Kangaroo Courts on Campus?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 13th, 2014 5:49 pm by HL
Kangaroo Courts on Campus?
Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to “do something” about rape on campus. But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions. Why are rapists not reported to the police and prosecuted in a court of law? Apparently this is because of some college women who say that they were raped and are dissatisfied with a legal system that does not automatically take their word for it against the word of someone who has been accused and denies the charge. There seem to be…
Hung Up on Benghazi
Richard Cohen, RealClearPolitics
Tuning the car radio some weeks back, I heard the president denounced as a moron. I was shocked. I had reached some right-wing talker and he was carrying on about something Barack Obama had recently said — that he worries more about a nuclear attack on New York than he does about Russia. The radio guy declared that the president had given terrorists an idea. He apparently forgot that the notion of attacking New York had already occurred to them. I live in a media bubble, I suppose, and this might account for my otherwise inexplicable innocence. But this is the way the president’s opponents…
‘Climate’ a Huge Threat – to Democrats in Washington
Salena Zito, RealClearPolitics
Delvis Dutton shuts the door of his white-and-blue utility truck and walks up to the camera. “The other guys are running for Congress,” he says. “Well, me, I am running against Congress. If you want more of the same, I am not your guy. But if you want to send a message, I am your man.” Smiling, dressed in a blue short-sleeved shirt, one arm leaning on his truck, he ends his ad: “I am Delvis Dutton and I am running against Congress.” Rarely have 15 seconds so captured the sentiment of most of America beyond Washington. It doesn’t matter what team jacket you…
