I pit Rush Limbaugh for being an idiot about birth control

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I don’t get what he’s even pointing to as evidence. It wasn’t a surprise that Obama was going to be talking to UNC. It was planned well in advance; it’s not like she had some secret knowledge of his schedule. Students had to get tickets to even get in. It also doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Obama just might be talking to college kids about student loans.

Fluke was hardly the first person to use the #DontDoubleMyRate tag either. The White House used it four days before she did. On the 20th they posted : President Obama: “If Congress doesn’t act, on 7/1 interest rates on some student loans will double” She practically retweeted a four day old comment. That’s not exactly difficult to do. Hell, Boehner used the same tag on the 24th. Is he in on it too?

So the great evidence of… um… something… is that she tweeted when he was giving a speech? Was Rush concerned that they might have been the same person? I guess this might play to someone who’s technological high point was tuning into Rush on am radio, but it makes no sense to try to pass this off as a story to anyone with an internet connection.

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There’s not the least doubt in my mind that educating our citizens is in our national interest, and that any useful effort to encourage that end is valuable, even if that end does not necessarily result in a enhanced state of employability. In the course of a working life, our citizens may need to be able to “retool” their skills, or at the very least, update and upgrade. Learning is a skill and a fair case can be made that it is the most essential skill, the skill that makes all other skills possible.

Naturally, my faith as an Orthodox Cecilian and my commitment to the destruction of the Ignorant One is not in conflict with these convictions.