Opinion

The Virginia elections should show us the power of the mama bears – a force not to be ignored

Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this right. Yet, education elites have been on a collision course with parental rights, exhibiting that they are intent on using public schools as a laboratory for social experiments like critical race theory,...

Tami Fitzgerald
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UNC Asheville should host Women’s March organizer, FIRE leader says

UNC Asheville is right to defend free speech amid national criticism of Tamika Mallory, the controversial national co-chair of the Women’s March who will speak on the campus in honor of Martin Luther King, says a leading First Amendment lawyer and activist. Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, praised...

Kari Travis
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Senate committee discusses ways to protect free speech on campuses

When it comes to free speech, opposites may not attract. But respectful conflict and debate make for better education in colleges and universities, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, said in a hearing Oct. 26. A handful of witnesses joined Alexander, chairman of the Senate education committee. Among them were Richard Zimmer, president of the University...

Kari Travis

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Jumping to Hate Crime Conclusions

RALEIGH — Back in mid-June, when the news was swirling with outrage over allegations of mistreatment of terrorists at Guantanamo, there came a news item that fit perfectly into that template: It was reported that on June 11 a burned Koran was found at the Islamic Center at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

Jon Ham