Glenn Beck Had Better Kill Us

Glenn Beck is comparatively uneducated, but somehow he’s making millions from his show on Fox News, his radio show, and book deals.  He grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington, a place that is 75.44% White.  He went to Sehome High School in  Bellingham, Washington, a town that is 87.88% White.   He never graduated from college [...]

Did Ivanka Trump Marry an Affirmative Action Baby?

It’s not the kind of affirmative action that enrages many Americans.  But Jared Kushner’s family made millions in donations to Harvard and NYU before he enrolled, according to The Boston Globe and his Wikipedia profile, even though his grades and standardized test scores were in the toilet.  But alas, don’t hate the playa, hate the [...]

Disney: Baby Einstein Has Zero Gravity

Directly on the heels of Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman’s child-rearing book, “Nutureshock” being released last month, Disney announced Friday it will refund $15.99 for up to four “Baby Einstein” DVDs per household purchased between June 5, 2004, and Sept. 5, 2009. The Baby Einstein series may not only fail to make kids smarter, but [...]

Educational Equality and the President’s Cabinet

Why is it that the Obama administration has spent so much energy trying to prevent lobbyists from overrunning government, but spends little time on the fact that most (more than 50%) of the Cabinet is made up of ivy leaguers?
The President is someone who genuinely cares about equal opportunity.  He is aware of class-based problems [...]

College Football Academic Rankings Released

Higher Ed Watch has released its annual Academic BCS Rankings, which ranks football schools by the academic performance of their football players.  Here are the top ten that are playing in this years bowls:

Boston College (122)
Northwestern (110.5)
Penn State (107.5)
Cincinnati (97.5)
Ball State (85)
TCU (73.5)
Oklahoma State (66)
Boise State (64)
Utah (60.5)
Virginia Tech (55.5)

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Fascinating “Infographics” From Princeton

Here are thousands of pages of U.S. policy and cultural trends digested in compelling, digestible graphics.
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The Worst and the Dullest (Pedigrees Notwithstanding)

I missed this piece from Frank Rich last week, but it fits in nicely with the series I’ve been doing on the love affair the establishment thinks it has with educational elites, even though it’s really just been a co-dependent romance, having nothing to do with merit (grade inflation gives merit an effective mark of [...]

More on the Ivy League Dunces

I have been vindicated from being a “player hater.”  A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on school snobs, in which I illustrated why school snobs are as detrimental to our way of life as are the imperialists who cite “national security” as subterfuge to quietly line the pockets of big-money fat cats.  
But [...]

The School Snobs and the Imperialists Should Start Their Own Political Party

There are two types of people who should probably combine and form their own political party, while those who actually care about the American people get down to the actual job of governing.  I am talking about imperialists and school snobs. The electorate has already decisively removed the imperialists from office, in favor of an [...]