‘Rolling Stone’s Sole Source for the False Tale of Rape’ Must Testify in Lawsuit

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Jackie Coakley, the former University of Virginia student whose false story of a fraternity gang rape became the subject of a 2014 Rolling Stone story, will now be compelled to tell the truth under oath:

A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone’s discredited story about an alleged frat house gang rape must testify as part of a lawsuit against the magazine.
The woman identified only as “Jackie” will be deposed on Thursday by attorneys representing Rolling Stone and Nicole Eramo, the University of Virginia administrator who is suing the magazine and the author of the now-retracted article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely. . . .
Eramo, an associate dean of students at UVA, is suing Rolling Stone and Erdely for defamation over what she says was an unfair portrayal of her as an insensitive campus bureaucrat in the story. She is seeking $7.85 million in damages. . . .
At a hearing held Monday in a Charlottesville, Virginia, Judge Glen E. Conrad denied a motion filed by Jackie’s attorneys to quash the deposition subpoena. . . .
Libby Locke, an attorney for Eramo, said Rolling Stone’s negligence led to her client’s unflattering portrayal.
“Jackie was Rolling Stone’s sole source for the false tale of rape that it recklessly published. There were numerous red flags in Jackie’s account, which should have put Rolling Stone on notice that she was not a credible source for information,” Locke said. “Nevertheless, Rolling Stone was dead set on portraying Dean Eramo as a callous administrator who discouraged Jackie from reporting an assault to police — when in fact, it appears that Jackie knew that her tale of rape would not have stood up under real scrutiny and investigation. Had Rolling Stone done the fact-checking and digging that they were legally and ethically required to do as journalists, Dean Eramo would not have been so wrongfully targeted.” . . .
Rolling Stone also faces a $25 million suit from the UVA fraternity Phi Kappa Psi that was named in the article.
Three former frat members have also filed a suit against Rolling Stone, but have not specified an amount.

The liar Jackie Coakley has tried desperately to avoid telling the truth. Last week, the judge slapped down another one of her pathetic excuses.

UPDATE: Tell @AmandaMarcotte and @JessicaValenti about this news, because apparently the liars didn’t notice.

 

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Gender-Neutral at Notre Dame?

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The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic school, most famous for its Fighting Irish football team and, uh, “gender-nonconforming people.”

Gender-neutral Bathrooms
Easy access to a bathroom without fear of harassment is a privilege that is often taken for granted. Transgender, genderqueer, and other gender-nonconforming people often feel uncomfortable and are subject to harassment and violence when using male- or female-specific bathrooms.
If you know of a gender-neutral bathroom on or around campus, let us know by filling out a brief Bathroom Survey so that we can make Notre Dame a safe and inclusive environment for everyone.
The most recent list of gender-neutral bathrooms can be found here.

About 8,500 students attend Notre Dame, where the tuition is $47,929 a year. How many Notre Dame students are “gender-nonconforming people”? Do these students not have parents or high-school guidance counselors who can advise them that, you know, if you want to be “gender-nonconforming,” maybe Notre Dame isn’t the best place to do it?

Alas, the advocates of “progress,” “equality” and “diversity” insist that every institution must be equally diverse and progressive, including Catholic universities. Here’s a headline from December 2012:

Notre Dame concludes comprehensive review
of GLBTQ student services and support
After a five-month review process, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has accepted recommendations from the Office of Student Affairs to expand and enhance the support of and services for students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ), including the creation of a University recognized student organization.
The recommendations are part of a comprehensive pastoral plan that includes an array of initiatives grounded in the Catholic mission of the University.
“I appreciate the careful and thoughtful work of this review that considered both the needs of our students and the teachings of the Catholic Church,” Father Jenkins said. “As articulated in the University’s ‘Spirit of Inclusion’ statement, Notre Dame’s goal remains to create and sustain a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, and I am confident that this multi-faceted, pastoral approach represents the next step in advancing our efforts toward this aspiration for our GLBTQ students.”
The plan, titled “Beloved Friends and Allies: A Pastoral Plan for the Support and Holistic Development of GLBTQ and Heterosexual Students at the University of Notre Dame,” was crafted by members of the Student Affairs staff. It follows a study of Catholic doctrine and teaching, listening sessions with Notre Dame students and an examination of student clubs and structures at other Catholic universities. Rooted in Catholic teaching on sexuality and gender identity, the plan emphasizes the “respect, compassion and sensitivity” due to all, and calls all Notre Dame students to cultivate chaste relationships and to support one another in a community of friendship. A document detailing the review process, relevant Church teaching and specifics of the implementation of the plan is available online at friendsandallies.nd.edu.
After requests last spring by Notre Dame students for a gay-straight alliance or similar club, Father Jenkins asked for a review of the breadth of structures and support for students who identify as GLBTQ. While respectful of the education and awareness work of the University’s Core Council for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Questioning Students, students voiced a desire for services that provide greater community and support.

You see that once Notre Dame decided to appease the forces of “progress,” “equality” and “diversity,” complete surrender was inevitable.

The “Gender Relations Center” at Notre Dame now offers a plethora of services to the, uh, “gender-nonconforming” community:

 

LGBTQ 101
LGBTQ 101 is a two-hour long interactive presentation, designed to provide participants with a basic understanding and greater awareness of issues faced by students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) within today’s culture. This presentation includes an overview of the Catholic church’s teachings on sexual orientation, definitions related to sexual orientation and gender identity, introduction to the concepts of homophobia and heterosexism, as well as common myths and misunderstandings about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. Please contact Maureen McKenney, Assistant Director for LGBTQ Student Concerns ([email protected]), for more information or to sign up for a session.

 

PRISMND
Founded in 2013, PrismND is Notre Dame’s first official student organization dedicated to serving the LGBTQ and ally community on campus. The organization provides programming dedicated to fostering the development of the community, and raising awareness on campus as to the community’s needs.
In the Notre Dame family, intolerance against some of us intolerance against all of us.

Certainly, alumni of Notre Dame University and parents of prospective students will want to learn more about the inclusive agenda of diversity, equality and progress at the university’s “Gender Relations Center.”

 

The rhetoric of “Beloved Friends and Allies” cannot disguise what actually happened, i.e., Notre Dame’s abject surrender to the totalitarian demands of an anti-Christian movement which is ruthlessly determined to destroy the Church, insofar as it cannot control the Church. When you see what “The Radical Theology of Feminism” has done to the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), don’t you realize that if the Church refuses to cling to truth, and instead becomes “conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2), eventually there will be no Church at all? My Catholic friend Pete Da Tech Guy had a big “I told you so” at the expense of the Lutherans, but what does Notre Dame’s surrender portend?

What we are witnessing in the 21st century is the revival of an ancient heresy, a postmodern version of Gnosticism. The theologian Peter Jones first described this weird phenomenon in his 1992 book The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age. Jones further explored the neo-Gnostic trend in his 1997 book Spirit Wars: Pagan Revival in Christian America. This steady drift toward syncretism suggests that many Christian “leaders” and institutions are now “giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (I Timothy 4:1-3 KJV).

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself . . . she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

If leaders of Christian institutions will not stand up for the truth now, eventually Christians will no longer have liberty to speak the truth.





 


Confession of a ‘F–king Sociopath’

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So, there was this guy who claimed to be a Marine diagnosed with terminal cancer and told he had only 18 months to live. He collected a lot of online donations, but then Michael Kocher was arrested on felony drug charges, and posted this shocking confession on Facebook:

“I’m going to jail for a very long time, I f–ked up bad this time. So I’m coming clean about everything. I’m a f–king sociopath. . . .
“The last few months I’ve been extremely mentally addicted to smoking cocaine. . . .
“Most of my past is a mix of truth, exaggeration, and fabrication. . . .
“I was also a full blown heroin addict . . . Prior to moving to Denver I had fully relapsed for about a year. . . .
“I am just a bad person who only cares about his own selfish desires. I have destroyed so many lives to get what I wanted.”

A liar, a dopehead, a thief. And he probably voted for Obama, too.

 

In The Mailbox: 04.04.16

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— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Organized Chaos
The Political Hat: Not A Tumblr Witch? You Can Still Cast +3 Whine of Political Correctness
Michelle Malkin: How to Crack Rove’s GOP-e Speak
Twitchy: Obama Admin Pushing Banks To Make Risky Home Loans
Shark Tank: Wasserman-Schultz’s Primary Challenger Makes Financial Accusations Stick


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Massive Worldwide Fallout Over Panama Papers
American Thinker: Killing Christianity In America
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Time Of Fog And Fire
Conservatives4Palin: Air France Stewardesses Mutiny Over Headscarf Order
Don Surber: I’m Going To Miss Pepsi
Jammie Wearing Fools: White Nationalists Flood Wisconsin With Pro-Trump Robocalls
Joe For America: Rep. Jason Chaffetz Takes Huge Step Toward Abolishing BLM Power
JustOneMinute: Life’s Little Mysteries, Or, What’s The Matter With Indiana?
Pamela Geller: Police Prepare To Enforce Sharia On Twitter
Shot In The Dark: You Don’t Do Business Against The Family
STUMP: Show Us The Money! From Somewhere!
The Jawa Report: Emory College Evacuated After Chalk Found
The Lonely Conservative: The Latest From The Radical Feminists – Adultism And Monosexual Privilege
The Quinton Report: Voter Registration Drives Violates Federal Law
This Ain’t Hell: Brit Army To Rewrite Physical Standards To Accommodate More Women
Weasel Zippers: Congress Investigating Obama Regime Deception On Iran Nuke Deal
Megan McArdle: The Real Victims Of Political Bias On Campus
Mark Steyn: Live In Toronto – Steyn & Farage Vs. Arbour & Schama


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Harvard Law Is Decadent and Depraved

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Have you ever heard of Isaac Royall Jr.? Me, neither, until I started reading about “Reclaim Harvard Law,” an anti-white protest group at Harvard University Law School. Earlier this year, Harvard’s administration surrendered to an unruly mob of student grievance-mongers who had demanded that the official seal of the Law School be changed to remove a symbolic reference to Royall, a wealthy Massachusetts man who died in 1781 and left a bequest in his will that endowed the first professorship at Harvard Law. Why did these students target Royall’s legacy? Because they learned that Royall owned slaves and therefore his wealth, part of which he gave to Harvard Law, was tainted, and therefore Harvard Law’s seal — showing three sheaves of wheat, a symbol derived from the Royall family crest — was a legacy of slavery.

Does that make sense? No, of course not. But these young hooligans have convinced themselves they are Victims of Oppression, which means that their arguments don’t have to make sense. This is how it goes in elite education nowadays: “I am oppressed, therefore, yield to my demands.”

Predictably, the craven fools who run Harvard Law (annual tuition $58,242) granted the ridiculous demands of the mob. Good-bye, three sheaves of wheat! Good-bye, symbolic legacy of Mr. Royall, who made his fortune the way a lot of Yankees made their fortunes before Yankees became convinced that slavery was an intolerable wrong.

This kind of weaponization of history by race-hustlers is a phenomenon that Thomas Sowell addresses in The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Instead of worrying about any practical problem of their individual lives in the 21st century, these Harvard Law students have gone rooting around in history to locate something they can construe as a collective wrong, employed as a grievance in an identity-politics drama. Here is some dead white guy who owned black slaves, and therefore black Harvard Law students have a reason to be angry, despite the fact that (a) Royall has been dead for 235 years, (b) these black students are in fact indirect beneficiaries of the wealth Royall left behind to Harvard Law, and (c) it is absurd to expect intelligent people to believe that any student at Harvard Law is actually oppressed.

Dear God in heaven! You whining brats have been fortunate enough to be admitted to one of the most prestigious schools on the planet! Continue reading Harvard Law Is Decadent and Depraved →

Rule 5 Sunday: Time Begins on Opening Day

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— compiled by Wombat-socho

Because everything gets prostituted for the benefit of the networks these days, baseball’s Opening Day has actually been stretched out over two days: tonight and tomorrow. Since I’m finally in a place of my own again, I’ve spent some of my wages from the tax mines on a new TV and an Amazon Fire Stick, with which I intend to watch a buttload of baseball this season…after tax season is over and I’m back from the annual trip to Minnesota for anime & family & friends. This week’s appetizer, for a number of reasons, is Alyssa Milano, dressed appropriately to support her Tigers.

Because Kate Upton would be Too Much of a Good Thing, and You are Not Worthy. Also, Alyssa Milano.

The Rio Norte Line returns (after hibernating all winter) with Maria Sharapova’s Butt Goes To Mexico, followed by Goodstuff with Cheryl Tiegs, 90 Miles from Tyranny with Toned and Bronzed, Lingerie Classic Beauty, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism has a Rule 5 Cabinet Post and (for variety)  a Saturday Brunettenarok; The Last Tradition chips in with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Avonte Wright, Meanwhile, the First Street Journal says the IDF Makes His Posting Easy!

EBL’s frolicking herd this week includes the late Patty Duke, Think Winter Is Over?, Waterloo!, Alison Rapp, and Spring Break.

A View from the Beach entices us with Quantico Girls Won’t You Come Out Tonight?, A Second Viking Site Found in North America? (vikings, natch), Denisovans in Paradise (cavegirls), Cuban Cutie Not Thrilled by the Havana Tango, Fish Lead to Filter Breakthrough, RIP – Patty Duke, Nothing to See at Clinton.com, Just 147 FBI agents, Prehistoric Puppies Found Preserved in Siberia, FBI still Coming at Clinton.com, Monday Morning Paulatics, The Morning Workout, Happy Easter!, and It Takes Twitter to Raise a Monster (robots).

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes were Jessica Camacho, Maria Robles, Jacqueline Petzak, Misako Yasuda, Asha Kamali, Nami Shirota, and Sasha Banks.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Britt Ekland, his Vintage Babe is Janet Blair, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Express. At Dustbury, it’s Patty Donahue and Fockeline Ouwerkerk (no, really!).

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked us in the FMJRA and brought us into third place among the most-linked posts last week! Deadline to submit your links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, April 9. Links for the FMJRA, of course, are due at noon.


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The New Thought Crime: ‘Adultism’

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Adultism “is running amok in America”:

Parents know what’s best for their children? At the risk of tossing tons of other scenarios aside, we LGBTQIA+ kids have heard that last one plenty while trying to grow up while out. Parents say we’re not bi. Or queer. Or a boy. Or non-binary.
They give us labels at birth and expect us to adhere to them. And when we don’t? Certainly it’s because our parents simply know us better than we know ourselves.
It couldn’t possibly be that parents are — gasp! — people who are ultimately a different being than their children.
But what of my suggested inability to provide parental advice when I’m not a parent myself? Okay, I give you that one. But the thing is that article wasn’t on parental advice.
It was an article on children’s basic human rights, which we tend to so grossly overlook.
How did that point so quickly get turned right back around to focus on the parents instead of the children?
Because adultism. . . .

You can read the rest. Notice that (a) it’s published at Everyday Feminism and (b) the “LGBTQIA+” agenda is foremost in the author’s mind.

The essential sovereignty of parents in raising their own children has been under assault in America for a long, long time. In the 19th century, “reformers” (especially including Horace Mann) began refashioning our education system along the lines of the Prussian model, which viewed children as the rightful property of the state. These progressive “reformers” deliberately sought to undermine parental authority, substituting the ideas of modern “experts” for whatever religious beliefs or old-fashioned customs might have hitherto served to guide parents in the governance of their families. By privileging their own opinions and preferences, these academic experts became self-ratifying authorities.

The manufacturing of “consensus” among a clique of intellectuals can easily create the appearance that these “experts” actually do have all the answers, and that skeptics and critics are simply ignorant.

When it comes to the best methods of child-rearing, the proof is in the pudding, but this pudding takes a long time to prepare. That is to say, you won’t know until your child is an adult whether your methods were right. So if a new “trend” in parenting or education comes along, it’s going to take about 15 or 20 years before you can look at the final product and evaluate the effects of the child’s upbringing.

When we saw the outbreak of student radicalism on university campuses during the 1960s, it became obvious that something had gone badly wrong during those seemingly placid years of the Eisenhower administration. Somehow, a number of spoiled brats (radical leaders of the SDS, for example) had developed ideas of “democracy” that were at odds with what most American adults believed. What caused this so-called “generation gap”? Two words: Public education.

During the great post-WWII economic boom, an enormous hubris characterized the leadership of the American education system. And a desire to instill patriotic idealism in these Future Citizens led to children being taught to celebrate democracy as the summum bonum.

The only way to judge whether something was good or bad, right or wrong, was to have a vote about it, many children were led to believe. To someone who has been taught this kind of mindless devotion to egalitarian democracy, it is enough to condemn anything to say it is “undemocratic.” The traditional family is condemned by this standard.

Let me state this plainly: I am not going to debate my teenage son over whether he should clean up his room and mow the yard. Continue reading The New Thought Crime: ‘Adultism’ →

Workin’ Hard, Tryin’ To Teach Punky @BrewStudNo1 Of Humor. Failing.

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It started as a biographical not concerning Her Majesty:

As somebody who nurses dreams of writing fiction some day, and is fascinated by criminal psychology in general, I had to inquire:

The lesson began when, as a Lefty will, Punky had to go all potty mouth:

Now, I do have 4 1/2 years of sea time in the Navy. But you become jaded about the potty mouth. It’s more interesting to work with the situation and see where it can go. Ah, yes: an #OccupyResoluteDesk gag:

At this point, Punky’s boorishness (one wonders if he doubles as a Trump supporter) comes to the fore, and he gets all Flukie-Dukey on me:

Here I decided to hold training and violate the “explain nothing” rule:

Sure, I love well-done malapropism as much as the next guy, but using “incongruent” here sounds like somebody who’s only qualified through two-syllable words reaching for a four-banger and grabbing the ronngg one. Possibly there is some humor in here and I’m just missing it.

Past that tweet, @BrewStudNo1 wallowed in his taste for banal, NTTAWWT. I would like to publicly forgive him all the insults. Our political discourse is too rife these days with people getting all spun up and emotional. Request everyone who reads this post that has a Twitter account swing by and offer @BrewStudNo1 a sincere virtual hug. Together we can get through these trying times, mate.