While six states have announced their intent to refuse federal funding for abstinence-only education, a new Zogby poll points to just how out of touch those state leaders are with the people they serve.
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ANOTHER SCANDAL AT DUKE
Fresh from the agony of the rape scandal, Duke University’s respected Fuqua School of Business appears to mired in a cheating scandal that won’t go away.
Darwinian Conservatism?
Could adhering to Darwinism help the conservative cause? Yes, according to Larry Arnhart, who spoke on the topic this week during a heated panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute. He calls this new way of thinking, “Darwinian Conservatism”.
Foul Play
A new academic study of the National Basketball Association which is in the middle of its playoff series concludes that there is a racial bias when it comes to fouls called by referees.
Flower Power Math
During the flower-power years, the whole idea was to make tedious chores like math “fun.” Now, we’re paying the price.
San Diego Secularism
Despite the fact that Brad Johnson, a respected 30-year veteran teacher in San Diego’s Poway Unified School District, had displayed several education banners in his classroom referencing “God” for nearly 25 years, school officials nonetheless ordered him to take them down.
Gender Bender U
Schools like Smith, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley are grappling with an ideological issue: “Is it sill a women’s college when some students who were female as freshmen are male by graduation day?”
Tech Lawsuits
The Virginia Tech massacre was by no means the first murderous rampage at a university in the state.
Public School Prayer Punished
Recently, 12 students in Vancouver, Washington were suspended for gathering to pray in their cafeteria before school began.
An Illegal Alien Primer
Amnesty for illegal aliens may transfrom American law but it may also increase both the high school dropout rate and the profits of state lotteries.
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Holocaust Denier Professor’s Facebook Post on Pamela Geller is Over-the-Top
His Facebook post, which was posted online this past May, said, “Don’t be scared of these dirty Jewish Zionist White Supremacist thugs” in response to Pamela Geller’s satirical cartoon event. Kaukab Siddique is a professor at…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Dangers of Sanctuary Cities
After the Kate Steinle murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant, Hans von Spakovsky dug into the numbers and found the following, which we’ve put into an infographic:
Corrosion of Sanctuary Cities
“Sanctuary cities” that refuse to turn over deportable felons to the feds are frequently located in college towns. Yet and still, it’s hard to find academics who will speak ill of them, no matter how…
British College Loses $1.5 Million Donation over Ousting of Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt
The controversy was that Hunt, a Nobel laureate, made a sexist joke and it offended the audience he was speaking to. Social media outraged pushed the University College London to pressure Hunt to resign, even…
That Makes Three: A Third Planned Parenthood-Related Video Emerges Detailing Abortions and Organ Harvesting
Editor’s Note: Before you click on the link to Planned Parenthood that your university helpfully provides you, you may want to check out these videos. The Center for Medical Progress has released at least three videos…
Law Firm Points Out How Unfair College Sexual Assault Cases Are
It’s bad when lawyers have to point out how unfair college cases are related to sexual assault accusations.
High School Girls Save First Amendment
A pair of high school girls has done something Republican members of Congress only talk about: They saved the First Amendment by actually using it. “In July 2014—the summer before her senior year—Samantha Jones’s father…
Black College Ends Bill Cosby Endowed Professor Job
In light of recent revelations about Bill Cosby’s drugging of women, it was the right choice to end the professorship.
No Special Treatment for Political Activists
There is a controversy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where the Poverty Center is going to be closed, but whose director has made a fuss about its closing and claimed it was politically…
Virginia Tech Implements Ideological Litmus Test for Tenure
This is not a good thing if universities really want full inclusion of people from varying ideologies: “Virginia Tech is reportedly requiring professors seeking tenure to pass a sort of litmus test when it comes to…