“Nice try hiding behind the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to shield evidence of favoritism in admissions, UT-Austin.”
Texas AG Ken Paxton has slapped down the U’s administration in its fight against its own board of regents. And though his opinion isn’t binding, it’s a forecast of what will happen in court to what an old friend used to call the University of Texas at Inter-regional, i.e. Interstate-35.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Texana, The Culture
Tagged cheating on admissions, Texas AG Ken Paxton, UT-Austin
Consider yourself fortunate. Evolution usually moves too slowly to be witnessed. But not this time. A clear case of draining the shallow end of the gene pool.
Via Simply Jews.
Posted in Blogosphere, Evolution, Obituaries
Tagged draining the shallow end of the gene pool, evolution in action
…well, maybe two.
Via Soopermexican.
“Juan Williams accused Pamela Geller of causing the deaths of two people in Texas… This was after two Islamic terrorists linked to ISIS were shot dead outside a cartoon drawing contest.”
Mr. Williams and his cronies, including Little Barry in the White House, would prefer we all kept quiet. So, like Mo Atta told the passengers on 9/11, we’ll be okay. Me, I think Ms Geller is to be congratulated for ridding the planet of two scumbags.
The cartoon is by Bosch Fawstin, the winner of Geller’s cartoon drawing contest. Which lured the scum to their deaths, which Mr. Williams wants us to mourn.
Via Gateway Pundit & The Volokh Conspiracy & Instapundit.
UPDATE: Turns out there was some confusion by the Volokh Conspiracy (whom I copied here) over which of Fawstin’s cartoons won the prize. The above is not the actual winner, which is here, though I think the above is much the better of the two.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, Texana, The War
Tagged "Stay quiet and you'll be okay", Islamic Fascism, Juan Williams, Mohammad Atta, Pam Geller, The Volokh Conspiracy
“The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has released a report titled ‘The Unkindest Cut: Shakespeare in Exile 2015.’ According to the report’s author, Dr. Michael Poliakoff, only 4 out of the top 52 liberal arts colleges and universities in the country require English majors to take a course on Shakespeare. ‘If reading Shakespeare is not central to a liberal education, what is? For English majors to miss out is far worse. A degree in English without serious study of Shakespeare is like a major in Greek Literature without the serious study of Homer. It is tantamount to fraud…’ writes Poliakoff.”
You could say that about most non-STEM college degrees nowadays. I had two semesters of Shakespeare back in 1965-66 for my English degree. Best courses I took. From which I now know the source of so many catch phrases of modern English speech:
The lady doth protest too much; To thine ownself be true; The play’s the thing; All the world’s a stage; Brevity is the soul of wit; Now is the winter of our discontent; A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse; Off with his head!…etc.
Even to some minorities-soon-to-be-majorities, such losses are strange: White Man: Why Are You Giving Away Your Country?
*Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene III
Via Instapundit.
The loony lefties at Salon (find it yourself, I hate even linking to them) already are sneering at the right-wing “lunatics” of Texas. But with President Worm you never know. He specializes in duplicity, after all.
So Gov. Abbott’s instructions to the Texas State Guard (largely a ceremonial unit) to keep an eye on those Pentagon “maneuvers” beginning in July at various places around the state seems sound to me. As well as amusing.
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Blogosphere, Texana, Troops
Tagged Governor Abbott, Pentagon maneuvars in Texas, Texas State Guard
Tired of Democrat presidents? Figure Godzillary’s a shoo-in for another eight years of the same ol’, same ol’? Well get used to it. The whole country outside the big cities can vote Republican and the Democrats will still get in.
“While there were 2,126 counties that voted Republican all four elections and only 461 that consistently voted Democratic, significantly more people live in those fewer — and more populous — Democratic counties. So there is a base of 132 million people (using 2014 population estimates for counties) that have backed Democrats four elections in a row. 117.2 million have backed the GOP.”
Read it all. And weep.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 