The Problem With Deterrence - Apparently Sometimes

I Think There's A Group Of Students - Whether It's The Micro-aggression Or The Safe Space Or The Trigger Warning That Garner A Lot Of Attention - But That The Fundamental Issues That They're More Interested In Are - And I'll Be Very Frank Here - How Much Money Do I Pay For A Unit? And What Is That Unit Going To Do For Me When I'm Graduating?and Even Though This Is Mostly In A Progressive Landscape, They're Asking Questions That Have Not Been Asked Of The University. And The University Can't Supply Answers To Them.

We May Casually Talk Of All Sorts Of New Programs And 'stimulus,' But The Vast Trillion-dollar Collective National Debt And Rising Annual Deficits Will Insidiously Hamstring Almost Everything We Plan To Do.

In The Case Of [donald] Trump, He Was Able To Tell People That Elites Live In Gated Communities, Where They Have Walls Around Their Home.

Gas Prices In Many Parts Of The Country Are Nearing $4 A Gallon; It Could Get Even Worse As Unrest Spreads Throughout The Oil-exporting Middle East. Yet The Obama Administration Once Again Seems To See No Crisis. It Has Curtailed New Leases For Offshore Oil Exploration For Seven Years And Exempted Thousands Of Acres In The West From New Drilling. It Will Not Reconsider Opening Up Small Areas Of Alaska With Known Large Oil Reserves.

I Wish I Could Attribute The Absence Of Any Conventional Arab Offensive In The Last 20 Years To A Change Of Political Climate Or A Willingness To Abide By Past Accords. But Unfortunately It Is More Likely That The Egyptians Or Syrians Concluded That The Next Time Their Tanks Headed To Tel Aviv, There Was Nothing Stopping The Counterassaults From Ending Up In Downtown Cairo Or Damascus.