The Democrats in the US Senate recently detonated the “Nuclear Option”, killing the filibuster for all practical purposes, even if superficially only as to non-Supreme Court nominees.
Brown University student Zach Ingber thinks the act just killed the “soul of the Senate”.
…The nuclear option is also disastrous because it moves the American...
We recently told you about a high school football team in Lunenburg, MA which was forced to forfeit the end of its season because racist graffiti was found on a player’s home.
O’Ryan Johnson of the Boston Herald is now reporting that the incident had absolutely no connection to the team.
Lunenburg cops:...
We have already begun reporting incidents at schools that involve push-back against religiously themed Christmas celebrations.
Those who don’t like faith-oriented lessons in public schools may wish to redirect their efforts to some Common Core lesson plans focusing on President Barack Obama.
The school lesson plan and accompanying visual presentation was created by...
We recently reported that Texas Wesleyan University, a Methodist school, has added a Muslim prayer room to their campus. Now we learn that the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, a Catholic school, has done the same.
I’ll repeat the question I asked in the last report: How many Islamic universities have...
The state of Pennsylvania’s university system is bracing for further cuts, to counter declining enrollments and state budget slashes.
Inside Higher Ed’s Ry Rivard has the details:
…In the last few years, the universities have shed 5 percent of their permanent work force and discontinued or frozen new enrollment to 198 academic programs....
One has to wonder if Senator Elizabeth Warren was consulted.
Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times reports.
Easy for you to say: Campus considers dorm names ‘Houusoo’ and ‘Nowoo3’
Unusual campus names are a venerable college tradition — think Harvard’s Wigglesworth Hall or Southern California’s Argue Plaza — but nothing quite compares to those...
Despite the fact Barack Obama declared Mission Accomplished on the healthcare.gov website, his popularity is rapidly decreasing as Americans discover he is a Potemkin President.
University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk takes a look at Obama’s entire political history, and wonders why people are actually shocked by the recent developments.
I wonder...
This guy became a priest hoping that the church would change its policy on celibacy. That wasn’t a very realistic plan.
Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports.
Boston College’s Religious Edu Chair Calls Priestly Celibacy ‘Hazardous’
A laicized priest who is the chairman of Jesuit-led Boston College’s religious education department referred to celibacy in...
The fact that Education Secretary Arne Duncan had to play the race card to challenge Common Core skeptics offers a clue that the program is another implementation failure by the administration.
Now, citizen groups are urging a conservative star to openly oppose the new education standard.
Tea Party and conservative groups across the...
Here’s how it works. Take college kids who can’t find jobs and put them to work in high schools where they can advise more kids to go to college. Government efficiency at its finest!
Jay Schalin of See Thru Edu reports.
Uncle Sam Wants You—To Go To College
There’s a program that’s run in...
We recently reported the tragic story of Yale University professor Samuel See, who was arrested on charges of fighting police officers, then taken to a jail where he died the next day.
Further investigation into the professor’s life revealed that he was pursuing a second career on the side.
The Yale prof also...
As College Insurrection has reported, this battle has been going on for a while.
FOX News reports.
High court ends Liberty University lawsuit over ObamaCare
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to ObamaCare brought by a Virginia-based Christian university, ending for now one of...
As the Christmas buying season officially kicks off with this week’s “Black Friday”, University of Kansas student Lyndsey Havens offers her perspective on digital purchases.
Back when playing the game “Never Have I Ever” was fun and considerably entertaining, I would always start with the same one. “Never have I ever stolen...
In both situations, a problem was made worse when the federal government tried to fix it.
Michael Busler of the Washington Times writes.
Government loans are causing a debt crisis in higher education
If some government loan programs have been successful, most have caused more problems than they have solved. Recent history shows the...
Ignatiev was a Marxist activist accepted into Harvard School of Education with no undergraduate degree.
A progressive professor at the Massachusetts College of Art received hate mail after after a satirical story broke on many leading sites, including Instapundit (who correctly observed that it was a parody).
A liberal professor has received hate mail after a plethora of conservative news sites falsely reported that he had told...
According to the left, Latino students aren’t allowed to be against illegal immigration.
The College Fix reports.
Leftist Groups Smear, Threaten Latino UT Student Over Planned Immigration Stunt
The University of Texas college student at the helm of the controversial and eventually cancelled “Catch An Illegal Immigrant” event has come under extreme fire, including...
Each year, the religious aspects of the holiday season become a bigger target from scroogey activists.
A nominee for this year’s most egregious example comes from a South Carolina school.
A public charter school in the northern part of South Carolina will allow students from the seventh through 11th grades to perform religious...
Liberation theology – the community organizer sect of Christianity.
Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart reports.
Creator of Latin American ‘Liberation Theology’ Notre Dame Faculty Member Since 2001
Since the days of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame University has been known as the home of one of the best college football programs in America. Since
Add University of Connecticut student Brian McCarty to the list of young Americans unhappy with Obamacare.
President Obama’s repeated claim that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” has come back to haunt him in recent weeks as millions of Americans received cancellation notices stating their plans did not...
I wonder how many Islamic universities have separate prayer facilities for people of other faiths?
Cheryl Carpenter Klimek of BizPac Review reports.
Methodist university touts Islamic prayer room, Sharia-compliant washrooms next?
A recent article promoting an “interfaith” prayer room at Texas Wesleyan University is creating a buzz on conservative blogs.
The Methodist-affiliated university established the prayer...
Too often, conservatives are smeared as being against clean air or clean water.
However, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs student Jonathan Toman shows how conservative policies actually compliment environmentalism.
I used to think I was an anomaly. I identify as a conservative in many of my views, yet I am also very...
I wasn’t aware that the English language allowed a single person to be called they.
The Washington Times reports.
‘Genderqueer’ rising: Colleges welcome kids who identify as neither male nor female
The weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or...
