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• We’re Off to Another Musical Audition

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 123
  Young Son and Favorite Daughter are both auditioning tonight for the first local production of this musical, but for Young Son it’s mostly for the experience; the men’s parts all pretty much require beard follicles as well as a man’s voice, I think. He is singing “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” from Guys and [...]
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• Why both Bock and Borg are on my Ready-Reading Shelf

  
  Threads from Henry's Web — Authority: 422
  I have been wanting to respond further to the excellent discussion over at Reclaiming the Mind , to which I linked a couple of days ago, but I’m not really an academic, and Karl Barth notwithstanding, I’m not really a theologian either. (I now am close to 100 comments behind on keeping up with the thread a ...
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• Discovery Institute Sues California Science Center for Suppressing Public Documents Showing Viewpoint Discrimination Against Intelligent Design

  
  Evolution News & Views — Authority: 605
  LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 -- Discovery Institute has filed a lawsuit against the California Science Center (the "Center") for unlawfully refusing to disclose public documents requested by Discovery Institute under the California Public Records Act. Discovery Institute filed the public documents request on October 9, 2009, ...
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• Oklahoma University President Interferes with Federally Funded Health Research

  
  Speaking of Research — Authority: 456
  Call for Support of Oklahoma Scientists and Research Programs Speaking of Research, along with scientists and others across the country, were appalled to learn yesterday that Oklahoma State University’s President cancelled a research project for which his university had already accepted federal funding and which ...
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• Florida school districts agrees to end ban on fliers for kids event at church.

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 443
  Fla. school district agrees to end ban on fliers for children’s event at church ADF filed suit after district refused to allow church to participate in flier program open to other community groups Wednesday, November 25, 2009 FORT MYERS, Fla. — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have reached a favorable ...
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• NCAC, AAUP and Others Issue Call to Action Over Censorship in Response to Threats of Violence, Real and Imagined

  
  Blogging Censorship — Authority: 456
  The National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Association of University Professors, joined by leading groups in the academic, civil liberties, journalism, and free speech fields, issued a Statement of Principle and Call to Action urging governments, institutions and private individuals to support ...
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• "We are unable to share documents relating to problematic EHRs as our contract with Cerner includes a confidentiality clause"

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 537
  In my post " Academic Freedom and ED EHRs Down Under: Another Update and a Welcome Development " I reported on the Univ. of Sydneys somwehat belated support for academic freedom, and the reappearance of an essay on ED electronic health records problems in NSW by one of its informatics faculty, Prof. Jon Patrick, ...
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• Princeton University allows an LGBT center but no center for abstinence

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 443
  Princeton Rejects Abstinence Center -From CitizenLink.com Members of Princeton Universitys abstinence club, The Anscombe Society, have asked for an Abstinence and Chastity Center for two years with no luck, yet the school has no problem supporting a center for gay and "transgender" students. When asked why she ...
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• The Truth about Richard Sternberg’s Persecution by the Smithsonian

  
  Evolution News & Views — Authority: 605
  Will Michael Shermer and Donald Prothero tell the truth about what happened to Richard Sternberg ? That’s one of the open questions going into tonight’s debate in Los Angeles between Shermer and Prothero and ID proponents Stephen Meyer and Richard Sternberg. Shermer and Prothero have a record of misstating the ...
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• Political Correctness Revisited: Views From Both Sides

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 708
  Two recent books give hope for a reasonable debate on political speech in the university.
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• Mike Adams: The state of the revolution

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Mike Adams writing at Townhall : "It’s hard to believe it has been over four years since I spoke at N.C. State. That night, back in August of 2005, I gave a speech calling for a conservative revolution on our college campuses . . . In January of 2006, I got a call from David French of the newly formed Center for ...
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• Cerner attempted "suppression" of a critical report

  
  Informaticopia — Authority: 112
  A story entitled "Claim of censorship over Cerner system" in Computer Weekly has alerted me (and probably many others) to a report, by Professor Jon Patrick from Australia - The Story of the Deployment of an ED Clinical Information System6.0.pdf which is critical of Cerner FirstNet.The paper presents an international ...
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• UC Davis Occupiers Force Negotiations

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 455
  In a second occupation at Mrak Hall, student activists forced the administration to negotiate, make several concessions, and enter into discussion about their demands. See  the full story , complete with a scan of the agreement signed by UC administrator Janet Gong.All thanks to the disobedient!
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• No Free Speech for Comparative Effectiveness Researchers?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 537
  We have repeatedly argued why comparative effectiveness research, under ideal circumstances, would be a good idea.  As I said before : Physicians spend a lot of time trying to figure out the best treatments for particular patients problems. Doing so is often hard. In many situations, there are many plausible ...
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• the debate I wanna see (Will Phillips v. Carrie Prejean)

  
  Tony's curricublog — Authority: 116
  On CNN Monday morning (Nov. 16, 2009), ten-year-old Will Phillips his reason for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance in his fifth-grade class:I’ve grown up with a lot of people and I’m good friends with a lot of people who are gay and I think they should have the rights all people should, and [...]
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• ARE HATE CRIME LAWS LEGALIZING TREASON?

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 171
  Jeff Gates   The Anti-Defamation League silencing strategy offers a microcosm of how the US was induced to war in Iraq based on false intelligence, says Jeff Gates.Lawful Treason?Winning Read More......( read more )
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• Pro-life student president president back on the job as College agrees after letter sent to officials that recall election violated state law.

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 443
  This is an update to Student president faces removal after allowing free speech on campus on Consitution Day To see the possible display that was in dispute at below college that the University of CA at Berkely allowed see Genocide Awareness Project hits liberal University of CA at Berkely with disturbing yet ...
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• The Liar, The Witch, and the KKK’s Wardrode

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 123
  Sarah Palin’s presidential-ambition-blessing pastor was a real, literal witch-hunter and witch-persecutor. No joke. Now comes another no-joke witch story, one I saw earlier today in the Chronicle of Higher Education weekly round-up by Don Troop, under the irresistible and accurately newsworthy headline, “The Liar, ...
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• U.S. Campus Watch Copycats Close in on Israeli Professors

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the witch-hunt tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. “I have no hesitation in calling this a McCarthyite campaign,” said David Newman, a politics ...
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• California is Burning

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 455
  Update: you’ve got to watch this video . Yesterday the UC Regents walked into a room packed with gasoline and nonchalantly lit their cigars–handing down tuition increases that will hike 2010 rates 44% over 2008, turning higher ed into a gated community for the offspring of California’s “Real ...
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