CONCORD, N.H. – The "People's Pledge," conjured up by then-U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, attempted to curb outside influence over the Bay State's 2012 Senate race. Today, New Hampshire's Republican senator Kelly Ayotte is attempting to breathe new life into the pledge in her race for reelection against challenger Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire's Democratic governor who seeks to oust Ayotte from the Senate.
On Sunday, Ayotte wrote a column in the New Hampshire Union Leader accusing Hassan of making false accusations and slamming the Granite state's governor for not agreeing to curb the influence of outside money in their highly competitive race.
There's an idea taking root on college campuses that students cannot be exposed to any ideas, words or phrases that discomfort them in any way, even if that wasn't anyone's intent.
That's why schools are embracing "trigger warnings" — warnings placed at the top of readings that mention a topic that might "trigger" a flashback to some awful episode in a student's life. One law student at Harvard went so far as to request that the school not teach rape law because hearing about that crime might re-traumatize anyone who lived through it.
