today's was brutal. criticizing the dems for putting the brakes on lifting the sanctions on the guy that Manafort owes millions too. nothing questionable there.

“Deripaska’s aluminum empire … has quietly installed a new board chairman who has expressed support for the Russian aggression that got Deripaska sanctioned in the first place,” the Daily Beast reports this morning: Jean-Pierre Thomas “has also become a regular on Russian state TV, pushing a conspiracy theory about chemical weapons in Syria, and asserting that the Russian government couldn’t have been involved in the poisoning of [Skripal]. That background … has concerned lawmakers as well as Western intelligence officials.”

After Evergreen State and the University of Missouri caved to identity-politics demands, they were shunned by alumni, parents, prospective students and fans. Those are cautionary tales, but the University of Wyoming provides a counterpoint. Turns out there are rewards for not yielding to campus radicals.

Last summer the University of Wyoming unveiled its new marketing slogan, “The world needs more cowboys.” The campaign lauded self-reliance, grit and courage and suggested that anyone with this caliber of character can be a cowboy.

This being the American campus in 2018, more than two dozen faculty complained. Communications professor Tracey Owens Patton said that “what goes behind the term cowboy” is “erasure, racism, sexism, heterosexism, and genocide.” The university’s Committee on Women & People of Color wrote in a letter that the marketing campaign “risks casting UW as a place where only people who identify with white, male, and able-bodied connotations of ‘cowboy’ belong.”

Despite the griping, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously in July to keep the slogan. Students, alumni and sports fans apparently weren’t offended. The university bookstore sold out of “the world needs more cowboys” T-shirts the first week they hit the shelves. Responding to demand, the University of Wyoming put the slogan on other products and sold roughly 5,000 items in the first six months.

Between July and December 2018, royalties were up $38,000 over the same period in 2017 as the school licensed 143 different products with the tagline to third-party vendors. A funeral home even requested permission to create a “the world needs more cowboys” coffin. Talk about getting the final word.

The campaign has been a hit off campus, too. A campaign ad video had half a million views online—nearly the equivalent of Wyoming’s state population. After seeing the digital ads, some 18,000 viewers clicked on the link and gave their information to recruiters. Enrollment numbers won’t be in until later this year, but “it’s pretty clear there’s been an increase in interest,” spokesman Chad Baldwin says.

Competing against more than 1,000 colleges, the University of Wyoming's video won “best of show” in the Educational Advertising Awards competition, and the overall “the world needs more cowboys” campaign got a silver award. The university also won regional awards from the American Advertising Federation in a competition not limited to higher ed.

Administrators elsewhere, take heart and cowboy up. The social-justice warriors may try to lasso you into submission, but they don’t reflect genuine public opinion.

This was actually published in the Wall Street Journal!!! The editorial board believed this opinion was worth of public consumption. Good grief

Have a terrible night and die in MANY fires.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

Great article today.

Great article today.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

This is Tucker Carlson/Sean Hannity level trash peddling. Way below the standards WSJ should have.

And what standard is that? What sentiment expressed here is below what you expect from the WSJ?

None. The topic is beneath the publication. I would prefer they use their Ivy League educations to provide their views on economic policy, legal opinions and other substantial topics rather than red meat to rubes.

Well what other economic policy, legal opinion or "substantial topic" was not discussed anywhere in the publication that should have been discussed here?

And who gets to decide what a "substantial topic" is?

And who gets to decide what a "substantial topic" is?

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

This was actually published in the Wall Street Journal!!! The editorial board believed this opinion was worth of public consumption. Good grief

Well what other economic policy, legal opinion or "substantial topic" was not discussed anywhere in the publication that should have been discussed here?

And who gets to decide what a "substantial topic" is?

Isn’t the subject at the very least tangentially related to finance / economics ?

Kirkwood, ya dumbass.

A $38K increase in royalties belongs in the student newspaper. Not the WSJ.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Why are you offended by this article. It's just showing that standing up to complaints over ridiculous topics can pay off. Of all the ridiculous things in the news this rather harmless article is what you picked?

I stated why I was offended. I'm sorry you cannot read.

I stated why I was offended. I'm sorry you cannot read.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I'm sorry that you remembered your password this time. Of all the fucking things to trigger you, this brief about only $40k in royalties increases! How dare they print this.

I'm sorry that you remembered your password this time. Of all the fucking things to trigger you, this brief about only $40k in royalties increases! How dare they print this.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Huh? When have I commented on Russia/Trump in the past 8 months? Keep your filth in the politics section.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Few companies appeal to more disparate corners of American society than the Walt Disney Co. , so count us among the bewildered to see Disney CEO Bob Iger march to the front lines of the culture wars.

Mr. Iger told Reuters this week that it would be “very difficult” for Disney to continue filming its movie and television content in Georgia if a new state abortion law takes effect. “I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully,” Mr. Iger said.

Georgia recently passed a bill banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of gestation. Such heartbeat bills are moving through several states, though the federal courts are likely to rule that they violate the Supreme Court’s abortion precedents. Perhaps the High Court will hear an appeal, though this week the Justices declined to hear a lower-court decision overturning an Indiana law that barred abortion based on gender, race or disability.

Mr. Iger is probably trying to please the bulk of his employees and Hollywood who lean left. Disney’s competitors at Netflix have condemned the Georgia law. But for Mr. Iger this looks like a business and political mistake of the kind he rarely makes. Disney of all companies should not want to be seen as an engine of the left’s cultural imperialism. The company’s new streaming service is pitched as “family friendly,” which presumably means customers in Macon as well as Manhattan.

More than a few Americans may also notice the contradiction that Disney is more worried about filming in a U.S. state that has passed a law democratically than it is operating its theme park and hawking its films in China, which uses facial-recognition software to monitor its population and has a million Uighurs in re-education camps.

Georgians have a right to self government, and like other Americans they aren’t fond of receiving ultimatums from elites on the coasts. It won’t help Mr. Iger’s business or his progressive causes if he persuades half the country that Disney thinks they’re deplorable.

ya, this is a perfect example of misinterpreting a statement and playing chicken little.

be pissy the labor; disney doesn't give a shit as noted with their china business.

wsj crazy people opinoin board aside, good for labor for flexing their muscles

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.