Note to the Department of Education: Mao Zedong murdered 65 million people.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 22nd at 02:30 PM  | 

This is the estimated number is from The Black Book of Communism: if some people consider that number suspect, there’s also Frank Dikötter’s estimate* of 45 million killed during the “Great Leap Forward.” Even the New York Times thinks that 30 million died in that atrocity, while noting that the ChiComs admit to 16 million murdered by the state** during that time period. In short: | Read More »

SWAT team raids by… US Department of Education.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 8th at 11:30 AM  | 

[UPDATE: Folks, it looks like they just updated the story and changed the URL.  Here you go with the new one.] Apparently, there was this woman who had skipped out on her student loans, so the feds sent a SWAT team to her house to deliver a search warrant.  That is to say, the SWAT team stormed the house, broke down the door, handcuffed her | Read More »

For-Profit Education Under Assault

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 25th at 09:00 AM  | 

For-profit education is under assault from elitists who hate the idea of free market educational institutions.  It is also under attack from bureaucrats at the U.S. Department of Education who are trying to make it hard for students to arm themselves with the education needed to find a job.  Elitism is alive and well at the Department of Education. The Department of Education announced yesterday that they are “on | Read More »