Nowhere do academics more obviously show their outright hostility towards academic freedom than they do in the battle over whether or not intelligent design can be taught alongside evolution in schools.
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California Teach-In
Although the labor union is trying to maintain its grip on the dysfunctional public schools it helped to create, the California Teachers’ Association (CTA) is in danger of losing whatever power it has left.
Back to PC School
Under the guise of improving the learning environment, local schools might be offering more of the same social experimentation that already leads to less literacy and more juvenile delinquency in public school classrooms year after year.
Bucknell Conservatives Remember 9/11
Bucknell University Conservatives
Club will build a 9/11 Memorial on Bucknell University s campus on
Friday, September 9 starting at 11am.
Constitutional Literacy
A college professor actually gets it right.
Georgia Tech Checked
Although at least one of her political science professors told her that individuals do not make a difference, Ruth Malhotra, a soft-spoken, petite, rising senior at Georgia Tech, proved that lecturer wrong.
Lone Star Losers
Texas is spending too much public education money outside the classroom, says Michael Quinn Sullivan, vice president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and its getting worse.
Pagan U
The name change of a University of Utah club might be unintentionally revealing.
Of CAIR, Michael Graham and Me
A couple of years ago when Yassir Arafat was still alive and kicking, I gave Ibrahim Hooper at least a half a dozen opportunities to denounce Arafat and the PLO in a five-minute telephone conversation: The CAIR spokesman ignored them all.
Donkey Law Profs
With the upcoming confirmation hearings for John Roberts to the Supreme Court, a soon to be released study seems particularly timely.
Recent Articles
Democrats Try to Overturn Hobby Lobby Decision
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof … unless they really want to. That’s how Democrats interpret the First Amendment. Part of Health and Human Services…
Beyoncé and Jay-Z: Leaders of Equality and Feminism?
The Barclays Center is usually associated with the Brooklyn Nets, not an active way to show deep political and social commentary. Unfortunately, this has recently changed due to the presence of performer Beyoncé and her…
Checkmating History
Perhaps chess champions who escaped from the old Soviet Union can give us better history lessons than academic historians. “Sometimes I joke that if guys like Barack Obama and David Cameron had been in power…
The Left’s War on Women
While the so-called “conservative war on women” remains a favorite topic of talking heads, actual assaults on the gender are increasingly coming from the political Left. “Obamacare affects women,” Mattie Duppler, of Americans for Tax…
Rich School, Dumb School?
Although the U. S. spends more than half a trillion dollars on public schools, the Left still believes that raising that amount will somehow make students smarter. “Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools…
The Duke vs. Duke University
It’s a classic clash of symbols: The family of a right-wing icon goes head to head with a left-wing school, but for distinctly apolitical reasons. “Heirs of the late movie legend John Wayne have filed…
American Teenage Financial Literacy is Just…Average
Teens in the United States are only average when it comes to financial literacy; crushed by Chinese teenagers’ remarkable performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment’s (PISA) first-ever financial literacy assessment. PISA typically surveys…
Conservative Supreme Court Victories
The Heritage Foundation’s annual Scholar’s and Scribes event held on July 8th discussed the Supreme Court’s 2013 – 2014 term. The discussion about the cases focused around women’s health, the First Amendment, and racial discrimination….
Hillary Clinton’s Extravagant University Speaking Engagements
Clintonians, despite not being able to cheer Hillary Clinton on as secretary of state, should still find themselves mollified by the sheer number of public appearances Clinton has made recently. Likely due in part to…
Academic Epiphany on Accreditation
An academic sets out to expose “The Great Accreditation Farce” but his efforts border on the farcical. “By awarding accreditation to religious colleges, the process confers legitimacy on institutions that systematically undermine the most fundamental…