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Last month, as President Trump made broad claims about his power to pardon, I noted that he “may find out that something can be both legal and, simultaneously, an impeachable offense.” Last night, as the president issued a pardon to former Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt of court, some commentators argued that this was exactly the case. Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman, for example, wrote after Trump’s belligerent Phoenix rally speech that such a pardon would represent an “assault on the federal judiciary, the Constitution and the rule of law itself” for which...

If you're unfamiliar with Ward Churchill, consider yourself lucky. He's a professional revolutionary and America-hating activist who, when not agitating, chairs the Ethnic Studies Department at University of Colorado at Boulder. While Churchill has made a career of trying to deny Denverites their First Amendment rights, last week we found out that it wasn't personal, just a widespread contempt for freedom. You should understand, when I say "America-hating," I don't mean to suggest it in a flippant, love-it-or-leave-it, knee-jerk, right-wing sort of way. I think it's fair to state that a majority of reasonable Americans find Churchill's contention - that...

After a series of ads in the University of Arizona newspaper railed against left-wing professors, a student allegedly reported Professor David Gibbs to the FBI for being "an anti-American communist who hates America." A series of ads have been running in student newspapers across the country charging that universities are dominated by liberal or left-wing professors. The ads are paid for by well-funded groups like Students for Academic Freedom and the Independent Women's Forum. Some of the ads encourage students to report any so-called anti-American faculty or statements made by professors. And that is apparently what happened to David Gibbs,...

Lanny Griffith, Tammy Bruce, Ron Robinson and Dr. Candace De Russy speak at Restoration Weekend on "Political Bias In Our Colleges and What We Can Do About It." * LANNY GRIFFITH: I've known of David Horowitz and admired his work for many years. In the last couple of years I've had the chance to work with him first-hand, and have participated in the last three or four Restoration Weekends. I'm serving on his Board now, and am just a huge fan of what it is he does in terms of helping us understand the methods and the strategy of the left,...

VICTIM OF ACADEMIA’S DOUBLE STANDARD by Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums SuttonAn "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is taking place on American campuses today.They are targeting our learning centers. There is a new generation of students being subjected to a reconditioning of their ideas and beliefs by way of an instructor selection process that insures one-sidedness. The free flowing of ideas is becoming outdated. Today’s students are systematically pressured into a uniform thought. The invaders, though well entrenched in the increasingly monolithic faculty, must make a conscious effort to take over the student bodies offered up to them,...