With a week to reflect, I’m convinced this was the greatest moment in sports history.
A 2-star recruit leads the worst program ever to a national championship, beats his hometown team that wouldn’t let him walk on, and finishes it by running over the same guy who knocked him out the year before, with his mother battling MS watching from the stands.
If it was a Disney movie, you’d say it was too much.
Sowell is smarter than 100 random academics collectively. He speaks common sense in a manner that is detached from the faux-profundity on which much of academia is built.
@AlpacaAurelius Every single thing on earth can be toxic at high enough concentrations. Vitamin B is toxic at high levels — does that mean you should avoid vitamin B? Sodium and phosphorous are both needed by the body. You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. And the earth is round
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall for the very first time.
They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.
The boy asked, "What is this father?"
The father, never having seen an elevator, responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is."
While the boy and the father were watching with amazement, an old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button.
The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the walls light up sequentially.
They continued to watch until It reached the last number and then the numbers began to light up in reverse order.
Finally, the walls opened up again and a gorgeous, 24-year-old blonde woman stepped out.
The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son, "Go get your mother."
#614clinton
REMINDER: Biden created the student debt crisis.
The solution is simple: students who truly can't pay back their student loans should be able to have it discharged in bankruptcy court.
That would also force lenders to be less predatory in their lending practices.
And it would force universities to make their tuitions more affordable, as lenders refused to make risky, overly-expensive loans.
But in 1978, Senator Joe Biden supported the "Middle Income Student Assistance Act", which eliminated income restrictions on federal loans to expand eligibility to all students.
He then used that elimination of income restriction to warn of the threat of student debt bankruptcy, and wrote a separate bill later that year to block students from filing bankruptcy on those loans.
The income restrictions were reinstated in 1981.
He then went on to vote for bills which extended loan eligibility to students with no parental financial support.
In 1984, Biden used his senior position in the Judiciary Committee to extend bankruptcy exemptions to vocational schools as well.
And now that he's created the debt crisis that everyone with common sense warned would happen, he's trying again to use it as an excuse to assert powers that his office does not have.
Because that's what politicians always do: create a crisis, and then grandstand on your suffering that he caused in order to push for more power and more of your money.
To this day, he still won't push for Congress to end the bankruptcy exemption for student loans, for a very simple reason:
He doesn't want the crisis to end. He wants it to worsen, so he can exploit it for more power.
Read all about Biden's role in the crisis here:
https://t.co/YZs0Mm01D7
I went to racially diverse public schools until 8th grade. I’ve never met a single black kid who couldn’t achieve everything I have if he had the same true “privilege” that I enjoyed: not being born into $$, but having a stable family with two parents who emphasized education. That’s the answer to black empowerment in America, not affirmative action.