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March 31st, 2011 - 11:35 pm § in Politics

Presidential Perks: The President’s New Yacht

Ed. Imagine the Husky Lady in the Montlake Cut on game days! Well, not really for the the new Udub Prexy … but maybe a good idea? How about Paul Allen giving one of his yachts to the new Prexy? Here is a precedent we could follow: by Evgeniya Chaykovskaya Moscow News   The boat […][...]

March 31st, 2011 - 6:12 pm § in Misc.

Tomorrow’s Seattle Times

Tomorrow, the Seattle Times is running OP-Eds about Western Governors Univeristy.  One will be by Johan Neem from Western Washington and one will be from Robert Mendenhall, the President of Western Governors whom we have discussed several times here before. I recommend that you read it. The AVE wil[...]

March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges

Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?

Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE  recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]

March 31st, 2011 - 7:57 am § in America, Politics

Cuban not free speech.

from Reuters, by Jeff Franks HAVANA | Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:37pm EDT HAVANA (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with Cuban Jews on Monday at the start of a private three-day visit to the island, but he did not discuss with them a U.S. aid contractor jailed for allegedly providing i[...]