Sorry, I wish that she hadn’t been shot, despite my political differences with her, but being shot by a nutcase doesn’t make you a hero.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Running
Why you shouldn’t be doing it.
“Free-Speech Zones”
…and other college lies. Questions you should be asking before spending tens of thousands of dollars on a university or college.
[Afternoon update]
Time to toss out abusive college administrators:
Events like these call into question both the judgment of academic administrators and the existence of campus police forces as a separate institution. In his book, The Fall of the Faculty, Johns Hopkins Professor Benjamin Ginsberg talks about the profusion of “deanlets” that has overtaken higher education. But it’s even worse when those deanlets not only eat up the substance of institutions, but also command armed force. It’s extremely doubtful that any outside law enforcement agency would have responded to any of the “threats” listed above, but campus police, called in by insecure deanlets, have little choice. This sort of behavior, though, is unfair, bad for morale, and likely to spur expensive and embarrassing litigation. (Note that some of these cases were resolved when the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an academic civil liberties group, intervened and posed a threat of legal action.)
As with the morons running public schools, no judgment is required, apparently.
Skepticism About Global Warming
And with good reason.
The Pacific Salmon Are Back
…and of course, the environmentalists hate it:
The point deserves emphasis. The advent of higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere has been a great boon for the terrestrial biosphere, accelerating the rate of growth of both wild and domestic plants and thereby expanding the food base supporting humans and land animals of every type. Ignoring this, the carbophobes point to the ocean instead, saying that increased levels of carbon dioxide not exploited by biology could lead to acidification. By making the currently barren oceans fertile, however, mariculture would transform this putative problem into an extraordinary opportunity.
Which is precisely why those demanding restraints on carbon emissions and restrictions on fisheries hate mariculture. They hate it for the same reason those demanding constraints in the name of allegedly limited energy resources hate nuclear power. They hate it because it solves a problem they need unsolved.
I hope this means a lot of cheap fresh wild salmon in the stores this summer.
The McCarthy Era
The Left has been rewriting history for decades, since it took over academia in the sixties.
Obama Lawyering Up
He knows he’s going to lose the Senate, or at least thinks there’s a high enough probability of it that he’d better get ready. And he’s got a lawyer with a lot of experience with a corrupt Democrat in the White House.
An Alinsky For Liberty
The youth strike back.
“Affirmative” “Action”
SCOTUS has stricken a blow against decades of institutionalized racism by the Left.
The Left’s War On Women
Taking a page out of the Clinton playbook in the nineties, the left is attacking Sharyl Atkisson (as they do anyone who tells the truth about them), as “crazy.” Hope she understand what she’s letting herself in for her multiple crimes of committing acts of journalism in a Democrat administration.