Charting a course for United States policy in Afghanistan poses many challenges as well as many opportunities.
Monthly Archives For September 2009
UNrealistic
The Heritage Foundation recently hosted a book release for ConUNdrum: The Limits of the UN and the Search for Alternatives.
Organs for Sale?
For those in need of a kidney transplant, it can be a difficult journey to find a willing donor. Circumstances have become so desperate for those waiting for a posthumous kidney that they sometimes resort to advertising their need on billboards and websites.
Keeping Alive the Memory
Revolutionaries and totalitarians
always try to erase the people’s
link to the past. Hitler discontinued the teaching of Latin in the
German schools.
Outsourcing the U.S. Constitution
Accuracy in Academia will feature George Mason University law professor Jeremy Rabkin in a special Constitution Day author’s night at the National Press Club on September 17, 2009 from 6-8 PM.
Beleaguered Students, Bankrupt Pensions
This week’s Bloggers Briefing, usually a conservative affair, addressed the interests of two typically liberal groups: college students and union workers.
Not Just Israel’s Problem
The stateside narrative on the Middle East has it that those most ardently arguing a tough stance against Iran are Israeli hardliners and their American supporters.
Bluegrass Blues
It turns out that not many parents in the Bluegrass state want their children to attend public school.
More Teachable Moments
The latest poll from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows that conservatives make up only 15 percent of faculty and staff at surveyed colleges and universities while most polls show that more Americans than ever before are identifying themselves as right-leaning.
Judge Denies Mother’s Rights
In a shocking example of
anti-religious (and anti-Christian) bias, a New Hampshire judge, Lucinda
V. Sadler, has ordered a home-schooling mother, Brenda Voydatch, to place
her daughter in public school—largely to expose her to “a variety of
points of view” other than the strong Christian beliefs which both mother
and daughter share.