“EARTH IS FLAT, BUSH’S FAULT” SAYS SHARPTON

Ann, honey, sweetie, I am a little surprised. Imagine the Lame Stream Media skewing the news and salient issues of the day.

We know that when we go to the pump that we are paying too much for gasoline. We also know that if the pseudo-environmentalist liberal lawmakers took a deep breath, cleared just enough space in their warped minds to think sanely for a moment that they would see that this “crisis” is totally avoidable. (Not to go off, but, windmills, ANWAR, limiting Ted Kennedy’s travel and so forth will greatly reduce our “dependency” on “foreign” oil.)

We should be equally aware that at least 110% of the colleges and universities are run by, for and to benefit liberals. (110% too high of a figure? Probably due to the fact that my macroeconomics prof was also a poet laureate and he could see the absurdist beauty of numbers.)

Perhaps the real number is significantly lower, perhaps in the low- to mid- 90% range. The fact that a college is named after a saint or run by Jesuits is absolutely no guarantee that a more temperate view of the world is in the offing. Unless the bastion of higher education is run by someone with the morals of a Falwell, Roberts or similar person you can reasonably assume that the professors and regents are playing “Twister” with their interpretations of the Bill of Rights.

But, Ann, baby doll, the problem is not exclusive to the post-secondary level of education, they are simply the Majors.

Even Barney Fife could detect that the root cause is in our high schools.

Just as the ratio of aid to colleges is in direct proportion to the rise in tuition, the salaries of high school teachers are of inverse proportion to test scores. Armed with tenure, strong unions and the solidarity of others in their chosen profession (3rd oldest?), they can slog through their curricula adding the spice of misinformation to the already diluted product that they call an “education.”

With high school teachers being able to mold the minds of mush to embrace the liberal orthodoxy, it makes it even easier for the big leaguers in “higher learning” to fully indoctrinate their charges.

As each “professor” publishes even the most inane, invective filled, anti-American example of bovine scatology, he or she is lionized by his or her peers and puts another notch in his or her holster. This thermal runaway of hate produces higher salaries which beget more published papers with the bar being lowered at each and every keystroke of their Mac, which spawn higher salaries which…you get the idea.

Let’s not even talk about the billions in endowments that many (all?) of the larger and more “prestigious” colleges have.

Sorry, Ann, running way too long and have not even scratched the surface of this RICO Statute eligible career criminal cartel known as “college.”

God Bless, God Speed, God Help Us All.

While I agree with the point you are trying to make I would just like to clarify one thing. As a post secondary instructor, and a conservative, I may become incensed by the likes of Churchill, but for every one of him there are many more who are sincere, interested, and rational instructors. Teaching at a small technical college in a mid-America state (South Dakota) I don't make the money Churchill does. I took a 50% pay cut to leave industry and teach and I think it was one of the best deals I ever made. I look back at my college education (again I failed to go to an Ivy league college and instead got my engineering degree in the same state I teach in) and while I didn't like all of my professors I certainly do not feel that most would even consider condoning the sentiments of a lunatic like Mr. Churchill (I refuse to sully the title of professor befor his name).

Just as the media skews minor points to make conservatives look bad I feel you have used a small number of bad instructors and generalized them to a much larger population of normally well meaning and dedicated individuals.

If outside interests (oil suppliers) are guilty of raising the prices, how come the big oil companies are making such large profits? They have never had it so good. Think Ann.....

Sodamoca,

I can appreciate your wanting to represent those who are sincere within your community of teachers/professors. The point by Ann is very valid and reflects a lot different environment in other colleges.

I have two in college and more coming up. My son attended UCSC after being accepted on a purely academic decision, he had very high grades. He considered a career in Marine Biology, which Santa Cruz is known as the best in the country in this field. The cost of fees rise yearly but here in California, the best financial deals are the UC's and State schools. We have benefited from the state grants given to us and our children, but it comes at a price.

It seems that with 200 to 300 students in the average class, he was not only finding it hard to learn what he wanted to know about his career choice, he had to face other non-related problems.

In an hour long class, too many times teachers decided to speak out on issues non-related to science. It was a distraction for him to keep listening as the teacher would somehow change the subject to political issues and start in with the "Bush Bashing", "What WMD's", "Terminator jokes about Arnold" or the gay life agendas. It became way too much of a distraction and a focus that he did not need to consider while trying to learn a difficult profession.

Why is it that teachers at this level feel they have the right to speak out against political issues using a science lab as their platform? Not only expressing their opinions but also criticizing students for their support of the conservative right. This is what was going on in his classes and I am sure that it is still going on now. Even his roommates would criticize him for being a Republican. Issues about the war and social programs were more important conversations than those about science and the challenges in that field. Too much one sided politics!

Author Mason Weaver was allowed to speak at the school after a battle to even allow his presence on campus. When he spoke in front of the students at the auditorium, students were very rude, booeing him, yelling names at him, calling him an "Oreo", "Uncle Tom" etc. Here is an intelligent black man trying to help not only his own black people but also society in general. Yet where did these students get off on voicing their opinion and not even letting him express his. Did they do this in High school? I doubt it! So where do they get the idea they can do it in college? If the Professors don't say or do anything are they NOT responsible?

He took a politcal stand himself and decided to leave that school after one year to avoid the constant indoctrination of liberalism. He has been accepted to a fine school in Santa Barbara, called Westmount College, where he will be allowed to voice his own political views of "Being able to pursue a professional career"

Gene, try thinking for yourself.
Profit per gallon:
BIG OIL-9 cents; Federal taxes-18 cents;
Florida state, county and city-50 cents.

And like a good liberal you want to go after the the one that provides us the product and charges us the least. Finally, Exxon-Mobil operates internationally (200 plus countries). The major profits they make are from foreign locales. Over 70% of the 8.4 Billion dollars. Recommend you read some financial reports, review commodities (indexed values) and quit listening to ignorant liberal talk shows (otherwise known as the evening news, CNN and MSNBC).

Thank you Ann for the weekly column that is always right on the money. It hurt our cause when Exxon paid the 400 million dollar retirement package at the same time we are faced with a dollar increase at the pumps, and of course the drive-by media made extensive light of it at the moment. I had the same knee jerk reaction as most as a result of this. Truth of the matter is the environmentalistas survive off of the tax money and creating a "state of fear". The liberal politicians are in thier pockets and kept us from drilling in Anwar, off the coast of Florida (where the Chinese are drilling our oil as we speak) and natural gas off of the coast of North Carolina. Our schools and Universitys are training the next generation of environmentalistas at our expense, and the expense of our future generations.

Damn straight! If I have to hear about yet another college professor (majority PhD's) retiring with yet another $400,000,000 golden parachute, I'm going to scream!

I posted this on the wrong site. This is where I meant to put it:

Where I am in college in AZ, it is a virtual Affirmative Action. There are many liberal proffessors. They extend special treatment to the Mexican students. Since many of them were not schooled in the U.S., they give them special privelages, by giving them the answers before the tests. NO JOKE! This is a medical school. It is an accreditted college, where all who graduate achieve a degree and eventually go into the world to work on YOU. I will be graduating without learning anything. I am already very knowledgable in medicine, but come on. I am going to leave with a bill of $20,000 and a piece of paper. BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!
WHO PAYS?

My daughter came home today and told me that the ELL class is going on their own field trip next wk. and they don't even have to pay. Who is paying? I explained to her what ELL stands for and she said "There are 4 people in my class, who are in that class. They ALL speak good English. That's not what it stands for." Oh my God! Now their Mexican principal is ripping off tax dollars by sending English speaking kids to the ELL. That way the school makes more money and the higher ups get perks.

Who pays?

Urban Legend???

Was Kennedy and Clinton in that boat off the coast of Florida cutting a sweet deal with some commie-crats from Angola for oil?

Why drill in ANWR when you can get plenty of kickbacks flowing into your Bermuda bank account? And, hey, "Up the Revolution!!!" :)

Ann, Congress wants more hearings on the subject of oil companies. All they want hearings for is so they can showboat. Why don't they pay for their own TV showboating? Like I'm not already sick of Ted Kennedy and his liberal cohorts.
Let them go after colleges and universities. That would make more sense---that's one reason they won't.

Good point, IcePrincess.

Post your comments on the Michele Malkin or Debbie Schlussel sites the next time they discuss illegal aliens. The Mexican social morality does not abide by the law, but by "might makes right." In other words, is corruption what you want from your government?

But, I digress. Liberal college professors are supported by the same people who make obscene profits off of the oil crisis--big government liberals. Right are all of you...except Gene.

Gene, you must have been educated by the likes of Ward Churchill (no intellectual comparison to Winston Churchill). The reasons for increased oil profits have already been explained by Walter Williams in one of his columns. You can look it up here on RedStaesUSA.com. I don't remember the title of his column. You may learn something from a real economist.

Ms. Coulter,

You are right on the money once again. I don't know why, but it seems like everytime I hear a politician (any of them, left, right or center, other than true conservatives), I feel like they are up to something.

The other day I was flipping the TV back and forth between C-Span and an old re-run of the Dukes of Hazzard, and it hit me. The character "Boss Hogg" is an accurate portrail of most of them. Like Boss Hogg, the Senators are always scheeming and blaming others. The only difference is we do not have a bunch of Good Ol' Boys standing up for us. (Except, Rush and Sean and you and a few others). Well, maybe we just need to get a cool car to help make our point

“The Business of America is Business” – Calvin Coolidge

While on the one hand, “She Who Must Be Obeyed” compares and contrasts the oil companies and colleges; I posit that there is a stronger link than not.

Oil companies secure the raw product (in many cases), refine, deliver and retail the consumer friendly version. And for this they, earn a profit.

Similarly, colleges accept students (raw product), refine (indoctrinate), deliver (graduate) and retail (assist in securing a job, in many cases) their end version. And for this, they earn a profit.

The difference is the Pygmalion that people have about these two industries.

Oil is bad, oil people are worse and oil profits are worst, we are told. Yet, there are congressional oversight, laws and statutes passed on myriad aspects of this industry, federal agencies by the score that are intimately involved in petro products and so forth. The avarice of this vital industry is reported with a not so subtle bias by the Lame Stream Media.

Conversely, college is good, the curricula are better and the professors are best, we are led to believe. And while there are accreditation standards for both school and teacher, there is less control over this “business” than any other in size and scope, let alone the quality of the delivered “product.” Add to this tenure, endowment and a “good old boy” net that rivals any other and you have a recipe for disaster.

Negation of most protection found in the Bill of Rights.
Unfair advantages given to, well, whomever they deem worthy.
Dumbing down of levels of the course material.
Prohibiting most pro-American clubs, groups and organizations while promoting those anti-American.
Barring the armed services from on-campus recruitment.
Professors pontificating their liberal views in classes that have absolutely FA to do with politics. (And the attendant stigmatization of those holding views opposite.)

Enough of castigating the oil companies by the media, it is time for congressional oversight into the business of the machinations of the post-secondary education “system” in America.

(I am not an apologist for the oil industry, I pay at the pump like everyone else. But let’s call a spade a spade with respect to the colleges and universities and their canards!)

God Bless and God Speed

Gene,
Why are we even having a discussion on BIG oil?

Because liberals refuse to see that they are killing human slaves by not drilling the ANWR.

They are equally guilty of the rapes, murders, slavery and child molestation going on in the OPEC nations. These crimes are perpetrated on non-Muslim immigrents who are cohersed to come to these countries, by promises of money, work and a better life. For example the Saudi gov't passes out flyers in poor countries about the opportunities in Saudi Arabia.

Is all of this okay?

NO!

Do the liberals always find a way to excuse their behavior?

YES!

However, the excuses they use are as empty as their fallow hearts. Yet, they pray on the bleeding hearts of those who don't want to cause the death of a Caribou. How about causing the aforementioned? Is that just a bunch of frivalous nonsense made up by the Right? Why don't liberals bother doing research outside of liberal blogs and the CBS News?

I don't research the things I know on these sites. This is where I post things that I research. My opinion is formed from reality, not propeganda or spun-out fantasy!

Deep Throat,
I agree fully with your post to Sodamoca! My nephew just drooped out of a college in FL, due to the liberal teachings. I can barely tollerate the college I go to. (I know- it's odd that I am going to college at the same time as my nephew, but I'm not cut out for Business- too many liberals)

In my college, I had a proffessor before the `04 elections that would spend the entire class trying to make the class vote Democrat. There were 3 other (admitted) Republicans, besides myself. I was the only one with the balls to argue with him. He made empty threats about having the power to fix our grades. I told him that I was smart enough to talk to the Conservative school President and get his a$$ fired. Hence I am a straight A student.

Anyhow, I spent more time printing up facts to prove a point, than I spent on school work and I eventually found his political weakness. He was against abortion. So, by the time the class was through, he could no longer tell people to vote Democrat and assuage his guilty conscience. I spent the next several months, after the elections, holding up four fingers in the hallway (for 4 more years) or three fingers for W. Every time I saw him I annoyed him with this. Many people who took his class after me said he was humbled and on the fence.

Much of this is our fault. We, Republicans as a group, are hard-pressed to speak up in public. Why? Do we not believe that we are moral enough to stand up for a moral group. People who are once immoral and are then reformed and accountable still have a right to speak up for what is right!

We must let it be known that we are the party for the people- not the other way around.

PS- After that I had a proffessor who was a Christian minority and I fought to keep her from getting fired. She nearly lost her job for speaking of her faith in the class and offending the sorceresses daughter.

Democrats once claimed to be the party of the people, and were very rowdy about it.

Now it's the Republicans who are the party of the people, and need to get rowdier.

Since the DNC betrayed LABOR, the Libs are all sissy-boys now days ... Bubba votes Republican for payback ... see all that RED on the map :)

All of us Joe 6pak military types vote Republican because we can't stomach the degenerates on the Left.

Ice Princess has it right ... don't take their crap ... celebrate being Republican and rowdy ... it's the American Way !!!

Yeah Ath,
Demorats have claimed a lot of things. Have they ever substantiated a claim? That is unlikely.

If all Republicans had the balls of Joe Arpaio, we'd be living in a better world. The media is ~everybody's whore~ and Republicans don't seem to want to stoop to the level of the left, but they should try it for a while. They may be surprised at the morals everybody's whore could have if WE seem like the majority. The inanity of the left seems to be swayed more by an "In your face" mentality. What I've seen of the left supports that claim. There are even MANY Republicans who are NOT politically active, who don't believe it if it's not on the news.

Ice Princess,

I had to give your evaluation a lot of consideration.

You're right, most conservatives do not want to be sullied by the political process, or roll around in the political muck with the media.

With the old Democrats, it was roll up your sleeves for the bar brawl politics.

With the new Democrats, its bitch slapping ... and I'm talking about the males ... which, let's face it, makes it even embarrassing.

So ... the best way for Republicans to deal with this is like when you have a cockroach infestation ... you don't like it, but you'd better get it taken care of before they eat you out of house and home, and bring in every disease known and unknown.

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