Dr. Ben Carson is a nationally recognized neurosurgeon and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Carson does not believe in evolution. Since 1989, he has delivered 73 commencement speeches. This year, a number of faculty members and others at Emory University are upset that Dr. Carson will deliver this year’s commencement address. [...]
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Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has had a rough couple of weeks on the campaign trail as questions continue to swirl about why she listed herself as a minority in law school directories in the 1980s and ’90s. Warren,62, has maintained that she identified herself as a minority to meet other people like herself. Warren is [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden mocked Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) on Thursday for comparing federal student loans to “stage three cancer.” Without mentioning Akin by name, Biden said, “I don’t want to single somebody out, so rather than tell you his name, I’ll read a quote. He compared federal student loans to ‘stage three cancer of socialism,’ [...]
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On Saturday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will travel to Lynchburg, Virginia, to deliver the commencement address at the evangelical Christian university founded in 1971 by the late televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr.: Liberty University. Liberty – which was founded under the name Lynchburg Baptist College – identifies itself as the largest Christian university in [...]
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OSU’s Urban Meyer, Aaron Craft participate on National Day of Prayer At the call of a woman dressed in white, dozens of people knelt and bowed their heads yesterday on the stone tiles that pave the west side of the Statehouse Downtown. “All that can and all that will, let’s kneel before the Lord our [...]
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Jones College Prep, a Chicago Public Schools “selective enrollment” school, held “Social Justice Week” in March, a collection of events geared towards turning students into activists. On Wednesday of Social Justice Week, Black Star Project, a Chicago-based community organizing group, was brought into the school after school hours to teach students about “non-violent” protesting. Led by [...]
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As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.” The speaker was Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more [...]
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House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that President Barack Obama was acting “beneath the dignity of the White House” when he traveled around the country this week to pressure Republicans to help keep federal student loan costs from ballooning. Boehner said Obama should reimburse taxpayers for the trips’ costs. The Ohio Republican spoke a day [...]
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Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s re-election campaign is taking aim at Elizabeth Warren, his chief Democratic rival, for her refusal to release six years of income tax returns and for accepting a zero-interest loan from her employer more than 15 years ago. In a series of press releases sent on Tuesday, Brown’s campaign manager Jim [...]
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Arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that “no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion,” a legal team has appealed the dismissal of an administrator from the University of Toledo in Ohio for her opinion of homosexuality. The appeal to the [...]
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t’s hard to tell anymore whether a story is true or fake. For example, Tommaso De Benedetti impersonated well know world figures to announce the deaths of Pope Benedict, Fidel Castro and Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar. Benedetti said he perpetuated the hoax to show how gullible and weak the media are. The media may [...]
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Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, caught up in the high-profile Obamacare arguments that started today, have refused to intervene in a case where deputies threatened parents with the forced removal of their children unless they agreed to let social workers, who did not have a warrant or probable case, search their home. The stunning [...]
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Who perpetrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 – a group of men merely fighting “for a cause,” or a band of radical Muslims bent on violent jihad? According to a new, comprehensive study of 6th-12th grade textbooks used by schools across the country, America’s children are being taught a very different answer to [...]
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Conservatives and Christians have been saying for years that America’s public school system has been destroying our children and thus destroying America’s foundation. Most educators deny the charge and say they are doing their best to educate and prepare today’s youth to be tomorrow’s leaders. However, one brave public school principal has finally seen the [...]
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A federal judge has given a Missouri school district until the middle of March to unblock its website filters, thereby giving students access to explicit material. A U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction banning the use of filtering software by the Camdenton R-III School District. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit [...]
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