Candace de Russy

Board of Directors, National Association of Scholars

Articles

December 9, 2010

WikiLeaks Cables Bolster Views of Climate Skeptics

Candace de Russy

Domestic political considerations far surpassed concerns about scientific grounding in negotiations at the Copenhagen climate conference. Charlie Martin describes how the leaks "confirm the dark sus......

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December 7, 2010

Campus Discontinues Helen Thomas Award; Thomas 'Anti-Semitic'

Candace de Russy

Wayne State University recently junked its Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in Media award after the former White House correspondent, in a workshop on anti-Arab bias, said that the U......

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November 9, 2010

Obama's 'Extremist, Agenda-Driven, Revisionist' NEH

Candace de Russy

In a series of posts Power Line Blog has been exposing the lurch of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Obama's appointee, Humanities Chairman Jim Leach, toward "polit......

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October 8, 2010

Texas Blazes the Transparency Trail

Candace de Russy

Texan professors who thrive on taxpayer funding are irate about a state law that requires them to make course content clear to students before the latter ......

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September 28, 2010

Penn State Censors Criticism of Islamic Extremism

Candace de Russy

From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: A new short film by FIRE documents the experience of Penn State student artist Joshua Stulman, whose "Portraits of Terror" art exh......

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September 20, 2010

Too Little, Too Late

Candace de Russy

Wellesley, Mass.'s head of schools has publicly apologized after learning middle schoolers participated in a Muslim prayer service during a field trip last spring. During the outing&nb......

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September 16, 2010

Preserving Newman's Legacy

Candace de Russy

The Cardinal Newman Society has officially launched an ambitious, multi-faceted new "legacy" project to help preserve more than 10,000 manuscripts handwritten by the 19th-century theologian John......

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September 7, 2010

The IPCC, Brought Low

Candace de Russy

The distinguished InterAcademy Council, an independent society of  top scientists, recently conducted an extensive review of the practices of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate......

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August 16, 2010

Green Propaganda Popping Up All Over

Candace de Russy

In accord with a national effort to update the “No Child Left Behind Act” with an environmental component -- and renaming it the “No Child Left Inside Act&rdquo......

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August 10, 2010

Inconsistent -- Nay, Contradictory -- Kagan

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On the one hand, she militantly opposes the U.S.'s ban on homosexuality. On the other, with like fervor she embraces Islamic Shariah law that mandates death for homosexuality.

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