Howard Roark and the Ghost of Admiral Rickover

A teaching case that I co-authored with Mike Stanchina and Don Grunewald of Iona College was published in volume 15, no. 2 of Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal this past May. Mike Stanchina is a former student at the NYU Stern School of Business and he was an officer in the Nuclear Navy before attending NYU.

Title: Howard Roark and the ghost of Admiral Rickover
Author(s): Mitchell Langbert, Michael Stanchina, Donal Grunewald
Journal: Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal
Year: 2008
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Page: 194 - 216
ISSN: 1352-7606
DOI: 10.1108/13527600810870624
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abortion As Art

Candace de Russy has blogged about a gruesome tale of academic horror. A Yale student induced miscarriages on herself and aimed to use the foetal remains as art. Her professor, Pia Lindman, was reprimanded but not fired. (At other institutions professors who glanced at a member of the opposite sex have been put up on charges, interrogated by Yale's thought police committee and fired. At Sarah Lawrence College, where I attended, in the early 1990s a student was thrown out of school for laughing at a joke about gays. But at Yale, the execution and use of human tissue for art is a matter for mild reprimand.)

De Russy discusses performance art, body art (the use of one's own body as art) and the rotten standards in today's university art and literature departments. She conclude:

"Yale’s failure to prevent Lindman and her kind from influencing impressionable undergraduates is testament to the university’s slavish cowardice in the face of a decadent and destructive ideological fashion."

Berg Files Motion For Expedited Discovery On Obama Citizenship Case

Americas Right (h/t Bob Robbins) reports that Philip Berg is filing a motion that Senator Barack Hussein Obama and Howard Dean sit for depositions and that the Democratic Party hand over documentation connected with their presidential vetting process, specifically as it concerns Senator Obama's citizenship and eligibility to be president. As well, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs (h/t Larwyn) links to Obamacrimes, noting that Berg served Obama on September 4 with regard to his case questioning Senator Obama's eligibility to be president. You would have thought the media would have raised these questions, but not even Fox and Bill O'Reilly have avoided spin on the Obama citizenship question. Sean Hannity likes to call Fox an alternative media source, but they have tread carefully with respect to asking hard questions, like "Please give us a hard copy of your birth certificate. Pretty Please?"

America's Right notes that the Berg motion would mandate that Senator Obama hand over his birth certificate; any oath of allegiance; passport records; adoption records; FBI background check; his birth certificate from Kenya; and any and all documents concerning his name changes. I asked for much of that list from various government agencies whose job it is to oversee elections, but who do a dismal job at it, such as Donald McGahan's Federal Election Commission. And these guys want to manage health care? We should outsource the management of the election system. This crew is too incompetent to handle it.

Mr. Berg is certainly to be commended for this suit. The media is avoiding it like the plague. Bill O'Reilly of Fox did not question Mr. Obama about these issues during his mealy-mouthed interview this evening and last week, and Fox is the best media we've got.

Barack Obama: "The B**ch Is Crazy"

Check out this video of Barack Obama talking about Bill and Hillary Clinton (h/t Bob Robbins): "The b**ch is crazy". Mr. Obama is a man of experience. We need him. Really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq3NLjdJ4Vc