I generally go with incompetence – it’s better to think the best of people. But to hear New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie explain how his state lost out on $400 million in federal education funds, you wonder if there might be a little something else involved. One wonders if any beltway reporters would be interested […]
Nope, not me, Scott Nicholson, 24, of Grafton, Mass. After breakfast, his parents left for their jobs, and Scott Nicholson, alone in the house in this comfortable suburb west of Boston, went to his laptop in the living room. He had placed it on a small table that his mother had used for a vase […]
For those interested in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez ruling, there’s an extensive Q&A with the Alliance Defense Fund’s David French here. The headline says it all: “You Cannot be and Equal Participant in the Marketplace of Ideas.”
Today the Supreme Court held that universities can require student organizations to require that student groups must accept “all comers” for membership and leadership positions, even if those people oppose the group’s main purpose. You can find the opinion here, and I’ve only just read the syllabus, but the court has gutted the Constitution’s freedom […]
A bunch of high school students from one of the local public schools got together and wrote a letter to the editor of the San Luis Obispo Tribune. After reading the missive, one wonders what they’re teaching young people today. We are writing to protest the law that targets illegal immigrants in Arizona. Amnesty International […]
The best line of the week comes from National Review’s Jonah Goldberg writing about the genocide supporter at UCSD. This endorsement of genocide is brought to you by Aristotle. For the record, the answer to Goldberg’s question whether the UCSD administration would cite freedom of speech and diversity of viewpoints if a student advocated the […]
The result was predictable. I mentioned last week that a couple of Live Oak High School administrators had removed five students from school for wearing T-shirts featuring the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. Well, the fallout has been predictable. The heightened police presence was due in part to rumors swirling around the school Thursday […]
I’m really not sure how to appropriately gauge the level of stupidity on display here by school administrators. Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to […]
When a bunch of mullahs manufactured outrage a few years back over some largely innocuous cartoon depictions of the "prophet" Muhammed, hundreds died as rioting followed. In covering the violence, most American newspapers and magazines declined to publish even the most tame of the cartoons out of what they said was a desire not to […]
Once again, college administrators have demonstrated that they don't think the First Amendment applies to the campus: Two students who were threatened with suspension at the College of Alameda after one of them prayed with an ailing teacher in a faculty office can sue the community college district for allegedly violating their freedom of speech, […]