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One of the many ironies in academe is the degree to which academics invert reality. This tendency is usually on full display at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention at which thousands of English professors from around the world gather to see and hear previews of the latest courses and “studies” that proliferate in […]

Socialists are banding together to walk out of schools on Trump’s Inauguration Day. Hopefully, these anti-Trump types won’t beat up a pro-Trump supporter, like what happened in Maryland.

Black Lives Matter made headlines in 2016, with academics, college administrators and college students taking up this banner of anti-police and anti-white privilege on their own college campuses. Here are ten articles from this year on how Black Lives Matter rhetoric made headway at college campuses: High School and George Washington University students held anti-Trump […]

The Democrats have been saying that there’s proof that the Russians hacked into Democratic Party computers for the purpose of obtaining and planting information that would help elect Donald J. Trump as president. But the proof wasn’t provided when President Obama issued an executive order and announced the expulsions of Russians from the U.S., and […]

A Soros-funded faux Catholic group called Faith in Public Life is holding what it calls a “special briefing” on “Faithful Resistance to Rising White Nationalism,” featuring Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This exercise is designed to further demonize white Americans who are waking up to what President Obama has done to […]

As controversy swirled around President-elect Donald J. Trump’s battle with the CIA concerning its questionable intelligence product on Russian hacking, a strong defense of the agency and an attack on Trump came from Joshua Rovner of Southern Methodist University (SMU). Professor Rovner declared in a press release, “By ignoring intelligence, Trump risks policy tunnel vision.” […]

From The Ithaca Voice (NSFW, beware of language): Cornell University is investigating a report that the president of Cornell Republicans was attacked just after Donald Trump’s election. The evening after the election, sophomore Olivia Corn, president of Cornell University College Republicans, said she was shoved to the ground while leaving a meeting and heading to her dorm room. “Out […]

Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law wrote a great piece on conservatives going full-throttle, with Constitution in hand, under the Trump administration: Yes, despite current complaints about supposed Republican obstruction of Obama administration judicial appointees, Hans von Spakovsky reports that “President Barack Obama has actually had almost the same number of district, appellate, and Supreme Court […]

An interesting op-ed by Diane Banister in the Washington Examiner on Trump’s manager Kellyanne Conway: Unfortunately, the major media outlets did not poll on the Kellyanne factor. A lovely yet unabashed conservative setting the record straight on show after show. Turning loaded questions right back onto the questioner, Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Chuck Todd and […]

Stories surfaced this year to the effect that federal employees would quit if Donald Trump were elected. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen. “Most of what we think of as federal law is written by federal agencies,” Benjamin Ginsberg, a professor at Johns Hopkins pointed out recently at the Cato Institute. “In the most recent […]

This ‘Whiteness Forum’ also had a ‘Make America White Again’ display to poke fun at Donald Trump: Students at Cal State San Marcos on Thursday hosted a “Whiteness Forum” as part of a communications class they are enrolled in, setting up more than a dozen displays that highlighted what they contend is how white privilege […]

Oh, the irony: The Obama administration has used informal regulatory “guidance” to accomplish some major parts of its agenda, including the imposition of a low evidence standard in campus sexual-assault proceedings. It has also used guidance – which is basically an agency saying “this law means X,” without taking outside input – to force schools to let […]