Recent Articles

Luck Be A Lady

, Lindalyn Kakadelis

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.

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Sex Education Final Exam?

, Bob Parks

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.

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Achievement Gap Smokescreen

, Malcolm A. Kline

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.

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Sensitive Mascots

, Don Irvine

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.

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Catholic Universities & UNICEF

, Malcolm A. Kline

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.

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Recent Articles

The Deportation Diaspora

, Jace Gregory

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…

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How Healthcare.Gov Imploded

, Jace Gregory

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…

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Yesterday, Today and ?

, Ethan Gaitz

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…

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Heather Has Two Textbooks

, Malcolm A. Kline

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…

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U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A

, Malcolm A. Kline

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…

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FIRE Files Four Lawsuits

, Jace Gregory

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…

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Librarian Feels Target-ed

, Malcolm A. Kline

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…

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What Would Madison Do?

, David Corbin and Matthew Parks

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…

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