Hotel Guests Secretly Filmed For 'Hidden Camera' Voyeur Website
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Zero Hedge
Over 1,600 guests in 42 hotel rooms across 10 cities in South Korea were secretly filmed and livestreamed by a voyeur website with ove 4,000 members - 97 of whom paid $44.95 per month to access extra features, such as being able to replay streams, according to Stuff. 30 hotels were affected, however police say there is no indication the businesses were involved.

Dems demand corporate wage data to ensure equal pay for women
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: The Washington Post
House Democrats next week will pass legislation that would force companies to report wage data to the government, so officials can see whether men and women are being paid equally for the same work. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told lawmakers he’ll call up a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a measure Democrats have been trying to pass for more than 20 years. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who first introduced it in 1997.

In 24 States, 50% or More of Babies Born on Medicaid
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNS News
In 24 of the nation’s 50 states at least half of the babies born during the latest year on record had their births paid for by Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. New Mexico led all states with 72 percent of the babies born there in 2015 having their births covered by Medicaid. Arkansas ranked second with 67 percent; Louisiana ranked third with 65 percent; and three states—Mississippi, Nevada and Wisconsin—tied for fourth place with 64 percent of babies born there covered by Medicaid.

Sex, Empathy, Jealousy
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: NPR
When Frans de Waal started studying nonhuman primates, in the Netherlands more than 40 years ago, he was told not to consider the emotions of the animals he was observing. "Thoughts and feelings — the mental processes basically — were off limits," he says. "We were told not to talk about them, because they were considered by many scientists as 'inner states' and you only were allowed to talk about 'outer states.' " But over the course of his career, de Waal became convinced that primates and other animals express emotions similar to human emotions. He's now the director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, where his office window looks out on a colony of chimps.

UK, Social services threaten to take autistic boy into care
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
[Ed: after his parents refuse to let doctors give him powerful sex-change drugs] Teenage boy told his school parents objected to sex change treatment. Teachers warned them he could be taken into foster care over 'emotional abuse'. Parents agreed for him to attend Leeds Tavistock Clinic but frustrated by the ‘vague’ approach that 'didn't tackle boy's autism'. Three children taken into care last year because parents object to treatment

Harvard Sued For Allegedly Profiting Off Photos Of Slaves
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Daily Wire
Harvard University is facing another racially charged lawsuit. Amid the ongoing repercussions of a suit alleging that Harvard discriminated against Asian-American students in its admission process, the esteemed university has been hit with another race-related suit, this one stretching back over a century. A woman who says she's the ancestor of two slaves who were photographed for racist purposes by a Harvard University professor in 1850 has sued the university for "wrongful seizure, possession and monetization of the images," USA Today reported Wednesday.

Cambridge Cancels Jordan Peterson’s Visiting Fellowship
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
[Ed: Because He Is Not 'Inclusive'] Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto psychologist known for criticizing political correctness, announced Monday that he would be a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge's divinity school. But on Wednesday, Cambridge's administration announced that they had rescinded the invitation following a public outcry from students and professors. "[Cambridge] is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles," a Cambridge spokesperson told The Guardian. "There is no place here for anyone who cannot." Peterson holds some views that are considered offensive by progressives—he has objected, for instance, to the idea that anyone should be required to use a trans person's preferred pronouns. The implication of Cambridge's statement, then, is that anyone who disagrees with the university's left-of-center commitments on these issues is unwelcome on campus.

Birmingham primary school suspends LGBT lessons indefinitely
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Four more schools in Birmingham, U.K., have suspended an LGBT indoctrination program following a backlash by mostly Muslim parents. The move comes shortly after nearby Parkfield Community School was forced to do the same amid mass protests by parents who withheld their children and signed a petition demanding an end to the "No Outsiders" program, which claims to teach primary students about 'equality' and tolerance.

Student Debt Is Crushing Net Worth Of Couples In Their 20s
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Young people in their 20s are starting their careers with a negative net worth as a direct result of student loans. With student loan debt burdening a growing number of Americans, a new profile in the Seattle Times recently highlighted one couple's struggle with having a negative net worth to start their careers, despite both having degrees from prestigious universities and reliable work. Today, about 15% of households nationwide have a net worth of zero or less according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data. Take, for example, Jenni and Sean Gritters. They recently moved to the Seattle area, where Jenni grew up, after earning both bachelor's degrees and master's degrees in Boston. Combined, her and her husband owe about $125,000 on student loans, which has plunged their net worth to negative $93,500. The most expensive loan they had was Sean’s $56,000 loan at 6.49% that he used to get a second bachelor's degree in nursing.

Chicago Cops Demand DOJ Probe Into Smollett Case Meddling
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
The president of the Chicago police union has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx interfered in the police investigation of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett after Michelle Obama's former Chief of Staff, Tina Tchen, called in a favor, according to WLS-TV.

Andrew Yang, Upstart Democratic Presidential Candidate...
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: The Daily Beast
[Ed: , Comes Out Against Circumcision.] Outsider presidential hopeful Andrew Yang’s latest idea is both literally and figuratively his most unorthodox yet: He’s taking a strong public stance against circumcision. The Democratic candidate revealed in a little-noticed tweet last week that he was against the ritualized practice of cutting a newborn’s foreskin. But in an interview with The Daily Beast, he said that if he were elected he would incorporate that view into public policy, mainly by pushing initiatives meant to inform parents that they don’t need to have their infants circumcised for health reasons.

Massachusetts Sends Men to Prison for Addiction Treatment, But Not Women.
Topic: Gender Discrimination
Source: Reason
[Ed: A Lawsuit Says That’s Discriminatory] Massachusetts is the only state in the U.S. that sends people to prison for addiction treatment, and it only does so for men—an unconstitutional and discriminatory policy, a class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court earlier this month claims. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 10 anonymous plaintiffs by Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts, says men who are civilly committed by courts to drug addiction treatment are instead shipped to state prison facilities, where they endure degrading treatment that often leaves them worse off than when they arrived.

New Study: Trigger Warnings Are Effectively Useless
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
Trigger warnings—notes of caution that inform students they are about to consume potentially traumatic course material—have "trivial effects" on mental health, according to a new study that casts significant doubt on whether the controversial classroom tool should be used. The study, which recently appeared in Clinical Psychological Science, pushes back against the findings of Harvard University researchers, who suggested that trigger warnings might actually be a net negative—they could make some people less resilient to trauma. Trigger warnings don't really leave anyone worse off, according to the newer research conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Waikoto and the City University of New York. But they don't help matters, either: Study participants who received a trigger warning were just as bothered by traumatic words and images as participants who saw the words and images without any forewarning.

A Professor Spoke the Truth, He Still Pays the Price
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: National Review
At the conclusion of his piece, Abrams made an argument that rang true to my more than 20 years of litigation experience — “ideological imbalance, coupled with [administrators’] agenda-setting power, threatens the free and open exchange of ideas.” This is exactly right. Administrators draft and enforce speech codes. Administrators are responsible for creating campus kangaroo courts. Administrators kick Christian student groups off campus, and administrators often take the lead in designing campus programming that features overwhelmingly progressive voices. While conservative media often focus their ire on random radical professors, administrators are busy engaging in the overwhelming majority of campus censorship. Simply put, Abrams told an important truth. And he’s been punished for it. As our Madeleine Kearns reported last November, his office door was vandalized, students called for him to be punished, anonymous individuals falsely accused him of sexual misconduct, and when Abrams urged the college president, Cristle Judd, to take a strong stand in favor of academic freedom, he said that she “asked whether he thought it was appropriate to write op-eds without her permission and further suggested that his article had been hostile toward his colleagues.”

West Virginia to Diocese
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Philly.com
Parents entrusted their children to West Virginia's Wheeling-Charleston Diocese schools and camps—not knowing who their children were potentially being exposed to. The West Virginia attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the diocese accusing it of not conducting adequate background checks for its employees, including priests, and not warning parents of the danger, WTRF reports. What it boils down to: The diocese "knowingly employed pedophiles," according to the suit. The suit claims even admitted child molesters were put in posts that routinely brought them into contact with children, Philly.com reports. The diocese's former bishop, Michael Bransfield, is named in the suit and accused of harboring the accused and admitted abusers within the diocese; Bransfield himself has been accused of sexually harassing adults, and was suspended from all priestly ministries last week when a separate church-led investigation ended.

Porn and the state: when size really does matter
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: 1828
Not content with fighting over Brexit, the government has grabbed the headlines this week with its policy to require pornography websites in the UK to take steps to ensure that only over 18s can access their platforms. This will involve users uploading their passport or credit card details to the websites or going down to their local newsagent to purchase a “PortesCard” in order to access them. Designed to keep children from viewing material which might not be suitable for them, it appears well-intentioned. However, this is yet another government policy which has a number of troubling implications.

Women Need Socialism Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: The Federalist
Not everyone is optimistic about women’s progress. International Women’s Day was March 8, inviting a swath of social media posts and political commentary on the state of women worldwide. The Guardian published an article aptly titled, “Feminism without socialism will never cure our unequal society,” by Ellie Mae O’Hagan. Her absurd prescription to further gender equality couldn’t be more off base. It’s capitalism, not socialism, that’s driving women’s equality. In both the developing world and the developed world, capitalism has given women more choice, more upward mobility, and more control over their destinies.

When Donald McCloskey Became Deirdre McCloskey
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Target Liberty
Deirdre McCloskey is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Forthcoming is a 20th anniversary edition of her book, now titled, "Crossing: A Transgender Memoir," with a new Afterword. Target Liberty was provided a copy of the Afterword via a third party. Here are some snippets

Another College Cheating Scandal
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Daily Beast
In the admissions process, there’s a high premium on the personal statement, a 500-word essay submitted through the Common Application, about some foible or lesson, which aims to give readers a better sense of the student than, say, a standardized test score. More than one university and advising blog rank the essay among the “most important” aspects of the process; one consultant writing in The New York Times described it as “the purest part of the application.” In interviews with The Daily Beast, eight college application tutors shed light on the economy of editing, altering, and, at times, outright rewriting personal statements. The essay editors, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity since many still work in their field, painted the portrait of an industry rife with ethical hazards, where the line between helping and cheating can become difficult to draw.

College Cheating Scandal
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Lew Rockwell
Author: Walter Williams
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people involved in cheating and bribery in order to get their children admitted to some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities such as Georgetown, Yale, Stanford, University of Texas, University of Southern California and UCLA. They often paid more than $100,000 to rig SAT or ACT exams. In some instances, they bribed college officials and secured their children’s admissions to elite schools through various fraud schemes. As corrupt and depraved as these recent revelations are, they are only the tip of the iceberg of generalized college corruption and gross dishonesty.