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Boston12GS| 3.7.11 @ 3:46PM
This will sound brutal, and I am in full support of Dr. Robinson and his children, but he was really stupidly naive to engage in politics when his children were so entirely at the mercy of a system well known to be ideologically hate-filled and without honor.
Didn't he know that the methods being wielded against his children are routine Progressive in-fighting? Did he think his children would be "off-limits" if the Progressives found they were unable to destroy him personally?
Especially these days, when the Progressives can see their own political "end of times" approaching, they will stop at nothing to save themselves and savage their opponents.
Monstrously evil. Thank God such people do not control the state's mechanisms for violence (Waco and Ruby Ridge aside) or the outcome could be far worse.
CalMark| 3.7.11 @ 8:29PM
"Stupidly naive." Such words legitimize and normalize this kind of behavior, for the other side.
No rational person would expect a Congressional run to cause the academic destruction of nuclear engineering students. There is no rational connection.
Conservative Bob| 3.7.11 @ 6:18PM
This is yet another example of the left’s politics of destruction.
At some point we will have to do something about what is being done to our political system. These attacks are meant to serve a dual purpose; on the one hand they intend to destroy this man, completely; on the other they want him to be a warning to others who may venture down this path.
Look at the dem related organizations that target individuals that give to conservative causes.
Reading this man’s story I could not help but feel he is a far better man than I am. If someone organized an attack on my family and children as is being done to him, I am certain I would not be so polite or physically restrained in my response.
David W| 3.7.11 @ 6:42PM
I can't comment on the attacks, but I wonder why "leftists" are in charge of a nuclear engineering program. Oh wait, aren't leftists in charge of the NRC - one reason why no new nuke power plants have been built.
CalMark| 3.7.11 @ 8:27PM
Evil.
These leftist academics are subhuman scum.
Such horrifying abuses could be ended easily: indict the entire Nuclear Engineering faculty (every stinking one of them, except the one brave dissenter) for fraud, conspiracy, and criminal harrassmen. Then try them, very publicly and very aggressively.
Bankrupt these Stalinists with criminal defense costs and ruin them with scandal. The left does it all the time with trumped-up charges against conservatives. Conservatives wouldn't even have to trump anything up--such liberals have committed real crimes that cry out for legitimate charges.
All it would take is one courageous prosecutor and one courageous judge. Hey, Republican law enforcment types--anybody listening?
No, stupid of me even to think that. Of course they're not. They're all too busy cowering in the corner, as usual--hoping the alligator eats them last.
Quartermaster| 3.7.11 @ 9:59PM
You'll have a real challenge finding any of that sort in Oregon. Oregon used to be a nice place to live. But starting in the early 60s it became a dumping ground for the idiots that made SoCal hell on earth, and now they've fouled another nest.
Actually, plagiarism is very common in the academy. The work of grad students is commonly stolen by profs. What is happening at OSU to Dr. Robinson's kids is the rule, not the exception.
NoLib| 3.8.11 @ 4:43PM
Stop blaming California for the stinking liberalism of other states! It's stupid, false and beyond juvenile. Oregon and Washington have been socialist dumps for a long time.
Grow the hell up.
bobmontgomery| 3.7.11 @ 11:14PM
Apparently, not only did Mr. Robinson have the gall to challenge Defazio, he had the unbelievable audacity to challenge the concept of AGW. It is hard telling how high up the food chain the vendetta against his family was commissioned.
Occam's Tool| 3.8.11 @ 12:17AM
Illegal actions occurring against one does not make one "stupidly naive." Discovery might find fascinating things.
Dacron Mather| 3.8.11 @ 4:34AM
The cofounder of the Linus Pauling Institute should take two pounds of Vitamin C and call the Discovery Institute for a chiropractor referral in the morning
Pelligrino| 3.8.11 @ 6:12AM
Isn't this why you don't send your kid or let your kid consider a state school?
'Higher' education at a state school? Really?
(high -- only because of the greater access to parties, alcohol, and drugs)
No, just higher levels of terribly biased unsubstantiated propaganda.
Seriously: Why pay good money to have your kid indoctrinated with lies. State schools are toxic. Good bedrock places for solid American and family values? Not in the last 30 years and counting....
I am sorry for the Robinson family situation and I encourage Mr. Robinson to keep fighting. He'd clearly make for a better representative than DeFazio. But perhaps this is the best lesson ever in life (they are still young) for his 3 children at OSU.
Yes, it "hurts" in the short-run. But, please, if your kids are this bright, energy-filled, and go-getters, this is just a very valuable setback that should help make them much finer, more resolute and reliable adults. (That's not a flip remark; the best people in life have confronted adversity and overcome it.)
I live near a "reputable" state school. It is a perverted place -- in many ways.
Don't send your kids to them. DON'T.
Bob K.| 3.8.11 @ 6:58AM
Do you prefer Ivy League colleges? Or perhaps Catholic Bastions of conservatism like Georgetown or Notre Dame? Name some alternatives that are reasonably priced too. Only talk is cheap you know!
Pelligrino| 3.8.11 @ 10:03AM
Bob K., I think that you are making some assumptions on what I think or esteem.
I am not at all advocating for higher priced (higher than OSU) institutions that are as bad or worse (morally & fundamentally) like today's Ivy League losers, Georgetown, or Notre Dame.
Whether a school's tuition is terribly pricey or a bargain, I believe that every Americans hard earned dollars should not be put to waste propping up a liberal nonsense unethical institution.
Think about this:
Maybe no college at all? Don't we have to get away from this idea that a sheepskin means something? (I am around college grads, graduate students, PhD candidates, their professors...and I am usually unimpressed.)
Bob K., for you and others I do not have any easy 5-step solutions. Our national levels of "higher?" education have slipped so far.
I usually type too much; I won't do that here. I will suggest just one possible idea that might fit for some parents and their kids:
I have heard many parents laud the idea of the local/nearby community college for years 1 & 2 (your kids rub shoulders with typically older, more focused students) while that same child works part time to help pay for it.* If the student merits it, on to a full-time college for the last years of undergraduate studies.
Where? Perhaps smaller, private, truly faith-based schools. Genuine Christian colleges are certainly not perfect (nothing on this earth is) but they are worlds better than a Northwestern U. in Chicago with a woman masturbating in front of a lecture hall of 100 students with the professor nodding his eager approval (current story) with now the written backing of the campus leadership.
How can you identify a good school for your child? Look at the ones that offer meaningful philanthropic work opportunities for the students during times like Spring Break instead of the pure hedonism of the Florida coastline crowd.
That's just one of many indicators.
I am indeed sorry for the completely unjust recriminations and retribution against the Robinson family. But that undergirds the foolhardiness of academia we know today in our secular, liberal, lost schools.
*We all learn far more useful life skills through working a real job than we ever do from a dusty old professor hemmed in by the strictures of bureaucratic academia (or the 25 year-old know-nothing TA sitting in for the professor 65% of the time).
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:25PM
Try Hillsdale, or the Military Academies, especially Air Force, Bob.
Other private schools to look at are Grove City and the St. John Colleges (Santa Fe and Annapolis---they work on a Great Books curriculum).
Trust me, I have a seven year old Genius for a daughter---I think about this ALL the time.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:26PM
I do NOT mention my alma mater, Texas Christian---they've gotten too Liberal for me.