Free Republic

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has issued a groveling apology for her refusal to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people on campus in her remarks to Congress — as Harvard University President Pauline Gay backtracked on her testimony. In a video posted on the Ivy League’s website Wednesday, Magill tried to explain her failure by saying she was not “focused” on the issue, and said that she wanted to “be clear” that calls for genocide were “evil, plain and simple.” But she also seemingly blamed university policies and even the US Constitution for allowing the calls...

Weiner's "Take Down" on the House FloorRepublicans try to reprimand Weiner. He begs for more. By MELISSA RUSSO Updated 6:30 PM EST, Wed, Feb 24, 2010 Republicans tried to "take down" Congressman Anthony Weiner on the House floor today in a heated exchange that happened after Weiner called the Republican Party "a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry." The exchange took place during debate on a bill to lift the insurance industry's exemption from antitrust rules. Republican Dan Lungren, sounding quite offended, invoked a little used House rule and demanded that Weiner's words "be taken down" -- as in...

The third anniversary of the war for a free Iraq occasioned a wrong turn for the media. On Tuesday, NBC’s Today planned to discuss media coverage of the war --- certainly an underexplored angle --- with Laura Ingraham and James Carville. NBC’s question: "Is American getting a fair picture of what’s actually happening in Iraq?" Ingraham came out of the blocks with fire, doing something no conservative does who wants to be invited on TV ever again. She went straight at her hosts: The Today Show spends all this money to send people to the Olympics, which is great, it...