Someone continues to dig.
[American Thinker] What shocked even the old timers in my hometown was that Mayor Hugh Addonizio, the man who gave me my Eagle Scout Award, would accept kickbacks in cash right across his desk. They were troubled less by his criminality -- that was expected in Newark -- than by his lack of subtlety. Addonizio paid for his indiscretion with a lengthy prison sentence.
So it is with the current college admissions scandal. People have been scamming their ways into prestige universities for decades, maybe centuries, but in the past they have had the good sense not to put the cash on the table. It seems that in this scandal a few of the bribers and their brokers may well pay for their indiscretion with prison sentences as well.
The media pretend to be shocked. In an editorial on the scandal, the New York Times singled out Harvard University for its "special admissions preferences and back doors for certain applicants." This is the same New York Times, however, that published an entirely uncritical article three years prior headlined, "Malia Obama Rebels, Sort of, by Choosing Harvard."
Malia is the fourth member of the Obama family to attend that august university, none of whom, save perhaps for Grandpa Obama, deserved to be there.
Let’s start with Obama Sr., the only member of the extended family to attend college before the affirmative action/diversity era. Obama arrived at Harvard in the early 1960s with the goal of getting a Ph.D. in economics. According to biographer Sally Jacobs, Obama "struggled" with his studies but managed to get a Masters degree.
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Like the media, the ivys are in the process of polluting their own value. The march through the institutions may not turn out exactly as planned...
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I can just imagine the smug admissions droid sneering: "More wookie offspring have matriculated to Haaaaaavahd than any other school..."
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Let’s start with Obama Sr., the only member of the extended family to attend college before the affirmative action/diversity era.
He was brought in on a “Clever Thrid Worlder” grant, intended to seduce loyalty to the American Way and away from Communism. Which he lost because he was too busy tomcatting, as I recall, and never finished his advanced degree. Not exactly proof of intelligence, when it could have been given to an African with real ability and drive, one who would have done more for his country than become a drunkard and a failure. The second of three Mrs. Barack Obamas, Sr. did not pick her baby daddy well.
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"But guns are icky! Why can't you just buy some Kylie Jenner cosmetics instead? That's a safe hobby!"
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NZ is about to go exactly the wrong way, ensuring more of the same over time as the Religion of Peace establishes itself deeper in their remote land. Go to Sweden or Holland and ask them how they like it, not the government, but people in private where they will tell the truth...
[Ynet] Even if the terrorist acted alone, the facts indicate that he was trained and deliberate ‐ at a time when Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", does not lack reasons to ignite the West Bank in a wave of violence; The IDF ought to thoroughly investigate the behavior and alertness of the soldiers guarding the hitchhiking posts.
The latest information regarding Sunday morning’s terrorist attack at Ariel Junction that killed an Israeli and maimed two others is that the attacker was acting on his own initiative, a "lone wolf." However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... this was no ordinary lone wolf attack; the perpetrator was unusually cold and calculated and likely had military training.
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[Ynet] When donor money goes directly to your leadership, you will find yourself on the receiving end of the inevitable rage of your poverty-stricken population, and then not even rockets on Tel Aviv might be able to save you.
The damage not done by 11 years of wars, economic siege and the brutal regime of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,, was done with the dollars from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... . Instead of being a sigh of relief, the money consumed Gazoo from the inside like acid.
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[Ynet] Even if the terrorist acted alone, the facts indicate that he was trained and deliberate ‐ at a time when 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
