Deal With It People

In recent months there have been a number of stories about college students that leads me to believe today's students need to grow up and toughen up.  Students are demanding so many protections against speech and activities of others that they should not need.  In fact, being exposed to such speech and activity will better prepare students for life, during and after college.

Examples include:
Being offended by a movie at Michigan
Needing to cope with tough times at Columbia
Safe zones at schools to protect feelings
Fraternity hazing which can hardly be called hazing

I really think our students today are being overly protected, and demanding of more protection.  When law students need to be excused from exams to deal with emotional distress over a legal matter involving crime, what does that say about their future prospects as lawyers?

If students in their late teens and early twenties cannot deal with hearing or seeing possibly offensive subjects, then how will they ever deal with jobs, families and society after college?

Isn't college intended to be a place where a variety of viewpoints, subjects and activities are to be learning exercises that will prepare you for life? 

Our nation, our world, will be in deep trouble if people are taught and trained to avoid unpleasantness by retreating into a cocoon or burying their heads in the sand.  People truly to embrace the reality that no one has a right to never be offended or troubled.  Deal with it people.

Want to Stop Poverty, Create Wealth?

Then read this column by Walter Williams, Ph.D.

When will we begin to realize that intentions mean nothing without results?  This builds on my eralir post:  Social Science and Social Policy

Clintons Don't Deserve the Respect They Get

Clinton Memory Lane: George Will

If you read this column by George Will, you should recall all of the scandals involving President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.  The latter being a former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, and now the eventual Democrat nominee for President.

If the Clintons were Republican, this would never be allowed to stand.  The media would be playing hardball with them in that case.  Even today liberal minded journalists predict great things for Hillary and say those things will happen because these scandals are just more among many that won't stick.

Voters need to ask themselves if voting for the first woman President is really more important than voting for the best candidate for the job.

Prisoner Gender Swap

Convicted Murderer to Get State Funded Surgery

Question #1:  If this person was not a convicted murderer serving 17 to life in prison, who would be paying for this surgery?

Question #2:  Did this judge consider the feelings of the murder victim's family before deciding they should help pay for this surgery?