US Universities leach off the taxpayer
“Amidst all the woeful tales of college students over-burdened with tuition and college loans, the real college cost story — that it’s taxpayers who are truly suffering — has been ignored. Here’s reality. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, more than half of public universities’ revenues — $79 billion — were extracted directly from federal, state, and local taxpayers, while only 18.5 percent came from student fees and tuition. ...Of course, tuition, too, is covered largely by taxpayers.” (11/07/03)
This makes it even more offensive that many universities still don’t believe their students have rights under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If a university takes any federal funds they should be monitored to see how they treat their students.
Via: Rational Review
Comments are off for this postMontel a cannabis user, to help with his MS
“Talk show host Montel Williams, who uses medical marijuana to treat
the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, could have received up to a year in state prison as a result of being caught with a small amount of marijuana in Detroit’s Metro Airport Monday night. According to news reports, Williams was detained briefly after security screeners found that he was carrying a small amount of marijuana. He reportedly was fined $100 and allowed to board his flight to New York, where his nationally syndicated talk show is taped. A statement released by Williams’ office indicated that he used marijuana on the advice of his physician to treat the chronic, constant pain caused by MS.” (11/05/03)
Via: Rational Review
Comments are off for this postSome Help For The Press
JFM has been a very long time reader of Rich Galen, who writes a political column on his own website; except for now. He has been hired by DoD to work in Iraq to help reporters get stories out to regional news outlets about all the good activities in Iraq carried out by regionally based Reserve and Guard Units. He has just started a new series of reports starting with how he got into this program and his journey out there. He hopes to be posting in future about what happens to him in the course of carrying out his duties.
All this may sound a bit dull, but, do try these samples, as he writes extremely well about things from the inside as they really are with a sharp eye for what people really want to know.
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