From Naomi Schaefer Riley, at Wall Street Journal , ” As more students question rising college costs, professors defend useless research and their lack of teaching .” Read it at the link. The key is academe’s divorce from the real world, and I’d pile on about how this is killing the education of waves of students.
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Academia’s Crisis of Irrelevance
Being binary is bad for business, so when will politics cure its bipolar disorder? Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on the lessons Washington should learn from the real world.
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Death of the Duopoly
We all know the story of the boy who cried wolf, where multiple false warnings led people to ignore a real threat when it finally presented itself. Looking at some of the ridiculous stories of “racism” out there today, I can’t help but wonder how people who so frequently use the race card will feel when legitimate issues of race are similarly ignored. Take for instance this ad campaign from Dove which some claim is unconsciously racist : Gawker read this ad to mean Dove body wash is “Strong Enough to Turn a Black Woman White.” I just don’t see it. The ad shows a before and after pic and the concept of race didn’t even enter my mind until a bunch of dimwit bloggers brought it up. ::Gasp!:: Am I subconsciously racist? In another example of reading-so-far-between-the-lines-that-you-see-things-that-aren’t-actually-there, Fox Business host Eric Bolling is being accused of racism for this tweet criticizing Obama for toasting pints of Guinness while many Americans were in crisis: Apparently making a reference to “40′s” — meaning 40 oz. — is inherently racist. Why? NewsOne (For Black America) explains: 40s is slang for 40 oz bottles of beer, usually malt liquor, that was popular in hip hop in the 90s. Uh, so ? Do white people not drink 40s? I have. Did white people not enjoy hip hop in the 90s? I don’t really want to admit it, but in fact I did. All of this pseudo-racism nonsense detracts from the real struggles people have gone through in battling actual racism and only serves to divide people more. It’s time to simma’ down already.
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The boy who cried ‘RACISM!’
I never cease to be amazed, but Boy Wonder Ezra is up to his progressive tricks again, ” What Planned Parenthood Actually Does ” (via Memeorandum ). … As you can see in the chart atop this post, abortion services account for about 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s activities. Check the post for the chart he’s talking about, but no matter. The “3 percent” figure is a blatant lie, and the rest of Ezra’s post is questionable on the facts, and a diversion from the real issue in any case. Here’s Live Action on the numbers, ” 38.4% of Planned Parenthood’s 2009 “Health Center Income” is from Abortion “: THE TRUTH Annual abortions performed at Planned Parenthood: 332,278 Source: Planned Parenthood 2009 services fact sheet Average cost of abortion: $468 Source: Guttmacher Institute estimate Total income from abortions: $155,506,104 Total health center income: $404,900,000 Source: Planned Parenthood 2009 annual report This means that fully 38.4% of Planned Parenthood health center income comes directly from aborting unborn children. So, only “3 percent of activities”? I guess for Ezra abortion services are kinda like the Constitution — too hard to understand .
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Ezra Klein Shills for Planned Parenthood Abortion Industry
An impartial study reveals that Democrats bids for office rely on scare tactics and personal attack ads more than ever in an attempt to distract voters from the real campaign issues.
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Desperate Dems Double Personal Attack Ads
Seriously, are there any climate alarmists other than Ed Begley, Jr, who aren’t hypocrites? Oh, sorry, my bad, discussing climahypocrites is apparently a deflection from the real issue that climate change will kill us all if everyone else would just stop driving their Cadillac Escalades Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit. Following
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Climahypocrite Jesse Jackson’s SUV Stolen
-By Warner Todd Huston Interestingly, Politico is trying to rearrange this election’s narrative from the real one of widespread voter dissatisfaction with the Democrat status quo to one of “offbeat GOP candidates” that will “hurt the GOP.” Gee, why would that be, eh? As Democrats all across the land are either stepping aside so as not to face
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Politico Ignores Dems. Culture of Corruption to Talk of GOP’s ‘Offbeat Candidates’
