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ZipDialog’s News Beyond the Front Page . . Thursday, September 8
Always being updated– Holy Cow! Over 5,000 Wells Fargo employees fired for creating over 2 million ghost accounts to up-charge customers. Looks like Mr. Potter was running the bank; George Bailey...
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BRAVO: A Professor at Berkeley and a Cartoonist Who Defend Embattled Free Speech
Yesterday, I posted a joyous tweet from “Occupy Oakland,” celebrating the violence and chaos they helped cause in Berkeley. The spark was a scheduled talk by a right-wing speaker (himself a...
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Good News: Rising Momentum FOR Free Speech at Universities
The pushback in favor of free discourse is gaining steam ◆ This week had lots of news about free speech, including the bad news about rioting at Cal-Berkeley that prevented a speech. It wasn’t hard to...
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ZipDialog’s Roundup of News Beyond the Front Page . . Tuesday, February 7
Hand-picked and farm-fresh– ⇒Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Conrad Black op-ed: “Struggle for America’s Heart Is Erupting on a Scale Unseen Since the Civil War“ (New York Sun) This battle will...
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Violent Berkeley Protests “Stunningly Successful,” Says Organizer, who is a...
We’ll do it again if he tries to speak on campus, he says The story is here in the San Francisco Chronicle. “We are happy with the results,” said UC Berkeley Law School alumnus Ronald Cruz of the group...
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A WONDERFUL video on the value of free speech at universities
The University of Chicago doesn’t hide its defense of free speech and open discourse in the footnotes. It puts free speech front and center, in a video directed at all students thinking of applying to...
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Berkeley: A Feckless Administration Caves, in advance, to the Heckler’s Veto
Why not free speech at colleges? The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has the story here. Since [the riots protesting a planned but cancelled speech by Milo Yiannopoulo], the...
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The Onion provides the best post of the day
Kudos to my brother, Bob Lipson, for this great post.
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How toxic is campus political culture at Cal-Berkeley?
◆ To grasp the depths of its depravity, look at this example: First, in their never-ending celebration of identity politics, they don’t just give an award for public service. They give one for public...
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ZipDialog Roundup for Thursday, August 3
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Trump proposes new immigration bill; uses point-based system to favor those with high skills; will cut total legal...
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Who is Ben Shapiro and why is Berkeley treating his upcoming speech like a...
On Thursday, Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, which has tried very hard for months to prevent him from speaking. Some Background on Ben Shapiro Shapiro is a...
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Berkeley defends free speech
Yes, it cost a fortune–estimates run as high as $600,000. That number tells you just how determined and threatening the Social Justice Warriors, anarchists, and miscellaneous rabble are in trying to...
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