An Error In Judgment From a Former Ath Speaker

I sat at the head table with Fareed Zakaria last semester. He was eloquent, but he seems to mistake the principle here.

It's not an opposition to mosques, per se, it's an opposition to mosques built on or near sacred ground. Liberals should know about this full well. It's part of the reason why, after all, that we have zoning and why they favor time manner restrictions on speech. Their hypocrisy shows its scarlet hues when you notice that they have come out against Greg Gutfield's campaign to bring a gay Muslim bar there.

Muslims understand it, too, which is why some are coming out against this horrible mosque and the Cordoba Initiative, and why some of those that supported it attack Gutfield for not wanting to build a "dialog [sic]".

A Change in The Comment Policy

Unfortunately, a few repeated trolls have made it impossible to have the freewheeling discussion I would like in the comment section.

I am now moderating comments, something I don't want to do, but which I must. You should still feel free to submit comments, but I have to pick ones that are good from ones that are, well, disgusting.

Thanks,
The Management

We're Number 9 on Forbes List of America's Best Colleges

Of course, we're number #1 in my book

One of the helpful comments on this site notes a recent Forbes Magazine ranking that puts Claremont McKenna as number #9, right below Harvard University and right above Yale.

I'm generally suspicious of such rankings but it is nice to be liked once and awhile by mainstream publications. How much stock do you put in rankings?

CMC Alum Asks in the Pages of the WSJ

WWRD: What Would Reagan Do (on Unemployment)?

It's written by Henry Olsen who is a CMC alum and VP of AEI.

Is Tolerance for Risk Genetic? CMC Profs Say Yes

This was on PBS the other night.

Start watching at around 18 minutes or so.

Harvey Mudd Dorms Also Expensive

Harvey Mudd, for those wondering, isn't all that far behind Pomona. Forbes ranks it as the number 7 most costly dorm in the country.

Expensive Dorms and The Off Campus Alternative

Forbes Magazine reports:

Pomona College, located on the outskirts of Los Angeles, [edit's note: so much for being the Hahvahd of the West Coast] charges the third-highest dorm rates at $12,220 a year, an 8% increase from three years earlier. Students are apparently happy: Based on student responses, Pomona College placed among the Princeton Review’s list of palace-like dorms.

Yikes. I'm living at College Park in Upland currently. Assuming utilities of a hundred bucks a month, which seems high, my rent comes to $900 a month for ten months. This means that I can stay out in Claremont for ten full months, as opposed to having to find a place to stay in August or December. I don't have to deal with dorm damages or noisy neighbors having sex all the time or drunks sh**ting in sinks or breaking furniture. I get double the room that a single has -- my walk in closet is nearly larger than my Stark single. I also get my own private bathroom and I don't have to deal with annoying freshman elevator parties or people stealing my laundry detergent.

File this under yet another reason you shouldn't live on campus.