When we had the pleasure of co-hosting actress, and first time author Stacey Dash at our first author’s night this year, I noted that she frequently stressed her pride in being independent-minded in interviews. As…
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When we had the pleasure of co-hosting actress, and first time author Stacey Dash at our first author’s night this year, I noted that she frequently stressed her pride in being independent-minded in interviews. As…
Whoever wins the White House in November will inherit the makings of a police state. In her first two books—Police State U.S.A. and The Devil In D. C. — veteran reporter Cheryl Chumley shows us…
While The Donald hits the hustings talking, yea, bellowing, about the jobs America has lost, academia has actually added to its payrolls, but kept mum about who is picking up the tab. “The number of…
Academics are still trying to point out the dangers of global warming, even while the rest of us are still wearing winter clothes well into the month of May. “Although the world’s nations, including the…
His collegiate followers are receptive to Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders exhortations that the United States should be more like Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors. Yet and still, the self-identified socialist should be careful what…
Those who view college as little more than expensive day-care just got some new evidence. “Even some of Brown’s coddling administrators had to shake their heads at the student response to a debate between leftist…
Here’s one of the reasons we do what we do. Even when the remaining journalists on the education beat bend over backwards to cover a story fairly, they still wind up giving it the educational…
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school…
School boards have been vexing about their loss of authority over the schools they ostensibly govern. There is a solution to their problem, but it’s not necessarily one they want to hear. “The public must…
While some parents still reel in disbelief when they learn that their children have to apply latex to raw vegetables in sex education classroom exercises, the federal government doesn’t think that public schools are doing…