HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Groupon Offers Discount On University Tuition.
Archive for 2011
September 6, 2011
VIDEO: Cat In A Box.
ATF GUN-SMUGGLING UPDATE: Gunwalker Explodes Into The Heartland. “If the reassignment of ATF officials in recent weeks and the abrupt resignation of U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke were attempts by the Department of Justice and the Obama administration to cover up the Gunwalker scandal, they have failed, miserably.”
ONE SPERM DONOR, 150 Offspring. “Today there are 150 children, all conceived with sperm from one donor, in this group of half siblings, and more are on the way. ‘It’s wild when we see them all together — they all look alike,’ said Ms. Daily, 48, a social worker in the Washington area who sometimes vacations with other families in her son’s group.” There was something like this on Hot In Cleveland, with the sperm donor being Wayne Knight.
FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers Report Promising New TB Vaccine.
CHASING NATURE: The future of small flying robots.
WHY GUN SALES are booming.
JOHN HINDERAKER: Holding Out For A Hero: “As we have already noted, the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks shapes up as a disappointment–paeans to multiculturalism, peace quilts, and the like. So far, I have seen only one news story that unreservedly celebrates the heroism that was shown by so many on that day. Fittingly enough, it relates to Flight 93. The story of Flight 93 has always meant a lot to me, because I am such a frequent business traveler.”
ROGER SIMON: Pajamas Media — Ten Years After 9/11. “Since I grew up after World War II, September 11, 2001, was — as it was for many of us — by far the most cataclysmic public event of my life. I may have experienced it staring at a television screen in my Los Angeles bedroom, but watching those planes fly into the Twin Towers like a time bomb from the Middle Ages changed my world view, even altered many of my relationships, forever.”
DUCK AND COVER: FOX & Friends Showdown: Wasserman Schultz Avoids Hoffa Question. Plus, a lame tu quoque.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Rhode Island Pension System Collapsing:
Rhode Island is one of the bluest states in the country, and one where public sector unions have long worked with sympathetic politicians to create a true blue system of well paid public employees retiring comfortably on generous pensions with cost of living raises automatically thrown in.
The only problem is that the state could never afford the beautiful utopia it was crafting, and so politicians and union leaders chose the path of systemic deceit. Taxpayers weren’t told what the bill for the system would be; public service workers weren’t told that the pension guarantees they’d been sold were worthless because taxpayers would not and could not foot the bill.
An economic crisis is nature’s revenge on those who make and those who accept false promises; it is a holocaust of lies when the dross is burned away and only what is real and true remains. Think of cotton candy melting and charring in the flame of a blowtorch; that is what is happening to the secure retirements that “caring” blue politicians and “committed” blue union leaders promised gullible state workers.
Read the whole thing.
RAND SIMBERG: Will NASA Abandon Ship? “Problems with the Russian crew rocket may force the space agency to abandon the space station.”
AT AMAZON, top deals in Electronics.
DO COLLEGE ESSAYS suck the life out of boys?
THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND:
My Washington Examiner column on your right to record the police.
Teamsters President Calls For “War” Against “Tea Party Sons of Bitches,” Tea Party Group Calls For Hoffa’s Resignation for “Incendiary” Language. That whole postpartisan-hope-and-change stuff hasn’t worn very well, has it?
Your kids are fat, so we’re taking them away.
Climate McCarthyism strikes again.
Maxine Waters Threatens To “Tax Banks Out Of Business.”
Big ideas from Frank Tipler.
From the candidate of hope and change, to the candidate of fear and status quo.
Democratic Consultant Behind Israeli Protests.
Libyan Rebels Round Up Black Africans.
The rise of group dating.
YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING really scary?
WASHINGTON POST: Obama ratings sink to new lows as hope fades. Is it just me, or have the headline writers started to seem a lot less Obama-friendly lately?
TODAY ONLY: Glee: The First Season, for $18.99.
BLUE STATE UPDATE: Joel Kotkin: California Is Crumbling.
The recent announcement that California’s unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation’s rear and seems mired in that less-than-illustrious position.
What has happened to my adopted home state of over last decade is a tragedy, both for Californians and for America. . . . In its modern origins California was paean to progress in the best sense of the word. In 1872, the second president of the University of California, Daniel Coit Gilman, said science was “the mother of California.” Today, California may worship at the altar of science, but increasingly in the most regressive, hysterical, and reactionary way.
California’s dominant ruling class—consisting of public-employee unions, green jihadis, and Democratic machine politicians—has no real use for science as Coit saw it: as a way to create prosperity for its citizens. Instead, the prevailing credo of the state has been how to do everything possible to return to its pre-settlement condition, with little regard for what that means to the average Californian.
Read the whole thing.
PRESIDENT STRADDLE: White House Declines To Comment On Union Leader’s Anti-Tea-Party Rhetoric At Labor Day Rally. Leaving Hoffa to twist in the wind.
UPDATE: Reader Kevin Greene suggests another headline: President Refuses To Condemn Violent Rhetoric.
Wait … so the White House is refusing comment? I guess then that the President does not condemn these violent remarks then, right? Because Obama did condemn this violent and hateful rhetoric, he’d have a comment.
Right?
So much for the “new civility.”
Yeah, it’s like it was just a bunch of politically motivated bullshit from the beginning.
HOPE AND CHANGE: American Hustlers: Finding Ways to Make Extra Cash. “I donate plasma twice a week. I’m a regular. I go every Wednesday and Friday at 6:30 a.m. before work. I’ve been doing that since May. And now I know all the names of the phlebotomists. . . . For me, it’s just for the money. I’ve been trying to pay down my debt. I had $105,000 in student loans, but now I’m down to $36,000. I’ll stop donating once all the debts are paid.” Maybe this is the solution to the higher education bubble!