As we’ve reported over and over again, no matter how unscientific their data, elites continue to insist that women are underrepresented in the sciences. Now, the national Academy of Sciences is publishing a whole reading list sure to tilt the playing field even further towards regulators idea of a Title IX utopia.

In the usual manner in which bad ideas become even worse reality, good chunks of what policy wonks here are calling “health care reform” are flowing out of academia. Arguably, the most pernicious of these is the notion that “the federal government can build on the success of Medicare.”


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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the confirmation hearing of Georgetown law professor Chai Feldblum, nominated to join the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Robert W. McChesney, the socialist professor whose Free Press organization is leading the charge for the $50 billion “progressive” transformation of the media, hosts a one-sided, tax-supported radio program sponsored by the University of Illinois that could serve as a model for the “New Public Media” the group has envisioned for America.

November 2009
Outsourcing the Constitution?

A law professor who specializes in international legal issues looks at whether the U.S. is sacrificing constitutionalism to global norms.


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Grand Old Partisan

In his acceptance speech, Virginia’s governor-elect, Bob McDonnell, may have quoted the founding fathers more extensively than the last four U. S. presidents combined have in their entire political careers. But then, he also may have made more such references than many teachers do in their working lifetimes.

“You cannot imagine my dismay to learn that the architect of the Van Jones debacle is a Stanford Graduate.” – Tom Flood, Stanford ’66

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With its new guidelines on sex education, UNESCO is doing its characteristic best to compulsively make things worse.

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November 5, 2009 – 6- 8 PM
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American Enterprise Institute fellow Steven F. Hayward will discuss his epic chronicle of the presidency of America’s 40th chief executive at Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night on November 5, 2009. RSVP on Facebook.

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The same type of “Accuracy Crisis” exists in the main stream media and among journalists, just as it does in academia.
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