Another case of reality intruding where only the satirical newspaper, The Onion, once tread. An adjunct professor at the University of Illinois was fired for explaining Catholic beliefs concerning Natural Law to students enrolled in a class about Catholicism.
Monthly Archives For July 2010
Confederacy of Dunces
Believe it or not, a new opinion poll found that a significant number of Americans do not know the answer to this question: “From which country did the United States win its independence?”
Young, Restless, and Right
In many ways, Ruth Malhotra and Orit Sklar resemble other young college graduates, making their mark in the world. But in other ways, they are light years ahead of their peers.
Climate Challenges Ahead
Climate regulation will cost Americans wealth, jobs, liberty and privacy, argued talk show host Brian Sussman at a June 15 Heritage Foundation event.
Big Brother Bans BFF
As if the educationistas weren’t interfering in our lives enough these days, now they’re trying to push the notion that school kids shouldn’t have “best friends.”
VAT or Crock
Believe it or not, we found an academic who doesn’t like a tax. Usually, the total number of such tenured scholars would fill…my office.
Bureaucratic Blueprint
Two old government hands assess the extent of the remaking of the state under the current administration.
Bureaucratic Blueprint Part 2
Two old government hands assess the extent of the remaking of the state under the current administration.
Bureaucratic Blueprint Part 3
Two old government hands assess the extent of the remaking of the state under the current administration.
Horowitz on Liberals
“Conservatives look at leftists and see them as misguided. Liberals look at us and see us as evil.”
—Author and activist David Horowitz at Hillsdale College’s First Fridays, First Principles breakfast on Capitol Hill on July 9, 2010.