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Stealthily working its way through congress is a bill which the Congressional Budget Office projects will cost at least $37 billion over the next 5 years if passed as currently written. Yet we find that at a time when concerned parties are calling attention to increasing deficit spending the House leadership is either unwilling or unable to provide any guidance on the degree to which this bill will impact the budget. Repeated calls to Majority Leader Boehner's office and the House Education & the Workforce Committee for clarification have not been returned. The legislation in question is H.R. 609, the...

I have been in many political battles in my life, but never have I encountered an opposition as vicious and dishonest as the opposition to the campaign for academic freedom. This opposition is made up of radical professors who want to enforce political correctness on vulnerable students, the teacher unions who represent them, their subsidized shills in the Democratic Party, and their political friends in the news and editorial rooms of the local and national media. These political forces have been unrelenting in their misrepresentation of the Academic Bill of Rights and their readiness to slander its supporters at the...