October’s East Asian Summit, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, offered hope of a peaceful integration of the rising Chinese hegemony into Southeast Asia’s governing community.
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Civility Lost
The venerable James Buckley addressed a group of roughly 60 attendees at the Heritage Foundation last week.
Striking Oil
Taxing the oil industry and refusing access to important U.S. shale reserves would drive up both the Federal government’s debt and the U.S. unemployment rate, according to Kyle Isakower of the American Petroleum Institute.
Revolving Axis of Evil
In their search for villains, media elites, not to mention political ones, frequently overlook genuine malefactors.
Constitutionally Out of Touch
It’s bad enough when recognized scholars go outside of their subject areas. It’s worse when they offer novel interpretations of their own alleged fields of expertise.
Still DREAMing of Entitlements
Although the U. S. Senate voted down the federal government’s latest attempt to expand government entitlements, academics remain just as adamantly for it.
Academic Advice to Congress
An academic has recommended a plan of action for the new U. S. Congress that is actually partly grounded in reality.
California DREAMers
Administrators at California State University’s Fresno campus may have been so anxious to pass the federal DREAM Act that they did not question the legality of the actions of the Student Body president promoting it, a self-described student activist claimed.
A Woman Worth Studying
A pair of Harvard professors are resurrecting the work of an African-American writer so politically incorrect that she was virtually bypassed in the rush to inaugurate variations of black studies programs—Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston.
Hugo Chavez & The AAUP
It turns out that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez could have had a much closer relationship with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) if the former head of the AAUP had his druthers.