I got a little tip last night about one of the Republicans running for the house this year. It seems that this would-be politician got his MBA from Regent University. For those of you unfamiliar with Regent, it was founded by Pat Robertson to teach “Christian leadership to change the world.” Regent became famous when one of its law graduates, Monica Goodling, ended up in the middle of the US Attorney firing scandal.
I don’t know how their MBA program stacks up, but the law school is currently ranked as a tier 4 school (the lowest ranking). The Bush Administration has hired 150 of the Regent graduates since 2001. It is believed that many of those hirings were because of loyalty and ideology rather than competence. Apparently, attending Regent is a quick way to establish your street cred in wingnuttery.
As Nobel Prize winner Parl Krugman wrote:
You see, Regent isn’t a religious university the way Loyola or Yeshiva are religious universities. It’s run by someone whose first reaction to 9/11 was to brand it God’s punishment for America’s sins.
So… which of our politicians has the education of a right-wing ideologue? John Clatworthy. Go Mike Katz!