USA Today is reporting that graduation levels are up in college athletics.
Nearly four of every five athletes — 79% — who entered Division I colleges and universities from 1999 to 2002 got their degrees within six years, according to an NCAA study released Wednesday. That's up a percentage point from a year [...]
You've probably noticed that I've been writing more and more on college athletics in general and college football in particular. There's an app a reason for that. I have been reading up on the professional economic literature on college sports for a big project that I am working on. Whenever [...]
On Christmas morning, after devouring Mom's legendary homemade sticky buns, the Stevens family gathers around the Christmas tree. The three kids — Danny, 10, Molly, 8 and Christopher, 6 — excitedly begin opening their presents.
Their parents' joy soon turns to dismay' [...]
Even congressional Democrats are disgusted with the Obama administration's phony accounting of what the stimulus plan supposedly is accomplishing. Earlier this week, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey lambasted the government's flawed data purporting to show that $160 billion in stimulus spending has created or saved at least 640,000 jobs. [...]
After Bloggergate, another Liberal Blogger tied to North Star Liberal has shut its doors.
Brian Falldin has deleted all of his site content. Â Here is the screen shot:
[...]What do you do if the data for your theory seems to contradict it? Do you do more research? Re-check your efforts and conclusions? Revise and reshape your beliefs?
No.
If you're among some who subscribe to man-made global warming, you just lie.
Controversy has exploded [...]
There's a stock column appearing in left-liberal MSM outlets all over the country, The author varies, but the main point is the same: Republican Senators are guilty of "hypocrisy" for attempting to filibuster one of President Obama's judicial nominees after having criticized Democrats for filibustering a host of President Bush's' [...]
Not only has North Star Liberal closed its doors, but DFL Blogger Political Muse, Eric Austin, has called it quits.
Here’s Eric’s Post:
I recently joined with five other bloggers who I count as friends in the hope that we could create a different kind of blog. A blog that was [...]
Yesterday MDE posted information about a scrubbed post by a new Liberal blog North Star Liberal. Â Now, today North Star Liberal has shut its doors.
Where did they go?
[...]
....is a Biblical view of work, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal. Here's the author's weblog if you'd like to see more of her work. H/T Cold Fusion Guy, and I'm off to get some remunerative antidepressants! [...] Any construction contractor who would build a house by putting up the walls and ceilings before a solid foundation is constructed is asking for trouble.
Yet every semester I run across at least one student who wants to take classes concurrently although one is a prerequisite before the other. Prerequisites [...]
One of the worst kept secrets around has been that Allen Quist was going to run against Tim ‘Washington’ Walz. You see Walz has turned into a reliable lapdog for Pelosi and Obama. But the Strib decided today was the day to lash out and try to cut Quist down [...]
Construction contractor Dan Powers, of Burnsville, has announced he intends to challenge Rep. John Kline, for Minnesota’s Second District, in 2010. And from his statements so far, he’s fully embraced the sacrificial lamb role for which he’s destined.
Powers says Kline’s stance against earmarks has hurt the district. He says [...]
I would be remiss in pointing out that 7 years ago today was the first Centrisity post. My friend Christopher Fountain may be a Realtor. That does not mean, however, that he can't be an expert on Real Issues outside of Real Estate. Here is but one.
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being [...]
A $100 million here, a $100 million there, and sooner or later it starts adding up to real money.Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee today. One striking feature of Geithner's testimony was how partisan it was. In keeping with the Obama administration's mantra, he repeatedly tried to cast blame on the Bush administration while failing to acknowledge that when the financial crisis developed, he [...]
