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Critics of the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) events that author and activist David Horowitz presented last month should have actually attended some of the IFAW lectures.

Students who protested at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund a couple of weeks ago may not be on the side they wanted to join.

What do controversial mouthpiece-of-terrorist-suspects Lynne Stewart and the Law Students for Life have in common? Not much, it turns out, including the right to funding by Hoffstra University.

Many years ago—16 to be exact—Saturday Night Live broadcast a sketch called Community College Bowl in which slow-witted contestants slowly answered simple questions normally asked of grade school students. The writers of that sketch may have been way ahead of their time.

Academics like to cultivate an image of themselves as cutting edge. Actually, while they may be more up-to-date than flat-earth theories, they are frequently not quite as far ahead of the curve as earth shoes.

Thought to be a relic of the 1980’s, the ironically named Fairness Doctrine that enabled the federal government to muzzle conservative voices on the airwaves may soon come back with a vengeance.

Contrary to popular perception, Russia is said to be seeking public-private partnerships with western experts to invest vast sums of Russian savings, Charles Ryan, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank (Russia) said at the Heritage Foundation last week.

Some analysts claim that the process of building a stable democracy in Afghanistan has not been achieved with the gradual pace of reconstruction, government corruption and ineffectiveness.

Although something of a liberal icon because of his presence at President Kennedy’s inauguration, poet Robert Frost was anything but left-wing, according to a friend who knew him well.

Disapproval of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ventures by the Democratic controlled Congress is said to be sending a wrong message contrary to America’s efforts to win the hearts and minds of Arab and Moslem allies on global war on terrorism.

The new art exhibit, “Unembedded”—a photojournalists’ account of the Iraq War—has been featured at several prestigious universities amid widespread applause as to its self-described “nuanced view of the civilian instability.”

Contrary to popular opinion, the current debt crisis has little to do with the Iraq War so much as profligate congressional spending.