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Teachers and Staff Told Thanksgiving is for "Mourning"

Killing off a nation's heroes and stomping out tradition are essential strategies in the Left's efforts to destroy this nation. Make no mistake--attacking Thanksgiving and Christmas are part of that effort of destruction.

Now, Multiculturalists in the Seattle school district have sent out a missive explaining how Thanksgiving for "Native" Americans isn't necessarily a good thing because it represents "500 years of betrayal."

Yeah, I get it--I, too, mourn not returning to the mid-Western plains, sleeping on the ground, in the tee-pee, during November, as you plot about how to scalp your enemy. It's obvious how much much better that is than pesky Civilization. To say nothing of having absolutely no room in your wigwam for all those scalps.

School says Thanksgiving is for 'mourning'

Seattle school officials are telling teachers that Thanksgiving actually is a time of "mourning" since it represents "500 years of betrayal."

The message to all "staff" in the Seattle Public Schools comes from Caprice D. Hollins, the director of "Equity, Race & Learning Support," and other officials including Willard Bill Jr. of the "Office of Native American Education."

"With so many holidays approaching we want to again remind you that Thanksgiving can be a particularly difficult time for many of our Native students," the letter said.

The school letter refers educators to a website, Oyate, run by an outside organization that promotes Indian culture, and recommends teachers explore it.

"Here you will discover ways to help you and your students think critically, and find resources where you can learn about Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective," the letter said. "Eleven myths are identified about Thanksgiving, take a look at No. 11 and begin your own deconstruction."

"Fact: For many Indian people, 'Thanksgiving' is a time of mourning, of remembering how a gift of generosity was rewarded by theft of land and seed corn, extermination of many from disease and gun, and near total destruction of many more from forced assimilation. As currently celebrated in this country, 'Thanksgiving' is a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship," the website describes.

Gee, last time I checked, hostilities really got off to a great starts when Indians decided they could be bribed and joined the British during the Revolutionary War. Yeah, hooking up with the enemy and shooting at us also really mucks up the 'friendship' thing.

Posted by Tammy · November 19, 2007 01:13 PM · Permalink · Comments (20)
Children | Education | History | Just Wrong | Leftists

How the NAACP Keeps Minorities Down

A post by Maynard

It boggles the mind. The NAACP slanders and vilifies a man who's trying to save minority kids from attending dysfunctional schools and falling into dysfunctional lives.

When public schools fail, people with money take their kids out of the system. People without money are stuck, and their kids miss out on much of their potential. That's a crime in my book. Many experts argue, and I agree strongly, that vouchers are part of the solution. Vouchers help motivate the complacent monopoly, and give poor kids an opportunity that would otherwise be denied to them. Vouchers are a big step in the direction of leveling the playing field. Vouchers deliver results that true liberals should applaud. This is supported by research (for example, see the Friedman Foundation website).

Vouchers are strongly opposed by entrenched special interests, such as the NEA and the NAACP. These organizations are cynically protecting their own political and economic turf, at the cost of the causes they presume to support. Interestingly, my understanding is that most of the poor people the NAACP supposedly speaks for would dearly love to have access to vouchers. Just another case of the leadership being out of touch with the rank-and-file. (Do I need to mention that these organizations carry a huge amount of political weight, especially with the Democrats?)

In this particular news item, Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne argued that the public school monopoly was setting poor kids on the path to ruin. He was trying to save these children, but the NAACP takes a few of his words out of context and accuses him of plotting genocide.

Jeanetta Williams, a voucher opponent and president of the NAACP's Salt Lake branch, said the comments shocked her and she believes Byrne meant that minorities who don't graduate should be burned or thrown away.

So we see the saviors vilified while self-serving corruption is lauded. And then we wonder why our problems seem intractable.

Posted by Maynard · October 27, 2007 02:45 AM · Permalink · Comments (11)
Education | Just Wrong | Maynard Post | Politics | Race Relations

Your Trick for the Day

Baby Sydney
A Message from Sydney Bruce:

Humans, this short and sweet trick is easier if you've had a beer or two. Otherwise, don't even try.

Posted by Tammy · September 29, 2007 12:59 PM · Permalink · Comments (3)
Animal Issues | Education | Health & Fitness | Inspiration

Flashback: Tolerance and Diversity at Columbia

Here's what happened when the Columbia College Republicans invited the Minuteman Project to speak at Columbia on October 4, 2006.

Posted by Maynard · September 24, 2007 04:51 PM · Permalink · Comments (7)
Death of Right and Wrong | Education | Maynard Post | Orwellian

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

My sister...My bride!

Maureen McCormick. Hmmm...yep.

Three words as uttered by Jan which will forever have a new meaning.

Brady Bunch Star Reveals All About Lesbian Fling With TV Sister

Wholesome former THE BRADY BUNCH star MAUREEN MCCORMICK is set to reveal the beloved 70s TV series' most shocking secret in a new book - she and her on-screen sister had a lesbian fling. MCCormick's tell-all, Here's The Story, won't hit bookstores until 2008, but publishers are already buzzing about the big reveal. As well as talking candidly about her well-documented eating disorder and drug problems in the book, TV's Marcia Brady will come clean about a romance she had with co-star Eve Plumb, who played her sister Jan on the hit show. A source tells America's National Enquirer, "The most explosive comments will be how the then-blonde, blue-eyed cutie developed a crush on Eve Plumb, which led to some sexual play. "This book will certainly come as a shocker. While Maureen is not a lesbian [of course not!--T], she reveals there were some sexual hijinks going on behind the scenes. "It's bizarre because she played such a virginal character on the show."

Jan, Jan, Jan!

The Tiny Gay Squirrel says: "And Hillary's not gay, either. She just likes Jan. A lot."

Ahmadinejad And Yom Kippur

Maynard connects some dots

It's ironic that, on the eve of the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur, a big news story is a visit to America by Iran's genocidally-inclined President Ahmadinejad. He is believed to be one of the "students" who seized American diplomats in 1979. And now he's been invited to speak at Columbia. If there were justice in this world, the American students would rise up and grab him, but that probably won't happen. No, American students only turn violent when someone of the "Right" (whatever that means) is scheduled to speak. A few years ago, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at Berkeley was cancelled due to violent protests. Berkeley, you will recall, is the self-proclaimed "free speech capital" of the nation. Also, the article below notes how Jim Gilchrist has faced violence and cancellations at Columbia and elsewhere.

Speaking of Yom Kippur...It was on Yom Kippur in 1973 that Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in one of their several wars of aggression against the Jewish state. The Russians were restocking the Arab munitions faster than they could be used. Meanwhile, Europe, under threat of an oil embargo, had cut all military exports to Israel. As the war passed into its second week and Israel was in danger of being overwhelmed, President Nixon authorized "Operation Nickel Grass" to resupply the Israelis by airlift. The Europeans refused access to fueling facilities or permission to overfly, making the staging very uncertain. Finally the Americans worked out a deal for a stopover in Portugal, followed by a perilous flight into the gateway of the Mediterranean, sticking to a narrow corridor of international airspace. (By the way, the Europeans did the same thing during the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. Give them points for consistency.)

Posted by Maynard · September 21, 2007 02:44 PM · Permalink · Comments (0)
Education | History | Maynard Post | Tyrants | War on Radical Islam

What Makes America Different

Are people like Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor. Professor Pausch is dying of cancer, and recently participated in the "Last Lecture Series." Pausch's choice of topic, his hope and optimism is an inspiration and a reminder of what makes our nation different--the nature of Americans. It's a reminder to us about what really matters, the importance of being grateful, and the beauty of the lives we have. Click the link for the complete story and video of his lecture. (HT to MIchelle via Powerline).

A Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime

...They had come to see him give what was billed as his "last lecture." This is a common title for talks on college campuses today. Schools such as Stanford and the University of Alabama have mounted "Last Lecture Series," in which top professors are asked to think deeply about what matters to them and to give hypothetical final talks. For the audience, the question to be mulled is this: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance?...

At Carnegie Mellon, however, Dr. Pausch's speech was more than just an academic exercise. The 46-year-old father of three has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for just a few months. His lecture, using images on a giant screen, turned out to be a rollicking and riveting journey through the lessons of his life...

Related Link:

Dying Professor's Lesson of a Lifetime

Posted by Tammy · September 21, 2007 10:32 AM · Permalink · Comments (0)
Education | Hero | Inspiration

Post-Mortem: The Duke Rape Case

A post by Maynard

We heard about the infamous Duke University rape case in bits and pieces over time, and most of this "news" was driven by political agendas. Now that the story has wound down, it's worthwhile to step back and contemplate the lessons to be learned. Here's a succinct summary from The Economist's Lexington column: "Presumed Guilty".

The most essential information is that the case was absolutely untenable from the beginning, and that the entire incident illustrates how political correctness has metastasized into unabashed and systematic racism. The sad, but unsurprising, conclusion is:

The only people who, it seems, have learned nothing from all this are Mr Nifong's enablers in the Duke faculty. Even after it was clear that the athletes were innocent, 87 faculty members published a letter categorically rejecting calls to recant their condemnation. And one professor, proving that some academics are as far beyond parody as they are beneath contempt, offered a course called "Hooking up at Duke" that purported to illustrate what the lacrosse scandals tell us about "power, difference and raced, classed, gendered and sexed normativity in the US."

I guess it's unreasonable to expect the elite educators to learn anything.

The article was prompted by the release of this book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. A Time Magazine columnist acknowledges the depth of the problem:

The analysis of the notorious Duke rape case in this book is hard to accept. According to Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, this episode was not just a terrible injustice to three young men. It exposed a fever of political correctness that is more virulent than ever on American campuses and throughout society. . . . Unfortunately for doubts, the authors lay out the facts with scrupulous care. This is a thorough and absorbing history of a shameful episode.

One Child Left Behind

In Miss Teen USA South Carolina, I think we have either a) the next panelist for The View, or b) an eventual U.S. of America ambassador to the UN, that is if Hillary doesn't nominate Billy Jeff. (HT to Defamer).

Posted by Tammy · August 27, 2007 05:59 PM · Permalink · Comments (14)
Education | Social Commentary

'Baby Einstein' Not As Good as 'American Idol'?

The ubiquitous 'researchers' have found that babies who watch the enormously popular 'Baby Einstein' or 'Brainy baby' videos learn fewer words than babies whose parents read to them or tell them stories. It might have something to do with the fact that watching a lava lamp will chill you out, but it won't necessarily increase your vocabulary. But that's just me.

'Baby Einstein': a bright idea?

For every hour a day that babies 8 to 16 months old were shown such popular series as "Brainy Baby" or "Baby Einstein," they knew six to eight fewer words than other children, [Hmm, 6-8 fewer words. But what's more important--how many words you know or the type of words you know?--ed.] the study found...Unfortunately it's all money down the tubes, according to Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Christakis and his colleagues surveyed 1,000 parents in Washington and Minnesota and determined their babies' vocabularies using a set of 90 common baby words, including mommy, nose and choo-choo.

The videos, which are designed to engage a baby's attention, hop from scene to scene with minimal dialogue and include mesmerizing images, like a lava lamp..."I would rather babies watch 'American Idol' than these videos," Christakis said, explaining that there is at least a chance their parents would watch with them — which does have developmental benefits.

American Idol? I vote for Jeopardy!

Posted by Tammy · August 7, 2007 05:45 PM · Permalink · Comments (0)
Children | Education | Television

Hillary Announces Plans for 'Public Service' Indoctrination School

Hillary has announced she wants to create, with your tax dollars, a 'Public Service' Indoctrination School. Who can blame her? With the leftist takeover of the public school system, from kindergarten through the academy, we are now turning out functionally illiterate, fully indoctrinated little leftists. Half of college graduates may not understand the average newspaper editorial or be able to navigate a street map, but boy, they sure know that America is bad and Republicans are evil.

Hillary now wants that same success rate for 'public servants.' You know, everyone who wants to be in government as staff or even elected to office will have to be 'educated' by one of her government's fully-funded 'schools' of Correct Thought and Progressive Politics. Let's see if this public genuflect to Marxist theory is noticed by anyone else:

Clinton: Create Public Service Academy

Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.

"I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve," she said. "I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position." [...]

An older woman carrying a sign that said "She doesn't care, all she wants is the power" yelled at Clinton while the New York senator was speaking in a ballroom on the University of South Carolina campus. Students attending the College Democrats of America convention shouted down the woman down and pushed her from the room.

It looks like those College Democrats have learned their lesson in "Silencing and Removing Incorrect Thinking Dissenters." Here's to Progressive Feminism in action! We certainly can't have older women speaking their mind, now can we? Especially when it just might expose Hillary Clinton for what she really is.

Posted by Tammy · July 29, 2007 12:18 PM · Permalink · Comments (8)
Education | Gestapo | Leftists | Orwellian | Politics

Teachers Terrorize 6th Graders with Fake Gunman

Another indication of how absolutely horrific our public school system is today. Everyone at this Tennessee school involved in this should be fired immediately.

Scary tale may have haunting repercussions for teachers

Accounts of the story varied from parent to parent, but according to Assistant Principal Don Bartch, students were gathered into a common area, a large, glassed-in room with double doors, to begin the story. Students were told that park rangers had contacted them, explaining that armed subjects were in the area.

Students were advised to get under tables for protection if these subjects approached the area. Then the lights were turned off, and the door was closed.

Some parents believed the doors to be locked, but Bartch stated this was "absolutely not true. The entire room is glass," he said. "There was lighting outside, so students had a good view of what was going on."

A teacher wearing a hooded sweatshirt pulled on a locked double door, pretending to be a suspicious subject in the area..."The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.

"(The field trip) is a good program, and a good experience, with the hiking and nature," said Alisha Graves, whose son attended. "This was not a good experience. "Those kids were crying, and they were terrified," she said.

The adults in charge of this mess are nothing less than sadists. In addition to being fired, criminal charges should be considered. If you did this to your own child, and social services heard about it, your child would be taken from you and you would face child abuse charges.

Posted by Tammy · May 13, 2007 10:54 PM · Permalink · Comments (8)
Children | Death of Right and Wrong | Education

Annual Campus Outrage Awards

A post by Maynard

Each year, Campus Magazine contemplates the countless ridiculous antics perpetrated in the name of higher education, and selects the (pardon my French) crème de la crème. Here, then, are the Campus Outrage Awards for 2007.

If you want to plot the trends, contrast 2007 against the winners for 2006 or 2005.

Private colleges can do as they like. But it offends me to find destructive nonsense nurtured and enforced at state institutions. Our tax dollars at work.

Posted by Maynard · March 29, 2007 10:09 PM · Permalink · Comments (0)
Death of Right and Wrong | Education | Just Plain Stupid | Maynard Post | Political Correctness

The Short Bus Is Getting Really Packed

The Road Traveled Too Much

I've noted here and on my show numerous times, the appalling fact that 50 percent of our college seniors are graduating functionally illiterate. Well, a new study reveals that a full 21 percent of the American public is illiterate, while 36 percent of people in Washington, DC are.

That's right, 1 in 5 Americans and 1 in 3 residents of DC cannot comprehend a simple 500-word newspaper opinion piece, read a bus schedule, a map, nor can they fillout a job application.

Study Finds One-Third in D.C. Illiterate

About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia. Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps and filling out job applications.

How has this happened? It's the obvious result of a leftist-controlled educational system that emphasized "feelings" and "self-esteem" over the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. The irony, of course, is the damage to a person's sense of self when they enter a world in which they cannot compete. But that's perfect for the left--it creates a new victim class, a group of people who, even if they wanted to, can't relate to the world of facts and reason, and only understand anger, hate, and malevolence.

This certainly explains a lot about why and how the left has devolved into such a pit of hopelessness and despair. It is also no coincidence that our public scvhool system has gotten worse over the past 25 years. In 1979 Carter created the Department of Education, which began operating officially in 1980 and institutionalized incompetence. Another example of how whatever you put in the hands of the Feds (and unions) will come out a complete disaster.

Posted by Tammy · March 19, 2007 10:59 AM · Permalink · Comments (10)
Children | Education | Fed Incompetence | Leftists

Teaching Kids to Live in Fear and Whine About It

A post by Maynard

Wow. Here's a macabre bit of trivia that caught my eye. This is anecdotal but sadly representative of a bigger disaster.

Twenty-six fourth-grade students at a Rhode Island elementary school (one kid for each letter of the alphabet) were honored by this page on the official state website for their artistic renditions of frightened, whining children. Twenty-six little drawings of sick and dying children; the victims of common everyday man-made eco-catastrophes such as factories and power plants.

Seems to me this exercise is really a form of child abuse. The teachers who perpetrated this travesty should be fired instead of paraded. They're telling kids to be afraid and to cry. It's apt that one of the selected examples above portrays a "Limp Lucas". That's what we're becoming.

We all understand the need to be good stewards of the planet. But this fear-mongering indoctrination is an insane assault upon gullible young minds. We live longer than we ever did, and most of our health issues are self-inflicted wounds. In this great and free land, we are masters of our own destiny, and not a sorry collection of petulant victims. Tell the kids to go easy on the garbage food and jog around the block every now and then, and shut up with this egregious nonsense.

Utah's New School Voucher Program

A post by Maynard

This could turn out to be very important news, so it should be on your radar.

Two weeks ago, Gov. Huntsman of Utah quietly signed Utah's groundbreaking school voucher bill. This will go a long way to giving parents a choice in the education of their children. It will introduce competition into the school system, so that public schools will be motivated to perform. It will help break the monopoly of the teachers' unions (that is, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers), which are hugely powerful political organizations, and are quite effective at sucking up taxpayer money while blocking school reform.

You should be aware that in the list of top all-time donors to political parties, the NEA is #4 and the AFT is #15. That money goes almost exclusively to Democrats. It's no coincidence that Democrats oppose meaningful educational reform at every turn. However, the Democrats always favor programs that pour more money into existing, failing educational structures. This is essentially a magical money machine, with dollars flowing from taxpayers into the pockets of the unions, who recycle it back to the Democrats to keep the system going. I might find the corruption ignorable, except for the small detail that the schools are doing a lousy job at teaching.

The Utah law is the first in the nation to be universal. It's not a band-aid targeted at limited areas or limited applicants.

Naturally, the opponents of vouchers are moving quickly to kill the new law. There is talk of a challenge on the basis of separation of church and state, since vouchers may go to schools with a religious orientation. (For the record, this issue was resolved long ago with respect to the G.I. Bill of Rights, which paid for the college tuition of veterans. The subsidy was considered legal because it was the individual, not the government, that was making decisions; hence there was no question of a state religion.)

In case the court challenges fail, the opponents of vouchers are already petitioning for repeal.

I think we all need to step back and watch what happens in Utah. Considering the poor state of the nation's schools, and the excellent science that validates the existing voucher programs, it's high time somebody offered vouchers on a larger scale. We need to set politics aside and pay attention to reality. We've been sacrificing our children at the altar of special interests and political dogma for far too long.

Posted by Maynard · March 3, 2007 10:53 PM · Permalink · Comments (13)
Education | Good News | Maynard Post | Politics

French Student Sues Over Striking Teacher

The teachers apparently aren't in school enough to teach. That's because they're on strike over not getting enough money and benefits for when they are there. Which isn't very often. (HT F***France)

Boy wins court case over striking teacher

A French schoolboy has successfully sued the government after blaming his failure in a philosophy exam on his teacher's frequent absences during strikes...The court ruled that he had not proved a link between the exam result and the effect on his education but agreed that the state failed to provide adequate philosophy tuition and awarded him a nominal £100.

Yes, you're a loser in a losing system, but we didn't give you enough money in the first place to not get an education, so here's another hundred bucks. Hey, maybe that's just enough to buy car-on-fire gear!

Now the real sweet thing would be if the French citizenry sues the government for making them the laughing stocks of the world. Oh sorry--I meant laughing stocks with the most cars on fire, the highest unemployment rate, and the government closest to collapse in the EU.

Posted by Tammy · June 23, 2006 11:25 PM · Permalink · Comments (0) · TrackBack (0)
Education | Internationalism

One Moonbat Down, A Few Thousand More To Go

Just her presence makes the left shrink

Apparently, Secretary Rice is to water as leftist professors are to the Wicked Witch of the West. She shows up, they melt. Brava.

Condoleezza Rice at Boston College? I quit
(you may need to register to view the whole article. I highly recommend you do).

DEAR Father Leahy,
I am writing to resign my post as an adjunct professor of English at Boston College. I am doing so -- after five years at BC, and with tremendous regret -- as a direct result of your decision to invite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at this year's graduation.

That's not all. Check this out, his reason for objecting to her and then his plainly racist pandering to women of color:

But I am not writing this letter simply because of an objection to the war against Iraq. My concern is more fundamental. Simply put, Rice is a liar....

It is this last notion I find most reprehensible: that Boston College would entrust to Rice the role of moral exemplar. To be clear: I am not questioning her intellectual gifts or academic accomplishments. Nor her potentially inspiring role as a powerful woman of color.

So, let me see if I have this right--Secretary Rice is a liar and helping an immoral pathological war, but gosh, she's still a great role model for black women!

All leftists know is how to parrot lines, and bandy about slogans. The line he spews about black women is simply an empty chant, it means nothing to him and he doesn't even hear himself saying it. If he did, he would realize the insult to black women especially considering his description of who he still insists is a good role model for them.

The left, and certainly the academic left, is populated virtually in its entirety with empty, miserable malcontents like this man, mouthing platitudes, throwing tantrums, while vomiting up their malevolence on society. And in this instance, into the minds of our next generation.

With such lovely news as his cutting and running, we should start a campaign to get Condi Rice to speak at every university in the nation. One by one enough moonbats would sacrifice themselves on their altar of Self-Righteous Malignant Narcissism and resign their way into making the academy relevant again.

But then again should anyone be surprised? Quitting, after all, is what leftists do best when confronted by anyone or anything that exposes how vapid they really are.

Good riddance "professor." Boston College is better off without you, and so are the young people who deserve better than the embodiment of malignant narcissism lecturing at them.

Posted by Tammy · May 13, 2006 04:05 PM · Permalink · Comments (8) · TrackBack (0)
Education | Leftists

Rank Leftist Fascism at Ohio State

In my new book, "The New American Revolution," I explain how fascism can only spring from the Left; it is a framework that starts as an argument to elevate the oppressed, yet its true goal is to indoctrinate first its followers, and then everyone else, into accepting punishment of those who do not conform to the leftist worldview. This control and destruction of dissent is the foundation of fascism. It must be so, as the only way the Left survives is if it is able to condemn and silence its critics.

A case in point is brought to us by Ace of Spades with his exposure of some Ohio State University professors bringing a sexual harassment suit against a librarian. And why is this? Because the librarian sexually harassed them? Not quite. Librarian Scott Savage is facing that investigation because he recommended four books that do not conform to the leftist message, for a Freshman reading list. I kid you not.

And who are the offending authors and their books? The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum.

The Alliance Defense Fund is on the case. Here's a bit of their report:

OSU librarian slapped with “sexual harassment” charge for recommending conservative books for freshmen

Officials at the Ohio State University are investigating an OSU Mansfield librarian for “sexual harassment” after he recommended four conservative books for a freshman reading program. ADF has demanded that OSU cease its frivolous investigation, yet the university is pressing forward, claiming that it takes the charges “seriously.”

“Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives in America,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom. “It is shameful that OSU would investigate a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with the prevailing politics of the university.”

Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.

Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.” The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges. [...]

Sexual harassment has been and remains a problem at schools and in the workforce. I personally have experienced it and sued because of it. At the same time, this is not the first time the left has co-opted an issue and twisted it--using new law and awareness not to empower victims, but to punish those who do not pay allegiance to their worldview.

It is a disgusting situation, and every authentic feminist at Ohio State should be outraged that sexual harassment awareness has been hijacked and turned into a fascist weapon to silence a variety of ideas. Like the now casual everyday abuse of the accusation of racism by the Black Gestapo against those who dare to challenge the status quo, this tactic makes a mockery of sexual harassment itself. It also exposes how those who claim to be feminist, and today's leftists in general, have indeed turned the corner as they embody the rot of fascist theory.

Shame on them and may they fail at every turn. And may librarian Scott Savage prevail with the assistance of the ADF.

And before you jump to conclusions that it was women who filed the complaint, apparently not. Volokh points out that it's gay men who feel 'harassed' because Kupelian's "The Marketing of Evil" is supposedly anti-gay, and consequently creates a "hostile environment" simply because it exists. Volokh expands.

Now my phrase "Gay Gestapo" becomes even more clear, doesn't it?

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On Horowitz, Debate and Patience

I posted here my comments and a link to Roger Simon's post about the Horowitz/Churchill debate. David Horowitz has since expanded on the situation at his blog.

As I noted in my original post, I admire David a great deal, in part I think because after all his years in the left and then consequently fighting it, his passion and desire to confront it remains. My admiration of his resilience is due to the fact that I think mine is worn down. This worries me, that I, in my own heart, have grown to have such a distaste for argument and debate.

Forgive me here, but this post now seems like it's going to be more of a confession/brainstorm than a contemplated analysis, but my work while in the left was based in confronting (constantly) the unfair and the ugly. Year after year, as a Leftist, I looked at the world as a malevolent, oppressive place that had to be faced down and changed.

I'm not saying I was wrong, my point is that constant frame of mind, for me, took a toll.

Now out of that muck, but enmeshed in social politics, that debate framework, the arguments between Left and Right, seem to me to accomplish nothing. Leftists have grown uglier and more fanatic. Sicker, if you will. And yet, as I noted about David's confronting Churchill, perhaps the one group that can still benefit from confrontation of that sort is our youth.

David notes in his blog about the debate:

So what was my agenda? To use the media interest that I knew the debate would generate to promote the theme of my academic freedom campaign "Take Politics Out of The Classroom." The topic of the debate was "Can Politics Be Taken Out of the Classroom, and Should It Be?" Hundreds of thousands of C-Span viewers, listeners to Right-Talk, readers of newspaper accounts etc. etc. will get that message. Viewers of the C-Span broadcast (which has yet to be aired) will hear the main points and arguments of our academic freedom campaign clearly articulated.

I didn't expand earlier on my thoughts re Roger's not-so-subtle maligning of David's intentions--the alleged promotion of his book "The Professors." Some of us who write recognize the medium as one of the more powerful to educate and change the world, as opposed to simply speaking to the choir. Because people like David and I are not embraced by the MSM it does fall more on our shoulders to promote our own work, and for good reason--so things can change for the better.

The problem at the academy, manifest by Churchill and others of his ilk, is at the core of what threatens our future--the poisoning of the minds of our young. David is clearly on the forefront of trying to reverse this awful situation--the degradation of our school system from elementary all the way up to the Ivy League by the virus of the Left.

I have to say, I didn't watch the debate, nor did I tune into Hannity & Colmes to catch it, primarily as I've noted to you because I'm exhausted with the framework. It is so frustrating to me, and yet my frustration is not necessarily (to say the least) the attitude that should prevail. After all, that means scum like Churchill and Cindy Sheehan, and Michael Moore and every other malignant narcissist out there would go unanswered.

David closes his post with this:

In these circumstances, the opportunity to get on national media and present the rationale behind my campaign, the distinction between academic freedom and free speech, which most people do not understand, but which crucial to understanding why political speech is intolerable in an academic classroom, was one I could not pass up. The fact that Roger Simon and my friend Tammy Bruce do not understand this still, makes me confident I did the right thing.

Well, I must say, I agree with David completely. I think David understand himself to be a unique person in a unique position. While I've known Roger Simon for a relatively short time, I do like him very much, but I do know we're all politically slightly different. I can tell you that while I would not walk onto a stage with scum like Churchill, I thank my lucky stars that David Horowitz can and does. And while I stand by my concern that it also expands Churchill's 15 minutes of fame, I think what David can accomplish, what I hope he can accomplish, can eclipse whatever the diseased Left intends to do.

My own increasing distaste for debate does not mean that my work needs to stop. It does mean I will probably write even more. Heck, every Monday morning on Fox News I engage in a tiny 5-minute debate with Jim Warren of the Chicago Tribune about the issue of the day. I actually don't mind at all having a lively exchange with someone I respect, a thoughtful person who has come to a conclusion different from my own. It's the debate with MalNars, leftists who mean to do us ill, that now deeply disgusts me. While debate with scum will always be an element of what people like David and I have to do, I just don't relish it and avoid it when possible.

Even Tammy Radio to some degree has evolved into more of a magazine-format, with interviews and analysis, along, of course, with my exchanges with callers. But for those of you who dial me up, you know that the rules include our having a civilized exchange, not a ranting scream-fest.

At any rate, that's my Sunday musing, sparked by David's post, who always makes me think, and always serves as a beacon for what is right. He's also obviously a man with a hell of a lot more patience than I.

UPDATE 4/11:

Roger L. Simon responds. My distaste for debate does center around my increasing disgust for the left, but an exchange between Horowitz and Summers, as Roger suggests, is something I would be excited to see. No chairs would be thrown; it would be the sort of dialog that would be fascinating and wirth our time. But it would also probably lack the fireworks today's mostly shallow college students (with the exception of the College Republicans of course!) require to keep their attention.

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Posted by Tammy · April 9, 2006 03:02 PM · Permalink · Comments (4) · TrackBack (0)
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To Debate or Not Debate

**Welcome David Horowitz readers. I have just posted a response to David's blog post. Please click here for that post. And when done, please feel free to look around the rest of Tammy Blog.**

Roger L. Simon has some very good points about the David Horowitz/Ward Churchill debate the other night. I'm a friend of David's and I completely respect his ability to stand in front of the scum of the Earth (like Ward Churchill) and call them out for what they are. But I must say in this type of instance David's presence gives someone like Churchill an unwarranted continued legitimacy.

At the same time, the vile that Churchill spews must be countered, and David is the one who can do it. I have to tell you, I have much less patience for "debates" and the severity of the ugliness from the Left that as it only continues to get worse. I know for young people it's imperative to hear the lies of the Left countered, but for me the usefulness of the format has worn down.

Posted by Tammy · April 8, 2006 04:07 PM · Permalink · Comments (2) · TrackBack (0)
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Evan Coyne Maloney Storms Yale

To ask some very simple questions about how and why they have a Taliban on campus. And unlike that Taliban student of theirs, Evan got the boot. (HT Powerline).

Posted by Tammy · March 24, 2006 03:15 PM · Permalink · Comments (0) · TrackBack (0)
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Yale Suspends Anonymous Emailer

An update posted by Lost in Media via John Fund in the continued coverage of the Taliban at Yale.

Clinton Taylor, one of the founders of Nail Yale and whom we had on Tammy Radio, had been attacked by an anonymous emailer because of his opposition to Yale admitting a former Taliban representative (who continue to threaten and kill our troops in Afghanistan). Here's my original post on that attack. That no-longer anonymous emailer has now been suspended. Yale should now do the right thing and expel the Taliban freak.

A Taliban Mouthpiece Goes to Yale

Posted by Tammy · March 16, 2006 02:37 PM · Permalink · Comments (4) · TrackBack (0)
Education | Leftists | September 11 | War on Radical Islam

Nail Yale

Yesterday on Tammy Radio we had the pleasure of speaking with Yale alumni Clinton Taylor who, along with Debbie Bookstaber, are leading the way exposing Yale's corruption by allowing a former Taliban official to attend their academy. They now have a new blog at Townhall.com, titled "Nail Yale: Fighting the Talibanality of Evil in the Ivy League," which provides a new great way for them to organize against this outrage.

In their column "Give Yale the Finger," they launched a great project everyone can participate in to show Yale your displeasure with their admitting the Taliban hack. Called "Nail Yale" they ask that everyone send Yale officials red press-on nails as a reminder of the Taliban practice of pulling out the fingernails of women who dared to wear nail polish. Now that they have one of those who defended Taliban policy, Yale needs to be reminded what it is they're supporting.

One of the first things the Nail Yale Blog points out is the Washington Times editorial on the issue:

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