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Accuracy in Academia ^ | June 10, 2011 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 06/14/2011 7:59:49 AM PDT by Academiadotorg

The more upside-down the view of off-campus life that professors take, it seems, the more likely they are to succeed. Take Peter Edelman of the Georgetown Law Center who the D. C. bar describes as a “legend.”

An Obama supporter, he is pained to note of the president’s economic policies that, “In spite of all that, we’re not doing too well.” Similarly, he bemoans the “flood of low-wage jobs that built up in this country for about a quarter century” without acknowledging that virtually all of last month’s job gains came from McDonald’s.

Edelman moderated a panel at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on “Strengthening American Families.” His own diagnosis of what ails them might strike those same families as counterintuitive.

“We have a criminal justice system dedicated to keeping families apart,” he said at CAP on June 9, 2011. “They are locking up two million disproportionately African-American and Latino” prisoners. Edelman did not mention that a glance at police logs show that the rape and murder victims of criminals also tend to be African-American and Latino.

Conversely, Edelman is impressed with the “stunning successes” of LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual and Transgender) activists, particularly in overturning the so-called “don’t ask, don’t tell” bar on homosexuals serving in combat. He did not mention that polls show that this might lead heterosexuals to avoid reenlisting.

“In October 2008, the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) conducted an online survey on whether the military should allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military,” Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness noted early last year. “The majority (52 percent) of the 1,664 respondents to the survey opposed repealing the 1993 law, and 68 percent believed that repealing the law would have a moderate to very negative impact on troop morale and readiness.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: crime; dadt; georgetown; university

1 posted on 06/14/2011 7:59:54 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

You always post from the same source:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:academiadotorg/index?tab=articles

You always excerpt, driving traffic to that source.

Are you here in a commercial capacity?


2 posted on 06/14/2011 8:13:19 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

No, I just keep forgetting that links don’t translate on Freep. You reminded me so I posted a Michelle Malkin column I really liked. I will give you more of a variety from here on out;>)


3 posted on 06/14/2011 8:42:11 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

“We’re not doing too well.” - Man, this guy is really invested in Obama. He thinks he is Obama. Democrats - every single one of them should be whipped with a dead weasel. Not that it would do any good, but oh, the fun of it.


4 posted on 06/14/2011 9:13:07 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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