With their genius for expanding failed government programs, academics have concocted a way to apply affirmative action more expansively. Simply put, Richard D. Kahlenberg, in a June 4, 2010 essay in The Chronicle Review suggests that “universities consider how far a student has come as well as what her raw scores are” on the SAT.
Monthly Archives For June 2010
Keynesianism Questioned by Harvard Researchers
Contrary to the Keynesian theory that government spending can spark economic growth in times of recession, a new study demonstrates that pork, at least, may damage corporations within the states that receive these federal dollars.
Medicare On Life Supports
Commentary: Along with millions of other Americans, I received a glossy letter from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, titled “Medicare and the New Health-Care Law—What it Means for You.”
“Never Google Drunk”
Commencement is usually a time when the speaker gives encouragement to the college graduates as they head off into the work force and pursue their life dreams. But NBC’s Today Show anchor Ann Curry, this year’s Wheaton College commencement speaker, gave mixed signals, making an embarrassing mistake during her speech.
Home: Where the school is
Apparently, staying at home not only helps you get over an illness, it can also help students recover from public schools.
Free Dinner with Lee Edwards
Date: June 14 – 6 – 8 PM
Ebenezer’s Coffeehouse
201 F Street, NE
William F. Buckley Jr. might have said There is no free lunch, albeit more elegantly. Perhaps not, but you can have supper on us with his biographer, Lee Edwards, the author and editor of 20 books. RSVP on Facebook or contact Sarah Schaerr Norton.
Homeland Insecurity
AJC: In a forum hosted by the CATO Institute on May 25, 2010, libertarian author Ben Friedman and Ohio State University professor John Mueller argued that the American public’s panic over terrorism and homeland security has cost taxpayers trillions of wasted dollars.
Elegy for Wesleyan
Commentary: At the National Tea Party Convention, Andrew Breitbart made an interesting series of remarks about where the persistent liberal victimhood memes come from.
Cali College’s Illegal Scholarship
A small community college in California is now offering illegal aliens a $2500 scholarship that is named after another illegal alien that died recently in a car crash.
Iraq Update
AJC: Last week the Institute for the Study of War hosted a presentation on Capitol Hill entitled, “Iraq’s Political Crisis.”
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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