Archives for the 'academia' Category
Harvard Law Hero
Published on 18 Nov 2009 at 1:36 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, America, academia, courage.
They keep coming out of the woodwork. Harvard war heroes. This one, when all the other Harvard Law graduates headed off to the white-shoe law firms, the non-profits, community organizing, that kind of thing, he headed off to the United States Marine Corps. Three combat tours later, it was the DEA because, his dad said, unlike CIA and [...]
Alternate Academia
Published on 14 Nov 2009 at 9:00 am.
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Filed under academia, history, military.
Briefly spotted at Harvard University this past week. Crittenden* at the Weekly Standard:
Meanwhile, In Other Diversity News
Published on 10 Nov 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under academia, terrorists.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick takes a hard line, decides he won’t have his own Bill Ayers-type problem. Bucks the lefties at UMass, sides with the cop’s widow, says “No” to an aging hippy explosive diversity activist’s speech. So insensitive! Who would have thought Obama’s doppelganger would be anti-academic freedom? Boston Herald:
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Harvard Yard
Published on 10 Nov 2009 at 7:03 am.
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Filed under America, academia, courage, military.
Home of American heroes.
It’s always easy to poke fun at the World’s Greatest University across the Charles, all the more so in recent decades as, like much of academia, it sank in a wretched swamp of America-bashing leftism while continuing to survey the world down its superior nose.
Did you know that Harvard can now boast no fewer [...]
Beer Summit II
Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 10:40 pm.
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Filed under Obama, academia, cops, racism.
Gates and Crowley share informal suds. I’d love to know what they talked about. Because I have a dream. Boston Herald:
Faster, Cheaper
Published on 16 Sep 2009 at 12:27 pm.
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Filed under academia, science.
Sounds better already.* MIT students beat NASA on a beer-fund budget, launch and recover unmanned low-orbit beer cooler mission. Wired’s Gadget Lab:
O, Cruel Snarkery
Published on 1 Aug 2009 at 11:13 am.
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Filed under Obama, academia, cops, racism.
Lifson at The American Thinker sums up this picture’s thousand words:
Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so [...]
University Of Combat
Published on 31 Jul 2009 at 10:24 am.
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Filed under Iraq, academia, media, military.
The University of Alaska J-school is embedding student journalists with an Alaska-based Stryker battalion in Diyala province, one of those parts of Iraq where al-Qaeda remains a problem, posing a reasonable likelihood that the three students and their professor could be exposed to fire. Chronicle of Higher Education:
In Which We All Just Get Along
Published on 31 Jul 2009 at 8:42 am.
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Filed under America, Bush, Obama, academia, cops, racism.
The beer thing went off well enough, I guess, though it had already jumped the shark before they actually sat down, even before a Boston cop got himself in hot water by firing off a racist email.* My only comment on that thing last night is … which White House protocol genius forgot to tell everyone the appropriate [...]
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It’s All Over …
Published on 22 Jul 2009 at 8:40 am.
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Filed under academia, cops, law & order, lawyers, racism.
… except for the recriminations.
Harvard Prof Henry Louis Gates Jr’s lawyer, Walter Prince, and the Cambridge cops negotiate a “just resolution,” in which the cops and the DA drop the disorderly conduct charge, and both sides agree it was a “regrettable” incident.
Later in the day, Gates and his other lawyer, Harvard Law Prof Charles Ogletree, apparently working from [...]
Army Gives Money To Harvard
Published on 16 Jul 2009 at 10:11 pm.
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Filed under academia, military.
Even though Harvard barely gives the Army the time of day.*
The University of Michigan, Columbia and Harvard are splitting a $50 million grant to study military suicides. Chicago Tribune. The University of Michigan apparently has on-campus ROTC. But it looks like Columbia’s ROTC students, like those who rub shoulders with the privileged elites at Harvard, have to [...]
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10-Minute Leadership Course
Published on 4 Jun 2009 at 12:32 am.
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Filed under academia, military.
From the man who brought Iraq back from the bloody brink.
Gen. David H. Petraeus at Harvard’s 2009 commissioning ceremony for ROTC cadets and midshipmen in Harvard Yard. As twitted by Crit:
Petraeus’ 10-minute ldrshp seminar, delivered @ Harvard’s ROTC commissioning today … “Individuals matter & indvdl leaders really matter.”
Petraeus: “Ldrs r th ones hstry rmmbrs as hving mde th [...]
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Hasta La Service Academies
Published on 19 Apr 2009 at 11:05 am.
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Filed under academia, military.
Tom Ricks at Washington Post recommends closing the service academies, for better buck bang in officer production. Makes a couple of interesting points, but also misses a couple:
On top of the economic advantage, I’ve been told by some commanders that they prefer officers who come out of ROTC programs, because they tend to be better [...]
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Pahk Your Wahmongah Values Outside Hahvahd Yahd
Published on 13 Apr 2009 at 8:24 am.
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Filed under academia, military.
My pal Michael Graham on Harvard’s raging hypocrisy re terrorism and ROTC. Boston Herald op-ed:
Forty years ago today, Harvard University caved to pressure from violent student radicals and banned the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) from campus. The ban continues because Harvard finds the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy too offensive to be [...]
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In Court News
Published on 2 Apr 2009 at 10:00 pm.
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Filed under academia, justice, law & order.
A jury gives Ward Churchill $1, says he was wrongly fired. A judge will determine whether he gets his job back. AP. It comes down to whether you think he was fired because he made highly irresponsible, insulting and defamatory remarks to 3,000 dead Americans and their families when he called them “Little Eichmanns,” or [...]
Non-Unrepentant Ex-Non-Terrorist* Uninvited
Published on 28 Mar 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Boston, academia, terrorists.
Boston College disinvites Ayers, who was due to speak Monday on education reform and civic engagement at the invitation of Americans for Informed Democracy and the College Democrats. Boston Herald.
Ayers could not be reached last night, but before the decision was announced, he said: “This isn’t Saudi Arabia or Cuba. Speech is something we believe in [...]
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University Free Speech Update
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 10:29 am.
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Filed under academia, free speech.
Campus newspaper column hurts prof’s reputation. Bess Davis’ ”Bess Sex” column in th University of Montana’s Montana Kaimin doesn’t appear to be about Law Prof Kristen Juras. She just doesn’t like the content and is afraid its relative proximity to her is damaging. It’s an interesting argument.
Does this mean, for example, that material that appears in the Boston Herald may [...]
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Long War, Petty Battle, Cheap Shots
Published on 9 Mar 2009 at 9:48 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Iraq, academia, military.
If the world were a perfect place, I’d advise David Kilcullen at Small Wars Journal not to waste any time or energy responding to the intellectually dishonest Andrew Bacevich’s trashing of Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla. Not least because lately Bacevich has been incapable of managing a coherent essay, not that that stops people from printing them. But Australian [...]
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Perfect A-Storm
Published on 6 Mar 2009 at 8:25 pm.
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Filed under academia, moronocy.
As two perfect a-holes* link up for a joint blatherfest at student protest for “academic freedom” in Boulder. Freedom to lift stuff, make it up, prevaricate and obfuscate about it, I guess. AP on the Ayers/Churchill matchup. It’s like they were made for each other. What took them so long?
Losing Self-Control
Published on 20 Feb 2009 at 8:58 am.
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Filed under academia, racism.
Is good for you. Sounds like great news for Congress, but this bizarre study out of Tufts isn’t about behaving like a bloated, rampaging chimp with other people’s money. Unlike the notorious cartoon that has everyone’s shorts in twist, this study is actually about race, and suggests it would be better for everyone … whites, blacks and society … [...]
Daniel Pearl And The Normalization Of Evil
Published on 3 Feb 2009 at 9:23 am.
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Filed under GWOT, academia, terrorists.
This one reminds me of that line from the old lefty anthem, “… when will they ever learn?” UCLA Prof Judea Pearl at WSJ looks at the world around him and, as the 7th anniversary of his son’s murder approaches, finds it hard to look Daniel Pearl’s portrait and say, “You did not die in [...]
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Obama Pahk$ Hi$ Cah
Published on 20 Oct 2008 at 7:48 am.
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Filed under academia, money, pols.
… In Hahvahd Yahd. Boston Herald:
Krugman EnNobeled
Published on 13 Oct 2008 at 8:53 am.
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Filed under academia, money.
For his theory of trade patterns and location of economic activity. via NYT:
Re Not Fighting the Current War
Published on 2 Oct 2008 at 12:55 pm.
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Filed under academia, military.
Never mind the last one. Boston University Prof. Andrew Bacevich says he’s worried about the next one, but his big problem is with the current one. Bacevich decries the U.S. Army’s new counterinsurgency focus, suggesting that it reduces conventional capabilities, and that Bush War-driven practical needs are pre-empting a traditional chain-of-command policy process. Like much of what [...]
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Even In Massachusetts …
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 8:13 pm.
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Filed under academia, moronocy, pols.
… they were able to figure out this is wrong. Umass-Amherst officials quash a campus chaplain’s offer of two college credits to any student who would campaign for Obama in New Hampshire this fall. via Breitbart.
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Brown Stain
Published on 9 Sep 2008 at 2:15 pm.
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Filed under academia, military.
Projo letter to the editor from LTC Paul Dulchinos, a former Providence College ROTC advisor, alleges gross discrimination against members of a minority group at nearby Brown University … ROTC-Americans:
Harvard as Wart
Published on 21 May 2008 at 10:52 am.
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Filed under academia, military.
William McGurn at WSJ on why Harvard disses its military graduates.
Meet Michael Bhatia
Published on 11 May 2008 at 11:27 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, academia, military.
The late Michael Bhatia’s work, photos and some interesting vid interview segments at this tribute site. Comes across about as academically wonkish as they come, all the more interesting that he would take so direct a role, that would lead to his death in combat in the company of American soldiers.
Fallen American
Published on 9 May 2008 at 10:34 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, academia, military.
Doesn’t really look like the kind of guy who would be killed in the lead Humvee of a four-vehicle combat patrol, riding with the 101st Airborne’s Task Force Currahee in Khowst Province, does he? A little bookish, maybe. But it maybe there’s something there in the eyes. Hard to tell from a snapshot. Easy to read it in, [...]
Know Thy Enemy
Published on 9 May 2008 at 12:17 pm.
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Filed under academia, moronocy.
Or not, at thy own risk. Reynolds weighs in with praise for the ACLU and the press, as well as FIRE, in resolving the bizarre case of PC persecution of a reading janitor at a university that has its head even farther up an inaccessible place than usual. The red-faced anti-educationists are forced to admit [...]
Hurricane Watch
Published on 29 Apr 2008 at 10:11 am.
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Filed under academia, warmalism.
Hurricane forecaster and noted warming skeptic William Gray says Colorado State University is trying to ice him out by cutting publicity support for his forecasts. Not clear from the article what that means. No more press releases or press conferences? They won’t hand out his number when reporters call during hurrican season? Not a lot [...]
Oppressing Oppression
Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 9:18 pm.
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Filed under academia, moronocy.
This is entirely charming. The dreadlocked, body-pierced granola-crunchers with sprouts stuck between their teeth at Hampshire College want “anti-oppression training” for all staff.
Kinder, Gentler Superpower
Published on 22 Mar 2008 at 9:46 am.
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Filed under America, GWOT, Iraq, academia.
Envisioned by Shawn Brimley, the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security,* who says in this essay at Small Wars Journal we need to be willing to use force, yet not in ways that piss people off. There is of course a fundamental disconnect there, and Brimley’s opening Bush-bash fails to notice that a big [...]
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Power Down
Published on 7 Mar 2008 at 5:00 pm.
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Filed under academia, moronocy, pols.
UPDATES. Samantha Power quits Obama campaign over “Monster” remarks. Times of London:
Yea, Though I Walk …
Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 9:59 am.
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Filed under Boston, academia, baseball.
… through the Stadium of the Evil Empire …. Red Sox fans among NYU’s Class of ‘08 forced to endure commencement in Yankee Stadium. Boston Herald:
Terror Drill Reveals Critical School Security Deficiency
Published on 27 Feb 2008 at 9:43 pm.
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Filed under academia.
Students and faculty don’t read administration e-mail alerts. I like the part where the “armed intruder” announces he’s going to kill the student with the lowest GPA. That’s really adding humiliation to terror. Charlotte Observer:
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Ivy Skin
Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 6:43 pm.
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Filed under academia, sex, shameless opportunism.
More high-brow nudies at Harvard. Crimson:
Welcome to Massachusetts
Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 8:57 am.
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Filed under academia, racism.
No place for hate. No place for teaching about hate, either. Boston Herald:
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How Fast to Australia?
Published on 20 Oct 2007 at 10:50 am.
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Filed under Neanderthals, academia, anthronerdism, apes, science.
And other sci-tems. The superlative anthroblogger John Hawks taps us into the issue of whether the earliest colonization of Oz was a matter of accidental vegetation* or if they strapped bits of wood together and paddled, 60,000-plus years ago. Meanwhile, in Watson news:
Not Worth A Sioux
Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 8:39 am.
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Filed under academia.
Lofty principles re noble savages compromised for cold cash. CQ:
Racism Decried
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 9:49 am.
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Filed under Islam, academia.
By liars. GWU Hatchet offers up excuses of seven lefty students who posted bogus fliers vs. David Horowitz’s Islamo-Fascism Week.
Uh Oh
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 9:41 am.
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Filed under Iran, academia.
Looks like Bollinger is in for the Larry Summers treatment. NY Sun:
Persian Sockpuppets?
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 10:21 am.
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Filed under Iran, academia.
OK, here we go. Fars: Iranian university presidents ask Bollinger 10 questions, some of which are actually germane to the situation:
Learning Moment
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 8:41 am.
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Filed under Iran, academia.
Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger just set a new academic standard. The university as a moral force, a leader in struggles for peace, freedom and justice. Here’s Bollinger’s speech, an exercise in stark clarity. Bollinger’s bio suggests this might be a bold new course for him.* So maybe he is shining a light, as academics are supposed to do, [...]
More Like This
Published on 24 Sep 2007 at 10:56 pm.
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Filed under Iran, academia.
I thought they wanted to have an academic debate with Ahmadinejad. You know, like they wanted to have with Hitler. If I knew they were going to mock A’jad and insult A’jad, and wipe the smirk of A’jad’s mug, I might have taken an entirely different view of this Columbia thing.
Hitler OK!
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Iran, academia.
Says Columbia dean. Insane mass murderer would be welcome to speak in august halls of learning.
Bush = Napoleon
Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 11:40 pm.
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Filed under academia, history.
Here, for your reading pleasure, is one of those truly idiotic essays that demonstrates how accomplished academics with clever ideas about how current events compare to their particular historic specialty can be utterly ignorant of the realities of the present, which of course calls into question how well they possibly can understand the realities of the past.
Columbia U. dolt Richard [...]
Wounded Heel
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 7:21 am.
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Filed under academia, punishment, shameless self-promotion.
The best part about this is that he’ll be back. The best part after the firing, that is. The best part after the firing and the drums, that is. I like the drums.
Ward Churchill canned for plagiarism, making up history, may not teach at University of Colorado for as long as the grass grows, the buffalo roam [...]
“Sheer Twaddle”
Published on 18 Jun 2007 at 10:28 am.
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Filed under GWOT, academia, pols.
Bacevich: Those who in the absence of serious strategic analysis reflexively posture about the need for more troops deserve only contempt.
Crittenden, contemptibly: Those who in the absence of more troops reflexively posture about the need for serious strategic analysis are nuts.
The Oxford Medievalist
Published on 15 Jun 2007 at 8:45 pm.
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Filed under academia, blogs.
… just called me “incomparable.” Never been called incomparable by an Oxford medievalist before. Go take his poll on “Which figure had the greatest influence on Western civilization.” It’s a stumper.
