
Wesleyan University students destroyed the print edition of their student newspaper last month after it published an op-ed critical of Black Lives Matter. Now the student government is picking up where the protesters left off. Sunday, the student assembly voted for a resolution that would slash the funding used to publish the paper’s twice-weekly print edition.
by John Sexton19 Oct 2015, 8:10 PM PST0

With all the focus on campus “rape culture,” those accused of sexual assault (read: men) often find themselves facing a byzantine, parallel system of justice in which standards of evidence and proof are dubious and the process seems stacked against them from the outset. Increasingly, these cases are being taken to real courts where the accused men are winning back the rights which were not protected by their universities.
by John Sexton17 Oct 2015, 12:31 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton has backed away from one of her biggest applause lines of the Democratic debate, in which she declared Republicans–without differentiating between politicians and voters–her “enemy.”
by John Sexton16 Oct 2015, 4:19 PM PST0

Because Democrats are so rarely asked to qualify their support for abortion, they don’t have good answers to even the most obvious questions.
by John Sexton15 Oct 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

Politico’s Ken Vogel criticized former Senator Jim Webb as “creepy” for referencing a story of personal heroism for which Webb won the Navy Cross.
by John Sexton14 Oct 2015, 10:28 AM PST0

One of Carly Fiorina’s first important business meetings took place at a strip-club — and she came out the winner, with some help from the strippers. It was in 1980, and Fiorina had just joined AT&T as a saleswoman, she said Monday in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
by John Sexton13 Oct 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

The phenomenon of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders —an open and sincere socialist drawing huge crowds as he seeks the Democratic nomination—should push conservatives to criticize “crony capitalism,” GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “If
by John Sexton13 Oct 2015, 10:16 AM PST0

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, ripped Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” blog for accusing her of lying about her well-documented “Secretary to CEO” story.
by John Sexton12 Oct 2015, 11:16 PM PST0

Confession: The 2011 film Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, is one of my favorite films of the last 5 years. In fact, I became a little obsessed with it to the point that I bought the script to see how it differed from the finished film.
by John Sexton9 Oct 2015, 7:53 PM PST0

An email set by a subcontractor suggests that Hillary Clinton’s deputies repeatedly directed them to erase months-old backups of her State Department emails, just as federal officials began asking for the emails.
by John Sexton9 Oct 2015, 2:24 PM PST0

CBS has offered a harsh assessment of the film “Truth” which stars Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in a supposedly accurate account of the Dan Rather scandal. The film is based on the book by disgraced CBS News producer Mary Mapes.
by John Sexton8 Oct 2015, 5:20 PM PST0

Mob rule is nothing new in France, but this week even a socialist government used to tolerating thuggish union behavior is saying enough is enough.
by John Sexton7 Oct 2015, 6:50 PM PST0

Activist and Black Lives Matter leader Deray McKesson spoke at the Taft School Tuesday and offered students a version of the Tamir Rice shooting in which police waited an hour to render first aid, possibly leading to his death. In fact, an FBI agent on scene rendered first aid to Rice in under four minutes.
by John Sexton7 Oct 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Vox’s Matt Yglesias says progressives would be wise to embrace Hillary Clinton because she has a track record of caring more about results than process. In other words, she’ll bend or even break the rules to get a win for the progressive cause.
by John Sexton6 Oct 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

Over the weekend, the AP published a story attacking Carly Fiorina for “repeating an erroneous description of videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists.” As the correction to the revised story demonstrates, the AP also repeated an erroneous description of the same videos.
by John Sexton5 Oct 2015, 7:38 PM PST0

CNN’s Chris Cuomo had made some basic errors in an interview with David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress.
by John Sexton2 Oct 2015, 2:22 PM PST0

CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress on Wednesday, and the result was a train wreck of confusion that continues to confuse people just hearing about it a day later.
by John Sexton1 Oct 2015, 5:51 PM PST0

Last week I wrote a piece responding to an article I read at Salon which was titled “I’m a pedophile but not a monster.” The author of that piece, Todd Nickerson, has now written a follow up at Salon which spends several hundred words attacking what I wrote without ever linking back to my piece.
by John Sexton1 Oct 2015, 2:32 PM PST0

On Tuesday the Washington Post’s fact-checkers wrote a “response to readers” piece in which they doubled down on their “three Pinocchio” ruling on Carly Fiorina’s biography.
by John Sexton1 Oct 2015, 2:31 PM PST0

Breitbart News is providing the full video released by the Center for Bioethical Reform so viewers can verify for themselves that this is the source of the brief clip previously seen in the CMP documentary which led to its being described in the GOP debate. CBR released the clip early Tuesday morning with the title “Carly Fiorina was right.”
by John Sexton29 Sep 2015, 2:05 PM PST0

Fox News’s media reporter Howard Kurtz has weighed in on a fact-check published last week by the Washington Post and declared it a “misfire.”
by John Sexton28 Sep 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

On Friday, the Washington Post published a poorly-reasoned fact-check of Carly Fiorina’s claim to have gone from secretary to CEO. The Post awards this claim “Three Pinocchios” despite failing to identify a single false statement made by Fiorina.
by John Sexton25 Sep 2015, 9:16 PM PST0

A Georgia woman has been arrested for making threats against police and for declaring “open season” on white people in a video she uploaded to YouTube.
by John Sexton25 Sep 2015, 7:23 PM PST0

Clinton’s Aides Face Possible Criminal Charges From FBI Investigation
by John Sexton25 Sep 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

A group of students at Wesleyan University are demanding “safe space” for students of color and declaring they intend to “dispose of” copies of the school newspaper found on campus until their demands are met. The demands arose after the paper ran an opinion piece critical of the Black Lives Matter movement last week.
by John Sexton24 Sep 2015, 6:43 PM PST0