The mainstream media have some egg on their face today after being forced to retract their reports on a gay-marriage study that was found to have been based on fraudulent research. The study, which appeared…
Monthly Archives For May 2015
Professor, who helped create Common Core Curriculum, has Lesson that Supports Hamas
Not encouraging and another reason to not trust Common Core: “A “Whose Jerusalem?” workshop created by a Boston University professor that’s been taught in many high schools in recent years and was added to the Common Core-approved national…
Harvard’s Race Standards in Admission isn’t Fair
One good take by the Washington Examiner on the Harvard University admissions controversy, where Asian-Americans are suing the university for requiring better scores by Asian-American applicants compared to other races.
Gender Fluidity Making Its Way into School
So, no longer boys or girls but gender-fluid teaching in public schools, at least in Fairfax County schools in northern Virginia: “One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity…
The Living Wage Diaspora
Believe it or not there is actual evidence that illegal immigration does depress wages for the native-born but you are not likely to hear about it in the multitude of classes that touch on various…
Michigan Football Coach Jim Harbaugh holds Private Meeting with Offended Muslim Students over ‘American Sniper’
Do Muslim students not understand the film ‘American Sniper’ is about the Iraq War and not killing Muslims? Geez.
Skeptical Academics & Questionable Research
During the final decade of the Cold War, President Reagan urged Americans to “trust but verify” when engaged in arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union. When digesting academic research, it might be a good…
U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Samantha Power talks about Mattress Girl at Commencement
At the women-only Barnard College’s commencement, Samantha Power gave a shout-out to “Mattress Girl,” whose story has been debunked anyway. But truth doesn’t matter, apparently.
Columbia University Bends Rules to Favor ‘Mattress Girl’ and Her False Narrative
It’s atrocious how the university encouraged this false narrative of ‘rape culture.’ Ugh, liberal universities.
George Washington University to host Two Jon Stewart Performances
Note: He is a performer and comedian, not a journalist as some may believe. The event will have two performance times in a single day on GWU’s campus in October 2015.