America's institutions of higher learning are spending a lot of time and effort promoting "diversity" in race and cultural matters. But one critical area where diversity is almost non-existant is diversity of political opinion. Woe to any student who dares challenge the liberal professor on matters of politics. As a result, too many naive high school students arrive at college without life experience, knowledge or self-confidence and graduate with political views similar to their professors. Is this education or indoctrination?
All Princeton faculty members who have given to 2008 presidential candidates so far have donated to Democrats, according to federal records of donations to presidential campaigns from Princeton University employees.
Federal Election Commission records list any donation over $200 to a political organization or candidate and are public by law. The Harvard Crimson reported that 86 percent of Harvard professors' contributions went to Democrats. Well, that is better than Princeton... but not much.
The statistics of political giving at Princeton mirror larger trends at campuses across the country. Does that surprise anyone? Inside Higher Education reported that Obama is the "clear favorite of academics," having received over $2.1 million from them.
College Republicans president Andrew Malcolm '09 said that the overwhelming support for Democratic candidates came as no surprise. He said the leftward trend "does raise some concerns about ideological diversity among the faculty."
Yes, it certainly does!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Global Warming Red Alert
Russians Brace For The Big Chill
January 16, 2008 8:18 p.m. EST
Jupiter Kalambakal - AHN News Writer
Moscow, Russia (AHN) - Russians are bracing for temperatures of as low as minus 55 degrees Celsius (minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit) in Siberia as Russia's emergencies ministry warns on Wednesday of its impending dangers in the coming weeks.
Government agencies were placed on high alert, reports AFP. The ministry ordered local administration officials to prepare for the extreme chill expected to last until Jan. 21.
The ministry warned that the unusually cold weather could kill, cause frost-bite, conk heaters and cut electricity to homes, disrupt transport, increase the rate of car accidents and even destroy buildings across Siberia.
The freezing temperatures have already caused overloading of electricity grids and power interruptions in the regions of Irkutsk and Tomsk because of overused heaters in homes. Two people have already died and more than 30 others hospitalized with forst-bite in Irkutsk, reports AFP citing state media.
Bloomberg reports that worst hit will be the Siberian region of Evenkiya, while neighbor Georgia, whose climate is subtropical, already plunged to as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius. Lake Paliastomi in the western Georgia froze for the first time in 50 years, reports Rustavi-2 television.
Average temperatures in large Siberian cities in January usually range between minus 15 degrees Celsius and minus 39 degrees Celsius, according to data from weatherbase.com. Schools have been closed down in at least four regions because of the cold.
Al Gore held an emergency news conference to reassure all his global warming supporters that the temperatures in Russia are further proof that the Bush Administration has a secret project to alter temperatures in the region to discredit his movie and he encouraged the Congress to hold committee meetings to investigate thoroughly this unAmerican activity of the failed Bush administration. "We want and expect this investigation to uncover this climate cooling as a neo-con Republican plot. We want the warming of the planet to proceed as we projected. Our DVD sales of "An Inconvenient Truth" must not be diminished just so the planet can be saved."
January 16, 2008 8:18 p.m. EST
Jupiter Kalambakal - AHN News Writer
Moscow, Russia (AHN) - Russians are bracing for temperatures of as low as minus 55 degrees Celsius (minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit) in Siberia as Russia's emergencies ministry warns on Wednesday of its impending dangers in the coming weeks.
Government agencies were placed on high alert, reports AFP. The ministry ordered local administration officials to prepare for the extreme chill expected to last until Jan. 21.
The ministry warned that the unusually cold weather could kill, cause frost-bite, conk heaters and cut electricity to homes, disrupt transport, increase the rate of car accidents and even destroy buildings across Siberia.
The freezing temperatures have already caused overloading of electricity grids and power interruptions in the regions of Irkutsk and Tomsk because of overused heaters in homes. Two people have already died and more than 30 others hospitalized with forst-bite in Irkutsk, reports AFP citing state media.
Bloomberg reports that worst hit will be the Siberian region of Evenkiya, while neighbor Georgia, whose climate is subtropical, already plunged to as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius. Lake Paliastomi in the western Georgia froze for the first time in 50 years, reports Rustavi-2 television.
Average temperatures in large Siberian cities in January usually range between minus 15 degrees Celsius and minus 39 degrees Celsius, according to data from weatherbase.com. Schools have been closed down in at least four regions because of the cold.
Al Gore held an emergency news conference to reassure all his global warming supporters that the temperatures in Russia are further proof that the Bush Administration has a secret project to alter temperatures in the region to discredit his movie and he encouraged the Congress to hold committee meetings to investigate thoroughly this unAmerican activity of the failed Bush administration. "We want and expect this investigation to uncover this climate cooling as a neo-con Republican plot. We want the warming of the planet to proceed as we projected. Our DVD sales of "An Inconvenient Truth" must not be diminished just so the planet can be saved."
Friday, January 11, 2008
Loon update
A couple of news items caught my eye today.
First, Dennis (the Menace) Kucinich, former boy wonder mayor of Cleveland and perennial presidential candidate is demanding a recount of the New Hampshire primary. He must figure that the 2% of the votes he received was close enough to suspect that he might have won after all.
Then we note with saddness the death of Sir Edmund Hillary, the explorer who was the first to climb Mount Everest in 1953. Hillary Clinton told the world a few years ago that she was named after the famous explore because of his historical feat. Hillary is 60 years old. Do the math.
First, Dennis (the Menace) Kucinich, former boy wonder mayor of Cleveland and perennial presidential candidate is demanding a recount of the New Hampshire primary. He must figure that the 2% of the votes he received was close enough to suspect that he might have won after all.
Then we note with saddness the death of Sir Edmund Hillary, the explorer who was the first to climb Mount Everest in 1953. Hillary Clinton told the world a few years ago that she was named after the famous explore because of his historical feat. Hillary is 60 years old. Do the math.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Top 10 Christmas Gifts Not Wanted
(By the editors of Human Events)
1. Have Your Wife Fight Your Battles for You: The John Edwards Military Strategy Handbook
2. The 2008 National Organization of Women Swimwear Calendar
3. "Hillary Clinton's Dramatic Readings of the 10 Greatest Speeches in American History"
(2 disc set)
4. The Dennis Kucinich Unidentified Frying Object Vegetarian Hibachi Grill
5. A home visit by the Ron Paul Blimp
6. The Collected Works of Neil Kinnock, edited by Joe Biden
7. Anything that contains the words "Universal" and "Comprehensive" or that claims to be
"For the Children."
8. Five Hundred shares of New York Times common stock
9. Free Membership in the National Education Association.
10. A Teddy Bear named Mohammad
1. Have Your Wife Fight Your Battles for You: The John Edwards Military Strategy Handbook
2. The 2008 National Organization of Women Swimwear Calendar
3. "Hillary Clinton's Dramatic Readings of the 10 Greatest Speeches in American History"
(2 disc set)
4. The Dennis Kucinich Unidentified Frying Object Vegetarian Hibachi Grill
5. A home visit by the Ron Paul Blimp
6. The Collected Works of Neil Kinnock, edited by Joe Biden
7. Anything that contains the words "Universal" and "Comprehensive" or that claims to be
"For the Children."
8. Five Hundred shares of New York Times common stock
9. Free Membership in the National Education Association.
10. A Teddy Bear named Mohammad
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