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Heroic Todd Beamer was not in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. But he led the famous "Let's Roll" charge into the cockpit of Flight 93, which crashed that same day in Pennsylvania after being hijacked by al-Qaida terrorists. He was a DePaul grad, earning his MBA from the Chicago school in 1993. So, does October 20 and 21 DePaul speaker Ward Churchill think Todd was a "Little Eichmann?"

Another word for ‘politically correct’ is ‘intolerant’By JAY AMBROSE Guest Commentary MY ONLINE dictionary has a politically correct definition of “politically correct,” saying that the phrase refers to support for “broad social, political, and educational change, especially to redress historical injustices in matters such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.” It gives a hint at the real meaning when it says the phrase can point to someone who is perceived as being “overconcerned with such change, often to the exclusion of other matters,” and that PC behavior “involves changing or avoiding language that might offend anyone.” But the definition...

Chicago’s DePaul University, which has taken a couple of hits for its grotesque squashing of a professor’s free-speech rights, is hitting back, adding defamatory insult to career-ending injury – and a question comes to mind. It’s a question that was asked by the counsel for the Army in 1954 when Sen. Joseph McCarthy was seeking out Communists in the government. He threw his charges around with little or no evidence; others in Congress did the same, and sometimes reputations were recklessly ruined. In the hearing, McCarthy got tangled with the counsel, Joseph Welch, in suggesting that a young associate of...

MILWAUKEE (AP) A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor has acknowledged e-mailing naked photos of himself to a 14-year-old boy, according to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Lewis Keith Cohen, 59, was charged Tuesday with one count of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and one count of child enticement with intent to expose a sex organ to a child and cause a child to expose a sex organ. The complaint said police arrested Cohen on March 15 at a Subway restaurant in the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale, where Cohen had arranged to the meet...