At Least We Are More Attractive...

The Claremont Currents notes that the hippies beat us when it comes to the happiest college (or so ranked by the Princeton Review)

And now I hear the chorus of people who claim that our loss in happiness comes directly from the poorly named Master Plan of Pam Gann that seeks a return to middling mediocrity.

Deport Eric Banderas (For the Good of the Republic)!

My friend, John-Clark Levin CMC '12, has written another op-ed in the pages of The Wall Street Journal where he discusses the latest rash of protesters against our nation daring to have borders. These children hope, in a throwback of the civil rights movement they supposedly copy, to win the hearts and minds of the American people to support the latest attempts to Americanize people whose first act (or that of their parents) was to break the law.

They hope, as John-Clark rightly notes, to use the example of Eric Balderas, a Harvard college student, who was detained by San Antonio police after using his school ID to board a plane. Mr. Balderas, an illegal immigrant, was nearly deported, but in the aftermath of some activists getting noisy, he was allowed to stay, despite being a fraud.

I remind my friend that civil disobedience is still disobedience (thanks Bryce Gerard) and that unlike the economy, Harvard actually is one of those places where zero-sum thinking comes into play. Mr. Balderas soaked up endowment dollars that could have gone to a legal immigrant -- or shocker of shockers -- a citizen. But we don't really believe in citizenship nowadays, anymore, do we?

What I Have Been Up To

You'll forgive me for not being as engaged with the blogosphere as I would otherwise be.

As of right now, I have been helping a good friend get elected to Congress, writing semi-professionally (most recently, a discussion of the Pixar films from a conservative perspective), visiting the East Coast, reading a book a every day or so, and moving to College Park.

They'll be more to come in the coming days, you can be sure.