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Education
Senator Alexander criticizes Education Department power grabs
On Thursday, The College Fix published an interesting story titled “Department of Education shredded for lawless overreach in Senate hearing.”…
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Education
Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, is gradually turning Title IX into a license…
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Law and Government
Federal union leader at V.A. gets official hand slap for sexual assault
A Mississippi leader of the federal government’s largest employee union remains on the job in the Department of Veterans Affairs…
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Education
Hugs are now ‘sexual assault’ at the University of Virginia
If you hug your boyfriend and as a result your clothed body (including your breasts) touches him, you could be…
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Law and Government
NY taxpayers on the hook for over $1 million in lawmaker legal fees
Tom DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller, has issued contract and payment approvals for legal bills and settlement funds incurred by the…
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Education
College president accused of pushing fake sexual harassment claims
The president of Chicago State University pressured a high-level administrator at the school to file a bogus sexual harassment claim…
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Education
Federal education regulations deprive students of justice and due process
Last week, I participated in a March 13 panel discussion at the National Press Club titled “Bringing an End to…
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Education
Civil Rights Commissioners oppose budget hike for Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights
On February 26, two members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow, wrote to the…
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Science and Technology
U.N. Climate Change panel chairman accused of sexually harassing female subordinate
The head of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being investigated by Indian police for allegedly sexually harassing a subordinate.…
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Law and Government
Dear Gov. Cuomo: At least Obama had the courage to tell Anthony Weiner to resign
Despite persistent calls for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s resignation, both from this site and from many prominent politicians, New…
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Education
Congress should reject Obama’s proposed budget increase for the Office for Civil Rights
The Obama administration perversely rewards agencies that overstep their authority by giving them bigger budgets to handle the increased workload…
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Education
Misleading NPR report leads to costly, illegal Education Department rules on sexual harassment
Bad things can happen when an agency (like the Education Department) throws caution to the wind and imposes rules based on misleading…
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Education
Education Department says Harvard violated Title IX by failing to parrot bureaucrats
Can a federal agency find you in violation of the law, not for actions that violate a statute, but for…
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Politics
Professor at Catholic university suspended for gay marriage post
An assistant professor at Marquette University has been suspended and banished from campus by the university administration after making a…
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Education
LGBT bias law treats people as guilty until proven innocent
Anti-bias regulations are sometimes biased and hostile to civil liberties. At Overlawyered, Walter Olson discusses a disturbing new gay-rights law hailed by…
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Politics
Sexual harassment, corruption so rampant in NY government, they had to create a hotline
Sexual harassment has been so prevalent for New York lawmakers in recent years that Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state’s…
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Education
GA high school senior suspended one year for hugging teacher
A Duluth, Ga., high school senior was suspended an entire year for violating school sexual harassment rules. That means he…
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Law and Government
Werid womanizer Bob Filner is out as SD mayor
Bob Filner may not be a “former colleague,” according to Nancy Pelosi — who worked side-by-side with the man for…
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Law and Government
Dim bulb Pelosi: Don't call pervert Filner my colleague
Someone buy House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a dictionary so she can look up the word colleague. She can see for…
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