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For-profit Higher Education Is Today A Booming Industry, Feeding On The Student Loans Handed Out To The Desperate.

Media Bias Has Been A Favorite Theme Of The Right For Decades, Of Course.

I Think The Wikileaks Releases Furnish Us With An Opportunity To Observe The Upper Reaches Of The American Status Hierarchy In All Its Righteousness And Majesty. High-achieving Colleagues Attempting To Get Jobs For Their High-achieving Children. Foundation Executives Doing Fine And Noble Things. Prizes, Of Course, And High Academic Achievement.

Journalism Has A Special, Hallowed Place For Stories Of Its Practitioners' Persecution.

Corruption Is Uniquely Reprehensible In A Democracy Because It Violates The System's First Principle, Which We All Learned Back In The Sunshiny Days Of Elementary School: That The Government Exist To Serve The Public, Not Particular Companies Or Individuals Or Even Elected Officials.