And the debt most students pick up along the way is the least of it. Read more.
College is not the path to success it used to be…
Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 7:12 AM
Archives for May 2014
Obama Was Embarrassed by Nobel Peace Prize? Good!
Friday, May 16, 2014 at 7:39 AM
As the following attests, I was in the vanguard of those deriding and criticizing the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding President Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: You’d be hard-pressed to find a more ardent and hopeful supporter of President Barack Obama than me. But I think this award is … well … a bit… Read more.
Another Mining Disaster: this Time in Turkey
Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 6:47 AM
No doubt Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan thought he was doing the right thing today when he cleared his schedule and rushed to a coal mine in Western Turkey, where an explosion and fire had just killed 274 workers and trapped another 100 or so – all of whom are now feared dead. But it’s hardly… Read more.
Sen. McCain, Channeling Donald Sterling, Shows again Why He Was Unfit to Be President
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 8:23 AM
The following excerpt – from “Checkmated on Crimea, Obama Plays for Rest of Ukraine,” March 7, 2014 – reflects the kind of criticism I’ve been leveling against John McCain for years for displaying a rash and bellicose temperament that is unbecoming of a U.S. senator, let alone a U.S. president: A number of you have… Read more.
Xscape! More Pedophile Charges Prove Michael Was Not ‘Gone Too Soon’
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 8:12 AM
A 1987 Pepsi ad [during the making of which special effects set Michael’s hair on fire] is now being linked to more controversy as a child who worked on the commercial has filed a sexual assault complaint against the late singer last week in court… Two sources have said the complaint is sealed but revealed… Read more.
Russia Gobbling Up Ukraine: First Crimea, Now Donetsk … Next Odessa?
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 6:47 AM
Pro-Moscow insurgents in eastern Ukraine declared independence Monday and sought to join Russia, undermining upcoming presidential elections, strengthening the Kremlin’s hand and putting pressure on Kiev to hold talks with the separatists following a referendum on self-rule. (Associated Press, May 12, 2014) While President Vladimir Putin gobbles up even more of Ukraine, Western leaders are… Read more.
Michael Sam a More Worthy Jackie Robinson of Gay Athletes than Jason Collins
Monday, May 12, 2014 at 7:07 AM
Michael Sam made history (of sorts) on Saturday when the St. Louis Rams selected him in the seventh and final round of this year’s NFL Draft. But it’s important to keep his selection in context. Here, in this regard, is what I wrote earlier this year, when everyone hailing Sam today was hailing Jason Collins,… Read more.
CNN Boss Is What’s Wrong with Journalism Today
Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 8:38 AM
I never went to journalism school. But even I know enough about journalism to know that it is not giving people what they want. It’s giving them accurate and reliable information on events, issues, and trends to function as informed citizens. In short, journalism is more about informing than entertaining the public. Except that CNN… Read more.
South Africa Voted for More of the Same?! Crazy
Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 7:15 AM
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Nobel Economists Call for ‘Ending the Drug Wars.’ Duh
Friday, May 9, 2014 at 8:21 AM
I respect the significance of five Nobel Prize-winning economists endorsing a report by the London School of Economics’ IDEAS Center titled “Ending the Drug Wars.” But the way the media are hailing this report you’d think it called not for ending the drug wars, but for decriminalizing all drugs. Now that would’ve been a report… Read more.