{"id":6260,"date":"2012-05-09T23:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2012-05-09T23:36:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:36:46","slug":"gazette-2012-05-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/gazette-2012-05-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazette 2012-05-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some links for today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding moral clarification of what is at stake, and what has already been lost in America&#8217;s betrayal of Guangcheng.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever fate awaits pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, we know two things for sure: The Chinese tyrants will continue to force women to kill their wanted children.<\/p>\n<p>And President Barack Obama, who has ramped up the campaign fiction that Republicans have declared a &#8220;war on women,&#8221; will continue the detente with the real war on women, in Communist China, where real blood is being shed in a fanatical crusade against mothers and their children.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/ct-oped-0508-byrne-20120508,0,491999.column?track=rss\">Chen&#8217;s abortion message &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not a supporter of drug legalization, but this is the single-best argued position I have heard in favor of it. \u00a0That is because he is not talking about drugs <em>per se<\/em>, but about a whole raft of social ills including a great big taboo. \u00a0Take twenty minutes and truly enjoy a fresh take:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"426\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/multimedia\/embed\/1183\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the &#8220;Chronicle of Higher Education&#8221; cashiered a well-respected writer for daring to call out the nonsensical race-baiting campus grievance industry of &#8220;black studies&#8221; for what it is. \u00a0Cowards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At first, the Chronicle stood its ground, suggesting that my post was an &#8220;invitation to debate.&#8221; But that stance lasted for little more than a weekend. In a note that reads like a confession at a re-education camp, the Chronicle&#8217;s editor, Liz McMillen announced her decision on Monday to fire me: &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard you,&#8221; she tells my critics. &#8220;And we have taken to heart what you said. We now agree that Ms. Riley&#8217;s blog posting did not meet The Chronicle&#8217;s basic editorial standards for reporting and fairness in opinion articles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Ms. McMillen whether the poem by fellow blogger Ms. Barreca, for instance, lived up to such standards, she said they were &#8220;reviewing&#8221; the other content on the site. So far, however, that blogger has not been fired. Other ad hominem attacks against me seem to have passed editorial muster as well.<\/p>\n<p>via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304363104577391842133259230.html?mod=rss_opinion_main\">Naomi Schaefer Riley: The Academic Mob Rules &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6260\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6260\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some links for today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding moral clarification of what is at stake, and what has already been lost in America&#8217;s betrayal of Guangcheng.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever fate awaits pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, we know two things for sure: The Chinese tyrants will continue to force women to kill their wanted children.<\/p>\n<p>And President Barack Obama, who has ramped up the campaign fiction that Republicans have declared a &#8220;war on women,&#8221; will continue the detente with the real war on women, in Communist China, where real blood is being shed in a fanatical crusade against mothers and their children.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/ct-oped-0508-byrne-20120508,0,491999.column?track=rss\">Chen&#8217;s abortion message &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a supporter of drug legalization, but this is the single-best argued position I have heard in favor of it. \u00a0That is because &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/gazette-2012-05-09\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}