So, I started doing a weekly podcast with Caleb Howe of RedState called The Needle. If politics were drugs, this show would be the needle!
Episode 2 aired today and we cover topics discussed here at NewsReal, particularly in The Feminist Hawk’s Nest:
Wherein Lori Ziganto and Caleb Howe make their triumphant return for episode two! [...]

The Supreme Court rules against the free association rights of Christian students.

In the last decade, the number of colleges that assign summer reading to incoming freshmen has soared. The National Association of Scholars has tracked and analyzed 290 such programs—the most comprehensive study of “common reading” programs to date. The study reveals national patterns in book selection. Major findings include a widespread assignment of books that [...]

Of course, depictions of Muhammad are verboten to begin with, but given women’s status in Islam, maybe that’s why making Muhammad in any way “feminine” is such an insult. “Nepal bans school book after Muslim outcry,” from Indo-Asian News Service, June 21 (thanks to Twostellas): The Nepal government Monday banned…

After a year filled with anti-Israel sentiments at University of California campuses, society can find solace in UC-Irvine’s decision to punish its Muslim Student Union. On June 14th, 2010, an AP piece revealed that the infamous UCI “11,” MSU hecklers that disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech in February, were convicted of charges ranging from [...]

On May 10, 2010, David Horowitz asked Jumanah Imad Albahri, a member of the Muslim Student Association, a very simple question. Following his lecture given during Islamofascism Awareness Week at the University of California in San Diego, the Freedom Center’s director wanted to know if Jumanah shared Hezbollah’s dream of committing a second Holocaust.
In his [...]

Summer is here and incoming freshman at hundreds of universities will soon be receiving summer reading lists, an increasingly popular trend among American colleges, particularly the more selective. Their purported objective is to create “common ground” for students and to bring them up to speed on key concepts students should be aware of upon entrance [...]

Summer is here and incoming freshman at hundreds of universities will soon be receiving summer reading lists, an increasingly popular trend among American colleges, particularly the more selective. Their purported objective is to create “common ground” for students and to bring them up to speed on key concepts they should be aware of upon entrance [...]

Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want Students to Read Outside Class? June 03, 2010 By NAS In the last decade, the number of colleges that assign summer reading to incoming freshmen has soared. The National Association of Scholars has tracked and analyzed 290 such programs—the most comprehensive study of “common reading” programs to date. The [...]

Summer Reading for Freshmen—Arrggh! by John Leo What books do colleges and universities ask incoming freshmen to read over the summer? “Beach Books,” a study by the National Association of Scholars, has an answer: it turned up 180 books at 290 institutions and concluded that the book choices are unchallenging, heavily pitched to themes of [...]