Education

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS’S GOLD BUY IS A GAME-CHANGER

SeekingAlpha.com | by: Ananthan Thangavel April 19, 2011  | about: GLD Over the weekend, an announcement was made that the University of Texas endowment fund had decided to take delivery of $1 billion worth of gold. This was an absolutely huge development on multiple fronts. First, the UT endowment fund’s gold purchase was a radical deviation

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NORTH CAROLINA – NEW CHARTER SCHOOL LEGISLATION

Senate Bill 8 – Charter Schools On Monday evening, Senate Bill 8, “An Act to Remove the Cap on the Number of Charter Schools,” passed the House by a vote of 68 – 51.  Despite its unanimous support from Republicans and one courageous Democrat, changes to the charter school legislation have raised questions by some

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KNOW THY ENEMY: MOVE-ON.ORG EMAIL – 30,000 FASTING

LIBERALS  DON’T SEEM TO BE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING JUST HOW DESTRUCTIVE THEIR OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING IS FOR OUR COUNTRY!  THEY CAN DEMONIZE THE WEALTHY BUT EXACTLY WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL THEIR SPENDING WHEN 40% OF AMERICANS DON’T EVEN PAY TAXES!! Dear MoveOn member So far, more than 30,000 people are participating in a rolling fast

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BOOK REVIEW – SCHOOLS FOR MISRULE

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Objection Sustained The trouble with lawyers begins in the law schools. George Leef March 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 27 Schools for Misrule Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson Encounter, 296 pp., $25.95 Following Judge Roger Vinson’s decision that Obamacare exceeded the powers granted to Congress

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NORWAY TO JEWS: YOU’RE NOT WELCOME HERE

MARCH 29, 2011 Norway to Jews: You’re Not Welcome Here Anti-Semitism doesn’t even mask itself as anti-Zionism. By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ I recently completed a tour of Norwegian universities, where I spoke about international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the tour nearly never happened. Its sponsor, a Norwegian pro-Israel group, offered to

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A REQUIEM FOR DETROIT

MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane

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THE FAILURE OF HEAD START

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen March 8, 2011 12:00 A.M. Impervious to Evidence Supporting failed programs is moral vanity.My friend E. J. Dionne Jr., a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, is a fine man with, I feel safe in asserting, a warm heart. But he betrays in a recent column a persistent failing

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