Social Issues

High school seniors from all over the country considering the option of attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon have an amazing opportunity to apply for an all-expenses-paid program, including round-trip air travel, room and board, to visit campus ahead of the fall semester...there's just one catch: whites need not apply. 

The program is called the "Discover Reed Fly-In Program," but if you're a poor person, who happens to also be white, then you're just shit out of luck.

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Shia LaBeouf, who apparently slips into a full wigger accent when drunk, brought out his inner racist after his arrest in Savannah, GA over the weekend - telling a black cop that he's going "straight to hell... especially because you're black."

VIDEO: Shia LaBeouf tells black cop 'you're going to hell' cause you're black. pic.twitter.com/YAPByWiJ1k

Authored by Chris Calton via The Mises Institute,

In a previous article, I wrote about how the war on drugs and the government monopoly on the legal system has created the Tragedy of the Commons in our justice system. Because legislators and police officers have every incentive to appear “tough on crime” but the cost of the sending a criminal to a courtroom is socialized, the courts have become increasingly backlogged. What that article did not cover is the related “commons problem” in the prison system and the consequences that follow.

We've spent a lot of time of late discussing the precarious financial positions of states like Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey which each suffer from their own myriad of financial threats including massive budget deficits, monstrous unfunded pension liabilities, pending debt downgrades, etc.  In case you've missed those notes, here is a recap for your amusement:

Authored by Dan Jackson via CampusReform.org,

A political science professor in Pennsylvania says Democrats need to worry, because the generation replacing their millennial allies on college campuses has a distinct libertarian streak.

Jeff Brauer, a professor at Keystone College, has been gathering data on “Generation Z,” and recently told The New York Post that he expects the rising generation of college students to differ markedly from those currently dominating campus culture.