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“The Church that built hospitals, cathedrals, schools, soup kitchens, orphanages, and universities with no government funding in the nineteenth-century can’t seem to survive without it in the twenty-first.”
— Christopher Manion, Ph.D.,  Director of the Campaign for Humanae Vitae, a project of the Bellarmine Forum.

“It’s alarming to me that most [Das]Capital-quoters I have encountered are white men.”
—Andrew Seal, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale. (The Chronicle Review, B16, November 22, 2013.

“Thirty-year-old men graduating from the University of California system have a 38-percent chance of financial distress, and women have a 55-percent chance.”—Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2013.

“The Undead are everywhere: on movie and television screens, in books, even in the academy.” –Princeton catalogue

At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, there are “380 unique departments and almost 200 supervisors who managed a single employee.”— Tulane University economist  Douglas Harris.

“Although the outcome was a happy one, there is much to dislike about the process by which it was achieved.”—Stanford Law professor Deborah L. Rhode on the U. S.  Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision.

I cannot, however, teach them grammar and proofreading in the course of a semester when their high-school educations have been shoddy—Aaron Barlow, New York City College of Technology, English, Faculty Member

“One of the biggest reasons the state tends to grow no matter who is in power is that the country has two big-government parties.”—W. James Antle III, The American Spectator, September 2013.

“’Simplistic,’ one of those words always used by people who want to appear cleverer than they are.”—Peter Hitchens, The American Spectator, September 2013.

“We benefit from bringing low skilled workers”  into the United States, Dartmouth economist Ethan Lewis claimed at the Cato Institute but admitted that “we may be raising inequality.”

“You got to know at least as much about the candidates you’re voting for as you do about the candidates…

“Republicans appear to be a scarce commodity among the attorneys who work at the Department of Education. So scarce, in…