“Sociologists have identified an emerging new ethnic population of ‘unhyphenated Americans,’ those whites who claim an ‘American’ ancestry, or none at all.”— Brian K. Arbour, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Current Wisdom
Natural Law Conclusion
“The growth of the new international law is the perfect logical culmination of 50 years’ worth of bad ideas from legal academia.”—attorney Walter Olson in his book Schools For Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America.
Just Send Money
“We like legislation with broad expectations in which the curriculum is left to faculty to develop.” –
Paula Compton, Associate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents at the Center for American Progress. Ohio has “50 faculty panels which write learning outcomes the university is trying to achieve.”
Under No Flags
“The idea of people owing allegiance to one country, that’s not very common in the world today.”—Margaret Stock, adjunct instructor, University of Alaska-Anchorage, at the Center for American Progress, May 11, 2011.
But what a bed
Princeton “spent $136 million on a new 500-bed dorm, or $277,000 per bed, which is more than $70,000 more than the current median home price.”—Andrew Gillen, A Tuition Bubble: Lessons from the Housing Bubble (Center for College Affordability and Productivity)
9/11 Reconsidered
“We may obsess about strangers piloting airplanes into our buildings, but in the United States in any year, roughly five times the number of those killed in the World Trade Center are murdered on the streets or inside their own homes and offices.”—UCLA historian Russell Jacoby.
Sunshine & CAIR
“Don’t try and blow sunshine up my butt.” Rep. Allen West to heckler from CAIR at town hall meeting.
Golden Age or Kim
“I think there’s another golden age of television coming if we could just get rid of the Kardashian family.” –screenwriter Norman Steinberg in a recent appearance at the University of Maryland.
Breaking the Code
“Pragmatism is the magic word to describe what liberals want, but do not want to argue for.”— University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser
Another Cold War
“If Republicans are to remain true to the verdict of 2010, the message of this election cannot be merely containment; it must be rollback.”— University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser in the Fall 2010 Claremont Review of Books.
Book Review
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America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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