School with beauty parlor, school without; and today's other items

Forty-five years before Oprah...
Before Oprah went to South Africa to open a girls' school with a beauty parlor,

While a beauty salon may be an unorthodox addition to the traditional educational experience, it is in keeping with the Oprah gospel of empowerment through self-love.

a group of Americans founded in 1961 the first multi-racial private college in Kenya, which is now co-ed, Strathmore University. Next week I'll be interviewing my friend Tom Pyle, director of the Strathmore University Foundation.
While Strathmore doesn't have a beauty parlor on campus, it has been training scholars, women and men, for leadership positions for decades.

Mona Charen reviews Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student

"Unprotected" is a hard slap at the sexual free-for-all that prevails on American campuses and throughout American life. The author, revealed since publication as Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist at the student health service at UCLA, was hesitant to put her name on this book. The orthodoxy within the academic world is a strict one, and those who transgress often pay with their jobs. Let's hope for her sake, but particularly for her patients' well being, that she is not punished for her heterodox views.

It boggles the mind to read that a physician with her qualifications fears for her job for telling the truth.

Mary Katherine looks at the right deficit

Via Darleen, Congress is going to be about the children:


ACLU Condemns Vote to Advance Marriage 'Discrimination'; Vows to Redouble Efforts to Force It On The People

From Maria
An act of moral hygiene
Children see, children do:

Also via Maria, a beautiful video about Lorenzo's horses

From Larwyn
Talking about the longest running big lie

First, the murders of Noel and Moore (and the Belgian diplomat who was murdered in the incident) were performed in the most brutal possible manner. The victims were raked with machine gun fire starting from the feet and going up to the head in order to inflict the maximum amount of suffering. Second, the Fatah paymaster who cut the checks for all such operations (including the Black September operation at the Munich Olympics in 1972) was Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat's right-hand man, the current Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority.

Pork Soup is Not Racist in France

Bloggers in Lebanon

Michael Totten's back in Lebanon, and has a terrific report on Hezbollah's Putsch - Day One, with his own photos. As always, Michael does exceptionally good blogging and you must read the entire post. One thing is clear, Michael loves Lebanon and its people.

Mary joined Michael in Beirut, and she also has pictures.

Judith went to Israel and later met with Mary.

Three fascinating reports by three bloggers I've had the honor of meeting, and who I greatly admire.

Meanwhile Hezbullah has been handing out cash rewards based on the number of Jews killed and injured by 'Palestinian' Kassam rockets that are shot from the Gaza Strip