Where Are the Jobs? Not at CPAC Meeting
This week in Washington, D.C., thousands of conservative, very conservative and downright OMG extreme conservative activists will gather for the Conservative Political Action Committee’s (CPAC) annual choir session.
The usual cast of characters will headline the event—Grover Norquist, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, George Will and of course most of the Republican congressional leaders.
For three days starting tomorrow, they will rant against their favorite targets from President Obama to health care reform, from the “liberal media” to “big unions,” immigration reform and other issues that just about make their heads explode.
But going over the 18-page CPAC agenda for the meeting, there is one word you won’t find—jobs. Not one workshop, breakout session or featured speaker is dedicated to the nation’s most pressing agenda need—jobs and job creation. Read the rest of this entry »
Horowitz’s Latest Attack on Higher Ed ‘Inaccurate, Distorted’
Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition of 23 unions, faculty and student organizations and progressive policy groups, is setting the record straight about the shoddy research and erroneous conclusions in David Horowitz’s latest book, “One Party Classroom.”
As he does in his previous books, Horowitz, an extremist right-winger, attacks public universities and claims they brainwash students and turn them against their parents and country.
In “Facts Still Count,” the coalition says Horowitz’s outlandish claims are based on misrepresentations and distortions of the work of faculty members. The report says he has used this fallacious evidence to push an agenda that has the potential to chill the free exchange of ideas on college campuses. Click here to download the report.
