Comments on: Censorship Alert: The Chronicle of Higher Education fires a conservative blogger

By: rickbull

rickbull — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:50:49 +0000

By: proudmarinemom

proudmarinemom — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:18:13 +0000

just did Ms. Riley a favor. She ought to thank them for firing her.

I had never heard of her before.

Now I will search out her articles and read them to my college-bound daughter (who happens to belong to an ethnic minority and will be successful in life despite the Department of Housing Conspiracy Against Minorities of the 1970s.)

By: tooncesthecat

tooncesthecat — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:51:28 +0000

Payroll taxes were created and have always been used to underwrite social security and medicare. This is an historic departure from the purpose for those taxes at a time when social security and, particularly, medicare are approaching insolvency. Any increase in those taxes should be set aside specifically for that purpose.

By: rickbull

rickbull — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:50:53 +0000

Calculate how much more interest the average student loan customer would pay on his/her student loans from graduation until the loan is paid; then calculate how much the same student will pay extra in payroll taxes for the rest of his/her working life. “You can pay me now or pay me (more) later.”

Just like the lottery: a 401K plan for people who are bad at math–liberals.

By: tooncesthecat

tooncesthecat — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:54:01 +0000

Obama and the Democrats want to increase Medicare and Social Security taxes.

By: jakee308

jakee308 — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:19:33 +0000

and is a writer for the WSJ.

It shouldn’t really mean anything but as push back against the claim that she and her post are racist, it makes an interesting point. Can you be racist yet be married to someone of the race you think you’re superior to?

I also read her post and she was very, very mild in her criticism of the the pitiful examples she cited. It’s what happens when standards are discarded because the target group can’t meet them. Instead of the application of remedial studies and discipline what academe has done is given them their own Basket Weaving For Dummies 101. Women’s studies are of the same mind set.

The only positive about this whole affair is that it’s obvious to all that this firing was about political correctness.

Too bad we can’t revisit Rich Lowry’s firing of John Derbyshire.

Some of the attacks of blacks on whites that have come to light since his firing, show that his advice is sound (though sad that’s it’s necessary) and if it had been taken by some of the victims, they might have saved themselves from harm.

And who’s to blame for his advice being good? Not him and not because he has may have a dim view of white and black interactions. It’s because blacks seem to have no shame that their so called community seems to relish being criminals and those who don’t find themselves unable to change that attitude.

That’s not Derbyshire’s fault. Yet he was called names and fired, all for being honest and truthful.

I think Eric Holder had a point; we need to have a conversation on race. It’s too bad it didn’t happen after we elected a black President. But then that’s HIS failure. Among others.

By: blakemoney

blakemoney — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:35:10 +0000

“Others” are taking spots at all the elite colleges anyway. It’s why we have black guy from Harvard running against a Mormon from Harvard. Our children are probably going to school with a second generation Indian or Chinese student who will be president. Under Obama, the middle class can’t afford college anymore, and we aren’t getting any smarter, either.

By: Locked and Loaded

Locked and Loaded — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:13:13 +0000

Yet there exists a concerted effort to excise that knowledge.

Certain things the Left cannot abide. Many basic truths are among them.

By: huskerchuck

huskerchuck — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:09:54 +0000

Evidently among many other unkind things (being polite, and so shocked to see intolerance from the liberal tolerance edumacated set!), she was called racist for espousing this opinion.

It has also been relayed on at least one other site that this is indeed irony considering she is married to a black gentleman.

Surprise, lefties.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:32:13 +0000

“The Echo Chamber.”

If my job was to capture hypocrites for a living, I would head out every morning for a college campus.