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There is a video that has been circulating around Facebook featuring me in a “dialogue” with several pro-abortion protestors from the socialist club at UMASS-Amherst. I’m glad the video is making the rounds. I generally like to use socialists to make my arguments look better by contrast. I’m also glad the students each helped illustrate a more specific point I’ve been making about socialists for years. These points follow in no particular order of importance: 1. Socialism and humor are incompatible. There’s nothing very funny about murdering 100 million people in 72 years. That is the true legacy of communism’s...

An academic who received awards for excellence and produced several peer-reviewed publications said he fell from grace when he began espousing "religious beliefs and [a] conservative political viewpoint" and is now suing his university for denying him promotion. Criminologist Mike Adams has filed suit against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, saying the school refused to promote him because his superiors disagreed with his religious and political beliefs. According to the complaint filed on Monday, Adams was hired to teach at UNCW in 1993 and has served as an associate professor since 1998. During his tenure, he was named "Faculty Member...

Getting into the world of firearms (print) September 27, 2005 Thanks for your following letter, Matt, which I received this afternoon: Do you think at some point you could write a column on some of the basics of getting into the world of firearms? Specifically, I'm looking for tips on acquiring weapons for home defense and hunting. While I'm not a survivalist weirdo, I have no intention of waiting for any level of government to ride to the rescue, should bad times come along. Since I have been hit with numerous requests (mostly post-Katrina) from people looking for that first...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | MEETUP | C-LOG | ISSUES townhall.comPrinter-friendly versionA quality education from people who careMike S. Adams (back to web version) | Send August 25, 2004Author’s Note: Because the following editorial contains the everyday language of tenured professors at Rutgers University, it might be offensive to some readers.Dear Professor Levitt (njlevitt@hotmail.com):I am writing to compliment you on the eloquence of your recent response to my friend Mike Bayham, who writes a column for GOPUSA.com. Mike wrote a recent editorial on John Kerry that irritated you so badly you decided to write him with...