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Are students really that dumb or are they just pretending?

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

I fail to grasp the deep personal insult allegedly sent by the Berkeley bake sale, unlike some commenters on this site.  If you are offended by the idea of someone being offered a benefit based on his race, you should … Continue reading →

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Would a robot do any worse?

Posted on September 24, 2011 by David Hume

I think America might need a little less heart, guys who you’d want to drink a beer with, and racial messiahs.

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Next Up: YHWH vs. Godzilla

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Hinduism is of course pantheistic. One of the most revered gods is  Ganesh, the elephant-headed “Remover of Obstacles.” (And the god involved in the  Milk Miracle of a few years ago.) The other part of this story is the swastika … Continue reading →

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Magical Thinking Watch: The Education-Industrial Complex Will Make Us Learned

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan provides an almost parodistic version of the  “technology will solve our education problems” meme today that is at once hilarious, depressing, and terrifying—the latter, because it heralds the arrival of another hugely expensive and … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

My impressions of that Friday night can be found here.

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Prayer doesn’t bring rain

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

If any believers want to hazard a guess as to why God decided to ignore Texans’ official three-day prayer session for rain, it would be illuminating.  Perhaps prayers are sent without any serious expectation that they will be answered (and … Continue reading →

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Death by Commission

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

Amy Zegart,  a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, warns in the Los Angeles Times today that the U.S. sure as heck better not ratchet down its massive anti-terrorism efforts and its still-lingering fear rhetoric: The fight is nowhere close … Continue reading →

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Magical Thinking Watch: Whiteboards in every classroom, a literate student in every home

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

Education technology does not seem to be solving our education woes.  So concludes this impressively-reported New York Times story on an Arizona school district that has spent $33 million since 2006 on the ed. establishment’s usual panaceas of “whiteboards,” laptops, and … Continue reading →

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No roads for me but a new hospital for thee?

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s on-again, off-again suggestion that federal disaster relief for Hurrican Irene victims be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget is a courageous precedent to set against further deficit spending.   And yet I wonder how … Continue reading →

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Columbia Prez. Lee Bollinger is accused of not valuing “diversity”

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

Occasionally, the racial victimology and extortion complex provides some entertaining and pleasant justice.  The accusation that Columbia University President Lee Bollinger is insufficiently committed to diversity, and, by implication, is racist, is one of those moments.  The departure of two … Continue reading →

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