A pair of incidents remind us that we are still living in a democracy and peaceful pushback can work, even on a college campus. Both stories involve Young Americans For Freedom (known as YAF). Two…
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Justice Scalia was More Catholic than Pope Francis
On Saturday night, a lunatic by the name of Jason Brian Dalton went on a weekend killing spree in Michigan. The next day, contradicting the official Catholic Catechism, Pope Francis called for the worldwide abolition…
Protesting Melissa Click
Melissa Click, an assistant mass media communications professor at the University of Missouri, is currently suspended for assaulting a student journalist during a protest and calling for “muscle” to push the journalist out of the…
Denial of Debt
In addition to the problems of too much federal debt and too much spending, the issue of easy credit over the last seven years has been examined by Dr. Tracy C. Miller, an associate professor…
ScaliaGate at Georgetown University
Georgetown University law professors argued whether the university should pay homage and remember U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative justice on the high court. The Washington Post reported on the controversy and obtained…
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ObamaCare will Bankrupt the U.S.
One topic of conversation in the Republican race for the White House has been whether President Obama has been incompetent, or actually knows what he’s doing. On the matter of Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable…
University of Maryland: Democratic Party “Safe Space”
In their account of the 1988 presidential campaign, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency, Jack Germond and Jules Whitcover claimed that Republicans have more places to “warehouse” their political…
Ranking 20th Century U.S. Presidents
Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent…
Apprenticeships Making a Comeback?
Somewhere between random free college for everyone and Teutonic regimentation geared towards industry is a happy medium of career choices that American high school graduates used to come much closer to having access to. “The…
Silent Conservatives at Colleges
Apparently liberals on college campuses are not only “triggered” by what they hear from conservatives but even by their silence. “The University of Minnesota’s undergraduate student government approved an annual moment of silence to recognize…
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Emotional Support Animals at Yale Multiply
Which is more than many Yalies can do.
Cultural Appropriation Defined
By, of course, a law professor.
Whose Got More Skin In Academic Game?
Right now, parents and taxpayers are getting skinned off of defaulted student loans and rising tuition.
Northeastern Professor Links Sexual Fulfillment to Redistribution
Of incomes, that is.
NPU: There’s Gold In Them Thar Visas
U. S. Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Betsy DeVos may have just made a huge mistake but it’s not likely one her critics would ever chastise her for.
Can We Get Inclusion Riders For Conservatives?
Don’t hold your breath.
Campus Climate Change
There are teams of university officials at hundreds of universities in the United States in place to make sure that it doesn’t.
School Bullying Over Religion
In all the discussion about school bullying you rarely hear about students bullied because of their religion.
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LGBT History Gains In Illinois
They may not know the Bill of Rights, but students are being asked to broaden their base of knowledge in ways never before imagined, at least by most taxpayers.
Higher Education: The Pompous & the Profane
Academics have always prided themselves on elevated discourse, frequently at the expense of the rest of us. Their claims of reaching this exalted state are increasingly, well, out of reach.