Remember when the left shrieked and howled about George W. Bush spending so much time at his ranch in Crawford? Yes, yes, they shrieked and howled about everything he did/said/thought about, but his second White House out in rural Texas was a frequent target, particularly in the first term. How much, then, do you think [...]
The senior senator from Pennsylvania and perpetual gadfly of the GOP has an annoyingly dull and unconvincing op-ed in the Washington Post today explaining his vote on the stimulus. The first sentence tells you all you need to know about his reasons, and it also shows some really flawed thinking about government action with regard [...]
InsideVandy.com has the story from Vanderbilt News Service. Apparently, the endowment has lost 16.5 percent, a little more than half a billion dollars. It did a lot better than the average for other schools (about 22.9 percent) and WAY better than the $1 billion speculated in the Tennessean. So it looks like Beth Fortune was [...]
From his column on NRO, I wanted to Twitter it, but the quote is too long. Enjoy. There is a role for government in our current predicament. I even favor a stimulus, albeit via the tax code so as to stimulate the economy, not the government. But the prospect of borrowing money we don’t have [...]
InsideVandy.com has a couple new stories up on these issues. First, the endowment. Apparently, Provost Richard McCarty is claiming the Tennessean misquoted him in this story. McCarty’s calling it sensationalism and says the reporter, Jennifer Brooks, never identified herself as a reporter. Bad news for Brooks if it’s true, but I don’t see a retraction [...]
Just got some word back from the administration on the endowment, an issue Katherine covered extensively yesterday (she even got a hefty mention/quote in the Tennessean). It’s not much, and it makes a bit concerned. First, the money quote from Zeppos’s e-mail to the Vanderbilt community yesterday. Emphasis mine: We are working daily to address, [...]
So says John Stossel, who lays into PEBO for his recent alarmist comments on the economy. Stossel worries that history will repeat itself with Obama’s economic recovery plan as the soon-to-be-president characterizes this sad state of things as an opportunity to transform the very nature of the economy. So, they will “transform our economy.” Obama’s [...]
A few people echoing my thoughts about the debate exactly, via Kleinheider: Both Robert and Robin Duncan said that, as they looked at the stage in Nashville during the televised debate, they had an uneasy feeling that they didn’t see the next president of the United States standing there. Of course, they almost certainly did. [...]
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