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Teach-In, Turn On, Walk Out The ins and outs of the antiwar movement. n the spring of 1968, antiwar activists protesting American military action in Indochina besieged Columbia University's historic Low Library, the massive, Romanesque space designed by McKim, Mead, and White which houses the offices of university administrators. Thirty-five years later, Low Library still contains the offices of university administrators. But today, antiwar activists are welcomed inside. Such was the case on Wednesday night, when hundreds of Columbia students braved long lines and rain for a chance to witness a faculty-led "teach-in" on the Iraq crisis. I was one...

Wolf Blitzer just asked Donald Rumsfeld on live global television these 2 questions: Don't you feel that broadcasting the tape of the POW's would bring comfort to their families Wolf and those back home? How do you expect to win the hearts and minds of Iraqi's while terrorizing them with the shock and awe like American forces did the other night? Wolf Blitzer needs to be Freeped like never before. No wonder CNN is literally the flagship network for ANSWER.Wolf is a total bastard.

Protesting For Peace Activists gather against Iraq invasion (WSBT) Activists from several Michiana churches gathered Thursday afternoon to protest the U.S. military action against Iraq. The Not in our Names demonstration was one of more than 100 planned around the country. The group started with songs and prayers in front of the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend. They say their goal was to show the effects of war on the women and children of Iraq. "The Iraqi people are mostly innocent," peace activist King Giloth-David told NEWS22. "To have them suffer for policy disputes between Saddam Hussein and...

Un-freaking-believable. A caller on the Dennis Prager show related his call to Nancy Pelosi's office. The caller has the name of the aide with whom he spoke but didn't want to give it over the air. The caller asked the aide whom Pelosi wanted to win the war. The aide said that the congressman supports the troops. No, no. Who does she want to win the war? Finally, the aide said --- "I don't know." The RATS might not be traitors, but they seem to at least play one on television.

at The "incredible timing" of Osama bin Laden linking his cause with Iraq just as the Bush administration was trying to prove such a tie, is better timing "than Hugh Hefner finding Viagra at 78," Joy Behar quipped on ABC's daytime show The View. Also on the Wednesday edition of that show, Queen Latifah, who was just nominated for an Academy Award, suggested the "whole Cold War thing," in which "they made us scared" of the Soviet Union, was a big ruse. On the February 12 The View, the ABC show created by Barbara Walters, former Good Morning America staffer...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton racheted up her attacks on the Bush administration on Friday, accusing the White House of ignoring Clinton administration warnings about Osama bin Laden and shortchanging national security since the 9/11 attacks. "I know that during the transition between the Clinton and Bush administrations that the outgoing administration told the incoming one that they would spend more time on terrorism and bin Laden than anything else," Sen. Clinton told WLUX-NY radio host Mike Siegel. "And that wasn't their priorities," she charged. "Their priorities were different." The former first lady said that national security was weaker...

A sacrilegious stunt by Penn & Teller that offended some at a major magicians convention was defended Thursday by fellow local headliners. A group walked out of a roast of Amazing Johnathan on Monday after Teller, dressed as Christ on a full-sized cross, entered the room on a cart. A midget dressed as an angel performed a simulated sex act on the near-naked Teller. Penn Jillette, in a Roman gladiator costume, unveiled the scene by pulling away a "Shroud of Turin" that covered the cross. Rick Neiswonger, a longtime magician and local marketing executive, said "the majority" of the 400...

The magic-comedy team of Penn & Teller has performed a stunt parodying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, offending some attendees of a major magicians' convention, reports columnist Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review. The skit, performed last week in Las Vegas, included Teller, dressed as Christ on a full-size cross, entering the room on a cart. According to the column, a midget dressed as an angel "performed a simulated sex act on the near-naked Teller." Penn, in a Roman gladiator costume, unveiled the scene by pulling away a "Shroud of Turin" that covered the cross. A group of people...

Gretta Duisenberg has apologised for saying last week that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories was worse than the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — with the exception of the Holocaust. The wife of European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg acknowledged in a short statement made last Friday night that her remarks, reported in newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, had been hurtful. She apologised for making a comparison between the Israeli armed forces and the Nazis. The Dutchwoman led a delegation of the Dutch pro-Palestinian lobby group "Stop the Occupation" on a fact-finding mission to the Middle East last week. The Dutch...