The issues surrounding the University of Missouri have become a focus in the political campaigns in Missouri, but why shouldn’t they? Photo by cindyt7070
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Millennial Protesters Aren’t Well-Read
How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read. “This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at…
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VIDEO: Black Lives Matter Pro-Life Effort Angers Activists
Oh, the irony? Posters that used the #BlackLivesMatter slogan to tout a pro-life message at Gettysburg College and stats highlighting the high abortion rate among black women has prompted a massive backlash at the private…
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WATCH: Violence Erupts as Protesters Mob UCLA Theater before Conservative Speaker’s Visit
Watch the video for yourself and think, do American Millennials understand free speech?
Stinging Indictment of America’s Law Professors
Perhaps law professors should confine themselves to explaining the law to their students and showing how it works based upon the best evidence available. “The American legal professoriate has tirelessly pursued an expose’ of American…
Melissa Click Believed Student Journalist Had a Gun
That’s the latest news to come out surrounding the firing of Mizzou mass media communications professor Melissa Click. But, it doesn’t really match up.
George Will: Newton’s Law of Physics Applies to Pushback Against Obama
From George Will’s op-ed in the Washington Post, which is a worthwhile read: Notice the Newtonian physics of America’s Madisonian system. Barack Obama’s Wilsonian hostility to the separation of powers, expressed in his executive authoritarianism,…
University Devises Visa Trick to Play Loose with Immigration Law, which the Left Praises
From the Center for Immigration Studies: The City University of New York (CUNY) has created a flim-flam arrangement to expand the admission of H-1B workers (labeled as “entrepreneurs”) while playing fast and loose with immigration…
Democratic Congressman: Bernie Sanders’ Free College Plan will Kill HBCUs
Jim Clyburn, a Democratic congressman in South Carolina, opposes Bernie Sanders’ free college plan because he thinks it will kill historical black colleges and universities (HBCUs). He may be onto something. Photo by 350VT
STEM of Academic Myth
Despite evidence to the contrary, academics, among other elites, continue to insist that there is a shortage of applicants to fill jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math-related fields, usually when making the case for…