How to Astroturf an Online Cause: the Story of “I Stand with Bill Powers”

    From the diaries. Texas is ground zero in the national higher education reform movement. While the Washington crowd tends to fixate on President Obama’s piddling slap fight with Congressional Republicans over government-secured student loan rates, the real action on fixing higher ed is happening in Austin, Texas. The battle between Rick Perry and the higher ed reformers on one hand versus UT-Austin President Bill Powers | Read More »

    Obama Stimulus Money to Study Stimulus

    The Coburn-McCain report titled Summertime Blues is full Stimulus projects to promote the Stimulus and ObamaCare.  This report is a must read for all conservatives who care about our fiscal future.  If President Obama is willing to spend your tax dollars on how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine, he is willing to squander your tax dollars on any and all government waste. The left is | Read More »