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My Granddaughter Bribed Ben Nelson for Almost Universal Healthcare

Andrew Alexander — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:15:50 +0000

Apparently the best way to "reform" healthcare is to make the rest of us pay for Nebraska's Medicaid program.

Is anyone else confused over the healthcare "reform" bill? Here are some of the highlights.

Opponents of the bill like Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) were compared to slaveowners but Nelson eventually saw the light when presented [...]

Grading Obama: Inaugural Edition

Andrew Alexander — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Barack Obama promised the world but many of those promises have already been abandoned.

Shortly after the election we visited the BarackObama.com website and took note of the various promises he made throughout the campaign. Presumably, the programs that Barack Obama proposed were appealing to voters and helped secure his election in November.

Some of those promises, [...]

AAUP Voluntary Affirmative Action Plan Wall of Honor

Andrew Alexander — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:00:22 +0000

Non-diverse persons' contributions to education and diversity.

Voluntary Affirmative Action Wall of Honor

The following non-diverse persons made contributions to diversity which led to great benefits in education for all students. Realizing that a diverse student body and diverse faculty work well together, creating opportunities and demand for collaboration, new [...]

AAUP Announces Voluntary Affirmative Action Plan

Andrew Alexander — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:50:06 +0000

Unlike other affirmative action programs, the new plan achieves its desired result — faculty diversity — without quotas or even discrimination.

Voluntary Affirmative Action Program

February 26, 2008

Dear Professor White:

Numerous studies and longstanding research show that a diverse faculty and student body lead to great benefits in education [...]

Our Oldest Enemy, The French

Andrew Alexander — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:14:07 +0000

In their lively history of Franco-American relations, authors John J. Miller and Mark Molesky may be overstating the case against France. For the French are neither our enemy or our ally. They are, simply, "the French."

The tale of Franco-American harmony is a long-standing and pernicious myth. The French attitude toward the United States [...]

Another Bob Roberts?

Andrew Alexander — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:09:45 +0000

Dr. Bruce Thiessen's Right Wingers Need Love Too may remind some listeners of the soundtrack to Tim Robbins' film Bob Roberts.

In 1992 Tim Robbins wrote and starred in Bob Roberts, a mock documentary that chronicled the U.S. Senate campaign of a charming, folk-singing conservative from Pennsylvania. Throughout the campaign, Roberts (played by Robbins) [...]

Another Bush Document?

Andrew Alexander — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:27:02 +0000

A 1973 email from Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's Yahoo! email account to Maj. Gen. Bobby Hodges seems to confirm the authenticity of the disputed Bush National Guard documents, according to CBS News and Dan Rather.

New York, Sept. 19, 2004 (CBS/Pair o' D News) CBS News has obtained an email written by Lt. Col. [...]

Rather Tedious

Andrew Alexander — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:53:55 +0000

His documents discredited and his sources in full retreat, Dan Rather last night vowed to continue his investigation into Bush's National Guard service.

I did not type the memos…And it's not the form that I would have used, and there are words in there that belong to the Army, not to the Air Guard. [...]

Dan Rather Keeps the Faith

Andrew Alexander — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 02:53:58 +0000

Dan Rather's "reporting" on George W. Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard has been misleading at best.

Today on the internet and elsewhere, some people, including many who are partisan political operatives, concentrated not on the key questions of the overall story, but on the documents that were part of [...]

House Nigger?

Andrew Alexander — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:10:25 +0000

Ted Rall's comic strip labeling Condoleezza Rice "Bush's house nigga" crossed every last line of civility.

Q. What do you call a black conservative who works for the Bush Administration? A. A house nigger! Ha-ha-ha! Now pass the cornpipe, paw.

Where would you expect to find such a joke? Why, in the [...]