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The media would like to paint presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway as a termagant. She is anything but. “I view myself as the product of my choices not as the victim of my circumstances,” she said in a conversation onstage with writer Mercedes Schlapp at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  For the record, she […]

From The College Fix: California State University-Fullerton lecturer Eric Canin has been suspended by the school for his actions against the campus College Republicans at a February 8 protest: He struck one of them. As reported by the Daily Titan, on that date the CRs were engaged in a “nonviolent counter protest” against a march objecting to President Trump’s […]

From the Washington Examiner: At Appalachian State University, students reported on one another for chalked messages that were pro-Trump as well as chalked messages calling Trump a “RACIST.” The former were reported by students as “hate speech,” the latter “politically biased slander” that was “unlawful.” While students at Ohio State University reported each other for […]

From The College Fix: Earlier this week, a cadre of students from the University of Cincinnati got together at the campus Tangeman University Center to “silently protest the ‘state of the nation.’” That’s right, there was no specific beef, just, as The News Record reports, “acts of racism, sexism, xenophobia and other forms of bigotry perpetrated by President Trump’s administration and […]

Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in the D.C. metropolitan area this week. Her remarks were criticized by the Left, teachers unions and other anti-Trump elements, but you can watch a video of her remarks below (via ABC News’ YouTube page) and decide for yourself whether […]

From The College Fix: Protesters “shouted down” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations seven times when he spoke at Columbia University last week, according to the Maccabee Task Force, which fights campus anti-Semitism. Several left-wing campus groups had pledged to crash the event featuring Danny Danon, calling him a “cheerleader for [President Donald] Trump and […]

“It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in this country,” said Rush Limbaugh on “Fox News Sunday.” Nevertheless, Republican-led congressional committees have already been stampeded into opening investigations into whether President Trump was Russia’s candidate in the 2016 presidential election. Accuracy in Media (AIM) raised concerns about the […]

Editor’s Note: This report originally appeared at the American Spectator. I’ve been getting emails from bewildered colleagues asking about a survey of presidential scholars that determined that Barack Obama is the 12th best president in the history of the United States, putting him near the top quartile of our presidents. How can this be? I, too, was […]

Here’s an excerpt from a piece at the James G. Martin Center (formerly the William Pope Center) on Marxists occupying college administrations and academic circles: Much as Martin Center readers may disparage Marxism, there is one author who deserves our attention. Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist who lived and wrote around the turn of […]

Imagine if the speaker whose event got canceled was the likes of Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards or communist Angela Davis? Food for thought. From The College Fix: A reporter for the Los Angeles Times managed to pull off something the University of California-Berkeley has thus far failed to do in the wake of violent protests that shut down an event featuring […]

Several college professors picked apart Jane Austen, who would have turned 200 years old this year. In a packed room full of female attendees at the Modern Language Association (MLA), the professors criticized Jane Austen’s “whiteness” in her writing and how post-Trump, people can turn to Austen’s readings to escape from reality. Mary Favret, an […]

Controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos got an up-close view of the intolerance of the left when it comes to speech it doesn’t agree with. This occurred when a speech he was to give at U.C. Berkeley was canceled after masked demonstrators hurled fireworks, rocks and Molotov cocktails, plunging the campus into a state of chaos. Berkeley—the birthplace of […]