As if he hasn’t had enough bad news, now the presdent faces a study finding him wanting from one of his key constituencies—academia.
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Roots of Academic Bias
With everybody but college professors acknowledging the left-wing bias in academia, the next question becomes, when did it start?
Groundhog Day: The 60s
AJC: In his book, Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, Bernard von Bothmer, a professor of American history at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University of California, “examines the ways in which four presidents [Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush] used their own selective versions of the 1960s for political gain in the years from 1980 to 2004.”
Missing the Point Twice
Two stories appearing on the GW Hatchet Online show why a college education such as the one offered at George Washington University here in our nation’s capital trains students so well for government work.
The Teleprompter
Although a veteran of the college lecture circuit, President Obama’s speech at West Point may have marked the first time he has ever spoken at an institution of higher learning that actually educates. Alas, he was not up to the challenge.
Educating For Failure
Every chief executive in the past 20 years has vowed to be, as one of them put it, “the education president.” All have failed for the same reason: as with most aspects of life, top-down government solutions to education just don’t work.
The Original Comeback Kid
American presidents of both parties, all too often, need to be appreciated at a distance. Of the 20th Century chief executives, perhaps only Ronald Reagan holds up well under scrutiny.
Diagnosing Illegal Immigration
While immigrants comprise 12.5 percent of the nation’s total population, they are 27.1 percent of the uninsured, an immigration study group found.
Brookings “Experts” Admit Stimulus a Bust
…And Want Another.
The Weather Report
Two weeks after the elections, Weather Underground veteran Bill Ayers has taken to the lecture circuit