James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles’ undercover videos revealing the scandal of ACORN, with over a million views on YouTube, are a testament to the escalating dominance of new media.
Monthly Archives For November 2009
Religion and Families
Studies of the past decade’s religiosity “can be boiled into good news and bad news,” said Annette Mahoney of Bowling Green State University at a recent Heritage Foundation conference.
Tossing $$ Around to “Transform” Schools
At a time when schools often struggle for funding, sometimes private institutions step up to fill the perceived need for more money.
Teachers’ Unions v. Obama
It appears that teachers’ unions will oppose Obama as they once did Bush.
Jonah Goldberg
“I’m as happy to be here as Roman Polanski would be to be at a Hannah Montana concert.”
—author and columnist Jonah Goldberg at Accuracy in Media’s 40th anniversary conference.
Outsourcing the Constitution?
A law professor who specializes in international legal issues looks at whether the U.S. is sacrificing constitutionalism to global norms.
UNESCO Unhinged
Behind Global Warming Alarms
As the danger of global warming fades, the influence of those who would use it to expand government regulation grows.
The Ethics of War
Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Reserve Colonel Bentzi Gruber recently defended the IDF’s ethical code and how it impacts the Israeli forces’ struggle in the war against a “new, [non-uniformed] enemy.”
Finding Critics for Science
There are many fields with rigorous critics; many writers make a living critiquing music, dance, art, and literature. But one crucial field regularly goes without any public criticism: the field of science, and scientific discovery.