How else to debunk a conspiracy theory on liberal indoctrination in schools? Try a survey conducted by academics.

According to the Associated Press,

“The research, to be published later this year in the journal PS: Political Science and Politics, analyzes separate surveys on the attitudes of about 6,800 students at 38 universities and how they changed between freshman and senior year. Then it examines whether those results are affected by the political attitudes of the faculty at their particular schools.”

 “The short answer is no, according to researchers Gordon Hewitt of Hamilton College (an active Democrat) and Mack Mariani of Xavier University (who has worked for Republicans).”

Of course not. The left would NEVER attempt to take advantage of young people with limited life experience, and whose grades are held over their heads should their coursework not emulate the thinking of their open-minded professors.

Tell that to Jay Bennish, Rachel Corrie, or any of the recent students who’ve become so depressed after hearing years of liberal whining, they go suicidal and/or berserk.

As I wrote before, if 40-plus percent of college students said they were going to vote Republican in November, Henry Waxman would be convening congressional hearings and the Democrats would be seeking some kind of fairness in the classroom legislation. But as young people around the nation are drunk with all things Democrat, the only thing left to do is cover their tracks.

“It's true that schools with more liberal faculty tended to attract more liberal students. But on the question of how students' views evolved, there was little impact, Hewitt said in a telephone interview Thursday.

 “About 60 percent of students didn't change their political outlooks much during college. Those that did moved slightly to the left, but the change mirrored that of 18-to-24 year-olds generally. There was no apparent boost from attending a school with a particularly liberal faculty.”

Sorry, but even college students aren’t stupid.  Continued...

“I hate kids. I like working with young adults, but I hate kids.”

I’m sure some of you can imagine how quickly their little jaws drop when I say that. I remind them that when they come to the television studio, they’re no longer in school where teachers have to put up with their crap. I can fire anyone for the slightest misbehaving. There are thousands of dollars of video equipment here, so I don’t have the time to be a babysitter.

Today’s children are not used to hearing this. They believe all the BS about them being “the future”, thus most expect we adults must genuflect when in their presence. They believe they have rights, freedom of expression, and are on equal footing with adults, and to be quite honest, most lack the maturing to be awarded any of those things.

All adults should be paid to have to put up with them.

For example, you couldn’t pay me enough to be a school bus driver. Almost three years ago, I cited a few examples why. Nothing has changed, especially after what happened last week in Gilbert, Arizona.

According to ABC News…

“Tensions began with the 15-year-old girl pretending not to be on the list of authorized passengers. The situation escalated when (driver Kim) Sullivan pulled the bus over and asked, "Why are you on this bus?" and suggested she "find another way" to get to and from school.

 “The tape shows Sullivan trying to confront a student trying to exit the bus at an unauthorized stop after the two got into a discussion about her being disruptive on the bus.”

What would you do if an unruly teen not only played games with the rules, but also publicly challenged you in front of others? You’re responsible for their safety, yet a young teenaged girl gets in your face, uses profanity, and threatens physical violence? You know however it turns out, you’ll be thought of as being in the wrong, the little darling’s mom will assume you were out of line, you may get fired, and probably sued.

There was a time when an authority figure’s claim of our misbehaving would seal our doom with our parents. It was always assumed if a teacher said we did it, we did it. But today, if a teacher says a kid was acting up, the normal parental response is, “Are you sure it was my child? My child would never do that.” The kid hears that teacher’s authority challenged by the willing-sucker parent, and a future license is informally issued for future disruption.  Continued...

The latest eco-panic is global warming. One legislative solution was to mandate the banning of our traditional light bulbs, as they use too much power, and eventually contribute to global warming. That all gets shot to hell IF you believe humans are contributing to “warming” that may or may not be happening. But let’s say it is. Are we knee jerking once again?

These compact fluorescent light bulbs contain a small, but toxic amount of mercury that makes cleanup of a broken one more than just a sweep. After all the positive hype, we’re told that upon breaking one of these bulbs, one must use tape to pick up the glass, ventilate the room, and keep children and pregnant women clear of the area for a few hours. So these light bulbs may be friendly to the environment, but they don’t seem to take too kindly to the saps that bought them.

Eco-panic has resulted in policy that runs the gambit from public inconvenience to, dare I imply it: death. Here are a few examples….

There was the panic that our use of paper bags at the supermarket resulted in the unnecessary cutting down of trees. With public pressure from environmentalists, paper bags were phased out (at a cost to business, passed down to the consumer), and replaced by the lightweight plastic bags. A few decades later, the same environmentalists are complaining that those petroleum-based plastic bags are winding up in landfills, are not biodegradable, and thus should be phased out and be replaced with… paper bags.

Sometimes environmental hysteria costs lives.   Continued...