Maggie's Farm

Politely Demonizing Men at Wesleyan

Well, Wesleyan is not known for either manly men nor cute chicks

Whatever happened to the beloved Pilgrim Hymnal?

Denting the Universe: Steve Jobs Thinks Different; Analysts Listen

The Rise of Ayn Rand on Campus

Maryland’s Governor Spends $553,000 on Pianos at Left-Wing Junk College:

As states send more and more mediocre students to college, students learn less and less. “Our colleges and universities are full to the brim with students who do not really belong there, who are unprepared for college and uninterested in breaking a mental sweat.” “Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority,” according to a widely-publicized January report from experts like New York University Professor Richard Arum.

The Treasury Department dramatically boosted its estimate of losses from its $85 billion auto industry bailout by more than $9 billion in the face of General Motors Co.'s steep stock decline.

Pure union payoff, on my nickel

Federal social policymakers are still using a measure of poverty from the 1960s, one that fails to take account of the many programs launched since then to battle poverty.

There will be 23 carbon cops roaming the streets doing snap audits of businesses that “choose to link your price increases to a carbon price”.

Asia Rediscovers Its Love For America

Elliott Abrams: Palestinian Diplomacy, Lost at Sea

Billionaire Buffett's Bakken Boom

Christians in the Middle East

Juan Cole’s Totalitarian Odyssey

FBI Releases 2010 Hate Crime Data

"The Entire System Has Been Utterly Destroyed By The MF Global Collapse" - Presenting The First MF Global Casualty (link fixed)

Wow. That is some letter

Germany's secret plans to derail a British referendum on the EU