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College students and Congress need to get a grip on reality. Anyone who wants success must work for it, not rely on make-believe that obsequious emotions or statements can correct injustice or evil acts.

Crybaby academics lead to weak-kneed government



Choking back tears over hyped-up social strife to demand a reprieve from the hardship of sitting for college exams is just the latest chapter in over-emotionalizing politics. Most university instructors have pretty much heard it all when it comes to excuses for dodging assignments or tests. The old "the-dog-ate-my-homework" grew up to be Monday flu (hangover), monthly incapacitation (cramps) or temporary crippling (sprained/broken limbs resulting from stupid acts like jumping off a roof into a swimming pool).
Given these lame pretexts for avoiding work, this latest reason given by Columbia, and now Harvard and Georgetown, law students of trauma inflicted on their tender hearts by the grand jury rulings in Ferguson and Staten Island goes beyond the pale. We've seen psychologists called into schools to counsel students after tragic accidents or shootings to assist the healing process. Such action would be considered sensible. However, allowing law students to delay taking exams so they can regain their composure after disappointment induced by a judicial ruling is nonsensical. These same professors who have filled student skulls with pie-in-the-sky ideals that justice is interchangeable with "fairness" are preparing America's legal minds to rely on emotion rather than reason. And this is precisely what has created the socio-political atmosphere of dissatisfaction that fueled the rioting in leftist cities following the two decisions not to indict police officers. Here's news for the academic world isolated on their cozy campuses--no matter what one's personal feelings or misgivings about the judicial process, unwelcome decisions do not justify time off to wallow in self-pity. The instances where individuals require time and support to deal with loss and consequences are when rulings directly involve and affect them. Sorry, but sympathies for so-called injustices don't qualify. At least, not in my classroom. Individuals so far removed from a case that their only knowledge is derived from biased professors, social media and wishful thinking have no need or right to receive leniency from workloads. Coddling students creates freeloaders who won't bother to study or properly inform themselves. Parroting like-minded opinions that sound "right," they assume professors will give them a pass. Unfortunately, many instructors do just that as long as the papers submitted agree with their agenda. And for those students that use law degrees to access the corporate or political world, having been indulged by professors many are instilled with shoddy work habits that bleed over to lazy lawmaking.

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Our colleges are preparing future lawmakers to be spoiled children

We are seeing the results of this education, begun decades ago, in the halls of government where enormous multi-thousand-page bills are cobbled together, rife with inconsistent statutes that produce confusion and unexpected restrictions. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a perfect example. When Senator Dianne Feinstein insisted on releasing the Senate Intelligence Committee summary on past CIA interrogation practices, it epitomized the weak-kneed governance dispensed by products of progressivism. Standing in the well of the Senate, Feinstein presented a glaring case of emotion-led politics that has become the Achilles heel of American domestic and foreign policy over the last six years. Following the lead of President Obama, the senator apologized for the intelligence community doing their "ugly" job of protecting the American people. In one aspect she was right, there will "never be the right time to release this report" because it clearly endangers Americans working overseas whether or not individuals are named in the document. K.T. McFarland made it clear this action was about punishing America, "Democrats in the Senate are behaving like tenants who got evicted and decide to trash the house on their way out the door." Crybaby politics are on the rampage as the House settles for a compromising $1.1 trillion budget proposal that averts a government shutdown, of what? Seventeen percent of the services as occurred last year when no one was denied their check and even furloughed workers received payment a few weeks late? The misnomer of "shutdown" has everyone running for cover in fear of being deemed "unfair" when they should judge the bill on actual value and need for every dollar spent. Our colleges are preparing future lawmakers to be spoiled children like the senators that defended the report's release, all the while blubbering about being bad neighbors, and the House that won't stand resolute against folly. The fact is that no matter how much Americans emanate feel-good vibes, those who hate America (including our own citizens) will hate us regardless. College students and Congress need to get a grip on reality. Anyone who wants success must work for it, not rely on make-believe that obsequious emotions or statements can correct injustice or evil acts.


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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.


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