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Extremists on Campus by Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer New York Post June 25, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/424 http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/51063.htm For three decades, left-wing extremists have dominated American academics, spouting odd but seemingly harmless theories about "deconstruction," "post-modernism," "race, gender and class," while venting against the United States, its government and its allies. Only these ideas are not so harmless. The radical notions espoused in the classrooms and in campus demonstrations have recently had dangerous consequences. These are especially visible with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Consider some of the steps American professors took during 2002: * Columbia University: Hamid Dabashi, a specialist...

Jury Clears Sleepwalker Accused Of Rape Student Charged With Entering Dorm Rooms Of 10 Women POSTED: 7:08 a.m. EDT June 25, 2002 UPDATED: 10:52 a.m. EDT June 25, 2002 AMHERST, Mass. -- A former Massachusetts Maritime Academy student, who claimed he was suffering from a hereditary sleepwalking disorder, has been acquitted of charges of sexually assaulting women students in a UMass dormitory in Amherst. A Hampshire Superior Court jury found Adam Kieczykowski, 19, of Westfield, N.J., not guilty on all 22 charges he faced. He had been accused of entering the rooms of 10 women students after a night...

No, I'm not talking about another "surprise" attack on the 4th of July. I'm talking about the national debt limit, again. Where are the government shutdowns? When are the "nonessential" federal employees going to be sent home on another temporary paid-later vacation? Remember Newt and Bob, in December of 1995, being interviewed almost daily about their "Contract with America?" We are only days away from Friday, June 28, when the month of June officially ends and it's time for the government to close the books on another month of double bookkeeping. That's the deadline that the Secretary of the Treasury...

Jun. 25, 01:00 EDT Canada to end Arctic ozone watch Station shut to save $300,000 for other meteorological needs Peter Calamai SCIENCE REPORTER OTTAWA — Canadian and foreign scientists are blaming government penny-pinching for tearing a gaping Arctic hole in a global network that probes ozone depletion and climate change. To save an estimated $300,000 a year, federal environment officials have mothballed a scientific observation post near Eureka on Ellesmere Island, one of only two fully equipped high Arctic stations in the global network. "It's a major loss," said Stuart McDermid, a U.S. ozone expert who helps direct the...

<p>By what's going on at their state Capitol, Tennessee taxpayers like Charles Brandt of Hendersonville think that Tennessee and Connecticut are much closer politically these days.</p> <p>As July 1 approaches, budget deliberations here flirt more with shutting down state government as a last-ditch way that legislative leaders can force passage of an income tax.</p>

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Britain's only openly heterosexual police officer speaks out on web Brave: Britain's only openly heterosexual police officer BRIXTON, LONDON - Britain's only openly heterosexual police officer has been speaking out on a UK bulletin board, herdofsheep can reveal. The officer, Detective Sergeant Haley Moffit, 52, who lives openly with a woman, and admits to having sexual relations with her, had a frank exchange of views with bulletin board members on Urban75.com. "People say I am mad for being so open about liking women and working for the police," Moffit explained to Urban75 readers. "But I tell them: why should I...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... ossify \AH-suh-fy\, intransitive verb, transitive verb: ossified, ossifying, ossifies ossific; adjective 1. To change into bone; to become bony. 2. To become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern. 3. To change...

As has often been said, the most interesting arguments in our public life today are not those between Left and Right, but those within the Right. The political Left has had no new ideas since 1968.* Their old ideas have "won" in the sense that they dominate the media, universities, the legal profession, and the public sector, but the price of victory has been the stultification of leftist thought, and a decay of the critical faculties. Nobody on the Left has anything interesting to say. Our best debates now are all within the political Right. One that has currently...

President Bush has offered a far-reaching, moral vision for the future of the Middle East. The question is how to get there from here. As laid out in two speeches, one in April and the second yesterday, Mr. Bush wants to see two thriving democratic states, one Jewish, the other Palestinian, sharing the strip of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The 1993 Oslo peace framework may have collapsed under the strain of Palestinian terror and Israeli military retaliation, the president is saying, but its opponents will not be permitted to declare victory. The Oslo goal of...

It has been brought to my attention that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is hosting this year’s national conference of the “National Association of Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries” (NACDLGM), the dissident “lavender mafia” primarily responsible for promoting the homosexualist agenda throughout our chanceries and seminaries. The event is posted on the NACDLGM web site: http://www.nacdlgm.org/conference.htm Among the featured speakers is none other than Cincinnati’s own Auxiliary Bishop Carl Moeddel. NACDLGM’s web site states, “Bishop Moeddel serves as Vicar General, Director of Pastoral Services and Director of Priest Personnel. He is Chair of the governing board of St. Rita School for...

Clips: First, it was a campaign slogan. Then it became education law. Now, there is "No Child Left Behind," the song. We're here to thank our president, For signing this great bill, That's right! Yeah, Research shows we know the way, It's time we showed the will! The song, which is prompting clawing reviews among Capitol Hill Democrats and education lobbyists around town, was written by Christopher Cerf and Sarah Bruce Durkee, whose children's show, "Between the Lions," receives a $4 million grant from the Education Department. The song is part of an effort by the Bush administration to promote...

Tuesday, June 25'She's heading in the wrong direction'ESPN.com news services WIMBLEDON, England -- Not even another first-round loss could knock Anna Kournikova out of the headlines at Wimbledon. Former champions John McEnroe and Virginia Wade were among those who publicly criticized Kournikova on Tuesday for her behavior during an interview with BBC-TV. After failing to get past the first round for the fourth time in a row, Kournikova lost her temper during the interview when it was suggested she should consider playing some lower-tier tournaments. Although she asked that the taped interview start over, the BBC later televised the...

Two Injured In Explosion At Pfizer Corp. 8:43 AM EDT,June 25, 2002 The Associated Press GROTON -- At least two people were injured in an explosion this morning at the Pfizer Corp. manufacturing complex. The explosion occurred at about 8:15 a.m. inside a building used to make small quantities of test pharmaceuticals, said Pfizer spokesman Stephen Lederer. Lederer could not say how serious the injuries were, or how large the explosion had been. Bridgeport Hospital spokesman John Cappiello said the burn unit there was expecting to receive at least one patient, who was being transported by helicopter. About 6,000 people...

The Reality Thing By PAUL KRUGMAN You can say this about the Bush administration: where others might see problems, it sees opportunities. A slump in the economy was an opportunity to push a tax cut that provided very little stimulus in the short run, but will place huge demands on the budget in 2010. An electricity shortage in California was an opportunity to push for drilling in Alaska, which would have produced no electricity and hardly any oil until 2013 or so. An attack by lightly armed terrorist infiltrators was an opportunity to push for lots of heavy weapons and...

The most striking thing about President Bush's anxiously awaited statement on an "interim" Palestinian state is that it wasn't a statement on an "interim" Palestinian state.Bush never even uttered the word "interim." He used the synonym, "provisional," only twice — once to say that establishment of such a state would come about "when the Palestinian people have new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements," and once to say that Americans will "support the creation of a provisional state of Palestine" only if Palestinians "embrace democracy, confront corruption and firmly reject terror."So we must conclude that in the battle...

On June 19, 2002, the Palestinian daily Al-Quds published a communiqué regarding Palestinian martyrdom attacks. The communiqué was signed by 55 prominent Palestinians, among them Sari Nusseibeh and Hanan Ashrawi. Two days later, the communiqué was reissued with modifications and additional signatures. Additionally, an English translation was published in The Jerusalem Times (Palestinian Authority), on June 20. The following is the text of both issues of the communiqué as well as reactions of Palestinian public figures:(1) Communiqué: First Release "A Call:" "Out of our national responsibility, and due to the gravity of the situation the Palestinian people is in, we,...

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Congressman's "Border Initiative" exposes racist connections By One People's Project An anti-immigration congressman is maintaining some ties to some racist organizations in an effort to push forward an initiative to put federal troops on the border to stem the flow of those entering the US. Rep. Tom Tancredo Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, and several members of the Caucus called on the President to immediately deploy troops along the U.S. border, something that they called a "major border protection initiative." In a unclassified briefing on homeland security attended by Caucus members, Tom Ridge, Director...

CLEARWATER - A fire at a chemical plant spawned explosions and kept Pinellas County firefighters at bay for hours late Monday night. No one was injured, a fire rescue spokesman said. The alarm at the Brenntag plant, 1575 Sunshine Drive, came in at 10:42 p.m., the spokesman said. By midnight, firefighters were battling the blaze defensively, meaning they were trying to keep it from spreading and not aggressively trying to put it out by entering the complex, the spokesman said. The combination of heat and hazardous chemicals inside the plant was too dangerous, he said. Authorities early this morning began...