The Schloss-Blog has seen people lifting protestors off of highways, protestors who were blocking highways to express their dissatisfaction with Israel's prosecution of the war with Hamas in Gaza and the United States' support thereof.
But Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who advocates that drivers personally remove said protestors in what ever manner they have to (violently?), even said so in his online posts.
Incidentally, Cotton was critical of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for dispersing such protestors when they blocked a bridge in Quebec in protest of Trudeau's government's policies, in other words, for doing just what he is advocating that any and all American citizens do now.
Typical Republican hypocrisy from a typical Republican hypocrite.
Really, Tom!
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Still want to send your kids and grandkids to an Ivy League school?
At least the president of one of them knows how to testify for hours before Congress and still keep her job.
Minouche Shafik, Columbia's president, told a House committee that, no, her school does not tolerate antisemitism or hate speech and disciplines faculty and staff for such.
Did she mention the students who got arrested for protesting? They're still out there, btw.
Universities, once havens for free speech and protest, have becomes pivot points for what is free speech and what is hate speech that endangers.
I remember marching with the protest-the-Vietnam-War crowd on the federal building in my undergrad alma mater's city and shutting it down. Temporarily.
As punishment, we were dispersed, the semester was ended halfway through and we were given the option of taking our midterm grades as our final grades or negotiating something with our professors. I had all B's and B+'s at midterm time and guess which option I took?
As a retired college professor, I encourage student voices to rise. As a Jew, I encourage them not to hate.
Let's remember who the bad guys are here and who will be if innocent Gazans keep dying and there is failure to establish a two-state solution that the rest of the world appears to want but Palestinians and Israelis don't. They kind of don't trust each other.
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By the way, the presidents of Harvard and Penn lost their jobs over this. Claudine Gay of Harvard and Elizabeth Magill of Penn are no longer university presidents.
At least no one marched through campus at either school shooting at and killing people randomly. Other colleges have been shut down, like the University of Colorado earlier this year and at UNLV in December.
Believe me, I think about school shootings every time I cover a high school football game. Every. Time.
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Caitlin Clark is getting an 8-figure contract with Nike, reportedly. And she deserves it.
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When the Lakers needed a center, they got Wilt Chamberlain. When they again needed a center, they got Kareem. When they again needed a center, they got A.D.
When you're LA, you get what you want from the NBA.
Yet, when America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys, need attention, they call ESPN, which fawns over them, even though they haven't played in their conference championship game since - wait for it, 1995.
Between that and Aaron Rodgers running for VP, I am getting to the point of only watching ESPN for live sports programming.
Usually.
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Is it just me or does anyone else get their toes caught in the holes in their distressed jeans when they slip their legs into them?
It's not just me, is it? Is it?
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Caitlin Clark (and you too Connor).
More Sunday afternoon (4-6 p.m. Pacific) and night (9 p.m.- midnight) on my rock 'n' roll show on Radio Free Phoenix.
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