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In the
several days since this correspondent reported that over a hundred Stanford University community members
had signed a petition against Condoleeza Rice,
the number of signees exploded to over 800 signatures.

The mainstream media should reevaluate where it gets its source material on hate crimes, and soon.

Here’s a couple of history lessons you are not likely to get in school.

There’s been a rush to make public schools environmentally friendly lately, so much so that polls show that students are afraid that the earth is going to melt before they make it to the prom.

Ambushed by a left-wing student at Stanford, the former Secretary of State gave two students a history lesson unlike any they are likely to receive at Palo Alto.

It wasn’t only the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement that lost an elder statesmen with the passing of former Congressman Jack Kemp.

When Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen released his book Development as Freedom in 1999, his argument that democratic freedoms had an economic component in the developing world was greeted with acclaim. Now a World Bank employee building upon Sen’s conception of positive and negative freedoms is arguing that the twin discourses of human rights and development need to reach an accord.

Two wrongs don’t make a religious right.

The efforts of Catholic Notre Dame to bring pro-choice President Barack Obama to its campus have generated a tremendous blowback.

Believe it or not, the cavalier attitude that colleges and universities take towards donors can bite the left too.

As Congress debates the merits and methods of health-care reform it is important to remember government’s decades-long record on social programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

Happy graduates are about to go off to seek their fortunes in a not-so-friendly job market. But before they can pursue careers in business, writing, science and other fields, they must pass one last indoctrination hurdle: the commencement speech.