[FreedomPoster]

BITE YOUR TONGUE!

The State Department is hugely in need of some serious renewal, starting with hiring from flyover state schools instead of the Ivies.

[Vigilanteman]

You are both right, of course.

I only listed the State Department for the convenience of all those foreign embassies in Washington.

But it is in bad need of a clean out which should start with not allowing those currently in the job to do the new hires.

Disclosure: Years ago, I scored in the top 1% of their exam and was invited to DC for an interview. Because the biographical sketches of the interviewers was available in a binder for all to see, I went through it fairly completely. There were three things that stood out as common to all (ever single one had two of the three, many all three):

• Most had graduated from a tiny handful of universities in the northeast, including the Ivies.
  
• Most had worked in a news agency such as Reuters or CNN with international locations.
  
• Many had been in the Peace Corps.

  They were, of course, overwhelmingly from the left side of the political spectrum who wanted to hire people like them.