<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e54d7735-c108-4089-a347-7d22303dad7f/B901A683-6D1E-40DA-8445-EEF2E707C362/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html" href="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html" style="font-size: 11px;">worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html">Dismantling America: Part II</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html"><P>by <A target="_blank" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/10/29/dismantling_america_part_ii">Thomas Sowell</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html"><P> <A imageanchor="1" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ro5C7JSleds/SuqwepxfMtI/AAAAAAAAAbU/lrE0OA2Y0LQ/s1600-h/obama-arrogance2.jpg"><IMG border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ro5C7JSleds/SuqwepxfMtI/AAAAAAAAAbU/lrE0OA2Y0LQ/s320/obama-arrogance2.jpg" /></A>Many years ago, at a certain academic institution, there was an experimental program that the faculty had to vote on as to whether or not it should be made permanent. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html"><P> I rose at the faculty meeting to say that I knew practically nothing about whether the program was good or bad, and that the information that had been supplied to us was too vague for us to have any basis for voting, one way or the other. My suggestion was that we get more concrete information before having a vote. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html"><P> The director of that program rose immediately and responded indignantly and sarcastically to what I had just said-- and the faculty gave him a standing ovation. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/dismantling-america-part-ii.html"><P> After the faculty meeting was over, I told a colleague that I was stunned and baffled by the faculty's fierce response to my simply saying that we needed more information before voting. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B901A683-6D1E-40DA-8445-EEF2E707C362/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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