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  • Fellowship awarded professor is reviewed

    05/02/2002 6:53:11 AM PDT · by billorites · 12 replies · 180+ views
    Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | May 2, 2002 | Jen Sansbury
    The National Endowment for the Humanities has taken the unusual step of demanding a review of a federally funded fellowship awarded to Emory University history Professor Michael Bellesiles. "The NEH request is unprecedented," said James Grossman, vice president for research and education at the Newberry Library in Chicago, which gave Bellesiles $30,000 for a project to research American gun laws. "They're asking questions that they're entitled to ask, and we're answering them as best we can." Bellesiles' acclaimed 2000 book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," drew widespread criticism for its contention that guns were more rare...
  • The Lord condones Retaliation and Divorce! [Thomas DiLorenzo and the Real Lincoln]

    04/24/2002 9:22:24 AM PDT · by Ditto · 28 replies · 497+ views
    hokoenig.com ^ | April 23, 2002
    Tell me What I Say Department The Lord condones Retaliation and Divorce! "Hang all the Law and the Prophets." -- Jesus of Nazareth. We are forever in debt to Dr. diLorenzo. In his efforts to show that Lincoln was actually a not-so-crypto commie, he has provided us with a new exegetical technique which sheds light on, well, on just about everything! The left wing of the Supreme Court will soon be using diLorenzian interpretation to show that the Constitution mandates ex post facto law when it states, "Ex post facto law shall be passed." (It's in there, believe us: Article...