Harvard Knows Better
Posted By: DW626, 12/23/2023 9:53:36 AM
Harvard’s commitment to its own way of thinking was on full display during President Claudine Gay’s abominable December 5th congressional testimony concerning campus anti-Semitism, subsequent revelations alleging her plagiarism in various publications (the current tally is about 40) including her dissertation, and the university leadership’s response. After President Gay equivocated on Harvard’s response to anti-Semitism on its campus, the university’s governing body unanimously rushed to support her. The trustees made it plain to the world that they did not expect their president to live up to any common standard of human decency, intellectual honesty, or genuine scholarship.
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When conflicts in the Middle East exposed the cracks in the foundation of the United States’ higher learning institutions, many college presidents tried to appeal to American democratic values to seal the gaps. The trouble is, it’s been so long since universities upheld democracy that most college presidents don’t even recognize it anymore. After a disastrous congressional hearing on anti-Semitism on December 5, University of Pennsylvania’s president Liz Magill has been sacked for attempting to excuse violent anti-Semitic threats on Penn’s campus. Harvard’s President Claudine Gay is also facing calls to resign following a federal investigation into Harvard University for possible civil-rights violations.
Harvard Knows Better
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Harvard’s commitment to its own way of thinking was on full display during President Claudine Gay’s abominable December 5th congressional testimony concerning campus anti-Semitism, subsequent revelations alleging her plagiarism in various publications (the current tally is about 40) including her dissertation, and the university leadership’s response. After President Gay equivocated on Harvard’s response to anti-Semitism on its campus, the university’s governing body unanimously rushed to support her. The trustees made it plain to the world that they did not expect their president to live up to any common standard of human decency, intellectual honesty, or genuine scholarship.
Chicago Residents Erupt During City Council
Meeting Over Migrant Crisis: 'Trump, Come
Clean This Up' 28 replies
Meeting Over Migrant Crisis: 'Trump, Come
Clean This Up' 28 replies
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The plight of the Christmas card
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A killer's privilege
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Don’t Overplay Plagiarism
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President Trump is known for remembering betrayal; he doesn’t always burn the bridge, but he never recrosses it.
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“Joe Biden vs. Cornpop” -BEST BIDEN
MEME EVER! Joe Biden Quotes Set to Cowboy
Western Theme 14 replies
MEME EVER! Joe Biden Quotes Set to Cowboy
Western Theme 14 replies
This has got to be the BEST BIDEN MEME EVER!
“Joe Biden vs. Cornpop”
buddydawg22 posted this video on Twitter. I Meme Therefore I Am then tweeted it on X.
The creator put several of Joe Biden’s famous lines into a Western themed video. This is spectacular!
If you get lost watching the video look up the quote online and it will lead you to Joe Biden. (Video) Here is the transcript:
Cowboy named Tex:
Corn pop?
Boy:
Who’s corn pop?
Outgoing Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards
pardons 56 inmates, including 40 convicted murderers 14 replies
pardons 56 inmates, including 40 convicted murderers 14 replies
The outgoing governor of Louisiana has pardoned 56 inmates since October of this year, including dozens of convicted murderers. (snip) "For as long as I can remember, Louisiana reflexively responded to an increase in crime by putting more people in prison and keeping them there longer," Edwards told Louisiana news outlet NOLA.com this week. "We've never been made safer as a result of that," Edwards said. "There is no data to suggest that an increase in crime here was because of the reforms."
Others released by Edwards include inmates convicted of arson, robbery, and drug dealing, according to a complete list compiled by local outlet Fox 8.
For his own sake, DeSantis should drop out
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The race between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley to secure a clear and commanding second place to Donald Trump is starting to feel like an old Law and Order episode.
You know the ones.
Where two guys who committed a crime are separated and the first one to flip gets the better plea deal?
As it stands, DeSantis and Haley could both choose to be the first to drop out and endorse Trump, thus ensuring the other is set up for a grueling one on one with the surging former president that looks to be a very uphill climb.
Merry Christmas, Matt Drudge
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Did I ever tell you about the time Matt Drudge shut down the Charleston Daily Mail and the entire Charleston Newspapers operation? He linked a column I wrote about Nancy Pelosi and the traffic overloaded the company’s lone computer system.(snip)Nowadays I could not get a link to Drudge if I paid him. It is just as well. He has gone to the dark side.
Drudge made his mark on the world in 1998 when Lucianne Goldberg handed him the Monica Lewinsky story, after Newsweek spiked it. That is how reporters get stories: through sources.
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Credibility and trust are next to impossible gain back, once lost.