Newswise — The environmental community is voicing concern after President Obama suggested Congress might move an energy bill forward without a carbon-trading system in place.
According to Rafael Reuveny, a professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington, the entire negotiation in Congress is “politics as usual” and meant to stall [...]

(Daily 49er) In the past week, psychology professor Kevin MacDonald had his class interrupted by an organization claiming his views and recent involvement in political organization the American Third Option party are seen as racist and anti-Semitic.
MacDonald, a tenured professor at Cal State Long Beach, has been making headlines on the matter since he was [...]

(Yahoo news) – Radical feminist Mary Daly, the iconoclastic theologian who proclaimed, “I hate the Bible,” and retired from Boston Collegerather than allow men to take her classes, has died. She was 81.
Daly died Sunday of natural causes at Wachusett Manor nursing home in Gardner, Mass., said her longtime friend, Nancy Kelly.
She passed away as a [...]

(Dailyliberal) Charles Sturt University’s climate change policy expert Professor Clive Hamilton has labelled the NSW Farmers’ Association’s call for a Royal Commission into the science that is driving the Federal Government’s policies on climate change as a “political diversion.”
Prof Hamilton said he did not doubt the science behind climate change and it was only for [...]

Professor Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania really seems to like the new deal.  He only wishes that communities never had the chance to spend those federal dollars.  He seems to like complete control from the top.  The following is extracted from thenation.com and albany.edu:

I don’t believe that historians should become propagandists. (read below and [...]

Professor Lakoff wants liberals to know how to win the game of catchphrases.  Here’s just a few of his insights:

Conservatives have branded liberals, and the liberals let them get away with it: the “liberal elite,” the “latte liberals,” the “limousine liberals.” The funny thing is that conservatives are the elite. The whole idea of conservative [...]