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The female voices rose high-pitched and shrill above the crowd: “Five, six, seven, eight, Israel is a terrorist state.” “We don’t want no Zionists here, say it loud, say it clear.” “Resistance is justified when people are occupied.” The voices that answered them were also overwhelmingly female, emanating from hundreds of students chanting and marching around tents pitched in front of Columbia University’s neoclassical Butler Library, part of an effort in late April to prevent the university from uprooting the encampment. The female tilt among anti-Israel student protesters is an underappreciated aspect of the pro-Hamas campus hysteria. True, when activists...

There are many ways to spot a fanatic, but a particularly damning one is when, on the rare instance where one admits to acting fanatical, it’s still somehow the victim’s fault. This was on full display in a recent Salon column by Catherine Landis, a Planned Parenthood of Middle & East Tennessee board member and Knoxville Advocates of Reproductive Rights community action team leader. In a piece that stunningly alternates between confessions of abominably unjustified incivility and suggesting it was totally justified, Landis recounts an encounter with a pro-lifer at Tennessee early voting station last November in which she “didn’t...

Video produced for Buchanan County (MO) Lincoln Day dinner. According to Celtic legend, hearing the cry of the banshee is a sign of impending death. Who needs to worry as we hear the cry of the Banshee? With the Hillary/Obama campaign winding down I wanted to post this before it was too much out of date. ENJOY!

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Howard Dean's "bizarre rant" after his defeat in Iowa is looking like the fatal blow to his campaign, according the New York Post and others. "I used to be on the Dean bandwagon, but now I feel as if he's imploding," said medical student Eliza Shulman. "I was really scared when I saw him on TV. I can't believe I used to be for that guy. It's embarrassing." The Post quoted "stunned" strategists for Democrat rivals, including this one: "I don't know how he'll ever be able to convince voters that he has the gravitas, temperament and judgment to be...

Liberals are having a cow after Rush called Hillary a "screaming witch" on today's show. LOL