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Academics Ignore Obama Mentor

, Malcolm A. Kline

The latest thesis circulating in academia lends further credence to the observation that academics may only rival journalists in their tendency to miss the obvious, whether by accident or design.

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Dropout U

, Malcolm A. Kline

The President’s favorite think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP) is so anxious to help the White House reach its goal of 60 percent of the population with college degrees that they are considering high school dropouts as likely targets for recruiters.

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Excessively Taxed

, Malcolm A. Kline

“The taxes we rely on most have marginal excess rates of 40 to 50 percent.”—Duke University economist Chris Conover at the Cato Institute on October 13, 2010

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Tenured Weathermen

, Malcolm A. Kline

For decades, media elites and academics alike have accepted the accounts that veterans of the anti-Vietnam War movement gave of themselves, particularly when those vets occupied academic berths.

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Recent Articles

MLA Vocabulary Contest

, Malcolm A. Kline

There is at least one way in which the Modern Language Association (MLA) that thousands of English professors belong to lives up to its name: they traverse in a vocabulary most of us working stiffs…

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Workers of Berkeley Unite!

, Malcolm A. Kline

Now here’s a man-bites-dog story: Labor strife at Berkeley. Janitorial, custodial and cafeteria workers at Berkeley are fighting to maintain their raise from $9 to $17 an hour with benefits at a university that prides…

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