Let Them Eat Pepper Spray
Gateway Pundit has coverage of police in Olympia, Washington demonstrating the proper method of dealing with the treasonous left when they try to interfere with the U.S. military.
Posted by Stuart Browning
30 May 2006 @ 2:39pm
How Many Ward Churchills?
 ACTA has just published a new report titled 'How Many Ward Churchills?' surveying course offerings across the nation and giving example after nauseating example of blatant political indoctrination disguised as "education" at American universities.
Some choice excerpts:
At Vassar College, the course on "Black Marxism" builds on the premise that "the growth of global racism suggests the symmetry of the expansion of capitalism and the globalization of racial hierarchy."
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... David Halperin's perennially controversial University of Michigan English course, "How to Be Gay," ... examines "the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay male identity" and "constitute[s] an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand."
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Indiana University's Labor Studies department offers "Gay Issues in the Workplace," which covers "basic workers' rights issues of anti-gay harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and how workers, unionists, and employers can go about making their workplace a harassment-free area." The course is billed as having immediate tactical benefits for gay rights activists
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Indiana also offers a popular course called "Wal-Mart," which amounts to an anti-corporate white paper. "The course will analyze the corporate practices of Wal-Mart, the largest corporation in the world, as a vehicle to broadly examine labor and social issues in the U.S. and the world," the course description explains. "We will look at the efforts of communities to save their small businesses and downtowns by stopping Wal-Mart and other 'big box' retailers from locating in their towns.... We will review Wal-Mart's tactics to quash efforts by its workers to organize a union, and the obstacles to union organizing nationally. Finally, we will analyze the arguments of Wal-Mart's critics that the company thrives on selling goods made with sweat shop labor in Third World countries."
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... a Yale University American Studies course, "Theater and Cultural Agency," not only teaches students "how theater and activism
shape each other in contemporary contexts of social struggle," but also requires students to undertake "internship work in theater for social change in New Haven."
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An Ohio State "Introduction to Women's Studies" course requires students to complete a "women's advocacy" requirement in which they research an activist organization and then deliver a class presentation explaining the organization's work, providing contact information for the organization, and "arguing for student support of the issue(s) and activism."
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A Dartmouth College course entitled "Prisons: The American Way of Punishment" treats jail as an oppressive institution-"a model of social control that extends to other social contexts"- and explores "the world of inmates and their strategies of subcultural adaptations to and resistance against incarceration."
Many more examples are documented. Highly recommended reading.
Posted by Stuart Browning
25 May 2006 @ 5:33am
When The Law Mimics Campus Speech Codes
Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-34 to adopt English as the "national language" of the United States. The move, which doesn't call for any changes in the way government business is conducted, was largely symbolic. Nevertheless, the Associated Press reports that a top Democrat threw down the race card to denounce the measure:
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada [said,] "I really believe this amendment is racist."
I've written before about the danger posed by hate speech laws. Harry Reid is yet more proof. If declaring English the national language of the United States is racist, then speaking out in favor of it could be considered hate speech.
What if the United States had a hate speech law? What if Harry Reid were the Democratic Senate Majority Leader instead of the Minority Leader? And what if someone who shared Reid's view occupied the White House? An in-power political coalition could conceivably use hate speech laws to criminally prosecute its opposition.
As far-fetched as that might sound, it's already happening on college campuses. What if this troubling aspect of campus life bled into the larger society? With the power to fine and jail citizens, speech codes in the hands of government could be catastrophic. That's why the fight against campus speech codes is anything but trivial. Campuses today are creating the political environment of tomorrow.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
19 May 2006 @ 8:08am
Beverly Hills' Day Off
Students at Beverly Hills High School are being told to skip class so they can go see Al Gore's new film pushing the view that "global warming" is about to destroy everything:
On May 24, 2006, 1,500 Beverly Hills High School students will be boarding 30 gas-guzzling buses across town to see Al Gore's new global warming film 'AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH' [...]
The film's urgent trailer warns: "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."
In the interest of balance, perhaps the teachers at Beverly Hills High School should inform students that just three decades ago, scientists were "nearly unanimous" in freaking out not about global warming, but global cooling. Here are some choice quotes from a 1975 article in Newsweek entitled "The Cooling World" (emphasis added):
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production--with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. [...]
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. [...]
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
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A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
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Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900--years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Throughout the history of the planet, dramatic climate changes have been the norm. Glaciers once covered the land where I now sit, where today's high temperature will be 72 degrees. The only thing scientists from different generations seem to agree on is, we're always about 10 years away from complete annihilation.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
18 May 2006 @ 8:23am
How Seattle Schools Define Racism
Only white people can be racist, at least according to the Seattle public school system. Here's how they define racism:
The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians), by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (Whites).
By this definition, if a white person were murdered simply for being white, it could not be considered a racist act.
The school system also says that "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" is a form of "cultural racism." In other words, if you believe that group privileges should not be placed above the rights of individuals, you are a racist. The only way not to be a racist is to embrace a "collective ideology," which throughout history has been better known as communism or socialism.
I'm sure if you asked the teachers in Seattle whether they were indoctrinating their students, they would deny it adamantly. But all you need to do is read their definition of racism to see how they're steering students into their preferred ideology. Individualism is bad. Collectivism is good. Only whites can be racist.
I wonder what Seattle's educrats would make of this quote:
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
According to the definitions above, speaking in favor of capitalism or individual rights can be considered racist speech. If the Seattle teachers' union were in a position to decide what constitutes hate speech, a large part of America would be found guilty.
Now you know why I oppose hate speech laws so strongly. The result will not be to stamp out hate, but to impose thought conformity. Hate can't be eradicated by decree; it can only be eliminated by an awakening of the heart. And I don't think that teaching a generation of students that only white people can be racist is a good formula for reducing whatever number of truly racist honkies there might be in this country.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
17 May 2006 @ 6:54am
Stripping Bison
The Women's and Gender Studies Department at my alma mater finally puts on a program I might be interested in, and I find out too late to attend:
Recently, feminists at Bucknell University sponsored an event that looked more like a Duke Lacrosse party than a celebration of feminist diversity. On March 8, Bucknell's so-called Feminist Majority - along with groups like the Women's and Gender Studies Department, the Center for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and the Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Awareness - paid $1,920 for a strip show at Bucknell.
Billed as a "celebration of whore culture" the show was euphemistically titled the "Sex Workers Art Show." It featured a group of hookers, phone sex operators, smut writers, porn stars, and one woman who appeared via her 24-hour porn website.
As the article points out, what's interesting about this isn't what Bucknell is willing to sponsor, but what they're not.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
16 May 2006 @ 2:11am
Health Care, Lies and Video Tape
 Champions of government rationing of health care like blogger Matthew Holt and young collectivist Ezra Klein think that they have blunted the charges of free-market advocates against the immoral and unworkable Canadian health care system by focusing on the one straw man that they can knock down: that Canadians are coming to the U.S. in droves for medical care that they can't get at home. Health policy blogger Kate Steadman bravely enters the fray in her recent commentary:
I'm going to throw myself into the fight here, and debunk another favored myth of the Right, which is that the Canadian health system is so bad, millions of Canadians come here for their health care.
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According to surveys, less than 0.1% of Canadians are expressly seeking care in the U.S.
The problem is that few on the right side of the debate are perpetuating this so-called myth. To my knowledge, those "dangerous reactionaries" at the Fraser Institute haven't made this argument. Nor have those "looney libertarians" at PRI - or those "heartless" free-marketers over at Cato.
Its not difficult to see why. Canadians have already paid taxes for national health insurance. They've also been been subjected to years of government propaganda about the superiority of their system and the absurd notion that socialized medicine is a defining feature of what it means to be 'Canadian' - even though it has only been around since 1984!
When the average Canadian becomes sick and is put on a long waiting list, they don't have the money to go to the U.S. to buy health care because they've already spent it in the form of high taxes! They don't have private health insurance because it's been outlawed. And - they don't have savings earmarked for health care expenditures since the government has assured them that they are covered.
Continued ...
Posted by Stuart Browning
13 May 2006 @ 11:47am
Convenient Catholics at Boston College
Jonah Goldberg of National Review notices that the faculty of Boston College selectively invokes the institution's historical Catholicism when convenient for making political stands. Take, for instance, this maneuver to revoke the invitation of this year's commencement speaker, who happens to be Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:
In a letter distributed by the heads of the Catholic school's theology department and signed by about 200 faculty members, we are informed that, "On the levels of both moral principle and practical moral judgment, Secretary Rice's approach to international affairs is in fundamental conflict with Boston College's commitment to the values of the Catholic and Jesuit traditions and is inconsistent with the humanistic values that inspire the university's work." The letter, titled "Condoleezza Rice Does Not Deserve a Boston College Honorary Degree," cherry-picks quotes from Pope John Paul II to argue that Rice's policies should disqualify her as a commencement speaker.
One can respect honest disagreement over the Bush administration's foreign policy. But this high-minded rhetoric is a bit hard to take considering that B.C. is fairly selective about where it will draw such lines. For example, Mary Daly was for decades a distinguished professor at Boston College, despite the fact she exceeds even the right-wing parody of a left-wing academic. She refused to teach men. Her writings include such relentlessly anti-Catholic manifestos as "The Church and the Second Sex" and "Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation." (Although my favorite title is "Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage.")
Daly left the school in 1999, when she was told that she could no longer discriminatorily bar men from all of her classes. Rather than teach men, she chose to quit. But until then, Daly was free to call for the abolition of the Catholic Church and other "patriarchal religions" in favor of her own "post-Christian" feminist religion. Apparently, teaching students to reject Catholicism entirely is tolerable in a Catholic school, but Catholicism is useful in a pinch when it can be used to shun villains like Rice. "This is the only time these people have cited Pope John Paul II on anything," the Rev. Paul McNellis, an adjunct professor in the B.C. philosophy department, told the Boston Globe.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
12 May 2006 @ 3:40pm
A Letter from Canada
Canadian Joyce Munro writes to us in regard to our short film Dead Meat and her experiences with socialized health care in Canada:
Enjoyed your video and it is true all the way through. The first people you interviewed obviously had never used the system for anything more than a cold. I had to have double knee replacements and from the time I got referred to my first Orthopedic surgeon until I had my surgery was 5 years! I am happy to say that unlike the other lady from Calgary I must have a high pain threshold as I never got any farther than Tylenol 3s. What makes me so angry is while denying us proper timely care the advocates of public care are very cavalier to tell you to go out of country or province for your procedure.
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The only way you can get swift service is if you are a union member or member of the elite, meaning, politicians , newspaper people and anyone else who may "Squeal" on the system. That is why the ordinary joe dies in the queue!
I wonder how many Americans are prepared to wait 5 years for "free" orthopedic surgery.
Posted by Stuart Browning
12 May 2006 @ 5:34am
Denson's Diversity
Southern Methodist University professor Steve Denson has branded the Young Conservatives of Texas, a student-run campus organization with a presence at a number of schools in the state, as "the Junior League of the KKK."
Why? Well, it appears that Professor Denson doesn't like YCT's stance on illegal immigration and the school's use of racial preferences to set aside seats in the student senate for some minority groups.
Interestingly, Professor Denson is also the Director of Diversity at SMU's business school. I would assume that if Denson equates opposition to his preferred political views with sympathy for the KKK, he might not be terribly interested in promoting diversity of the intellectual variety. In fact, it sounds like if he had his way, the conservatives would be banned from campus altogether. After all, who wants to share a community with a bunch of Klansmen?
Denson seems to have two primary functions in his job as diversity enforcer:
- To ensure that everybody looks different, and
- To ensure that everybody thinks the same.
In other words, Denson's job is to prevent diversity as much as it is to promote it.
He's off to a good start.
Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney
9 May 2006 @ 12:34am
El Uno De Mayo Update
So far, our new short film has been well-received with tens of thousands of viewings so far. Some film-related notes:
All footage originated at the San Francisco and New York City marches that took place on May 1, 2006. No stock footage is used (although there are stock historical photos). The vast majority of the footage is from San Francisco where I was the sole cameraman.
Some have wondered if the film is representative of the event. "Surely, there could not have been so many far-left extremists at the rally" seems to be the sentiment. If we had used an additional camera, we could have captured even more of the same on film. Some of the attendees even carried sticks and in one case what looks to be a real sword. This was shown briefly in the film. In case you missed it, here is a still-shot from the film:
Peaceful Protester?
Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has posted a Flash version of the film at his website. If you have problems viewing the film here at our website, try there.
The phrase 'Stalinist androids' used to describe the authoritarian marxists of the International ANSWER group on the movie web page was coined by Eric Alterman of The Nation magazine. Ironically, Mr. Alterman is the author of the book 'What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News' which allegedly debunks the notion that the mainstream media is slanted to the left.
Posted by Stuart Browning
6 May 2006 @ 7:32am
New Movie: El Uno De Mayo
 Our new short film El Uno De Mayo casts a light on the left-wing totalitarian groups behind the May Day marches ostensibly aimed at defending the rights of illegal aliens in the US.
El Uno De Mayo points out that if extremist right-wing groups organized anti-immigration marches, we would not expect the media to stay silent about their involvement. However, when the Stalinist androids of International ANSWER are the organizers, the mainstream media is curiously uninterested.
Watch the film here.
Posted by Stuart Browning
4 May 2006 @ 10:52am
The Left Marches in San Francisco
Here are a few still-photos from my footage of yesterday's May Day rally in San Francisco. We plan to have video coverage of the events here and in New York up before week's end.
Violent statements and imagery were common.
ANSWER was in control. Not acquainted? Read here.
Revolutionary Communists everywhere.
Recent College Graduate
Perhaps it was his barber who 'exploited' him.
New Victims, New Voters.
Danny Boy.
A Peace-Lovin' Zapatista.
Posted by Stuart Browning
2 May 2006 @ 7:40am
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