[stephenjohnbanker]

“At Columbia University, its president, Lee Bollinger, picked up kudos for courage for having Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak on campus.

It would “impoverish public debate” to exclude controversial speakers like Ahmadinejad, Bollinger said.

But apparently it did not “impoverish public debate” to have a representative of the Minuteman organization disrupted and shouted down with impunity at this same Columbia University earlier this year. The “courageous” Bollinger did nothing to punish those students who used storm trooper tactics to silence a point of view they did not like. “

Always “johhny on the spot” Sowell. He doesn’t necessarily say anything different than many FReepers, but he has an uncanny knack for “cutting to the chase”

[jazusamo]

I love it when he tears into academia, he doesn’t hold back.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

He doesn’t necessarily say anything different than many FReepers, but he has an uncanny knack for “cutting to the chase”

Yes, he certainly does get to the heart of the matter, even when he isn't saying anything we didn't know. In this article he does make a nice comparison between the treatment of the president of Iran and the treatment of the Minutemen, and between Columbia and Duke.

Yes, and between the full-throated NYT coverage of the latest "Twanna Brawley" incident at Duke, and the whispered NYT aside noting Brodhead's "apology" for not doing what he could not have done, saying nothing of his actual, active malfeasance.

I'm not sure I've seen that all tied together in one place. And certainly not with that neat a bow.

There is no indication that the Times itself is going to apologize for joining the lynch mob in the Duke "rape" case -- as it did in the Tawana Brawley "rape" case before, and as it will probably do again if and when the same kind of issue arises again.

Shudder. None of us is safe while Congress is in session. And The New York Times is even worse - it is always in session.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

He doesn’t necessarily say anything different than many FReepers, but he has an uncanny knack for “cutting to the chase”

Yes, he certainly does get to the heart of the matter, even when he isn't saying anything we didn't know. In this article he does make a nice comparison between the treatment of the president of Iran and the treatment of the Minutemen, and between Columbia and Duke.

Yes, and between the full-throated NYT coverage of the latest "Twanna Brawley" incident at Duke, and the whispered NYT aside noting Brodhead's "apology" for not doing what he could not have done, saying nothing of his actual, active malfeasance.

I'm not sure I've seen that all tied together in one place. And certainly not with that neat a bow.

There is no indication that the Times itself is going to apologize for joining the lynch mob in the Duke "rape" case -- as it did in the Tawana Brawley "rape" case before, and as it will probably do again if and when the same kind of issue arises again.

Shudder. None of us is safe while Congress is in session. And The New York Times is even worse - it is always in session.

[Congressman Billybob]

There are few political philosophers in the nation's history who are more clear-sighted, more honest. and more on point than Dr. Thomas Sowell. Not just in our time. Ever in our history.

Congressman Billybob

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