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When it comes to selecting a commencement speaker, the nation’s top 100 universities lean decidedly left, according to a new survey by the Young America’s Foundation.
Of the top 100 universities listed by U.S. News and World Report, 62 have selected liberal commencement speakers and only 17 selected conservatives. The YAF said the political affiliations of the remaining speakers was unclear.
“It goes to show you how administrators are unwilling to reach out and provide an alternative viewpoint,” YAF’s Adam Tragone told Fox News. “There’s a plethora – a deluge of liberals compared to conservatives on this year’s list.”
The YAF’s 20th annual Commencement Speakers Survey shows a who’s-who of liberals invited to impart words of wisdom to college graduates – from Oprah Winfrey at Harvard University to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the University of California – Davis.
Speakers at the top 10 schools include:
Harvard University – Oprah Winfrey
Princeton University – Ben Bernanke
Yale University – Cory Booker
Columbia University – Lee C. Bollinger
University of Chicago – Abbie J. Smith
MIT – Drew Houston
Stanford University – Michael Bloomberg
Duke University – Melinda Gates
WATCH: Soft tyranny like this leads down the path to hard tyranny......good view.
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) went on a rant during outgoing Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller's testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday, earning himself a standing ovation at its conclusion.
I liked watching this but, I think I could have had that pencil neck dweeb peeing his pants and crying like a little girl.
The Republican-led House has voted, for the 37th time, to repeal President Obama’s health care law, even though GOP lawmakers know the Senate will not follow suit.
The repeal passed on a 229-195 vote.
All Republicans voted to repeal, while all but two Democrats voted no. They were Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, two of the most conservative Democrats in the House.
Democrats have called efforts to de-fund or partly scale back the Affordable Care Act a waste of time -- even an obsession.
But Republicans see a political advantage to keeping the pressure up as the administration tries to get all the moving parts of the law working in the next few months.
They're hoping that problems with its implementation will help them recapture the Senate in next year's midterm elections.
What is it about ' Thou shall not lie" they do not get. Who is the Republican that conjured this up. He needs to be dealt with severely. He needs to be hurt bad.
Three brewing scandals have formed a vicious trifecta which threatens to sink the Obama Administration: the Internal Revenue Services’ targeting of conservative groups, the Benghazi scandal, and the subpoena of two months of phone records from the Associated Press. The Administration’s relationship with the news media, according to The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi, has escalated from “simmering tension” to a “boil” over the last of these actions.
One might dispute the original idea of a “simmering tension” between the love-struck media and President Barack Obama. Likewise, Bob Schieffer’s reporting and other media narratives call into question that the room’s temperature has risen for the right reasons. It seems that the media are calling for more leadership, rather than for justice in the midst of these scandals.
In an effort at damage control, President Barack Obama asked acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller to resign, requested the creation of a new shield law for reporters, and released 100 pages of Benghazi emails. The first two of these actions are farces. Firstly, Steven Miller was set to retire in June. “But it turns out that Miller was subject to a term limit that would have forced him out of the job in three weeks,” report Abby Phillip and Jonathan Karl for ABC News. (Abby Phillip had previously authored a piece in which she said the IRS apology about its targeting conservatives “in some ways vindicates conservative groups that have been hounded by allegations that their activities were not completely legal,” insinuating that conservative groups somehow deserved their maltreatment at the hands of IRS agents (emphasis added).
By historical standards, President Barack Obama ran a remarkably taint-free administration for four and a half years. That’s the judgment of Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College who quantifies scandal—and who believes Obama’s run has come to an end. On May 10 the Internal Revenue Service apologized for its selective scrutiny of nonprofit groups affiliated with the Tea Party. Writing three days later on his blog, Nyhan observed: “Obama appears likely to spend a lot more time mired in the politics of scandal after last week’s Benghazi hearings and Friday’s revelation of alleged political targeting at the IRS.”
Unencumbered by scholarly understatement, let’s stipulate that we’re looking at months, if not years, of unmitigated Washington frenzy. IRS-gate has all the ingredients for a political bloodbath: abuse of power by the most despised of federal bureaucracies, accusations of lies to Congress, and suggestions of executive branch coverups. Potential legislative casualties include proposals for immigration reform, implementation of Obama’s health overhaul (in which the IRS plays a major role), and any hope Democrats had to revisit gun control.
Elitist Obama doesn’t like the military much. But he finally found a use for them. During his propaganda press conference about the various scandals in his regime he instructed the Marines set to protect him at all cost to ‘get over here’ and shield his highness and the Turkish PM from the rain.
Notice something interesting too for those who think the media has turned on Obama. Watch how they giggle along and even applaud after Obama demands the Marines to put an umbrella over him.
A national labor board which has long been accused of making union-friendly decisions was dealt another blow Thursday, after a second federal appeals court found President Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to appoint its members.
The ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia once again threatened to upend the National Labor Relations Board's decisions. And it has the potential to stall the board entirely, as well as challenge other federal agencies that have similar appointees.
U.S. authorities in Idaho said Thursday they have arrested an Uzbekistan national on federal terrorism charges.
Federal prosecutors said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested in Boise on Thursday after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of a terrorism investigation.
White House spokesperson Jay Carney became extremely defensive when questioned on the Obama administration’s record on openness and transparency given the recent IRS and Benghazi scandals Thursday on “Piers Morgan.”
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
— Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974 []
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate.” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.
It remains to be discovered whether the chief executive is guilty of more than an amazingly convenient failure to superintend the excesses of some executive-branch employees beyond the Allegheny Mountains. Meanwhile, file this under “What a tangled web we weave”:
