[The King of Elflands Daughter]

I thought this article was an interesting analysis of the contemporary political situation in the United States. It originally appeared in the American Spectator. It's a bit long, but interesting in its entirety.

[La Lydia]

Killer post. I really liked this part:

If, for example, you are Lawrence Tribe in 1984, Harvard Professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can “write” your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistants, Ron Klain and Barack Obama. A decade later, after Klain admits to having written some parts of the book, and the other parts are found to be verbatim or paraphrases of a book published in 1974, you can claim (perhaps correctly) that your 4 plagiarism was “inadvertent,” and you can count on the Law School’s dean, Elena Kagan, to appoint a committee including former and future Harvard president Derek Bok that issues a secret report that “closes” the incident. Incidentally, Obama ends up as President and Kagan a justice of the Supreme Court. Not one of these people did their job: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. By contrast, for example, learned papers and distinguished careers in climatology at MIT (Richard Lindzen) or UVA (S Fred singer) who question ‘global warming” are not enough for them to be taken seriously. For our ruling class, identity always trumps.

[patriot preacher]

BIG TIME bookmark! Thanks for posting! Will read this evening!

[tumblindice]

“our bipartisan ruling class”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[Mr. Jeeves]

Very good article. He hints at what I have been thinking is the only real way for the “country class” to fix the system - every single conservative, libertarian, radical anarchist, or anyone else who wants to sweep the “ruling class” from power needs to join the Democratic Party and launch an internal fight for control of it.

[eclecticEel]

Thanks for posting! I’ll have to read that tonight.

[oldfart]

bookmark

[Publius]

Ping. Long, but definitive.

[reformedliberal]

BFL

[TASMANIANRED]

I’m glad she is teaching somewhere.

[bvw]

Great insights in this article.

[bvw]

Later Duplicates:

Preferred!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2553634/posts 122

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554512/posts 40

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554945/posts 16

This here is the Earliest, 7/8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2548923/posts 14