Without question, the most devious, the most dishonest and — in this hour of his nation’s grave crisis — the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted “teach-ins” and rallies against America’s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where “anti-globalist” [...]

Everyone loves to hate Wal-Mart, but millions of people still shop there.  In graduate school, my India-born finance professor reminded us why: because being able to drive a short distance to buy virtually anything you need is truly amazing.  It’s something too many Americans take for granted, even though we are a consumer nation.
In fact, [...]

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 professor fired for her views is finally vindicated in court.

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 [...]

Ramdas Lamb was a “Hindu monk in India from 1969-1978.” He is now a professor at the University of Hawai’i. He engages here in a bit of moral equivalence that fails to take into account the huge difference in content between the Christian and Islamic Scriptures, but otherwise makes many…

From Winfield Myers at Campus Watch: Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, has signed an appeal for funds to outfit a ship–to be named The Audacity of Hope after Barack Obama’s second book–that will challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza in September or October, according to a report by Robert [...]

U of I to review removal of religion professor Teacher barred after discussion of Catholic position on homosexuality By Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Faculty at the University of Illinois will review the case of a religion professor removed from the classroom after a student labeled his explanation of the Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality [...]

Why is Obama ignoring the most blatant lessons of the Great Depression?

Educated and faithful Catholics who are veterans at navigating the political world understand all too well that the Catholic Left thrives on continuous arguments against clericalism and orthodoxy in the Roman Catholic Church. Daily Kos diarist Sherman De Brosse provides plenty of fodder with his dire prediction of “eventual near-extinction” of America’s Catholic religious sisters.
Two questions immediately [...]