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The discussion over quality in higher education and maintaining standards of academic excellence in American colleges took an ugly turn March 2nd when Harvard law professor and former Clinton Administration lightning rod Lani Guinier declared that standardized testing is racist.

Liberty Counsel argued today at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Erica Corder, a high school valedictorian who was forced to publicly apologize for sharing her Christian faith during her 30-second message at graduation.

In a sensational letter to be released at a March 12 National Press Club news conference,* the San Francisco Police Officers’ Association (SFPOA) tells Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival, Inc. that evidence in the 1970 bombing murder of a San Francisco police officer points to Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, two reported associates of President Barack Obama.

n Thursday, March 12, hundreds of medical and pre-medical students from the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) will march on Capitol Hill and urge the nation’s leaders to enact legislation that will train enough primary care health professionals to help provide care for everyone.

On February 21st, the Pakistani government agreed to a permanent ceasefire agreement with the Taliban militants in Swat Valley—a location only 100 miles away from the capital, Islamabad.

At a Heritage event, political scientist and legal historian Bradley C.S. Watson discussed how the contemporary embrace of the living Constitution has arisen from the radical transformation of American political thought.

The only other event in our nation’s history to which policymakers and pundits have found it appropriate to compare the current economic crisis is the Great Depression.

Veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans explained his “law of inadequate paranoia.”

The number of Hispanics enrolled in college rose 15% between 2006 and 2007. Hispanics accounted for 11.5% of the overall college student population in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

With GM, Chrysler and Ford reporting losses because of the economic downturn and consumers not willing to buy, the future of the big three is questionable.

When President Obama’s economic stimulus bill was signed into law, it included $1.1 billion for “comparative-effectiveness research.”

With President Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2010 moving forward, academics are lining up to suggest areas in higher education which could get more funding.