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  • Profs to Students: Drop course if you’re skeptical of global warming

    Profs to Students: Drop course if you’re skeptical of global warming0

    Three professors at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students to take a hike if they were skeptical of man-made global warming.  “We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ‘other side’ of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course,” professors Rebecca

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  • Profile in Courage? The last words of a Russian Commando

    Profile in Courage? The last words of a Russian Commando0

    As the Intellectual Takeout piece, “A Primer on Courage,” noted: “Courage, also known as ‘fortitude’ or ‘bravery,’ is one of the four cardinal virtues along with prudence, justice, and temperance. Along with temperance, courage helps one to conquer the obstacles to doing the good with prudence and justice. According to Aristotle, one possesses the virtue

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  • Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus

    Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus0

    Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference held last week at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte. The annual conference, now in its third year, was

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  • Professors Implore Students: ‘Think for Yourselves’!

    Professors Implore Students: ‘Think for Yourselves’!0

    It’s telling of our times when Americans have to be told to do the simplest of tasks. It’s also telling when they have to be told how to do that same task. Such is the case with a back to school memo recently released by professors from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. Their simple advice? Think

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  • Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant Caught on Video, Goes Viral

    Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant Caught on Video, Goes Viral0

    Via CBS News: A political discussion in a college class touched off a firestorm, CBS Los Angeles reports. A college professor went off on President-elect Donald Trump in her Orange Coast College class. There are now threats of legal action. The human sexuality teacher, Olga Perez Stable Cox, called Mr. Trump’s election “an act of

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  • Professor: Yes, Homeschooling is Changing in America

    Professor: Yes, Homeschooling is Changing in America0

    As children head back to school, an increasing number of their homeschooled peers will be starting their academic year as well. Homeschooling in the United States is growing at a strong pace. Recent statistics indicate that 1.5 million children were homeschooled in the United States in 2007. This is up significantly from 1.1 million children

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