History for April 5

History for April 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Hobbes 1588, Elihu Yale(slave trader, university founder) 1649, Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash)


Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery), Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"), Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")


1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.


1792 - U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential veto. The measure was for apportioning representatives among the states.


1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.


1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first regular production of balloon tires.


1951 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.


1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister.


1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."


1998 - The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku and Honshu. The bridge cost about $3.8 billion.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2018/04/april-4-2018-revolutionary-changes-by.html

Revolutionary Changes

By Tammy Derouin

Sometimes it can be difficult to notice changes in our circumstances or our surroundings, especially if they occur slowly and over time. Sometimes it takes removing ourselves from the situation to see the difference. If we live in an area for a long time we understand and are aware of changes. To someone who has moved away and comes back, the changes may seem more monumental. By living in the location and watching the changes take place, day by day, we adapt and accept our evolving surroundings.

Changes can be both good and bad. The key is identifying the difference between the two. What may seem harmless at the time could be the beginning of a disaster. It's sort of like getting a minor cut. You know if you don't take care of it, clean it and wrap it, it could become infected and turn into something much worse. We all ignore the little things from time to time. When we look back, we realize how much easier life would have been had we just addressed it and moved on. It's those little reminders which have a way of keeping us in check.

Unfortunately, there has been a big push, over the past too many years, to alter what we know is right. Those who have an agenda to completely alter the American way of life and the foundation of our beliefs have tried to slip many unhealthy changes into our society. They want to alter how we think, hoping it will change how we believe and act.

New ideas can be the start of revolutionary changes. New ideas or concepts should be debated. Facts need to be presented and understood as facts for a healthy debate. Make believe and false information to push an agenda hurts everyone in the long run......

The way we were-----Gary Lewis and the Playboys - This Diamond Ring

Boob-tube-----TV Censored Bloopers (1981) Dick Clark

State Opioid Taxes Would Needlessly Harm Patients | Economics21

State Opioid Taxes Would Needlessly Harm Patients | Economics21:
"Americans face a daily barrage of news of the latest casualties in the deadly scourge of opioid addiction.
The estimated 115 opioid overdose deaths that happen in the United States every day cut across demographic and class lines, affecting communities across the country.

More than two million Americans are caught in the grips of a dependency on prescription painkillers and street pills, with little sign of decline in most states.
...wide-scale taxation is a recipe for increased suffering and black market activity.  
In addition to these unintended consequences, any increase in medication costs will raise the costs of Medicaid and Medicare.
Over the past few months, lawmakers in some of the states most affected by the opioid epidemic have proposed taxing pharmaceutical companies for bringing painkillers to market.
...Within the overwhelming majority of opioid users that are not addicted, most patients would either absorb the higher cost or endure increased pain. 
An “effective” opioid tax, then, would punish millions of Americans for whom opiods are the only cure for immense physical pain..."
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Michigan Funding Its Pensions, Using More Realistic Numbers [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan Funding Its Pensions, Using More Realistic Numbers [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The level of underfunding in Michigan’s public school pension system increased again last year, but this time it wasn’t because officials failed to deposit the right amount into the system.
Unfunded liabilities in the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System increased from $29.1 billion to $29.4 billion in 2017, according to the annual report released by the state.
The increase was due to using a more conservative estimate of future investment returns.
The estimate is used when determining how much needs to be contributed to the fund now to make future pension payouts, so a more conservative one leads to more realistic contribution levels.
“The assumed rate of return on the pension plan was lowered from 7.50 percent to 7.05 percent, which is a smart fiscal decision that reduces risk to the system,” said Kurt Weiss, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, in an email..."
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DNC Vice Chair Suggests It's Time Democrats Push To Repeal The Second Amendment | Daily Wire

DNC Vice Chair Suggests It's Time Democrats Push To Repeal The Second Amendment | Daily Wire:

"The Left has insisted that although they'd like to severely regulate the sale and use of guns in this country, they have no designs on repealing the Second Amendment, which, according to recent Supreme Court decisions, guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
That, in fact, may be changing. A Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee tweeted over the weekend her support for repealing the Second Amendment, linking to a piece written by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens explaining how the time had come to eliminate the Constitutional right to self-protection once and for all."

Arnold Ahlert: Breaking Up the Public School Monopoly — The Patriot Post

Arnold Ahlert: Breaking Up the Public School Monopoly — The Patriot Post:
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."—Vladimir Lenin
Every serious problem this nation currently endures can be traced back to a single source.
To be blunt, we’re creating legions of useful idiots in public schools across America.
At least two generations of Americans can no longer add and subtract simple numbers in their heads, know next to nothing about the nation’s history or government, and cast a jaundiced eye toward inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution — all while remaining well-versed in progressive ideology. 
The time for complaining is over.
It’s time to do something about it.
"One of President Trump’s promises to the American people was that he would provide billions to fund private school choice for parents, especially low-income families,” writes columnist Glenn Delk.
“By allocating zero dollars for school choice, congressional Republicans, in their $1.3 trillion spending bill, made it crystal clear, to both the President and families with school-age children, that they have no intention of ever fulfilling that promise.
Given the congressional slap in the face, President Trump should now order Attorney General Sessions to file suit on behalf of the United States against all 50 states seeking to break up the monopoly known as public schools.”
Americans should be clear on this point.
Despite education being controlled by the states, public schools remain monopolistic, unionized fiefdoms of unaccountability that have promised — and failed — to deliver reform for over 40 years..."
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Man Exposes Himself To Child In Target Women's Bathroom | Daily Wire

Man Exposes Himself To Child In Target Women's Bathroom | Daily Wire:

"Openly-progressive Target prides itself on allowing biological men to enter the women's restroom if that is how they self-identify. The policy, enacted in 2016, outraged conservatives for fear it would put women and girls at risk.
According to NBC Chicago, police are now on the hunt for a man who exposed himself to a child in the women's restroom at a Target store in the South Loop.
"A mother was with her young child at about 4:08 p.m. in the women’s restroom at the Target at 1154 S. Clark when the man entered and insisted he had to go to the bathroom, according to Chicago Police," reports the outlet."

Lunch video-----This Is What Mass Mind Control Looks Like

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Border Patrol agents back Trump wall, survey finds - Washington Times

Border Patrol agents back Trump wall, survey finds - Washington Times:

"Border Patrol agents say they can’t be much clearer: They want more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a new survey conducted by the National Border Patrol Council, the agents’ union, they overwhelmingly backed adding a “wall system” in new strategic locations, saying it will boost their ability to nab or deter would-be illegal immigrants.
Agents also said they need the government to change the “catch-and-release” policy that means even after they arrest illegal immigrants at the border, they often have to immediately release them in the U.S., giving them the chance to disappear into the shadows with the 11 million other illegal immigrants already here."

Michigan’s Top School Pension Payouts [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan’s Top School Pension Payouts [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"During Barbara Fowler’s final year working as superintendent of the Troy School District in 2014, she had 42 years of experience in public schools and was earning a salary of $222,054.

Now retired, Fowler collects an annual pension of $145,140 as a member of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System, or MPSERS.

...Individual MPSERS pensions get a 3 percent annual cost-of-living increase every year. 
To illustrate the value of those increases, The Detroit News reported that former Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Jon Washburn was collecting $136,027 in 2011. 

That was then the second-highest school pension payout in the state. 

By 2016 Washburn’s payout had grown to $161,124, a $25,097 increase over a five-year period, making it the third highest in the state...

Here’s a list of the top eight MSPERS pensions as of 2016:

• Albert Lorenzo, former president of Macomb Community College, $204,264
• Thomas Svitkovich, former superintendent of Genesee Intermediate School District, $188,448
• Jon Washburn, former superintendent of Forest Hills Public Schools, $161,124
• Donald Newport, former president of Alpena Community College, $148,836
• Iris Salters, former president of the Michigan Education Association, $147,924
• Barbara Fowler, former superintendent of Troy Public Schools, $145,140
• Mark Eckhardt, former superintendent of the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District, $144,012
• James McCann, former superintendent of the Lamphere School District, $142,728

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RANT: Accurate portrayal of me listening to David Hogg speak--Combat Wounded Purple Heart Recipient and Decorated Army Veteran Derek Weida

(7) Conservative Political Cartoons Daily - Posts:
"RANT: Accurate portrayal of me listening to David Hogg speak. Look, I’m sorry dude, sincerely. 
It is horrible... School shootings. That said, you have to watch what you say. 
I’m Derek, I got shot on a house raid in Iraq. 
My getting shot didn’t make me a professional on war, international relations, house raids (obviously🤷🏻‍♀️), or guns. 
This horrible thing happened to me but I didn’t come home and protest the war... 
Even though I do kinda have these feelings that Iraq was errr... Questionable. 
😂 But it ain’t my place. 
I did my part. 
So, I empathize with you and your peers because whereas I signed up to be shot at, none of you did. 
(Not exactly sure you actually got shot AT but that’s not the point here). 
...I guess I just want to say don’t be so quick to talk. 
Don’t be so quick to think YOU are somehow the ONE person who has things figured out. 
You want to make a change? 
Cool!! 
But... Try to be less of a cunt about it.
Love and respect,
Combat Wounded Purple Heart Recipient and Decorated Army Veteran Derek Weida"
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#1 This day 1965-----Freddie & The Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now (HQ Stereo, 1965)

The FBI’s Long List of Failures – Da Tech Guy Blog

The FBI’s Long List of Failures – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"The FBI has a long history of errors, miscalculations, and outright failures that make the current allegations almost pale by comparison.

As a young journalist, I trekked back and forth through the FBI “cordon” around Wounded Knee in 1973, where Native American activists had taken over the site in South Dakota of a famous massacre of Indians by federal troops

• A few years later, I wrote about the virtual execution of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two Black Panther leaders in Chicago. The duo had been a target of the FBI failed counter-intelligence program of radicals in the 1960s and 1970s.

...But there’s far more than my personal experience with the bureau.

• Ruby Ridge, near my birthplace of Boise, Idaho, ended with the death of the son and wife of Randy Weaver and an eventual big cash settlement. The siege started over Weaver’s failure to appear for a firearms charge in 1992. More important, the rise of the militia movement happened as a direct result of the confrontation. The incident was so poorly handled that the FBI agent-in-charge was sentenced to 18 months in prison for obstructing an investigation into the FBI’s incompetence...
• The 51-day confrontation with the Branch Davidians ended with 76 people dead in 1993 in Texas in an ill-conceived assault that led to a massive fire. Again, the incident added fuel to the militia fire.
• The FBI and other law enforcement officials failed to understand the significance of Ruby Ridge and Waco to a growing militia movement, which ultimately led to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. So much so that the FBI initially thought Oklahoma City was carried out by Middle Eastern terrorists.

...Here are a few other mistakes: https://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-greatest-fbi-fails-of-all-time/autumn-spragg

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Only in the U.S. Is It Controversial for the Census to Ask About Citizenship | The Heritage Foundation

Only in the U.S. Is It Controversial for the Census to Ask About Citizenship | The Heritage Foundation:

"Despite the howls of hysterical protests coming from political partisans, this is long overdue and in accord with historical practice.
The Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration” every decade, and the priority of the census, as outlined by Karen Dunn Kelley, the under secretary for Economic Affairs at the Commerce Department in her March 26 announcement, is “obtaining complete and accurate data.” That data is used for everything from enforcement of the Voting Rights Act to the distribution of federal funding."

The Demands of Antifa and the Original Fascists Have a Lot in Common - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world

The Demands of Antifa and the Original Fascists Have a Lot in Common - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world:
"A ghastly phantom has descended upon America: the specter of anti-capitalism. 
Young people march behind the socialist bandwagon and some activists block free speech as members of a group called “Antifa”.

This “anti-fascist” movement engages in militant protests and does not shrink from using violence. 
As a part of the extreme left, the members of the “antifa-movement” are self-proclaimed “anti-capitalists” and declared “enemies of the right”. 
They call themselves “anti-fascist”, when, in fact, more than any other ideology, fascism characterizes their own movement.
Yet what is fascism and what is the content of this ideology?
The "Fascist Manifesto"
The Fascist Manifesto was proclaimed in 1919 by Alceste De Ambris and Filippo Tommaso Marienetti. 
In their pamphlet, the authors called for an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage; it demanded worker representation in industrial management and equal standing of trade unions, industrial executives, and public servants.
The authors of the Fascist Manifesto demanded progressive taxation, invalidity insurance, and other types of social benefits, along with reducing the retirement age. 
The Manifesto demanded the confiscation of the property of all religious institutions and to nationalize the armament industry.
The authors of the Fascist Manifesto called for establishing a corporatist system of ‘National Councils’ formed by experts to be elected by their professional organizations who should hold legislative power in their respective areas.
De Ambris and Marienetti demanded a strong progressive tax on capital to expropriate a portion of all wealth and the seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations together with the nationalization of the arms industry.
In 1922, the socialist Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy under the banner of fascism and put most of the fascist program into practice as it was proclaimed in the Manifesto some years earlier.
Compared with the Communist Manifesto
A comparison with the Manifesto of the Communist Party, written by Marx and Engels and published in 1848, reveals the kinship of fascism and Communism..."
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History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com
Dorothea Dix 1802, Isoroku Yamamoto 1884, Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee")


Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psycho" series), Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist"), Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Movie: "U.S. Marshals") 

1581 - Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I. A few months earlier he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.


1818 - A plan was passsed by the U.S. Congress that the U.S. flag would have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.


1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.


1914 - The first known serialized moving picture opened in New York City, NY. It was "The Perils of Pauline".


1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.


1918 - The Battle of Somme, an offensive by the British against the German Army ended.


1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.


1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.

Breaking: Trump Deploying US Military to Protect US-Mexico Border

Breaking: Trump Deploying US Military to Protect US-Mexico Border:

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is ready to deploy the U.S. military to protect America’s border with Mexico from an influx of illegal immigrants.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the president emphasized the need to defend the border until a wall is constructed between the U.S. and Mexico, according to Politico.
“We are going to be guarding our border with our military. That’s a big step,” Trump said during a meeting with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. “We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing and, by the way, never showing up for court.”"

Fox News Defends Laura Ingraham | The Daily Caller

Fox News Defends Laura Ingraham | The Daily Caller:

"Laura Ingraham isn’t going anywhere.
That’s the message Fox News is sending amid a left-wing boycott campaign meant to oust the conservative Fox News host over a tweet.
“We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts,” Fox News co-president Jack Abernathy said in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We look forward to having Laura Ingraham back, hosting her program next Monday when she returns from spring vacation with her children.”"

Dems Waived Background Checks On IT Aides | The Daily Caller

Dems Waived Background Checks On IT Aides | The Daily Caller:

"All of them appear to have waived background checks on Imran Awan and his family members, even though the family of server administrators could collectively read all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats, and despite background checks being recommended for such positions, according to an inspector general’s report. The House security policy requires offices to fill out a form attesting that they’ve initiated background checks, but it also includes a loophole allowing them to simply say that another member vouched for them.
Among the red flags in Abid’s background were a $1.1 million bankruptcy; six lawsuits against him or a company he owned; and at least three misdemeanor convictions including for DUI and "

The way we were-----Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning

Boob-tube-----29 SHOWS OF NBC FALL TV 1962

The way we were-----George Harrison - My Sweet Lord - Lyrics

Scientology & Nation of Islam: Troubling Connections | National Review

Scientology & Nation of Islam: Troubling Connections | National Review:
Farrakahn receives a commission for each of his followers who undergoes a Scientology ‘auditing.’

Scientology is commonly known as the religion of the stars. Its reach inside Hollywood is deep, and celebrity recruitment is a huge component of the group’s marketing strategy. It sounds strange to describe the proselytizing efforts of a religion as a marketing strategy, but Scientology is unlike any other American religion. 

It operates as a business at best and as a cult at worst.
...Remini takes pains to chronicle how and why the organization’s power and reach are incredibly troubling. She exposes the influence the group has over law enforcement (most notably, the Los Angeles Police Department) and local political officials in Los Angeles and Clearwater, Fla., where the group is headquartered. 
...There is yet another component of Scientology that has gone almost entirely unreported: its deep relationship with another troubling religious group, the Nation of Islam (NOI). 

The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, explains why the NOI is so troubling, especially for American Jews:

Under Louis Farrakhan’s leadership, the Nation of Islam remains one of the country’s leading purveyors of anti-Semitism..."

...Scientology chronicler Tony Ortega first outlined the relationship between the two problematic groups from his perch at the Village Voice..."

Is Our Culture Dead? | Power Line

Is Our Culture Dead? | Power Line
"There was a time when people in certain occupations were assumed to be educated, and educated people could be presumed to know certain things. 
There was, in other words, a common culture. 
That era wasn’t so long ago; I actually lived through it. 
But I am afraid it may be gone.

Exhibit A: A reporter for National Public Radio–a prestige media outlet, ostensibly–had no concept of basic Christian theology:

An NPR report on Good Friday described Easter inaccurately and, in doing so, practically begged Christians to renew charges that the media is biased against them.

“Easter — the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or anywhere like that, but rather arose into heaven — is on Sunday,” read an article on NPR’s website.

...A reporter shouldn’t write about Easter without having the faintest idea of what it is all about, and someone who thinks Jesus “did not die” has no business writing about Christianity. 

My point, of course, is not that reporters need to be Christians, but rather that the basics of Christianity are fundamental to our culture and should be understood by anyone who holds himself out as educated and undertakes to write on the subject.

Exhibit B: Ancient Greece and Rome are the other major contributors to Western civilization, along with the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the Iliad is essential to our understanding of Greek civilization. There was a time when reporters knew something about ancient history and literature, but those days are gone at the New York Times Book Review–again, perhaps not coincidentally, an allegedly high-quality outlet:

From the corrections column in this morning’s New York Times Book Review:

The Long View column on March 18 misstated the circumstances surrounding the Trojan horse in Greek legend. It was the Trojans who allowed the horse within the gates; it was not the Greeks, whose soldiers were inside the horse..."

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Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, scraps Obama-era fuel efficiency rules - Washington Times

Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, scraps Obama-era fuel efficiency rules - Washington Times:

"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Monday formally scrapped a key piece of the Obama administration’s fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks, throwing the future of the program into doubt.
In a statement, Mr. Pruitt said the program, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE standards, fell victim to politics during the final days of the Obama administration. He said his predecessors at the EPA rushed through rules governing fuel economy for model years 2022 through 2025, and that those rules simply aren’t realistic."

The most dangerous intersection in every state - Business Insider

The most dangerous intersection in every state - Business Insider:
"Every town seems to have at least one intersection that plays host to more accidents and close calls than all the rest.
Time Magazine looked at data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over 10-year span measuring traffic accidents involving automobiles and pedestrians and determined the most dangerous intersection in each US state and Washington, DC.
The magazine identified the intersection of Knights Road and Streets Road in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, as the most dangerous intersection in America.
Read on to see the the most dangerous intersection in every state, and get a glimpse of what drivers there have to deal with."

Hospital backlog: The boy who waited 47 weeks for spine surgery - BBC News

Hospital backlog: The boy who waited 47 weeks for spine surgery - BBC News:
"Keilan, a 12-year old boy with scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine, waited 47 weeks before being admitted to hospital for surgery.
Keilan's story is revealed in Hospital, the award-winning BBC Two series, which was filmed in January and February at Nottingham University Hospitals - one of the country's biggest and busiest trusts.
It is the story of the health service at an unprecedented time in its 70-year history.
Keilan's operation, aimed at correcting and straightening his spine, had been scheduled for the middle of the winter crisis when NHS England advised every hospital to suspend all routine operations.
Although paediatrics is usually protected from cancellations, the high number of patients being treated at the Queen's Medical Centre, where Keilan was taken for surgery, meant his operation had twice been put back.
Keilan's case highlights how growing pressure on the hospital can lead to delays which affect patients' conditions..."
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Lunch video-----Dom Raso: Truth is They Want to Ban Every Gun

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University hiring students to promote abortion rights

University hiring students to promote abortion rights:

• The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Women’s Center is hiring students to develop educational programming on issues like “body image” and “reproductive justice,” a progressive euphemism for abortion rights.
• The job application does not specify the level of compensation, but UMBC's institutional minimum wage is $9.25 per hour.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Women’s Center is hiring students to develop educational programming on issues like “body image” and “reproductive justice,” a progressive euphemism for abortion rights. 

The “Women’s Center Student Staff Position” will pay selected students at least $9.25 an hour to write blogs posts, serve as an ambassador of the Women’s Center at resource fairs, and conduct research that would help the Women’s Center better serve students..."