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If there is more to the story UNLV, let's here it. Don't hide behind the weak argument of protecting the student's identity. We don't want to know the student's identity. We want to know why you are trying to discipline Prof. Hoppe. To the UNLV officials responsible for putting out the above referenced press release, you should be ashamed that you did so. Frankly this press release looks to me like the Politically Correct Crowd getting caught with their pants down, and now they are trying to run for cover.

She said she was not afraid to be controversial and that certain groups need to be protected. "If homosexuals are not defined as a protected group by federal law, they should be." When asked if she believed in academic freedom, she said not for those attacking "protected groups." She then explained that in 2001 before the Campus Student Environment Committee at UNLV she complained about an accounting professor who had a spread sheet up on a screen and when moving the cursor to another section of the screen he said of the cursor, "You drag this little black guy over...

Hoppe, 55, a world-renowned economist, author and speaker, said he was giving a lecture to his money and banking class in March when the incident occurred. The subject of the lecture was economic planning for the future. Hoppe said he gave several examples to the class of about 30 upper-level undergraduate students on groups who tend to plan for the future and groups who do not. Very young and very old people, for example, tend not to plan for the future, he said. Couples with children tend to plan more than couples without. As in all social sciences, he said,...

About the best you can say about this year's two mediocre winners, who really have little true understanding of the business cycle, is that there are many other economists that are a lot worse theorists. But, hey, maybe to a Swedish geologist, these guys look like geniuses.

Somebody in intelligence doesn't like the alert: "Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terror plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way." -The New York Times "More than half a dozen government officials interviewed yesterday, who declined to be identified because classified information is involved, said that most, if not all, of the...

In 1947 the then Columbia University quaterback Gene Rossides led Columbia to a stunning football victory that ended national power Army's 32-game unbeaten streak. Now more than 55 years later, Rossides is still taking on elements of America's Defense Complex. Rossides charges that the United States, on the misleading advice of certain elements within the Defense Department, is playing cozy with a brutal regime in Turkey. In a recent Op-ed column for Hellenic News of America, Rossides, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary, calls for the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. Rossides charges that "Wolfowitz has committed major mistakes...

In conjunction with the release today of the final report by The National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commission),the Securities and Exchange Comission has released comments stating that on Sept. 12, 2001, the SEC began an investigation to determine whether there was evidence that anyone who had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks on September 11 sought to profit from that knowledge by trading in United States securities markets. In the course of that review, the SEC stated that, they did not develop any evidence suggesting that anyone who had advance knowledge of the September...

Martha outside the court house: "What was a small personal matter came over the -- became over the last two years an almost fatal circus event of unprecedented proportions." "I have been choked and almost suffocated to death during that time..." "I'm just very, very sorry that it's come to this, that a small personal matter has been able to be blown out of all proportion, and with such venom and such gore, I mean it's just terrible."

Martha Stewart Sentenced To 5 Months In Prison Special to EconomicBriefing.com July 16, 2004- Choking back tears, Martha Stewart told the court on the day of her sentencing, "Today is a shameful day for me, my family and my company...I have been choked and suffocated... Peace be with you." She was then sentenced to 5 months in jail, followed by 5 months home detention. During home detention she will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device, but will be allowed to leave her home for up to 48 hours per week to go to work. Stewart also received 2...

Ken Lay comes out fighting. He holds a press conference after his indictment. He wants a trial before the election. His lawyer says there are political overtones to the indictment.

"Moore's work is, indeed, quite sloppy. I am scratching my head about Moore's supposed major fact checking of the film. The fact of the matter is that Moore has a major clip smack dab in the middle of the film that doesn't even come from the current Iraq invlovement..."

Check this out. Who moved the smoking gun? The UPI article from a few months back about Ashcroft and supposed homegrown terrorist Krar, an article which looks an awful lot like a Krugman column of this week, has not been accesible today on the internet Is this an attempting to prevent curious readers from comparing Krugman's verbiage with that of the old and moldy UPI article? Did someone try to remove this smoking gun UPI article from the internet to protect Krugman? If so they have failed miserably. Thanks to a Google cache, discerning readers can still compare Krugman's scribblings...

Get a load of this: "...But right from the start, beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one in the public's mind. He repeatedly used this device in a highly disciplined manner to create a false impression in the minds of the American people that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. Usually he was pretty tricky in his exact wording. Indeed, Bush's consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he...

Looks like Paul Krugman at The New York Times may have some explaining to do. His recent column looks mighty close to two earlier columns by others. Details at http://www.economicbriefing.com/perma/krugman1.html