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News/Politics 10-24-12

What’s news?

How ’bout the, despite their claims, never tolerant left? They’ve been busy.

First, from TheWeeklyStandard a few days ago.

“Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts has banned a Christian group from campus because the group requires student leaders to adhere to “basic biblical truths of Christianity.” The decision to ban the group, called the Tufts Christian Fellowship, was made by officials from the university’s student government, specifically the Tufts Community Union Judiciary.

The ban means the group “will lose the right to use the Tufts name in its title or at any activities, schedule events or reserve university space through the Office for Campus Life,” according to the Tufts Daily. Additionally, Tufts Christian Fellowship will be unable to receive money from a pool that students are required to pay into and that is specifically set aside for student groups.”

Also, a new book is coming out on the intolerance on college campuses.

From TheWashingtonFreeBeacon

““On college campuses today, students are punished for everything from mild satire, to writing politically incorrect short stories, to having the ‘wrong’ opinion on virtually every hot button issue, and, increasingly, simply for criticizing the college administration,” writes Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), in Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.”

“Lukianoff emphasized that he is a liberal atheist, and that he has spent much of his time defending individuals and groups with whom he disagrees. Had anyone told him that he would have spent as much time defending evangelical Christians as he has, he said, he would have called it “conservative propaganda.”

“Given my experience, however, I was not at all surprised when a 2007 study of attitudes about religion among faculty performed by the Institute for Jewish and Community Research showed that evangelical Christians were the only group that a majority of faculty were comfortable to admit evoked strong negative feelings in them,” Lukianoff writes.”

Some of these instances are just downright stupid. Like this.

From CampusReform.Org

“The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill has removed the word “freshman” from official university documents, citing as their reason an attempt to adopt more “gender inclusive language.”

We are “committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our community,” reads a statement administrators sent to Campus Reform on Monday.

“Consistent with that commitment, gender inclusive terms (chair; first year student; upper-level student, etc.) should be used on University Documents, websites and policies,” it continues.”

🙄

But hey, at least they give you free pizza and a t-shirt, if you vote for Obama.

From DenverCBSLocal

“Colorado state law says campaigners have to be 100 feet from a polling place, but there is some grey area, especially when a polling place is inside a large public building like CSU’s Lory Student Center.”

““They were essentially offering students and passers-by t-shirts and campaign t-shirts with the impression, very clearly, that you had to go vote first, and if you voted, then they would give you free t-shirts and free pizza,” Call said.”

““This is a hypocritical charge … the party that has spent over half a million dollars on a firm accused of voter fraud across the country should join us in encouraging people to vote instead of making frivolous complaints,” the statement said.”

Here’s what the Dem Party official was referring to.

From TheHill

“Several Virginia Democrats have asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of voter fraud surrounding a GOP firm working in the Old Dominion and other battleground states.

Reps. Jim Moran, Bobby Scott and Jerry Connolly say recent allegations of registration fraud by Strategic Allied Consulting in Florida — combined with last week’s voter-fraud arrest of a Republican operative linked to the firm in Virginia — merit a federal probe to determine if the episodes “are connected and constitute a broader conspiracy of voter registration fraud.”

And lastly from the intolerant left, the reason Twitter is a bad idea.

BIG ‘OL FAT CONTENT WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it’s so bad, I won’t show them here, but it involves threats to assassinate Romney and riots if Obama loses.

From Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy site, where your stupid tweets live on even after you delete them.

Here and Here

Embrace the tolerance folks, and the newer, more civil tone.

27 thoughts on “News/Politics 10-24-12”

  2. Ricky

    There is division in the country but you know, I don’t think it began in the later half of the 20th century … there have always been divisions that can be exploited by politicians and power brokers in every society that has existed. The question is how the political machinery deals with such divisions. To me the biggest issue the USG has right now is a kind of winner take all attitude from political leadership — a total inability to compromise on one side and a growing desire to emulate that style from the liberals.

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  3. CB,
    That last phrase didn’t make sense. Could you clarify?

    Are you saying that conservatives cannot compromise, and that liberals are now wanting to emulate that?

    If so, I find that claim ludicrous.

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  4. Politically, the problem with compromise is if you make the opposition look too good they will get all the credit and you lose the next election. Clinton. Or if it all falls apart you get all the blame, you will lose the next election and they will hate you anyway. Bush. Conservatives always seem to get the wrong end of compromise so they have decided it doesn’t work. Definition of partisanship; Republicans acting like Republicans. Definition of bipartisanship; Republicans acting like Democrats.

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  5. Which ruling party of the House in 2009 locked out which party of the House so that the second party had no say about any legislation? Who were the lockors and who were the lockees? (Just remember D comes before R!)

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  6. MiM

    When the Senate Republican leader states as his number one priority retaking the White House and follows that up by filibuster, then I take him at his word.and yes kbells the reaction to Clinton winning seems to have touched off the attitude among conservatives you have stated.. liberal cites would state the opposite of what you did and that’s a more recent trend with them. So long as partisans see a zero sum game, we’ll continue on this same path, imo.

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  9. Not sure I agree with respect to most of the issues Ricky. I do think the extremes for both parties have too much sway at this point in American politics.

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  10. CB,

    You have got to be kidding. Obamacare is the perfect example of the bi-partisan left. They could have done it right, but they went with the our way or we ram it down your throats method instead. Are you feeling alright? I think you’re delusional.

    🙂

    You, and liberals in general, have this idea that compromise means we do it your way or we’re not compromising and being bi-partisan. I don’t know how you can say that and keep a straight face.

    And as the examples above show, the left is incapable of being reasonable with their opponents. Death threats and riot threats is not exactly listening to the otherside, it certainly doesn’t sound like someone anyone should compromise with. It’s childish, downright mean, and probably criminal.

    The uncompromising left is also obvious in the college campus stories. The left is incapable of allowing other ideas to be heard, they’re intolerant of dissent from their view, and they are destroying colleges.

    Wake up, and put down the Kool-aid. It’s effecting your ability to see the obvious.

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  11. Oh, and further proof that Obama and Clinton and their mouthpieces lied about Benghazi is out.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-usa-benghazi-emails-idUSBRE89N02C20121024

    “Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.

    The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.

    The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.”

    And yet they didn’t use the drone to it’s capabilities to protect the embassy. And they continued to lie to the public for weeks. Disgusting.

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  12. So just who recieved these emails?

    Only about 400 people.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/23/state-dept-emails-from-day-libya-attack-show-al-qaeda-tied-group-on-radar/

    “The emails obtained by Fox News were sent by the State Department to a variety of national security platforms, whose addresses have been redacted, including the White House Situation Room, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence.

    Fox News was told that an estimated 300 to 400 national security figures received these emails in real time almost as the raid was playing out and concluding. People who received these emails work directly under the nation’s top national security, military and diplomatic officials, Fox News was told.

    The timestamps on the emails are all Eastern Time and often include the subheading SBU, which is shorthand for “Sensitive But Unclassified.””

    We need to hold Obama and Clinton responsible for this. Both for the lies, and the negligence. They failed to do their jobs.

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  13. Too much about Benghazi has not made logical sense, so I’ve had my radar up on this one. An American ambassador was killed and his body dragged in the streets. I cannot get past that action–countries have gone to war over less and yet this one:absurdity.

    I find it interesting, the release of these emails–by whom? Journalists should have been digging for stuff like this on day one.

    But maybe it has taken them this long to pry it out? I heard on the radio this morning it was fed-up intelligence sources who released it.

    What happened was terrible, however it happened and why. But like Watergate, the cover up may end up sinking the presidency.

    Surely those smart people at the White House knew that? Or did someone forget history?

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  15. Like I said CB. Ludicrous.

    Which party has traditionally NOT shown up or walked out when it camed time to vote on something they knew were going to lose?

    A hint: That party name does NOT start with “R”.

    And I remember distinctly that the Rs have traditionally promised us to do the conservative thing, and every time they blow it by reaching across the aisle and compromising so that the Ds would still like them.

    Well guess what? The Ds still hated them, and then, so did their base.

    Then to add insult to injury, the Ds turn right around and put the screws to the Rs every chance they get. Do they EVER compromise? HECK no.

    It’s like Lucy with the football…

    Ludicrous I tell you.

    So if the Rs don’t compromise now… here’s what I have to say to all you liberal Democrats.

    Tough bananas. Go cry on someone else’ shoulder.

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  16. Aj

    Friends od mine who are liberal also point to the ACA. They wanted single payer universal coverage. They settled for the 1992 Heritage Foundation answer to Hillary. Thhey tell me that attempting to compromise was useless ans they wish the pres had actually rammed single payer through.

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  17. CB, To illustrate the different worldviews, most liberals literally hated Little Bush and what he believed and stood for. Most conservatives literally hate Obama and what he believes and stands for.

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  19. Were the emails released following what was a formal request for records (which typically takes a while)? I’d assumed that’s why we finally getting access to those documents.

    The video explanation/defense is a real curiosity, I agree. It seemed pretty ludicrous at the time — now, looking back now that we have the emails, you realize there was some sort of calculated cover strategy going on, but why (other than an obvious point that we were clearly ill-prepared and slow to respond and conceding it was pre-planned would not reflect well)?

    How many times did the administration keep shopping that story, over and over and over again — weeks? When you see the clips now, it’s pretty amazing.

    “The video” “It was the video” “This was in response to a video” …. blah-blah-blah.

    Odd-odd-odd.

    As I said earlier, Romney doesn’t have to say a word about that issue. I doubt it will directly affect the election all that much, as it’s happening rather late in the cycle, but it sure could write an unflattering final chapter for this president’s legacy in office (assuming he loses, which I’m still not prepared to stake a bet on — not just yet, anyway).

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  20. Ricky

    I actually think librals hatr what they think Bush stood for and conservatives hate what they think Obama stands for and, imo both extremes are slightly deranged.

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  21. CB

    Do you know why Rush Limbaugh was such an overnight hit? He said what conservatives thought but never heard in the media. We were afraid to say what we thought at work or in the social arena. We could only open up to a few friends or like thinkers; we had to be careful before we talked in public!

    I worked for 29 years in South Central Los Angeles. In all that time I never had a bumper sticker or talked about my politics within a group. I didn’t want to get my car keyed.

    It was bad enough that I never joined the teachers union. I tried to keep my politics to myself. I was one of the few who didn’t go on strike. I got to school about 5:20 in the morning. Even though there was to be no retaliation, I was removed by my department as Department Chair.

    In the VP debate, Biden sounded and acted just like the most rabid union members at my school. Ugh!!

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  22. Bob,

    Rush and the others tap into anger but they don’t resolve anything. They do emphasize reasons to be ever more angry and ever more justified. What happened to you was wrong and I don’t think a union clique of power is any better than any other type of clique of power. I don’t think Rush or Keith help the situation because both aim to polarize for ratings andd neither is responsible.

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  23. CB,

    “I don’t think Rush or Keith help the situation because both aim to polarize for ratings andd neither is responsible.”

    Just like Obama. Polarizing to boost his poll numbers, and isn’t responsible for, or about, anything. It’s Bush’s fault, or somebody else, but never his. But what do I know, I’m just bitterly clinging to my guns and Bible here in Pa. The president even said so himself. That’s polarizing. He’s done the same with minorities/whites, religous/nonreligous, D/R, rich/poor, you name it. He’s been a divider since day 1. As well as an amatuer hour failure.

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  25. As Rush says, this Bengazhi thing is bigger than Watergate, but it isn’t getting the attention in the MSM that Watergate did.
    The difference, MSM was out to get Nixon, and they did.
    They’re out to protect Obama, but can’t.

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