Archive for 2023

TITLE IX AND THE ASSAULT ON HILLSDALE COLLEGE: The school gets no federal money, but a lawsuit seeks to rope it in because it’s a tax-exempt nonprofit.

Title IX should be repealed, or limited to its actual text, which in no way supports the absurd superstructure erected on top of it by courts and bureaucrats.

Title IX’s actual text: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

From this colleges have inserted into the dating lives of students, the social programs of fraternities, and allegedly “offensive” classroom discussion, and much more.

LIFE IN BIDEN’S AMERICA:

ALMOST?

AT 8K MILES A YEAR, I CAN HANG ON TO MY 38K-MILES GAS-POWERED JEEP FOR A LONG TIME: EV Owners Waking Up to the Nightmare of Massive Repair Bills. “As far as repairs go, they may be more expensive than gas-powered cars, but the upkeep of EVs is only a fraction of what a driver pays for maintaining a conventional vehicle. But insurance is much higher and parts are twice as expensive as gasoline cars.”

ON SUNDAYS, I RUN A PROMO POST ON MY BLOG — MOSTLY — FOR INDIE BOOKS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There is also a fun vignette writing challenge. But be careful. There are rabid plot bunnies in those, and they’ve led to a few (dozen, I think) novels.

TEN YEARS AGO, THIS WAS THE #1 ITEM ON THE ENTIRE USA TODAY SITE: Abolish the TSA.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the United States took a number of rapid actions. One was the passage of the Patriot Act, which I regarded as a mistake then, and which doesn’t seem much better now. Another was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a bureaucratic monstrosity that doesn’t seem to have done much to keep us actually, you know, safer. And another was the federal takeover of aviation security by the Transportation Security Administration, which also seems to have been a bust.

There’s now some talk about repealing or revising the Patriot Act, and the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to do much good seems pretty widely acknowledged. But it’s widely accepted — even by the Government Accountability Office — that the TSA’s army of unionized federal employees is no better, and perhaps worse, than private screeners.

Still true.