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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Screw Flyover Country! The Dems raise campaign money in Hollywood, Cape Cod, and Martha's Vineyard

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Last month, George Clooney and Julia Roberts co-hosted a Hollywood fundraiser for Joe Biden.  Barack Obama was there to guide Joe Biden o...
Friday, March 24, 2023

69,000 students filed Borrower-Defense Claims Against the Universtiy of Phoenix: Zero Have Been Approved

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 Recently, someone filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Education. How many Borrower Defense claims...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Paul Krugman exploits the Great Louisiana Flood of 2016 (Redneck Katrina) to promote Hillary Clinton: Krugman's cynicism knows no bounds

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Who do you have to sleep with to get a Nobel Prize? Or perhaps that's the wrong question. Why do the Swedes award Nobel Prizes to arro...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

What do Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have in common? They all received political contributions from Dade Medical College or affiliates. Dade's former CEO has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions

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What do Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have in common? All four received political contributions from ...
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

An episode of The Walking Dead: Why did the U.S. Department of Education oppose bankruptcy relief for a quadriplegic student-loan debtor?

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America's insolvent student-loan debtors are the walking dead America's student-loan crisis is beginning to resemble an episode o...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Legal Education and the Battle of Isandlwana: Our Country Isn't Solving Problems Because Our Colleges and Professional Schools Aren't Properly Training Our Leaders

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What do law professors do beside teach law students? Most of them write law review articles--long, tedious pieces with literally hundreds ...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Is Senator Elizabeth Warren a Paper Tiger? Her Bill to Lower Interest Rates Was a Non-Starter

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A lot of people think Senator Elizabeth Warren is a fierce advocate for college-loan debtors, a feisty bulldog who strives mightily to get s...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Like a Secret Drunk Who Hides A Bottle of Bourbon in His Office Drawer, The Higher Education Industry is Addicted to Student Loans But Won't Admit It

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Almost everyone agrees that Alcoholics Anonymous has the best treatment program for alcoholics. AA's simple 12-step program is followed ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Two Americas--Where one man makes more in 20 minutes than a widow survives on for a year

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Two stories in today's Times caught my eye. According to a report in the Business section, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, makes $37,692 ...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Tardy praise for the Obama Administration's regulations to cut down on abuse in the for-profit college industry

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Arne Duncan I have criticized President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for not doing enough to stop the abuse in the for-p...
Friday, February 7, 2014

"Fill out those forms, fill them out!" Michelle Obama recklessly urges low-income students to go into debt to attend college

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Michelle Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan were in Alexandria, Virginia earlier this week urging students to fill out federal ...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

We live on different planets: The World of the New York Times is not the world of the average American

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I live in fly-over country and can't get home delivery of the New York Times . Nevertheless, I get the Sunday Times   delivered to my ho...
Friday, January 17, 2014

President Obama's White House Summit with Higher Education Leaders: How Important Was It?

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President Obama invited about 100 college presidents and higher-education industry leaders to the White House yesterday to talk about expand...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Such hypocrisy! The Obama administration urges private college-loan lenders to play nice with student borrowers

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Obama administration officials summoned the leading private student-loan creditors to a meeting at the Treasury Department yesterday to urge...