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 Ben ShapiroShapiro is a second-year political science student bringing reason to the masses. E-mail him at FrumFiddle@aol.com.Click Here for more articles by Ben ShapiroUniversities have a serious problem. The type of liberalism so heavily favored by the intellectual elite has crossed the line. Professors throughout the educational world are supporting murderers and terrorists; they are justifying despicable actions because of the political philosophies of the actors. Murder, slaughter, and terrorism are OK, they say, as long as they are directed at law-enforcement officials or civilian Westerners. It's fine as long as the murderer is anti-capitalist, anti-establishment or anti-conservative. This frightening ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush was making the rounds at a computer-crammed FEMA headquarters in Washington this week, shaking hands with staffers putting in 14-hour days dealing with the Sept. 11 tragedy, when a woman approached to ask how he was feeling. "I'm doing great,'' the president replied, grinning broadly. It was an assessment with which most of the American public concurs. More than three weeks after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and a section of the Pentagon, killing more than 6,000, President Bush has gained the confidence of a startled populace and the backing of his political foes. "Clearly, ...

I wonder if any Freepers use any mind altering drugs (i.e. pot, cocaine, ecstacy, LSD, 'shrooms, heroin, Xanax®, Prozac®, Zoloft ®) whether recreationally, habitually or clinically. Is your use of said drug(s) beyond your control? A living nightmare? A pleasant diversion? A necessary part of your daily life? A distant memory from high school or college? None of the above. And if you are a user of illegal drugs, where do you stand on the Drug War?

Actor and director Sean Penn has revealed his revolutionary leanings and attacked the abilities of Hollywood directors. He told reporters at the Edinburgh Film Festival that he hoped a new generation of thought-provoking directors will come out of the anti-capitalist movement. I think it would be an enormously patriotic movement to invest in the possibility of revolution Sean Penn Penn is in the Scottish capital for the UK première of his latest directorial feature, The Pledge, which stars Jack Nicholson and his wife Robin Wright Penn. "I don't know if people value the thought of revolution any more," he said ...

CLINTON PEEPS AT NEW BRIDE Pictures: BEN LACK By ALASTAIR TAYLORBEADY-eyed Bill Clinton joins in a wedding party as a surprise guest - and seems to be sizing up the bride. The former US president - notorious for having an eye for the ladies - took a cheeky peep at newlywed Rebecca Garnett in her low-cut dress as they posed for pictures. Surprise ... Clinton pops up atJustin and Rebecca's reception Clinton, 54, interrupted a golf game to politely "gatecrash" Rebecca and hubby Justin's reception at Rudding Park Hotel in Harrogate, North Yorks. Rebecca, 30, now on honeymoon with ...

ROVIDENCE - Angry students stole the entire press run of yesterday's Brown Daily Herald, escalating a fiery debate over the student daily's publication on Tuesday of an advertisement denouncing reparations for African-Americans. Herald staffers physically restrained a mob of students who tried to force their way into the daily's newsroom to destroy the remaining 100 copies of yesterday's paper. As the protesters pounded on the barricaded door, demanding a formal apology and financial amends, the student journalists refused to yield. The Herald, citing free-speech principles, this week became the first Ivy League paper to print the ad from controversial ...

02/28/01 - Senator Clinton Joins Colleagues in Announcing Legislation to Protect the Artic National Wildlife Refuge

Clinton Spoke Up for Friends In a Billing Dispute With CBS By JOE FLINT and JOHN HARWOOD Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- When he was still president, Bill Clinton placed a phone call to the chief executive of CBS seeking to help his old friends, the TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, in a million-dollar billing dispute, according to people in the entertainment industry familiar with the matter. It was several months before the last rush of requests for presidential pardons from Clinton friends and others with political connections. The Thomasons and their company, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ By hiring former President Bill Clinton to speak at its New Orleans convention, Oracle Corp. got something extra: an angry band of anti-Clinton protesters. About 30 people marched peacefully in a circle in front of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Center on Monday while Clinton spoke inside. They carried signs that ranged from bawdy sex jokes to jabs at the software company. ``Bill Clinton Is an Alleycat Who Should Be Neutered,'' read one. Another said, ``Bill Clinton = Risky Investment.'' Many of the protesters were members of the newly founded Gulf Coast branch of Free ...

Don't ask me if I ever believed it would be possible for me to feel -- well -- almost sorry for Bill Clinton. You know the answer. Not a chance. No way, Jose. Not in this life. Get outta here. Feel sorry for this instinctive liar, this discount Machiavelli whose cheatin' ways with women constitute the least of his sins? EMAIL: DEB WEISS Oh, please! Still, as the press twitters and shudders (and, occasionally, reports), all at once discovering outrage, in the wake of that outrageous presidency, there's something in me that almost pities the miserable SOB. Almost. Purloined flatware. ...

As the Clinton scandal watch warmed up again early in August, reporters seeking scoops once more flocked to the Web site of Matt Drudge, the intrepid Internetter who back in January forced polite publications to make Monica Lewinsky a household name. And yet, some of the same journalists who looked to Drudge for information were publicly attacking his Web site for contributing to a decline of media standards. Whiners, welcome to Journalism History 101. Matt Drudge is doing what some of the most esteemed names in American press lore -- Benjamin Harris, John Peter Zenger, Samuel Adams, Horace Greeley, Joseph ...

NEW YORK Students waiting in the lounge at Audrey Cohen College cluster in small groups, murmuring and shaking their heads as they read the flier summarizing the eye-popping views of the evening's guest speaker. He's the one who writes that African Americans undermine their own progress by subscribing to "a cult of victimology" that leads them to loaf through school, mistake minor inconveniences for crippling racism and embrace an anti-intellectual culture that frowns on serious scholarship. The students can hardly wait to get a load of whoever wrote this stuff. "Who is this guy?" asks Raemona Winningham, 34, a social ...

As one of the Lincoln cabinet members, Gideon Welles I believe, said "He belongs to the ages now" at the moment of Lincoln 's passing. As I write this several hours before the moment of Al Gore's political "passing", I couldn't help wonder how to honor the deceased. Tossing Al a line now would be unfair. Best to put this horse out of his misery. Through a whinny, law twisting legal team, Al managed to blow whatever shot he had at 2004. Nobody is going to want to sit through another dull Al Gore lecture about anything, except the speech ...

Banana Republicans   To GOP, winning’s more important than being fair       By Paul Begala     WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 —  The Bushies are desperate — desperate to stop a manual recount of disputed Florida votes. And as so often happens when one is desperate, they’re saying some really stupid things. Former Secretary of State and Bush fixer James A. Baker III even went on national television to say that manual recounts are not as reliable as machine counts.   WHILE BAKER has a right to his opinion, his opinion does not trump Florida election law, which ...

CANBERRA, Oct 24 (AFP) - Welfare dependency is the major cause of the poverty, chronic ill-health and alcoholism which have ravaged Aboriginal society for 30 years, key indigenous leaders said here Tuesday. Aboriginal lawyer Noel Pearson also called for tougher attitudes including a "relentless, active intolerance" of the drinking, the drug addiction and the petrol sniffing now rampant in Aboriginal communities. But he warned a conference on aboriginal welfare that many of the people active in Aboriginal affairs were unsuited to help now because of their own excessive drinking. Nor were very many in key positions in politics, in the ...

What's up with conservative journalists lately? Why are they offering such easy targets? Take Jeff Jacoby, a pundit currently under suspension at the Boston Globe for passing off the nonsensical musings of an anonymous e-mail about alleged heroes of the American Revolution as his own research. The right is up in arms over this example of so-called leftist McCarthyism on the part of the "radical" Globe editors who suspended him. The cause was Jacoby's borrowing without attribution--none dare call it "plagiarism." Amid the ruckus over ideology, hardly anyone seemed to notice that Jacoby was damn lucky he wasn't fired for ...

June 06, 2000 | During a break Saturday in the meeting of the South Carolina Chapter of the Free Republic near Charleston, one of my pleasantly bourgeois luncheon companions told me that 75 percent of my tax money goes to pay the interest on the federal debt. I might have quickly swallowed my mesclun and quibbled with that figure if he hadn't stunned me into silence with his next solemn assertion: The debt wasn't run up to orbital heights in the '80s by Reagan's deficit spending, but by the Federal Reserve Bank, deliberately, so that "12 international bankers" could make ...

Ed Linn, writer and author whose subjects ranged from baseball and the New York Yankees to the lives of bank robber Willie Sutton and convicted murderer Jack Ruby, has died. He was 77. Linn, who had retired to San Diego County about a decade ago, died Feb. 7 of cancer in San Diego, his family said Sunday. Author of more than a dozen books including novels as well as nonfiction, Linn made his reputation crafting biographies for the famous -- major league baseball owner Bill Veeck, manager Leo Durocher, baseball great Ted Williams and the criminal Sutton among them. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal judge rejected arguments that an Internet site has the legal right to post articles copied without permission from two major newspapers. U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow on Monday denied a motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post against Fresno-based FreeRepublic.com. Her ruling was accompanied by a 28-page opinion attacking FreeRepublic.com's fair-use defense. The newspapers contend the Web site's practice of posting articles cost them money because their own sites charge users $1.50 to view archived articles. The case has been closely watched by attorneys ...

For years, it had been a Little Rock ritual: Bill Clinton, professional pol, and Webster L. Hubbell, prominent Arkansas lawyer, would do their Christmas shopping together on Christmas Eve. But when the election turned his pal into a national celebrity, Hubbell prepared to shop solo. The President-elect, however, had other ideas. Trailed by Secret Service agents, Clinton hooked up with Hubbell, and the two chums went on their traditional trip. Turns out Santa was good to Hubbell, who landed a nomination for the No. 3 spot at at the Justice Department. His confirmation hearings begin May 18. The 45-year-old ...