While making demands for more federal money, another topic at the Free Press summit was how to divvy up the $7.2 billion that was authorized in the federal economic “stimulus” legislation to expand access to the Internet.
Monthly Archives For May 2009
Fighting Irish Fight Back
Here are some Notre Dame alums who were honored by the presidential visit to their alma mater.
Obama Pivots on Conscience Rights
In his address to the 2009 graduating class at the University of Notre Dame, President Barack Obama said yesterday that he supports conscience rights for healthcare workers.
The Pope vs. Hitler
Criticism of the Pope for his forced entry into the Hitler youth when he was a teenager misses an important point: He deserted.
Weatherman Banks Kill Fee
For 60s activist turned tenured radical Bill Ayers, having a college lecture cancelled is almost as lucrative as giving one.
Once Upon a Time
Boston College sociologist Eve Spangler has put into words what may be the dominant theme in most academic discourses, not to mention university courses.
Same-sex Semantics
A constitutional law professor at the University of California at Davis argues that “Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty” are “Coexistent Rights.”
Postmodern Prof Whistles Dixie
From the people who like to paint critics of higher education as anti-intellectual comes a new tome that shows how cerebral the pursuits of the academic publishing world are.
AIA is on Twitter
Accuracy in Academia is now on Twitter.
More Fake Millennial Studies
Having a progressive institution such as the Center for American Progress (CAP) produce a study that doesn’t show Millennials, ages 18 to 29, to be largely progressive would defeat the researchers’ goals.