Mr. Bear is smarter than this...

[Herbert Spencer]

Plus he equates the fairly mundane activity of pursuing an education with the fairly uncommon activity of risking life and limb for one's country.  

Bear clearly disrespects the brave soldiers that the Stolen Valor Act was designed to protect.

But isn't getting a degree from one of Bear's crappy schools an act of valor?  

Look what he said about CPU in this document he wrote: ""Information Prepared by Dr. John Bear Exclusively for his Counseling Clients"

Three things impress me about Columbia Pacific, in comparison with all the other non-residential universities now operating at the undergraduate and graduate level.

1. The quality of the people involved. The President, Richard Crews, is a psychiatrist with his M.D. from Harvard University. The co-founder and Dean, Les Carr, Ph.D., was, for many years, President of a large traditional university in Illinois. No other school of its kind has officers with such impressive backgrounds.

2. The facilities. Unlike many new schools that start out with small rented offices and no permanent foundation, CPU is being built on the foundation of an existing and large entity, the Wholistic Health and Nutrition Institute, which has its own large building, a national clientele and reputation, and a good staff. This close interaction, between University and Institute, is reflected in CPU's emphasis in areas related to health sciences, nutrition, wholistic health, rehabilitation counseling, and the like. However, with an adjunct (part-time) faculty of more than 80 persons (nearly all with earned doctorates), degree work is available in dozens of fields, including business, psychology, aviation management, law enforcement, fire sciences, and economics.

3. The costs are quite low, CPU apparently feels that while it is not wrong to make a profit running a school, it need not be an exorbitant profit. The cost of degree programs has been set well under those offered by any of the other schools operating under California's $50,000 law (i.e. if you have that much in property, and meet other minimal requirements, you are authorized to grant degrees). The typical degree programs cost around $1,600 to $1,700.

...Among the unaccredited universities we continue to rate CPU among the best.

Mr. Bear left out the part where he disclosed that he was an owner of CPU and had a total conflict of interest while writing those glowing reports about it in his books and elsewhere.

Maybe Mr. Bear figures that taking a chance on one of his recommended "good choices" is the equivalent of getting shot at by foreign enemies.