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Free expression at NC State, RIP

As an alumnus of NC State, I was upset but not surprised when some idiots1 wrote hateful, racially offensive graffiti concerning Barack Obama in the Free Expression Tunnel — upset because of the content, not surprised because of the location (the Free ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  19 Nov 2008

Disappointed NC State thought police are told: Free Expression means free expression

The four students would have had to commit another type of crime while painting the offending words for the university to pursue hate crime charges, Barnwell said. If the graffiti had been painted on just about any other structure on campus, for ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  7 Nov 2008

Attention NC State: The phrase “Free Expression” has a very clear meaning

But not at NC State, not even at its famous “Free Expression Tunnel,” where certain expression isn’t free after all. I excerpt from the News & Observer story on the matter and highlight relevant portions: Students and staff members at N.C. State ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  6 Nov 2008

Another kid who understands charity and property rights in the Obama era of gimme

The best bargain at the Salvation Army thrift store in Kailua-Kona was a Richard Simmons videotape. But Mikela Mercier, 11, decided to pass up the chance to buy the tape for a few coins after she found a surprise inside: $1,000 in $100 bills. … Her ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  30 Oct 2008

Triangle profs invent some more “racist code words” to condemn others for saying

Communication professors from around the country have signed a statement calling on the campaign of Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin to stop “incendiary mendacity” and “false and inflammatory” statements about Democrat Barack Obama. … the ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  27 Oct 2008

Things are bad when vote fraud begins sounding like two Monty Python skits at once

From Chicago, proud home of pristine politics and perennial World Series winners: …election officials in Chicago’s northern suburbs want to know why voter registration material was sent to the dead goldfish. “I am just stunned at the level of people ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  21 Oct 2008

An example of how racially charged things are getting

So are things really becoming “post-racial” out there? No, not so long as leftists continue to fabricate items of supposed racial insensitivity to empower themselves through others’ guilt or fear of being called a racist. If they wouldn’t stop it among ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  20 Oct 2008

And hey, a well by any other name would be just as sweet to tax …

Per WRAL, for the “fool and his money” files: … Masik Collegiate Fragrances is marketing the $60 bottles of perfume and men’s cologne online and through a couple of Chapel Hill stores. … The UNC perfume mixes scents like champagne, green apple, jasmine, ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  15 Oct 2008

The Procrustean bed of white racism

A Procrustean bed is an unfalsifiable hypothesis; every new datum can be interpreted as proof, even if it is counter to the last “proof.” It is the hallmark of a pseudoscience. The most prevalent example of a Procrustean bed at the moment is man-made ...

From JON SANDERS, Right Angles,  7 Oct 2008

Jon Sanders: How Wooden Arrows Will Save America

America is on the precipice of Great Depression II: Free Markets Bugaboo. We are in fact teetering on the brink, and if you don't know what teetering is, suffice it to say that anything that sounds like a titmouse in its death throes cannot be good. ...

From JON SANDERS, Town Hall,  2 Oct 2008

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