Natalie Bourdon, a women’s and gender studies professor, told the Macon Telegraph I was unacceptable to speak at Founders Day because, “this specific event … [is] an event meant to celebrate Mercer’s heritage, founded on ideas of inclusivity, social justice.”

Mercer was founded in 1831 by white Southern Baptist men who excluded women and blacks. Her statement is revisionist nonsense designed to set the parameters for who she can self-righteously declare unacceptable. Ironically, according to a student review online, that professor “is not very tolerant of other people’s opinions.”

Tolerance is rarely necessary for those on a messianic mission of tolerance with serial ax grinding at stake. But at least we learned the white Southern Baptists in 1831 were willing to fight the Yankees thirty years later in the name of social justice.

I don’t always agree with Erickson, but here he is spot-on (and funny).

Even though Facebook (FB) reported $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations in 2012, it will probably pay zero federal and state taxes—and even receive a federal tax refund of about $429 million—according to a Feb. 14 statement from Citizens for Tax Justice.

Yet another Obama donor gets a kickback.

Well, that’s happened so often, maybe it’s not that big of a story.
Except for the magnitude of the kickback!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-15/facebook-gets-a-multi-billion-dollar-tax-break

they really disliked my worldview as a prominent Christian evangelical conservative

Errrrr…

This is a problem with modern discourse. When either side of the political spectrum decides it can be the arbiter of who is or is not acceptable on the other side, the system cannot work. Conservatives have no place telling liberals who is or is not acceptable on the liberal side any more than liberals have of telling conservatives who is or is not an acceptable conservative.

Uh hoh geez…Listen to him.
RedState runs their comments section like a Japanese prison camp.

Conservatives have no place telling liberals who is or is not acceptable on the liberal side any more than liberals have of telling conservatives who is or is not an acceptable conservative.

The entire point of doing so is advancing your own causes and weeding out your opposition. Once your opposition dies off, you win.

Ergo, anything that’s conservative is hateful and bigoted and must be crushed. Anything that is liberal you might not necessarily agree with, but you must first “open your mind,” then “tolerate” and then “accept.” And once they get America to the point of acceptance, then anyone who speaks out against the newly defined consensus is again hateful and bigoted and must be crushed.

Lather, rinse, and repeat.