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Ms Batshyte will be debating D.P. Gumby.

She'll be at a significant disadvantage.

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True, <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results\?search_query=stephen%20fry%20out%20there&amp\;sm=3" target="_blank">Oxford grads</a> do have a peculiar way of handing out free rope.

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<i>She will be speaking Friday on the exciting topic “Seeds of Progress: The struggle between innovation and bureaucracy.”</i>

It should be interesting since, in real life, she'd lose a debate against a journalism intern with a smartphone.

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Ban Shapiro?

Sorry, I meant Ben, of course.

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She's been eyeing a chance to speak.

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<i>some of the brightest young minds in the world,” </i>

I think they just wanted an easy win by going up against one of the dumbest minds in the world.

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I'd rather assumed she'd been invited as the <i>Public Speaking "Don'ts"</i> section of the curriculum.

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Oxford?

She wouldn't last 10 minutes in a Public Forum Debate round against a pair of high school freshman, and she expects to get out of Oxford with her dignity intact?

Bulldozer vs. Tulip looks like a fair fight compared to this.

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<i>"the greatest explosion of innovation in history accompanied our first experiments with political liberty and free enterprise"</i>

The <a href="http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/offices\/ac\/ido\/oeip\/taf\/h_counts.htm" target="_blank">pace of patents</a> over time doesn't support her assertion. In 1790 -- presumably the Big Bang Explosion of innovation -- 3 patents were issued. In 2013 with Obama's jackboots rammed down our throats, 278K patents issued.

Facts ... how do they work?

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