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U.S. — Vice President Kamala Harris was honored with an honorary degree from America's premier clown college Wednesday for her hard work clowning around the nation's capital. Harris joins a pantheon of great American clowns such as Lori Lightfoot and John Wayne Gacy. "It is an honor to be respected by this great institution of clowning," VP Harris said humbly after donning traditional clown garb and squeezing a bugle horn. "Who doesn't love a clown? Am I right? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Ohhhhhh I just LOOOVE clowns! HA HA HA HA HA!" Dean Sippy the Cosmic...

[1]Anyone can get an honorary degree these days. Cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal has one of those from a California law school. Kermit the Frog got one. So did brutal dictator Robert Mugabe from Michigan State University.Now Sut Jhally is joining [2]their ranks (with apologies to Kermit, who doesn’t really deserve to be classed with Mumia, Mugabe and Jhally) as Simon Fraser University is giving him an honorary degree.Jhally is a nasty clown of the sort that usually finds a sinecure in academia, who has ranted that “The New Republican Party – American Terrorists.” Jhally also tweeted in 2013...

A new Gallup poll of 1,015 adults finds that a razor-thin majority (51 percent) of Americans are now "pro-life" vs. “pro-choice" (42 percent) ... Perhaps no convert to the pro-life view is more high profile than Norma McCorvey – AKA “Jane Roe” in ... Roe vs. Wade ... [S]he was at Notre Dame University Sunday protesting the school’s decision to invite President Barack Obama to give the commencement address. ... In his speech, Obama said that ... we are imperfect beings prone to “all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be...

South Bend, Ind., Apr 14, 2009 / 06:36 pm (CNA).- Fr. John Jenkins, the President of the University of Notre Dame, has written a letter to the school's board of trustees, defending the university’s invitation of President Obama to the school’s May commencement ceremony. Fr. Jenkins argues in his letter that while many have criticized the school’s move, canon lawyers and the USCCB document, “Catholics in Political Life,” both support his action. In the letter, posted in full on LifeSiteNews, Fr. Jenkins recalls the June 2004 USCCB statement on Catholics in political life and cites “two key sentences” that “have...

By inviting Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins has polarized the Catholic community nationwide – and raised a question. What does it mean to be a Catholic university in post-Christian America? Are there truths about faith and morality that are closed to debate at Notre Dame? Or is Notre Dame like London's Hyde Park, where all ideas and all advocates get a hearing? To Catholics, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, a premeditated breach of God's Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill." The case is closed...

Brown offers Kim Jong-Il honorary degree in bid to one-up Yale Glen Scheuttler Issue date: 4/3/06 Section: Campus News Media Credit: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il received an honorary degree from the University Saturday. Following on the heels of Yale University's decision to admit former Taliban spokesman Rahmatullah Hashemi, Brown has awarded an honorary doctorate to reclusive North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Administrators said that though the move is sure to provoke controversy, the partnership demonstrates Brown's commitment to inclusion and its desire to become an internationally recognized institution. "Yale might try to bring different...