What the governor has been up to is a horrifying scandal. And I ain’t talking about Eliot Spitzer!

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After years of recruiting only black athletes to play football, some of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have begun recruiting more white athletes, posing questions again about the continuing role and relevance of the HBCUs.
The Washington Post details what it calls a new “trend” among HBCUs, diving into the issue of whether [...]

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The Young America’s Foundation (“the Conservative movement starts here”) recently released their “Dirty Dozen” list, which details unconventional or “non-traditional” college courses offered throughout the U.S., including, of course, one on the phallus.
The site describes the list as a compendium of “the most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship in [...]

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More thousands out on the street in Oaxaca this week and more of them killed by police anti-demonstration forces. Photos tell at least a lot of the story. Peeps on the barricades don’t look like no organized guerillas, like no fake revolutionaries with an agenda, because they look more like everybody– men, women, kids, grandmas [...]

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For those of you who didn’t plow through the New York Times this sunday—a fading ambivalent ritual akin to family dinners—the magazine cover story by Paul Tough tackled the continuing education gap that separates, basically, white kids from black and latino kids in the U.S. The upshot is that Bush is right: it is possible [...]

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Meantime… The unbelievable “teacher strike” continues in Oaxaca, land of mountains, delicious food, Zapatista rebels and screwed governance.
The strike has been on for more than half a year and the numbers are outrageous. For perspective: the civil rights march on Washington in 1963 drew a crowd of 250,000; the Oaxacan strike at its peaks [...]

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