If you simply transpose Sheen's attitude on drugs and the Democrats attitude on spending it becomes obvious. Fiscal restrain and responsibility are boring. His contract ethics clause restraint is much like the Constitution. It interferes with his and their life style. The problem is that at least Sheen is blowing his own money and future not ours.
One of Texas's deadliest outlaws, John Wesley Hardin was reputed to be the meanest man alive, an accolade he supposedly earned by killing a man for snoring. He committed his first murder at age 15 and admitted to killing more than 40 men over 27 years. In May 1874, Hardin killed Charles Webb, the deputy sheriff of Brown County and a former Texas Ranger. John Barclay Armstrong, a Texas Ranger known as "McNelly's Bulldog" since he served with the Special Force as a sergeant and Captain Leander McNelly's right hand, received permission to arrest the outlaw. He pursued Hardin across Alabama and into Florida and caught up with him in Pensacola.
Armstrong, Colt pistol in hand, boarded a train that Hardin and four companions were on, the outlaw shouted, "Texas, by God!" and drew his own pistol. When it was over, one of his gang members was killed, and his three surviving friends were staring at Armstrongs pistol. Hardin had been knocked unconscious.
The first practical revolving-cylinder handgun was invented in 1831 by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, and patented on February 25, 1836, the year of the Texas Revolution. Texas became a proving ground and nearly the only market for Colt's revolutionary product. Colt provided the struggling republic and frontier state with the increased firepower necessary to defend and advance itself. Colt revolvers were manufactured first in 1837 at Paterson, New Jersey, by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company. Three principal variations of these five-shot Paterson Colt handguns were produced: the .28 caliber Pocket model, the .31 caliber Belt model, and the .36 caliber Holster model. The Republic of Texas ordered 180 of the .36 caliber Holster model revolvers for its navy in August 1839. Numbers of these rather delicate arms were issued to various Texas warships and served well in engagements against Mexico over the next four years. Colt was so pleased by the Texas purchase and with the performance of his product that he engraved the scene of the victorious naval battle fought off Campeche on May 16, 1843, by the Texas Navy on the cylinders of the 1851 Navy, 1860 Army, and 1861 Navy model Colts (in all, nearly 500,000 revolvers)...
So my post on the liberal slant in academia has garnered what I believe to be a record number of comments, many, even most of them, pretty angry. And as I predicted, the positions are very much reversed from the normal take on such things. Conservatives are explaining how bias can be subtle and yet insidious; and liberal, many of them academics are saying that you can't simply infer bias from statistical underrepresentation, and sarcastically demanding to know whether I really think that people are asking candidates for physics professorships who they voted for in the last election.
And perversely, the more you think you are just deciding on the objective facts, like the quality of their work, the more possible it is that you are actually discriminating; research finds that people are most likely to discriminate on the basis of both politics and race when they have some other information with which to generate a plausible excuse.
#1
In the media, the most insidious form of bias is the stories that they ignore.
In academia, it might well be more of a "birds of a feather flocking together" thing than any kind of outright conspiracy. However, if networking plays a role in getting hired at those levels, then the circles one runs in can lead to an open door or a closed one--if "the right people" don't know you.
#2
many of them academics are saying that you can't simply infer bias from statistical under representation,
Except the very same lefties who today refute this as evidence of bias used exactly that argument to shove through forced busing in the 60s and 70s. It's about POWER.
While I am a liberal, calling these academic lefties liberals makes my blood boil. THEY ARE NOT LIBERALS. Freaking look at the classic definition of liberal in philosophy. The left and their media satraps have high jacked the term.
If you want a clear example of bias/discrimination in academia, look at politically correct speak being used to muzzle opinions with which they disagree. Also look at all of the silly weenie programs they teach that offer no chance of employment when the degree is received.
Finally look where all of those hoodlums and sociopaths from the weather underground and the SDS landed...in colleges teaching.
James,
Slow down there turbo, you're going to give yourself a stroke.
Karl,
Its these featherheads and their brainwashed spawn that voted for that dim light bulb and his cohorts in Washington. A freaking informed and educated society would never reelect Pelosi after all of her personal excesses in her last term.
James,
I think we now find those who call them selves liberals are being shoved to the right by the creep further and further left of the left.
#5
many of them academics are saying that you can't simply infer bias from statistical under representation,
Except the very same lefties who today refute this as evidence of bias used exactly that argument to shove through forced busing in the 60s and 70s Affirmative Action. It's about POWER.
#7
Bias is B.S. In the old days, you just hired a person or relative if you liked or favored them and was done with it. The world didn't stop turning, lawyers weren't hearing the Cha-ching sound. Now, because of the Pettifoggers mucking up the works, everyone is running scared of litigation and too scared to hire anyone. LAW SCHOOLS SHOULD BE REGULATED, and only a certain number of lawyers should be produced in this country. We have so many lawyers, many of them aren't even employed. Nothing more dangerous than an out of work lawyer--they'll sue the pants of an unsuspecting victim just to keep from getting out of practice.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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