Former Accuracy in Academia director Leslie Carbone shows that it is in her book Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform. Watch her discuss it at the last AIA author’s night on October 15, 2009.
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AIA November Author’s Night with Steven Hayward
November 5, 2009 – 6- 8 PM
Armand’s Pizzeria
226 Massachusetts Ave
American Enterprise Institute fellow Steven F. Hayward will discuss his epic chronicle of the presidency of America’s 40th chief executive at Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night on November 5, 2009. RSVP on Facebook.
Globe Cools to Warming
Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney teamed up earlier this year to create a rebuttal film, Not Evil, Just Wrong to discuss the scientific inaccuracies and the hidden agendas of Al Gore’s smash hit An Inconvenient Truth.
Jennings & ACT-UP
Catholic League president Bill Donohue speaks to the selection of Kevin Jennings as Director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
PA Schools Struggle With Seasonal Illness
Schools in Pennsylvania are dealing with absentee levels of up to 16% as a result of a Mexican swine flu breakout. The Scranton School District has about 15 confirmed student H1N1 cases, Superintendent William King…
Sec of Ed to attack school today
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is planning to attack teacher training programs in a speech he will give at Columbia University today. In the advance copy of Duncan’s remarks, Duncan states that many colleges do…
Edley Knows That Government Knows Best
Yesterday an education panel was held at the New York Public Library. The panel, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and Intel Corporation, starred three leftists who continued “the ongoing debate inside the Democratic Party…
Make My GSE a McGE
The burden of bailing out mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will fall to taxpayers, predicted Brooklyn Law School Professor David Reiss, at a cost which the Cato Institute suggested could top $200 billion.
Stolen Election: NY Edition
It’s old news that ACORN was involved in fraudulent voting during the presidential election of 2008. However, FOX News recently reported that the Working Families Party, a subsidiary group of ACORN, may have stolen this…
Online (Re)Education
What, exactly, is Walden University teaching the nation’s future minority teachers?
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University of Chicago Administrator Tells Students that Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings are Nowhere to be Found
What a stance against the politically correct culture that is often found on college campuses today: John Ellison, Dean of Students for the College at the University of Chicago, welcomed students to campus with a…
America’s Higher Education as American Counterculture
A good read by Peter Lawler on higher education and its relationship to American counterculture.
UNC LGBTQ Student Center Director Leaves to Go to Duke in Protest of House Bill 2
To each their own, but it sounds like House Bill 2 is still riling up the vocal minority. The transgender assistant director of an LGBTQ student center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Court Delays Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Rule for Public Schools
From the College Fix: A federal judge in Texas halted the Title IX guidance issued by the departments of Justice and Education this spring that said schools must let students use the sex-segregated facilities of their choice…
Debunking the “College Professors Work Too Much” Argument
Our friend George Leef debunks the college professor narrative that they work too much: The argument that the typical college professor is overworked, incidentally, runs contrary to what many others say. David C. Levy, a…
West Virginia University’s Title IX Office: Using Wrong Gender Pronoun is a Violation
Sounds a lot like Big Brother is now on college campuses: WVU’s Title IX office informs students that federal law — as interpreted by WVU — guarantees students “the right to be called by the name…
Cal-Berkeley Spent $200,000 on PR for Chancellor
Spending $200,000 just to get their chancellor (who is resigning, by the way) to get speaking opportunities at the Davos forum and TED Talks…seems a bit extravagant. Just two days after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said…
Look for the Union Label
Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing of bad teachers, but the study itself is more of a hypothetical defense against very…
Indiana’s Fraternities’ 4th Amendment Rights Could be at Risk Under New Policy
The U.S. Constitution was written the way it was for a reason: Update on a proposal that has just become explicit policy: Indiana University-Bloomington will indeed require its Greek organizations to accept searches without a warrant by campus…
Don’t Use the Word “Man,” Princeton HR says
Uh, what? This isn’t a joke, but is something that Princeton University’s human resources department decided to do: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new…