In this time of financial instability, people across America are being forced to control their spending. If families around America can cut back on their expenses to make ends meet, why can’t the government?
Perspectives
Justice for Victims of the Weather Underground
A live version of “Forensic Files” hits Washington, D.C. on March 12, as pressure mounts for an expanded probe of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their alleged roles in the 1970 bombing murder of a San Francisco policeman.
The Politically-Incorrect Black American Hero
February is Black History Month. But Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who rose from poverty and overcame racism to become a leading black conservative thinker and jurist, wasn’t on the list of famous African Americans that my son brought home from school.
Brave New Pedagogues
Academics pride themselves on dreaming up the cutting edge ideas that govern us. That might not be a good thing.
Profs Downgrade O’brien’s Law
So novel is this use of the law that this is the first time it has ever been used against a church; it is typically used against politicians and CEOs.
College Recruiting Roulette Rules
Kathleen Kingsbury, in a Daily Beast exclusive, lets college admissions officers tell their personal stories about why some students make the cut and others don’t.
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Revised
Scarcely a year goes by in which we do not see another documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American volunteers who traveled to Spain to fight on the side of the government there as it sought to repel the rebel army of Francisco Franco.
Straight Down the Middle
Accuracy in Academia lost a great friend with the passing of Troy University journalism professor Chris Warden, the author of AIA’s forthcoming textbook Voodoo Anyone?
Green Standards over Better Education?
The Washington Post recently reported that higher education officials acknowledge that Americans are “less well educated” than past generations, but rather than ask for help in education they came to Congress asking that they fund their buildings on campus to be standardized as “green.”
One Final Civics Lesson
We are posting the last column filed by Paul Weyrich, a veteran journalist and a great American.