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Innumerable studies have demonstrated that our universities are dominated by liberals. One of the most thorough surveys, undertaken by Neil Gross of Harvard and Solon Simmons of George Mason University, was published in September 2007. (The study is available at www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org.) Gross and Simmons surveyed 1,417 full-time professors at 927 institutions and confirmed what most objective observers already knew: that the university campus is a bastion of left-wing thought. According to the study, 62 percent of professors are liberal, and only 19 percent are conservative. In 2004, 78 percent voted for John Kerry, only 20 percent for Bush. The fact...

Palin says God blessed America with oil and gasMIKE BAKER ASSOCIATED PRESS Originally published 06:44 p.m., October 16, 2008, ELON, N.C. (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Thursday that God blessed the nation with oil and gas resources and other forms of energy that should be tapped to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers. The Alaska governor told supporters at Elon University that she and GOP presidential nominee John McCain will develop new energy sources. "God has so richly blessed this land, not just with the oil and the gas, but with wind and the hydro, the...

Elon U. prepares for Gov. Palin rally10/16/2008 07:24 AM By: News 14 Carolina Web Staff ELON, N.C. -- Republican vice presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, will hold a rally at Elon University on Thursday. The rally is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Latham Park – the university’s baseball stadium. Gates will open at noon, with tickets being required. Tickets are available at any McCain-Palin campaign office, including those in Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem and Durham. News 14 Carolina will air Palin’s speech live once it begins.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to make California a model for greener environmental policies will soon expand to a global stage when he meets with world leaders at a United Nations conference in September. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday invited the governor to the high-level meeting on global warming after the pair toured Echelon Corp., a San Jose-based company that provides energy-efficient networking technologies for residential, commercial, and public electrical equipment. Schwarzenegger accepted the invitation without hesitation at a news conference where the two dignitaries briefly discussed their shared commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. "Global...

Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are scheduled to spend part of today at a San Jose networking company in which the governor has an indirect financial stake. The company, Echelon Corp., manufacturers energy-saving control systems and will host the governor and the U.N. chief for a morning tour and press conference where both leaders are expected to praise California companies and their efforts to address global warming issues. But Schwarzenegger, who has a personal fortune estimated at more than $100 million, also has a holding of at least $1 million in an investment fund that...

After countless complaints from Foreign Ministry officials about Israeli politicians thronging New York City and Washington DC at the expense of the rest of America, one MK has taken the message to heart. National Union MK Benny Elon completed a three week long tour of America's heartland on Friday, meeting Christian pastors, broadcasters, and Congressmen and thousands of ordinary folks in Indiana and Illinois. The goal of the trip was to mobilize and organize grass roots support from American Christians to support Israel's continued control of Judea and Samaria and oppose Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan. "I tried...

Elon Demands Talks with the PA be Frozen 20:49 Nov 03, '03 / 8 Cheshvan 5764 (IsraelNN.com) Minister of Tourism (National Union) Benny Elon called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to immediately halt all diplomatic efforts with the PA following this morning’s attempted suicide bombing attack. Elon was referring to the bomber detected near Kedumim on his way into Green Line Israel, who was killed when his bomb exploded. Elon added that it is unacceptable that while Israel relaxes security restrictions on the PA and works to advance on the diplomatic level, the terrorism continues.

Oct. 8, 2003 Rabbinical courts transferred to 'secular' Justice Ministry By HERB KEINON The cabinet voted to dismantle the Religious Affairs Ministry Wednesday and transfer authority over the rabbinical courts to the Justice Ministry headed by Shinui leader Yosef Lapid, a move that infuriated the National Religious Party and triggered a coalition crisis. The NRP, which threatened to leave the government over the issue, wants the Chief Rabbinate and the rabbinical courts to remain united and come under the purview of the Prime Minister's Office, in order to keep them out of Lapid's administrative orbit. The NRP faction decided Wednesday...

As the government debates how to implement the various stages of President George W. Bush's Road Map for a Middle East Peace, Tourism Minister Benny Elon is preparing for what he believes is the predestined failure of the road map. Son of retired Supreme Court justice Menachem Elon, a former head of a yeshiva, and a resident of the West Bank town of Beit-El, Elon laments what he describes as the Right's historic failure to recognize the importance of diplomacy and international law and discusses the steps he is taking to change the situation. To brace for the day after,...

09:03 Tourism Minister Elon threatens to resign if diplomatic talks between Israel, PA continue under U.S. pressure

Minister of Tourism Benny Elon will visit the US from 15-19 June to meet with evangelical Christian leaders and launch a campaign entitled "Deter Terrorism and Not Tourism." In addition, Elon will hold talks with Roberta Combs, President of The Christian Coalition of America, Pat Robertson, Chairman of The Christian Broadcasting Network, Gary Bauer, former Presidential Candidate, Michael Little, President of The Christian Broadcasting Network and Janet Parshall, national Christian radio talk show host. In a statement, Elon said, “ In the face of terror, the US administration must understand from our Christian evangelical friends the need to fight terror,...

Read all about this "roadmap" to peace. It is very interesting and the right (in both senses of the word) for Israel and those "Palestinians" Go here. Pass this along.