Cheerleading Hits Britain

Have the Evil Bush Neocons no shame? They are taking over Britain by exporting cheerleading to the
land of Edmund Burke and punk rock.
Michele Kirsch reports
on a sport that is growing by 30 percent a year in the UK. And yes, the cheerleaders are on the
sidelines cheerleading for their college rugger teams.

The Tax Code Foments Conflict

As we all rail about the tax code and snigger as we take our special tax deduction, let us not
forget that the politicians are laughing all the way to the bank. When Americans are
fighting each other, they are leading the troops. As
Edward Hudgins
reminds us, the complexity of the tax code is the result of hundreds of special interest battles to
use some of your tax money for their special subsidy. The only way out is to refuse to benefit
at the expense of a fellow American and support broad based, low rate taxes.

If Liberals Hate Wal-Mart...

Then it stands to reason that there must be something good and noble about Wal-Mart that
they are trying to destroy. The funny thing about liberals is that, as often as not, their idealistic
campaigns to help the little guy turn out to be cynical attempts to bolster the status quo and the
established interests—pure power plays. Here’s one writer’s
look at the Wal-Mart effect.

Republicans in Better Shape Than You Think

Michael Barone
runs the numbers,
the hard numbers from the last election. He finds that electorally,
Republicans are in good shape. Many Democrats represent districts that voted for the president last
November. And voters agree that “something” should be done about Social Security.

Parents Pushing Back on Wacko Colleges

Parents aren’t too pleased about college tuition and wacko left-wing politics. This college consultant
warns the colleges that there are
unhappy clients out there and that they had better get their act together or face the consequences.

NYT on Einstein in 1905

At its best The New York Times can be really good, as this oped recapping the annus
mirabilis of
Einstein in 1905 reminds us. In four papers, Einstein remade physics, and no more so
than in the paper that proposed that light was “stream of tiny packets or bundles of
energy that have since come to be known as photons.” It was that discovery that led twenty years
later to quantum mechanics.

Campus Bias by "Anonymous"

So you didn’t really believe all that conservative whining about liberal bias in the university, eh?
Thought that it reflected more on the paranoia of conservatives rather than the transgressions of
tenured professors? Here is the story of a
European professor
who came to teach in the United States and was shocked
by what he found on campus. It makes rather exciting reading. Of course, he could be lying, but the
telling theme is how conservative students sniffed him out and came to him just to tell their stories.
The exciting thing is the feeling that the radical left wing culture on campus is not just wrong, it
is a blunder.