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A government perpetually in search of victims may be writing off some genuine ones. “Anti-Semitic incidents remain a problem on some U.S. campuses,” the Scholars for Middle East Peace (SPME) recently wrote in a letter to the U. S. Secretary of Education.

After the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the Senate health care bill Sunday night, President Obama argued that the vote represented “another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American Dream.”

A paper from the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) displays some of the sharpest insights from academia in many a year but fails to offer perspectives that need to be considered for our history to be based on perception rather than reality.

AJC: A majority of students leave various educational institutions unprepared for the realities of the workforce or incapable of attaining their desired work positions.

While Girl Scouts around the country went door to door selling cookies, their national representatives were trying to explain a sex brochure distributed at a UN meeting the GSA was represented at.

AJC: The Center for American Progress (CAP) in conjunction with Women’s Voices Women Vote released the paper Advancing the Economic Security of Unmarried Women: Overview of Laws and Legislations in the 111^th Congress.

Like the congressmen they plead with and, for that matter, the professors who mentor them, activist college students rush headlong into the health care debate without questioning the facts at the heart of the controversy.

How long will the professoriate be able to maintain its balancing act that values fashionable, politically correct ideas over intellectual virtue?

Progressives now acknowledge some of the key failures in public education but what solutions they propose to fix them may only exacerbate the problem.

Your column “As the Third World Turns” did a good job of pointing out the even larger entanglement between the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and organizations putting on workshops about Islam for teachers. However, I feel that your (largest) section about Barbara Petzen’s presentation left out some very important points.

Academics and climatologists are on the defensive about the ClimateGate scandal and errors in UN-sponsored research, especially amid a public growing more skeptical of climate change news hype.

AJC: The government is constantly looking for ways to identify threats to national security before American citizens are threatened.