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H Demoting staunchest ally Court report The Press-Dispatch Continued from page 2 side in the dispute over the Falkland Islands. More than 250 British soldiers gave their lives to liberate the Falklands after Argentina invaded in 1982. President Rea- gan strongly backed the actions of our British al- ly. But today we have ad- ministration officials sup- porting Argentina's call for U.N.-brokered nego- tiations over the sover- eignty of the Falklands, whose inhabitants are over 90 percent British. • Touting France as Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Cen- ter for Freedom, writes in the London Telegraph. Those insults include: • Taking Argentina's simply another member of the European Union. Under President Obama, Washington has frequent- ly airbrushed Britain out of major speeches on Eu- rope. It has also under- cut British national sover- eignty across the Atlantic by urging the creation of a federal Europe and sup- porting the centralization of power in the EU. Vice President Joe Biden has even ludicrously declared Brussels the "capital of the free world." There are many other surd—and a slap in the face to Britain. • Treating Britain as America's closest ally. At a 2011 press conference, President Obama said, "We don't have a stron- ger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy and the French people." Yes, Sarkozy is more pro- American than his prede- cessors, and he deserves credit for that. But to vault him and his coun- try to the top of the list of U.S. allies? That's ab- examples, both large and small, and all lead to a dis- turbing conclusion: the Obama administration seems determined to de- mote America's foremost ally. Worse, David Camer- on has been only too hap- py to play along despite the insults. What a depressing and dangerous change from the days of Reagan and Thatcher. Sounds like it's time someone hit that "re- set button" again. Ed Feulner is president H Academic hypocrisy Continued from page 2 in history, and the few open- ings that there were for new Ph.D.s paid the kind of sala- ries you could get for doing work requiring a lot less ed- ucation. My own pay as a begin- ning instructor in econom- ics was not high but it was certainly higher than that for beginning historians. Now, 50 years later, there Higher Education reports "faculty resistance" to col- lecting and publishing in- formation on what happens to a university's history Ph.D.s after they leave the ivy-covered walls with high hopes and low prospects. At a number of big-name ed this way, selling cus- tomers something that was very costly in time and money, and which the sell- ers knew in advance was al- most certain to disappoint their expectations, academ- ics would be bursting with indignation—and demand- ing full disclosure to the customers, if not criminal prosecutions. But The Chronicle of universities—Northwest- ern, Brown and the Uni- versity of North Carolina's flagship campus at Chapel Hill—at least one-fourth of their 2010 history Ph.D.s are either unemployed or their fate is unknown. At Brown University, for example, 38 percent of their is a long feature article in the February 17th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education on the chronic over-supply of historians. Worse yet, leading univer- sity history departments are resisting demands that they keep track of what hap- pens to their students after they get their Ph.D.s—and inform prospective Ph.D.s of what the market is like. If any business operat- with academia, a tenure- track appointment does not mean that the appointee has tenure, but only that the job is one where a tenure deci- sion will have to be made at some point under the "up or out system." At leading uni- versities, far more are put out than move up. There are also faculty ap- 2010 Ph.D.s are in that cat- egory, compared to only 25 percent who have tenure- track appointments. For people not familiar pointments that are strict- ly for the time being—lec- turers, adjunct professors or visiting professors. Half the 2010 Ph.D.s from Duke University and the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania have these kinds of appoint- ments, which essential- ly lead nowhere. They are sometimes called "gypsy faculty." Finally, there are Ph.D.s charged with count I, ne- glect of a dependent, a class C felony; and count II, ne- glect of a dependent, a class D felony. Small Claims Angela M. Martin Criminal Docket Pike Circuit Court Fred Maier and Cindy Mai- er for complaint on account. Pike County Development sues Ethan Osgatharp on Personal Finance Co. sues Pike Circuit Court complaint for rent and dam- ages. Pike County Development sues Susan Travelstead for complaint on lease payment, late fee and early lease ter- mination fee. Civil Docket as assignee of Chase Bank sues Sherry Cockerham on complaint. JP Morgan Chase Bank sues Richard J. Bethe and Midland Funding LLC Pike Circuit Court Wednesday, March 28, 2012 C-3 Tina R. Bethe for complaint on note and to foreclose mortgage. Stacey J. Wilson sues Bry- Campbell aka Corix M. Campbell, deceased, An- thony W. Campbell, State of Indiana Department of Rev- enue, unknown occupant with in rem complaint on note and to foreclose mort- gage. an Wilson for dissolution of marriage. Everbank sues Corixa sues Charles E. Norrick, Jr., and Susan M. Norrick for complaint on note and to foreclose mortgage on real estate. Christine E. Recker sues Central Mortgage Co. David J. Recker, Jr., for dis- solution of marriage. Capital One Bank sues BC Discover sues Nathan J. Thomas on complaint. Nancy Weeks on complaint. LHR, Inc. assignee of HS- H Points to ponder—by Rev. Ford Bond own Vietnam experience and follows military mat- ters wrote in a recent col- umn " . . . And so the atroc- ities come. Always. Inevita- bly. In every war. In ancient times they were not called atrocities, but just "war." Conquering command- Continued from page 2 ers would perhaps put the whole city to the sword, or at least allow the soldiers a few days of raping and looting . . . The atrocities will con- tinue because, after all the medals and stories of hero- ism at the O-club, the high- fives and the teary-eyed trib- utes to the fallen, atrocities are what armies do. When you have trained men to be- have in a certain way, don't be surprised when they do." With regret, this is where I must leave the reader and myself. I have no blanket answer that will cover all instances of striking back against evil. It must be left to the conscious of the individ- ual. The debate will contin- ue over just and unjust wars, naked aggression, justifi- able use of force, and so on. No matter how you phrase it, when you take another's life, you have to deal with it; and sometimes the outcome is painful. Think about it! of The Heritage Founda- tion (www.heritage.org). DON'T MISS IT! 114 YEARS 2 MILLENNIA 3 CENTURIES 3 AGES who are on postdoctor- al fellowships, often at the expense of the taxpayers. They are paid to continue on campus, essentially as students, after getting their doctorates. More than one- fourth of the 2010 Ph.D.s from Rutgers, Johns Hop- kins and Harvard are in this category. At least these universi- 5 GENERATIONS ties release such statistics. A history professor at Rut- gers University who has studied such things says: "If you look at some of the numbers published on de- partment Web sites, they range from dishonest to in- competent." But apparently many aca- demics are too busy pursu- ing moral crusades in soci- ety at large to look into such things on their own ivy-cov- ered campuses. FACEBOOK CONNECT Each week comment on a new topic. Go to www.Facebook.com/PressDispatch Deadline to post for publication is Monday at 8 a.m. A selection of posts will be published. QUESTION OF THE WEEK Have your found any mushrooms yet this year? Submit your answer on www.Facebook.com/ PressDispatch Last week's question—Do you have any big plans? Going anywhere? Or staying here? Did the higher gas prices infl uence your decision at all? Tammy Horne Moss—Myrtle Beach Bound!!!! Gracie M Daniel—Haven't had a spring break since I graduated! Sandy McBeth—No spring break for me. 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