This Tuesday, college professor and conservative columnist Dr. Mike Adams paid a visit to North Carolina State University.
Recent Articles
What New NCAA Teams Might Look Lke
Jon Sanders carries the latest NCAA pronouncement to its illogical extreme, so it could happen.
Bias on Bias Alleged
A reader critiques our correspondent’s story on high school textbook bias.
Coda on Textbook Bias
Our correspondent responds to a critique of her work.
Luck Be A Lady
Hold on to your wallets: Lady Luck will soon be tempting the self-restraint of North Carolinians around the state. Legislation creating a state lottery passed on Tuesday, and was quickly signed into law by Governor Easley yesterday.
Sex Education Final Exam?
Until Hurricane Katrina came and temporarily knocked Natalee Holloway, Cindy Sheehan and Judge John Roberts off the radar, one of the big shockers was that Timken High School in Canton, Ohio had a wee bit of a problem. Out of 490 female students, 65 are pregnant.
Achievement Gap Smokescreen
The latest pronouncement from academia correctly identifies the failings of public education but misdiagnoses the cause and, hence, offers a prescription that promises more of the same malady.
Sensitive Mascots
Just three weeks after banning what it deemed to be “hostile” or “abusive” Indian nicknames and mascots in post season play the NCAA has backed down and granted a waiver to the Florida State Seminoles.
Catholic Universities & UNICEF
Six Catholic universities have United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chapters on their campuses despite the Vatican’s nine-year-old refusal to support the multilateral government agency.
Carolina Quo
Advocates of a sex education curriculum promoting abstinence ought to be on their guard.
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Conservative University’s “ObamaCare vs. Women” Class is Online TODAY! Check it Out!
Are women just focused on free contraceptives and birth control? Independent Women’s Forum Director of Health Policy, Hadley Heath Manning, says no; women care about accessible and affordable health care more than free birth control…
The Deportation Diaspora
Obama’s invitations, verbal and non-verbal, to immigrants to come to America illegally are inspiring thousands of people to take a shot at surpassing lax border security. The Center for Immigration Studies reported that by the…
How Healthcare.Gov Imploded
The Obama Administration continues to prioritize political success over people as evidenced in the rollout of the public face of Obamacare: Healthcare.gov. As of the end of February 2014, the Administration had spent $834 million…
Yesterday, Today and ?
Finding academics and intellectuals who are critical of the current White House has almost amounted to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Yet, for those who have been looking for such a mythical…
Heather Has Two Textbooks
While parents of public school children may feel besieged by alternative lifestyles, one public school teacher doesn’t think the literature available to them is diverse enough. “It takes a lot of work to find books…
U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A
It is good to remember, at least once a year, that Independence Day is more than an old movie with Will Smith. “The enemy fleet was nearing Philadelphia,” Bob Morrison, a senior fellow at the…
FIRE Files Four Lawsuits
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announced today that it is coordinating the filing of lawsuits against four universities as part of its new Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project. The project goal…
Librarian Feels Target-ed
When Target, Inc. attempted to spread good will in the San Francisco Bay area—a market it was entering—the department store chain encountered resentment of its efforts to refurbish a public school library—from the librarian. “I…
What Would Madison Do?
Coming soon: a lawsuit filed by House Speaker John Boehner challenging President Obama’s usurpation of legislative authority. According to the Speaker’s legal theory (summarized in a memo that closely follows a recent George Will column), the…
Conservative University’s “Sex, Lies and Women’s Studies” on Gender Pay Gap
Is there a gender pay gap? Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former Undersecretary of Labor, says no. Mrs. Roth is currently the Director of Economics21 & Senior Fellow at The Manhattan Institute. In this presentation, she…