Lowell Ponte is always an excellent read. I mean always.
Posted on 02/27/2004 12:55:24 PM PST by JohnHuang2
I take it you are referring to universities. If so I'm not at all surprised. No wonder - most faculties, (especially philosophy) in most universities are filled with marxists, and they have a litmus test for new hires. They definitely do not want any diversity of thought.
I believe Mark Levin is trying to break that stranglehold in colorado by helping to pass a law that would change the hiring practices.
We should give him all the help we can.
What about Harvard's new policy of fee forgiveness to students' families under $40,000 and increased search for gifted students? Seems like this should gall the liberal profs and the Rawlsians since it is oriented toward the gifted rather than the minimal functionality line. This needs to be viewed as aid to the gifted student rather than aid to the poor family in order for this to be seen as properly upsetting.
I'm all for it - back to the way it used to be - scholarships should go to smart and talented kids, regardless of economic status. It is they who will contribute most to society.
While I'll admit that working on an oil drilling location in Eastern Montana in the winter seems a tad like the Gulag, not all scientists are the socialists he claims, only the Gubmint approved PhD bunch.
Government funding has been awarded to the politically correct or militarily expedient for a long time now.
Others need to show a profit, so industry funds a leaner, more cost-effective program.
It appears you have noticed that they never left. Only by being 'idealogically dead' could Communists hope to accomplish what has been done to this country.
Modern concepts of Total Warfare involve using ANY means to incapacitate an enemy, economic, 'environmental', cultural, philosophical, educational--the more peaceful and altruistic, the better. The battlefield is the last resort, or the final mopping-up operation.
We have exported our wealth, as well as most of our means of creating it. (You don't create wealth by redecorating someone's living room, you create it by making something or extracting a resource.)
They have infiltrated the educational system, and dumbing down our youth (a situation which can be remediated, with effort) is far less the danger that the repetetive indoctrination modern 'education' provides.
Our history, reading/comprehension, and analytical thought have been sacrificed on the altars of political correctness, "information", and secular humanism.
Lowell Ponte is always an excellent read. I mean always.
See also this freerepublic topic.Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test[Herndon] draws unhappy conclusions from his bumpy scientific career. Had his two sons -- now physicians -- planned to become scientists, he says, "I would have steered them away from it because you can't make a living and do legitimate science; you have to 'howl with the wolves' or you don't survive. This is a sad testament to our times. There's something very wrong in American science."
by Keay Davidson
SF Chronicle
Monday, November 29, 2004
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Posted on 02/16/2001 05:58:47 PST by SLB
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