Forgotten Founding Fathers: Eleazar Wheelock
Eleazar Wheelock: Father of Dartmouth College The Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (1711-1779) of New Hampshire was an advocate of the Great Awakening and founder of Dartmouth College -- the last American college...
View ArticleThe Truth about John Edwards and New Orleans
From my Katrina blog, The Wayward Episcopalian: Nathan in New Orleans: "I am very glad that John Edwards highlights New Orleans recovery while the MSM neglects it, but a deeper analysis shows that...
View ArticlePaul Hodes on New Orleans
Crossposted from my Katrina recovery blog: Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) is the new Congressman for NH-02, the district I vote in. He held a town hall meeting tonight at Dartmouth, then held a private meet...
View ArticleDartmouth Involvement With The Ongoing Katrina Struggle
Cross-posted from my Katrina recovery blog. Most of my diaries are news on Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans and Mississippi, and reflections on my three months as a recovery intern last year...
View ArticleSen. Joe Biden on New Orleans
The following is cross-posted from my Katrina recovery blog, The Wayward Episcopalian: Nathan in New Orleans. Folks, I can’t tell you how happy I am. I met with Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) earlier...
View ArticleBack In New Orleans: Recovery Spring Break, Day 1
Cross-posted from my Katrina recovery blog. I’m now back in New Orleans with four other students from Dartmouth’s Edgerton Episcopal Campus Ministry. We spent our first day planting trees and driving...
View ArticleThe Dartmouth Debate
At the Dartmouth debate the other night, Tim Russert asked at least two absurd and pernicious questions. One is "would you torture Al Quaida's #3 man to save American lives?" The second objectionable...
View ArticleThe Worst Performance at Dartmouth's Democratic Debates
Perhaps some might think it surprising that the award for the worst performance at last Wednesday’s Democratic presidential at Dartmouth would be earned by someone who’s not even a Democrat. But...
View ArticleChange Comes To ... Dartmouth?
Dartmouth College: home of the controversial conservative publication Dartmouth Review, from whence came in the 1980s Laura Ingraham, Dinesh D'Souza and all sorts of ugly mishegoss. If you were in...
View ArticleMayo Clinic Study of MD Politics and Specialty Supports Group Practice Model
A Mayo Clinic study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on September 14, 2009 provides tantalizing insights into the differences between physicians who characterize themselves as...
View ArticleMayo Clinic attacked for Pro-Reform Stance
In an article yesterday in the Washington Post, Mayo Clinic was attacked for cutting off access to Medicaid and Medicare patients. In fact, these cutbacks were extremely limited. The story is the...
View ArticleA Public Option Even Mayo Clinic Can Love
Doctors have resisted the House version of the public option because it has been tied to Medicare rates, which have underpaid them compared to other payers. This was made worse when the proposed...
View ArticleReplace Isakson (R GA-Sen) with RJ Hadley (D)
Johnny Isakson (R GA-Sen) was one of the 30 Republicans who voted against Al Franken's amendment to require choice of judicial trials by federal contractor employees after a KBR employee was gang raped...
View ArticleOne Last Time (Sigh): Mayo Clinic Favors Health Reform
Do not believe the Republicans ranting that Mayo Clinic opposes health reform or that it has 'stopped taking Medicare patients.' Mayo has its positions posted on its website (link below fold). The...
View ArticleRJ Hadley for GA-Sen Goes to the Teabaggers' Den
Thomasville, GA loves to send teabaggers out to protest Democrats. Yet Democratic Senate candidate RJ Hadley gets good press there and tomorrow will attend two events in Thomasville, taking his...
View ArticleDartmouth Outs Students Who Don't Give to Fund
Student fundraising at colleges is a very noble and worthwhile tradition. It unites young people, teaches them about philanthropy and sometimes forms their careers. But at Dartmouth this fall it...
View ArticleAnd They Call Trayvon Martin "Suspicious?": Dartmouth, Pathological...
"The fraternities here have a tremendous sense of entitlement – a different entitlement than you find at Harvard or other Ivy League schools," says Michael Bronski, a Dartmouth professor of women's...
View ArticleDartmouth Rape/Homophobia/Racism Protesters receive anonymous threats of...
Threats of violence and rape have been made toward fifteen Dartmouth student activists who protested about unreported rapes (as well as homophobia and racism) at a Dartmouth event for prospective...
View ArticleFollowing in Potentially Vanishing Footsteps: A Latina's Journey From LA to...
Author's Note: I thought this piece might have particular significance in light of the Supreme Court's 6-2 majority decision to allow the state of Michigan, and by extension all states, the right to...
View ArticleLeast surprising study ever finds conservatives prefer 'feminine' women...
Last week, a new study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science offered some very timely—if very predictable—findings about women candidates in politics. Even as Republicans were...
View ArticleRepublicans are running for Congress on their 'jobs plan.' Slight problem: It...
Mitch McConnell's jobs plan is a plan to save his own. "It’s a jobs-and-economy election." That's what House Speaker John Boehner's pollster and adviser David Winston said recently. Republicans,...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections Morning Digest: The United Kingdom prepares for a...
Labour Party leader Ed MilibandLeading Off: •UK General: Thursday will bring one of the most chaotic and unpredictable general elections the United Kingdom has ever seen. National polls show a close...
View ArticleTop Comments: the John Rassias edition
A look at an innovative (and flamboyant) foreign language professor who created a special immersion program that I was privileged to take, after the jump …..But first: …… Top Comments appears nightly,...
View ArticleInteresting Student Report Re: Hillary Dartmouth Rally
From The College Fix Which is“The College Fix is a news and commentary site dedicated to higher education news. Our content draws from the members of the Student Free Press Association, as well as the...
View ArticleTAKE A BREAK: "Brushes with Greatness" - A Fun Dairy to Escape the Misery for...
David Letterman use to have a spot on his show called “Brush with Greatness.” Audience members would volunteer to share their experiences with celebrities, shorts figures, etc. And then they would...
View ArticleDeplorable enough yet? Menorah bulbs shot out on Dartmouth campus
According to Valley News, a local newspaper near Dartmouth College, the menorah set up on the Green for the holidays was vandalized by shooting out the lamps, possibly with a pellet gun. Dartmouth...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Buddy Teevens edition
A college football coach on an unusual mission, after-the-jump …..But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily...
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