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Finally, a state legislature decides enough of this out of control political correctness / cultural Marxism that is spiraling out of control thanks to the 60 radicals that decided to use universities as their own cultural “Easy Bake Oven” (emphasis mine):

TENNESSEE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1, UT OFFICE OF DIVERSITY 0. Here’s an email that went out to the University of Tennessee community from Chancellor Jimmy Cheek today:

It saddens me to share with you that a new state law requires us to defund the Office of Diversity and Inclusion from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. This means that no funds can go to operate the office. Vice Chancellor Rickey Hall has announced that he is becoming the vice president for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at the University of Washington and chief diversity officer for the UW system. One of the employees in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion has been offered another position with the university, and the university continues to assist the other employee whose position is being eliminated. As the law requires, the university will reallocate the Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s budget to minority engineering scholarships.

But it seems that Academia doesn’t like its leash shortened and is willfully trying to do a “go around” – the leadership is acting just like its students when they hear “NO!”  After all, academia BELIEVES in its entitlements by being “the smarted people in the room” (the high brow translation:

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Yeah, I guess that environmental prediction biz is “sustainable” – turn around and there’s yet another growing up.  Good thing too – they seem to be dying as well.  Like this one (emphasis mine):

Great Lakes Go from ‘Climate Change-Induced’ Low Water Levels to Record Highs in 3 Years

Between 2010 and 2013 residents of the states surrounding the Great Lakes were told that climate change was permanently altering their environment and the record low water levels being recorded in the lakes may be the new normal. But now, only three years later, news reports are worried about beach erosion because the lakes have rebounded to record high levels of water.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Given what I wrote here, I thought this was interesting as the First Amendment only talks about speech – with no modifier (e.g., hate, scornful, loving, political) in front of it; any kind of speech is speech:

Libertarian presidential candidate Darryl Perry has refused to file campaign paperwork with the Federal Election Commission because he believes there is no constitutional reason for the agency to exist.  “There shouldn’t be a federal agency that oversees campaign finance,” Perry told TheBlaze in an interview Tuesday.

Remember, it isn’t about the money, it is about the ability to exercise your Right to Free Speech in the political realm.  Which generally means

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So Grant Bosse, Editorial Editor for the Union Leader, first pens an editorial that a perfectly good purpose of Government is to restrict the common man’s ability to exercise his Right to Free Speech in the political realm.  Here, he slaps the hand of Government when someone demands information from Government (reformatted, emphasis mine) but it was a commenter that draws my ire:

Open government in the iPhone era
EDITORIAL

Union Leader columnist Mark Hayward is a good reporter. He’s also frugal.  Rather than pay a $20 fee for photocopies of two accident reports, Hayward snapped a picture of the documents with his cell phone. Manchester police charged him $20 anyway. It’s the second time in six months Hayward has been improperly charged for photographing public records.

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Declaration of Independence:  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

The NH Constitution says it much better: [Art.] 2. [Natural Rights.] All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights – among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin.

Economic Fascism (or Corporatism / Industrial Policy): while private ownership is permitted, Govt laws and regulations effectively “owns” and controls businesses.

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D/Socialist/Fascist-NH) shows that Fascist side of her (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Shaheen hits Trump on minimum wage views

New Hampshire’s senior senator led one of Hillary Clinton’s opening attacks on Donald Trump, based on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s recent comments about scrapping the federal minimum wage. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, said abolishing the federal minimum wage would pull the rug out from under an estimated 47,000 Granite Staters who rely on the base hourly wage.

Really?

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[Art.] 22. [Free Speech; Liberty of the Press.] Free speech and liberty of the press are essential to the security of freedom in a state: They ought, therefore, to be inviolably preserved. (NH Constitution)

…for crafting this Editorial (reformatted, emphasis mine).

Year-round sunlight: Sanborn bill is a great start

The New Hampshire House can take a small but important step today toward improving the state’s campaign finance laws. Under current law, political committees raise and spend campaign cash in complete darkness for more than a year and a half out of every two-year election cycle. From November of one election year until June two years later, they don’t have to file a single public report on their activities. Sen. Andy Sanborn has mustered a bipartisan coalition to bring some light into the darkness, and the House Election Law Committee is unanimously recommending passage of his bill.

Complete editorial after the jump but I did leave a comment:

Right – government putting MORE restriction on “abridging the freedom of speech”. Political speech is just speech and political speech was specifically thought of when the First Amendment was written. As much as a Libertarian as he might be, Andy should know better than to put on a heavier govt harness on us all for simply speaking our minds and making our opinions known in the political sphere. Each time they do this, the message sent is “shut plebes” because they make it harder and more onerous to “freely speak”. This is nothing more than the “Protect The Incumbents from People Speaking Against Them” Act.

Look around at both the State and Federal levels and the strictures

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“you have to have strong women in order to deal with masculine men“

Camilla Paglia has the right of it.  Sure, Ezra describes the lay of the University land, but what is the root cause? A root cause?

Obviously, we’re in a time now where parenting is in crisis, I would think. The reason we have all these whiny, super-sensitive girls on campus that’ll run shrieking at the slightest thing that offends their ears or drag mattresses onto the stage at commencement exercises, the reason we have that is because the parents have not prepared them for real life. In other words, they’ve been raised in this bourgeois, pampered cocoon, so I think there’s been a tremendous failure of parenting…

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