Oh, will the injustice never end? Libs are all broken up over the DC Circuit’s Court of Appeals’ ruling that Obama’s non-recess “recess” appointments to the NLRB were unconstitutional. Scott LeMieux, who posts at the über-lefty Lawyers, Guns & Money blog (along with the illustrious Erik Loomis), channeled his outrageous outrage into a delightful little… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Academic
Professors decry ‘witch hunt,’ rally around Erik Loomis in name of ‘academic freedom’
Eight professors have joined together to issue a statement in support of University of Rhode Island assistant professor Erik Loomis, who last week tweeted that he wanted NRA executive vice president ”Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick.” The authors of the statement, posted on the blog Crooked Timber, defend Loomis’ tweet as an example of metaphor… Read more »
Obama, Biden: Academic Transcripts and the Truth
By disclosing to the media last year that he had “a B-plus” GPA at Occidental College and “a 3.7” GPA at Columbia College, President Obama has put himself in a situation comparable to then-Senator Biden during his 1987 campaign for the presidency. In that campaign, Biden’s disclosures about his academic performance led to the media… Read more »
Michael Woodford may have written the year’s most important academic paper. Here’s why.
Everyone who’s anyone in monetary policy is in Jackson Hole, Wyo., this long weekend for the annual conference on central banking held there in late summer. The big story every year is the speech by the Federal Reserve chairman, which is often used to signal changes in Fed policy going forward. Sure enough, Ben Bernanke… Read more »