QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 8:50 A.M. ET:  A good contrast to the values we celebrate on Veterans Day.  Jonathan Chait, a firm liberal, expresses worry over what is happening on our college campuses.  I have begun to see some on the left finally wake up to the monster they've created.  From New York magazine: 

The upsurge of political correctness is not just greasy-kid stuff, and it’s not just a bunch of weird, unfortunate events that somehow keep happening over and over. It’s the expression of a political culture with consistent norms, and philosophical premises that happen to be incompatible with liberalism. The reason every Marxist government in the history of the world turned massively repressive is not because they all had the misfortune of being hijacked by murderous thugs. It’s that the ideology itself prioritizes class justice over individual rights and makes no allowance for legitimate disagreement. (For those inclined to defend p.c. on the grounds that racism and sexism are important, bear in mind that the forms of repression Marxist government set out to eradicate were hardly imaginary.)

COMMENT:  Right on.  There has always been a "good" liberal left, which, though sometimes misguided, respected the fundamentals of freedom.  And there is a bad left, which throws freedom to the wind in favor of some small, tentative gain, usually benefiting only the leaders of the movement.  It's the bad left we're seeing too often on our college campuses, although we also see a backlash from sane students and teachers.

Where is the president of the United States?  The cat has apparently got his tongue.

November 11, 2015