Somewhere a poor coal miner’s daughter is crying tonight.
The New York Times reports that Stanford University has turned its back on organized labor and is purging its $18 billion endowment fund of all investments related to the highly unionized coal industry.
The university said it acted in accordance with internal guidelines that allow its trustees to consider whether “corporate policies or practices create substantial social injury” when choosing investments. Coal’s status as a major source of carbon pollution linked to climate change persuaded the trustees to remove companies “whose principal business is coal” from their investment portfolio, the university said.
Meanwhile, on a green energy wind farm not far from Stanford, a baby bald eagle watched his mother get chopped to pieces by a giant bird-killing wind turbine–doubling the agony of the poor coal miner’s daughter, who stood by observing the scene through her many tears.
Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of the book SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
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