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Carson sketches out plan for monitoring on-campus speech
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 27, 2015 02:41pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Steve Benen |
| Media | TV News - National Broadcasting Company MSNBC News |
| News Date | Monday, October 26, 2015 01:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Choosing the single nuttiest part of Ben Carson’s Republican presidential platform is incredibly challenging – there are just so many options to choose from. Just over the weekend, the competitive GOP candidate talked about scrapping Medicare, compared abortion to slavery, and tried to defend his frequent Nazi references.
But if we’re ranking the most ridiculous recommendations, Carson’s plans to “monitor” political speech on college campuses has to be near the top.
To briefly recap, the retired right-wing neurosurgeon argued last week that he doesn’t want to shut down the federal Department of Education; he’d prefer to turn it into an investigatory body in which it would “monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias.” If a Carson administration decided it disapproved of the “extreme” political speech on a university campus, the school would lose its federal funding. |
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