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I find it amusing that a site which has the word "unbiased" in its name considers only liberal arts schools to be prestigious, and excluded Harvard, Stanford, Cal Tech, MIT, Duke, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Georgetown, etc. from its list.
You know, universities with strong science / technology / law / medicine / business etc programs and which don't award bachelors degrees in "gender and oppression."
You know, universities with strong science / technology / law / medicine / business etc programs and which don't award bachelors degrees in "gender and oppression."
Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty
https://www.nas.org/articles/homogen..._elite_liberal
In this article I offer new evidence about something readers of Academic Questions already know: The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free—having zero Republicans. The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but nevertheless absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation. Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.
My sample of 8,688 tenure track, Ph.D.–holding professors from fifty-one of the sixty-six top ranked liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News 2017 report consists of 5,197, or 59.8 percent, who are registered either Republican or Democrat. The mean Democratic-to-Republican ratio (D:R) across the sample is 10.4:1, but because of an anomaly in the definition of what constitutes a liberal arts college in the U.S. News survey, I include two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis.1 If these are excluded, the D:R ratio is a whopping 12.7:1.
My sample of 8,688 tenure track, Ph.D.–holding professors from fifty-one of the sixty-six top ranked liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News 2017 report consists of 5,197, or 59.8 percent, who are registered either Republican or Democrat. The mean Democratic-to-Republican ratio (D:R) across the sample is 10.4:1, but because of an anomaly in the definition of what constitutes a liberal arts college in the U.S. News survey, I include two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis.1 If these are excluded, the D:R ratio is a whopping 12.7:1.
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they just used available data:
Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty
https://www.nas.org/articles/homogen..._elite_liberal
Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty
https://www.nas.org/articles/homogen..._elite_liberal
Even so, there is a very strongly positive correlation between educational attainment and leaning democrat. This has not always been the case, but here in the 21st century the democratic party is favored by those at the higher end of the educational / economic spectrum, while the republican party tends to be favored by those in the lower end. I don't think it should come as a surprise, then, that democrats greatly out-number republicans at the level of college professorship, just as they do in other professions in which the possession of an advanced degree is requisite for entry.
I mean, this is how absurd reality has become:
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A majority of people who self-identify as republican now say that college is bad.
Again, duh.
Here's one using data from the Progressive Policy Institute:
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Progressive Policy doesn't come out and say that education turns people into Democrats, just the state by state differences. But for every one percentage point increase in college graduates in a state, the percentage of people who identify themselves as Democrats increases by 0.75 percent.
What do you believe the correlation to be? Does attending college turn people into democrats, or are people who are more intelligent also more likely to lean democrat independently of college attendance?
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
SANTA FE, TX—In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed eight individuals and seriously injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Friday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Ohio resident Erica Webb, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
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I swear that get's posted every time. I don't want to talk guns and I already regret even replying - but this event has backed up what we have been saying for years.
Pistols and shotguns can be just as deadly in an environment where there are concentrated groups of victims and no way to stop them.
The only way you prevent this type of event from the "gun ban" perspective is to make everything but single shot firearms illegal. Good luck taking them all back. Good luck banning shotguns.
Here are some reloading techniques for the pump action shotgun. Probably the least "semi-auto" firearm there is. This technique can be used even if the firearm was only a single shot.
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A shocking new report has revealed over 5,000 new cases of Female Genital Mutilation were recorded between 2016-2017 in the United Kingdom.
Reported by anti-extremist group Quilliam, the damning dossier states that though “5391 new cases of FGM were recorded in the UK […] Britain has failed to bring a single perpetrator of FGM to justice.”
The report aims to “highlight the dire situation of FGM conviction rates in the UK” to “act as a catalyst for proactive action on implementing FGM laws in Britain.”
Muna Adil, the author of the report, states:
“The fact that we’ve been collecting detailed FGM data for some years now and still haven’t seen a single case brought to justice is a shame and utter disservice to the thousands of young girls and women who have undergone this horrific practice. Dis-empowered survivors lack the resources, knowledge, and voice to bring charges on their perpetrators, which makes it our duty as civil society to push for a harder, more active stance on this issue, rather than the passive law currently in place. We already have the data to indicate which communities and boroughs are high-risk situations – there is no credible reason for us to be shying away from this issue.”
The report, with a foreword by FGM survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is available for free download here
Reported by anti-extremist group Quilliam, the damning dossier states that though “5391 new cases of FGM were recorded in the UK […] Britain has failed to bring a single perpetrator of FGM to justice.”
The report aims to “highlight the dire situation of FGM conviction rates in the UK” to “act as a catalyst for proactive action on implementing FGM laws in Britain.”
Muna Adil, the author of the report, states:
“The fact that we’ve been collecting detailed FGM data for some years now and still haven’t seen a single case brought to justice is a shame and utter disservice to the thousands of young girls and women who have undergone this horrific practice. Dis-empowered survivors lack the resources, knowledge, and voice to bring charges on their perpetrators, which makes it our duty as civil society to push for a harder, more active stance on this issue, rather than the passive law currently in place. We already have the data to indicate which communities and boroughs are high-risk situations – there is no credible reason for us to be shying away from this issue.”
The report, with a foreword by FGM survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is available for free download here
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liberals actually believe this:
On Friday, movie director Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, The Princess Bride), appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he told substitute host Nicolle Wallace that the Trump Administration is the first time that networks like Fox and Sinclair Broadcasting "aligned with a president of the United States."
He went on to claim that the networks never aligned with John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama.
Reiner launched into a tirade about the unproven Russia conspiracy surrounding the White House.
He went on to claim that the networks never aligned with John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama.
Reiner launched into a tirade about the unproven Russia conspiracy surrounding the White House.
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It's like they WANT to eat zoo animals and trash:
A jubilant Nicolas Maduro addressed a crowd of svelte supporters outside the presidential palace in Caracas late Sunday evening, inviting his defeated opposition to join him in dialogue.
The Venezuelan socialist leader was re-elected to a second six-year term in a landslide victory, gathering 68% of the votes and beating his nearest challenger, Henri Falcon, by more than 40 points.
Before the end of voting, Falcon rejected the election as illegitimate and called for a new vote. The candidate claimed his campaign received thousands of complaints indicating Maduro’s party set up “Red Points” at nearly 90 per cent of polling stations across the country intended to pressure the poor to vote for Maduro, reports the Associated Press.
The election “without any doubt lacks legitimacy and we categorically refuse to recognize this process,” Falcon said.
The starving, oil-rich socialist nation has been in social collapse in recent years due to authoritarian rule and mismanagement of the state-run oil industry. Venezuelans continue to face widespread food shortages and limited access to medicine.
One report showed in 2017 the average Venezuelan lost 24lbs in body weight as Maduro actually got fatter. Recent online videos have revealed food riots and gangs of people beating grazing cattle to death with rocks.
Maduro embraces the election results and says he’s ready to talk with opposition leaders.
Venezuela’s military has also supported the election results. On Sunday the military’s top command, Gen. Padrino Lopez said, “Venezuela has won again, peace has won again, our democracy has won again.”
The Venezuelan socialist leader was re-elected to a second six-year term in a landslide victory, gathering 68% of the votes and beating his nearest challenger, Henri Falcon, by more than 40 points.
Before the end of voting, Falcon rejected the election as illegitimate and called for a new vote. The candidate claimed his campaign received thousands of complaints indicating Maduro’s party set up “Red Points” at nearly 90 per cent of polling stations across the country intended to pressure the poor to vote for Maduro, reports the Associated Press.
The election “without any doubt lacks legitimacy and we categorically refuse to recognize this process,” Falcon said.
The starving, oil-rich socialist nation has been in social collapse in recent years due to authoritarian rule and mismanagement of the state-run oil industry. Venezuelans continue to face widespread food shortages and limited access to medicine.
One report showed in 2017 the average Venezuelan lost 24lbs in body weight as Maduro actually got fatter. Recent online videos have revealed food riots and gangs of people beating grazing cattle to death with rocks.
Maduro embraces the election results and says he’s ready to talk with opposition leaders.
Venezuela’s military has also supported the election results. On Sunday the military’s top command, Gen. Padrino Lopez said, “Venezuela has won again, peace has won again, our democracy has won again.”
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good news Joe!
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-n...rom-1826153393
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Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.
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Serious reply:
All info I can find indicates that Donald Trump was born in Queens, NYC, and that he has not changed his last name.
Is this like the birther thing, where folks were trying to claim that Barack Obama was not born in the US?
Or is the assertion that a person who was born in the US, but whose grandfather legally immigrated from Bavaria to the US in the 1800s, is the same as a person who has illegally immigrated to the US?
All info I can find indicates that Donald Trump was born in Queens, NYC, and that he has not changed his last name.
Is this like the birther thing, where folks were trying to claim that Barack Obama was not born in the US?
Or is the assertion that a person who was born in the US, but whose grandfather legally immigrated from Bavaria to the US in the 1800s, is the same as a person who has illegally immigrated to the US?
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Serious reply:
All info I can find indicates that Donald Trump was born in Queens, NYC, and that he has not changed his last name.
Is this like the birther thing, where folks were trying to claim that Barack Obama was not born in the US?
Or is the assertion that a person who was born in the US, but whose grandfather legally immigrated from Bavaria to the US in the 1800s, is the same as a person who has illegally immigrated to the US?
All info I can find indicates that Donald Trump was born in Queens, NYC, and that he has not changed his last name.
Is this like the birther thing, where folks were trying to claim that Barack Obama was not born in the US?
Or is the assertion that a person who was born in the US, but whose grandfather legally immigrated from Bavaria to the US in the 1800s, is the same as a person who has illegally immigrated to the US?
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ask me how shocked i am:
The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released new emails on Monday night that allegedly show that Obama administration officials coordinated with each other to help CNN run a damaging story on President-elect Donald Trump based on salacious and unverified information contained in a politically-motivated dossier financed by Trump's political enemies.
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comedy 2016-present:
comedy 2001:
seriously funny. -----^
listen Hitler, and mouth no gut yes, get me every time.
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listen Hitler, and mouth no gut yes, get me every time.
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Here are a few of PolitiFacts' fact-checks on some of the inflated numbers pushed by CNN and gun control groups like Everytown for Gun Safety:And here's The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro fact-checking CNN's most recently debunked claim following the Santa Fe shooting:
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On Friday, movie director Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, The Princess Bride), appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he told substitute host Nicolle Wallace that the Trump Administration is the first time that networks like Fox and Sinclair Broadcasting "aligned with a president of the United States."
Fox is a network. It creates programming and distributes it to Fox affiliated stations, some of which are owned by Fox and some of which are owned by other groups.
Sinclair is not a network, it's an ownership group. Stations owned by Sinclair are affiliated with a variety of networks such as Fox, The CW, CBS, ABC, NBC, Univision, etc.