The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is seeking to repeal two Department of Education regulations that intrude on the authority of the states to set education policy.
The Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act (H.R. 2117) repeals
certain ...
Republican presidential candidates and officials in the U.S. government from the president on down have turned up the rhetoric against Iran.
In his State of the Union address, Barack Obama stated, “America is determined to prevent Iran ...
I was intrigued by the headline I saw in an evangelical magazine: “Google, iTunes, Facebook All Censor Christian Views.”
The article turned out to be about the recent release at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., of a report ...
In his 2011 state of the union address, Barack Obama promised to create a leaner, more efficient federal bureaucracy. In his recent 2012 address, the president reiterated his grandiose plan to reorganize the federal government:
In the coming months, my ...
It has been ten years now since the first “terrorists” arrived at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Of the 779 people who have been detained at Guantánamo over the years, 171 still remain.
Of those ...
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is in hot water for referring to Barack Obama as “the food-stamp president.”
The NAACP and the National Urban League have sharply criticized Gingrich for saying that “the African-American community should demand paychecks and not ...
The word isolationist is a pejorative term used to ridicule advocates of U.S. nonintervention in foreign affairs, intimidate their supporters, and stifle debate over U.S. foreign policy.
Throughout the twentieth century, opponents of U.S. intervention in foreign wars were smeared ...
One of the most important things the Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul said as a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno recently was what he said during his backstage interview after the show ...
In order to put together a “diverse” student body, it is standard practice for many colleges and universities to use race as a factor in admissions. An unintended consequence of this policy is that some students who otherwise qualify ...
Social Security is not only the cornerstone of the welfare state, it is the most expensive item in the federal budget. The Social Security system provides benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death to 54 million Americans at a price ...
