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It was obvious long ago that there was an education problem in the public school system; when more and more of your students each semester don’t know that =C2*D2 is identical to =D2*C2, or don’t understand the basic order of precedence (and therefore leave out parentheses), it’s hard to miss.
It wasn’t until later, however, that […]

So President Logan not only negotiates with terrorists — he immediately gives in to them, and agrees to let them bomb the visiting Russian PM and his wife. Wait, that was last week, and he’s reached new lows. His wife got in the car with the Russians, and this gutless wonder is going to sacrifice […]

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So much for “tax cuts for the rich” …

Politics are interesting here in Pennsylvania — and in Ohio and Maryland. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann and Ken Blackwell are running for governor, and in Maryland, Michael Steele is running for Senate.
And in all three cases, they are giving the Democrats panic attacks. Why?
They’re all black, and Swann and Steele are running neck […]

It seems the general ambassador for the Taliban is going to Yale. Michelle Malkin says …

Given that schools (and universities) are big bureaucracies, and given that I am a conservative, I shouldn’t be surprised at any lack of efficiency in the classroom. But as someone who has been teaching since 1987, I can’t get past one small issue:
Doesn’t Mr. Ed Degree care if his students learn the material or not? […]

Testing (which I’ve talked about before) seems to come back to haunt me, or did, when I read this report on a “fuzzy math” presentation (hat tip to Darren).
Why testing? Because the report brings to the surface an important issue, one that Mr. Raimi does not discuss (because he is tackling different issues).
The crucial concept […]

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We had MBAs teaching for us, which created a whole set of problems, but math was one of them. Let’s say a student comes in to your office hours and wants to know how well he has to do in order to get a B in the class.
Well, figuring that out isn’t hard. The total […]

On Casting Out Nines …

For those of you who don’t watch it, the evil aliens who feed on humans on Stargate: Atlantis are called the wraith. They’re basically pretty nasty, and evolved from bugs. See one, kill it. That sort of critter.
This last episode is about an experiment. They’ve formulated a virus that when given to a wraith, will […]

I have a hypothesis. It’s not a theory — I have no research to support it (and have no idea at the moment if any such research has ever been done, but if you know of anything, I would greatly appreciate a citation).
I’ve mentioned the abstraction problem, and I’ve written about math illiteracy. And though […]

Ann Coulter is a pundit. And though she’s a highly intelligent woman, she has made an excellent career out of making excellent points (usually expressed as zingers), but not extensive argumentation.
Her audience is conservatives. She is often over the top (if that bothers you, look “hyperbole” up in your nearest dictionary), and always witty. Ann […]

Okay, I laughed when I read about the student who yelled, “Remember Chappaquiddick!” at a Ted Kennedy lecture. I’ll even go so far as to say that liberals deserve it, after all the attempts they make to silence or drown out conservative speakers.
However, having just seen Ann Coulter and having just put up with the […]

Dedicated to jimmyb and Wyatt Earp.
You know you’re in Pennsylvania when

two out of every three vehicles have conservative stickers (flags, ribbons, W04, Bush-Cheney, NRA, etc.)
you see no “no firearms” signs anywhere
you start seeing Steelers logos everywhere you look
you’re always driving around a sharp curve
you wonder if you’ll ever see level ground again
mountains (see above)
coal mines […]

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So here we are in the auditorium. Sorry, but no moonbats outside — and they’re being very tight about security, and are making it very clear that howling and barking at the moon will not be tolerated inside. Sigh. I had hoped there would be some good pics.
Speaking of pics, I just realized that they’re […]

the moonbats are completely losing it.

I just heard that the College Dhimmicrats are not organizing any sort of protest (the president is on the union board, the organization that is sponsoring Coulter’s presentation). That doesn’t mean there won’t be hippies out in force, of course, and I’ll be very surprised if there aren’t. But it could mean fewer moonbats than […]

The blonde bimbo has gone from just being an idiot to defamation of character. In this gem of vindictive blather, Tits On A Chair crosses the line:
Since I informed Michelle and others that the only costs would be filing fees and costs, Jay volunteered to have the Paypal account for this set up at his […]

I have my trusty digital camera, and the moonbats will be frothing at the mouth outside the auditorium. I plan to take pictures, then begin with the moonbats on parade photoblog. Ann is scheduled to speak at 7.
No bags, no signs. No policy about pies, though.
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Today’s Indiana Daily Student has an editorial about Ann Coulter’s presentation tonight, entitled Shut up and learn. There’s no point in quoting it; you should read the whole thing.
I suspect, however, that it’s an online-only editorial for a reason. Online-only or not, I’m sure it will get lots of angry letters from the bed-wetters.

So I’m back at IU, and nothing much has changed. In yesterday’s campus paper, we had a sterling example of guilt-ridden, hand-wringing leftist groupthink entitled So what can we all do to retain more black students?
So when IU sophomore Sara Alghani and senior Rodney Cobb invited IU’s historically black greek organization members to join fellow […]

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Need more caffeine. Need more caffeine …
I got confirmation. I’ll be liveblogging Coulter, Thursday night starting sometime before 6 and 7 (it starts at 7, but we want good seats, so we’ll be going early, and you know there will be lots of moonbatty nonsense to report). I’m staying with conservative friends. So far, no […]

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Well, I’ve been here since about 4:30, but this is the first time I’ve plugged in the laptop and booted up.
For any loony leftists, vegans, envirowackos, Dhimmicrats, appeaseniks, peaceniks, terrorist sympathizers and moonbats in general who may visit, we have this and this.
Deal. With. It.
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now, so I can get on the road by 7 am. That should (barring bad traffic on I-70 across Ohio) put me in Indiana around 5 this afternoon.
Btw, I hate driving. I really do.
I may or may not be back online before tomorrow morning. It depends on how I feel when I get there, and […]

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I hate doing laundry.
Since I’m driving to Indiana tomorrow and I’ve been running around doing errands all weekend, I had to figure out what we were going to eat. That wasn’t hard to do, since I’ve had a craving since sometime in September.
All the pizza here is New York style, which isn’t surprising, considering that […]

So I’ve been running around doing errands, getting ready for Monday’s drive to Indiana (I almost forgot this was Saturday, but I managed to get to the bank in time). Still doing errands, probably will tomorrow (laundry and so forth).
I’ll be blogging next week. Bloomington has wireless everywhere. But I still haven’t heard anything about […]

Via Rightwinged. The moonbats over on Kos are ripping Whittington a new one for the statement he made to the press. A few excerpts:
This shouldn’t surprise anyone (4.00 / 8)
This guy who was shot is a huge GOP donor. He’s the very definition of party over principle, and he’ll do whatever it takes — even […]

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There is always some wacky theory (which in many cases, is not a theory in any sense of the word) in every academic field, and in most cases, the nuttier it is, the more fashionable it becomes. In writing pedagogy and second-languge writing, the nutball fashion du jour is contrastive rhetoric (CR).
If it seems like […]

So I got a response to my request to liveblog Coulter next week — a courteous, but odd, response.
He said he was looking into “internet access” in the auditorium.
Those of you who aren’t from Bloomington — that would be most of you — don’t understand why this is odd, of course, so I’ll tell you. […]

The “Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers” program (LARK for short):
Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Quaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington. You’ll be pleased to learn […]

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