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Author Daniel J. Flynn believes that last month’s Supreme Court case of Rumsfeld vs. the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) was about the hypocrisy of higher education. “Faculty and administrators rarely have trouble accepting military money through government contracts, but have problems with students accepting military money [through service],” Flynn said at an Accuracy in Academia event called “The Ivory Tower’s War on the U.S. Military.” So the decision of the Supreme Court made the hypocrisy obvious and illegal by telling colleges and universities that they cannot continue to get federal funding while banning military recruitment on their...

We are exactly one month away from the second annual Texas Transportation Forum to be held July 18–20 in Austin at the Hilton Austin located at 500 East 4th Street, one block north of the Austin Convention Center. Local, regional and state leaders will join national experts in exploring the solutions to "Keep Texas Moving." The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the Associated General Contractors of Texas, the Texas Good Roads Transportation Association, and the Texas Transportation Institute are co-hosts for the event. The keynote speaker for the opening session on July 19 will be Alan E. Pisarski, author of...

Public schools are spending so much time on gay rights issues that about the only way left for reformers to bring Algebra back to classrooms would be to set up algebraic word problems involving cast members of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. “Just this week, police arrested a middle-school drama teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts for allegedly staging an elaborate production designed to molest male teens by offering them massages from prostitutes, then blindfolding them, donning a wig, and pretending to be the female masseuse,” author Dan Flynn notes on his web site. “On August 10, police arrested another middle-school...

As readers of this space know, we frequently subject academics to what we view as constructive criticism. As travelers through the blogosphere may have noticed, they sometimes answer those critiques. “Someone named Candace de Russy (on the usually unbearably dreadful National Review blog on the university situation 'Phi Beta Cons') cites someone else named Laura Ventura at Accuracy in Academia to the effect that the fact that the journal Critical Inquiry has more citations of Derrida and Marx than of C. S. Lewis and Thomas Jefferson is an indication of the journal’s ‘anti-American, anti-war, and anti-Christian’ stance,” Bucknell sociologist Alexander...

DEEP BLUE CAMPUSES John Kerry v. George W. BushGiving To 2004 Presidential Campaigns From Employees at U.S. News & World Report’s  Top-Ranked National Universities  USN&WR’s 2004School Rankings Kerry/Bush Dollar Ratio Kerry/Bush Dollar %  Number of Donations         Harvard 25 to 1 97% to 3%    406 to 13 Princeton 302 to 1 99.7% to 0.3    114 to 1 Yale 20 to 1 95% to 5%    150 to 3 Penn 32 to 1 97% to 3%    93 to 5 Duke 9 to 1 90% to 10%    98 to 7         MIT 43...

Dan Flynn discusses more than a dozen intellectual morons in his book, including Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Margaret Sanger, and Alfred Kinsey. Of all the figures discussed in Intellectual Morons, which one has had the more pernicious impact on our world and why? My college education seems to have included a reading, at one time or another, of a who’s who of Dan Flynn’s intellectual morons. Whether it was the application of Michel Foucault’s sexual theories to Victorian literature, an exploration of Alfred Kinsey’s findings in psychology, or an all-star lineup of thinkers like Sanger, Friedan, or Du Bois in...

For months, readers have been asking me to do a profile of the life of Margaret Sanger, in order to expose the truth about an evil woman who has been protected for decades by the likes of Planned Parenthood, radical feminists, and various media elites. If you just log on to www.biography.com after reading this editorial, you will see how far some are willing to go to whitewash her reputation, perhaps merely to preserve the “credibility” of the pro-abortion movement. Contrary to the wishes of some of my readers, I will not be writing a profile of Sanger’s life now...

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSUniversity revokes 'hate speech' punishmentCollege Republicans disciplined for fliers slamming 'the Left' Posted: November 26, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The president of Gonzaga University has rescinded punishment of the school's College Republicans club, which was taken to task for posting fliers with the book title "Why the Left Hates America." According to a statement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, university President Robert J. Spitzer made the reversal after receiving a letter from the organization. "It is a dark day when universities in a free society start banning everyday words. In this context, it is especially...

The College Republicans of Connecticut College will be bringing a speaker tonight, Dan Flynn, who is the author of "Why the Left Hates America" (see book here) We have heard that there will be a lot of leftists there, and there is a word on campus that they will try to pie rightwingers there and might try to pie the speaker himself. Directions to Connecticut College: Click Here The location of the event is at the College Center second floor, at the "Cro's Nest" It is at 7:30PM Monday Nov 17 2003 Sponsored in part by the Young America's Foundation.

Gonzaga University Declares the Word “Hate” as Discriminatory Administrators Censor Student Flyer HERNDON, VA – Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) administration officials censored flyers advertising a Young America’s Foundation organized lecture because the word “hate” was used on the flyer. The flyer in question featured the topic of guest speaker Dan Flynn’s speech, “Why the Left Hates America,” which is also the title of his book. The administration first approved the flyer then rescinded the approval after some professors and students complained of the use of the word “hate.” In a letter obtained by Young America’s Foundation, Gonzaga’s Office of Student...

Controversial talk interrupted By MELISSA SANCHEZ The State News A speech titled "The Irrationality of Anti-Americanism" sponsored by the MSU College Republicans was presented Tuesday night, despite efforts by a Wilson Hall assistant director to stop it. "They advertised a very different type of presentation," said Erin Belinger, a student affairs graduate student. The College Republicans gave Wilson Hall's student government the impression speaker Dan Flynn would address patriotism in a nonpartisan manner, she said. But after Belinger saw a flier Tuesday advertising the presentation as "Why the Left Hates America," she argued the College Republicans were presenting something different...

WASHINGTON – If America hates itself, it is ill prepared to beat back the forces of terrorism. Dan Flynn, author of the newly released book "Why the Left Hates America,” says that as America contemplates war with Iraq and deals with North Korea's illegal nuclear buildup, our country is under relentless attack from the radical America-hating forces, much of whose momentum was put in place by the Soviets during the Cold War. When the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall fell, the well-funded left-wing attack on America and infiltration of its institutions did not stop. The hard left in...