Rarely do I criticize another for being old-fashioned, but I find the very notion of tenure distastefully medieval. Literally. In the Middle Ages there were few institutions offering scholars the opportunity to ponder -- not just few alternatives to universities, ... READ MORE
We've seen the Democratic Congressional leadership's "prebuttal" to the President's State of the Union Address. Here's the other side of the coin, from some conservative Republicans in the House: "It takes a lot of courage for any politician to touch ... READ MORE
The National Center's Ryan Balis has suggested I recommended this Miami Herald op-ed by Patrick Moore to blog readers. Moore is a founder of the environmental group Greenpeace. In the op-ed, Moore explains why he left Greenpeace ("By the mid-1980s, ... READ MORE
This story about the NAACP refusing to comply with an IRS request for documents -- a typical IRS action in an audit of this type -- amazes me. Does the NAACP really think it can retain its tax-exempt status while ... READ MORE
The Heritage Foundation's Heritage Policy Weblog chides the Associated Press for saying that "only" the Heritage Foundation has said that the present Social Security system cheats African-Americans. Hey AP, haven't you ever heard of Google? ... READ MORE
My two bits to the present discusson on Instapundit on how to save the Democratic party... When the Democratic party has something to offer, policywise, that voters prefer to what the GOP offers, the Democrats will do better at the ... READ MORE
NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi asserts his dominance: My wife and I adopted a dog a few months ago and now have Madison (a corgi/sheltie mix) enrolled in obedience training at a local pet store. After Maddie performed exceptionally ... READ MORE
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has this sentence in a recent press release: "Republicans... have proposed providing African American and Hispanic workers with different [Social Security] benefits than white workers." So there can be no doubt that I have quited ... READ MORE
I'm participating in the January 27 Blogburst on the theme "Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz." Polls, such as this one about Canadians and this one about Britons (I could not find a recent one about Americans, ... READ MORE
Google has 440,000 entries for the phrase "end of an era"; yet, few of its uses are likely to be more apt than in referring to the loss of Johnny Carson. It is not just Carson's uniqueness -- which others ... READ MORE
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