The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Want America To Fail? Heed Van Jones

by Smitty An excellent video from Free Market America (a project of Americans for Limited Government). This is of Bill Whittle caliber:About the only turn left un-stoned here is the point that the Federal Reserve has been the source of $ to support the entire politics of failure. Moving from reality to the surreal, Hot [...]

They Told Me If I Voted For McCain, ‘White Folks’ Would ‘Keep’ Charter Schools For Themselves!

by Smitty “If charter schools were so good, why didn’t the white folks keep them for themselves?” This isn’t just wrong; it’s discouraging. When you look at the photo album of Washington DC charter schools, they may not fit the Chicago narrative. Nor, in fact, does the funding news. But its not the reality of [...]

Higher Ed: A Bubble About To Burst

special guest post by Meika Jensen [I was approached via email by the author with a request to post on the higher education bubble. Give her constructive feedback, you scalawags. --Smitty] In economic terms, a pricing bubble occurs whenever a commodity is traded in high volumes for prices that are far greater than the products [...]

Middle School Teacher Named ‘Stacie’ Caught in Perhaps Predictable Scandal

Let’s face it: If you ever hire somebody with a name like that, you can generally expect trouble to result: Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old science teacher at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard, was removed from the classroom Monday, three days after pupils reported spotting her in a series of X-rated clips. “Maybe it’s [...]

KaplanGate: Is the Washington Post Covering Up Its Own Financial Scandal?

Rusty Weiss at Accuracy in Media examines the relationship between the Washington Post and Kaplan, a lucrative for-profit education firm owned by the Post‘s parent corporation: [T]here is a longstanding history of allegations of fraudulent practices, with hundreds of millions of dollars of profits diverted to Kaplan executives. Perhaps it’s also Kaplan’s generation of such [...]

Past The Dem Hypocrisy, There Is A Point Being Made

by Smitty Another day, another “Dems apoplectic over the same stunts they pulled in 2008” story. This time, the Democrats are whinging at being held accountable for the connection between lousy policy and high gas prices: The point here is that the Ruling Class model is that the population as a whole is a giant, [...]

‘A Poor Impression Of The Insular, Cliquish Culture Of Their Discipline’

by Smitty An interesting article at Slate reprints an article from a decade ago about a non-professional philosopher who wrote a serious philosophical tract and then, retaining anonymity, paid philosophers to engage on it in scholarly journals. James Ryerson then goes on a hunt to unmask this anonymous thinker, with anti-climactic results, emphasis mine: After [...]

Yeshiva Girls Gone Wild

You know you’re reading bad porn when you get lines like this: After all of our secret rendezvouses, I’m still not used to seeing him without his yarmulke on, but this time it’s somewhat of a comfort. Sweetheart: “Rendezvouses“? I’d expel you for bad grammar. This anonymous article in the Yeshiva University Beacon has caused [...]

Iowa State University ‘Sexuality’ Professor Heckles Rick Perry at Campaign Event

Warren Blumenfeld, associate professor of “Multicultural & International Curriculum Studies,” academic heckler: A packed coffee house where Rick Perry spoke this afternoon turned into a bit of a ruckus that left the candidate heading out the back door and straight to his vehicle after several Iowans screamed questions about his views on gays. “Why do [...]

The War on Excellence: Charter School Threatened in Fulton County, Georgia UPDATE: Boortz Notices; More News UPDATE: Ruh-Roh — Islamophobia?

Last night I got an e-mail from a friend down home: Fulton Science Academy Middle School won a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School Award. That’s no mean feat. (Even Arne Duncan “congratulated the school”.) And, if I do say so myself, it’s no surprise. My sons attend the school and my wife and I are very [...]

Gillespie On Forgiving Student Loan Debt

by Smitty I like all three of Nick’s arguments, but he’s focusing on the Economics: Let me add three more: Student loans are not a federal task, and never were. The federal government should be forcibly precluded from queering the education market any further. If Virginians need student loans, we should be handling that in [...]

Indoctrination: What the Occupiers Believe and Why They Believe It

NYPD arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, Oct. 1 “In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the [...]

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