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We will continue to chart a path forward that ensures a college education is affordable and relevant, and that our system will be here to educate current students’ kids and grandkids one day.

"The hypocrisy in ... the Bush administration's overall national security strategy - is monumental. If having weapons of mass destruction and a history of using them is a criteria, then surely the United States must pose the greatest threat to humanity that has ever existed ... While the U.S. is massively expanding its biological weapons

Plans to put Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman on the U.S. $20 bill have been permanently shelved due to her recently uncovered lifelong anti-Semitism, announced Fox Abramson of the Anti-Defamation League. "It's incredibly bad judgment that she was ever even considered as a candidate," Abramson complained. "They called her 'Moses' but she didn't lift a

Scientists are increasingly aware that they need to improve their skills of public engagement, so as to combat scientific misinformation more effectively than they have been able to manage to date. This is a welcome development, on the whole, as the American public's scientific illiteracy is boundless, which has contributed to substantial unnecessary loss of

Russia wants a peaceful Ukraine, Americans prefer one at war. -- Israel Shamir, "Putin Prefers a Bad Peace" Even before the current round of nuclear brinksmanship in Ukraine, U.S.-Russian relations had descended to a lower point than U.S.-Soviet relations reached during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We've been courting nuclear annihilation for some time. Those who

/PRNewswire/ -- Puzzle Wealth Solutions (Puzzle), an independently owned and operated wealth management company headquartered in Schaumburg, celebrates their...

Rural workers of the early 20th century caught their sleep in boxcars and meals in the open air. Lured by labor agents' promises of steady work, they drifted broke and hungry from camp to camp, huddling beneath tents and hastily built shacks, strangers to plumbing and doctors, but all too familiar with illness, accidents, and

Wanted: Used instruments UL Lafayette music professor can donate to Dominican Republic students University of Louisiana at Lafayette The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Dr. Benjamin Yates is seeking donated musical instruments he will pass on to students in the Dominican Republic. Yates, an assistant professor and trombonist, will perform with professional orchestras in the Caribbean nation in August. By: UL Lafayette Office of Communications & Marketing Posted at 11...

by Michael K. Smith / January 16th, 2021 Whether Donald Trump’s behavior on January 6 actually meets the legal definition of “coup” or “insurrection,” or merely represents the umpteenth “triggering” of Democrats eager to benefit from the latest whirlwind of Trumpian chaos, remains to be seen. While this weighty matter is sorted out, perhaps we can take a moment to reflect on the bright side of having had Donald Trump as president. One thing we ought to appreciate is that his fast-...

by Michael K. Smith / December 22nd, 2020 In an interview with Peter Robinson, Thomas Sowell (Hoover Institution) criticizes the political work of Noam Chomsky on grounds that make clear he does not distinguish Chomsky’s libertarian socialism from the technocratic and highly militarized state capitalism favored by liberal elites. Incredibly, Sowell lumps him in with the liberal intelligentsia Chomsky has long attacked, ignoring the glaring fact that liberal elites loathe Chomsky precisely bec...