Education
Journalism Dept. Attacks Bill O'Reilly, Compares Him to Nazi Sympathiz
May 2nd, 2007 4:43 PM
Many conservatives don't like Bill O'Reilly. He's an advocate for gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, believes in global warming, etc. Still, you have to respect the fact that an entire journalism department just created a "study" which accuses him of being the most vile type of propagandist, going so far as to compare him to a Nazi sympathizer.You'd think that the Indiana University…
Toledo Blade Columnist: 'Special Squads of Police' Should Disarm Ameri
April 27th, 2007 11:21 AM
Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun in it to confiscate their Constitutionally legal firearms is a step I haven't seen in a purportedly…
Post Peddles Liberal Spin on Abstinence-Ed Study
April 15th, 2007 1:57 PM
UPDATE at bottom of postCiting a new study that shows no statistical difference in sexual activity between kids taught abstinence-only sex ed and kids taught about contraceptives, the April 14 Washington Post presented the results as a moral and scientific vindication for critics of abstinence-only education.From the get-go, abstinence-only proponents were dealt a short hand in reporter Laura…
Did Katie Really Hit the Books in College
April 4th, 2007 3:42 PM
In an April 4 blog post to "Couric & Co.," the University of Virginia alumna (Class of 1979) worries that kids these days don't know their way around the library, and hence will be up a creek when they drift into the college library cramming for term papers:Many kids skip the library altogether and head for the store. Sales of
juvenile books rose 60 percent from 2002 to 2005. It's an…
Coverage of Jeb Bush Honorary Degree Denial Ignores Florida Colleges
March 25th, 2007 8:43 AM
In discussing this controversy, it's important for the sake of perspective to remember what Henry Kissinger said:
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
While the University of Florida Faculty Senate's decision to deny former Governor Jeb Bush an honorary degree is, in the big picture, an unimportant kerfuffle, it is nonetheless a cheap and gratuitous…
Never Too Young to Indoctrinate: 'Why Mommy Is a Democrat
March 21st, 2007 9:03 AM
Oy, did Google's algorithims ever misfire. There at the top of my Gmail inbox this morning was an ad, which the Google wizards presumably determined to be geared to my predilections, for a book called . . . "Why Mommy Is a Democrat."I suppose Google was right, in the sense that the ad piqued my interest, though the odds of my buying a copy of the book are as remote as Outer Mongolia. But let'…
