Two ace posts at Liestoppers

John Foster at Liestoppers looks back at the year since Cyrstal Mangum gave her false witness ("Hoax Day – Never Forget"). What Joan says is worth reading. This paragraph in particular caught my attention:

We learned we now live in a society now where certain "intellectuals"...if they don their mantles of political correctness and their breastplates of victim-hood ...need only gibberish and rambling verbal recklessness to suppress any reasoned opposition.

They can write at the level of a remedial 9th grader and reason at the level of a playground bully...but securely hold positions of power and authority at a prestigious American university. They come in all sizes, colors, genders and creeds. They may actually publicly condemn the children of the families who pay their large salaries..yet sail on, undisturbed by any in so-called authority.

Joan nails it, doesn’t she?

She follows up with an important observation and a challenge to never forget.

Never forget what we've observed at Duke University. It's a microcosm of a many-faceted national farce. Never forget!

It’s sad and all too true that so many of our college and university faculties, especially in what are called the social sciences and humanities areas, are very much like Duke’s, where leftist ideology and rush to judgements are often substitutes for scholarly thought.

You can read Joan’s post here.

Liestoppers also has a post, “Nifong Auditions for Dumbest Criminal.” It’s a read, clip and save which begins:

The closer one looks at Defendant Nifong’s responses to the North Carolina State Bar, the more apparent it becomes that his attempts to avoid responsibility for his words and actions are more likely to qualify him for an appearance on America’s Dumbest Criminals than to save his license to practice law.

With a hat tip to KC Johnson, LS details court testimony by DNA expert Brian Meehan that’s damning in and of itself, but which becomes even more damning of Nifong’s case when he “explains” to the State Bar just what Nifong claims Meehan was really saying in court.

LS also found some big time holes in the accounts by Crystal Mangum and her drivers of their activities in the days leading up to the party. Would you believe they all wound up claiming the party took place on a Sunday night, instead of a Monday night.

Again, it’s a “don’t miss” post. Read it here.