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The Justice and Development Party (AKP), a conservative Islamic party in Turkey, expanded its electoral lead in the July 22, 2007 elections by 13% over its 2002 levels, garnering 47% of the popular vote.

This July, Washington Post writer Marc Kaufman championed a two-year Global Warming study by the Union of Concerned Scientists in his article, “Study: Inaction on Warming Will Be Disruptive, Costly.” The study, which the author obviously supports, makes sweeping pronouncements about the global Armageddon to come.

When awake, trustees on university boards tend to be more Republican than professors.

In anticipation of the upcoming academic year, two State universities plan to install foot baths in their public restrooms, funded with tax money.

In the last few months, a series of reports about the looming dangers of products from Communist China has sparked a public outcry against compromised foreign safety standards.

With the recent revelation that the Department of Defense cannot locate more than 50,000 containers, concerns about the government’s ability to equip soldiers on the battlefield prompted Senators Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and George Voinovich (R-OH) to call the fourth senate hearing on DoD supply-chain management since 2005.

An increasing number of policy analysts are finding that, despite what you hear from media and academic elites, global warming may be neither universal nor particularly warm.

Believe it or not, environmental regulations, whether of the top-down government variety or the self-directed sort, have not been all that easy for environmentally conscious colleges and universities either.

Tenured professors remember the Summer of Love as if they could ever forget or would let their hapless students have a memory lapse about their favorite year.

There is probably a reason that the higher education establishment does not seek a second opinion on its efforts. Educators are very likely not to like what they are liable to hear.

Q: What do you get when you sanitize crime reports to make them politically correct?

A: More crime.

Jed Babbin, editor for Human Events and former Undersecretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush, recently criticized the mainstream media for their unwillingness to highlight the growing threat of authoritarian leaders abroad.