“[NY Governor and former Attorney General] Spitzer denies any knowledge of what his closes aide was doing, which seems improbable. But hang on. Even [if] he didn’t know, isn’t this the same guy who wants corporate executives held criminally liable for the mistakes of their underlings, even if they had no knowledge of those […]
Archive for July, 2007
Jul17th2007
The Path Out Of Poverty
Published by in Capitalism, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Poverty. 1 CommentOne that is sure to work and not to difficult to follow, given by an old Catallarchy post I am now catching up on:
As inspiring as Howard Gardner’s, Oprah Winfrey’s, and Michael Jordan’s stories are, I don’t think that they’re necessarily good role models. The high-risk strategies for success they adopted paid off for them, […]
Jul14th2007
“Julian Bond opened the NAACP convention yesterday with a speech as banal as it was irrelevant…Bond seems incapable of appreciating the yawning gulf between his vision for the NAACP and the concrete needs of the masses of Black families, who struggle mightily to raise children in communities ravaged by joblessness, bad schools, gang violence, single […]
Jul13th2007
Abolish The SAT
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, Education, General, Inequality, Poverty and University. 1 CommentSo argues, persuasively and surprisingly, Charles Murray here.
Because upper-middle-class families produce most of the smartest kids, there is no way to reform the system (short of disregarding intellectual ability altogether) to prevent their children from coming out on top. We can only make sure that high-ability students from disadvantaged backgrounds realize that the nation’s best […]
Jul4th2007
“America gives a better life to the ordinary guy than does any other country. Let’s be honest: rich people live well everywhere. America’s greatness is that it has extended the benefits of affluence, traditionally available to the very few, to a large segment in society. We live in a nation where “poor” people have TV […]
