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Inside Higher Ed reported Friday, based on an article in the Lincoln Journal Star , that “the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has agreed to pay $40,000 to a former employee who says she was fired after the university learned that she is a witch.”
The Journal Star reported that the ...
Congress
From a CNN poll released yesterday morning:
Thirty-six percent of people questioned said that President Obama’s policies have improved economic conditions, with 28 percent feeling that the president’s programs have made things worse, and 35 percent saying what he’s done has had no effect on ...
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Gallup Poll
According to ABC News , Mary Landrieu (D, La) was paid $100 million (in the form of an earmark for Louisiana that Sen. Harry Reid inserted into his health care bill) for her support on health care.
If true, Sen. Landrieu will be cast forevermore as the justly skewed damsel in George ...
Congress
George Will
ABC News
Harry Reid
Prof. John L. Jackson, Jr., whom we have encountered many times here as the Chronicle of Higher Education ’s designated BOC (Blogger Of Color [my term, not the Chronicle’s]), is troubled today by the increasingly ineffective (I would say pathetic) defenses of “diversity.”
He writes that we ...
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Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe begins a recent perceptive, deeply troubling column about our president’s seemingly boundless narcissism by relating how Obama, who couldn’t be bothered to attend the celebrations in Germany marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...
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Barack Obama
According to latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2008 Asians were 4.9% of Virginia’s population, slightly higher than the 4.5% for the nation as a whole. But to Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine and a Washington Post staff writer, they apparently don’t exist.
In an article ...
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Virginia Foxx
Something dramatic appeared on Inside Higher Ed today, but it was not the Q & A interview with Notre Dame philosophy professor James P. Sterba about this new book, Affirmative Action For the Future .
Indeed, Sterba’s answers to Inside Higher Ed ’s pedestrian questions were so vapid that — ...
World
“Take a flyer”
Idiom Meaning – To Take a chance or a risk
Jeffrey S. Flier , the dean of Harvard Medical School,” give health care “reform” a “failing grade” in today’s Wall Street Journal.
In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of ...
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Health care
Freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello of Virginia’s 5th Congressional district defeated a veteran incumbent in 2008 by about 700 votes. The district went narrowly for McCain but heavily for Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell and his running mates two weeks ago, which, along with his votes ...
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House of Representatives
Bob McDonnell
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A federal appeals court is set to consider a lawsuit challenging Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring.
Nineteen University of Michigan students, faculty and applicants say the 2006 anti-affirmative action ballot ...
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On Friday Homeland Security Security Janet Napolitano announced that “[t]he Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system.”
Yesterday Mickey ...
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Barack Obama
Homeland Security
Mickey Kaus
Inside Higher Ed has an article today by Prof. Thomas Espenshade of Princeton and Alexandra Radford, a research associate in postsecondary education with MPR Associates Inc. in Washington, calling for “a new Marshall Plan” to study and address the persistence of large racial achievement gaps. ...
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“UW-La Crosse looks to diversity faculty,” reports the La Crosse Tribune .
Why? Well, because “[s]tudents have told Professor Jearold Holland he is the first black teacher they’ve had in high school or college,” and Prof. Holland is “not surprised.”
UW-L has launched two initiatives this ...
World
Joe Wilson
... begets hypersensitivity to race.
From today’s Columbia Spectator (sent by a reader), about new federal requirements for the collection of racial data from educational institutions:
Now, members of some campus groups are dismayed to see their complex ethnic identities boiled down to a ...
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James Alan Fox and Jack Levin, criminologists at Boston’s Northeastern University, argue in USA Today that the Fort Hood “tragedy” is “typical workplace violence.”
.... In many respects the Fort Hood massacre stands as a textbook case of workplace murder, even though a military base would ...
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U.S. Army
The most perceptive comment about learning (or not) the lessons of history is not George Santayana’s famous observation, “Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It is from Mark Twain :
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid ...
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Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics gets almost everything right almost all of the time, but I believe he missed a little in his analysis today of What the Voters Told Us Last Night. Here’s what he says they told us:
The following points are what we know for certain:
1. The voters of Virginia ...
