Amendment’ [More]
Maybe not with the Second Amendment, but inconveniently, consistent with Jefferson and Madison. Evidently, they wanted to minimize dueling.
What the crowing antis don’t tell us is that the rule was not a law with criminal penalties, but instead, violations could result in “minor punishments at the discretion of the Faculty, or of the board of Censors, approved by the Faculty.”
Still, if we’re talking historical context, I’m not seeing a way around this “Gotcha!” except to make a different argument entirely.
That said, if anyone does see a way around it, that’s why we have “Comments” here.
[Via Michael G]
Cities with the Biggest Homicide Rate Problems [More]
There ought to be a chart showing how many are Bloomberg cities and how all of the problem districts are Democrat strongholds.
And I’m not impressed with “experts” who profess the answer is more Big Brother, unsound thinking, and denial of the obvious.
Letting a state with less than 1 million people have an equal say over who joins the SCOTUS as one with over 30 million doesn’t make sense. [More]
Not understanding the Constitution and the considered intent that went behind it means you won’t understand the Bill of Rights, either.
That such an obnoxiously ignorant child should have Astroturf-promoted influence is obscene.
[Via Steve T]
“I’m a Second Amendment guy. I taught it for four years, six years in law school. And guess what? It doesn’t say that you can own any weapon you want. It says there are certain weapons that you just can’t own. Even during when it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon. You can’t own a machine gun.… No, I’m serious.” [More]
Someone should dig up syllabuses, the texts he used, and some exams.
What a dog-faced pony soldier’s ass. That not one Democrat or “commonsense gun safety group” member feels compelled to publicly correct such blatant incompetence and dishonesty is all anyone needs to know their integrity.
[Via Michael G]
There are historical and psychological reasons why the legal age for purchasing assault weapons does not make sense [More]
And if you want to know about gun laws, who better to consult than a “Professor and Director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies [and] Editorial Director, Feminist Studies”?
[Via Dan Gifford]
“Having a US military background is the single-strongest individual-level predictor of whether a subject . . . is classified as a mass casualty offender,” the study by Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) said. [More]
What it doesn’t say is what commonalities offenders share before enlisting. It also presupposes risks are evenly distributed rather than concentrated into observable subsets.
I can’t help but make the seemingly unrelated analogies that violent crime is not widespread but concentrated, and Trump is so good at firing people because he’s so lousy at hiring them.
[Via WiscoDave]
$5 million in reparations to EVERY US descendant of slavery: Howard University pushes for UN tribunal to force Washington to pay African Americans — WITHOUT the approval of voters [More]
They’re going to have to pick up my share in person.
I don’t suppose Justin’s going to be with them…?
[Via Michael G]
California university hosts transgender ‘camp’ retreat for students to ‘explore’ their gender [More]
The parody lyrics write themselves.
[Via Michael G]
Five University System of Georgia (“USG”) professors filed suit to block a 2017 statutory amendment that removed public colleges and other public postsecondary educational institutions from the statutory definition of “school safety zone.” [More]
I’m wondering which fields in academia don’t require being an obnoxiously self-righteous leftist moron to get tenure.
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
[Via 1Gat]
U. Arizona’s first female police chief to step down following professor’s shooting death [More]
Apparently, failure to adequately bureaucratize overcomes “no duty to protect.”
What we won’t see blamed is this:
Arizona Board of Regents Policies 5-302 and 5-303 prohibit the use, possession, display, or storage of any weapons, explosive device, or fireworks on the University of Arizona campus and on all land and in all buildings owned or under the control of the University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona Board of Regents, except as provided in ARS §12-781. No concealed carry permit exempts a person from this policy.
The march of folly continues unabated.
[Via Michael G]
New Free Speech Committee at Cornell Apparently Stacked With DEI Scholars [More]
Who better to run Minitrue?
[Via Henry Bowman]
Stanford University has raked in more than $27 million from Chinese entities since the start of 2021, underscoring the Communist Party’s influence-peddling operations at major American colleges. [More]
And they used to have such high standards…
[Via Michael G]
BLM Activist Ruined the Reputation of White University of Virginia Student Over Remark She ‘Misheard’ [More]
Does that … thing have its own gravitational field?
You want to see how lynch mobs form, look at foaming-at-the-mouth wokesters worked into a blind fury just based on someone shouting out an accusation. They’re sociopaths incapable of recognizing themselves for what they are and being deeply ashamed of it.
The good news is, they’ll never be happy.
[Via Michael G]
673 university professors sign letter opposing courses on America’s founding, Constitution – UNC professors say requiring courses on American history violates ‘academic freedom’ [More]
So couldn’t the same be said for requiring ANY course?
I wonder what rulers in other countries that don’t recognize Constitutional protections have to say about annoying “educators”…?
[Via Michael G]
Boston pays for illegal immigrants’ college tuition with federal stimulus money [More]
No, we coerced plunder victims are paying for it.
We’ll soon watch the recipients emerge as ungrateful Marxist rabble-rousers demanding the destruction of everything and everyone that made the creation of wealth to support all this subversion possible in the first place. And once that superhighway to citizenship is in place, expect to see political creatures emerge demanding their disarmament.
[Via Michael G]
