Berkeley: University of Anarchy and No Consequences Written by CA Political News on June 20, 2010, 02:44 PM University of Anarchy and No Consequences A Commentary By Debra J. Saunders, Rasmussen Reports, 6/20/10 When activists (who are not necessarily students) were able to delay construction of a UC Berkeley sports center by living in trees for 21 months, there...

School Kids Chant: “I Am an Obama Scholar” More news stories on Barack Obama Real Clear Politics, June 16, 2010 School children are led by a teacher in a chant that begins with “I will be anything I want to be.” At one point during the incantation the teacher asks the students...

Alameda, CA – Two college students who were disciplined for praying have achieved a settlement that retracts their discipline and pays their attorney’s fees, ending nearly two years of legal wrangling. The incident that ignited the case happened in December 2007 when an instructor at the College of Alameda complained about a private, consensual prayer in...

by Lloyd Billingsley State Senator Leland Yee, a liberal San Francisco Democrat, wants to bar California from adopting any new material from curriculum changes in Texas, which he and other critics view as right-wing revisionism. Though much publicized, the charge fails to stand up, but some textbooks do need correction. Those would be California textbooks, and...

By Jay Richards Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd. A December 18 Washington Post poll, released on the final day of the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit, reported “four in ten Americans now saying that they place little or no...

I recently came across a very poignant post on Art by “Faust.” It is stunning to compare the differences in what historically was passed as art, and what passes as “art” today.  What is most important is the cultural shift in the value statement of what art is supposed to be. Artwork as a form of imitation can be...

Share Harvard’s Warriors Honoring the Medal of Honor recipients. BY Jules Crittenden November 23, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 10 Cambridge, Mass. It was like a fleeting glimpse of an alternative world: the greatness of the past and what might be in the future, brought together for a moment at Harvard University last week. It was the 11th hour of the 11th...

My high school history teacher used to say: “You think I am conservative; I am really an old-fashioned liberal.” We thought he was just making a joke, but the fact is, he was right on target. This article was written in 1955…before most of you ever had a chance to be liberal. Liberalism By Milton Friedman Liberalism,...

College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says. Noam Chomsky By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week....

The Anti-military Bias On Campus November 23, 2005 By Jerry Coffee Historically, college campuses have been the lightening rod for anti-military sentiment and violence. This has ranged from peaceful candlelight vigils to the occupation of administrative buildings, from the torching of ROTC facilities to the tragic deaths of students at Kent State during the Vietnam war. Even now...