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Accuracy in Academia’s sister organization, Accuracy in Media, has covered one-quarter of the faculty at the Columbia University School of Journalism and found them wanting.

Amongst the plethora of PhDs, hard data sets, hypotheses, and highly involved line graphs at the Heartland Institute’s 6^th annual International Conference on Climate Change, a couple things can be simplified enough for the layperson to come away with and feel somewhat educated on the matter.

Further proof that academics have way too much time on their hands: a study from Harvard connecting Fourth of July celebrations to Republican voting patterns.

The government’s energy efficiency policies don’t produce much of either energy or efficiency according to analysts who have studied the practices.

Pundits debating the fates of various Republican contenders for the presidency in 2012 are missing the biggest story of 2011, a veteran Capitol Hill corresp0ndent argues.

The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.

At a policy forum at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2011, Lorens Helmchen of George Mason University presented a proposal to reform Medicare co-payments to reduce cost growth.

Since they don’t really want to encounter any, academics keep striking out when they attempt to figure out conservatives. Berkeley’s George Lakoff is the latest scholar to miss the boat, and the dock is getting crowded.

A new US Immigration and Customs Enforcement memorandum was released recently with stirring implications.

Representatives of MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said at a June 20 forum on Capitol Hill, that they are concerned with what they see as Islamophobia sweeping the country.

In a report published this month, the Capital Research Center (CRC), a nonprofit group that monitors the activities of politically active nonprofits, reported that the Open Society Institute, the grant-making arm of left-wing billionaire George Soros’s empire, supported groups advocating tighter regulation of for-profit higher education institutions.

Noah Bakr, Commissioner of the Montgomery (MD) County Commission on Women who just completed doctorate work in Near Eastern and Islamic studies at Princeton University defines Sharia literally as “a path to the watering hole” but the liquid is not all that clear.