Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about a 100 anarchists and antifa — “anti-fascist” — barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.
Jumping over plastic and concrete barriers, the group melted into a larger crowd of around 2,000 that had marched peacefully throughout the sunny afternoon for a “Rally Against Hate” gathering. | More…
| WashPo
American and African American Studies Assistant Professor Michael Cohen took to Twitter on August 23 to demonstrate his outrage with the decision (By Berkeley) and chastise the administration for failing to ban the speakers from campus.
“Our campus has responded to the rise of Neo-nazism by welcoming them to terrorize, harass and threaten our students,” he wrote, adding, “All so our naive & useless administration can double down the baby boomer free speech branding bullshit. @UCBerkeley should be ashamed.” | More…
Yup – not a single female in that group shot. Not one. Not a small baby, nor a toddler, child, teen-ager, or young or senior adult? Yeah, me neither. Yet do you ever see or hear of these same liberals that whipped themselves into an absolute eye-bugging, mouth frothing, limb twitching frenzy ever cast their ire at a religion (“The Religion of Peace”) that actively discriminates during their religious practices? | More…
Barack Obama pardoned 1,927 individuals convicted of crimes including traitor Chelsea Manning and terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Many of those criminals returned to a life of crime. But their stories did not draw much media attention. | More…
Forty years ago today, I was being subjected to the saline infusion abortion that I would endure until August 29th. I will rejoice next Tuesday, the day that I was born alive, about all that God has done in my life, but on these days that lead up to it, I am allowing myself the opportunity to grieve. | More…
There are no cardboard boxes or bubble wrap or heavy duty packing tape in Tim Stokes’ 1,600-square-foot Sacramento, Calif., home. But, according to the 36-year-old, he and his pregnant wife, their three kids and their two 100-pound mastiffs are on the verge of selling the house they bought just over a year ago.
Though Stokes was born in Nevada, he has spent all but the first six months of his life in California. For most of that time, any move away from his hometown and family would have been unthinkable for him. But in the past six years, Stokes, who is a Republican, said the political climate and the seemingly unstoppable swing further to the left in California have become unbearable. | More…
| NHPR
Personalized learning often receives high praise for tailoring to the individual needs of each learner. However, researchers at the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) have found that personalization is often a threat to students’ privacy and a clever way for third-party products and services to collect personal student data for corporate gain.
The NEPC last week released its 19th annual report on school commercialism trends, in which researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder assert that personalized learning is turning student data into a marketable product and extending the reach of commercializing activities into students’ everyday lives at schools. | More…
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