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Troubling News About Iran 2008-03-25 22:06:00 This article, written by NR blogger Steve Shippert, gives a troubling look into the changing tactics of Iran and how they are taking more direct control of their foreign terrorist operations throughout the Middle East. While the news media and the Democrat candidates all bashed McCain for saying Iran was behind the Shia militias in Iraq, all the evidence, including the words of Gen David
Liberal Profs Part 5: Suggestions for Reform 2008-03-25 09:17:00 Delegate Landes’ academic freedom bill that would impose transparency on higher education is a step in the right direction. However, Landes’ bill does not solve all of the problems mentioned in Part 2 or Part 4.
A new program by the Center for Union Facts suggests firing America’s worst teachers by buying out their contracts. While humorous, this program hints at the biggest hurdle facing Read more:Liberal
, Reform
McDonnell Bolling = Unbeatable in '09 2008-03-24 22:19:00 Lt. Gov. Bolling announced today that he will not seek the governor's office in '09. This paves the way for AG McDonnell (more on this below). Bolling will seek re-election and probably be the presumptive Republican gubernatorial nominee in '13 when the Republican brand is more in favor. Perhaps McDonnell should in some ways envy him!
Bolling is a conservative's conservative. 2008's General
Cuccinelli Speaks to the RLCVA 2008-03-24 14:05:00 As vice-chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Virginia, I had the pleasure of listening to conservative State Senator, Ken Cuccinelli, deliver a fantastic speech on transportation and the general assembly. Mr. Cuccinelli also discussed a possible attorney general run. A must-watch for those concerned by Richmond's actions and fans of the state senator.
Also, Vern McKinley, the 10th District
McCain Turns Blue States Purple 2008-03-24 11:30:00 In yet another sign of why John McCain
is the best choice the GOP could have made, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota have all been steadily turning purple since McCain sealed the Republican nomination. All of these states went for Kerry in 2004 and have been considered solidly Democrat until this past month.
In fact, as the Rev. Wright controversy heated up, both Democrats' poll numbers fell Read more:States
, Purple
Free Websites for CR Chapters 2008-03-23 22:29:00 The College Republican National Committee has put together free, easy to use websites for CR chapters.
Chapter chairmen can request the blank.collegerepublicans.org URL of your choice by emailing storm@crnc.org with your chapter name, state and desired URL.
The sites were designed in such a way that as you add and update events and CR news in your STORM chapter page, the technology Read more:Websites
, Chapters
Craziest Liberal Contest 2008-03-23 11:56:00 Stealing this idea from Young America's Foundation, the CRFV Blog is hosting a three week poll contest on the craziest liberal in America. Nominees were decided by JMU CRs. Vote to your right.
Each poll will last one week (Sunday-Sunday). Week 1=private citizens. Week 2=politicians. Week 3=Championship (top person from each advances). Read more:Liberal
, Contest
WaPo Beer Bracket is a Fraud 2008-03-22 19:51:00 To my chagrin the Washington Post Beer Bracket
is run by a panel of judges. Your vote doesn't matter! Not only that, but many of the judges aren't beer experts. The biggest disgrace so far was when Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat rightfully demolished Ommegang Hennepin with 89% to 11% in reader votes and Ommegang advanced anyway!!
I have only tasted 2/8 of the beers left and no longer feel
JMU's SGA Shenanigans 2008-03-21 14:56:00 I am getting word that JMU's Student Government Association is bringing charges against one of its most popular members. Will provide updates as more becomes public!
UPDATE: Adam Hall (JMU CR) has been brought up on charges of missing too many meetings. The charges appear to be bogus and potentially politically motivated. Will keep this post updated.
Liberal Profs Part 4: Once Upon a Time 2008-03-21 01:12:00 My last post on Delegate Landes’ academic freedom bill referenced testimony I gave to the House Education Subcommittee on Higher Education in 2007 on behalf of Landes' bill. Below is my true personal story of liberal bias in the classroom.
Before the subcommittee opened up to public testimony the delegates debated the relevance of Landes' HB 1643. One Democrat asked if anyone knew of a single Read more:Liberal
Women's History Month 2008-03-20 12:55:00 March is Women
’s history month and the University of Mary Washington has a series of lectures and exhibits planned to supposedly celebrate this. While there are several lectures dealing with some historical issues of interest relating to women, the events seem to mainly be an excuse to push the feminist agenda onto our campus. The keynote speaker in the lineup is a blogger for National Abortion Read more:History
, Month
Liberal Profs Part 3: Del. Landes' Academic Freedom Bill 2008-03-20 12:19:00 The media coverage about confronting liberal bias in the classroom has mainly centered on David Horowitz's Academic
Bill of Rights. Fortunately or unfortunately, the ABOR has successfully been branded as a heavy handed attempt at reform that would harm free speech. Conservatives need not reflexively support it just because the press gives it the lion's share of coverage. Right here in Virginia Read more:Liberal
, Freedom
Quote of the Day 2008-03-20 09:53:00 "Years of relativism, during which Danes felt they “had no right to ask anyone else to live like us,” ended with the [Muhammad caricature] cartoons".
~Danish Newspaper Editor/Cartoonist Flemming Rose Read more:Quote
Liberal Profs Part 2: Effects on Higher Education 2008-03-18 21:17:00 In my last post I defined the problem of liberal activist professors. In this post I show how ideological activism affects higher education. All research cited below comes from papers submitted for the symposium Reforming the Politically Correct University put on by the American Enterprise Institute in November of 2007. At a later post I will provide personal accounts of bias.
1) Liberal
s Read more:Effects
, Higher
, Education
Liberal Profs Part 1: UVA Prof Rorty and Nazi Contrast 2008-03-18 12:07:00 Like I said in my post yesterday, this Wednesday a lecturer at JMU will be discussing how the Academic Bill of Rights is totalitarian. I will not be addressing this issue. Instead over five posts in the next two days I will be discussing why there is a need for legislative reforms to stop liberal professorial bias.
Longtime UVA Philosophy Professor Richard Rorty - paraphrased from Universality Read more:Liberal
JMU Student Tossed From Class Over T-Shirt 2008-03-17 11:09:00 As a violin student at JMU, I teach two days a week at the Madison String Academy, a government-funded strings program for children in elementary school. We wear your average college-student clothes for this teaching position - jeans and t-shirts - with the permission of our faculty supervisor.
Monday, I wore my new Rock for Life T-shirt, which you can see at www.nationalprolifetshirtday.com. Read more:Student
, Shirt
Academic Bill of Rights is Totalitarian? 2008-03-17 10:48:00 Dr. Bill Scheuerman, the former President of the United University Professions, will present a symposium talk entitled: “Stealth Totalitarianism: Questioning the Academic
Bill of Rights
” this Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at JMU's ISAT 159 from 5:00-6:15pm.
I have class and cannot attend, but would encourage others to go and give this liberal some grief. Dr. Scheuerman sees the Academic Bill of
Bracket Update + Beer Story 2008-03-16 21:12:00 GMU earned a lowly 12th seed in the NCAA Tournament today. They face Notre Dame this upcoming Thursday. On to more important business, the WaPo beer bracket update! Disgusting beer like Miller Chill was eliminated and we are down to 16 beers like Leinenkugel’s and Brooklyn Lager. I will update again when we get to the final four and show off my beer lingo!
Now to why you are really reading this Read more:Bracket
, Update
News and Notes 2008-03-16 12:45:00 Gilmore receives endorsement of LG Bolling and AG McDonnellJMU College Republicans website up and workingObama Facebook group worth joining: Is Obama qualified? No, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last nightLt. Gov. Bolling will be at JMU this Tuesday for a pizza partyActivist and W&M cheerleader Matt Pinsker will be turning 21 this SaturdayThe Young Republican Federation of Virginia is Read more:Notes
McCain Stops in Baghdad 2008-03-16 11:28:00 John McCain
stopped in Baghdad
this morning as part of an overseas trip that will include meetings with British PM Gordon Brown, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert. While in Iraq, McCain will meet with top Iraqi government officials as part of a Senate delegation that includes Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham. McCain is on a fact-finding mission to Iraq aimed at Read more:Stops
Obamagate 2008-03-15 20:29:00 Barack Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ, slams America and "white people" in the videos below. This is Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years who presided over his wedding, was the inspiration for one of his books, and who had an official role on the campaign! This guy is not an "old Uncle", he is a racist who hates America. Obama's tolerance of this man for so many
Support Take Back the Night NOT Vagina Monologues 2008-03-15 10:43:00 My post about the Vagina Monologues sparked debate with a college student all the way in Las Vegas who made the claim that CRs can't complain about the Monologues unless we are doing something to reduce violence against women. If you know anything about logic this is an irrelevant argument that one should expect from liberals, but when I can easily respond why not!
JMU's Take Back the Night
is Read more:Support
Amit in the 8th 2008-03-14 12:13:00 Amit Singh is contending for the republican nomination in the 8th district. He’s a principled conservative and I’m endorsing him for the nomination (as if anyone cares). I recently had the chance to ask him a couple questions. Here’s an excerpt: Q: Who is your least favorite president and why?A: While I applaud his leadership and work in civil rights, Lyndon Johnson made some errors that I
6th District Dems & Human Sacrifice Metaphors 2008-03-13 01:04:00 Rep. Goodlatte's (R-6th) Democratic challenger will have the honor of being the first Dem to face off against him in ten years! Goodlatte will easily spank whoever it may be, but before the carnage takes place it seems the two Democrats vying for nomination have sparked an intra-party squabble that includes some great campaign cannibalism.
To begin, Sam Rasoul made the faux pas of the year by Read more:District
Chuck Norris Allows Liberty Students to Graduate 2008-03-27 12:52:00 Chuck Norris
will be this years commencement speaker at Liberty University. This is not a joke, he is actually giving the commencement address. Here is the article in The Liberty Journal detailing how University President Jerry Falwell Jr. read an acceptance letter from the Norris family at the school's convocation service on Wednesday. Liberty students should feel honored that Chuck Norris
is Read more:Chuck
, Graduate
Quote of the Day 2008-03-27 11:10:00 "People who reject the idea that 'government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality' give (money, time, blood etc.) an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition".
~George Will summarizing Arthur Brooks book "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism" that concludes liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives. Read more:Quote
Two Weeks of Exciting Speakers for William & Mary CRs 2008-03-27 00:06:00 Over the last two week's worth of meetings, W & M CRs have been treated to two entirely different, but equally interesting speakers. Two weeks ago, W & M Professor John Foubert spoke on the studies being done regarding the damage created by the pornography industry. Last week the W & M CRs hosted a proponent of the Fair Tax, illuminating students to the details of the Fair Tax movement and how Read more:Weeks
, William
, Two Weeks
UVA Funded By Governments of China, Saudi Arabia 2008-03-26 10:16:00 According to recently released Department of Education reports, the University of Virginia received $29,450,000.00 from the government of SaudiArabia
and $200,000.00 from the Peoples Republic of China
. Exactly what the Saudis got for their small fortune is unknown, and UVA didn't release the information publicly. Also unknown is what the Chinese government got for its sizeable contribution. Also Read more:Funded
, Governments
, Saudi Arabia
Liberal Profs Part 6: Summary and Criticism 2008-03-26 09:12:00 Here is a brief summary of Parts 1-5 of the CRFV Blog's series of posts on academic freedom.
Part 1: definition of liberal bias in the classroom. 'Induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom'.
Part 2: the impact of liberal bias on higher education. Groupthink, less conservative PhD's, harder to get jobs if socially conservative, speech codes . . .
Part 3: a look at a potential Read more:Liberal
, Summary
, Criticism
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