Election In Jeopardy as 10% of Illegals Admit They Are Registered To Vote in November
A real-world survey conducted by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found that 10% of illegal aliens and non-citizens admitted that they are registered to vote in November’s election. The Heritage Foundation sent survey makers into […]
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It Is Time to Treat Higher Education as the Business It Is
So many of the problems with higher education stem from the involvement of government in the market.
Not a day goes by without a TikTok video surfacing of unhappy Gen-Zers or millennials lamenting their career choices that stemmed from college education. On top of this, student debt has become a hot-button political issue. And nearly every conservative laments the rise of such degrees as “gender studies” or “sociology” that seem to be little more than proxies for progressive ideological indoctrination with a price tag. Higher education has become a mess.
Though the above issues may only seem loosely connected by their relation to higher education, they share a more specific point of connection: government funding of universities. From direct funding to student loans, the United States federal government has acted in a way that divorces the customers from the producers of higher education, and the result has been one problem after another. Chief among those problems is ideological bias and the unmarketable degrees mentioned above.
The growing problem of a left-wing intellectual orthodoxy is particularly concerning. In an academic setting, left-wing aligned professors outnumber their right-wing counterparts five to one. Conservative students are often afraid of expressing their views, being regularly outnumbered by liberal-leaning students. A study on the University of North Carolina system found that liberal students dominated with a three to one ratio to conservative students and that conservatives faced the bulk of pressure to not express their views. Gone is the age of valued debate in the “marketplace of ideas.”
Sadly, many of the proposed “solutions” by conservatives are lacking. They likely will only make things worse than they already are.
The Core of the Problem
As mentioned above, the government has fundamentally divorced the consumer-producer relationship that should exist in higher education. If conservative students are among the customers, then surely their viewpoints should be reflected in universities, no? Discrimination is expensive, as you either alienate productive employees or potential customers. Some universities might find value in discriminating against certain viewpoints, but that is true of every market good. It might be costly to discriminate against effective conservative professors or eliminate a consumer base, thus they will tend to cost more. Most universities will realize this is a poor business decision and thus cater to all their customers.
But are students truly the customers?
Figure 1: Percentage distribution of total revenues for degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by control of institution and source of funds (2020–21)
Source: National Center for Educational Statistics.
According to the Center for Educational Statistics, in the fiscal year 2020–21, over 40 percent of public-university revenue was provided by government grants, contracts, and appropriations. That compares to just 16 percent coming from student tuition. If one looks at even that small revenue amount paid for by tuition you might spot evidence of government money. Economics Data Initiative reported in 2021 that over 92 percent of student loan debt is federal student loan debt—meaning it is taxpayer money fronted to new students to pay their college tuition and costs. Seeing as there have not been any significant, if any, changes to the federal student loan system, the percentage of tuition coming from student loans is likely still overwhelming.
The Core Applied: Ideological Bias
Conservative as well as many libertarian students have lamented the fall of higher education. It has become a liberal hegemon as evidenced above. This stems from the fundamental divorce in consumer-producer relations.
The revenue stream that colleges rely upon is not from the pockets of their own customers. They rely upon a flow of money from the government. If conservative students remove themselves, who cares? They have no reason to adjust their business model as their customer base was never really the student body but rather government bureaucrats who offer them grants, endowments, and the like.
Traditionally, providing professors who have potentially controversial points of view with a secure job was the role of tenure. However, the tenure system relies upon the consent of one’s colleagues and likely one’s provost. With an overdominant liberal orthodoxy, there is little reason for them to allow a professor who doesn’t fall in line unless the professor manages to conceal their views.
The government stepping between the consumer (the students) and the producers (the universities) changes who is catered to. The divorced college appeals to the entrenched bureaucrat rather than students who may have different social or political views. This is in terms of free speech policy and in its staffing policies.
The Core Applied: Unmarketable Degrees
If one has paid attention to any amount of news related to universities, especially Harvard as of late, they are aware of the power of donations. Revenue from students isn’t the only source for money and operations of a university. Donors play a large role in the shaping of policy. Reliance on donors might provide an insight into how unmarketable degrees might be eliminated.
Only successful alumni can donate to universities. A college who wants the most revenue from their alumni must create those alumni. Successful alumni rarely come from those with the unmarketable degrees above. They must cut the chaff, removing the degrees that aren’t conducive to a return on their proverbial investment.
Is There a Solution?
If one asks Ramesh Ponurru, a columnist for the Washington Post, the solution is simply to spend more money on universities. Primarily, he suggests that the government fund centers that promote more diverse points of view. This may work for specific universities, but to tackle all the problems one might offer a different solution. Dumping more money rarely solves a problem caused by the government.
If one removes government spending on universities, it will force their revenue stream into the hands of students and donors. Conservative students revoking their funds will have a much more significant impact on university revenue, meaning that as a business higher education would be forced to cater toward them or face losses.
If one returns power to the customers, the students, then it is far more likely for this process to receive an overhaul that results in more diversity of thought amongst the educators. Colleges as a business will have a vested interest in providing this diversity, as their bottom line relies upon it.
Ousting students over their political views also becomes unprofitable. Preventing students who deviate from liberal thought from expressing their views, and actively punishing that, will result in a loss of revenue. Thus, shifting to a consumer-funded model would go a long way toward alleviating the problem that is a lack of diversity of thought in higher education.
The solution, as is often the case, for many of the problems facing higher education is to get the government out of it. The government divorces the essential connection between customer and producer in education, meaning that the universities do not cater to the students but rather to the government. When higher education caters to the government for funding, they are more likely to express views the government would like to hear. Research will be manipulated in a way to secure further governmental funding rather than provide actual results. The government’s tentacles spread into the system and pervert it in such a manner that it no longer reflects the values of those who wish to use the service. Instead, it reflects the whims of the government.
One can solve these problems by treating higher education the same as any other business on the marketplace. Universities and colleges should not be given favoritism or protectionism by the government any more than any other business. Competition will improve quality and push down prices, as is the law of the free market. Fixing the problem doesn’t involve spending more on higher education—it involves spending less.
Alex Jones Talks Big Picture In Must-Watch Analysis
Peter Schiff: More Doom in the Data
In this episode, Peter recaps the latest batch of economic data, in which revisions to job numbers and a declining manufacturing sector bode poorly for the economy. He also analyzes gold and silver’s big week last week and offers some thoughts on President Biden’s recent post-debate interview on ABC.
Friday saw an apparently optimistic jobs report overshadowed by large downward revisions for May’s and April’s figures:
“They were expecting 189,000 jobs created, and we ended up exceeding that with 206,000 jobs. … In fact, Biden once again bragged that the jobs that were created were over 200,000 for the month. Of course, he took credit for those jobs. But as is normally the case, once you look beneath the surface— and you don’t have to look deep beneath the surface—you get another very weak jobs report. Let’s start with their downward revisions because there were quite a few downward revisions. Both of the prior months were revised down. So April was revised down by 57,000 jobs, and May was revised down by 54,000 jobs. That’s not insignificant.”
Weak manufacturing job growth is indicative of America’s economic woes:
“The government now says that it was zero, that no manufacturing jobs at all were created in May, and 8,000 were lost in June. Again, these are the productive jobs that we need people making stuff. We’re not making stuff. We’re consuming more bigger trade deficits. This is a weak report that is also inflationary. So it’s stagflation, a weak economy, and more inflationary pressures. The labor force participation rate stayed at 62.6, which is a very weak number. And significantly, the unemployment rate rose to 4.1%. It was 4% in the prior month unrevised, and it went up to 4.1%. That is significant.”
If anything, these statistics are still too optimistic. Changes in government statistical methods paper over underlying economic fault lines:
“That’s why when you look at these rigged unemployment numbers and you come to the conclusion that we have a strong economy with low unemployment and you don’t understand why Biden is so unpopular, it’s because the way we’re keeping track of these economic statistics is wrong. The real statistics— if we measured the economy the way we did prior to 1994— you can see why so many people are so miserable.”
With gold hovering closer to $2400/oz, Peter thinks gold mining stocks will improve shortly:
“Gold is holding at a very high price. I expect a lot of these gold mining companies to report much better earnings than the street expects because the price of gold is staying at much higher prices for a much longer period of time than these analysts penciled into their earnings forecast. So I still think that this is the best way right now to play the gold sector is through these mining stocks. I think they’re still dirt cheap. There’s incredible value there. People should be buying these stocks.”
Peter slams President Biden’s most recent ABC interview in which he tries to excuse his ghastly debate performance. In addition to the president’s still-apparent cognitive problems, Peter takes issue with Biden calling Donald Trump a liar:
“You know what I detest most is hypocrisy, right? … Biden tells a lot of outright lies. I mean, complete lies. He has no right to call anybody a liar. When you do something yourself, you can’t accuse somebody else. It’s not just, you know, living in glass houses and not throwing stones. Biden has been in politics all of his life. And you don’t stay in politics without being a liar. You’re not going to have a long political career unless you’re a good liar. You’ve got to lie a lot to get reelected that often. And so he has no right to keep focusing on Trump lying, Trump lying. In fact, the reason he wants to talk about Trump’s lies so much is because that’s what he does. His whole presidency is a lie. Everything out of his mouth is a lie.”
For more technical analysis of last week’s metals price action, check out the SchiffGold Gold Wrap podcast.
Alex Jones Talks Big Picture In Must-Watch Analysis
Zuckerberg’s Meta Cracks Down On Speech Criticizing “Zionists”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, announced Tuesday an update to its policies on so-called “hate speech,” specifically users discussing “Zionists.”
The company’s social media platforms will begin removing posts that use the words “Zionism” or “Zionist” to refer to Jewish people or Israelis.
The updated policy will target those who mention Jews are found in prominent roles in financial, political, and media institutions.
Users who compare Zionists to animals or use the term to deny the Holocaust will also be punished under the new rules.
Perhaps using the power of the world’s most wealthy companies to silence your detractors isn’t the best way of convincing them you’re not secretly pulling the strings of the global elite.
Several X accounts celebrated the decision while others criticized the move as another attack on internet free speech.
? This is HUGE!
— Arsen Ostrovsky ?️ (@Ostrov_A) July 9, 2024
As of today, @Meta will begin removing content that targets Zionists with antisemitic tropes, dehumanizing comparisons, calls for harm, or denials of existence.
Thank you Mark Zuckerberg for your leadership & standing up to hate online!https://t.co/NHL4KIJVNn pic.twitter.com/67Y6i6ZQa7
BREAKING: From today, under Meta’s new hate speech policy, content targeting Zionists with claims about running the world, controlling the media, dehumanization, calls for harm, or denials of existence will be removed.
Every social network should follow:https://t.co/F9tINYVayP— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 9, 2024
Breaking News – @Meta is taking a much needed step forward in combatting modern day antisemitism as it will now ban posts in which Jews are targeted with the alternative term “Zionist” when used in a dehumanizing way or “calls for harm” and/or “denials of existence”.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) July 9, 2024
“Zionist”…
One X user wrote, “In other words, anyone who criticizes Israel will get banned. It seems like Zionists always need censorship or hate speech laws to protect them from words that are protected by the 1st amendment.”
Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram, will now classify the word “Zionist” as antisemitic hate speech in certain contexts.
— MIA (@_Mama_Mia10) July 9, 2024
In other words, anyone who criticizes Israel will get banned.
It seems like Zionists always need censorship or hate speech laws to protect them from words… pic.twitter.com/SfektMEeTj
Meta is BANNING the use of the term ‘ZIONIST’. This is bound to backfire. pic.twitter.com/3D4KRKcW8E
— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) July 9, 2024
Mel Gibson Writes Letter in Support of Vatican Archbishop Viganò: Excommunication by Pope Francis “A Badge of Honor”
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò should wear his excommunication from the Vatican as a “badge of honor,” according to esteemed Hollywood action star Mel Gibson.
In a letter appearing Saturday on the website of Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli, the Lethal Weapon movie franchise actor told Viganò it’s a testament to his courage and integrity to be “shunned by the false, post conciliar church,” calling Pope Francis, AKA Jorge Bergoglio, “illegitimate.”
“You have my sympathies that you publicly suffer this grave injustice. To me and many others you are a most courageous Hero,” Gibson wrote.
“As always, you have hit the nail on the head regarding the illegitimacy of Francis,” Gibson noted.
“Of course being called a schismatic & being excommunicated by Jorge Bergoglio is like a badge of honor when you consider he is a total apostate & expels you from a false institution.”
The Braveheart actor’s letter came as the Vatican last Friday announced it had excommunicated Viganò over a “schism” with the church for refusing to recognize the authority of Pope Francis, who he’s referred to as “a servant of Satan.”
“The excommunication means that Viganò cannot officially accept Catholic sacraments including Communion, ordain priests or officiate Mass,” reported the Washington Post.
Viganò had been openly critical of Pope Francis, including his handling of sexual abuse allegations, support for COVID-19 vaccines, the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, and the promotion of an “inclusive, immigrationist, eco-sustainable, and gay-friendly” church.
Gibson, a Catholic fundamentalist, has also been highly critical of Pope Francis’ persecution of priests and archbishops who were supposedly challenging the “counterfeit church.”
Read Gibson’s full letter below:
Dear Archbishop,
I’m sure you expected nothing else from Jorge Bergoglio.
I know that you know he has no authority whatsoever – so I’m not sure how this will effect you going forward- I hope you will continue to say mass & receive the sacraments yourself – it really is a badge of honor to be shunned by the false, post conciliar church.
You have my sympathies that you publicly suffer this grave injustice. To me and many others you are a most courageous Hero.
As always, you have hit the nail on the head regarding the illegitimacy of Francis. You express the core problems with the institution that has eclipsed the true church & I applaud your courage in expressing that, but more than that in maintaining fidelity to the true church!
You are a modern day Athanasius! I have all respect for the way you defend Christ & his church. I agree with you 100% that the post-conciliar church of Vatican II is a counterfeit church. This is why I built a Catholic Church that only worships traditionally. You are welcome to come & say mass there anytime.
Of course being called a schismatic & being excommunicated by Jorge Bergoglio is like a badge of honor when you consider he is a total apostate & expels you from a false institution.
Remember that true schism requires innovation, something you have not done but something that Bergoglio does with every breath
He, therefore, is the schismatic! However he had already ipso facto excommunicated himself by his many public heresies (canon 188 in the 1917 code).
As you already know he has no power to excommunicate you because he is not even a Catholic.
So rejoice! I am with you & I hope Bergoglio excommunicates me from his false church of him also.
Bergoglio and his cohorts have the clothes and the buildings, but you have the faith.
God bless you and keep you. If you need anything just ask I will try my best to help.
With admiration & undying respect.
Infowars host Alex Jones has also been vociferously critical of the Vatican and its woke Pope promoting globalist agendas.
BOOM!! https://t.co/NWcWeeTvhX
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 7, 2024
Make this man the Pope! https://t.co/ungwX0JCTY
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 7, 2024
The Vatican its self won’t be taking any of the invading groups in. https://t.co/wEWuLRCIjF
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 7, 2024
Instead he calls for open borders and a carbon tax that will kill billions. Wake up your church has been usurped. https://t.co/zvMTJpWT10
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 7, 2024
House GOP Leaders Declare Biden ‘Unfit’, Call Out Democrat & Media ‘Cover-Up’ of His Mental Decline
House Republican leadership declared that Joe Biden is “unfit” to serve in office and accused the Democrat Party and the mainstream media of engaging in a years-long “coverup” of his declining cognitive faculties.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Chip Roy (R-Texas), James Comer (R-Ky.), Steve Scalise (R-La.), and Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) in their weekly press conference discussed the Democrats scrambling to deal with the political fallout of Biden’s dementia and their effort to block the GOP’s SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote.
“Democrats for three and a half years have been covering up this glaring problem. The staff in the White House have been covering it up, and so have the Democrats in Congress,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday.
WATCH @SpeakerJohnson highlights how House Democrats are complicit in covering up Joe Biden’s rapid mental decline, the importance of passing the #SAVEAct to ensure our election integrity, and how House Republicans are protecting women and girls’ sports. pic.twitter.com/dPz6QQhpYk
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) July 9, 2024
Just last month, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said Biden was ‘sharper than anyone’ he’s spoken to and has ‘a photographic memory.’ Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said that Biden ‘put many of us to shame with his energy.’ I mean, there are example after example. Leading Democrats and noteworthy Democrats on the Hill who have not been in the dark about this, they’ve been saying things I think most of them understand is simply not true. They misled the American people, and this is dangerous. We have the NATO summit going on, the 75th anniversary of NATO here. What we’re projecting from the White House is not strength right now at a very dangerous time around the world. And that’s why the American people are so alarmed by this. That’s why the polls say that most of the American people understand that Joe Biden is not fit for that office, and it’s a terrible thing.
“Democrats have misled us and they need to be held accountable for that,” he added.
Rep. Stefanik echoed Johnson’s points, claiming the media and Democrats are “in complete disarray” because their “coverup” of Biden’s deteriorating mental state had been exposed in the presidential debate.
“There is no longer any doubt that Joe Biden is unfit to be our Commander in Chief,” she said. “The Biden White House, Far Left House Democrats, and the mainstream media are in complete disarray because they know this to be true and have been caught participating in one of the greatest media coverups in American history.”
“There is no longer any doubt that Joe Biden is unfit to be our Commander in Chief. The Biden White House, Far Left House Democrats, and the mainstream media are in complete disarray because they know this to be true and have been caught participating in one of the greatest media… pic.twitter.com/G5Cb5faECw
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) July 9, 2024
Rep. Emmer said Democrats now “have to figure out what they’re gonna do about Joe Biden” after he “proved to the world” during the presidential debate that “he’s not fit to be president.”
“[Democrats] have to twist themselves into a pretzel to explain why they’re advocating for letting illegal immigrants vote in our elections. Let us be clear: only American citizens should have a say in American elections.” – @GOPMajorityWhip pic.twitter.com/lfEnSQCu43
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) July 9, 2024
Regarding the SAVE Act, Emmer also said Democrats “have to twist themselves into a pretzel to explain why they’re advocating for letting illegal immigrants vote in our elections. Let us be clear: only American citizens should have a say in American elections.”
Reps. Scalise and Roy also touched more on the SAVE Act that will soon be brought to the House floor and why Democrats are so keen on allowing illegal aliens to vote in the election.
“Passing the #SAVEAct is important to ensure the integrity of the vote. Because every American citizen oughta know that when they vote, their vote is not going to be nullified by someone here illegally voting when they’re not supposed to.” – @SteveScalise pic.twitter.com/hMih3VoKPM
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) July 9, 2024
“Only American citizens should vote in American elections…” – @RepChipRoy on the need to protect American elections with the #SAVEAct pic.twitter.com/DX6PjXJfIT
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) July 9, 2024
Democrats appear deadlocked over Joe Biden’s political viability after holding a meeting at the DNC headquarters Tuesday, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declaring that his support for Biden “has not changed,” while others like Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) urged his colleagues to “recognize” that “Biden can’t win” against Trump.
Democrats perpetrated a FRAUD on the American people by denying — and lying about — Crooked Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive impairment.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 9, 2024
Now, they have no choice but to go down with the ship. pic.twitter.com/L9ZFSn5tbh
Chicago Democrat congressman Mike Quigley calls on Biden to step down
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 9, 2024
“He can’t win and my colleagues need to recognize that”
The DNC is scheduled for Chicago next month ? pic.twitter.com/j0uW6BnoXz
Watch the full GOP briefing: