Articles by Bethany Stotts

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Soothsayer ABC’s

The American public continues to be bombarded with fantastic messages of the Earth’s impending doom as a result of global warming.

Perspectives

Rather Steep Learning Curve

Four years later, Rather’s show, Dan Rather Reports, offers viewers a glimpse into what the former CBS news anchor considers good reporting.

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Borderline Advocacy

Some academics and media outlets consider Operation Streamline’s increased prosecutions of illegal immigrants a troubling development.

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Warm and Fuzzy Global Regulation

Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, told a Competitive Enterprise Institute audience last week that he believes climate change forms the ideal political issue because its dogma cannot be disproven.

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Goodbye SAT?

Does Wake Forest University’s decision to go “test-optional” mark a trend deemphasizing the importance of the SAT, or is it part of a carefully-crafted media campaign?

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Journalist Sympathizes With Illegal Immigrants

Social justice took on a whole new meaning at Commencement this year when a journalist explained her interest in covering illegal immigration and hunger in California schools.

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No Change for China

Has the media been overemphasizing the social importance of Chinese middle-class protests in order to advance the perception of a growing Chinese civil society?

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To Hate or Not to Hate?

With the Sean Bell and Rodney King scandals elevating public concern about racially-motivated violence, support for federal hate-crimes legislation has intensified. Some scholars worry that such proposals use dangerously vague language.

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Another 50-50 Myth Debunked

The proportion of registered voters who actually vote is more than two-thirds, not the slightly-over-half voter turnout about which we are endlessly told.

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800-lb Gorilla Explained

With political fragmentation at home and distrust abroad, how can Americans successfully advocate for themselves?

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Fascism Was Anti-Religious Too

Professor Gelernter views World War II as a faceoff between pagan state cults in Germany, Russia, and Japan and the two “Christian” nations of Britain and the United States.

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Our Progressive Generation?

Are young American voters becoming increasingly progressive? That’s what Campus Progress, a liberal activist group, is arging in their newest study.