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Stimulating History

To be able to critically analyze economic probabilities, one needs to know the history of previous similar situations. For the first 125 years of our county we had no Federal Reserve Bank, no permanent personal income tax and no massive government stimulus spending. We also had virtually no inflation and the average economic downturn lasted only 10 months.

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Title IX & Sexual Harassment

AJC: Most commonly known for its athletic gender equity requirements, Title IX is becoming extremely relevant in sexual misconduct law suits on college campuses across the country, a paper by a law firm focusing on higher education said.

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Redecorating the Military

One wonders what would happen, just once, if lawmakers, and for that matter, presidents, of both parties, completely ignored the academics who offer them free advice. For one thing, they might contemplate the employment prospects of the students who pay dearly to follow it.

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Gay People & Conservatives

AJC: The libertarian Cato Institute’s panel discussion, “Is There a Place for Gay People in Conservatism and Conservative Politics?,” preceded the appearance of Gay rights activists at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.

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Opinionated & Illiterate?

AJC: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) documents the growth, or lack thereof, of civic literacy in higher education in its annual American Civic Literacy report.

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One-Twoing Working Poor

AJC: The Cato Institute hosted a discussion of the current Senate Healthcare bill entitled, “Will the Senate Healthcare Bill Keep the Poor Poor?” to consider the unintended effects in the proposed piece of legislation.

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The Real World: Shariah

Textbooks and curricula, particularly in California which sets the national trends for both, continue to paint a glossy portrait of the Shariah law that governs much of the Islamic world.

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Conservatives Discuss Health Reform

For the better part of the last year, health care reform has dominated the national legislative agenda. At the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), panelists discussed alternatives for reform and ways that their individual organizations had already effected the political debate.

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Don’t Ask Just Tell

College and university officials remain adamantly opposed to allowing the Reserve Officers Training Corps back on campus until the military lifts its ban on homosexuals serving in uniform.

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Voodoo on the Hill

M. Stanton Evans will discuss Voodoo Anyone? How to Understand Economics Without Really Trying at a February 25 AIA event. Evans inspired and wrote the foreword for Voodoo Anyone?, a free-market economics textbook written by the late Christopher T. Warden and published by Accuracy in Academia.

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Obama, a College Marxist?

Until now, precious little information has come to light about President Obama’s youthful political views. That may change as disclosures by former political science professor Dr. John C. Drew eventually surface in the mainstream press.

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