No matter if the crisis is global warming or global cooling, the environmental left always provides the same answers to the world’s woes, Marc Morano of Climate Depot noted at Accuracy in Media’s 40th Anniversary Conference: more government control.
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Lord Monckton
“Complexity is the enemy of truth.”
—Lord Christopher Monckton at Accuracy in Media’s 40th anniversary conference on October 23, 2009.
I See You’re Drinking One Percent
It turns out school lunch—soggy, cardboard pizzas with a side of half-thawed tater tots—is an expensive issue.
Redefining Sex Ed
For parents worried about how to tell their kids about sex, good news: now you don’t have to. The public school system will do it for you.
Net Discrimination
At the October 13 Conservative Blogger’s Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell addressed the issue of net neutrality, specifically the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) upcoming initiative to regulate the internet.
At the October 13 Conservative Blogger’s Briefing at the Heritage Foundation, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell addressed the issue of net neutrality, specifically the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) upcoming initiative to regulate the internet.
On October 22nd, the FCC voted on a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding open internet practices. According to Commissioner McDowell, the premise behind the new rules—as outlined by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski—is that the “internet is broken and government must fix it.” This draft, said McDowell, focuses on “adding a non-discrimination requirement to the four net neutrality principles that came out in the summer of 2005,” emphasizing the fact that, as of yet, the requirements have been uncodified principles, not regulations.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) examined broadband markets in 2006 and determined no market failure, said McDowell. He then asked why rules should be changed when there is no market failure. What the FCC is looking for, he argued, is data since so far “there has not been really a factual case made,” adding that “on the 22nd, the debate will begin in earnest.”
Rather than government regulation, McDowell encouraged more “private sector collaboration,” saying that he subscribes to the philosophy that “we should have innovation everywhere,” not just where the government permits innovation.
Unfortunately, he warned, an increase in regulation might have the unintended consequence of reducing network investment as a result of the “regulatory uncertainty that can come from new rules at the FCC.”
The FCC, additionally, is supposed to present a national broadband plan to Congress on February 17th, 2010, a plan which McDowell admits is not nearly formed. This new broadband plan could cost anywhere from $20 billion to $150 billion, he said. “We may present this plan to Congress, whatever it is going to look like, with a big price tag on it to be funded by the private sector, and the private sector does not show up.”
McDowell encouraged bloggers to submit any relevant facts to the FCC. The October 22nd vote will make the new rules open for public comment.
Teachers’ Lounge
Teachers’ unions have made it nearly impossible to rid schools of incompetent teachers.
ACORN Scandals Grow & Grow
When two college students pretending to be a prostitute and her pimp sought help from ACORN employees, staffers couldn’t do enough for them as the two claimed to be importing underage girls to work as ladies of the evening. The Asssociation for Community Organizers for Reform Now responded with a lawsuit.
Moral Tax Reform
Former Accuracy in Academia director Leslie Carbone shows that it is in her book Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform. Watch her discuss it at the last AIA author’s night on October 15, 2009.
A Child’s Garden of Guidelines
It’d be nice if there was a secret I could tell you about how to instantly make your kids more successful in school and life. But there is no magic pill, only that old stand-by, hard work.
Moral Tax Reform Part 2
Former Accuracy in Academia director Leslie Carbone shows that it is in her book Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform. Watch her discuss it at the last AIA author’s night on October 15, 2009.
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More Outrage: This Time, over University of Chicago Rejecting Safe Spaces
The letter written by University of Chicago Dean of Students John Ellison said they don’t have safe spaces and will not give trigger warnings to students, which the Left is outraged by. Good for Chicago.
College Campus Lunacy is Common Today, writes Walter E. Williams
Dr. Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics, wrote a column on the rampant college lunacy in today’s society: Hampshire College will offer some of its students what the school euphemistically calls “identity-based housing.” That’s…
Today’s Safe Spaces for Minority Students Looks a Lot Like Racial Segregation
UConn has created ‘safe spaces’ for their minority students by creating an all-black male dormitory hall. Hmm, doesn’t that appear to roll back the advances of the civil rights movement? Photo by gtalan
Does the University of Chicago Really Protect Free Expression?
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Academe Blog. It’s praiseworthy that the University of Chicago has announced to its students a “commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression.” But there is a…
Anti-Gun Rights Protesters Use Sex Toys to Protest Campus Carry
What? Only in Austin, Texas does this make any sense (if it makes any sense at all, to begin with).
Sociology Professor finds Divorce Rates Double for Couples who Watch Pornography
Sociology professor at the University of Oklahoma, Samuel Perry, found that pornography viewing negatively impacts marriages.
Louisiana University has Restrictive Free Speech Code of Only Speaking You Mind for Two Hours a Week
This sounds outrageous, but it’s apparently true at Northwestern State University in Louisiana: The school earned the uncoveted “Speech Code of the Month” from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which just downgraded Northwestern…
CSU-Fresno Hosted Black Student-Only Retreat
So much for racial equality and inclusion, no? California State University Fresno recently held a three-day student retreat for black students that aimed to foster inclusion and help incoming African American students adjust to college…
SUNY-Binghampton had RA Campaign Called ‘Stop White People 2K16’
From the College Fix: #StopWhitePeople2K16: It’s just a joke. That’s the explanation from the State University of New York-Binghamton on how the inflammatory hashtag made it into the name of a training session for resident assistants (RAs)….
University of New Mexico Used Dead Babies’ Brain Tissue for Dissections at Summer Camp
From the College Fix: University of New Mexico’s dean of the School of Medicine has admitted that college staff utilized the brain tissue of aborted babies “for dissection by high school students at a summer…