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WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - Legal analyst Dan Recht said he believes the Jefferson County District Attorney is "seriously overcharging" a Wheat Ridge homeowner, accused of attempted first degree murder for shooting at two thieves. 82-year-old Robert Wallace said he fired two shots at two men when they tried to run him over while stealing his flatbed trailer. Wallace now faces twelve felony counts, including four counts of attempted first degree murder, for what he described as an act of defending his property and his life. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. One of the...

'Not left or right; right or wrong!" That's the current marketing slogan of a local talk radio station (not mine). It's a clever turn of a phrase and an interesting approach to establishing product differentiation from competing talk stations that promote the conventional split between liberals and conservatives. This imaging strategy is designed to convey the impression that the programmers, personalities and producers on that station somehow rise above the limitations of ideology and the pettiness of partisan politics. The station and radio show (Caplis & Silverman) that Mike is talking about - http://www.khow.com/pages/shows-caplis_silverman.htmlIn theory, this might attract listeners that...

See that picture? That's Richard J. Elrod. He's been partially paralyzed since 1969 after suffering a broken neck. More on him later. Yesterday I had a couple of posts on the husband-and-wife professors who were formerly members of the 1960s domestic terror organization, the Weather Underground. The professors are Bernardine Dohrn of Northwestern University and Bill Ayers of the University of Illinois-Chicago. Feel to drop by Marathon Pundit for more on information on them. On October 8, 1969, The Weather Underground decided to jumpstart the "People's Revolution," in Chicago. They blew up a statue of a policeman (that statue...

Pictured below in the dark jersey is DePaul hoopster Raymon Caplis, playing shortly before Christmas in 1951 under legendary Blue Demon Coach Ray Meyer. Caplis is fighting for the ball with Kentucky's Clifford Hagan. Hagan, like Ray Meyer, would later be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame. It looks like Caplis got the ball, but Kentucky won that game. And what does that picture have to do with DePaul and Churchill? On Tuesday, a very well-poised blogger Nick Hahn, a DePaul political science major and Republican, was interviewed by KHOW Denver's Dan Caplis, son of ex-Blue Demon basketball player...

On Tuesday afternoon, October 11, 2005, I will be commentating on the DePaul/Churchill fiasco on a local Colorado radio show, "Caplis & Silverman." They have been adamant combaters against Churchill and his beliefs, as any responsible citizen should be. Governor Bill Owens has also appeared on the show numerous times, especially with regards to Ward Churchill. The University and those who undermine the fabric of our community will be forced to retreat and concede after the national media becomes involved. This radio show appearance, hopefully, is but only the first step to a more efficient and public opposition. You can...

The charge: Fabrication Did Ward Churchill falsely accuse the U.S. Army in small pox epidemic? Our findings: His claim isn't supported by the sources he has cited. By Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News June 6, 2005 The year was 1837, the place was the Upper Missouri River Valley in present-day North Dakota, the disease was smallpox, and the effects on American Indians were devastating. None of that is in dispute. One key fact is: how the disease got there. Numerous historical accounts put the blame in the same place - infected travelers on a steamboat bound for a trading post...

Radio talk show host Dan Caplis on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit against a Longmont city employee who has emerged as a vocal supporter of embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Caplis, who co-hosts an afternoon program on KHOW-AM with fellow attorney Craig Silverman, sued Glenn Spagnuolo, 34, in Arapahoe District Court. Spagnuolo made the comments Tuesday night during a speech supporting Churchill at a campus rally in Boulder, and they were broadcast Wednesday on the Peter Boyles Show, another KHOW program, Caplis said. He declined to reveal the comments he cited in his lawsuit, saying it was filed...

Earlier today Peter Boyles of KHOW 630am (5am to 9am mountain) interviewed American Indian Movement leader Vernon Bellecourt, then Churchill's attorney David Lane and finally Rhonda Kelly the sister of Churchill's former wife. Rhonda received a threatening letter last summer from Ward Churchill. Vern Bellecourt:http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KHOW-AM/3-16-bellecourt.wmaChurchill's attorney David Lane:http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KHOW-AM/3-16-peter-lane.wma Rhonda Kelly:http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KHOW-AM/3-16-kelly.wma David Lane is supposedly a highly respected attorney, but as you will hear in this interview he seems to have adopted the strategy that as long as he doesn't know about it then it doesn't matter. He also refers to everyone providing evidence regarding Churchill's tendency for violence, fraud, plagairism,...

Full text of CU President Hoffman's letter of resignation sent to the CU Board of Regents Monday March 7, 2005. To the Board of Regents: I have spoken many times about my view of principled leadership. It has become clear to me that, amid the serious matters the University of Colorado now confronts, my role as the leader of the University has become an issue. It appears to me it is in the University's best interest that I remove the issue of my future from the debate so that nothing inhibits CU's ability to successfully create the bright future it...

'Why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?" CU professor Ward Churchill asked his Seattle audience during a recorded discussion of the 9/11 attacks (Aug. 10, 2003). There is a concerted effort by Ward Churchill and his supporters to limit the current debate to a discussion of his outrageous correlation of World Trade Center victims to "little Eichmanns." Such strategy is logical because, as grotesque and indecent as that analogy was, it would not alone warrant dismissal. Read further in that Churchill essay, and he states that terrorists...

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We have uncovered some new taped evidence of CU professor Ward Churchill speaking to a group of Americans at the Left Bank Book Store in Seattle on August 10, 2003. In these recordings he says things such as “right on” is the proper reaction to 9/11 and he explicitly instructs followers on how to commit terrorist acts. Churchill teaching terrorismChurchill refers to 9-11 and asks audience, "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what should have been done a long time ago?"Churchill says, "Right on!" to 911Churchill brags about damaging state property For the even more info...

Who the CU Regents are and How to Contact Them Here is the information on the CU Regents and how you can get in touch with them. Ward Churchill rejected by the Political Science and Sociology Departments Before Getting Tenure. In this email, Ward Churchill is rejected by the Political Science and Sociology departments before getting tenure. "Sophisticated Terrorist" Indian activist Patti Jo King describes Ward Churchill as a "Sophisticated Terrorist". Read the article now Can Churchill be Fired for Breach of Contract? Churchill promised to support the Constitution in order to get tenure. Can he be fired for breach...

630 KHOW afternoon show hosts Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman have obtained numerous University of Colorado documents regarding Professor Ward Churchill through a freedom of information request. The documents show that Churchill filled out an Affirmative Action form claiming American Indian heritage when he applied for a job as an Associate Professor. The record shows only two people were interviewed for the job and that both were American Indian. In addition, Churchill claims Creek/ Cherokee heritage on his resume. Churchill has claimed he is three-sixteenths Cherokee but has never provided any documentation to support the claim. A Rocky Mountain News...