Author M. Stanton Evans, who wrote the forward to Accuracy in Academia’s textbook Voodoo Anyone? How to Understand Economics Without Really Trying, explains how government policies lead to shortages of health care.
Monthly Archives For January 2010
National Security Takes a Hit
It seems that two Muslim academics previously barred entry for suspicion of terrorist connections could soon be making their way to American soil with visas in hand. Read more here.
National Security Takes a Hit
A little less than a year after an academic and other groups wrote the Secretaries of State, Homeland Security and Justice demanding that the Obama Administration end President Bush’s “practice of ‘ideological exclusion’” in its visa policy, it seems that two Muslim academics previously barred entry could soon be making their way to American soil with visas in hand.
Insider Shows Media Bias
The Director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, says, “Reporters as a group tend to be pro-choice, and pro-life advocates have long complained that these biases have skewed the way the story is reported.”
Little Hope No Change
AJC: In his latest book, Obamanomics: How Barack Obama is Bankrupting You and Enriching his Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses, journalist Tim Carney analyzes the influence that large business corporations have on the current presidential administration.
Race to the Trough
Considering that 49% more Americans can identify “Jon and Kate plus Eight” than the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the push to revamp public education is probably justified.
Sociology For Adults Only
Like Brittney Spears and Madonna or Tiger Woods and a groupie, Sociology and Pornography had to meet, and on the stomping grounds of the former field of study. Wesleyan just approved a forum—Sociology 420—entitled Pornocopia: Society and Pornography.
The Dwindling Uninsured
For the past two decades, the ever-rising tens of millions of uninsured have become an accepted premise of America’s political and academic elites but they may be as overcounted as the 57 stars on the U. S. flag.
al Quaida Assessed
AJC: As the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack proves, it is integral for the Obama Administration to address the vulnerabilities that continue to exist in the U.S.’s aviation, maritime and border systems, a former government official said.
Academics Get Reality Check
There is such a disconnect between what colleges and universities offer and what students need that even professors are starting to notice.