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CATO Forum on Medicare

At a policy forum at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2011, Lorens Helmchen of George Mason University presented a proposal to reform Medicare co-payments to reduce cost growth.

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Cognitive Dissonance on Conservatism

Since they don’t really want to encounter any, academics keep striking out when they attempt to figure out conservatives. Berkeley’s George Lakoff is the latest scholar to miss the boat, and the dock is getting crowded.

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Looking for Moderation

Representatives of MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said at a June 20 forum on Capitol Hill, that they are concerned with what they see as Islamophobia sweeping the country.

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Soros fights for-profit colleges

In a report published this month, the Capital Research Center (CRC), a nonprofit group that monitors the activities of politically active nonprofits, reported that the Open Society Institute, the grant-making arm of left-wing billionaire George Soros’s empire, supported groups advocating tighter regulation of for-profit higher education institutions.

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Reclaiming or Redefining Islam?

Noah Bakr, Commissioner of the Montgomery (MD) County Commission on Women who just completed doctorate work in Near Eastern and Islamic studies at Princeton University defines Sharia literally as “a path to the watering hole” but the liquid is not all that clear.

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Back To The Future?

In the laissez-faire world of higher education comes a startling new way to address some of today’s most common problems among college students.

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A Lesson in Da’wah

Most Americans have practically no familiarity with the term da’wah and how it relates to the overall Islamic narrative but also correlates with the radical agenda.

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D. C. Vouchers Make Grade

Students who were offered scholarships in Washington, D. C.’s voucher program had a higher graduation rate than students who applied but were rejected, the U. S. Department of Education discovered.

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Still Looking for “Green Jobs”

While researchers at King Juan Carlos University in Spain found in 2009 that the Spanish “green jobs” program killed over two jobs for each one it created, Politico notes that “the White House can’t point to much solid evidence” that green jobs are being created.

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