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Higher Ed: A Bubble About To Burst

Posted on | April 6, 2012 | 18 Comments

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 actual worth. The inherent problem with type of market is that by the very nature of a bubble, eventually it has to burst. We’ve heard a lot about the US Housing Bubble, the China Stock and Property Bubble, and of course the Dot-com Bubble of the late 90s and early 00s. In each case, a period of euphoric buying and selling gave way to a sobering reality that purchases were worth far less than most consumers had been lead to believe. Recent chatter among economists and pundits is suggesting that the next economic bubble, a Higher Education Bubble, has already been forming for some time, and may soon burst.

Since the global economic collapse in 2008, more people have been delaying retirement. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2008 to 2009, the number of people over 65 years looking for work increased a staggering 46%. From 2000-2009, the number of students enrolled in college increased 5.8%. An ever-increasing numbers of college graduates flooding the workforce where no one is retiring.

Meanwhile, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, from the 1999-2000 school year to 2009-2010, prices for undergraduate tuition, room, and board at public institutions rose 37%, and 25% at private institutions, adjusted for inflation. What does this all mean? Well, if the value of a college degree is determined by how much it positively affects one’s job prospects, then a college Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree is becoming less valuable every year.  Simply put, the product (college) is becoming more expensive while its rewards are diminishing. A classic economic bubble scenario.

On paper, it appears a Higher Education Bubble is imminent. However, there are some experts who refuse to strap on their tinfoil hats just yet. They suggest that there are intrinsic differences between the value of Higher Education and the value of, say, a house or an internet domain name that will protect the institution from the traditional bubble-burst cycle.

According to Sandy Baum, senior fellow at the George Washington University School of Education, “When people lost their jobs or the economy turns shaky, a lot of folks return to school to learn new skills or bolster their resumes”. Unlike an individual who purchases a house that is inflated in value and has to deal with the repercussions after a real-estate bubble bursts, Baum suggests that the skills learned at university will still put an individual in a much better position than one without a degree. Even completing just part of a masters degree program may actually help. A recent Pew Research Analysis supports this view, showing that a worker with a bachelor’s degree still makes over $650,000 more than a high school graduate over their lifetime.

With markets becoming ever more globalized, competition is greater than ever. For the time being, it is difficult to argue with the lifetime earning advantages of a college degree. Current statistics, coupled with a culturally embedded belief in the importance of higher education create an environment where avoidance of a potential Higher Education Bubble burst seems nearly impossible. What an individual can do is make the most of their education. Take out as few loans as possible. Learn valuable and marketable skills, build an invulnerable resume and hope for the best. Even still, though, it might be wise to prepare for the worst.

Update: thank you, Instapundit!

Category: Education

When the Blogosphere Gets Weird …

Posted on | April 6, 2012 | 32 Comments

. . . the weird get blogging, and the past few days have kept me tied up in all kinds of “deep” stuff that prevented me from keeping up with the flow of events on the blogosphere. First there was that weirdness about the Planned Parenthood bombing in Wisconsin and the MSNBC “Republican War on Women” meme. Then I spent yesterday immersing the entirety of my cerebral cortex in campaign-finance reports and the details of the Florida primary campaign in order to locate the precise moment when Newt Gingrich’s campaign became an irretrievable disaster.

So I’m trying to get back in the flow now, which isn’t helped when Bill Quick — The Guy Who Named the Blogosphere — whacks me for my post about Gingrich. Look, Bill: This stuff is important, OK?

The big media are going to tell their own version of the 2012 campaign, shaped by their various prejudices in favor of the Conventional Wisdom, and so there is real value in publicly re-examining the facts of the campaign, thus to provide at least the raw materials for crafting a counter-narrative. It might be nice if there were a think tank, a philanthropic foundation or a book publisher offering to cut me a fat check, so I could afford to hire an assistant do all the research — e.g., what’s the daily charter rate for a 16-seat Gulfstream IV? — but as it is, there’s just me and I’m actually kind of enjoying it.

Remember my wild ride to McCarran International Airport with the Best Cab Driver in Vegas? I’d forgotten all about that until I started digging back through the archives. If the GOP primary campaign is now effectively over (an assertion that Rick Santorum certainly does not accept), then the question of How We Got Here becomes a matter of historical interest, because those who don’t know history are doomed.

Then again, maybe we’re all doomed.

Maybe history is now repeating itself for the very last time. But the ancient Mayans could not be reached for comment.

At any rate, Bill Quick’s contempt for Rick Santorum isn’t what this story is about, except insofar as it serves as an example of how the perception of candidates affects the reality of campaigns. If you’ll check page 404 of Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72, you’ll find Hunter S. Thompson talking about how “perception” was the key word to understanding what went wrong with George McGovern’s campaign.

Of course, looking back over the distance of four decades, it is possible to perceive that McGovern was doomed beyond all hope of redemption from Day One, that Nixon’s Campaign to Re-Elect the President was destined to crush whoever got the Democratic Party nomination that year, and that any perception to the contrary was never more than a mirage.

Let’s not ponder whether that shoe is now on the other foot, eh?

Leaving aside such premonitions, I remain fascinated by the gap between perception and reality in politics, and what happened to the Gingrich campaign is a textbook example: On that Monday before the Florida primary, Newt was still the national front-runner, barely a week had passed since he’d beaten Mitt Romney in South Carolina and — if all you knew was what you saw on Fox News — it was going to be Newt-vs.-Mitt all the way to the end.

But there was something drastically wrong with that perception. I sensed the disconnect, but couldn’t quite identify or adequately describe what it was that bugged me. It wasn’t until I took the time to start going through the details of the FEC reports (which of course weren’t available at the time) that I located the relevant facts, demonstrating that while Newt had already passed his fundraising peak on Jan. 22, his campaign was still spending as if those days of six-figure contributions would stretch forward infinitely.

This was, I say, a Neutral Objective Fact — but a fact that was not known at the time, and its shrewd concealment permitted the Gingrich campaign (which was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy throughout February) to maintain an illusion of viability for several more weeks. The revelation of how such a perception-reality gap developed may not disturb Bill Quick, given his animus toward Santorum’s social conservatism. Yet it might disturb those conservatives whose idea was to find the strongest “Not Romney” candidate in order to prevent the GOP Establishment from once again imposing a non-conservative nominee on the unwilling grassroots.

Surely there must have been many millions of Republican voters, and thousands of campaign contributors, whose primary motive in backing Newt was their belief that he was the Only Candidate Who Could Stop Romney. By the end of January, however, that belief was already being falsified by the Gingrich campaign’s overspending, tactical errors, and strategic miscalculations. Yet they were able to keep up the pretense of viability all through February and on into March.

Maybe that doesn’t bother you any more than it bothers Bill Quick, but don’t you think it’s an important reality that deserves to be understood? Just look at today’s headlines:

President Obama raises nearly
$1.5 million in 3 hours
— The Hill

Effort would change Texas primary
to winner take all, benefit Santorum
— Austin American-Statesman

Rob Portman tops veepstakes
— Politico

What is the reality-perception gap today? What unknown facts contradict our superficial perception of political events, a perception based on news coverage that can never include all the facts? How much different would our perception be, if we were privy to all the relevant facts, rather than just those facts we glean from media accounts that are always incomplete, even when they are not actually biased?

Maybe that’s too “meta.” Never mind. I try not to take this stuff too personally. Go hit Bill Quick’s tip jar, just to let him know it’s OK.

Category: Bill Quick, Election 2012, R.S. McCain School of Journalism

BELLA SANTORUM HOSPITALIZED

Posted on | April 6, 2012 | 10 Comments

Rick Santorum’s campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley just issued this terse statement: “Rick and his wife Karen have taken their daughter Bella to the hospital. The family requests prayers and privacy as Bella works her way to recovery.” I’ll try to update if more deails become available.

Category: Rick Santorum

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Eyewitness to History in Florida

Posted on | April 6, 2012 | 22 Comments

Newt Gingrich in Fort Myers, Florida, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012

“Well, it’s past 2:30 now, so I’d better get over to the airport. Let’s hope the Gingrich people don’t sic the cops on me.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Jan. 30, 2012

How many readers remember the day I covered a Newt Gingrich rally in Fort Myers, Florida? That was the Monday day before the primary and I filed my column for The American Spectator that night from a McDonald’s on Colonial Drive, near Page Field, where Newt had flown in for an event with Michael Reagan and Herman Cain in the airport parking lot. It was a historic day, although I didn’t realize it at the time.

Yesterday, I did some research and discovered that Gingrich and his entourage were flying around Florida that day aboard a 16-seat Gulfstream IV jet. And what made Jan. 30 so historic was that on that day, according to their Federal Election Commission report, Newt’s campaign spent $970,826.77.

That was the peak — the pinnacle, the acme, the zenith — of Gingrich’s campaign spending. On no other day throughout the course of his entire campaign did Newt 2012 spend more money than on Jan. 30.

Not only that, but comparing reported estimates of attendance at Newt’s five rallies that day, the crowd at Fort Myers — which I estimated between 250 and 300 — may have been the biggest. In all, on that day when Gingrich hit his spending peak, his combined audience for all five events totalled fewer than 1,500 people.

And his campaign spent $970,826.77.

That amount was more than twice what Gingrich’s campaign collected on its best day of fundraising. On Jan. 22, the day after he won the South Carolina primary, Newt reported contributions of $403,164.

In case you don’t remember, Jan. 22 was a Sunday, and I was driving back home with my 13-year-old son Jefferson after a week spent covering the South Carolina primary campaign. We stopped in at a McDonald’s at Rock Hill, S.C., so I could do one more post from the Palmetto State. My wife called to tell me that, due to some wacky miscalculation or technological glitch, our bank account balance was near zero, and it was by no means certain that my remaining cash would buy enough gas to enable us to make it home to Maryland more than 400 miles away.

That crisis threatened a premature end to my campaign-trail travels, and it was therefore with a sense of desperation that I posted a “Memo from the National Affairs Desk” from that McDonald’s in Rock Hill:

How the hell am I going to make it to Florida? I’ve got press credentials for Thursday’s CNN debate in Jacksonville, but unless there is some kind of miracle between now and then, there’s no way I’ll be able to buy a plane ticket. Only the most frantic rattling of the tip jar can make it happen.

You came through, guys. Four days later, on Jan. 26, I flew out to Jacksonville to cover the CNN debate, and took note of this headline:

Gingrich Pledges To Establish
Permanent Base On The Moon
‘By The End Of My Second Term’

Yeah. Good luck with that plan, huh?

That Thursday night at the debate, I was wearing my Florida shirt (purchased at a nearby Goodwill store) in the media filing center:

Santorum left Jacksonville and went home to visit his hospitalized 3-year-old daughter, Bella. Meanwhile, I covered two Romney rallies — Friday in Orlando and Sunday in Naples, where I spent the weekend in a posh condo owned by Dan Collins’s parents — and then, on that history Monday, I drove to Fort Myers to cover the Gingrich rally.

Memories? It’s all kind of a blur now. If it weren’t for the daily account of these travels here on the blog and in my American Spectator columns, I’d never be able to re-assemble a simple chronology, much less remember little details about where I bought that crazy shirt.

And yet, despite all the madness and desperation, I was there — The Man on the Scene — the day Newt’s doomed presdiential bid hit its peak.

The $970,826.77 Gingrich’s campaign spent that day was equal to 17.4% of the $5.6 million Gingrich raised in January, which was its best fundraising month of the entire campaign. And I was there.

I saw it happen — an eyewitness to history in the making — without even realizing it at the time. The column I filed for The American Spectator that night at the McDonald’s half a mile from the Fort Myers airport was called “Fear and Loathing in the Sunshine State.” And so yesterday, when I began researching how Gingrich’s campaign spent its way to disaster, it was a kick in the head to realize that the pivotal moment had happened right there in front of my eyes:

Palm trees swayed in a warm Florida breeze one afternoon in late January while we awaited the candidate’s arrival. Four TV satellite trucks were parked outside the terminal at Page Field in Fort Myers, and I was among two-dozen or so journalists waiting in the airport parking lot where about 300 supporters of Newt Gingrich were gathered to greet the man who, just nine days earlier, had defeated Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary.
On Monday, Jan. 30, the day before the Florida primary, the omens were clear enough that Gingrich was about to be defeated in the Sunshine State, but none of Newt’s supporters that afternoon in Fort Myers seemed to suspect that the former House Speaker’s campaign was on the verge of a catastrophic collapse. Nothing reported by the news media prepared them for the disasters that swiftly followed Gingrich’s Florida defeat — his Nevada meltdown and his fourth-place February finishes in Minnesota, Maine, and Michigan — leading up to his March 6 wipeout, when Newt won only his home state of Georgia out of 10 contests on “Super Tuesday.” . . .

Read the rest at The American Spectator, and thanks to everybody who hit the tip jar and gave me a chance to tell that story.

UPDATE: Looking for the appropriate link for the “posh condo in Naples” — thanks, Dan Collins! — this is what I found:

This morning I drove to Waffle House for breakfast — 5-ounce New York strip steak, two eggs over medium, hashbrowns, wheat toast, large orange juice and coffee, $11.71 — and the waitress had a tattoo on her neck.

Heh. It’s weird how the little details make the difference. The tattoo!

You can read the rest of that and see if you spot the annoying little typo that jumped out at me. Damn, I hate typos.

 

 

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Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Florida, Newt Gingrich, South Carolina

LIVE AT FIVE – WEAKENED EDITION

Posted on | April 6, 2012 | 19 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Santorum And His Backers Huddle On Path Forward

Senator Rick Santorum

Is Pennsylvania his do or die battle?



Poll On Trayvon Martin Shooting Shows Racial Divide
Wildly different perceptions of what happened and what should happen



Japanese Ghost Ship Sunk By Coast Guard
Derelict fishing boat adrift in North Pacific since last year’s tsunami sunk in Gulf of Alaska by Coasties’ fire



POLITICS
Arpaio Probe: Feds Told To Put Up Or Shut Up

Maricopa County (Az) Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Sheriff rejects court-appointed monitor, federal overseer; County attorney demands Feds reveal evidence behind probe

Military Board Says Marine Who Criticized Obama On Facebook Should Be Dismissed

Attorney General Defends Obama’s Remarks In Letter To 5th Circuit

Gingrich-Founded Think Tank Files For Bankruptcy

Man Pleads Guilty In Botched “Fast & Furious” Sting

Former CIA Agent Indicted For Leaking To Journalists

Connecticut Poised To Repeal Death Penalty

Coke Fails To Learn From Rush Limbaugh Experience, Cuts Ties To ALEC



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Forget Gasoline, Diesel Topped $4 A Month Ago
Gold Price Swings Make Futures ETFs Questionable
Facebook To Pick NASDAQ For IPO?
US Stocks Move Back Up, Erasing Early Losses
200K Jobs Added In March?
Judge Signs Off On $25 Billion Foreclosure Settlement
Spain To Present Budget Stability Plan After Bonds Fall
Jobless Claims Fall To 4-Year Low
Samsung Quarterly Profit Up Record $5.1 Billion
“Three Cups Of Tea” Author Misused Charity’s Funds
Prototype Google Glasses Spotted In The Wild
Over Half A Million Macs Infected With Malware
Twitter Files Lawsuits Against Spammers. Spam Tool Providers
Microsoft Writing Checks To Fill Out App Store
Ferdinand Porsche Dies, 76; Designed The 911
Complaints About iPad WiFi Continue To Climb
New York Removes Sex Offenders From Online Games



SPORTS
Indians Drop Longest Opening Day Game To Toronto 7-4

Tigers starter Justin Verlander

Corcoran covers the notable events of baseball’s season openers

NCAA Denies Connecticut’s Appeal Of Academic Sanctions; No Post-Season For Huskies Next Year


Santana Super In Return As Mets Shut Out Braves

Young Astros Want To Leave NL With A Bang, Not A Whimper

Arkansas Puts Petrino On Leave After Crash

Rivers Blasts Celtics

Pens Win, Lock In Playoff Slot

Caps, Panthers Both Punch Playoff Tickets

Desmond Delivers In Opening Day Win Against Cubs



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jimmy Smits Joins “Sons Of Anarchy”

Jimmy Smits

Will play major role in season-long plot arc

J-Lo, Casper Smart Film “Orgy Scene” For “Dance Again” Music Video

Alicia Keys Gives First “Real” Interview On Cover Of “VIBE” Global Issue

Charlize Theron Opens Up On Adopted Baby Jackson



Whitney Houston’s Shocking Autopsy Report

“Fifty Shades Of Grey” Casting

New “Real Housewives Of New York City” Announced

Mary J. Blige: BK Chicken Commercial Was Not What I Expected



FOREIGNERS
Syrian Government Steps Up Offensive In Damascus Suburbs
Malawi President Mutharika Reportedly Dead
Mali’s Tuareg Rebels Declare Independence
Russia Criticizes US Over Viktor Bout’s 25-Year Sentence
US To Ease Sanctions On Burma After Landslide Win By Aung San Kyi’s Party
Greek Riots Continue For Second Night After Pensioner’s Suicide
Turkey Says 2800 Syrians Fled Country On Thursday Alone
Hollande Gains Support After Sarkozy Stalls
White House Defends Meetings With Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Pope Rebukes Priests Advocating Ordination Of Women, End To Celibacy; Calls For “Radicalism Of Obedience”
Nork Defector Sees Signs Of PRC Policy Shift On Refugees
Tearful Chavez Pleads For God To Spare Him From Cancer



BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Yes, You Can Ignore Google’s Phony Malware Warning
Zilla Of The Revolution: Identity Theft – Another Tool Of The “Tolerant” Left
1389 Blog: The Good News, The Bad News, And The Ugly News From Zilla
Weasel Zippers: Obama Blames Bush For Millionth Time
NYT: RNC Makes Big Turnaround In Fundraising
Washington Free Beacon: Toobin Claims Some GOP Judges “Deranged By Hatred Of The President”
Power Line: Obama As Dunce
Shelby Steele: The Exploitation Of Trayvon Martin
JustOneMinute: Trayvon Martin – Day Three Of Eerie Silence At The New York Times
Jawa Report: DNC appoints “Jewbag” To Collect “Jew Cash”
Ed Driscoll: Channel Nine From Outer Space
Lonely Conservative: Now That It’s An Election Year, Obama’s All For Women Golfing
Tim Blair: No Doom And Gloom
Clayton Cramer: Catholic Polar Bear High School Girls In Trouble?
Bryan Preston” MSNBC Finds Everything On Daily Kos Too Good To Check


SOTD: Tangaroa

Category: Live at Five

MA-4 Blogger Call With Sean Bielat

Posted on | April 5, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

How do you not support a candidate with a battleship on his masthead, I ask you? I took notes, and kibitzed way too much for somebody not even in Massachusetts. The following is an unofficial, qualitative account of the call. I took the liberty of re-arranging the Q&A sequence for better flow.

Sean Bielat conducted a blogger conference call on April 5, 2012.

Sarah Rumpf, Sean Bielat’s communications director, initiated the call. She stated that first quarter fundraising for the campaign was great, several times better than 2010, something like 1,900 donors, totaling something like $175,000.

Sean came on, and covered his bio, touching on his Marine Corps service, college education, and business exposure, before focusing on the campaign proper.

This year’s campaign is still about jobs, the economy, the deficit, and the role of the Federal government in all three.

The stimulus, and whether it added any jobs to the economy is a big concern. Sean thinks the focus should be on letting businesses & families retain their money.

Also, regulation, and its economic impact. Estimates run to 2.5 million jobs prevented during this administration. Sean mentioned meeting a painter, who employed two others. There is apparently sufficient business to consider hiring, but regulatory uncertainty precludes hiring two more workers.

Deficit reduction was Sean’s third point. Entitlement spending and discretionary spending are the two categories in the Federal budget.

  • Reforming entitlements is tricky, due to instantaneous attacks and demagoguery whenever change is mentioned, however hope-filled. The 2010 campaign saw Sean’s common-sense remarks turned into scare tactics. Clearly it was good politics for Barney, but bad policy.
    You should never be afraid to lose the next election by stepping up and doing the right thing.
  • Discretionary. DoD. There is room for smart ways to pursue cuts, instead of the dumb ways now pursued. 700k DoD workforce might be a
    place to find cuts. 20k Marines? How about some bureaucratic overhead.

Finally, the role of the Federal government. It is vastly different from what was envisioned by the Founders. The Commerce Clause is used as justification for actions that are not within the intent of the Constitution.

Federalism should be used to devolve the Federal tasks to the States, and closer to the voters. Federal bureaucrats are un-elected, and are also not answerable to those voters.

Redistricting following the 2010 census favors Bielat’s campaign. Less ‘snaky’ gerrymandering is at work this time around. The district is more cohesive, adding  communities outside of Boston that may provide more Republican voters.

Question and answer:

  1. The Federal Reserve?
    Audit the Fed. Ron Paul perhaps over-emphasizes the Federal Reserve. It is perhaps unlikely that the country will walk away from a Federal Reserve. Dodd-Frank tried to give the Federal Reserve even more autonomy.
  2. Paul Ryan’s plan for deficit reduction?
    Chiefly good because it exists as a talking point. SB’s focus is on retaining necessary capabilities, and not letting DoD get hammered too hard.
  3. Little Joe Kennedy: is he a serious candidate?
    He’s serious. Raised over 1 Million as soon as he announced, yet he stays away from issues. No issues whatsoever on his website. Seems like a nice guy, but running on your last name seems. . .
    Caller: Is Joe Kennedy like a Kardashian?
  4. Will Sean attempt to link Little Joe to BHO’s record?
    Probably not too specific a linkage. Just generally pointing to the leadership vacuum so notable in DC.
  5. Debates?
    Nothing known until after the September primary. There were 10 debates with Barney in 2010, no idea what, if anything, Little Joe will support.
  6. Will national-level fundraising be an issue, with Barney Frank bowing out?
    The fact that Little Joe moved into the district a week before the election might be as helpful as the anti-Barney animus of 2010. Scott Brown will buoy the campaign, and Mitt Romney on the ticket would help.
  7. How is the upstream support from the national GOP?
    NRCC is interested in the race, and there has been great contact. PAC’s will eventually be offering support. Greater support than 2010, because the seat is open and Sean is a tested candidate. Open seats attract more interest. Citizens United has endorsed.
  8. Bielat has a new headquarters
    Opens on April 21st, stay glued to FaceBook and and Twitter. 1,700 returning volunteers from 2010, building on that cadre.
  9. Social media ideas. Any more viral videos?
    The social media geniuses are grinding away. Outreach teases:
  • Full new media press.
  • Some video
    possibilities.
  • Blogger calls.
  • Setting groundwork for
    viral success.
  • Activist organizations like the Young Republicans

Da Tech Guy was also on  the call.

Sean Bielat and Sarah Rumpf are currently planning to attend BlogCon in Charlotte, with all the bloggers who are nearly cool enough to be read live by Mark Levin!

Sean Bielat for Congress!

Category: Massachusetts, Sean Bielat

Rule 5 Thursday

Posted on | April 5, 2012 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


I went to Anime Detour this past weekend and all I got* was a nasty flu virus. That’s why this is the latest of all late Rule 5 roundups. So instead of combining two weeks’ worth of links into one indigestible lump, here’s a mid-week mess of Stuff. Some of it NSFW, so make with the clicky clicky at your own risk.


Leading off is Laughing Conservative, studying the anatomy of Sophie Reade. Randy’s Roundtable takes a midweek break with Tiffany Fallon and Amy Jackson, while Reaganite Resistance rolls with Miss Estonia 2011, Madli Vilsar. Jake Finnegan’s Burkalesque Babe this week is Jennifer Nicole Lee, the POH Diaries looks at Jennifer Lawrence, and Brian Noggle checks in with an 80s Mystery Click Photo. Dustbury checks in with Sela Ward and Jennifer Love Hewitt, Maggie’s Notebook has Cameron Diaz, and Valley of the Shadow rattles the tip jar with the help of former Dollhouse star Dichen Lachman, now in Being Human. Think Goth and Tibetan don’t go together? Think again, and hit the tip jar!


The Dividist makes his Rule 5 Debut with the epic musical “Don’t Cry For Me San Francisco” starring former Sheriff Russ Mirkarimi, his Venezuelan telenovela star wife Eliana Lopez, and his girlfriend Christina Flores. Also, music by Queen! Epic silliness for a very silly sheriff in the most silly of all America’s cities.


Soylent Green’s Monday Motivationer done gone fishin’, but Chantelle Fontein provides the Tuesday Titillation, Barbara Borges the Humpday Hawtness, and then the rest of the week is taken up with a blogasm, philosophy of art, the realization that sometimes a banana is just a banana, corsetation retaliation, Oz getting its awesome back, and a hidden Kelly Monaco in this post.


A View From The Beach leads off with Alicia Silverstone, follows with 3D computer screens, eating chocolate to get thin, Sex Week at Harvard [insert crude joke by MIT students here], better air, and driving stress.


Proof Positive has Katie Holmes, National Cleavage Day with Jeri Ryan, Sex In Advertising, and vintage babe Dyanne Thorne. The Camp of the Saints slacks off this week, offering only Clara Morgane and Lena Headey


El Opinador Compulsivo checks in with Yin and Yang, Take The G Train, Black & White, Bailing Out The Greeks, Smoking!, and some George Clooney beefcake for the ladies.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week are Melanie Tilbrook and Misaki Nito, Jun Natsukawa, Kate Upton, Jessica Kizaki, Kelly Brook, Erina Matsui, and Rebecca Lynn. Also, National Cleavage Day!


Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline for the Rule 5 Sunday Easter Edition will be Saturday, April 7.

*Besides some quality time with #1 Son, a box set of Black Heaven DVDs and three T-shirts, that is.

Category: Rule 5

They Know Which Side They’re On

Posted on | April 5, 2012 | 9 Comments

Pornographers and abortionists:

A porn studio in California has selected a pro-abortion research group formerly affiliated with the Planned Parenthood abortion business as a recipient of its donation.
Girlfriends Films operates a monthly charity program that has made donations to legitimate community groups but also to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Now, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute was selected to receive a gift of $1,000 from the porn studio.

Category: Abortion
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