Progressive Privilege in Vogue, Stifled free speech, New suffragist profile, Why vaping flavor bans are a bad idea, Helping workers with time off....

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"By encouraging students to report their peers and professors for so-called offensive speech, the University of Illinois has set up a surveillance state reminiscent of the East German Stasi."

- Jennifer Braceras, Independent Women's Law Center ([link removed])


** PROGRESSIVE
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** Vogue Bashes the President ([link removed])
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** The Story
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It’s now quite in vogue to bash the President and marginalize the administration's accomplishments. Vogue--the women’s fashion magazine turned political--will only paint a picture of the current administration as an ever-growing political elite, that only bigots, racists, sexists, and worse could possibly support.



** In Short

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Vogue completely ignores that this administration continues to make headway in several key areas, including health care, criminal justice, jobs, taxes, and the economy. In particular, the administration has worked to implement historic criminal justice and tax reforms, roll back the Affordable Care Act, and make great progress for real price transparency that will chip away at the inflated healthcare prices that strain Americans' budgets.

While Vogue continues to shout insults ([link removed]) at the President concerning women and minorities, the Left ignores the fact that throughout his presidency, both women and minorities have had record job growth. These are just some of the huge wins for Americans that Vogue refuses to recognize.


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** It’s time the federal government made funding of public higher education contingent upon honoring the First Amendment. ([link removed])
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** 100 YEARS OF THE WOMEN'S VOTE
JULIA WARD HOWE ([link removed])
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** Meet Julia Ward Howe: A Suffragist Who Fought for the Women’s Vote ([link removed])
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Julia Ward Howe will forever be remembered as the author of the immortal, thumping anthem ([link removed]) that is still sung at the funerals of the great and good. Howe founded the New England Woman Suffrage Association, whose sole purpose was obtaining the vote for women. It remained in existence until the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920.


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** Latest Vaping Flavor Bans Will Make It Harder for Smokers to Quit Traditional Cigarettes ([link removed])
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Vaping has helped millions quit traditional, combustible cigarettes, which are 95% more harmful than e-cigarettes. Former smokers prefer fruit and dessert flavored vape liquids, and many former smokers are eventually able to switch to nicotine-free vape liquid. This allows them to continue the physical habits of smoking, without inhaling nicotine. By robbing these people of the flavors they enjoy ([link removed]) , former smokers may switch back to smoking, since e-liquids will now only come in the flavors of traditional cigarettes.


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Banning E-cigs Will Lead to More Smoking and Grow the Black Market ([link removed])


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HELPING WORKERS PREPARE FOR LEAVE TIME ([link removed])
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* Increasingly, companies are offering workers paid leave and other benefits voluntarily.
* Policymakers should take care not to disrupt this positive trend, but should embrace reforms to make it easier for workers to prepare for absences from work.
* 17%--and 48% of those with incomes under $30,000--reported going on public assistance to finance their parental leave.
* New parents should have better options.
* The ability to accrue additional paid leave benefits would be beneficial for all workers, but particularly women who often face family caretaking responsibilities.
* Neither the Working Families Flexibility Act nor the Freedom for Families Act would entirely solve the paid-leave problem.
* But, they would help many people and be important steps in the right direction of giving workers more flexibility and better options.


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** University of Illinois Uses Orwellian “Bias Response Team” to Suppress Freedom of Speech ([link removed])
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Students at the University of Illinois who write articles in support of the school's retired mascot, ([link removed]) post comments or memes about the mascot online, or dress up in Chief Illiniwek costumes are subject to investigation by the University’s Bias Assessment and Response Team (“BART”). This practice of investigating students whose opinions others find offensive is, unfortunately, not limited to the University of Illinois.

According to the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), at least 232 American colleges and universities maintained Orwellian bias response programs during the course of 2016. Because bias response teams have a chilling effect on free expression on campus, Independent Women’s Law Center is pleased to join with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni to support Speech First’s lawsuit against the University of Illinois.
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** How to Call Rural Voters a Basket of Deplorables, in an NPR Voice ([link removed])
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Reverend angel Kyodo williams argues that coal miners, farmers, and such remain stuck “in survival mode,” which creates a problem because “our” values are “evolving at rates that are faster than can be taken in and integrated” by them. The irony of Rev. williams' argument is that it demonstrates little of the enlightened values that she and other “evolved” individuals are supposed to possess. It is the antithesis of tolerance and equality to assume that the individuals in “our” community occupy some higher plane of existence than coal miners or farmers.
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** Reagan’s Berlin Wall Strategy Was Simple and Could Work Today: "We Win, They Lose" ([link removed])
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Thirty years ago last week, the fall of the Berlin Wall transfixed the world, heralding not only the liberation of communist East Germany, but also the crumbling of the entire Soviet empire, which collapsed two years later on Christmas Day, 1991. When the wall finally fell, it came down like a house of cards. But what paved the way for its disintegration was a strategy conceived years earlier by President Ronald Reagan, who made it his driving mission not to appease and accommodate the USSR, but to defeat it. Reagan warned that because his strategy was simple, some would call it simplistic. Then he said: “It is this: We win and they lose.”
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