The King’s College has selected Dinesh D’Souza as its new president. The New York City school, which is housed in the Empire State Building, was founded by Campus Crusade for Christ and is a conservative evangelical college–a pretty good one, I might add. The thing
Yesterday we blogged about the Washington Post’s dependence on income from its ownership of Kaplan, whose for-profit-universities are being accused of defrauding the government. tODD points out that its universities are only part of the Kaplan empire, doing the math to show that the percentage
President Obama’s stem cell policy allows human embryos to be destroyed so their stem cells can be “harvested.” But a federal court has overturned that policy: A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research,
We earlier blogged about how the oil that gushed out of that BP well in the Gulf appeared to be gone, having been broken down by natural processes. That was the line from the Obama administration. But now scientists are finding that the oil, indeed,
Here are three different political ideologies that go by the name of “conservatism.” The definitions and descriptions are taken from the first paragraph of their Wikipedia entries. (You might want to read the rest of the entries.) Which is better? And how can advocates of
Last week we blogged about the student loan scandal, how some schools–especially for-profit institutions–are sucking in billions of taxpayer dollars from federal student loans, even though the majority of their students can never pay them back. One of the biggest offenders is Kaplan, which was
You should read this fascinating interview in Christianity Today with Anne Rice, the novelist who first converted to Christianity, then recently said that she is no longer a Christian. In the interview, she still says she is a “believer” who has “faith in Christ.” It
Thanks to Paul McCain for tipping me off to this remarkable book of portraits by Lucas Cranach (or possibly his son or his workshop), now made available in digital format online by the Dresden State Archives and Library. It’s called Das Sächsische Stammbuch: Sammlung von
Colleges and universities are howling at an administration proposal to cut off federal student loans to institutions unless more than 35% of their graduates pay back the loans. That would still allow for 65% to default on what they owe! But even this mild requirement
As our government is trying to be more “European” in asserting government control over the economy, Europe is going in the other direction. Earlier, we looked at what Germany has done to prosper economically while the United States flounders. Now Great Britain, in a coalition
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