Another physics genius making false claims because he thought nobody would check.

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Sunday, August 20, 2023
Jack Montgomery

DeSantis PAC Chair Claimed ‘Sizzler’ Certificate was Business Degree.

One of the chairmen of Ron DeSantis’s Super PAC ‘Never Back Down’ attempted to pass off a training certificate from the ‘Sizzler’ restaurant chain as a business degree when running for office in Iowa, The National Pulse can reveal.

Mark Chelgren, one of a number of controversial county chairmen for the DeSantis PAC in the Hawkeye State, is a former State Senator who was exposed as having burnished his resume by claiming to have a “degree” in business from Forbco Management – a now-defunct company that ran a Sizzler franchise.

“This was a management course he took when he worked for Sizzler, kind of like Hamburger University at McDonald’s,” admitted a spokesman for the Republican Party in Iowa at the time, confirming Chelgren got a “certificate” rather than a degree.


Chelgren, who approved the bogus biography, played dumb after the ruse came to light, suggesting he didn’t know “a degree and a certificate are different.”

His biography also claimed he “attended the University of California at Riverside majoring in astro-physics, geo-physics and mathematics,” and biographies elsewhere claimed he received a full degree from that institution. He later admitted he did not actually graduate from the University of California.

Chelgren exited the Iowa Senate in 2019, and failed to win reelection to the Iowa House in 2022. He is now the chairman of the Appanoose County, Iowa ‘Never Back Down’ operation.

Quote:University Targets Christian Student, Pays the Price When She Takes It to Court

By Peter Partoll  July 29, 2023 at 11:03am

Officials at a college in Illinois are facing the consequences after a Christian student sued them for violating her First Amendment rights.

In February 2022, Maggie DeJong, a grad student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, was hit with no-contact orders from the university barring her from communicating with three students who had complained about her expressing her conservative Christian beliefs.

While the orders were rescinded after SIUE received a letter from DeJong’s attorney, they were later reinstated. As a result, DeJong took the university to court with the help of the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom.

Now, ADF is reporting victory for DeJong, and SIUE is being forced to pay up for violating her right to free speech.

As part of the settlement reached between the parties, ADF attorneys will be conducting a “First Amendment training session” with three SIUE professors, according to an ADF news release.
 
University officials also agreed to revise their policies to allow for freedom of expression in the art therapy program, which DeJong was a part of, and to pay her $80,000.

ADF legal counsel Matthew Hoffman celebrated the ruling in a statement.

“Public universities can’t punish students for expressing their political and religious viewpoints,” he said.

“Maggie, like every other student, is protected under the First Amendment to respectfully share her personal beliefs, and university officials were wrong to issue gag orders and silence her speech.

“As a result of Maggie’s courage in filing suit, SIUE has agreed to take critical steps to comply with the law and the U.S. Constitution and move closer to accepting and embracing true diversity of thought and speech.”

DeJong’s story should serve as a warning to college administrators, but also as a message of hope for conservative students.

There is a war on Christianity and conservatism taking place in higher education, as almost all universities are under leftist control. Given the left’s indifference to the Constitution, they will go to great lengths to censor dissenting opinions.

Christian students who attend these universities should expect to be mistreated by classmates and officials for expressing their beliefs. They should not be surprised when they are faced with a situation similar to DeJong’s — although her lawsuit will hopefully deter the more overt forms of suppression.

We would do well to remember the words of Christ in the Gospel of John: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:18-19).

But this story also reminds us that when Christians stand firm in their beliefs, they can win victories even in our day and age. DeJong stood up to her school’s unjust policies and came out on top.

Conservatives cannot be passive victims of leftist aggression. They need to be willing to fight back and show them that there will be consequences for their unconstitutional actions.

If other college students can be as brave as Maggie DeJong, then the left will be forced to back down from its radical tactics.

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The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision

Harvey Mansfield once quipped that the Democratic Party is a coalition of college professors and morons, which prompted "Lucretia" to remark on a podcast that it is impossible to tell the difference. But if higher education wasn't an adjunct of the Democratic Party, surely the left would be charging the industry with consumer fraud and price gouging. The left likes to talk endlessly about the soaring cost of health care, but the cost of higher education has risen more than any other sector of our economy over the last 40 years, because government has turned higher education into a giant subsidy-capture machine. And few things have been more central to increasing subsidies colleges could capture than easy student loans. One may hope the Supreme Court decision on Friday to disallow forgiveness of student loans by executive fiat will pump the brakes on college costs, but don't count on it.

Quote:Accreditation? A Woke, Good-Cop-Bad-Cop Scam
The 'diversity" bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors.

By Teresa R. Manning
June 16, 2023

Congress may soon revisit the federal law governing post-secondary education, the Higher Education Act of 1965. If it does, Representative Burgess Owens (R-Utah) wants the effort to expose and correct the murky mischief of our accreditation system. That system was supposed to ensure institutional quality before schools could get federal funds like Title IV student loans. But now accreditors want to impose left-wing politics instead, while academic rigor goes out the window.

Owens? bill, titled Accreditation for College Excellence ("ACE"), would prohibit accrediting agencies from imposing politics on schools as part of accreditation. Such political litmus tests or "loyalty oaths" are now actually routinely demanded by schools themselves of prospective faculty and students. For example, universities have begun to insist that professors pledge allegiance to diversity ideology--aka "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" or "DEI." DEI is a euphemism for pitting Americans against each other based on race and it often amounts to open, reverse discrimination against those of European descent and/or Christian heritage, aka "whites." (Some schools actually use brown cartoon figures on their websites to show which ethnic groups get favored as "diverse.")

The ACE is valuable since it would prevent accreditors from piling on to this diversity bandwagon and it also sheds light on the obscure area of accreditation. But bad accreditors and bad-actor schools have deeper roots than the current "diversity" craze. So policy corrections must also dig deeper if they're to be effective.

The real problem is that those running accrediting agencies are cut from the same cloth as those running American educational institutions. Unfortunately, these people are anti-American and anti-Western Civilization ideologues intent on feeding that ideology to everyone while enriching themselves in the process. This leaves American students politicized and ignorant, and American taxpayers frustrated and poorer. The winners? Diversity bureaucrats peddling anti-Americanism.

One disturbing example in higher education came from "diversity efforts" at Virginia's James Madison University: In August 2021, the school mandated an orientation video for incoming freshmen. The video divided the country into two main classes--the "oppressors" and the 'oppressed."

Among the oppressors? Americans.

Similar simplistic anti-Americanism is propagated through academic movements like ?Critical Race Theory? (CRT), a pedagogy used in both high school and college. Promoted by people like Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Anti-Racist, CRT teaches that America has been systemically racist since its beginnings, even as refugees and immigrants risk their lives to come here and as ethnic caste systems and slavery thrive elsewhere in the world. (In fact, honest researchers typically find that America is among the least racially bigoted countries.) Divisive theories like CRT actually want to create and foster racial tension since that keeps the race industrial complex alive?that is, it keeps race hustlers like Kendi employed.

This diversity bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors. For example, the Council on Higher Education Accreditation or ?CHEA?, an oversight body that ?represents more than 6,000 U.S. colleges and universities and recognizes six major U.S. regional accreditors,? now requires official commitment to DEI from the institutions it works with. CHEA officials say, ?the decision to add DEI substandards represents a major step in advancing accreditation standards across the country.

Actually, the advance of DEI in education and accreditation coincides with a decline in academic achievement. Any reasonable person can see that ideology is displacing instruction and real learning.

In graduate education like law and medicine, the story is even worse. As the sole accreditor of law schools, the American Bar Association (?ABA?) has an unchecked monopoly on accrediting institutions of legal education, so it demands whatever it wants. The result? The Left controls almost every American law school, with Democratic professors outnumbering Republicans by a ratio of 50 to one. Job openings in legal education routinely require ?diversity? statements or values from applicants (or use the partner buzz terms like ?inclusion? and ?equity?). State bar associations follow suit and now even require ?diversity? classes for lawyers to keep their law license, with the approval of state courts

The ABA was actually sued years ago by the Justice Department for antitrust violations when it unlawfully enriched law schools and law professors as part of the accreditation process. It not only hindered new law schools from entering the legal education field but it also demanded high salaries and long sabbaticals for law professors?all as a condition of law school accreditation! This rank self-interest persisted even as law graduates faced unemployment and law firms that did hire law graduates complained that they were not practice-ready. No surprise there since most law professors also lack experience in legal practice?an obvious deficiency in legal education. But the ABA has no time for that. It?s too busy demanding ?diversity.??

Schools often complain they must jump through hoops to satisfy accreditors as if they?re victims of outside political forces. Hogwash. Schools and accreditors are on the same woke team, playing good cop/bad cop against America. They work hand in glove.

Maybe Rep. Owens will consider addressing this larger picture.

The solution, of course, is to restore political balance both in higher education institutions and in accrediting agencies. Political balance is routinely required for governmental and educational entities: State Boards of Regents, which oversee state universities, are often required by law to not have more than a certain number of members from one political party, for example. The same is true of many federal and state commissions like the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Couldn?t Congress demand a similar political balance of both educational institutions and accreditors?

Let?s hope Burgess Owens will think on that.

It only took 70 years, but the shame of spawning an evil ethics violator must have finally gotten to her. Rot in hell, Gollin pig.

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CHAMPAIGN - Dolores Rebecca Joseph, 94, of Champaign passed away Friday, May 5, 2023, at ClarkLindsey, Urbana.

Dolores, born July 9, 1928, was the fourth child of Lewis Joseph and Rose (Flaxman) Joseph. Lew was a New York City detective and then assistant district attorney, while Rose earned a degree in law but never practiced, instead staying home to raise their children, Ruth, Elaine, Edwin and Dolores.

Dolores was preceded in death by her older siblings.

Dolores was twice married and twice divorced; both ex-husbands were named Sidney. The first Sidney was the father of their two children, George Gollin, a physics professor at the University of Illinois, and Olivia Gollin Hoepfl, a retired special-education teacher and coordinator, living in Ohio. George and his wife, Melanie Loots, are parents to Dolores' first grandchild, Cordelia, while Olivia and her husband, Bill Hoepfl, are parents to Dolores' second grandchild, Lucas. Cordelia and her husband, Viraj, are the parents of Anjali, Dolores' great-granddaughter.

Dolores earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Brooklyn and Queens College, taught English in New York City and suburban schools, and eventually moved into administration as an assistant principal. She retired in 1986 and joined her sisters in a senior citizens' residential community outside Princeton. There she met Donald Jones, a retired physician who became her partner in life for nearly 20 years. Dolores and Donald eventually moved to Champaign to be closer to her family.

Dolores was a strong, aggressive tennis player who regularly trounced the (male) teachers with whom she would play and, after retiring, played with a group of women who were 30 years her junior. She was a talented pianist, blasting through complicated pieces like the Grieg Piano Concerto and solo-piano reductions of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and other compositions. Dolores loved Chautauqua Institution and vacationed there during summers for more than 30 years. She was loving, strong-willed, charismatic and wonderful mother and grandmother who loved to cook.

We will miss her and will celebrate her life Sunday, May 14, at 3 p.m., at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, 1900 Philo Road, Urbana.

Published by The News-Gazette on May 12, 2023.

America?s Crisis is the Universities
Crime, treason, riots, open borders and our other threats are coming out of campuses.

March 10, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield


?The source of our current ills ? the? lawlessness in our streets, the destruction of our borders, the racist ?equity? policies of the Democrat Party, the ?woke? derelictions of our military leaders, can all be traced to the indoctrination of our educated classes in hatreds spawned by cultural Marxism.?
?David Horowitz, ?De-Fund the Universities!?

The Duke of Wellington reportedly stated that the battle of Waterloo was won on the fields of Eton College. George Orwell countered that, ?Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.?

America?s battles against foreign and domestic enemies have been lost in our ?Etons?, our schools and universities which have turned their graduates against the country and its values.

The source of our social and political crises is the destruction of our educational institutions through a successful fifty-year effort by radical activists to purge conservatives and patriots from American academic faculties. This was followed by a massive reconstruction of the academic curriculum and the transformation of universities into one-party indoctrination and recruitment centers for the anti-American left.

We at the David Horowitz Freedom Center were among the first to confront the problem and take the battle to campuses across the country, but as the last conservative faculty are purged and conservative students are silenced, the old remedies of adversarial dialogue and debate are no longer available. Conservative speakers are violently assaulted on campuses and events are shut down. College administrators are finding ways to force out even tenured conservative faculty while mandatory anti-white, anti-Jewish, anti-Asian and anti-patriotic ?diversity? measures keep the doors firmly closed to conservatives and patriots.
It?s time to recognize that this is an existential threat to America and to take action against it. That?s why we?re calling for the defunding of universities.

A Survey of the Problem

Universities have become efficient indoctrination centers that couldn?t be any more destructive if they were being run by China and Russia.

A Harvard University survey of the 2022 graduates showed that only 4% were Republicans while the majority were Democrats. The 7% of students that were conservative when they entered college declined to 4% when they graduated. 55% support the Green New Deal, 54% want to eliminate border security, and 33% back the terrorist-sponsored boycott of Israel.

This indoctrination is the work of a university where 82% of the faculty are leftists, 16% are moderates and only 1.4% are conservatives. Harvard is America?s Eton: shaping the leaders of the country, and those leaders are being indoctrinated to destroy the nation.

Biden?s proposal to cancel student loan debt would be a disproportionately Democrat bailout with Harvard students owing over $1 billion and Yale students (where only 5% would admit to voting for Trump) at $760 million. Not only shouldn?t we be spending billions on bailouts for this corrupt leftist system, we should, as David Horowitz wrote, defund it altogether.

A report by Open the Books found that eight Ivy League schools received $4.3 billion in federal funding every year in the previous decade. In 2021-2022, the government spent $234 billion on grants, loans and other subsidies for college students. Biden?s illegal student loan bailout alone could cost over $400 billion. State spending on public colleges topped $100 billion. In the midst of massive inflation, unsustainable amounts of money are being spent on colleges. Students are going deeply into debt and that debt is eventually passed on to the American People.

What have taxpayers gotten for the billions lavished on these elite indoctrination centers?

Crime Wave

Studies estimate the annual costs of crime in the trillions. A single murder costs $17 million. Around 5,000 more people were murdered in 2020 due to the devastating impact of Black Lives Matter?s de-fund the police campaign, the decriminalization of crimes and pandemic prison releases. Aside from the horrific suffering, that?s $85 billion in costs created by policies that came out of academia.

8 in 10 college students supported the BLM race riots which caused billions in damages. Support for the race riots increased with each level of education. High school graduates were the least likely to support the riots while postgraduate degree holders were the most likely to. Nearly every university administration endorsed the riots and the racist hatred behind them.

BLM activists were more likely to have college degrees and campuses served as organizing hubs for the racist movement. But the crime wave destroying our communities is even more deeply rooted in campuses than that. From Michel Foucault to Angela Davis to Mariame Kaba, eliminating police, prisons and the criminal justice system were the inventions of academics and were incubated at college campuses, including Kaba at Barnard University and Davis at UC Santa Cruz which has received millions to promote the idea, and at Harvard, which teaches a course on it.

Restorative Justice, which proposes to replace crime and punishment with forgiveness for the perpetrator, originated in part from Goshen College in Indiana which now offers both a major and a minor in letting criminals go unpunished. Police defunding has been often directly credited to Alex Vitale: a sociology professor at Brooklyn College. The misery, the robberies, rapes and murders that have engulfed entire cities, were hatched out of academic theories at colleges that, like UC Santa Cruz and Brooklyn College, are taxpayer funded.

But this legalization of crime would not have been possible without the academic hate of ?Critical Race Theory? that has poisoned race relations and pitted Americans against each other.

Racism

In 2007, 75% of white people and 55% of black people believed race relations were good. Today only 43% of white people and 33% of black still do. Rather than bringing us together, universities tore us apart with racist descriptions of America as a ?white supremacist? society created and still defined by white racists which poisoned generations of their graduates.

A Pew survey found that black people with college degrees ?are more likely than those with less education to say being black has hurt their ability to get ahead.? White people with college degrees were more likely to believe in the racist myth of ?white skin privilege,? ? a term invented by the terrorist Weather Underground in the 1960s whose leaders subsequently became influential college teachers. College graduates in other surveys were more likely to attribute problems to systemic racism ? which is outlawed under the 1964 Civil Rights Act ? than to individual choices, and to support discriminatory equity policies such as affirmative action.

With critical race theory courses being taught in every leading law school, including Harvard, Columbia and Yale, and ?whiteness studies? courses in colleges across the country, billions in taxpayers money are being spent to employ and train a generation of racists.
Some of the country?s most notorious bigots enjoy comfortable academic perches including Ibram X. Kendi: the inventor of the bogus term ?anti-racism,? which he defines as agreeing with the anti-American racist left. Kendi heads the $10 million Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, Robin DiAngelo, the author of ?White Fragility?, is an associate professor at the University of Washington, and Cornel West, was until recently positioned at Harvard where he helped to popularize the slogan ?Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty To Humanity? of the academic journal, ?Race Traitor? in the racist field of ?whiteness studies?.

And it?s paying off.

A 2022 survey of college students found that 78% believe ?systemic racism is a big problem in our society ? even though it is illegal and there is no tsunami of lawsuits, which would be the case if this claim had any truth in it. 50% believe ?America is inextricably linked to white supremacy?. Why would anyone support such a country, or believe such intellectual garbage?
Because they?ve been relentlessly indoctrinated to hate their country.

Indoctrination

College campuses have come to resemble Communist China with constant indoctrination and harsh penalties for political dissent.
At MIT, 68% of students were afraid to disagree with a professor about a controversial topic and 40% of faculty members were keeping quiet to avoid getting into trouble. A majority of students at the University of Wisconsin have stayed quiet in class and 37%, mostly conservative, felt pressured to agree with an instructor?s position.

These numbers hold true in national surveys where majorities of students are keeping quiet.

Universities have become a political monoculture and the indoctrination is going one way.

Over half the college of college departments in one survey did not have a single registered Republican faculty member. Only 61 Republican professors were found in 65 departments with Democrats outnumbering Republicans ten to one. It was estimated that, ?Republicans make up 4% of historians, 3% of sociologists, and a mere 2% of literature professors.?

Mandatory diversity statements and racial quotas are used to keep a new generation of conservative professors from even being able to get inside to become tenure-track faculty. That systemic discrimination ought to be illegal, instead it?s being funded by conservative taxpayers.

Dominated by leftist faculty, universities are indoctrinating students with their ideology.

55% of liberal students, 37% of independent students, and 32% of conservative students in one survey said that their classes left them with a negative view of America. 57% of the liberal students, 35% of the independents and 12% of the conservative students were not proud to be Americans. 61% of the liberals, 38% of the independents and 16% of the conservatives came away with a negative view of capitalism. Is that American education or Marxist education?

College has become a standard rite of passage and the radical indoctrination on campuses is warping not only a select group, but the country as a whole. Generations are emerging who are not merely liberal, but support criminals and racists, and the destruction of America.

With no pride in their own country, college students are more likely to support dismantling it.

Open Borders and Illegal Invaders

As many as half a million illegal aliens attend colleges in the United States. Beyond the huge numbers of illegals benefiting from taxpayer funds, open borders are a university project.

After President Trump?s victory, the American Association of University Professors called for colleges to become ?sanctuary campuses?. Columbia University?s Provost declared that the college would not ?allow immigration officials on our campuses without a warrant.? Chancellor Timothy P. White asserted that Cal State ?will not enter into agreements with state or local law enforcement agencies, Homeland Security or any other federal department for the enforcement of federal immigration law.?

Over 600 college presidents signed a letter in support of the DACA illegal alien program.

The 2022 Open Borders Conference was sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin. A previous conference featured an Academics Against Borders panel.

C?sar Cuauht?moc Garc?a Hern?ndez, a prominent supporter of eliminating ICE, uses his platform as a civil rights professor at Ohio State to wage war on the nation?s borders. And he?s not alone. Faculty at Northwestern and Johns Hopkins have pressured their institutions to end contracts with ICE. Appearances by ICE officials have been shut down by protests.

Books and articles like ?The Case for Getting Rid of Borders?Completely? and ?Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration? flow from George Mason University professors.

Some universities actively urge students to engage in anti-border activism while others even transport them down to the border and provide college credit for anti-border activism.

All of that open borders activism has trickled down to the student body.

In a poll asking whether the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should be abolished, 44% of students wanted to eliminate it and only 30% wanted to keep it.

A majority of white high school graduates supported expanding the border wall to stem the invasion. 63% of white college students opposed such a move. So did 72% of post-grads.

Universities have indoctrinated students to believe that America should not exist. A nation that should not exist, also should not have borders. Or the right to defend itself against enemies.

Disloyalty and Treason

A Quinnipiac survey asked if America were invaded, would they stay and fight or leave the country. Those who had college degrees were more likely to leave than those without. And young people were the most likely to leave and the least likely to stay and fight. They?re also the likeliest to have positive views of China and other enemy nations.

College students at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton and many others, who are taught that America is racist and evil, are turning against their country and siding with our enemies. Surveys have found that high school students are more likely to be patriotic than college students.

A New York Times poll showed that only 26% of Democrat voters with a bachelor?s degree agreed that America is the greatest country in the world. Only 12% of Democrats 18-29 believed that America was the greatest nation. And why would they when they?re taught otherwise?

Universities aren?t just critical of the country, they harbor the worst enemies of America, Israel, Europe and other free nations. That?s why campuses are where American and Israeli flags are burned, and conservative and Jewish students are harassed on a regular basis.

From Edward Said?s Orientalism to Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, university campuses have become terror hubs. It?s not unusual to find PFLP terrorist flags waved during Israeli Apartheid Week or to see college paper editorials like Amherst College?s ?In Defense of Hamas?. On American campuses, 32% of Jewish college students reported experiencing antisemitism, 50% hid their identity and 65% felt unsafe. And no wonder when college students will openly pledge money to Hamas to bomb Israeli schools.

Exploiting this treasonous atmosphere, the People?s Republic of China has riddled campuses with its Confucius Institutes that act at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, and foreign donors have used campuses to direct money to politicians, including Joe Biden, through the Penn Biden Center. With $12 billion in foreign money going to universities, much of it untraced, the potential for corruption is endless. Millions have flowed from terror sponsors including Qatar, Pakistan and even Iran. And it?s no coincidence that they are funding educational systems that undermine patriotism and promote the cause of America?s enemies.

Universities are being funded to indoctrinate students with hatred for America and for Jews. And they?re ?double-dipping? by taking money from America?s enemies and from American taxpayers.

The Corruption of Institutions

We are surrounded by national institutions that have been corrupted from their original purposes by the indoctrination that their leaders and employees received at universities. Big Tech censorship, military wokeness, the end of objective reporting and the radicalization of corporations are the consequences of a university education that puts wokeness above all else.

Media bias begins in the communications courses and journalism schools that teach that objectivity is a fallacy. Arizona State University?s Cronkite School of Journalism urges going ?beyond objectivity? and ?explores how the idea of objectivity has evolved? with ?the values of younger journalists and modern newsrooms to better serve today?s diverse audiences.?

Military wokeness began with the takeover of service branch academies by non-military faculty from outside universities. It?s been embedded at the top by brass like Gen. Mark Milley, who has a master?s degree in international relations from Columbia University, and refers to Trump supporters as ?Nazis? and is concerned about right-wing ?domestic terrorists? and ?white rage.?

Big Tech companies used to uphold libertarian values until they were flooded by a new generation of graduates who demanded that they go woke. Corporate wokeness across industries is being driven by younger workers, a phenomenon captured from the New York Times, ?The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them? to the Daily Mail, ?Gen Z workers are Terrifying Millennial Bosses with Woke Demands?

Campus politics, safe spaces, entitlement and political intimidation moved over to the workplace and transformed Corporate America. Instead of graduates encountering the ?real world?, the real world accommodated them so that, whether we want to or not, we all live on college campuses.

The college experience is transforming all of our lives even if we never set foot on a campus.

The Democrats, corporations, judges and entertainers all take their cues from the academic Left and dramatically upend our lives based on the latest theory coming out of academia. Universities have successfully radicalized the leaders, the executives, and the generals who actually run our society and put their values ahead of voters and shareholders.

A leftist minority that has used its disproportionate presence at universities as a ?lever? to fundamentally shift our country out of its place. Everyone successfully indoctrinated by that system has entered the workforce ready to execute its most extreme ideas from sexualizing children to eliminating prisons. Our leaders no longer represent our values, only leftist values.

The cost of that power grab has been the destruction of institutional trust. Every institution taken over by the Left has lost its trust rating. Last year, Gallup marked record low confidence in all institutions. Average confidence is now at 27% which is lower than it has been in over 40 years.

While the media and public schools have been rated poorly for some time, in the last few years there has been a sharp decline in trust for the military and banks due to their growing wokeness. Universities have led to a profound divide in our culture in which we no longer agree on basic moral and legal issues like the value of human life, the right to free speech, how elections are run and whether entire races share collective guilt.

These deep ruptures have led to two Americas and are leading both sides toward civil war.

Why De-Funding Matters

Universities were once a vital link in the chain of knowledge and there are a handful of principled institutions that may continue to serve that role, but the majority no longer want to.

The only hope of saving academic institutions of higher learning is to force them to restore academic values and scholarly inquiries as the basic and inviolable principles and practices of their classrooms. And to withhold all funding from all sources to their ideological programs, fields, and faculties. Some states are forcing universities to cease demanding diversity statements and that?s a start, but they should all be defunded until academics replace ideology.

The ?self-defunding? of the ideology-ridden humanities is already underway with a sharp decline in students majoring in them, from 20% to 7% at Harvard in only a decade, a decline of half at Vassar, Tufts and many other leading colleges, but as long as universities have infinite taxpayer money and endless endowments, the leftists who have hijacked them will continue to pour their poisons into the nation?s bloodstream.

In order to restore their funding, university faculties have to become ideologically and politically diverse. They have to restore standards that are not shaped by racist equity agendas, but by the requirements of scholarly inquiry and disinterested knowledge.

The massive pile of institutional and student debt, and the runaway growth of administrators, has made universities financially unsustainable for both students and institutions. Defunding them is the only way to deliver a ?shock to the system? that can save higher learning in America, and America itself.

Quote:Biden Administration Looks at Crackdown on Online Classes



by Breccan F. Thies
9 Mar 2023

President Joe Biden's Department of Education is looking to crack down on online classes for higher education, barring thousands of students from completing programs.

The move comes after Democrats used online courses during the coronavirus lockdowns, harming students in the process.
This time, however, the motive appears to be different.

February guidance from the Education Department would classify ?online program managers" -- the companies that host the courses for schools -- as "third-party vendors" meaning they would be subjected to heavy regulation and the threat of being shut down.

The left has targeted these program managers for a long time, accusing them of exploitation and condemning their profit motive.

"Online education has the potential to meet the needs of many students and lower costs," Under Secretary James Kvaal said of the rule change. "But we are concerned about the growth in loan debt and want to ensure students get value for their money."

The move appears to be part of a push to answer "concerns about the impact of OPM partnerships on rising student debt loads," as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) put it.

House Education and Workforce Committee chair Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) called out the Biden administration for putting such arduous barriers on Americans completing coursework online.

"It is reckless for the Department to suggest providing access to online education is a main driver of federal student loan debt," she said in a February press release.. "Instead, innovations in postsecondary education, including online education, have broken through access barriers for many adult learners."

Coming after programs and schools that make it easier for adults to complete certifications and coursework is a mainstay for the Biden administration.

As Breitbart News reported, the Biden administration is coordinating with Democrat operatives with a history of pushing harmful education regulations and strengthening their friends at leftist universities.

The Department of Education has also come after career colleges -- which offer job training for veterans, minorities, and working-class families -- for similar reasons.

In implementing the "gainful employment" test -- a vestige of the Obama administration targeting career colleges -- the administration sought to track how much debt a career college would leave a student as compared to the amount of money they made post-graduation. Given the results, financial aid was to end for colleges that left their students in a high amount of debt with a low amount of post-graduation return.

However, those same metrics are not imposed on universities that offer unmarketable degrees.

No worries, it's the Gold Standard. What could go wrong?

Quote:John Bear
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Ph.D., Communication, Michigan State University, 1966 [Grade point average: 4.0]

Quote:Three dead, 5 wounded in US campus shooting: police

AFP
13 Feb 2023

Three people were killed and five others wounded Monday when a gunman opened fire on a university campus in the United States, before fleeing the scene, local police said.

The suspect opened fire inside a building at [regionally accredited] Michigan State University shortly after 8 p.m. local time, said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of campus police.

The gunman then moved on foot to a nearby building where more shots were fired.

?There are three confirmed fatalities,? Michigan State University police said in a statement on Twitter. ?This is in addition to the five victims who have been transported to the hospital.?

Some of the wounded had suffered life-threatening injuries, Rozman told reporters.

Police released a photo of the suspect, a short Black man, wearing red shoes, a denim jacket and a baseball cap.

?We currently have hundreds of police officers and law enforcement officials ? state, local and federal ? on campus working in a coordinated effort to ensure the safety of campus and identify and apprehend the suspect,? Rozman said.

Police responded quickly to the scene and students and staff were ordered to shelter in place.

Officials said all campus activities will be canceled for the next 48 hours.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was briefed on the shooting and said police were working to secure the area.

?Let?s wrap our arms around the Spartan community tonight,? she wrote on Twitter, referring to the university?s athletic logo.

School and university shootings are alarmingly common as part of a broader wave of gun violence in the United States, where the proliferation of firearms has soared in recent years.

One of the many highlights of convicted ethics violator George (Third Place) Gollin's hilarious clown show of a congressional campaign was when he falsely claimed his opponent wanted to cut social security--completely contrary to the position she stated while sitting right next to him.

It was deja vu all over again last night when America's first vegetable emitted his inept State of the Union address. Lyin' Joe claimed his opponents wanted to cut social security and Medicare--which drew an immediate and vocal response from the assembled Republicans. MTG's catcall of "Liar!" and her accompanying "thumbs down" gesture was classic.

Is there some sort of Dick Move Digest that all Demtard candidates read before seeking public office? Or have 15 pals read for them?



Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans yell 'liar' as Biden accuses them of wanting to cut Medicare and Social Security

Quote:Justice for John Eastman
The fundamental message implicit in the California Bar's vendetta against Trump's former lawyer is this: "We're the government. We've defined what is truth. How dare you question us."

By Roger Kimball
January 28, 2023

The January 6 Committee may have shut up shop, Liz Cheney may have scuttled back to her constituency in Georgetown and at CNN, but the great Democratic vendetta machine is still fired up and pounding along, looking for people to smash and livelihoods to destroy.

Those who dared to walk around the Capitol that fateful day are still being apprehended and jailed. Many face multi-year prison sentences for such misdemeanor torts as "parading" or "obstructing an official proceeding." Anyone associated with Donald Trump is fair game, as the names Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, and Jeffrey Clark remind us.

At the top of that hit list is John Eastman, the distinguished constitutional scholar who made the unforgivable error of offering legal advice to President Trump in the turbulent aftermath of the 2020 election.

I have written about Eastman before, both in this space and elsewhere. He has had his life turned upside down. He was shuffled out of his position as dean of the Chapman Law School and has been treated as a pariah by colleagues in his profession. Anti-Trump protestors regularly congregate at the foot of his driveway--fortunately, a long one--to vilify him and his association with the Bad Orange Man.

Now the State Bar of California has announced that it has filed an official complaint of 11 charges against Eastman, alleging that he endeavored to "plan, promote, and assist then-President Trump in executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states."

Not a single one of those charges is true. Wikipedia and other left-wing megaphones keep repeating the canard that Trump and his advisors attempted to "overturn" the results of the 2020 election. No, they didn't. As Eastman explains in meticulous detail in his response to the California Bar's attack, what he did was review the election law in order to advise Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the various legitimate strategies they could employ to address the rampant irregularities that had infected the 2020 election.

In other words, he did what lawyers in our adversarial legal system are supposed to do. He looked at the law and advised his client on what courses of action he could legally take in order to achieve his ends. Had he done otherwise, he would have betrayed the interests of his client.

Remember, Eastman was not operating in a void. The attorneys general of several states had raised serious questions about the integrity of an election in which COVID was used as cover to change voting rules by executive fiat rather than, as the 12th Amendment to the Constitution stipulates, through the legislative processes of the individual states. Those governors and secretaries of state who bypassed their legislatures to change their election laws acted illegally.

Eastman sketched several possible legal courses of action in response. The suggestion that got the most attention concerned a possible course of action for Mike Pence. As vice president, Pence was charged by the Constitution with opening ballots from the electors in order that they be counted. But since several states had questions about the integrity of those ballots, Eastman suggested that Pence propose a brief pause in the counting while the problematic states could be canvassed.

This the State Bar of California regards as something little short of treason. Eastman, the bar's notice of disciplinary charges alleges, "violated this duty [to the Constitution] in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land--an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy--for which he must be held accountable."

Note the rhetoric: "usurp the will of the American people," forsooth! "An egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy," etc., etc. Give me a break. What Eastman actually did was act responsibly for his client by researching the law and recommending certain courses of action. But the California Bar, staffed and overseen almost exclusively by Democrats, dismisses all that. They are out for blood and are seeking to have Eastman disbarred.

It is yet another outrage from the people who brought us the January 6 Kangaroo Court. On Friday, Eastman was joined at a Zoom press conference by a long list of legal eminences, including former Attorney General Edwin Meese, John Yoo, and Janice Rogers Brown. All testified to Eastman's competence and integrity and noted the dangerous precedent that the California Bar's action represented.

As Margot Cleveland wrote at The Federalist, the California Bar has essentially weaponized its disciplinary process along ideological or political grounds. If the reasoning behind the California Bar were to prevail, Cleveland observed, then Senator Ted Cruz and the attorneys general from 18 states should all be disbarred.

As Eastman noted in his remarks Friday, the fundamental message implicit in the California Bar?s vendetta against him is this: "We're the government. We've defined what is truth. How dare you question us."

Eastman closed by emphasizing what should be obvious but which is often forgotten. "The stakes here are far greater than whether an individual lawyer will lose or retain his bar license," he said.

Quote:We are approaching an authoritarian, even totalitarian, mentality where citizens are not allowed to voice their criticism of government; where their views are censored through an unholy alliance between a social media oligopoly and the government itself. COVID response--woe to the doctors who dared to raise red flags. CRT in schools--woe to the parents who object. Election lawyers--woe to the lot of us for seeking and speaking the truth.

In the hurly-burly of everyday life, there are always scandals and emergencies and crises. Most are ephemeral, soon swallowed up by the ceaseless river of events. But some turn out to be critical turning points that determine the shape of the regime we inhabit. We are at such an inflection point now, I believe, and the case of John Eastman is a gravamen in the great decision that is facing us regarding the future of individual liberty, the fate of our constitutional republic, and the level of intrusiveness and control we are willing to cede to the bureaucrats who would rule us.

They say that in the modern bureaucratic state, "the process is the punishment." The state-sponsored, media-abetted attack against John Eastman, in which his very livelihood and personal security are threatened, shows that the process is only part of the envisaged punishment.

Still, the process proceeds and is very expensive. Eastman has up a legal defense here. I urge you to contribute. I have.