VIDEO: Kent Haeffner, President of Harvard University College Republicans

Posted on | September 8, 2017 | 2 Comments

FITCHBURG, Massachusetts
Thursday, Pete Da Tech Guy and I traveled to Harvard University, where we met with Kent Haeffner, president of Harvard’s College Republicans, and got this 18-minute video interview on Harvard Yard.

Kent was very gracious and joined us for dinner at El Jefe’s Taqueria on Harvard Square. I’ll have more about my Harvard visit later, including proof — proof! — that not all Harvard girls are ugly feminists.

Category: Education, Video

In The Mailbox: 09.07.17

Posted on | September 7, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.07.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is Pushing Budget Issues Off Three Months Really A Defeat For GOP?
Twitchy: Stay WOKE! Facebook Post Claiming Trump Administration Creates Hurricanes Gets Even Funnier
Louder With Crowder: Kid Rock Gives His First Fiery “Campaign Speech” In Detroit

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ferris Bueller And The Feminine Imperative
American Power: Danielle Gersh’s Sunny & Mild Forecast
American Thinker: 1913 – The Turning Point
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Vaccination News
BattleSwarm: Did Israel Just Bomb A Syrian Chemical Weapons Plant? (Update: Yes)
BLACKFIVE: Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn’s Enemy Of The State
Bring The HEAT: The Northrup F-5A
Da Tech Guy: Much Ado About DACA, But My Mind Is Elsewhere, also, Make Or Break It
Don Surber: A Deal Made Possible By Antifa’s Collapse
Dustbury: The Latest And Greatest Buzz
Fred On Everything: DACA Dies, Sort Of – Right Wing Flaps Wildly – Our Precious Bodily Fluids Safe
The Geller Report: Pinterest Bans Pamela Geller
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Former Hillary Fundraiser Says “The Best Thing She Could Do Is Disappear”
Joe For America: Actress Martha Plimpton Refers To First Abortion As “Best” Abortion
JustOneMinute: My Guess? The SPLC Is Sheltering Assets Overseas
Power Line: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? also, Amazon Tells Seattle “Drop Dead”
Shark Tank: Climate Change Alarmists Prepare For Post-Hurricane Hysteria
Shot In The Dark: A Good Guy With An Ugly Black Gun And A Thirty-Round Magazine
The Political Hat: Political Correctness, Opposing Incorrectness, Out With The Incorrect, Celebrating The Correct
This Ain’t Hell: Thirteen Ft. Hood Soldiers Busted In Prostitution Sting, also, Navy Changes Uniforms Again
Weasel Zippers: ISIS Supporters Threaten Harvey Relief Centers In Houston, also, Wassermann-Schultz Aide Who Fled US Strikes Deal To Return, Facing Charges
Megan McArdle: Southern Poverty Law Center Gets Creative To Label “Hate Groups”
Mark Steyn: Dreams Delusions And Duplicity, also, Everybody’s Out To Get Her

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Report From Family Fleeing Florida

Posted on | September 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Report From Family Fleeing Florida

My daughter is eight months pregnant and lives in South Florida. She, her husband and their dog Max are among the mass exodus fleeing the state ahead of Hurricane Irma, expected to hit somewhere near Miami this weekend. They left Thursday morning and by 10 p.m. had reached the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia. Media reports indicate that many gas stations are already out of fuel, long lines are forming at the stations that still have fuel, and highways are beginning to become jammed as hundreds of thousands of vehicles head north.

Traffic was “slow, but we are moving,” my daughter reported late Thursday from Savannah. “We haven’t had too hard of a time so far. Anyone trying to leave south Florida now will be totally screwed.”

Earlier this week, veteran meteorologist Bryan Norcross predicted “an epic movement of people through the State of Florida.” Simply put, with a storm the size and strength of Irma, there is no safe place to be in Florida. Although the current forecast is that Irma will hit the east coast of the peninsula, it might wobble off that path:

“The west coast of Florida — including the Ft. Myers/Cape Coral/Naples area and Tampa Bay — are spectacularly vulnerable to storm surge. Much more so than the east coast, which still has many threatened areas,” Norcross wrote during a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday morning. “If the storm looks like it could go up the west coast, evacuations are going to be required there, which will create an epic movement of people through the State of Florida.
“If this happens, and you are in an evacuated area, do not dawdle. Do not even think about dawdling. Immediate action will be required,” Norcross wrote.

Think about this: If fuel shortages are already being reported on Thursday — three days before the storm is expected to make landfall — what’s the situation going to be like Friday and Saturday? We’re talking about the possibility of a zombie apocalypse type of situation, with people stranded and desperate to get out of Florida. We can expect reports of looting and carjacking. Then think of the many elderly people in Florida’s hospitals and nursing homes who are too frail to travel.

A worst-case scenario is likely to be very bad indeed.

Category: Florida

Heading to Harvard Yard

Posted on | September 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Heading to Harvard Yard

“What these male feminists fail to realize is that, as men, they will always be oppressors. . . . Men, as a class, are culpable for misogyny, and male allies are no different . . . Feminism does not need men. . . . Feminism is not supposed to be palatable to men; it is supposed to be threatening.”
— Nian Hu, Harvard Crimson

FITCHBURG, Massachusetts
My friend Pete Da Tech Guy will be taking the train down to Cambridge this afternoon, and my first stop will be Harvard’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Honestly, I just want to see what Hell on Earth looks like at close range. Pray for my safety.

On the other hand, notorious Thought Criminal Charles Murray managed to speak at Harvard without causing a riot Wednesday night:

Harvard University students braved a light drizzle Wednesday night to protest a speech by Charles Murray, dubbing the conservative intellectual a “white nationalist.”
Murray is best-known for his 1994 book, The Bell Curve, in which he and co-author Richard Herrnstein argue that hereditary factors, in addition to environmental ones, influence an individual’s intelligence.
Murray had been invited by the Harvard College Open Campus Initiative (HCOCI) — known as the “free speech club” on campus — which invited him to talk about his most recent book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, but the announcement sparked outrage among the student body, according to The Harvard Crimson.
“Inviting [Dr. Murray] to campus in an uncritical and stubbornly evasive way is deeply harmful, and giving him an unchecked platform to spread white nationalism is antithetical to a true commitment to free speech,” said Nicholas Whittaker, a junior at the school. “We ask any interested to join us to assert our dissatisfaction with Murray and HCOCI.”
Outside of the venue, protesters gathered and chanted, “Don’t give into racist fear/everyone is welcome here!”

Well, if everybody is welcome at Harvard, probably they won’t mind me wandering around campus checking out the student scene. My plan is to meet up with Republican students on campus — believe it or not, there are at least two — and maybe grab a pizza and a few cold beverages.

@charlesmurray reflects on his visit to Harvard https://t.co/hVMdz2XbwA

— AEI for Students (@AEIforStudents) September 7, 2017

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Readers can come hear me speak, and get a copy of my book Sex Trouble, this Saturday, Sept. 9, in Leominster, Massachusetts, at an event hosted by Da Tech Guy blog, the Worcester Tea Party and Granite Grok.

Tickets for this buffet luncheon event are available online, and I hope all my friends in the New England area will attend.

If you can’t make it to Saturday’s luncheon, however, you might want to chip in to the Shoe Leather Fund, because I’ll be spending five days visiting institutes of higher learning in the region, just to see what kind of lunacy is being promulgated on campus this fall. Please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: Education, Fear. Loathing., Sex Trouble

Social Justice and Fake Hate Crimes

Posted on | September 7, 2017 | 2 Comments

Michael Kee committed an anti-Muslim hate crime — against himself.

Police in Wisconsin say that Kee, a student at Beloit College who identifies as Muslim, spray-painted crude anti-Muslim slogans on the door of his own dorm room in February. The incident occurred days after a Jewish student at Beloit was targeted by anti-Semitic note slipped under his dorm-room door. Police say the motive for Kee’s hoax was that he “wanted the same attention the campus was giving the other student.”

Beloit is a private liberal arts college that is expensive ($55,206 a year, including room and board), but not what you’d call “elite” — a school for kids who didn’t have the SATs to get into Amherst or Oberlin, really. Rich parents send their kids to Beloit for a four-year vacation from reality, and the decadent youth keep themselves busy learning about social justice:

Beloit College recently published a “#GetWoke” syllabus in an effort to encourage students to familiarize themselves with the anti-Trump resistance movement.
The syllabus, called “#GetWoke: Activism and Organizing During 45 Syllabus,” was created by the school’s diversity office for its upcoming “#GetWoke lecture series,” providing a “general overview of white supremacy, fascism, race and racism, and nation-state.” . . .
The syllabus then suggests that protesting is “at the heart of what it means to demand the state sees you when you sit at the margins of society,” encouraging students to listen to protest songs such as KRS One’s “Sound of Da Police,” or read texts like “Social Justice Organizing” for inspiration. . . .
Among the resources included in the syllabus are related syllabi on similar topics, such as a “Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves,” and another on how “All Monuments Must Fall.” . . .
Additionally, the college plans to host at least four #GetWoke panels during the upcoming school year, the first of which will be delivered later this month by Moya Bailey, a feminist academic who coined misogynoir, a term derived from intersectional feminist theory to describe the misogynistic experiences of black women in particular.

According to Wikipedia, “Moya Bailey is a black queer feminist scholar, writer, and activist . . . Bailey attended Spelman College for her undergraduate degree. She pursued graduate studies at Emory University in the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is currently a Dean’s Post-Doctoral Fellow at Northeastern University.” In other words, she is a professional victim, someone whose raison d’être is victimhood, and who has never done anything in her life except denounce “society” for its racism, sexism and homophobia.

Beloit’s Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusiveness (OADI) used its “Scholar in Residency” program to bring Bailey to their campus, in order to teach these rich kids . . . what? How to be pathetic crybabies the rest of their lives? How to manufacture social-justice slogans? How to get a Ph.D. in Gender Studies and thereby avoid doing any actual work?

What kind of parents would actually pay to send their kid to a school like Beloit? This is one of the great inexplicable mysteries of the 21st century, like how Texas A&M blew that 34-point lead against UCLA . . .

Isn’t it the case that colleges, by promoting “social justice” ideology, are teaching kids that victimhood is an achievement? And isn’t the case of Beloit’s Michael Kee a predictable consequence?

Category: Education, Racism

In The Mailbox: 09.06.17

Posted on | September 6, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.06.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Does The Media Keep Lying About Houston Development And Flooding?
Michelle Malkin: There Is No Such Thing As A “Deserving DREAMer”
Twitchy: Illegal Immigrant Shows Off Doctored Social Security Card He’s Used To Pay Thousands In Taxes
Louder With Crowder: Jimmy Kimmel Freakout – “Trump Dismantled DACA To Distract Us From Russia Probe!”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #55 – The Anecdote Episode
American Power: The Cold Civil War
American Thinker: DACA Was Only One Part Of Obama’s Seizure Of Congressional Power
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Federal Appeals Court Lifts Voter ID Law Injunction
BLACKFIVE: Karen Rose, Monster In The Closet
Bring The HEAT: THIS Is How You Give A Weekend Safety Brief
Da Tech Guy: Tangled Web Of Dictators With Nukes, also, Irony Overload From NY Gov Cuomo On DACA
Don Surber: 2,139 DACA “Kids” Convicted Of Other Crimes, also, Guy Who Never Served Calls Four-Star General Disgrace To The Uniform, also also, Joe Thomas Makes Sense Of The College Football Racket
Dustbury: As Aspirational As It Gets
The Geller Report: Crowd Throws Tomatoes At Angela Merkel During Rally, also, 47 Nonprofit Leaders Denounce SPLC And Urge Media To Cut Ties With Hate Group
Hogewash: Prevarication Du Jour, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Ray Lewis Says Ravens Were Going To Sign Kaepernick Until His Idiot GF Went On Twitter
Joe For America: Rahm Emanuel Bans Trump From Chicago
JustOneMinute: What Must Democratic Polling Look Like? also, Schadenfreude Overload, or, “RESIST!”
Power Line: That Was Then, This Is Now, also, Worst Trump Tweet Ever?
Shark Tank: DACA Divas Bend Truth About Trump’s Plan To Deport Children
Shot In The Dark: The Real Concern
STUMP: Insurance Notes – Flood Insurance
The Jawa Report: Where’s Dr. Rusty? Whose Taco Bell? OUR Taco Bell! Edition
The Political Hat: Venezuela’s Maduro Formalizes His Dictatorship
This Ain’t Hell: SSA And VA Can’t Talk, And It Costs Taxpayers Millions, also, Leaflets Offensive To Afghans
Weasel Zippers: NYC Mayor DiBlasio Argues Against Private Property, also, Civil Rights Group Wants Kid Rock’s Detroit Concerts Canceled Because He Said Mean Things About Colin Kaepernick
Mark Steyn: The Last Picture Show, also, Abie’s Non-Irish Rose

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Fear and Loathing at BWI

Posted on | September 6, 2017 | Comments Off on Fear and Loathing at BWI

BALTIMORE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
The Flying Dog Tap House near Gate A8 doesn’t have WiFi, but they do have Ralph Steadman’s art on the walls, so that’s probably a good omen for this Gonzo adventure. My flight to Boston’s Logan International boards at 9:10, which gives me just about half an hour to write . . . what?

With no WiFi, I can’t link the news until I’m out in the Food Court (“right down the hall,” says my waitress, LaDawna) and right now I’m having breakfast. Two eggs over medium, sausage, hash-browns and a Bloody Mary. “Self-medicating,” they say. It’s a mighty early hour for a Bloody Mary but (a) I’ve been up since before 5 a.m. when my wife woke me up to pack, and (b) obviously I need something to counteract the effects of three cups of coffee. My nerves are jangled, and there’s always this frenzied rush whenever I have to fly anywhere.

Packing up the car and driving seems to me the much more relaxing way to travel, because if you get behind schedule you just drive faster, and I enjoy driving fast. Our nation’s law enforcement establishment tends to take a different view of the matter, and the joy of doing 90 mph is tempered by the need to avoid detection. But I digress . . .

Harvard University is all upset about President Trump’s threat to end DACA, because there are about 65 illegal aliens at Harvard — the illegal elite, as it were. Harvard is America’s leading anti-American university. They love foreigners and hate anybody who was actually born here, unless maybe you’re gay or something. Yet it seems Harvard has accidentally admitted a few Republican students, and I got an email from one of them Tuesday night, offering to guide me across campus.

There’s no time now to explain more, however, because that plane’s about to start boarding and I’ve got to rush out, jam this thing online as quickly as possible and then get in line. Wish me luck. Damn, there was too much pepper in that Bloody Mary . . .

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Tickets for this buffet luncheon event are available online, and I hope all my friends in the New England area will attend.

If you can’t make it to Saturday’s luncheon, however, you might want to chip in to the Shoe Leather Fund, because I’ll be spending five days up there and hope to visit Harvard University and other institutes of higher learning in the region, just to see what kind of lunacy the Gender Studies crowd is promulgating on campus this fall. Please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!