TURKEY’S MARCH TOWARD RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM, as noted by Michael Rubin of Commentary.
When someone openly admits, “Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off,” as Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan, now Turkish prime minister, infamously said in 1995, I take him at his word.
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Poll: 57 percent of Millennials oppose racial preferences for college, hiring. Of course they do. They’ve experienced their impact, and their idiocy, firsthand.
TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE-BASED FITNESS with Amy Alkon and Fred Hahn.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: “How unfair was it for the debate commission to not allow the president to use his teleprompter” during Wednesday’s debate?
You know, I think if Mr. Obama had the ‘Prompter there, he would have been less likely to have slipped and revealed to the world that he’s secretly a Keynesian.
THE BEGINNING AND END OF sex with Neanderthals.
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WHEN DID CAMP NORTH STAR GET ITS OWN TV NETWORK? Producer Amazed Historian Thought Romney Would Win — Then Later Asked If He Would Discuss How Debates Don’t Matter.
CAPITAL: Small Businesses Are Finding An Unlikely Banker: Amazon. “Merchants who spoke to The Wall Street Journal said they were offered loans ranging from $1,000 to $38,000 apiece, with interest rates from less than 1% (for one of them) to 13.9% (for most who were interviewed). Small-business credit-card interest rates typically range from 13% to 19%. Those who received an Amazon Lending pitch also characterized themselves as heavy sellers of goods through Amazon’s website.”
YOU STAY CLASSY, SNOOP: Looking at item #1 on Snoop Dogg’s list of reasons for not voting for Mitt Romney, it appears Snoop morphed into Robert Byrd so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
EPISTEMIC CLOSURE REDUX: The Campaign, the Debate and the Jobs Report, from Stacy McCain.
RELATED: The Real Unemployment Rate.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 11 Public Universities with the Worst Graduation Rates. “Just 56 percent of college students complete four-year degrees within six years, according to a 2011 Harvard Graduate School of Education study. Among the 18 developed countries in the OECD, the U.S. was dead last for the percentage of students who completed college once they started it ― even behind Slovakia.”
HMM: The Israeli air force shot down a drone in the southern part of the country near Gaza. No one seems to know where it came from yet, but they’re saying it wasn’t from Gaza.
GOOD TIMING: New Romney ad presses Obama-disappointment theme.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): US Foodstamp Usage Rises To New Record High.
They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.
DER SPIEGEL: ‘Turkey Is Going Down a Highly Dangerous Path.’
And note this: “If it came to an all-out war, the Syrian army could also use chemical or biological weapons from its well-stocked arsenal.” Weren’t those shipped from Iraq some years back? . . . .
HYPOCRITES: Hollywood: Special Tax Breaks For Us, Tax Increases on Everyone Else.
Hey, I think it’s time for Hollywood to pay its fair share. Also the recording business. And it’s about time we cracked down on that shady “Hollywood Accounting.”
RASMUSSEN TRACKING POLL: Romney 49, Obama 47.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Romney: Sadly, fewer jobs created in September than in August.
IN THE MAIL: From Mark Herrmann, Inside Straight.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Marketing Experts Set Sights on Kids Who Pay. “Students who can pay full price, or out-of-state and international students who pay higher tuition, are in high demand. Grinnell College, for example, a private school in Iowa that received a $1.5 billion endowment last year – the fifth largest of any liberal arts college in the country – is considering changing its admission process from ‘need-blind’ to ‘need aware,’ and having a student’s finances factor into the admission decision in order to enroll more high-paying students. Wesleyan University made a similar decision this summer.”
SEE Q FOR ANY EQUIPMENT YOU NEED: James Bond and the modern gadget economy.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Another California City Set To Go Belly-Up.
JEREMY LOTT: My Case that Obama Threw the Debate.
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