News items
I was late getting to the blog tonight but found a few interesting topics.
Ward Churchill, who called the victims of 9/11 “little Eichmann’s”, was fired today from the University of Colorado.
“The decision was really pretty basic,” said university President Hank Brown, adding that the school had little choice but to fire Churchill to protect the integrity of the university’s research.
“The individual did not express regret, did not apologize, did not indicate a willingness to refrain from this type of falsification in the future,” Brown said.
Brown had recommended in May that the regents fire Churchill after faculty committees accused him of misconduct in some of his academic writing. The allegations included misrepresenting the effects of federal laws on American Indians, fabricating evidence that the Army deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians in 1837, and claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.
“The decision was really pretty basic”. That says it for me. So why did it take so long?
Thanks anyway U of C. Now just go away Churchill - the world doesn’t a fake Indian. Real ones actually contribute to society.
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And here’s some lurid protesting via the Breasts not Bombs and Code Pink sicko’s in (where else) San Francisco as Blurbery Clinton opens up her new campaign headquarter digs. Little Green Footballs had the link. The dumocrats had to be embarrassed. Warning: if breasts offend you, don’t take the link.
Right. “If” breasts offend you. Sure.
And nobody’s taking the link. Right?
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Michael Totten is embedded in Iraq now and is with the 82nd Airborne. His latest post is gonna make me write one about how good things are going in many other parts of Iraq.
One reason? -
Just to the right of my knees were the feet of the gunner. He stood in the middle of the Humvee and manned a machine gun in a turret sticking out of the top. I could hear him swiveling his cannon from side to side and pointing it into the trees as we approached the urban sector in their area of operations.
This was all purely defensive. The battalion I’m embedded with here in Baghdad hasn’t suffered a single casualty – not even one soldier wounded – since they arrived in the Red Zone in January. The surge in this part of the city could not possibly be going better than it already is. Most of Graya’at’s insurgents and terrorists who haven’t yet fled are either captured, dormant, or dead.
Very interesting. And there’s some great kid pictures in the post. Some of them just make you melt.
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Finally, doctor’s in France have determined that a man with almost no brain is leading a normal life. Could it be Jacques Chirac incognito?
Nah. This guy’s IQ is too high to be Chirac.
