CURRENT WISDOM: The Ugly President
Jackasses, Assorted
The Ugly President WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL The power offaith as expounded by Prof. Rodney Stevenson, resident thermostat of the Diversity Climate Committee: Racial profiling has resulted in...
...Doing away with profiling will bring parity to the pen (or would, if justice were really blind...
...May 24, 2001) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR E Summer Reading Issue 2001 127 linton from office-by any means possible [understatement...
...RODNEY STEVENSON, PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS, CO-CHAIR PLAN 2008 DIVERSITY CLIMATE COMMITTEE, UW-MADISON (May 4, 2001) ARGUS LEADER (SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA) In old Sioux Falls, Mr...
...Having beliefs contrary to standard American ideology is not wanted in the schools, and many times not allowed...
...I was accused of teaching the facts with a bias and not letting students think for themselves, as if "facts" exist in a vacuum, with no room for interpretations...
...If teaching that AfricanAmerican males are 7 percent of the American population, yet make up almost 50 percent of the prison population, is not letting students think for themselves, then I am guilty...
...Bush brushed aside his own rhetorical flourishes toward bipartisan civility and has engaged in a bare-knuckle (and politically tone-deaf) style of governing that most resembles the notorious theft in the Florida recount operation: Take no prisoners, obliterate the facts and rules of reason, forget the dubious legitimacy upon which this presidency is based.A more likable and personally persuasive leader (think Reagan or Clinton) might have pulled it off...
...The Ugly President WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL The power offaith as expounded by Prof...
...Encouraging young people to challenge the system is dangerous...
...Ken Cole, local humorist, resorts to the light touch-all for naught against the tin ear of Dennis R. Bishop, agelast: I can't believe the Argus Leader would publish Kevin Cole's letter suggesting that if you are a Democrat, you should be ground up at a meatpacking plant...
...May 24, 2001) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR E Summer Reading Issue 2001 127...
...May 14, 2001) THE METROPOLITAN (METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE, DENVER, COLORADO) Heroics still attempted in the Bush Dark Ages by a member of Colorado's equivalent of the Falun Gong: I am a radical teacher...
...If teaching human values are more important than profit values is considered socialist, then I am guilty...
...His sick letter should be turned over to the police...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y...
...Rodney Stevenson, resident thermostat of the Diversity Climate Committee: Racial profiling has resulted in prison color ratios that are seriously out of sync with the general population...
...The project's most famous product was an expose of Bill Clinton's personal life...
...This President's beginning is not just ugly, it's ominous...
...Racial preference moves student ratios closer to general population proportions...
...Radical teachers are not wanted in American public schools.As a social studies teacher, critical analysis ofAmerica and its institutions can be a risky endeavor...
...We preach to the kids if someone in school threatens other students to turn them in...
...May 23, 2001) WASHINGTON POST This is the fine thanks we get from frequent Current Wisdom contributor Richard Cohen,for making him over the past decade the butt of our condign ridicule: For the Senate, the question is whether Olson told the truth when he said that he had nothing to do with the "Arkansas Project," a sleazy journalistic endeavor initiated by The American Spectator magazine and funded ($2.3 million) by Richard Scaife, the Mellon heir...
...As the minutes went by and the hours, it became abundantly clear that this has nothing to do with an economic policy...
...March 30, 2001) WASHINGTON POST On the floor of the United States Senate just prior to that body's acceptance of a rather emaciated tax cut, the Hon...
...This is nothing but a big tax cut...
...If teaching for social justice is an agenda, then I am guilty...
...I was accused of trying to push my socialist views on children...
...Acting on those beliefs is career suicide...
...DENNIS R. BISHOP, SIOUX FALLS (March 27, 2001) THE NATION A month after virtually all the public reviews of the Florida vote by newspapers and other electoral monitors agreed that George W Bush won the presidential vote in that state, The Nation is still convinced offraud-but then these fantasticos are still in doubt about Alger Hiss and the geographical hypotheses of the late Christopher Columbus: The mild and moderate character who ran for President, claiming to want more or less the same things Al Gore wanted, has been replaced by a hard-edged, rather maladroit right-winger...
...And since grade point averages and standardized tests are culturally biased, color-blind admission lets less-qualified whites into the lecture hall while morequalified people of color are left out on the street, where they have a greater chance of being picked up by the police...
...This was a statement: these were his people....What really matters is Olson's participation in the widespread effort to force Bill Clinton from office-by any means possible [understatement...
...He was, it turned out, a womanizer [sarcasm...
...the Spectator's so-called "Troopergate" story appeared in 1993.The next year, Olson, undeterred [irony!], became the magazine's lawyer, and two years after that he joined its board of directors...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton propounds a belief in "economic policy" that proves she is neither a Keynesian nor a supplysider, but rather a Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: "The disbelief just got bigger and bigger," said Sen...
...Doing away with preference will perpetuate the effects of centuries of discrimination...
Vol. 34 • July 2001 • No. 6
