Apparently, taking a vacation four times longer than that which most taxpayers enjoy is a teachers’ professional right.
Monthly Archives For August 2007
Academic Being and Nothingness
Do American college graduates have a coherent understanding of the world? Very few do. We have our universities to thank.
LOST Law School Studies
For example, how many people know that one of the brains behind the treaty was a Harvard Law Professor, Louis Sohn, who believed in world government? And that Sohn favored a world government with hundreds of thousands of troops, nuclear weapons, and military bases around the world? And that Sohn was a major influence on the current Yale Law School Dean who could become President Hillary Clinton’s first nomination to the Supreme Court?
Short Telegram with Big Ideas
Authors James Carafano and Paul Rosenzweig argue that America is facing the same enemies as it has in the past, such as Marxism or Fascism; terrorism springs from an ideology of “evil ideas” which will once again bring “hundreds of millions of people under [its] sway, leading. . .millions of victims to misery.”
Catholic No More
Mount St. Mary’s College of Los Angeles seems to have gone the way of most Catholic universities these days: politically correct, multicultural, and proud of it.
Ave Maria Assailed
If you support a law school that is Catholic in more than just name, you will never hear the end of it, especially if you are in the legal profession.
Reading Between The ACTs
The new ACT 2007 College Readiness Report, released August 15, congratulates American educators once again for improving student scores “on all four subject-area tests: English, mathematics, reading and science” but a closer examination of the data reveals that of the approximately 1.3 million students took the curriculum-based, national ACT college placement exam this year, average scores have been increasing incrementally within each subject.
No Excuse Left Behind
Thanks to the actions of U.S. government officials, we will soon get a chance to discover whether ignorance really is bliss.
Citizen Journalism Inquiry
Larry Atkins, who teaches journalism at Temple and Arcadia Universities, warns news outlets to be careful when it comes to using citizen journalists to report on the news.
CIA Post Mortem
The agency is still recovering from that decade of decline, said reporter Rowan Scarborough at the Heritage Foundation recently.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
Recent Posts
The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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