https://freerepublic.com/tag/cluelesseditorial/ en-us Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:31:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368273/posts The Yale student did not like what he heard. Sociologists derided religion and economists damned corporations. One professor pre-emptively rejected the suggestion that "workers on public relief be denied the franchise." "I propose, simply, to expose," wrote the young author in a booklong denunciation, one of "the most extraordinary incongruities of our time. Under the "protective label 'academic freedom,'" the institution that derives its "moral and financial support from Christian individualists then addresses itself to the task of persuading the sons of these supporters to be atheistic socialists." For William F. Buckley Jr., author of the 1951 polemic "God and... CBS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368273/posts#comment Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:31:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1310868/posts Heretofore we have supported Dino Rossi’s struggle against the forces of thievery out in the Washington Governor’s race. We even wrote an article about how the Democrats stole the election, and can certainly understand the anger both he and his supporters feel about the Ukraine-style heist. .But his latest move is silly, irresponsible and has probably already damaged his political prospects for the future. To recap, Rossi won an very close Governor’s race against Democrat Christine Gregoire. He won again after the first recount. But yet another recount (and some “found” ballots in heavily Democrat King County) later, and Gregoire... www.crushkerry.com (soon to be www.anklebitingpundits.com) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1310868/posts#comment Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:57:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278047/posts In a rare gesture of transparency, a majority of the eight commissioners on the United States Commission on Civil Rights voted in 2002 to put the agency's staff reports on the Internet as soon as they are completed. That way, the public can read them before the commissioners hold public hearings to discuss the staff's findings. The latest report - an assessment of President Bush's civil rights record - was put on the agency's Web site last September. But at the commission's October meeting, less than a month before the election, the commissioners declined to discuss it. Objecting to the... NY Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278047/posts#comment Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:13:32 GMT