The BBC is holding IPCC's feet to the fire, why is the US media not doing the same?

Ace in Ace of Spades has a video up with a BBC panel questioning Dr. Robert Watson.

Obama and the Trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed

The Washington Post has an article saying he is "planning to insert himself" into the selection of the place KSM should be tried. 

Oh really, do they really think he had nothing to say to Eric Holder about this when he turned it over to him to decide?  If that is truly the case he is far more inept than I thought.  I think this was done with the full concurrence of the President. It is insulting, and he has done it to himself, to think he had nothing to do with the selection or the type of trial it would be.  Is he not THE PRESIDENT of the United States?

Here is what the WaPo says:
Obama will help select location of Khalid Sheik Mohammed terrorism trial

By Anne E. Kornblut and Carrie Johnson

President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition that the administration had mishandled the process and triggered a political backlash.

Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to maintain an independent Justice Department. But the White House has been taken aback by the intense criticism from political opponents and local officials of Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian courtroom in New York.

Administration officials acknowledge that Holder and Obama advisers were unable to build political support for the trial. And Holder, in an interview Thursday, left open the possibility that Mohammed's trial could be switched to a military commission, although he said that is not his personal and legal preference.

Read it all here.

Debra Medina Responds to Her Own Words

From the Houston Chronicle:
9/11 comments trip up gov hopeful Debra Medina

GOP candidate for governor says question about U.S. involvement theory was surprise

By R.G. RATCLIFFE

AUSTIN — Anti-Washington activist Debra Medina was on the brink of knocking U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison out of a likely Republican gubernatorial runoff, but she may have spoiled her chances Thursday with her remarks on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A series of public opinion polls of likely Republican primary voters this past week had indicated that Hutchison was dangerously close to losing second place to Medina in the contest to oust incumbent Gov. Rick Perry.

Medina has benefited from a pair of solid debate appearances, and millions of dollars in attack television advertising by Hutchison and Perry has made her the none-of-the-above candidate for conservative voters.

But Medina may have stumbled Thursday when talk show host Glenn Beck asked whether she believed the government was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Medina said people raising that question were slinging “mud” at her but went on to say:

“I don't have all of the evidence there, Glenn, so I don't, I'm not in a place, I have not been out publicly questioning that. I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard. There are some very good arguments, and I think the American people have not seen all of the evidence there so I have not taken a position on that.”

Medina later issued a statement saying she does not believe the government was involved in the attacks. She said Beck surprised her with the question on his show.

“I have never been involved with the 9/11 truth movement, and there is no doubt in my mind that Muslim terrorists flew planes into those buildings on 9/11,” the statement read. “I have not seen any evidence nor have I ever believed that our government was involved or directed those individuals in any way.”

Read the rest here.
As I see it, she is definitely out on this cycle of elections, time will tell if she can redeem herself in time for the next one.

Obama and the Spending Freeze

RayH sends a link to a video via Real Clear Politics. It is The O campaigning against a spending freeze.

YouTube: No less than four times during the presidential debates did President Obama actively campaign against an across the board spending freeze.

That was then, this is now:

ABC News: In his budget for Fiscal Year 2011, to be presented on Monday, February 1, President Obama will propose a three-year hard freeze on non-security discretionary spending, to last from 2011 through 2013.

David Broder on Sarah Palin

He is giving a warning to those who would denigrate and write her off as a flake. If you like Sarah Palin you will like what he says. If you don't like Sarah Palin you need to heed his words. In the Washington Post:
Palin: a talented populist with a time-tested pitch
By DAVID S. BRODER

The snows that obliterated Washington last week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.

Her lengthy Saturday-night keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville and her debut on the Sunday-morning talk show circuit with Fox News' Chris Wallace showed off a public figure at the top of her game — a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself.

This was not the first time that Palin has impressed me. I gave her high marks for her 2008 vice-presidential acceptance speech in St. Paul. But then, and always throughout that campaign, she was laboring to do more than establish her own place. She was selling a ticket headed by John McCain against formidable Democratic opposition and burdened by the legacy of the Bush administration.

Blessed with an enthusiastic audience of conservative activists, Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington.

Go read it all.

There is Hope for Education in Houston

From the Houston Chronicle:
400 teachers may face firing over test scores
by Ericka Mellon

More than 400 teachers in the Houston school district have performed so poorly that their students have lost ground, according to HISD, and those educators' jobs could be on the line if they don't improve.

HISD Superintendent Terry Grier is asking the school board to give final approval today to a policy that would allow the district to fire teachers whose students don't make enough progress on standardized tests.

Opposed to the move, the Houston Federation of Teachers is trying to rally 1,000 educators to protest at the board meeting, though union president Gayle Fallon acknowledges the policy likely will pass. Trustees voted 8-0, with one absent, to give their initial approval last month.

It is hopeful to think the students will actually mean more than the union in this city. Read the rest here.

Now we Know Why They Don't Get It

From Ace of Spades
Behavior of politicians explained - Botox use produces "cognitive blindness"
—Purple Avenger

Are your politicians tone deaf? Exhibiting a "cognitive blindness"? Displaying an apparent inability to read the emotions of others?

..tamping down a person’s emotions seems to interfere with the ability to read emotions in others. Says study leader David Havas: “Botox [also] induces a kind of mild, temporary cognitive blindness to information in the world, social information about the emotions of other people” ..

Well, this goes a long way towards explaining why much of congress, Hollywood, and the media seem shockingly disconnected from reality. I realize they'd all love to blame Bush for their insensate behavior, but folks, it really is the Botox; you need to back away from the makeovers and reclaim your minds. Do it for the children.

Go here to see Purple Avenger's billboard of Nancy Pelosi.

They are Definitely Trying to Stop Us!

Fox news has this story:
Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds
By Joseph Abrams

A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country's biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

A seemingly grassroots organization that's mounted an online campaign to counter the tea party movement is actually the front end of an elaborate scheme that funnels funds -- including sizable labor union contributions -- through the offices of a prominent Democratic party lawyer.
A Web site popped up in January dedicated to preventing the tea party's "radical" and "dangerous" ideas from "gaining legislative traction," targeting GOP candidates in Illinois for the firing squad.

"This movement is a fad," proclaims TheTeaPartyIsOver.org, which was established by the American Public Policy Center (APPC), a D.C.-based campaign shop that few people have ever heard of.

But a close look reveals the APPC's place in a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country's biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

Here's how it works: What appears like a local groundswell is in fact the creation of two men -- Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups, the non-profit election organizations that hammer on contentious issues (think Swift Boats, for example).

Varoga and Rakis keep a central mailing address in Washington, pulling in soft money contributions from unions and other well-padded sources to engage in what amounts to a legal laundering system. The money -- tens of millions of dollars -- gets circulated around to different states by the 527s, which pay for TV ads, Internet campaigns and lobbyist salaries, all while keeping the hands of the unions clean -- for the most part.

The system helps hide the true sources of funding, giving the appearance of locally bred opposition in states from Oklahoma to New Jersey, or in the case of the Tea Party Web site, in Illinois.

And this whitewash is entirely legal, say election law experts, who told FoxNews.com that this arrangement more or less the norm in Washington.

"It's not illegal but it is, I think, dishonest on the part of the organizations," said Paul Ryan, a legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center. "And there's a reason they do it: they know voters don't like outsiders coming in to sway the vote."

There is a lot more at the Fox News site, you must read it all.

Bi-Partisanship/ NOT

From the Washington Post
GOP Rep. Paul Ryan tackles Obama's path to deficit disaster
By Michael Gerson

The new era of Democratic bipartisanship, like cut flowers in a vase, wilted in less than a week.

During his question time at the House Republican retreat, President Obama elevated congressman and budget expert Paul Ryan as a "sincere guy" whose budget blueprint -- which, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), eventually achieves a balanced budget -- has "some ideas in there that I would agree with." Days later, Democratic legislators held a conference call to lambaste Ryan's plan as a vicious, voucherizing, privatizing assault on Social Security, Medicare and every non-millionaire American. Progressive advocacy groups and liberal bloggers joined the jeering in practiced harmony.

The attack "came out of the Democratic National Committee, and that is the White House," Ryan told me recently, sounding both disappointed and unsurprised. On the deficit, Obama's outreach to Republicans has been a ploy, which is to say, a deception. Once again, a president so impressed by his own idealism has become the nation's main manufacturer of public cynicism. 

Read the rest here.

Vindication for the Bush Administration?

From Wall Street Journal Online
Cheney's Revenge
The Obama Administration is vindicating Bush antiterror policy. Dick Cheney is not the most popular of politicians, but when he offered a harsh assessment of the Obama Administration's approach to terrorism last May, his criticism stung—so much that the President gave a speech the same day that was widely seen as a direct response. Though neither man would admit it, eight months later political and security realities are forcing Mr. Obama's antiterror policies ever-closer to the former Vice President's.
Read the rest.

Time for Tea Party to Walk The Talk; Part 1

Note: On the advice of the editor, this essay is being split into 4 posts. This is Part 1.

I’m troubled by recent movements to “organize” the Tea Party. Being local, simple and unorganized is the only true advantage it has over the Democrats and Republicans – and the current, broken political system that is derailing this country.

The roots of the Tea Party movement are grass. Always have been, and as we see it grow (and various political ambitions grow from it), it inevitably will become something else. And this new form is not what the Tea Party is about. Time to ignore – and stay out of -- the national organization movements.

The best way to expand the power of the Tea Party is by expanding the number of small groups. Not by centralizing into one big group.

As the tide of discontent in this country rises, the grass roots are in danger of being washed away in the flood of ambition to be more than it should be.

Thanks to some big political, ambitious, personalities – including Glenn Beck, and the organizers of this Nashville event – the Tea Party is now in danger of becoming an organized "association" with one leader and one website and one preamble, etc. When groups do this, bureaucracy and dysfunction inevitably follow.

That's why founder Patrick Moore no longer associates himself with Greenpeace. That's why the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, shakes his head in disbelief at the mainstream monster he helped create. It's also a good part of why our two major political parties really do not represent the true interests of their constituents.

There are two ways the Tea Party can go – trying to become a “third party” or remaining very active, relatively small, scattered, localized movements that influence politics from the ground up. The latter strategy won the American Revolution.

The Tea Party should remain many individual parts, scattered all over the country, not a highly-organized political machine. It will function better as a “system” this way. And it will be impossible to defeat, destroy or marginalize.

After writing this, I found a guy who has similar thoughts:
http://bigjournalism.com/rfutrell/2010/02/09/its-the-constitution-stupid-what-the-tea-partiers-really-want/

Writings from Obama's Past

 RayH has pointed out I need to clarify here, not everyone has as much time I do to sit at the computer and read all this "Stuff."
 UPDATE Below original post. 
I saw several postings at different blogs on this yesterday. James Lewis at American Thinker blog has this one that seems to sum up the talk from yesterday.
Obama on the legal implications of Einstein's Relativity
Quote from the Washington Post:

"This is someone who in law school worked with [Harvard professor] Larry Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein's theory of relativity," said senior adviser David M. Axelrod. "He does have an incisive mind; that mind is always put to use in pursuit of tangible things that are going to improve people's lives."

Unquote.

Hmmm... should we be impressed?

What is astonishing --- what's mind-boggling --- but explains a lot --- is that:

1. Lawrence Tribe, always mentioned as the next Supreme Court nominee, would lend his name to such utter sophomoric moonshine, thereby exposing himself to ridicule from the entire Harvard Faculty, and screwing up his chances to ever get to the Court.

2. That Obama himself would fall for it --- as the elected chief honcho of the Harvard Law Review! (Although it may explain why nothing he wrote ever got published).

3. That David Axelrod, supposed PR genius, would cite this arrant nonsense as a point IN FAVOR of his boss.

4. That a WaPo reporter would publish it in a recitation of why the man in the White House is sane after all, even while expecting the Democrats in Congress to commit political suicide for the greater glory of Obama.

There is a lot more along these lines, you will like it, read it all.

UPDATE 1st from Powerline:

How meaningful is the Obama-Tribe connection?

Here's one we can file in the ever-expanding "much ado about nothing" category. The New York Sun reports that, as a law student, Barack Obama assisted Harvard's Larry Tribe with an article Tribe wrote for the Harvard Law Review called "The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics." The Sun claims that Obama's view of the Constitution is "hinted" in Tribe's piece.

2nd From Frank J. Tipler in Pajamas Media

Obama vs. Einstein

According to the Washington Post, David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s senior advisor, said that the president worked with “[Harvard professor] Laurence Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein’s theory of relativity.” I’ve read that paper, “The Curvature of Constitutional Space.” It’s complete nonsense. It shows no understanding of Einstein’s theory of relativity, or of the relationship between relativity theory and Newton’s theory.

VDH asks Who is Afraid of Big Government?

Victor Davis Hanson in Pajamas Media.
You need to read it all but here are some parts to whet your appetite for more:

There is no reason to review all the standard reasons why the American people are terrified of an all-powerful federal or state government. The case has been made in thousands of elegant treatises and books, and is best reflected in the Constitution and the written work of the Founding Fathers.

But let me list a few other, less elegantly expressed worries, many anecdotal in nature.

1) Juvenal’s “Who will police the police?”

One of the scariest things about government is its exemption from laws by virtue of its monopoly on lawmaking and enforcement. I see this every day, from the mundane to the profound.

Go to any downtown in America, and one can see how some supposedly efficient, job-creating con-artist once promised a new hotel, stadium, or enterprise zone, then convinced the city council to steal land from some and hand it over to others (e.g., him)—and left an ungodly mess in his wake.....

.....On the more mundane level, this week I saw the following examples of government exemption. A local police car randomly did a running stop at a 4-way intersection (should I have called 911?); a city bus driver (very common) cell phoning against California law (report him to the cop running the intersection?); a city garbage truck spewing trash out its top as it sped down freeway 41 (call his cousins at the state EPA?)....

2) The Power of Envy

Government service offers veritable tenure and steady wages for the price of bypassing the American dream of “getting rich” in the private sector. Most follow the odds and realize that a federal bird in the hand is better than two in the private bush.

Yet legions of government (and often union) employees by needs must audit often far richer others, whether at the IRS, the county planner’s office, the zoning authority, or the state regulator. And here the public auditor can, by virtue of his unassailable position, quite easily stymie his private sector upstart counterpart.....

....I am all for codes, building inspectors, and plant regulators, but an excess of such investigators quickly creates a priestly class who take their own frustrations out on supposedly better off others.

3) Patronage

In California there are hundreds of worthless state boards with six-figure, governor-appointed officials. We assume that in our term-limited state, these sinecures are the refuges of former state assembly and senate politicians. In fact, as soon as we elect our state officials, we accept that they will cut deals with state executives to provide for their upcoming retirements—“I’ll vote for this, if in 4 years I get that spot on the state water board or the state fair practices committee”.....

4. The Greek four-step

I once lived in Greece for over two years, and visit there every other summer. Any casual observer could have predicted its present fiscal meltdown, which is emblematic of big government socialism....

5. Ministry of Truth

Government has the power of symbols to create alternate, scary realities. This week driving to and from the coast, I crossed several stretches of “The Honorable Joe Blow” freeway, and saw dozens of signs that essentially said “this project brought to you by big government stimulus.”....

....We all need government for defense, security, and infrastructure. But the more of it, the more dangerous—and creepy—our lives become.

Obviously I have left much of his essay on the cutting room floor, this is just a taste of all he had to say. Read it all here.

A Story That Needs Telling

Today Arianna Huffington blogs about how the Tea Partiers have a point --Washington hasn't been listening to them -- Congress has gotten arrogant and deaf -- with representatives beholden to their special interests masters.

Of course she had to insult and degrade the Tea Party first...

Well, irony or ironies in this ironic world... there is a post a few inches below her blog on her site by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) who is bragging about "The Story That No One Will Tell." In his blog he goes on to brag about how he has more campaign contributions than anyone else and the media "refuses" to cover this earth-shattering news. He even puts a link to the Federal Election Committee website where you can look it up.

So I looked it up.

And it allows you to download all his contributors and their contributions in a very tidy spreadsheet.

He's running for office in Florida.

73% of all his contributors are from outside of Florida.
23% of all contributors are from California.

Anyone else see a problem here?

Grayson, like the deaf and dumb senators Huffington blogs about right on top of Grayson's pompous rant, is a part of the Left-Coast, Left-Wing political machine. 300 Californians and 600 people for other states are trying to get him elected in Florida with their money. Of course he did have 354 Floridians contribute -- which is 27% of the people that contributed.

Guess who he will represent... the people of Florida? Why would he, they aren't funding his election.

Grayson is just part of the machine. A machine that is broken and needs replacing.

See for yourself, go to http://www.fec.gov/, click on house and senate, put Grayson in the search box.

And they wonder why we're so @#$%! cynical.

PS -- you can go read the Huffington blog and Grayson's childish rant.

UH OH the IPCC has lost India

From International Business Times via the Daily Caller:

India abandons IPCC, sets up own panel

The Indian government has moved to establish its own body to address and monitor science surrounding climate change, saying it "cannot rely" on the official United Nation panel.

The move is a severe blow to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following the revelation parts of its 3000 page 2007 report on climate science was not subjected to peer review.

A primary claim of the report was the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, but the claim was not repeated in any peer-reviewed studies and rebuffed by scientists.

India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that the Indian government will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change in the region.

"There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism," Ramesh said. "I am for climate science."

Well, If they are looking for pure climate science the will definitely have to do it themselves.  Read it all here.
Posted 05 February 2010 @ 11:10 am ET

A Moral Delimma? Not in my mind.

Jonathan Tubin in Commentary Magazine has a article concerning a PBS American Experience program.
 The Most Unethical Act: Losing a War

Tonight, PBS’s American Experience series will broadcast a new documentary titled The Bombing of Germany, about the strategic-bombing campaign carried out against the Nazis by American forces in World War II. Coming from the liberal-leaning PBS and in an era where denunciations of American military actions — even in the “good war” against Nazi Germany — have become commonplace, it would have been no surprise if this film was yet another revisionist attempt to decry Allied tactics as immoral....

....It is telling that the documentary treats the achievement of air superiority over Normandy before the D-Day landings in France as the Allied Air Forces' greatest achievement.....

The most devastating line of the film is its last, in which historian Conrad C. Crane, director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute, confronts the moral dilemma of killing civilians in a righteous war against an immoral opponent. While the question of the deaths of civilians is one we must ponder, Conrad insists, “The most unethical act for the Allies in World War II would have been allowing themselves to lose.”

This is a concept that applies not only to the war against Hitler but also to the one that America is currently fighting against Islamo-fascists. 

Read it all, it is very interesting, especially for us who are old enough to remember WWII and all it entailed.

High-Value Interrogation

Long-Awaited High-Value Interrogation Group -- HIG -- Finally Formed
From ABC News Jake Tapper's blog
Following the Jan. 20 disclosure that a special interrogation team for high-value terrorist suspects was not yet operational -- months after it was supposed to have been -- the Obama administration approved the charter to create the High-Value Interrogation Group, or HIG, an administration official tells ABC News.
The HIG charter was signed last week by National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones (ret.).
For background and the rest of the story, read here.

The Stolen Valour act

Via Yahoo News

Federal law barring lies about medals is tested

By Dan Elliott, Associated Press Writer

DENVER – The federal courts are wrestling with a question of both liberty and patriotism: Does the First Amendment right to free speech protect people who lie about being war heroes?

At issue is a three-year-old federal law called the Stolen Valor Act that makes it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military. It is a crime even if the liar makes no effort to profit from his stolen glory.

Attorneys in Colorado and California are challenging the law on behalf of two men charged, saying the First Amendment protects almost all speech that doesn't hurt someone else. Neither man has been accused by prosecutors of seeking financial gain for himself.....

This looks pretty innocous so far but it was first written after some were using it for financial gain. Further in the article we find:

In one case, a man posing as a Marine war hero was accused of using his hero status to receive discount airline tickets and a free place to stay near Phoenix....

.....One of the men challenging the law is Xavier Alvarez of Pomona, Calif. He had just been elected to a water district board in 2007 when he said at a public meeting that he was a retired Marine who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration.

Again, this was for personal gain, political power. Another is a little more iffy, but still not justified, it was fraud:

The other person challenging the law is Rick Glen Strandlof, who claimed he was an ex-Marine wounded in Iraq and received the Purple Heart and Silver Star. He founded an organization in Colorado Springs that helped homeless veterans.

A veteran who is for the law says:

Army veteran Pete Lemon of Colorado Springs, who received the Medal of Honor for turning back an enemy assault and rescuing wounded comrades in Vietnam while injured himself, supports the law, saying that pretending to have a medal can bring undeserved rewards.

"It gives you the power to entice somebody into marriage," he said. "It could give you the power to be able to join an organization, get special treatment with regards to getting tickets to a football game, getting license plates, getting preferential treatment in a job situation."

Doug Sterner, a military historian, said the law embodies the wishes of the nation's first commander in chief, George Washington. Sterner noted that Washington created the Purple Heart, the nation's first military decoration, and wrote:

"Should any who are not entitled to these honors have the insolence to assume the badges of them, they shall be severely punished."

"I think that speaks to the intent of the framers," Sterner said, "that George Washington saw this kind of lie outside the scope of this freedom-of-speech issue."

I am not a lawyer but even if the law is not valid in its conception, the issue of fraud is valid. Read the parts I left out here.

Sarah Palin Headlines this Morning

From Breitbart:
Palin tells 'tea party': It's revolution time
By LIZ SIDOTI  Associated Press Writer

Palin whips up a storm at a Tea Party

From Townhall:
Palin Brings Tea Party Convention To Its Feet
by Jillian Bandes

From the Washington Post:
With speech before tea party activists, Palin once again steps on political stage
By Philip Rucker and Ann Gerhart

Much more but these are a good starter for you,

What Happened to Education? Here is one of the answers

From American Thinker:

Obama, Freud, and the American Progressives' Guilt Trip
By Chuck Rogér
At the turn of the twentieth century, an early "progressive" Vermonter named John Dewey kick-started a makeover of America's education system. At the conclusion of the second of his seminal works, The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum, Dewey offered these bits of wisdom.

But save as the teacher knows, knows wisely and thoroughly, the race-expression which is embodied in that thing we call the Curriculum, the teacher knows neither what the present power, capacity, or attitude is, nor yet how it is to be asserted, exercised, and realized....

.....And so from The Child and the Curriculum emerged a construct that Dewey called the "psychologizing"[1] of education, and progressives would use his unsupported contentions to pervert the process by which education would be conducted over the next hundred years....

....Dewey-indoctrinated educators have helped to sicken American culture. On the website, Minding the Campus, former State University of New York Board of Trustees member Candace de Russy lists questions found on a completed exam discovered by a colleague in an eastern American college classroom.

Question: How does the United States "steal" the resources of other (third world) [sic] countries?

Answer: We steal through exploitation. Our multinationals are aware that indigenous people in developing nations have been coaxed off their plots and forced into slums. Because it is lucrative, our multinationals offer them extremely low wage labor (sic) that cannot be turned down.

Question: Why is the U.S. on shaky moral ground when it comes to preventing illegal immigration?

Answer: Some say that it is wrong of the United States to prevent illegal immigration because the same people we are denying entry to, (sic) we have exploited for the purpose of keeping the American wheel spinning.

Question: Please briefly explain the matrix of domination.

Answer: the (sic) belief that domination has more than one dimension. For example, Males (sic) are dominant over females, whites over blacks, and affluent over impoverished.

These questions and the answers supplied by a student and accepted by the instructor provide a taste of the professorial moralizing that churns out mush-minded "critical thinkers." Dr. de Russy observes, "A student who matriculates in [sociology] will have nothing in the way of useful skills, but will be convinced that his country is rotten to the core, and that whites and males are evil." Which is exactly what too many social studies academics want students to believe, for these academics cling to the first guiding principle of the impassioned ideologue: Agenda trumps reality.

Read the rest here. We already knew what happened but this explains it in  detail.