This morning several national organizations, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center, are issuing the following statement on reform of Middle East Studies programs, many of which have become highly politicized sources of anti-Israel propaganda: …
Topic: U.S.
On Constitution Day, FIRE Mails First Amendment Warning to More Than 300 Colleges
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17, 2014—In a national certified mailing sent today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) warns the leaders of more than 300 of our nation’s largest and most prestigious public colleges and…
U.S. is Losing Economic Freedom
The Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, released its annual index of economic freedom for the year 2013, using data from the year 2011. The results are not encouraging for Americans. The U.S., which ranked…
Dear House GOP: Don’t Sue Obama
House Speaker John Boehner’s idea to sue the president gained steam last week as the House passed, largely along party lines, a resolution authorizing a suit charging the president with failing to uphold his constitutional…
One Generation Away from Freedom
The Heritage Foundation recently showed a documentary entitled “One Generation Away: the Erosion of Religious Liberty.” This bold documentary emphasized the importance of preserving our natural liberties, and expressed fear that they could easily be…
Checkmating History
Perhaps chess champions who escaped from the old Soviet Union can give us better history lessons than academic historians. “Sometimes I joke that if guys like Barack Obama and David Cameron had been in power…
American Teenage Financial Literacy is Just…Average
Teens in the United States are only average when it comes to financial literacy; crushed by Chinese teenagers’ remarkable performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment’s (PISA) first-ever financial literacy assessment. PISA typically surveys…
The Deportation Diaspora
Obama’s invitations, verbal and non-verbal, to immigrants to come to America illegally are inspiring thousands of people to take a shot at surpassing lax border security. The Center for Immigration Studies reported that by the…
Yesterday, Today and ?
Finding academics and intellectuals who are critical of the current White House has almost amounted to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Yet, for those who have been looking for such a mythical…
Heather Has Two Textbooks
While parents of public school children may feel besieged by alternative lifestyles, one public school teacher doesn’t think the literature available to them is diverse enough. “It takes a lot of work to find books…