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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Philadelphia is a fantastic place to attend college. With dozens of colleges and universities within or just outside the city limits, Philadelphia is literally full of thousands of young people. But, not surprisingly, most of these students [...]

There have been a number of stirring tributes to Tony Snow’s unfortunate passing. Here’s one I read today from Right Wing News. I’m discovering that there are hundreds of similarly fond memories of this man. How honorable it is to have inspired such respect from both sides of the aisle. Every politician, no matter their [...]

In Dallas County, commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, was recently chastised and asked to apologize by black judge Thomas Jones for calling their overburdened office a “black hole” after noticing that papers seem to frequently disappear. 
This is just getting silly. There’s a reason it’s called a black hole. Light can simply not exist, the [...]

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Talking Post Memo discussed the state of the job market for young graduates. Basically, it’s harder to get ahead for my generation than it is for previous generations for a myriad of reasons. To Steven Greenhouse’s observations, I add my own on the impact of unpaid internships.
In highly competitive job fields, college graduates are expected [...]

Obama’s on the cover of Rolling Stone again, discussing the youth vote and what’s on his iPod, among other things. What’s also mentioned in NewsBusters’ coverage of the piece is how Obama’s pandering to the youth vote poses a bit of a problem, since he now must also cater to the rest of the United [...]

From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. [...]

Another year, another group of university commencement addresses fraught with liberal ideology. Maybe I’m just used to disagreeing with outspoken liberals and are thereby not as offended by a liberal’s presence as a liberal is by a conservative’s presence on a public stage, but wouldn’t it be great to have some alternative commencement voices? Well, [...]

Dear CBS ‘Evening News’: Way to be out of touch. From NewsBusters:
According to Gloucester Public Schools Superintendent Christopher Farmer, the girls did it to gain status. CBS correspondent Michelle Miller took it a step further and made an economic connection.
“Status in Gloucester is hard to come by,” Miller said. “The once-thriving fishing community has seen [...]

Tijuana residents whine to Reuters about the influx of Southern California motorists to Tijuana gas stations, which have experienced gas shortages and rationing due to the increased volume. The tension experienced by motorists, many of whom wait in line for hours to fill up, has culminated in shouting matches and fisticuffs between Mexican and U.S. [...]

Some San Diego high school students recently found one more reason to distrust authority figures and resent the police. Courtesy of Outside the Beltway:
On a Monday morning last month, California Highway Patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.
Classmates [...]

It’s June, and Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. He is running against John McCain after defeating Hillary Clinton. 
Sometimes I think I’m seeing things that others aren’t aware of. Not in a clairvoyant sense, exactly, or even in an historical sense. It’s more like the moment when Jim Carrey realized his world [...]

Last election, we had threats from dozens of celebrities who warned they’d move out of the country if George W. Bush were elected. You can guess how many stayed behind. Now Susan Sarandon threatens–again–that she’ll become an expatriate, this time if Obama isn’t elected. 
Who cares? Let them leave. Let them all leave the United States [...]

College was the first time I’d ever encountered a modern radical liberal. It was in one of my introductory pilot classes, one that occasionally featured some debate. The professor would, in teaching Kant, introduce a dialogue on some pretty polarizing issues, always taking the most liberal position herself. We were all scared freshmen and participation–which, [...]

Well, I’m back online. Again. Apparently some maintenance or repair guy disconnected my line while he disconnected my neighbor’s line (they foreclosed). It was a simple fix, but it took 4 days for someone to come out over the long weekend. There are definitely some disadvantages to moving out of a big city. Anyway, after I [...]