An academic tries to make the case that our peripatetic president’s business trips abroad do not constitute an “apology tour,” as some of President Obama’s critics have often alleged. “Obama always links the expansion of…
Topic: Barack Obama
Obama doesn’t get what Community Colleges are For
President Obama visited a community college and pushed for his free community college plan, but he overlooked how graduation rates are historically terrible for two-year students and what happens if one offers free associate degrees…
Harvard is Fighting the Obama Admin’s Rules
Great op-ed on why the Obama Department of Education is overreaching their boundaries with sexual assault rules. Schools like Harvard shouldn’t have to have such onerous regulation from the top, which actually do no one…
White House Targeted College Savings
While the Obama Administration hatched a plan to make community college free, the White House plotted a change in the tax treatment of savings accounts parents use to pay for their children’s college education. “During…
Obama drops his Tax on College Savings Plans
It’s been only one WEEK after his State of the Union address and he’s already backtracked his proposed tax on college savings, which was tax the 529 college savings plan. Talk about a quick about-face.
Obama’s “Free” Community College Plan Prolongs High School
A really good take from The Federalist: “Grade inflation and enrollment inflation caused by converting community college to an entitlement will produce a high school graduating cohort that is ill-equipped for college work and weighed…
Community College is an Expensive Freebie
It’s one thing for conservative pundits to question the Obama Administration’s latest higher education subsidy. It’s quite another for a writer in The Atlantic to start asking inconvenient questions. “President Obama wants to provide free…
Colbert Report visits D.C. and George Washington University
His poll ratings may be in the basement and his policies might have mostly blown up in his face but there is one place where the president can still boost his self-esteem. Stephen Colbert, the…
America’s Secret, Double Government
Alarm over the growth of the national security state seems to wane among liberals when Democrats are in the White House but the sheer magnitude of the enterprise should be of concern to all no…
Gruber-ing Through November
In recent days the Obama administration has attempted to separate itself from MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber’s comments regarding the torturous way that Obamacare was written, and the “stupidity of the American voter.” Not to let…