AJC: On Sunday, December 6th, President Barack Obama paid a visit to Senators on Capitol Hill to urge them to pass health care reform. Senate leaders are working to rally 60 supporting votes to get this bill passed.
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Chamber of Commerce Pushback
AJC: On November 24th, members of the Chamber of Commerce, the largest business federation, spoke at the Heritage Foundation’s conservative Blogger’s Briefing in defense of the interests of their more than three million organizations and businesses.
The Gatecrasher & The Tenured Radical
It turns out that the gatecrasher who partied at the White House may have had ties to not only the Obamas but also to a professor whom AIA has covered.
The Pilgrims’ Real Thanksgiving Lesson
Feast and football. That’s what many of us think about at Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of the holiday with the Pilgrims’ first bountiful harvest. But few understand how the Pilgrims actually solved their chronic food shortages.
MaryJane & the Free Market
The author of a new study on marijuana use could have used an economics lecture from the late Christopher T. Warden, a journalism professor at Troy University.
Brother Can You Spare a Clue?
Where do politicians get the idea that they can spend their way out of a recession? Maybe from the universities they incubate from.
Fired Up
Rafe Esquith is a one-in-a-million teacher: he truly believes that each of his students can be extraordinary, with proper coaching.
UnPROFessional Online
Professors might want to watch their own “professional image” online, especially if their Twitter feed is posted to their University website.
Hands Out
In his 2006 book, In Our Hands, Charles Murray proposed overarching changes in the governmental system, which he conveniently titled “The Plan.”
Progressive Carnevale
On July 8, 2009, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted their annual “Campus Progress National Conference” at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.