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  • The Most Important Decision in Life

    06/25/2023 1:07:09 PM PDT · by Twotone · 21 replies
    Hillsdale-Imprimus ^ | June 2023 | Bishop Robert Barron
    The following is adapted from a speech delivered on May 13, 2023, at Hillsdale College’s 171st Commencement Ceremony. Congratulations to the Hillsdale College Class of 2023. It is a thrill to be here at Hillsdale, which I have heard about for a long time. Last night I had a wonderful tour of campus, and the evening culminated in a concert in your beautiful chapel. The concert included Mahler’s First Symphony played by the student orchestra and was just marvelous. When I was a theology professor, I taught a course on the Reformation for many years, taking seriously the works of...
  • Commencement speaker slams CUNY Law for supporting ‘fascist’ NYPD, oppressive systems

    05/29/2023 7:16:51 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Nypost ^ | 05/29/2023 | Isabel Keane
    A graduate speaking at the City University of New York’s law school commencement called for a “revolution” to challenge oppressive institutions in the US — name-checking the “fascist” NYPD, the military, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the prison system. Future lawyer Fatima Mousa Mohammed, a Queens native who was selected by the graduating 2023 class to speak during the May 12 ceremony, praised CUNY for supporting student activism — but said the school still managed to fail students by supporting the NYPD.
  • Biden tells Howard graduates hope is ‘shadowed’ by fear, hate but can still win

    05/13/2023 11:22:49 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/13/2023 | Jared Gans
    President Biden said hope is “shadowed” by fear, violence and hate but asserted that it can still win if people speak up to oppose those forces in his commencement address at Howard University on Saturday. Biden, the seventh sitting president to give the commencement address at the historically Black university, told graduates that he hoped hatred was losing the battle after former President Obama was elected and reelected as the country’s first Black president. But he said hatred “never goes away” and only “hides under the rocks.”
  • President Joe Biden to speak at Air Force Academy’s commencement ceremony

    05/13/2023 11:36:13 AM PDT · by ken in texas · 55 replies
    KRDO - Colorado Springs ^ | 5/2/2023 | Jaleesia Fobbs
    President Joe Biden is announcing that he will speak at the United States Air Force Academy’s Commencement Ceremony next month. This comes after he presented the Air Force Falcons with the Commander-In-Chief's trophy at the White House Friday, April 28. The graduation ceremony is expected to take place Thursday, June 1, at the Falcon Stadium. Gates will open to the public at 6:30 a.m. and the ceremony is expected to begin around 9:30 a.m. Tickets are required to attend. For more information about graduation week you can click the link here.
  • 'You're a really dull class': Biden calls out Coast Guard Academy in commencement remarks for not laughing at his jokes

    05/19/2021 3:52:18 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 05/19/2021 | Naomi Lim
    President Joe Biden mirrored former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's awkward "please clap" moment as his addressed the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduating class of 2021. "You are a really dull class. Come on, man. Is the sun getting to you?" Biden said Wednesday in Connecticut after comparing the Coast Guard with the Navy. "All kidding aside, being here together is a victory in itself." During his 25 minute-plus speech, Biden also admitted he needed "absolution" after his college years at the University of Delaware for "minor infractions like using a fire extinguisher to hose down an RA," referring to the...
  • Biden Will Not Address Notre Dame Commencement, Was Invited by the University

    05/11/2021 7:30:00 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 33 replies
    Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/11/21 | Christine Rouselle
    In a break with recent tradition, President Joe Biden will not be delivering the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame this year - although he was invited by the university to do so. On Tuesday, the university announced that its May 23 commencement speaker will be Jimmy Dunne, a finance executive and trustee of the university. During the last three presidential administrations, U.S. presidents or vice presidents have addressed the university's commencement in their first year in office, but that trend will not continue in 2021. Although a university spokesman told CNA that, as a policy, “we do...
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci to deliver commencement address at Yale The advisor to seven presidents will address Yale's

    04/11/2021 3:09:19 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    Fox61 ^ | April 10, 2021 | Bill Flood
    School of Public Health class of 2021. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases will be the commencement speaker for the 2021 graduates of the Yale School of Public Health. The school says a 'special hybrid ceremony' will take place on Monday, May 24. Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984, and oversees research of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. NIAID also supports research on transplantation...
  • Dropped: VP Pence Disinvited As Commencement Speaker at Wisconsin Lutheran College Due To Kenosha Unrest

    08/28/2020 7:15:59 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 46 replies
    Hotair ^ | 08/28/2020 | Karen Townsend
    Vice-President Mike Pence was scheduled to speak at a commencement address at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday. Thursday those plans were canceled when Pence was dropped as the speaker after “careful consideration of the escalating events in Kenosha.”Wisconsin Lutheran College is an independent private Christian college. It’s a small school with a student population of just over 1200. The commencement isn’t on campus, it is at Franklin Field in Franklin. A substitute speaker, Rev. Mark Jeske of St. Marcus Lutheran Church, has been named. The excuse given for the disinviting Pence is the violent chaos in...
  • President Trump Delivers Remarks at the 2020 United States Military Academy at West Point Graduation

    06/13/2020 4:27:55 PM PDT · by Freedom'sWorthIt · 11 replies
    youtube / President Trump ^ | 6/13/20 | President Trump
    Something to lift our spirits. Something you won't see on the LSM. It brought tears to these tired eyes.
  • An Unsolicited Commencement Speech - Mike Rowe

    05/24/2020 4:45:04 PM PDT · by Jamestown1630 · 28 replies
    I'm a long-time fan of Mike Rowe, and happened last night to see his recent 'Unsolicited Commencement Speech'. (I searched, and couldn't see if anyone else had posted this; apologies if someone already has): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnrsRHnuRKY
  • Obama reminds black graduates that they are victims because of color in commencement speech

    05/17/2020 10:18:16 AM PDT · by kevcol · 53 replies
    BicPac Review ^ | May 17, 2020 | Tom Tillison
    Obama told graduates, “You’re being asked to find your way in a world in the middle of a devastating pandemic and a terrible recession. The timing is not ideal. And let’s be honest: A disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country. We see it in the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on our communities, just as we see it when a black man goes for a jog, and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he doesn’t submit to...
  • President Trump Delivers the Commencement Address at Hope for Prisoners Graduation Ceremony

    02/23/2020 2:47:11 PM PST · by Freedom'sWorthIt · 15 replies
    youtube ^ | 2/20/20 | The White House
    Just found this - others have probably seen it but could not find it when did a search here. Another unsung but awesome deed by our President, speaking at the commencement of the Hope for Prisoners graduation ceremony in Las Vegas. The President starts speaking at 50:07.
  • One of the Greatest Commencement Speeches Ever

    09/08/2019 4:14:58 PM PDT · by Robert DeLong · 38 replies
    YouTube ^ | Oct 6, 2017 | Dr Rick Rigsby Cal Maritime Commencement Ceremony 2017 Commencement Speaker, Dr Rick Rigsby
    This is the greatest commencement speech ever.
  • Actress Jenny Slate to give speech to tiny graduating class (1 student)

    06/07/2019 8:17:35 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 18 replies
    Cox Media via WPXI ^ | June 7, 2019 | Natalie Dreier
    CUTTYHUNK ISLAND, Mass. - Actress Jenny Slate, known for her roles on “Parks and Recreation” “Saturday Night Live” and as the voice of Assistant Mayor Bellwether in “Zootopia,” will have a very small audience when she addresses the Class of 2019. Slate will give the graduation speech for the ceremony at Cuttyhunk Elementary on Cuttyhunk Island off Cape Cod. The ceremony will graduate only one eighth grade student, 13-year-old Gwen Lynch, The New York Times reported. Cuttyhunk Island has a population of about 12 people most of the year, the Cape Cod Times reported. Vacationers fill the 2 and a...
  • Seven Things Commencement Speakers Should Consider

    05/22/2019 9:27:37 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 10 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | May 22, 2019 A.D. | John F. Di Leo
    Pearls of wisdom for the speechmakers of graduation season, 2019… Congratulations, Commencement Speakers! Today is your day! After a lifetime of devotion to your respective careers – as journalists, entrepreneurs, inventors, CEOs, ward heelers, or rent seekers – you have finally reached that pinnacle of achievement reserved for only 4600 people each year: you have been selected to give a commencement speech at one of America’s institutions of higher learning. You have finally made it. As you feverishly scribble your notes over the days to come, preparing for that moment of success, that twenty or thirty, or Heaven forbid, forty-minute...
  • Students Protest Pence During Commencement Address, Walk Out

    05/19/2019 3:13:38 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 41 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/19/2019 | Karen Townsend
    It’s the season of commencement ceremonies and the unavoidable controversies provoked by invited speakers. Why would 2019 be any different than previous years? The students have opinions and they want you to know about them.The latest commencement speaker to come under fire is Vice-President Mike Pence. Pence accepted an invitation to deliver a commencement address to the graduating class of Taylor University, a small private, interdenominational, evangelical Christian college in Upland, Indiana. Pence, remember, is the former Governor of Indiana so the invitation isn’t unusual on the face of it. It does seem a little unusual that a few...
  • Commencement Season and the Carcass of Woodstock

    06/03/2018 10:21:22 AM PDT · by huckfillary · 14 replies
    The Artful Dilettante ^ | June 3, 2018 | Artful Dilettante
    Once again, we're into the college commencement season. And once again, conservatives and libertarians have been kicked to the curb. Even if some balsy college president or board announced the selection of one of the persons below, the campus would be quickly engulfed in flames, its administrators subject to public mockery and humiliation, followed by summary termination. These are the children and grandchildren of those who went to Woodstock and never came home. Our nation is the very carcass of Woodstock on which we now feast. Below is a list of conservative/libertarian speakers of which any university should be proud...
  • Trump will be IMPEACHED: Clinton returns to her university to launch all-out attack on president

    05/26/2017 10:13:07 AM PDT · by DFG · 80 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/26/2017 | Geoff Earle
    Hillary Clinton suggested her campaign rival President Trump will get impeached, in sharp remarks in a commencement address Friday where she brought up 'obstruction of justice' and warned of the steps to authoritarianism. Speaking to gowned graduates at the school where she addressed students in 1969, Clinton referenced the resignation of President Richard Nixon and a House committee's impeachment investigation – but it was clear to graduating students what she was really talking about.
  • Hillary Gets Choked Up At Wellesley Commencement — Blames Allergies [VIDEO]

    05/26/2017 9:31:11 AM PDT · by blueyon · 53 replies
    The Dailycaller ^ | 5/26/17 | Christian Datoc
    Hillary Clinton struggled to speak shortly after beginning her speech at the Wellesley College commencement ceremony Friday. A college official rushed to deliver her a lozenge and water bottle as she choked on her words. She credited her croaky delivery to allergies rather than emotions, which drew cheers and laughs from the crowd.
  • Mike Pence sticks with faith and family, as Notre Dame grads walk out on his commencement speech

    05/21/2017 7:10:15 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Fox News ^ | 05/21/2017
    Vice President Mike Pence forged ahead Sunday with his University of Norte Dame commencement speech as some in attendance walked out, encouraging the graduates to keep their religious faith, value the freedom of speech and saying “the future is yours.” Pence, a former Indiana governor, was the most recent college campus speaker to face backlash or protest from students, faculty and others over ideological differences. He was invited to speak at the Catholic school, in South Bend, Ind., after students and faculty objected to a prospective invitation to President Trump, who would have been the seventh U.S. president to give...