No, you haven’t stumbled upon a different website. We here at NewsRealBlog have plenty of problems with the Kentucky Republican, but this week I have no choice but to admit that there’s one area in which he might be able to teach his fellow midterm election candidates a thing or two: dealing with demagogic Democrats. [...]

American women have some of the best lives in the world. We can literally do whatever we want. American women can go to school where we want, we can go to college, we can work wherever we want, we can marry whoever we want, and we can choose to lead whatever kind of [...]

We always hear in the West that women who choose to don the veil are doing so of their own free will, and are perfectly free not to wear it. Yet the leader of the students’ union at Aliah University is willing to put this kind of pressure on Sirin…

Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

A new group of gay, lesbian and bisexual active duty military men and women has formed. Calling itself OutServe, the group “aims to give new voice to LGBT service members currently serving in the U.S. military,” says The Washington Blade, a DC based website targeting the LGBT community.
Great. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”  (DADT) hasn’t even [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

Now that Obama is sinking fast in the polls due to his abysmal performance as President, a guaranteed second term is slipping away like the bloom of youth. Solution? Change the rules in the middle of the game. Why not? It’s been done before.
The latest (but hardly new) game changer to come down the pike [...]

In this week’s Inside Higher Ed, Garrison Walters drops (what should be) a proverbial atomic bomb.  Walters, executive director of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, doesn’t just want to improve higher education, he wants to change our entire culture.  With only a modest increase in funding, of course.
The main challenge facing higher education, [...]

How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others By Russell K. Nieli When college presidents and academic administrators pay their usual obeisance to “diversity” you know they are talking first and foremost about race. More specifically, they are talking about blacks. A diverse college campus is understood as one that has a student [...]

“They So Despise Her Politics” – Do Conservative Faculty Candidates Get a Fair Shake? July 12, 2010 By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne Two years ago the University of Iowa gained some notoriety after Mark Moyar, a highly credentialed and well-published historian, was passed over for appointment in the history department. It appeared then and [...]