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Democratic incivility: GOP candidates assaulted as calls for violence against Republicans continue

Bill McMorris
The Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:20 UTC
GOP candidates assaulted Minnesota
The Minnesota Democratic Party has suspended a spokesman for calling for violence against Republicans even as two GOP candidates have been assaulted in suspected politically motivated attacks.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has suspended communications staffer William Davis for one week without pay after making a Facebook post joking that Democrats would "bring [Republicans] to the guillotine" on Nov. 7, the day after the midterm elections. Minnesota Republican Party chairman Jennifer Carnahan said the suspension was not enough, calling for his immediate firing in the aftermath of separate attacks against Republican candidates. She said she has been subjected to numerous death threats during her tenure as the state party leader and that death threats are no laughing matter.

"The overt hatred and violence that has become prevalent from many Democrats towards Republicans in recent times is unlawful, unacceptable, and downright scary," she said in an email. "Yes, we have free speech and the right to peacefully assemble, but these words and actions by the left have gone too far. ... He should have been terminated immediately."

DFL officials did not respond to request for comment.

Comment: Meanwhile in Nevada, a campaign manager for a GOP gubernatorial candidate was also attacked. RT reports:
Wilfred Michael Stark III, a member of the David Brock-founded American Bridge 21st Century group, was arrested after roughing up Kristin Davison, campaign manager for Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt, at an East Las Vegas campaign event. Davison claims Stark grabbed her arm and wouldn't let go, pushing her against a wall and leaving her "terrified and traumatized" with bruises on her arms and neck.

Stark reportedly remains in custody in Las Vegas. He has a history of attacking female Republican operatives, having previously been arrested for assaulting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's press secretary Heather Swift, and was arrested for disorderly conduct while covering another Republican gubernatorial campaign.
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Smiley

4Chan's NPC meme sparks mass triggering among liberals, Twitter responds with Ban Hammer

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:12 UTC
NPC meme
The "weaponized autists" at 4Chan have done it again, because they can; a new meme suggesting that liberals are soulless idiots who can't think for themselves has gone viral. The concept compares Democrats to "nonplayable characters," or NPCs - the recurring characters in video games with repetitive lines and limited knowledge. Lack of an "inner voice" is a dead giveaway that someone may be an NPC.

The NPC meme essentially meant to ridicule the post-election perpetual outrage culture in which liberals simply parrot the latest talking points from their favorite pundits, who do their thinking for them.

The 4chan version is a simple greyed out, expressionless face known as "NPC Wojak" - which has triggered the left so hard that Twitter conducted a mass-banning campaign for accounts promoting the meme, and the New York Times wrote an entire article trying to figure it out.

Comment: More on the NPC hilarity:

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NYU students heckle Kissinger during speech - 'Rot in hell!'


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:49 UTC
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© Reuters / Gary Cameron
New York University students heckled and disrupted an appearance by Henry Kissinger on Tuesday, accusing the former US Secretary of State of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Kissinger, now 95, was wheeled into NYU's Stern School of Business on Tuesday evening, where he appeared as part of the school's speaker series 'In Conversation with Mervyn King.'

Meanwhile, protesters - some of them members of the International Socialist Organization - gathered outside to denounce Kissinger's checkered history of bloody foreign policy positions, including his support for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s, under whom some 80,000 political opponents were jailed and at least 3,000 executed.

Inside, Kissinger was repeatedly interrupted by left-wing protesters, with the first shouting "Henry Kissinger, on behalf of the International Criminal Court, you are a war criminal, you have committed genocide against the people of the world!" before being escorted out by security.
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Pirates

Kleenex re-brands 'mansized' tissues after complete and utter idiots say the name is sexist & promotes gender inequality

Danica Kirka
ABC News
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:35 UTC
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© The Associated Press
Kleenex will re-brand its "Mansize" tissues after consumers complained the name was sexist - touching off a social media conversation about what's in a name.

The company behind Kleenex, Kimberly-Clark, said Thursday that the product, which is sold only in the U.K., will now be called "Kleenex Extra Large." Packages for the tissues describe them as "confidently strong" and "comfortingly soft."

Kimberly-Clark told Britain's Daily Telegraph that it in "no way suggests" that being both soft and strong was "an exclusively masculine trait, nor do we believe that the Mansize branding suggests or endorses gender inequality."
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Poll of US military shows troops fear new major war is on the horizon, list Russia & China as top threats


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:21 UTC
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© Reuters / Alaa Al-MarjaniAmerican soldiers are seen at the U.S. army base in Qayyara, south of Mosul October 25, 2016.
Almost half of military service members believe that the US will be dragged into a new war within the next 12 months, according to a Military Times poll, with Russia and China topping the list of likely nemeses.

Around 46 percent of troops who responded to the anonymous survey of currently serving Military Times readers said they thought the US would be fighting yet another war within the next year - an unsettling increase from the mere five percent who made similar predictions in a poll conducted last year.

When asked about specific threats, the survey's 900 participants singled out Russia and China. Around 71 percent said that Russia was a significant threat, up 18 percent from last year's survey. China finished close behind, with 68 percent of service members describing Beijing as their primary concern - an increase of 24 points from last year. Cyber terrorism came out on top, with 89 percent listing it as the greatest threat to US national security.
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Florida cops struggle to stop armed looters as hurricane Michael death toll reaches 33


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:33 UTC
Hurricane Michael aftermath Florida
© Reuters / Terray Sylvester
Leaving a trail of devastation and a rising death toll across the southern coast of US, hurricane Michael has created a fertile ground for armed looters who, despite police efforts, continue to ransack homes and businesses.

A week after the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record slammed the Gulf of Mexico coast, authorities are still unable to fully restore power to affected areas or to manage looters who have been pillaging destroyed buildings. The problem is the most severe along the Florida panhandle, particularly in the cities of Panama City and Mexico Beach which suffered the worst from Michael, a Category 4 storm.
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Still no accountability after UBC #MeToo scandal ruined professor's career and reputation with false sexual assault allegations

Jonathan Kay
Quillette
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:31 UTC
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Three years ago, the University of British Columbia suspended novelist Steven Galloway, who then chaired UBC's creative writing program, following explosive allegations that he had sexually assaulted a UBC student. In response, a group of Canadian writers signed on to a movement called UBC Accountable, which highlighted the lack of due process in the proceedings against Galloway. While some members of the Canadian literary community vilified #ubcaccountable as an insult to rape victims, the movement was vindicated when the full facts of Galloway's case became widely known.

Specifically, an internal investigation by a retired provincial supreme court judge concluded that Galloway hadn't sexually assaulted anyone. Her report, whose contents were detailed in an exhaustive Quillette investigative report, suggested that the principal complainants were either confused or malicious fantabulists. Earlier this year, the Vancouver-based university was required to pay Galloway $167,000 in the wake of statements by UBC officials that violated the former professor's privacy rights and, as Galloway argued, caused "irreparable reputational damage and financial loss." Yet despite all this, the university still hasn't fulfilled the main demand of UBC Accountable, which was to "establish an independent investigation into how this matter has been handled by the Creative Writing Program, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the senior administration at UBC."
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'Believe women'? Terrible college case reminds us of the importance of due process and evidence

David French
National Review
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:17 UTC
believe women
© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstWomen with “Believe” and other words written on their hands outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, October 6, 2018
Through much of the last month, the American people have been treated to a version of the emotional and ideological argument that's dominated the American academy for much of the last ten years. The argument goes something like this: Women rarely lie about rape. Thus, the failure of criminal or civil justice systems to achieve overwhelming rates of conviction or impose liability at the rates of predation means that fundamental reform is mandatory.

Consequently, we must make it easier for women to bring claims, protect them from the rigors of proving claims, and utilize decision-makers trained to understand and respond to the unique trauma of victims. Moreover, when considering sexual-assault claims outside of courts, understand that due process is less important when a man's liberty isn't at stake. After all, a campus court isn't a criminal trial. It's an evaluation of academic suitability.

The result of this argument has been wholesale national reform - part of it mandated by the Obama administration's Department of Education, and part of it willingly undertaken by colleges themselves - that has caused universities to lower burdens of proof, channel serious claims into summary proceedings, restrict the ability to cross-examine witnesses, and even limit access to evidence in an effort to streamline the process of punishing sex offenders.

It's been a disaster.
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Handcuffs

Ex-USA Gymnastics president arrested for 'tampering with Nassar evidence'


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:51 UTC
Steve Penny
© REUTERS/ Leah Millis
The former head of USA Gymnastics Steve Penny has been arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence related to the notorious Larry Nassar sexual abuse case.

Penny was detained on a warrant after a Texas grand jury alleged that he had removed documents related to Nassar's illegal actions from Karolyi Ranch - the training center of USA Gymnastics.

The indictment states that Penny ordered the papers - whose whereabouts are still unknown - to be replaced after learning that investigators intended to check the ranch, which was being operated by USA Gymnastics.

"The indictment further alleges that the removal of the documents was done for the purpose of impairing the ongoing investigation by destroying or hiding the documents," the US Marshals said in a press release.
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Think university professors are liberal? Try school administrators

Dr. Samuel J. Abrams
NY Times
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:16 UTC
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© Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated PressA student writes on a message board at Texas A&M in College Station, TX
I received a disconcerting email this year from a senior staff member in the Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement at Sarah Lawrence College, where I teach. The email was soliciting ideas from the Sarah Lawrence community for a conference, open to all of us, titled "Our Liberation Summit." The conference would touch on such progressive topics as liberation spaces on campus, Black Lives Matter and justice for women as well as for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and allied people.

As a conservative-leaning professor who has long promoted a diversity of viewpoints among my (very liberal) faculty colleagues and in my classes, I was taken aback by the college's sponsorship of such a politically lopsided event. The email also piqued my interest in what sorts of other nonacademic events were being organized by the school's administrative staff members.

I soon learned that the Office of Student Affairs, which oversees a wide array of issues including student diversity and residence life, was organizing many overtly progressive events - programs with names like "Stay Healthy, Stay Woke," "Microaggressions" and "Understanding White Privilege" - without offering any programming that offered a meaningful ideological alternative. These events were conducted outside the classroom, in the students' social and recreational spaces.
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