Thursday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

We’re on the downhill side of the week Deplorables.

Impeachment Is the Greatest Campaign Strategy for Trump

Via American Greatness

Democrats have done much to ensure President Trump’s reelection—but much work remains. Any number of impeachment theories have been floated—emoluments, Russia collusion, obstruction of justice, attempted obstruction, abuse of power, campaign finance, contempt of Congress, bigotry.

Strictly speaking, Democrats don’t care what the specific charges are—Trump is obviously guilty of everything.

Their logic is simple: once the process gets rolling, it will be unstoppable. Enough dirt on Trump will surface to change enough independent and Republican minds to reach a bipartisan semi-consensus not just for impeachment, but for a conviction in the Senate. Even if the Senate fails to convict, Trump would be so damaged that voters will turn away in disgust.

Bizarrely, the biggest obstacle to impeachment is . . . Nancy Pelosi. In a farcical reversal of roles, the speaker of the House of Representatives is ignoring the screeching from her berserker flock, even as the circle of “impeachment skeptics” around her shrinks. Pelosi, being a good tactician, understands that the outcome might be calamitous for the Democrats, and bucks the pressure like an old horse being led to slaughter.

Read the entire article HERE.

Campus Insanity Is Migrating To Society. Stop It Before It’s Too Late

Via The Federalist

Conservatives once laughed at radical campus politics, imagining that upon impact with the “real world,” blue-haired social justice warrior activists would have to grow up and confront the hard realities of the capitalist marketplace. Instead, what’s becoming increasingly clear is that academic leftism is metastasizing off-campus, spreading into some of the world’s largest corporations as well as institutions of culture, with graduated millennial employees as its carriers.

While the right wrestles with how to deal with big technology companies’ hostility to conservative voices on their platforms, the source of that enmity goes mostly unremarked upon: Google’s highly credentialed workforce has roughly the personal politics of a faculty lounge. Regrettably, universities don’t live up to the Las Vegas adage–what begins on campus definitely does not stay there. It spills over into every aspect of our broader culture, from complaints about actors not precisely matching the intersectionality profile of the characters they portray, to the leftward tilt of America’s corporations.

That’s all the more reason for Republicans on campus to take the ideology that threatens free speech in universities seriously and advance legislation to protect one of America’s most cherished freedoms. Without strong, smart pushback at the academic source, the country will soon be dealing with even more censorious consequences of an ideology that does not recognize its opponents’ rights to speak.

Read the entire article HERE.

Oberlin College to Jury: We’re cash poor and big punitive award to Gibson’s Bakery will hurt students

Via Legal Insurrection

The witness testimony completed today in the punitive damages hearing, which follows the $11.2 million compensatory verdict last Friday in the lawsuit Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College. The jury could award up to double damages, meaning $22.4 million on top of the $11.2 million, bringing the potential total to $33.6 million, plus a recommendation that the judge award attorney’s fees.

I will have a complete update later, but here is the essence of Oberlin College’s defense today:

Gibson’s lawyers spent considerable time going over Oberlin College’s IRS Form 990, showing over $1 billion in assets and numerous employees earning over $100,000, They also got the Vice President and General Counsel of the college to admit to some of the content of the blast email she sent out soon after the compensatory verdict, including that she felt the jury disregarded the “clear evidence,” though they were not permitted to show the jury the letter itself under a prior court ruling.

The defense then argued that notwithstanding the Form 990, the college had cash flow and liquidity issues that would make a large punitive award difficult for the college. The defense compared the relatively poor financial condition of Oberlin College to other colleges and universities in Ohio. The defense argued that students would be harmed by a large verdict because the college might have to cut back on grants given to students.

Read the entire article HERE.

LGBTQ Bigotry: Tyranny Masquerading as Tolerance

Via PJ Media

To anyone focused on real-world events and relationships, America is obviously the most tolerant and inclusive society that has ever existed. If you are looking for irrefutable evidence, watch an hour of TV commercials created by major U.S. companies. Racially integrated couples, gay couples and families, multi-racial professionals and creators are featured on virtually every one.

This would hardly be the case if anti-Black and anti-gay sentiments were perceived by corporate advertisers to pose a significant threat to their sales. The same is true of television programming generally, where series featuring little people, obese people, and every mix of gay couples, non-white and non-straight TV hosts and commentators, are ubiquitous all day long. Yet the political left and the Democratic Party still refuse to take yes for an answer and prefer instead to focus on fringe and marginalized bigots who come in all colors, genders and sexual orientations, and will be with us to the end of time.

Read the entire article HERE.

Maryland Government Building Replaces POW/MIA Flag With LGBT Flag

Via The Daily Caller

The Montgomery County Council faced backlash after a flag honoring America’s missing soldiers was replaced with a rainbow gay pride flag to celebrate LGBT Pride Month.

Led by the county’s first ever LGBT council member Evan Glass, the POW/MIA flag was removed from its flagstaff outside the Maryland county’s executive office building Monday morning, reported NBC Washington. The move drew immediate criticism.

“When I was in Vietnam, I was there six days before two guys were missing in action, and they still haven’t found their bodies,” John “Bill” Williams, a Vietnam veteran, said to the television station.

Read the entire article HERE.

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