While Girl Scouts around the country went door to door selling cookies, their national representatives were trying to explain a sex brochure distributed at a UN meeting the GSA was represented at.
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The Fate of Unmarried Women in America
AJC: The Center for American Progress (CAP) in conjunction with Women’s Voices Women Vote released the paper Advancing the Economic Security of Unmarried Women: Overview of Laws and Legislations in the 111th Congress.
Time to Question Authority
Like the congressmen they plead with and, for that matter, the professors who mentor them, activist college students rush headlong into the health care debate without questioning the facts at the heart of the controversy.
AcademicDisasterGate
How long will the professoriate be able to maintain its balancing act that values fashionable, politically correct ideas over intellectual virtue?
Progression Analysis
Progressives now acknowledge some of the key failures in public education but what solutions they propose to fix them may only exacerbate the problem.
Of Pedagogy & Propaganda
Your column “As the Third World Turns” did a good job of pointing out the even larger entanglement between the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and organizations putting on workshops about Islam for teachers. However, I feel that your (largest) section about Barbara Petzen’s presentation left out some very important points.
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Academics and climatologists are on the defensive about the ClimateGate scandal and errors in UN-sponsored research, especially amid a public growing more skeptical of climate change news hype.
Looking for Patterns in Chaos
AJC: The government is constantly looking for ways to identify threats to national security before American citizens are threatened.
Spurning Waterboarding, Courting Disaster
AJC: The United States is in danger of another 9/11 attack, because the U.S. is no longer focused on capturing, detaining and interrogating the senior leaders of al-Quaida, a former White House senior staff member said at the Heritage Foundation.
As The Third World Turns
Public schools are often seen as indoctrination centers due to high-profile incidents such as Diatha Harris’ in-class criticism of the Iraq war and the many examples of students praising President Obama at the behest of their teachers.