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While conservatives smugly and mistakenly believe that they are winning the ideological war because they control talk-radio, the presidency and Congress, their kids are being indoctrinated in leftist thinking in a new and more insidious way on college campus, where 90 percent of professors vote Democratic, according to surveys. Everyone has his own definition of stupidity. My definition is this: Stupidity is paying tens of thousands of dollars to have your kid receive an illiberal education instead of a classical liberal education and to see your offspring enter adulthood thinking like Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. The new method of...

This is the time of year when millions of parents have sent their children off to universities. Unfortunately, one price of getting one's children into a top school these days is that they may be subjected to four years of liberal propaganda. Those in academia like to call the liberal orientation of most college faculty a red herring. But objective research continually shows that it is not. The latest data appear in the Aug. 29 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. A solid majority of those teaching at both public and private universities described themselves as being either liberal...

It may be too late to organize anything against this, but interested parties should know that former terrorists/leftist martyrs Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers will be attending the 7:15 showing of the documentary/propagandistic puff piece The Weather Underground Friday night at the Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis. I found out about this by reading the following (nauseating) review in the U of M's newspaper: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2003/09/18/6569 More details are at the Lagoon Cinema's website at http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Minneapolis/LagoonCinema.htm

The Dirty Dozen How YOU Fund a Radical Agenda on America’s Campuses             Universities across the nation continue to raise tuition rates and complain they are not receiving enough funding from taxpayers. But, how are these schools spending the money in their “tight” budgets? They continually promote leftist ideology, while ignoring the conservative viewpoint. Liberal faculties assign readings by Karl Marx, while they overlook F.A. Hayek. Professors insist their students study John Maynard Keynes, while they disregard Milton Friedman. Students learn more about the work of Cornel West than Thomas Sowell. Worst yet, many academic institutions no longer require...

This is the time of year when millions of parents send their children off to universities. Unfortunately, one price of getting one's children into a top school these days is that they may be subjected to four years of liberal propaganda, says Bruce Bartlett. Those in academia like to call the liberal orientation of most college faculty a red herring. But objective research continually shows that it is not. The latest data appeared recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education: o A solid majority of those teaching at both public and private universities described themselves as being either liberal or...

Vandals Stick It To SUVs 'This SUV Supports Terrorism' Stickers Found On Vehicles POSTED: 10:59 a.m. MDT September 15, 2003 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Vandals sticking it to sport utility vehicles in Albuquerque. Officials said they have received many reports of someone sticking black-and-white bumper stickers that read "This SUV Supports Terrorism" on SUVs. Erin Stewart and Dan Cummings of Albuquerque said they found the bumper stickers on their SUV last week. Stewart said an SUV is a practical choice for her family, which frequently goes camping. Cummings said he respects a person's right to protest, but there are better...

Liberal bias runs rampant on Colorado college campuses, conservative students say, and they plan to support a national movement here to bring more balanced viewpoints to higher education. Students for Academic Freedom, founded three months ago by prominent Los Angeles conservative David Horowitz, has 70 chapters nationwide, including five that are forming in Colorado. Their goal is to get their Academic Bill of Rights - ensuring conservative viewpoints in colleges - codified as state law or university policy, according to the mission statement. State Senate President John Andrews, R-Centennial, said he'd like to see it happen with enforcement powers by...

You have gall, but I have Town Hall Mike S. Adams (archive) September 10, 2003 Dear University Advancement Office: I just went down the hall to check my mail and noticed that you sent me a letter today asking for an “employee contribution” to help the university in this time of budgetary crisis. I put the letter on top of the one from human resources reminding me that my $172 parking fee was due next week. Below that, there is a letter informing me that my health insurance costs are going up next month. At the bottom of the stack,...

One Party StateBy Center for the Study of Popular CultureFrontPageMagazine.com | September 3, 2003 Democrats outnumber Republicans 30-1 at Brown; 14-1 at Yale.The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the faculty outnumbered Republicans 10-1. At two of the schools – Bowdoin and Wellesley – the ratio was 23-1. Center president, David Horowitz, who designed the investigation said, “The educational and research missions of the University are dependent upon the free exchange of ideas. Academic freedom...

A new report has found liberal speakers outnumber conservative voices at the nation's top universities' graduation ceremonies by a wide margin, confirming to campus critics that students are bombarded with one-sided political points of view. The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, which examined the political views of commencement speakers at the nation's elite colleges and universities, found those with liberal ideas outnumbered conservative speakers 226-15 over a 10-year period. "Commencement speakers at 32 top colleges and universities, including all Ivy League schools, were tracked over a 10-year period and were identified as belonging to one of five categories:...

Programs State Equipment To Boost Dean And Hillary; Bash Bush; Promote Marxism University Yanks 'Inappropriate' Web Pages Following Exclusive Lightning Exposé; University Launches Internal Investigation; 'Violations' Cited

Why the Left Loves Osama [and Saddam] by Daniel Pipes March 19, 2003 Has anyone noticed an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein? Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it "the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos." Eric Foner, an ornament of Columbia University's Marxist firmament, trivialized it by announcing himself unsure "which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." Norman Mailer called the suicide hijackers "brilliant." More...

hen Stephen C. Richards, a criminology professor, steps up to the rostrum on the first day of his sociology of corrections classes at Northern Kentucky University, he usually begins his lecture with a confession and a promise."I'm an ex-con," Mr. Richards, who served nine years in federal prison for selling marijuana, tells his students. "I'm going to tell some stories and use some profane language. You'll read books that you might not read in other classes. And by the end of the semester, you're going to know more about prisons than you ever imagined."Mr. Richards is a self-described "convict criminologist,"...

Student Alleges Anti-Semitism Taught in Arabic Language Class Students Defend Accused Graduate Student Instructor Send us a letter to comment on this article. By REGINA CHEN Contributing Writer Friday, August 8, 2003 An Arabic-language student accused a UC Berkeley graduate student instructor Wednesday of teaching anti-Semitism. UC Extension student Susanna Klein alleged that Near Eastern Studies graduate student instructor, Abbas Kadhim, said "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a document Nazis used as propaganda against the Jews, was written by Jews and was not a forgery, as many historians believe. "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is...

UC Economist Calls For Civil Disobedience By RICHARD BRENNEMAN (08-05-03) When George Akerlof talks, the world listens. Especially when he tosses barbs at the White House. The Nobel prize helps, of course, but an observer can’t help wonder if much of the attention comes because the UC Berkeley professor has a knack for saying things that are widely covered everywhere else but in the American press—as in his recent call for civil disobedience to protest Bush administration fiscal policies he decried as “a form of looting” the poor and elderly to hand more wealth to wealthy supporters. A fixture...

Berkeley Anti-Semitism 101By Dafka.orgDafka.org | August 7, 2003 (Dafka.org Ed: Susanna Klein, a UC Berkeley student, was attending her class in Iraqi Arabic this week when her instructor, Iraqi  Abbas Kadhim, alluded to the Protocols of Zion in class as being a real document written by Jews. The Protocols were long ago proven to be a fraud written by the Czar's secret police. In the Arab world it they are taught as fact and have even created a popular mini-series on Eyptian television produced by (you guesses it!) the Saudis. What is even more fascinating is Khadim is an ex-Iraqi...

<p>Are you prone to fear and aggression? Resistant to change? Intolerant of ambiguity? If so, you have the mind-set to be a political conservative, according to a recently published study in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.</p> <p>Four researchers from Berkeley, Stanford and the University of Maryland sorted through decades of speeches, court opinions and field studies to see what motivates that strange species known as the conservative. They found, according to a release from Berkeley's press office, "Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality."</p>

UC faculty endorse revised statement of academic freedom (Berkeley-AP) -- University of California faculty have endorsed a revised statement of academic freedom that had stirred debate over how to stop professors from turning classrooms into soapboxes. Members of the Academic Assembly today overwhelmingly approved the new policy. U-C's old policy advised professors to be dispassionate and "stick to the logic of the facts." That policy was first drafted in 1934. The new policy says the university is about fostering a "mature independence of mind." It says that can only be achieved if students and faculty are free to express...

The Futility Of The Left's America Bashing, The Opiate Of The Academic Elites In his essay "The Intellectual Origin of America Bashing" author Lee Harris argues that the leftists that practise this idiocy are not ever being true to their mentor, Karl Marx: http://www.policyreview.org/dec02/harris.html

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (July 26) - Last month, Penn State University officials learned something about professor Paul Krueger that wasn't on his resume - he is on parole for a triple murder committed in Texas nearly 40 years ago. The university knew nothing about Krueger's conviction until late last month, when the Pennsylvania Bureau of Probation and Parole contacted the university, spokesman Bill Mahon said Friday. "We're in shock to find out some of the details, and we're still looking into it," Mahon said. "We've never had a situation like this before." Mahon said the university doesn't require prospective faculty...