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Generation South Park, Generation Y Conservatism

NewsReal’s Chris Yogerst is currently blogging about this season’s politically-oriented episodes of Comedy Central’s satirical cartoon South Park. Chris’s focus: the show’s relationship with “Generation Y Conservatism,” an emerging ideological orientation among those born between 1980 and 1995 who are just beginning to emerge onto the political scene.
What is Generation Y Conservatism? There’s no clear [...]

Brother-on-brother Islamic honor killing in Seattle

Here is yet another variation on the honor killing theme, coming hot on the heels of the New York woman who tried to kill her husband because he was insufficiently Muslim. In this variation (thanks to Block Ness), a Muslim from Afghanistan beats his brother to death for repeating an…

Jamie Glazov Takes on Sean Penn at World Net Daily

Jamie Glazov has another must-read article over at World Net Daily:

Sean Penn is in Castro’s Cuba on another one of his political pilgrimages. This time he’s seeking an interview with his hero, the communist despot Fidel Castro.
Penn scored interviews last year with two of his other secular gods: Cuban president and executioner Raúl Castro [...]

University of North Texas Eliminates Free Speech Zones

The University of North Texas (UNT) has revised its “Free Speech and Public Assembly Policy,” which previously provided for only six “free speech areas” on campus where students could “engage in constitutionally protected speech and expression at the University of North Texas.”

Charles Rangel

For the entire Charles Rangel profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Charles Rangel profile: Born in Harlem, New York in June 1930, Charles Rangel is a Democratic congressman who represents the 15th Congressional District of New York, located in upper Manhattan. He has served in the House of Representatives since 1971. Rangel, who is black, [...]

Academia and its Discontents: The Debate Over Academic Freedom at Columbia University

To the class of 2013, Columbia University’s recent public trials over academic freedom may seem like ancient history, discussed only on occasion in University Writing classrooms or encountered by accident while exploring next semester’s course schedule and Googling professor Joseph Massad.

Lunch Break

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Caught: Muslim father who attempted honor killing in Arizona

Note the egregious, completely gratuitous attack on Rifqa Bary and defense of Islam at the end of this story. The mainstream media continues to feel itself compelled to run interference for Muslims as a group whenever a Muslim behaves badly — a courtesy they never accord to other groups….

CNN Uses Interview With Valerie Jarrett To Boast Of Its Objectivity

Bill O’Reilly has been giving his on-air competitor Campbell Brown of CNN some free promotion the last couple of nights. The reason was Campbell’s interview with senior Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, in which Jarrett refused to admit that the Obama administration’s attacks on Fox News for media bias left out obvious examples of media bias such as MSNBC. [...]