(Kenneth Anderson) “Say goodbye to Mr. Chips with his tattered tweed jacket; today’s senior professors can afford Marc Jacobs .” Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — And What We Can Do About It. I share many of the concerns expressed in Christopher Shea’s Sunday NYT book review essay, The End of Tenure . About the higher education pricing bubble, the collapse of the university as a vehicle for teaching writing and thinking, about the intellectual collapse of the humanities, etc. I also share the concerns about tenure as an economic construct of lifetime sinecure. That said, and one…
With the mid-term elections just two months away, the state of the economy continues to dominate other concerns for most American voters.?
September 3, 2010 | Posted in
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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land tells TPM : For nine years now we’ve had a lot of calls for American people who are not Muslims to be sensitive to concerns of American Muslims and not in any way make them feel like they’re not wanted. I think that America has done a pretty good job of responding to that [and] I think now is
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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land tells TPM : For nine years now we’ve had a lot of calls for American people who are not Muslims to be sensitive to concerns of American Muslims and not in any way make them feel like they’re not wanted. I think that America has done a pretty good job of responding to that [and] I think now is the time for Muslim Americans to be sensitive to the concerns of their fellow Americans. I question the wisdom of urging Muslim Americans to treat us non-Muslim Americans the way we’ve treated them these last nine years. But
President Obama used the homey backdrop of a middle-class Ohio family’s backyard Wednesday to try to show voters he shares their concerns about the economy, health care and Social Security.?
August 18, 2010 | Posted in
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Well, Ramesh. Fair point. And I probably spoke too glibly. I guess my response is that every candidate should indeed address the concerns of voters in their constituency. But that’s somewhat different than branding the party at the national level or getting bogged down on issues that divide the anti-Obama/anti-Democratic Congress coalition. I don’t see much advantage, given the national mood, of trying to nationalize the 2010 election on social issues — or any issues –? that turn off independents. This is entirely a tactical point as far as I am concerned. I don’t think the GOP needs to abandon social conservatism by any stretch. But given where…
President of Islamic center in Texas blames backlash against the proposed Ground Zero mosque for acts of hatred against his congregation Mosque Concerns in Tenn. YOU DECIDE: Would You Mind a Big Religious Center Near You? Roadblock for NYC Mosque
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The Senate tried twice yesterday to pass the Pigford II settlement, a $1.15 billion authorization for African-American farmers who were discriminated against by the USDA. The Senate failed, twice — and now the authorization will have to wait until September, when senators return from recess. The settlement has already been agreed to by the plaintiffs (that is, the African-American farmers who had faced decades of discrimination) and the U.S. government…
The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May. http://bit.ly/aWauTW # RecoverySummer # Economy concerns send US mortgage rates to the lowest ever recorded in the Freddie Mac Survey. http://bit.ly/cGYoKW # RecoverySummer # Jobless claims in U.S. climb unexpectedly–there’s that word again–to three-month high of 479,000. http://bit.ly
Ethics-plagued Dems pull the race card ? The politically charged decisions by veteran Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California to force public trials by the House ethics committee are raising questions about race and whether black lawmakers face more scrutiny over allegations of ethical or criminal wrongdoing than their white colleagues. … The question of whether black lawmakers are now being singled out for scrutiny has been simmering throughout the 111th Congress, with the Office of Congressional Ethics a focal point of the concerns. At one point earlier this year, all eight lawmakers under formal investigation by the House ethics committee , including Rangel and Waters, were black Democrats…
