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I was a little gratified to see that ND made the top 10.

Link: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/universities-with-the-biggest-endowments

reputation for advanced technology. As Frank's article notes...
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Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health: from over-the-counter and prescription medications that treat high cholesterol and pain to protection from infectious diseases such as polio and smallpox.

The remarkable successes of the decades-old partnership between biomedical research institutions and the federal government are so intertwined with daily life that it’s easy to take them for granted.
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Those tax dollars help produce not only new breakthroughs, but also careers for talented scientists who then can go on to create private entities that push further advancements. Think of the grants as what the truly are..."Seed Money" for Public Sector advancements.

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Link: https://theconversation.com/cuts-to-science-research-funding-cut-american-lives-short-federal-support-is-essential-for-medical-breakthroughs-252150

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Link: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf

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But I do believe Jewish students have a right to safety and Asian and white students should be treated equally for acceptance.

It is Trump intimidating universities. All dictators - all of them - do this.

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Link: https://tulanehullabaloo.com/65669/news/student-testifies-before-congress-voicing-antisemitism-issues-on-campus/

It's just coincidence that the "Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism" is targeting universities that had pro-hamas protests with students threatening Jewish students. Surely it's about something else. Fascism probably.

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The courts have decided previously that the Federal Government can put conditions on the money it gives to the States. That's why we have a 21 year old national drinking age...the states wanted the federal highway money, and Congress wanted 21 to be the drinking age. Do X, and we will give you money for Y. Now, this is a fairly well known case that I haven't read in decades, so if I got something wrong about it, Frank will be here soon to tell you that I never went to law school. :-)

Granted, there is some contrary case law since then, so I'm not sure where we stand now on this. I'm not sure where the line is drawn now, or if there is even a clear line anymore. That's why it will be interesting to watch.

Issue: Can the government offer money to a party (state government, state university, private university, etc.), and put limits on what they do to accept the cash? I'm guessing the limit will have to have some nexus to the reason the money is given. But, different courts will have different positions on how tight the connection has to be. Is highway construction money really tied to a drinking age? Seems kind of a loose connection to me, to put it generously.

In today's hyper-political environment, where people can't think clearly when it comes to Trump (e.g., they often condemn things Trump does when they support the same things done by others...no objectivity...who would've thought the left would become anti-environmental terrorists...that suddenly they'd be concerned about inflation, etc., etc., etc.) ... but given that hyper-politicality, I would expect Obama appointees to be very tight with that nexus when Trump is in office, and very loose when the next Democrat is in office, which will create a lot of bad law.

Hopefully they will prevail.

Is it really a bad thing to punish racism?...by no longer giving tax dollars to the richest racist university in the country?

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It be based on DEI principles?

Private churches aren't held to DEI principles. Why is a private college?

passed the merit test.

At the heart of President Donald Trump’s success story is this idea: He took a small amount of money – in the form of a loan from his father, Fred – and turned it into billions of dollars.

“My whole life really has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it,” Trump told a crowd in New Hampshire way back in October 2015. “It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”


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While the idea of Trump portraying himself as some sort of rags-to-riches story was always laughable – his father was a man of considerable means and a $1 million loan is not exactly chump change – it convinced lots and lots of people that Trump was like them. Or, more accurately, what they aspired to be. He was – and is – for many, the living embodiment of the American dream.

Which is why this story published by The New York Times on Tuesday night, which details a series of tax evasions that Trump and his father used over the years is so devastating. The piece is long and hugely detailed, but its most devastating lines – to the idea of the President as, essentially, a self-made man – are these:

“By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. Soon after Mr. Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s.”

And remember that $1 million loan Trump talked so much about on the campaign trail? The Times reports that the total loan by Fred Trump to his son, Donald, was actually $60.7 million or – and brace yourself here – $140 million in today’s money. (The total amount of money Trump received from his father’s holdings is estimated at more than $400 million by the Times).


Link: Not a Cult

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best person for the position. He should be following the same demand as he is pushing.

analysis of what their objective is...

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For him but not their party.

to someone because their uncle works there, they go to the same church, they are a friend of a friend, and on and on.

Isn’t qualified for the job but it’s different.