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Everyone knows of Jeff Gannon now. He's the chap who wanted leave a sordid sexual past behind him and become a reporter. Fine and dandy, except that it turned out he was pro-Bush. We can't have that in the White House Press Corps, can we? So the left-wing (a.k.a. mainstream) media set out to destroy the fellow. PowerLine recounts the whole dismal story here. The presence of a Bush-friendly journalist in the White House press corps was taken by the left as a deep affront. A study conducted a few years ago found that the White House press corps is...

Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination. For example, at the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sued over a reading assignment they said offended their Christian beliefs. In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicized student allegations of left-wing bias by professors. Faculty received hate mail and were pictured in mock "wanted" posters; at least one college...

At Hamilton College -- an elite liberal arts institution in Clinton, N.Y. -- you can take courses in Roman civilization, Shakespeare and the "Emergence of Modern Western Europe, 1500-1815." All well and good. You can also take something called "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change." That last course -- a month-long, half-credit seminar -- is scheduled to begin next month. Its teacher is Susan Rosenberg, formerly of the Weather Underground.

10) devinsgram: "...Everybody in middle American crying, putting out their flags and their show of emotion. Phooey on them, they are the ones responsible for what happened in NYC on 9-11. So everyone in middle America crammed into a plane and flew it into the World Trade Center. Were they clowns? They are the ones who put this idiot in office." I feel chastised. -- 9) leftofthedial: "I knew some *wonderful* people who were strong supporters of the Nazi Party. Like Ludwig Klages? They gave to charity, worked hard, and held marvelous little soires at their homes. They served juice...