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Hip-Hop Expert Hill Opines on National Security

February 11, 2010 By Joseph Klein Leave a Comment

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Columbia University Associate Professor Marc Lamont Hill did his usual babbling act on “The O’Reilly Factor” last night. This time, the issue was putting the Christmas Day underwear bomber and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on trial in civil court rather than before a military tribunal.
This expert in hip-hop music might have been able to [...]

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History as Propaganda

February 11, 2010 By Brendan Goldman 6 Comments

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Anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi politicizes and academic awards ceremony.

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The Heretics: Anthony Watts

February 9, 2010 By Rich Trzupek 26 Comments

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Meet the meteorologist, conservationist and self-styled “green” who is also a leading global warming skeptic.

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We Might Let Horowitz Appear, If He Has Three Keepers

February 8, 2010 By David Horowitz 1 Comment

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Has this become the new face of Catholic higher education?
St. Louis University, a Catholic institution, continues on a path designed to made it a laughingstock in the annals of academic freedom, maintaining its ban on yours truly while proclaiming its commitment to intellectual diversity and… academic freedom.
From Inside Higher Ed:

David Horowitz can’t seem to get [...]

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Religious “Truth” Commission to Examine U.S. War “Atrocities”

February 8, 2010 By Mark D. Tooley 19 Comments

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Far-left Christian activists host committee to slander the military.

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Justice Thomas Defends Campaign Finance Ruling – NYTimes.com

February 4, 2010 By Jacob Laksin Leave a Comment

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WASHINGTON — In expansive remarks at a law school in Florida, Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday vigorously defended the Supreme Court’s recent campaign finance decision. And Justice Thomas explained that he did not attend State of the Union addresses — he missed the dust-up when President Obama used the occasion last week to criticize the [...]

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Curious Defenses of the Goldstone Report

February 3, 2010 By Alan M. Dershowitz 10 Comments

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Goldstone invokes his Jewishness, Zionism, his daughter’s residence in Israel and his connection to Hebrew University.

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Leaked climate change emails scientist ‘hid’ data flaws – The Guardian

February 2, 2010 By Jacob Laksin 2 Comments

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Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia’s climatic [...]

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Collaborators in the War Against the Jews: Jennifer Loewenstein

February 1, 2010 By Steven Plaut 36 Comments

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For this professional Israel-basher, Hamas is really just a peace movement.

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Joseph Massad at UCLA: Gay-Bashing 101

February 1, 2010 By Eric Golub 42 Comments

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A Columbia professor claims that homosexuality is an imperialist plot against the Arab and Muslim worlds.

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