"I have not the pleasure of knowing my reader but I would stake ten to one that for six months he has been making Utopias, and if so, that he is looking to Government for the realization of them."--Bastiat
Mac Donald says a 2006 University of Virginia survey found “that only 23 percent of the subjects whom the survey characterized as rape victims felt that they had been raped,” a figure that the university’s director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services called “discouraging.” Stanford University reported 33 rapes in 2016, a horrifying number — except, Mac Donald notes, that “in none of those cases was there an arrest, even though the alleged rapist was almost certainly known to the accuser.”
Trends in higher education between 1976 and 2011 (most recent year available of consistent historical data before the Department of Education re-classified administrative staff that no longer allows comparisons to data in previous years) include: a) a near tripling in inflation-adjusted college tuition (compared to an increase in real median household income of less than 10% during that period), b) an increase in full-time faculty (76%) far less than the increase in the number of college students (91%) compared to the nearly quadrupling in part-time faculty (283%) and the 139% increase in executive/administrative/managerial. The nearly tripling in inflation-adjusted cost of college tuition over 35 years between 1976 and 2011 can’t be explained by the increase in the number of full-time faculty, and can’t be explained by the substitution of cheaper part-time faculty for more expensive full-time faculty (whose inflation-adjusted salaries were basically flat during that period, increasing by only 0.37% annually).
Is what we are seeing in the U.S. "Populism?" That generally seems to be a factor, although several leaders are difficult to classify. Trump, for example; no true Populist would ever even consider driving a huge corporate and individual tax cut through to its conclusion. Nonetheless, there is a lot of discontent, xenophobia and nationalism going around, much to the dismay of the ruling class that is immune to the effects of borderless diversity.
Still I hold to my original opinions about tyranny, although I may have been remiss in not clarifying my timeline. I think Putin is the logical successor of Stalin in Russia, but also Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany and Tito in Yugoslavia--and that's just off the top of my head. Europe's post-enlightenment history implies they have not entirely got the point of the greatest intellectual revolution in the history of man. (I exempt the British Isles where the thinking, at least, emerged and the basic concepts took root, if not flowered.) The Enlightenment bullet was fired into the world and was deflected everywhere, each by its own densities. My guess is that the crux of the matter is in the very question Carol raised, the problem between Liberty and Equality. The Americans took the Liberty branch, the Europeans the Equality branch of the revolutionary road. Europe has still never recovered and continues--for example, Pikitty--trying to justify its path.
As an aside, Liberty does not eliminate the possibility of Equality, but Equality absolutely eliminates the possibility of Liberty.
Each month in the U.S., since the end of the Great Recession, an average of 1.7 jobs are destroyed. Typically, even larger numbers of jobs are created, thus resulting in net monthly increases in total employment.
"God is on our side! On the side of the children ... Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
This is Waters, an actual U.S. House Representative, calling for mob action. And we all thought that Trump was the populist. Where is Stormy when we need her?
Last week according to the Media Research Center , ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 128 minutes, almost half of their total nightly airtime not including commercials, an enormous chunk of their airtime to parents who immigrated to the country illegally being separated from their children by federal agents. That's a lot of time to spend on people breaking our laws. And money has been raised by America's good people to give them. As of Sunday, more than 500,000 people had pushed the total over $20 million surpassing all expectations for the Facebook fundraiser set up nearly a week ago by Charlotte and Dave Willner. Jeff Bezos is donating $33 million to a scholarship fund for "dreamers," immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
On the other hand, the university is building Mercy out and has a permit that might demand an activities room to be built for the use of local neighborhood groups and community action organizations.
This country may have too much money.
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2017/05/wolfeangel.html
Mac Donald says a 2006 University of Virginia survey found “that only 23 percent of the subjects whom the survey characterized as rape victims felt that they had been raped,” a figure that the university’s director of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services called “discouraging.” Stanford University reported 33 rapes in 2016, a horrifying number — except, Mac Donald notes, that “in none of those cases was there an arrest, even though the alleged rapist was almost certainly known to the accuser.”
One of the core businesses of the Ex-Im Bank is backing loans made to foreign customers of domestic companies. For the most part, both the clients getting the loans and the domestic firms being subsidized are large and successful companies with plenty of access to capital. On the domestic side, before Ex-Im lost a large portion of its lending authority in 2015 due to the lack of quorum on its board of directors (it needs three members to approve deals above $10 million), 65 percent of its activities benefited 10 very large and successful companies, like GE, Caterpillar, Applied Materials and the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.
When I reflect on the last two decades of the internet, I can only conclude that we live in a world of ingratitude. Stellar companies do a bang-up job, and “opinion leaders” – most of whom could barely design a webpage – desperately hunt for dark linings in the silver clouds of progress. Yes, even stellar companies aren’t perfect. But unlike pundits and politicians, they’ve earned our trust – and keep earning it every day. On the whole, I’m not just a satisfied customer. I’m an enthusiastic customer. You should be too.--Caplan
Who was....Edward Rutledge?
This is Max Boot, a well regarded conservative, stunned by the obvious: But I now realize there is no Platonic ideal of interpretation that allows judges to unerringly discern the original meaning of the Constitution or the correct interpretation of often vaguely worded statues. All sorts of difficulties arise: What if, as was often the case, one Founding Father disagreed with another? What if, as is also frequently the case, the court has to rule on matters that, because of technological or social developments, were unforeseen by the founders? And what if a justice’s interpretation of “original intent” is at odds with decades of precedents — is it “conservative” to overturn the prevailing line of cases?
And Adam Serwer realizes that Trump is the man on a pale horse. Things are so bad we have to make up words to explain them: "Not since the end of Reconstruction has the U.S. government been so firmly committed to a single, coherent program uniting a politics of ethnonationalism with unfettered corporate power. As with Redemption, as the end of Reconstruction is known, the consequences could last for generations. . . ."
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English cyclopean comes from the Latin adjective Cyclōpēus, a borrowing of Greek Kyklṓpeios, a derivative of the common noun, proper noun, and name Kýklōps, which the Greeks interpreted to mean “round eye” (a compound of kýklos “wheel” and ōps “eye, face”). The most famous Cyclops is Polyphemus, a crude, solitary shepherd living on an island whom Odysseus blinded in Homer’s Odyssey. Hesiod (ca. 8th century b.c.) in his Theogony names three Cyclopes; they are craftsmen who make Zeus’s thunderbolts, and whom the Greeks often credited with building the walls of ancient Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, and the acropolis of Athens, all constructed with massive limestone blocks roughly fitted together without mortar. Cyclopean entered English in the 17th century.
Trends in higher education between 1976 and 2011 (most recent year available of consistent historical data before the Department of Education re-classified administrative staff that no longer allows comparisons to data in previous years) include: a) a near tripling in inflation-adjusted college tuition (compared to an increase in real median household income of less than 10% during that period), b) an increase in full-time faculty (76%) far less than the increase in the number of college students (91%) compared to the nearly quadrupling in part-time faculty (283%) and the 139% increase in executive/administrative/managerial. The nearly tripling in inflation-adjusted cost of college tuition over 35 years between 1976 and 2011 can’t be explained by the increase in the number of full-time faculty, and can’t be explained by the substitution of cheaper part-time faculty for more expensive full-time faculty (whose inflation-adjusted salaries were basically flat during that period, increasing by only 0.37% annually).
Is what we are seeing in the U.S. "Populism?" That generally seems to be a factor, although several leaders are difficult to classify. Trump, for example; no true Populist would ever even consider driving a huge corporate and individual tax cut through to its conclusion. Nonetheless, there is a lot of discontent, xenophobia and nationalism going around, much to the dismay of the ruling class that is immune to the effects of borderless diversity.
Still I hold to my original opinions about tyranny, although I may have been remiss in not clarifying my timeline. I think Putin is the logical successor of Stalin in Russia, but also Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany and Tito in Yugoslavia--and that's just off the top of my head. Europe's post-enlightenment history implies they have not entirely got the point of the greatest intellectual revolution in the history of man. (I exempt the British Isles where the thinking, at least, emerged and the basic concepts took root, if not flowered.) The Enlightenment bullet was fired into the world and was deflected everywhere, each by its own densities. My guess is that the crux of the matter is in the very question Carol raised, the problem between Liberty and Equality. The Americans took the Liberty branch, the Europeans the Equality branch of the revolutionary road. Europe has still never recovered and continues--for example, Pikitty--trying to justify its path.
As an aside, Liberty does not eliminate the possibility of Equality, but Equality absolutely eliminates the possibility of Liberty.
Each month in the U.S., since the end of the Great Recession, an average of 1.7 jobs are destroyed. Typically, even larger numbers of jobs are created, thus resulting in net monthly increases in total employment.
"God is on our side! On the side of the children ... Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
This is Waters, an actual U.S. House Representative, calling for mob action. And we all thought that Trump was the populist. Where is Stormy when we need her?
Last week according to the Media Research Center , ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 128 minutes, almost half of their total nightly airtime not including commercials, an enormous chunk of their airtime to parents who immigrated to the country illegally being separated from their children by federal agents. That's a lot of time to spend on people breaking our laws. And money has been raised by America's good people to give them. As of Sunday, more than 500,000 people had pushed the total over $20 million surpassing all expectations for the Facebook fundraiser set up nearly a week ago by Charlotte and Dave Willner. Jeff Bezos is donating $33 million to a scholarship fund for "dreamers," immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
On the other hand, the university is building Mercy out and has a permit that might demand an activities room to be built for the use of local neighborhood groups and community action organizations.
This country may have too much money.
"....the reason runs deeper than Mr. Trump’s misguided focus on the trade deficit and his antagonizing our allies. The ultimate reason we will not win this trade war is that Mr. Trump is waging it against us. (italics mine) Mr. Trump’s tariffs are designed to make goods and services — including inputs for U.S. factories — not only artificially scarcer for us today but also scarcer for us into the indefinite future."--Bordeaux
Most LGBT Americans don't want a brown and black stripe added to the rainbow pride flag, according to a new national survey. The poll found that gay men, whites, and baby boomers were most resistant to updating the flag in order to represent LGBT people of color — while younger and nonwhite LGBT people were more inclined to support the change. The poll, taken by 880 LGBT adults from around the United States, found that 58% oppose the new stripes, while 42% support the change.
Making America great again: Iconic Irish brewer Guinness this summer will open its first brewery in the United States in more than six decades, the company announced.
The leftist bias at most of the nation's colleges doesn't correlate well with the political leanings of the nation. According to a number of Pew Research Center surveys, most Americans identify as conservative. These Americans are seeing their tax dollars and tuition dollars going to people who have contempt for their values and seek to indoctrinate their children with ideas from the Left. A recent survey of anthropology departments showed the Democrat-to-Republican faculty ratio is 133-to-1; in communications departments the ratio is 108-to-zero.
Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote an article titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences” and quoted a UCLA scientist who said, “All across the country, the big question now in STEM is: How can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing' (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?”
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2017/05/wolfeangel.html
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The title to Thomas Wolfe's first and most famous novel was almost Alone, Alone, borrowed, he said, "from the poem I like best, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner;" then it evolved to O, Lost!; finally, when his publisher asked for something more inspired, Wolfe went to Milton:Ay me! Whilst thee the shores, and sounding Seas Wash far away, where ere thy bones are hurld,
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I don’t hear Americans and Europeans complaining about all the stuff China isn’t producing because its government stupidly wants to produce a lot of steel.--de Rugy
In 1776, Edward Rutledge, one of South Carolina’s representatives to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, expressed his reluctance to declare independence from Britain in a letter to the like-minded John Jay of New York. Remember that Rutledge was a lawyer, not a planter. And when he signed the Declaration, he was 26. 26!
Aaaaaannnnnddddddd.....a bar graph:
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