Based on an explosive, fact-based study, UCLA law professor Richard Sander concludes that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions. The culprit is the practice of admitting minority students to schools for which they are inadequately prepared. ...(Read more...)
Socialism, that is. Excellent article on how philosophy shapes the lives of individuals, in this case, how the ideology embraced by a country determines public education, which influences the choices made by individuals not heroic enough to resist. (Read more...)
I am no fan of Kucinich but this news and particularly this quote caught my eye as worth sharing: We need to challenge again the underlying assumptions about a debt-based economy, about whether or not we should revisit the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, which has an unfortunately privatized monetary system and create...(Read more...)
WASHINGTON The NEA announced that it has begun construction on a $1.3 billion, 14-line lyric poem its largest investment in the nation's aesthetic-industrial complex since the $850 million interpretive-dance budget of 1985. "We need to make sure America's poems remain the biggest, best-designed, best-funded poem...(Read more...)
With conditions in Canada's hospitals comparable to a Third World country, according to one specialist, doctors on the front lines suggest ways to keep ER departments from turning into dumping grounds
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EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE Posted by Barbara Branden
on 3/07, 6:06pm
ONE GERMAN WHO GETS IT Matthias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily newspaper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat. EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE ...(Read more...)
This article by Brian Doherty is everything that a libertarian review of Ayn Rand "can be and ought to be." Perhaps I cancelled my "Reason" subscription a bit hastily.(Read more...)
