Perry emails show plan to downgrade Texas universities By PATRICIA KILDAY HART, AUSTIN BUREAU, www.chron.com April 17, 2011, 7:37AM ….In May 2008, Perry summoned all Texas university regents and chancellors to a higher education summit and to hear Austin businessman Jeff Sandefer, a major Perr[...]
Archive for April, 2011
April 18th, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Regents pressed to adopt list of higher ed ‘reforms’
April 18th, 2011 - 7:41 am § in Schools & Colleges
Overinvesting in Higher Education
Higher education is the only big business I know where success is gauged not by the number of customers served, but the number who are turned away. Richard Vedder directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and teaches economics at Ohio University. letter to NY Times The sharp rise[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 6:33 am § in Environment
UW Prof Offers Good News For Fish Eating During Lent
Let Us Eat Fish By RAY HILBORN UW , Published: April 14, 2011 NY Times Yuko Shimizu, NY Times THIS Lent, many ecologically conscious Americans might feel a twinge of guilt as they dig into the fish on their Friday dinner plates. They shouldn’t. Over the last decade the public has been bombarded [...]
April 18th, 2011 - 3:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Are All Kids Equal?
Do private schools have the right to choose the kids that they want to serve? This issue is very important in countries like India where getting into the “right” private school may be critical to a child’s future. The lessons for debt plagued Americs should be obvious: from The Hin[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Passover: From Gestapo to West German Spy, Nazi who arrested Anne Frank
“Why pick on me after all these years? I only did my duty. Now I am suspended and I have just bought some new furniture and how am I going to pay for it?” By Tony Paterson in Berlin, The Independent The Gestapo officer who arrested the Holocaust victim Anne Frank was one of hundreds [&he[...]
Pot Production Uses 1 Percent Of U.S. Electricity: We Need Low Carbon Weed!
The Huffington Post Joanna Zelman First Posted: 04/14/11 08:58 AM ET Updated: 04/14/11 09:13 AM ET Pot smoking has become a big thing these last few years. This is thanks to wide decriminalization along with growing medical research shows that cannabis is better for you than previously thought. Thou[...]
April 17th, 2011 - 2:13 pm § in Religion
Sweden sends Iraqui convert home to apostasy charges
from NewAmerican A former imam who converted to Christianity is facing extradition from Sweden to his native Iraq, where he may face imprisonment or death for his “apostasy” from Islam. According to an article at Dagen.se (translated by Google): A former imam, who lives in Karlskoga and [...]
April 17th, 2011 - 12:14 pm § in America
Huff Post Measures of Inanity
Click the image for the HP’s ratings of who is crazy now. This week’s quote from Limbaugh: Fun fact: Did you know that if you are an Obama supporter of any stripe, you are a “savage” and may also be “walking human debris,” according to talk radio host Rush Limbaug[...]
April 17th, 2011 - 12:00 pm § in Misc.
UPDATE: Nigerian Election
12 Goodluck wins! 7:51 Jonathan, Buhari In Early Lead It appears that Nigeria has voted along ethnic lines .. the south has voted for Jonathon, the north for Buhari. More here or follow this link on TA.[...]
April 17th, 2011 - 11:27 am § in Jews
Sunday Revelations: A Guest Posts on Malachi
Guest Post from God at HA , responding to the prophet Goldtstein Malachi 2:2-3 If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you […][...]