Posts Tagged ‘Education’

The problem with liberal arts universities these days

February 15th, 2013 | No Comments

Is summed up perfectly in this short five minute video.  I chose to use Fox News video feed for a very specific reason: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The flap is surrounding West Liberty University.  Particularly, a visiting professor named Stephanie Wolfe teaching political science.  The first problem is [...]

President Obama goes after greedy university administrators

October 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Yeah!  Tell me another one!  Whew.  OK.  Let’s get serious.  Obama, as usual, is attacking the concept of personal responsibility.  The concept that people willingly and knowingly incurred a debt is meaningless to Obama.  Completely.  Under his watch, the student loan program has been removed from the private sector and made federal  ( that’s called [...]

Share the wealth, create jobs now

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Obama wants to create jobs, here’s another suggestion: SPREAD THE WEALTH Now, that alone should appeal to Obama.  But, as with all ideological one-liners, it needs some substance to it.  “Change” sounded great, but people are realizing now without specifics, whether ignored or not mentioned, it doesn’t do anyone much good.  With spreading the wealth, [...]

The Kentucky Poverty Task Force

September 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

I read a lot.  I work in social services.  I also live in the poorest Congressional District in the United States which is in one of the poorest states in the nation.  So, needless to say, I’ve seen poverty and deal with it rather regularly.  So, I took particular interest when I received this newsletter: [...]

Recession Perspective

January 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Everywhere I turn, and I do mean everywhere, people are talking about bad times are.  This morning I was reading a nice article in Sky and Telescope about how it would be cool to have leaders who were versed and educated in astronomy.  Great concept.  Can’t argue with that.  However, I got stuck on one [...]

Democrats flee as opposed to discussing gas relief

August 4th, 2008 | No Comments

A rather bizarre event unfolded Friday.  Basically, the Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling for more oil.  The Democrats stifled it.  Then, the Democrats decided that accomplishing nothing to help the United States deal with soaring gas prices was better than debating, or even worse yet, voting to allow more drilling. It didn’t [...]

Birth Control for pre-teens?

October 18th, 2007 | No Comments

Kids at King Middle School in Portland Maine haveto be feeling pretty darn good about themselves.  The school’s so concerned about their health and welfare that they are passing out birth control for those that feel the urge.  I’m just totally stumped by this one.  We’re talking 12-14 year olds.  For the most part, I [...]

John Kerry doing it again

October 31st, 2006 | 18 Comments

In 2004, President Bush’s ratings were totally in the basement. John Kerry was trashing Bush in the polls, and the media was laughing at Bush’s ineptitude. John Kerry then went to war with some former Vietnam vets that he absolutely would not get over. He hounded and hounded and hounded that one issue and basically [...]

Majority voters determine how smart everyone else is?

October 19th, 2006 | No Comments

Morgan Quitno Press released this list of the “smartest states” list. Without further ado, here it is, color coded to make it more fun to play with:   Looks kinda grim for all those people who mocked the “Al Gore voters are smarter than Bush voters” thingy from the past. However, Morgan Quitno has kept [...]