The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has released a new survey of nearly 1,500 faculty members at four-year colleges in the US. Ideologically The survey of college faculty is consistent with other polls and surveys in showing that over half of the faculty nationwide is afraid to speak freely in the current atmosphere of intolerance and orthodoxy. What is most striking about this and other surveys is that the number of conservatives on faculties is comparably very small....
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Leaving Half The Country Behind: Poll Shows Majority Now Opposes Impeachment
During the testimony last week, I expressed various concerns with the artificially short period allowed for the impeachment investigation due to the Democratic pledge to impeach...
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You may be concerned about Facebook and other companies restricting what may be communicated and who may communicate on the companies’ social media platforms, as well as those...
How About Cutting Darius Khalil Gordon Some Slack?
A Thursday Free Beacon article by Joe Schoffstall purports to expose Darius Khalil Gordon, a newly hired Bernie Sanders presidential campaign employee, as having “a history of...
Trump Administration Proposes Face Scans for US Citizens
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Fuddy-Duddies Strike Again, Maryland College Cancels The Foreigner Performance
In a March episode of Five Minutes Five Issues, I talked about some fuddy-duddies’ complaints about actors wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes in a South Dakota high school performance...
Oregon Supreme Court Limits Police Actions at Traffic Stops
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Michael Scheuer: US Intervention in Venezuela is for the Benefit of Powerful Special Interests
Since he left the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where he had been in charge the “bin Laden unit,” Michael Scheuer has made it his mission to educate people about the dangers...
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