Articles by Bethany Stotts

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Behind the Media Veil

It seems that the professional media guidelines currently require coverage of Iraq to focus on ongoing insurgency, death counts, and sectarian violence, and that the media characterize the newly formed democratic Iraqi government as largely ineffectual.

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How Green Is My Reality

“Environmental Utopia” attempts to demonstrate that radical environmentalism imposes disastrous costs on society.

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Politicizing Poverty

The poverty rate dropped to its lowest level since 2002 but don’t expect to read any upbeat news stories on it.

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Comfortable in Poverty

In the race to politicize the census results, it seems that policy makers are selectively ignoring the significant limitations of the census data.

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Accountability 101

Miriam Grossman, M.D., author of Unprotected, is fed up with the politically correct expectations of psychiatry, which have led her to avoid discussing the psychological ramifications of faith, promiscuity, abortion, and infertility with her patients at UCLA

College Prep

Conflict of Interest

The 2007 NEA Convention, held June 30 through July 5 in Philadelphia, PA, highlighted many social and political considerations ranging from gay rights to global warming to amnesty, but opposed school choice or tax credits for home-schooling parents.

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Campus Dhimmis

New evidence has brought greater credibility to the old truism that multicultural tolerance excludes the campus’ greatest religious pariah, the Christian evangelical.

Book Reviews

Short Telegram with Big Ideas

Authors James Carafano and Paul Rosenzweig argue that America is facing the same enemies as it has in the past, such as Marxism or Fascism; terrorism springs from an ideology of “evil ideas” which will once again bring “hundreds of millions of people under [its] sway, leading. . .millions of victims to misery.”

College Prep

Reading Between The ACTs

The new ACT 2007 College Readiness Report, released August 15, congratulates American educators once again for improving student scores “on all four subject-area tests: English, mathematics, reading and science” but a closer examination of the data reveals that of the approximately 1.3 million students took the curriculum-based, national ACT college placement exam this year, average scores have been increasing incrementally within each subject.

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Catholic No More


Mount St. Mary’s College of Los Angeles
seems to have gone the way of most Catholic universities these days: politically correct, multicultural, and proud of it.