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Monthly Archives For February 2010
IU Denies Free Market
The Economics Department and Indiana Memorial Union Board Lectures Committee of Indiana University-Bloomington refused to host Mises Institute senior scholar and economist Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. on campus, citing the blatantly false excuse that Woods, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia and a New York Times bestselling author, lacked “sufficient academic credibility.”
Nursing in Name Only
Boston College has appeared to have taken the ultimate step in breaking with Catholic doctrine.
Air Force Academy Corrupted?
Wiccans and pagans at the Air Force Academy have a worship area on campus made up of stones set in a circle. Recently, someone placed a wooden cross at this site.
Defund “Safe Sex” Programs
In a new study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, abstinence-based sex education programs yielded results far superior to competing strategies.
Mickey Gets a Mickey
Apparently, the federal government is employing more than one use of the word “stimulated” when it doles out grants to colleges and universities.
Student Readers Go Rogue
Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, is number 4 on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s What They’re Reading on College Campuses bestseller list. This could produce the biggest shock wave to hit faculty lounges since Reagan captured the youth vote, you betcha’.
Overcoming Anti-Reform Excuses
Superintendents work outside the box to promote beneficial change in their local school districts, argues Frederick Hess in the January 2010 American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Education Outlook.
How pragmatism really works
“There’s no limit to the credit you can claim if you don’t care what’s accomplished.”
—author M. Stanton Evans on pragmatists.
Senators Query MIT Economist
MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber was contacted last week by two Republican Senators who took exception to his role in the Administration’s health care reform efforts.