The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Censorial DePaul Bans
Conservative Ben Shapiro
by David Limbaugh
Conservative Ben Shapiro
by David Limbaugh
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Death and liar-Hillary Clinton
Paul Albaugh: For as long as the liar-Clintons have been in the national spotlight, people linked to them have turned up dead. We're sure that's only the stuff of mythology among the "vast right-wing conspiracy," but this week brings news of more of the same.
Despite FBI and Leftmedia attempts to keep Americans as uninformed as possible about liar-Hillary Clinton's history of corruption and lies, there is new information about the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist named Shahram Amiri. Normally, the death of a foreigner wouldn't catch the attention of many Americans. But in this case, Amiri was in contact with liar-Clinton via email, and the circumstances and timing of his death are more than suspicious.
Who was this man that was just publicly hanged shortly after returning to Iran? Amiri was one of Iran's nuclear scientists, and in 2009 he disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, and he reappeared in several online videos in the United States. The timing of his disappearance was at the height of Western efforts to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. In 2010, he returned to Iran, and was greeted with a hero's welcome. Soon after, he disappeared again.
This past weekend, he was publicly tried and executed. According to an Iranian judiciary spokesman, Amiri had access to Iran's secret and classified information and was linked to Iran's number one enemy (and financier), America. He was also accused of providing the U.S. with vital and secret information about Iran. So what happened between his 2010 return to Iran and this past weekend?
Well, the revelations of liar-Hillary Clinton's email scheme and the release of her emails, which contained several references to Amiri.
Did liar-Clinton's emails seal this man's fate? As National Review's Jim Geraghty notes, "[I]t's unnerving to see she was discussing such material on an insecure system. We don't know for certain that the Iranians had successfully hacked into liar-Clinton's server — as FBI Director Comey said, hackers are good at covering their tracks — but it seems foolish to assume Tehran could not. Friendly references to Amiri in private email by liar-Hillary and her staff would destroy his claims to his captors that he wasn't voluntarily helping American intelligence."
More likely than Iran doing the hacking is that Russia is the culprit. The two nations are thick as thieves when it comes to Iran's nuclear program, and it's extremely likely that Moscow has some valuable dirt on liar-Clinton, some of which was perhaps shared with the mullahs.
So what of liar-Clinton's emails? In 2010, Jake Sullivan sent two emails about a week apart to liar-Hillary's private server. Neither of the emails mentioned Amiri by name, but the first email notes that the videos were a "psychological" issue and that "our friend has to be given a way out." The second email, sent two days before CNN reported a $5 million payout, warned of "problematic news stories" to come as a cover for Amiri's return to Iran.
So while the emails didn't mention Amiri by name, Iranian intelligence could have no doubt figured out that the person she was referring to in these emails was indeed Amiri.
This is what FBI Director James Comey meant when he called liar-Hillary "extremely careless in the handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."
There are other untimely, mysterious deaths in the last six weeks as well — all with ties to the liar-Clintons. Last week, there were two deaths within two days. The first was a prominent liar-Clinton critic, researcher and reporter for the American Free Press named Victor Thorn. He was found in his home, dead of a gunshot wound to the head, in what has been reported as a suicide. It was his 54th birthday.
The second was a Bernie Sanders supporter named Shawn Lucas, who was serving the Democrat National Committee and former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz with a class action lawsuit for alleged fraud and rigging the primary election in favor of liar-Hillary Clinton. He was found dead on Aug. 2, on the floor of his bathroom.
There are several others who have died strange and untimely deaths with unsatisfactory explanation. But the common denominator is that they were somehow tied to or knew something about the liar-Clintons and had either reported or were about to blow the whistle on their wrongdoings.
It feels like the 1990s all over again, when Vince Foster and numerous others met an untimely and suspicious demise. This is the liar-Hillary Clinton that the Leftmedia doesn't want you to know about. The same woman who recently said that she may have "short circuited" her recent email explanation.
Speaking of deaths and lies, the parents of two Benghazi victims — Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods — filed a wrongful death lawsuit against liar-Clinton Monday. The two allege that liar-Clinton's "reckless handling" of classified information contributed to their sons' deaths. And while the circumstances surrounding the Iranian scientist or the two Americans are mysterious, we know that liar-Clinton is responsible for the deaths of Smith, Woods and two others in Benghazi. And then she lied about it for political gain.
Indeed, she lied to the public and then has the audacity to lie and say that she didn't lie. This woman is filled with corruption and lies yet she is the "most qualified person ever" to run for president? Too few seem to know about her wrongdoings and malicious behavior. Or they don't care. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Michael Barone: "The scholar Francis Fukuyama has been widely ridiculed for the title of his 1992 book, 'The End of History.' Critics point out that we've had — suffered — a lot of history since then: the 9/11 attacks, prolonged wars in the Middle East, a worldwide financial crisis and deep recession. But Fukuyama's point wasn't that all conflict would cease. His argument was that the Western model of democratic governance and market-based capitalism had emerged as the only intellectually serious model of a good society. ... [A]s one looks at this nation and around the world, one has to say that democratic governance has not been operating optimally and market capitalism seems to be going through a protracted rough patch. ... In historic perspective, today's advanced countries enjoy unprecedented levels of freedom and prosperity. The complaints of today's voters would seem picayune to ordinary people in the 19th century. Fukuyama's insight was fundamentally well-founded. But that doesn't mean there's not something to voters' basic message to elites: You need to do a better job."
-The Patriot Post
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‘Crisis': USAF Expects to Be 700 Fighter
Pilots Short 'In Just A Couple of Years'
by SUSAN JONES
by SUSAN JONES
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ American fighter pilots, strapped by frequent deployments, family separation, and time-consuming training, are leaving the military for jobs in the private sector that pay them just as well or better... Air Force officials told reporters on Wednesday. "It is a crisis," Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said. "Here's the reason I believe it's a crisis: Air superiority is not an American birthright. It's actually something you have to fight for and maintain." Appearing with Goldfein at a news conference, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said the Air Force expects to be 700 fighter pilots short "in just a couple of years from now."... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/crisis-usaf-expects-to-be-700-fighter-pilots-short-in-just-a-couple-of-years?f=must_reads
VIDEO: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/crisis-usaf-expects-be-700-fighter-pilots-short-just-couple-years
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The Ghosts of MEK Past: liar-Hillary’s
Forgotten Death Toll
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A tense moment ensued as liar-Hillary Clinton spoke at a Las Vegas rally August 4th. Secret service agents rushed on stage as animal rights activists tried doing the same... After regaining her composure, liar-Clinton said, "apparently these people are here to protest Trump because Trump and his kids killed a lot of animals, so thank you for making that point." It was an interesting observation from a woman responsible for "a lot of" human deaths (beyond the Benghazi four), occurring during her term as Secretary of State, that seem to have been forgotten. Among those who have suffered greatly since the 2003 invasion of Iraq is an Iranian opposition group: the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). After MEK was kicked out of France in 1986, Saddam Hussein invited members to Iraq as they were just as opposed as was he to Tehran's mullahs... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-ghosts-of-mek-past-hillarys-forgotten-death-toll?f=must_reads
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Hamas: Vote for Us or Burn in Hell
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It is election season in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians are preparing to cast their votes in the local and municipal elections, scheduled to take place on October 8... The upcoming elections will be different from the last one, held in 2012 only in the West Bank, when Hamas boycotted the vote, allowing the rival Fatah faction to claim victory. This time Hamas has decided to join the political fray -- a move that caught Fatah and its leaders, including Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, by surprise. Hamas's decision to participate in the local and municipal elections has further aggravated tensions with Abbas's Fatah faction, which continues to suffer from deep internal divisions and rivalries... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8670/palestinians-local-elections
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Why the World Owes Israel a Debt of Gratitude
by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ As Europe reels from a pandemic of deadly Islamist terror attacks, the European Union is turning to Israel for assistance. From its formidable cyber capabilities to its tactics and training... Israel is a recognized world leader in the fight against terrorism and nations plagued by Islamist violence and terrorism are seeking its counsel, expertise and technology. But the fight against terrorism isn’t the only place where Israelis have left their mark. When Israel acquired statehood in 1948, it was a semi-arid land plagued by chronic drought. But thanks to a combination of conservation, recycling, drip irrigation and desalinization, Israel no longer suffers from water shortages and in fact, exports large quantities of water to Jordan. California, which has suffered from extreme drought in recent years, has partnered with Israeli water technology companies to alleviate its water problems. Texas has followed suit and many third world countries have requested Israeli assistance in water purification. Israel has also become a leader in green technology. Starved of natural resources, Israel has had to resort to innovative methods to meet its energy demands. Every Israeli home is equipped with solar panels to capture the sun’s rays and convert it into usable energy. By 2017 Israel will have the distinction of possessing the tallest solar tower in the world, dwarfing similar structures in Europe and the Israeli government has committed itself to making renewable energy account for 10 percent of its total consumption by 2020...
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The DOJ Is Funneling Tons of
Money to Sanctuary Cities
by Cortney O'Brien
{townhall.com} ~ The conservative legal group Judicial Watch has uncovered yet another government scandal. In a new report, the team has found that the Department of Justice has funneled millions of dollars to America's sanctuary cities... localities that house illegal immigrants. The U.S. Department of Justice gave $342,168,401 in grant money to 10 “sanctuary” states and cities that shield illegal aliens, even violent ones, from deportation by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials, according to a Judicial Watch report. Anyone who is familiar with Kate Steinle should be incensed by this report. Steinle, a 32-year-old woman, was murdered by an illegal immigrant last summer in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had requested to detain the killer, who had been deported five times previously, but were denied after he was sent to a detention center in the sanctuary city...http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2016/08/12/the-doj-is-funneling-tons-of-money-to-sanctuary-cities-n2203847?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
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Terrorist Cells Confirmed In Germany And Poised At Mexican Border
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s bizarre but true. Despite the fact that German intelligence officials have now confirmed that ISIS terrorists have been able to infiltrate into their nation, they still continue with the Islamic invasion... The Daily Caller reports that Germans are aware of what they describe as ISIS “hit squads” having successfully entered Germany as “refugees.” While the suicidal behavior of the German political leadership defies explanation, it is no more absurd than that of the nObama regime. The illegitimate American administration is not only importing ISIS terrorists among “refugee” flows, we, by virtue of nObama dictate, are actually paying for and facilitating their travel thousands of miles into our nation. Not even terrorist-loving Angela Merkel is providing terrorist transportation. We have no idea who they are and the decision as to which individuals are given what amounts to US citizenship is not even made by Americans. Foreign Islamists working for the UN make those decisions. The fact that Islamists are making the decisions and it is an Islamic regime in America responsible for their importation are likely the reasons why so few “refugees” into Christian America are chosen from the ranks of persecuted Middle East Christians...
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Does liar-Hillary’s Record Disqualify
Her for the White House?
by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ As deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and later acting CIA director, Michael Morell was intimately aware of the intelligence following the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya... In fact, he told Congress in 2014 that he personally removed the word “Islamic” from the CIA talking points in order to avoid inflaming Muslims worldwide. Morell recently wrote an op-ed endorsement of liar-Hillary Clinton in The New York Times. “First, Mrs. liar-Clinton is highly qualified to be commander in chief,” writes Morell. “I trust she will deliver on the most important duty of a president—keeping our nation safe.” Morell ignores one very important issue. As one-time head of the CIA, protecting the nation’s secrets should be of utmost concern to him. Yet liar-Hillary Clinton trafficked in classified material on a regular basis for four years on an unsecured server, and never used a State Department server. She failed to turn over her emails when she left her job as secretary of state. And when this all became public as a result of inquiries from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, she turned over about half of all the emails on her server, while claiming that she had turned over all business related emails. FBI Director James Comey testified last month before Congress that they later found “thousands” of business related emails that she hadn’t turned over. In other words, she lied... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/does-hillarys-record-disqualify-her-for-the-white-house/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email081216&utm_medium=email
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nObamaCare Continues to Be a Failure
by Raven Clabough
{thenewamerican.com} ~ President nObama’s signature “accomplishment” continues to plague the American people six years after it was signed into law... Major insurance companies are threatening to pull out of the healthcare exchanges after experiencing significant losses under nObamaCare, and customers are expected to bear the burden of higher costs and fewer options as a result. Fox News reports that Aetna, which once lauded the healthcare law, has stalled its expansion plans and is the fifth major national health insurer to estimate significant losses as a result of the Affordable Care Act. According to Aetna’s CEO Mark Bertolini, the losses result from “structural changes” connected to the healthcare overhaul, forcing Aetna to pull its “2017 public exchange expansion plans” and ultimately conduct “a complete evaluation of future participation in our current 15-state footprint.”... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/23844-obamacare-continues-to-be-a-failure
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Judge Jeanine – liar-Clinton Foundation Is Money Laundering, Bribery, RICO –
Where Are The Feds?
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro believes that the liar-Clinton illegal private server was set up to facilitate monkey business with the people’s business and pay for play criminal activity... The criminal triumvirate of Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and liar-Clinton herself were the key operators of the criminal activity facilitating operation. She says the purpose was “to make sure that monies that were funneled through the foundation were protected from disclosure.” Judge Jeanine says, “So it makes perfect sense that Abedin and Cheryl Mills would be involved in this. Huma is paid by the Foundation and the State Department. Cheryl Mills is the one who was interviewing for the foundation positions.” She notes that the MOU that there would be a wall of separation between the liar-Clinton Foundation and the State Department was completely ignored and that the profiteering machine was immediately put into full operation. She says, “Now we find out that there were 12,000 emails from the liar-Clinton Foundation to the State Department, essentially making sure that people that paid the liar-Clintons, and I’m not even going to say the Foundation, because that is nothing more than a money laundering operation that was used as a slush fund. It is not a charitable foundation, has only ten percent that goes to a charity. And that money is used as a slush fund eventually. And Huma and Cheryl Mills are the ones who are the dogs protecting the organization.”... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-clinton-foundation-rico/
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TOP PHYSICIAN CONFIRMS: liar-Hillary
Clinton Has Parkinson’s Disease
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton has suffered a variety of health issues. Unfortunately, she has declined to make her medical records public. In July of 2015 her personal physician released a letter asserting her “excellent physical condition.”... Unfortunately, multiple later episodes recorded on video strongly suggest that the content of the letter is incorrect. In 2009, liar-HRC fell and broke her elbow. Little else was made public. On December 17, 2012, while Secretary of State, liar-HRC fell and suffered a concussion. Later, a transverse sinus thrombosis was diagnosed, resulting in chronic anticoagulation therapy. Her post-concussion syndrome was declared “recovered” in about six months. The original fall was publicly attributed to dehydration following gastroenteritis. An email from Huma Abedin on January 26, 2013, says that liar-HRC “is often confused.” Photos show being assisted up what appears to be the steps of a residential porch. This apparently happened in February of 2016. On August 4, 2016, Reuters and Getty published the photos. At a rally on May 2, 2016, liar-HRC demonstrates classic PD hand posturing. She has no lectern in front, so she starts with her right hand pressed against her chest. At the 18:02 mark, she starts gesturing with her right hand, which is in a very unnatural position that is common in PD... http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/08/12/breaking-top-physician-confirms-hillary-clinton-has-parkinsons-disease-video/
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Censorial DePaul Bans
Conservative Ben Shapiro
by David Limbaugh
Conservative Ben Shapiro
by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ The discerning have long recognized that the true enemies of free speech are certain leftist progressives who believe their ideas are so superior and their opponents so toxic that protection for the latter isn't warranted.
The left is practiced at painting conservatives as oppressive and intolerant, but their behavior repeatedly undermines their claims and exposes them as the intolerant speech fascists and thought controllers.
You won't see conservatives advocating the muzzling of political opponents or promoting the Fairness Doctrine and campus speech codes. You won't see Republican administrations excluding reporters or news organizations from press briefings because they don't parrot the White House's narrative. You won't often encounter liberals concealing their opinions on campuses or Hollywood or their places of employment for fear of backlash. You won't see conservatives ever trying to send kooky leftists to sensitivity training to compel them -- "1984"-style -- to conform to their worldview. You won't see conservative professors excuse the contradiction overtly indoctrinating students and creating a climate of ridicule toward liberal students. You'll rarely see a college administration reprimanding a liberal professor (excuse the tautology) for exposing his class to an opposing viewpoint -- one certain students find unbearably "offensive." You won't see conservatives creating "safe spaces" to protect their delicate adherents from feeling uncomfortable through exposure to "troubling" or "triggering" ideas. You won't see the right using defamatory catchwords like racist, sexist, homophobe or xenophobe to demonize, ostracize and muzzle leftist expression.
And you won't find conservative groups pressuring universities to ban liberal speakers from their campuses. Which brings me to the primary subject at hand.
My good friend, Ben Shapiro, a one-time child prodigy who has now become a polemical force of nature as an adult, has recently experienced the ubiquitous leftist fascism inhabiting college campuses. Ben, at age 32, has not only written six best-selling books, but has a nationally syndicated column and a very successful radio show.
Despite all that, what initially propelled Ben into national prominence was his delicious television takedown of liberal snob Piers Morgan on Morgan's former CNN show on the subject of gun control.
More recently, Shapiro has distinguished himself with powerful podcasts on current events and a campus speaking tour wherein he systematically demolishes the left's tyrannical political correctness and assault on free speech.
Indeed, Shapiro has been so effective that campus liberals obviously regard him as a threat -- a clear and present danger to their Stalinist mindset. They have protested his appearances, disrupted his speeches, threatened him and lied about his message.
But the latest predictable outrage is that DePaul University has banned Shapiro from appearing on campus, under the ludicrous and specious pretense of "security concerns."
If there are security concerns, neither Shapiro nor his admirers are causing them. As Shapiro's sponsor, Young America's Foundation said, "Make no mistake, any security concerns we face on campuses are 100 percent incited by the censorious, intolerant left."
This is what so many of our campuses have come to. They don't promote, much less champion, freedom of inquiry. They are incubators of monolithic liberal ideas and actively discourage the airing of contrary opinions.
The left is incoherent on free speech. It purports to be a staunch advocate of speech while discriminatorily suppressing it. These leftists are not even embarrassed by their lame efforts to justify their imperiousness, as when one college administrator said, "We cannot tolerate the intolerable."
What is intolerable is their totalitarianism.
But give them credit; their indoctrination is yielding fruit. The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale conducted a survey on the attitudes of university students toward the First Amendment, speech codes, academic freedom, political correctness and intellectual diversity. The results are deeply disturbing, though unsurprising:
-- 49 percent of U.S. college students are "intimidated" by professors when sharing different beliefs.
-- Half said they have often felt intimidated to share beliefs that differ from their classmates.
-- 53 percent say their professors have often used class time to express their own views about matters outside of coursework.
-- 63 percent say political correctness on college campuses is either a "big problem" or somewhat of a problem.
-- 30 percent of liberal students say the First Amendment is outdated, compared with 10 percent of conservative students with that opinion.
-- Two-thirds agree that their school is more tolerant of liberal ideas than conservative ones.
-- 51 percent of students favor their school having speech codes to regulate speech for students and faculty.
-- 72 percent say their university should be doing more to promote policies that increase diversity of opinions in the classroom or on campus.
-- 52 percent say their university should forbid people from speaking on campus who have a history of engaging in "hate speech."
-- 72 percent say they support disciplinary action for "any student or faculty member on campus who uses language that is considered racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise offensive."
-- 32 percent misidentified the First Amendment.
What this inconsistent mishmash tells me is that academia is succeeding in its efforts to program students to blindly accept liberal ideas and to be amenable to suppressing opposing ideas, while manipulating students into believing that they are champions of free expression. It is a dangerous and toxic combination. But that is the way the liberal mind works.
Shame on DePaul for betraying academic freedom. This is further proof not just that the left doesn't practice the tolerance it preaches, but is mortified that its ideas could be exposed to the disinfecting light of truth.
The left is practiced at painting conservatives as oppressive and intolerant, but their behavior repeatedly undermines their claims and exposes them as the intolerant speech fascists and thought controllers.
You won't see conservatives advocating the muzzling of political opponents or promoting the Fairness Doctrine and campus speech codes. You won't see Republican administrations excluding reporters or news organizations from press briefings because they don't parrot the White House's narrative. You won't often encounter liberals concealing their opinions on campuses or Hollywood or their places of employment for fear of backlash. You won't see conservatives ever trying to send kooky leftists to sensitivity training to compel them -- "1984"-style -- to conform to their worldview. You won't see conservative professors excuse the contradiction overtly indoctrinating students and creating a climate of ridicule toward liberal students. You'll rarely see a college administration reprimanding a liberal professor (excuse the tautology) for exposing his class to an opposing viewpoint -- one certain students find unbearably "offensive." You won't see conservatives creating "safe spaces" to protect their delicate adherents from feeling uncomfortable through exposure to "troubling" or "triggering" ideas. You won't see the right using defamatory catchwords like racist, sexist, homophobe or xenophobe to demonize, ostracize and muzzle leftist expression.
And you won't find conservative groups pressuring universities to ban liberal speakers from their campuses. Which brings me to the primary subject at hand.
My good friend, Ben Shapiro, a one-time child prodigy who has now become a polemical force of nature as an adult, has recently experienced the ubiquitous leftist fascism inhabiting college campuses. Ben, at age 32, has not only written six best-selling books, but has a nationally syndicated column and a very successful radio show.
Despite all that, what initially propelled Ben into national prominence was his delicious television takedown of liberal snob Piers Morgan on Morgan's former CNN show on the subject of gun control.
More recently, Shapiro has distinguished himself with powerful podcasts on current events and a campus speaking tour wherein he systematically demolishes the left's tyrannical political correctness and assault on free speech.
Indeed, Shapiro has been so effective that campus liberals obviously regard him as a threat -- a clear and present danger to their Stalinist mindset. They have protested his appearances, disrupted his speeches, threatened him and lied about his message.
But the latest predictable outrage is that DePaul University has banned Shapiro from appearing on campus, under the ludicrous and specious pretense of "security concerns."
If there are security concerns, neither Shapiro nor his admirers are causing them. As Shapiro's sponsor, Young America's Foundation said, "Make no mistake, any security concerns we face on campuses are 100 percent incited by the censorious, intolerant left."
This is what so many of our campuses have come to. They don't promote, much less champion, freedom of inquiry. They are incubators of monolithic liberal ideas and actively discourage the airing of contrary opinions.
The left is incoherent on free speech. It purports to be a staunch advocate of speech while discriminatorily suppressing it. These leftists are not even embarrassed by their lame efforts to justify their imperiousness, as when one college administrator said, "We cannot tolerate the intolerable."
What is intolerable is their totalitarianism.
But give them credit; their indoctrination is yielding fruit. The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale conducted a survey on the attitudes of university students toward the First Amendment, speech codes, academic freedom, political correctness and intellectual diversity. The results are deeply disturbing, though unsurprising:
-- 49 percent of U.S. college students are "intimidated" by professors when sharing different beliefs.
-- Half said they have often felt intimidated to share beliefs that differ from their classmates.
-- 53 percent say their professors have often used class time to express their own views about matters outside of coursework.
-- 63 percent say political correctness on college campuses is either a "big problem" or somewhat of a problem.
-- 30 percent of liberal students say the First Amendment is outdated, compared with 10 percent of conservative students with that opinion.
-- Two-thirds agree that their school is more tolerant of liberal ideas than conservative ones.
-- 51 percent of students favor their school having speech codes to regulate speech for students and faculty.
-- 72 percent say their university should be doing more to promote policies that increase diversity of opinions in the classroom or on campus.
-- 52 percent say their university should forbid people from speaking on campus who have a history of engaging in "hate speech."
-- 72 percent say they support disciplinary action for "any student or faculty member on campus who uses language that is considered racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise offensive."
-- 32 percent misidentified the First Amendment.
What this inconsistent mishmash tells me is that academia is succeeding in its efforts to program students to blindly accept liberal ideas and to be amenable to suppressing opposing ideas, while manipulating students into believing that they are champions of free expression. It is a dangerous and toxic combination. But that is the way the liberal mind works.
Shame on DePaul for betraying academic freedom. This is further proof not just that the left doesn't practice the tolerance it preaches, but is mortified that its ideas could be exposed to the disinfecting light of truth.
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