Asra Nomani - Writings

Asra Nomani was raised in Morgantown, WV and went to Morgantown High School. She grew to be a reporter for the Wall St. Journal. She was the last westerner to see Danny Pearl alive, along with his wife. After returning to the United States and Morgantown she went to visit the new Mosque in Morgantown where her father was on the executive board. Her writing describes her reception by University professors and Morgantown professionals, all men, all members of the leadership of the new Mosque.

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Of course there are other opinions too.
http://drmaxtor.blogspot.com/2009/07/five-years-later-asar-nomani-is-still.html
"Five years later, Asra Nomani is still a lying and manipulative Zionist media whore"

Human Capital....

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_human-capital.html

educational heresies

http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/12835528594/the-educational-lottery

Here and After by Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal

Here and After by Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal

electronic publishing still needs great editors

http://theeuropean-magazine.com/352-dyson-george/353-evolution-and-innovation

John Lewis is better than this.

Worth watching until the end. The Occupy movement in a park in Atlanta. It is worth watching for a couple of reasons: the peculiar method of managing communications, and the peculiar response to John Lewis. I have two observations.
1) Nothing will get done, ever, with this approach to consensus and democracy. Seriously.
2) There are several speakers who have words to regret: "John Lewis is not better than anyone. Democracy won!" (9:27)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI

John Lewis was a freedom rider long before he was a congressman. That was back when the state was the enemy and would kill you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI

In another video we have an "Old Marxist" leading a chant that I believe trivializes John Lewis's contribution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lPLL_YMeeE

Why folk get crazy about the idea of socialism, its not just sharing.

On forced labor, Trotsky had this to say in 1921:

It is said that compulsory labor is unproductive. This means that the whole socialist economy is doomed to be scrapped, because there is no other way of attaining socialism except through the command allocation of the entire labor force by the economic center, the allocation of that force in accord with the needs of a nation-wide economic plan.

I imagine that if Stalin was present at the Third All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions, at which Trotsky made these remarks, he must have nodded in agreement. In view of Trotsky’s own sentiments, it is likely that if he had succeeded Lenin, we would have witnessed in the Soviet Union much the same oppression of labor as he did under Stalin.

From: http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/80739/trotsky-the-jew/