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Education — when it comes to curriculum — is unaffected by normal market pressures. Certainly, if, say, you have two courses, the first a prerequisite for the second, both taught by the same department, and the faculty member who teaches the second course complains to the faculty member teaching the first that there is something […]

Neither the left nor the right is going to be happy with me for writing this, but it can’t be helped. It’s time for a serious reality check — make that a hard slap in the face.
First let’s get this out of the way, so I can’t be falsely accused later on. I strongly support […]

Thanks to Right on the Left Coast and Cam Edwards for this story:
Colleges accused of failing civics test
Cal, Stanford get poor grades in study
Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Seniors at UC Berkeley, the nation’s premier public university, got an F in their basic knowledge of American history, government and politics in a new […]

Remember this New York nanny-state nonsense?
Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city’s 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that […]

Crossposted from Stop The ACLU:
In case you haven’t heard, a group of dissenters from the ACLU are rebelling and calling for a change in the current leadership of the main organization. The summary of things this new group is fed up with is hypocrisy and the ACLU is full of it. Purging […]

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