HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Report: Many College Presidents Earn More Than $1 Million.

HE’S BECOMING THE LAMEST OF LAME DUCKS: Obama, congressional Dems show cracks in unity.

It used to be that Democrats would mutter under their breath about President Barack Obama and the White House.
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Now, with the midterm elections behind them, some leading members of the president’s own party are airing their frustrations with little restraint and charting their own course.

In speeches, negotiations and congressional hearings, several high-profile Democrats are disregarding the White House in ways large and small. The White House has responded with an extraordinary veto threat while Obama has made a round of calls to liberal Democrats urging them to stand up against their own leadership.

Well, you know, it wouldn’t take too many Dem defections to override a veto.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “A large war is looming, one that will be far more costly than the preventative vigilance that might have stopped it.”

NOT A PARODY: Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.

ADRIANA COHEN: Apparently, this Rolling Stone gathers no facts.

Memo to Rolling Stone: A fifth-grader would’ve done some basic fact-checking before potentially ruining men’s lives.

Hello lawsuits. This is media sloppiness at its worst.

In America, one is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty by a jury of one’s peers, in a court of law where both sides are adequately represented.

Rolling Stone effectively found the fraternity brothers “guilty” without due diligence or due process. This is dead wrong and warrants — at minimum — public condemnation. . . .

Rolling Stone has hurt not only the young men who were accused and the university, but also campus rape victims all over America whose stories may not be believed.

The owner of Rolling Stone magazine should fire both the writer and its editor today. Then lawyer up.

Indeed.

JOHN C. WRIGHT: “Leftism is politicized envy.”

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