Terry Trippany on Sep 26 2007 | Filed under: Education Watch, Observed
Daniel Pipes writes about the state of the academic community, the lack of criticism faced by professors and the suppression of free thought on campus in “Five Years of Campus Watch.”
In the lead up to the article Daniel recalls the writings of his father, Richard Pipes, who was a tenured Professor at Yale University [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Sep 26 2007 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Honor Killings, Linkfest, Pakistan, The Religion of Peace, The War on Terror
There are many people in the United States and throughout the world that would have you believe that “Islamaphobia” is a completely undeserving fear of peace seeking Allah loving Muslims manifested out of the racist tendencies of intolerant non-believers. I, a person who tends to lean toward the side that would grant the right of [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Sep 26 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Freedom Files
Those people who have been able to get beyond Ahmadinejad’s headlining act in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Holocaust and Gay Denying World,” have been mesmerized by the popular uprising in Burma against the fiercely repressive military regime. Just yesterday, in an effort to drag world attention to a more worthy subject than Bollinger’s [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Sep 25 2007 | Filed under: Congress, Election 2008, Military, The New Democrat Congress
I was impressed by the temperate tone in this Stars and Stripes article, because I was just incensed when I read that our troops, who are putting their lives on the line for us, as a result of bureaucratic inefficiency, are being denied that most fundamental of all American rights, the right to the vote:
Overseas [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Sep 25 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iran, Linkfest
Let me start by saying that I do not believe that Columbia University President Bollinger’s bold exchange with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would have happened if there were not a massive outcry from Americans. I stated yesterday that I was “pleasantly surprised”; but I want to make it clear that I believe that this [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Sep 25 2007 | Filed under: Holocaust, WWI, WWII
Note: I originally posted this bit of family history in August 2006. I’m reposting it now, inspired by two things: Ken Burns’ excellent “The War” (I swear the man’s a conservative) and Ahmadinejad’s pretending that the Holocaust’s historical reality is open for some sort of debate. I think both — the one almost sublime, the [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Sep 24 2007 | Filed under: Iran
Over the weekend many American’s, including me, were upset at Columbia University’s President Bollinger for inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to a question and answer on campus. I think what angered most Americans is that Columbia University will not let the military or their ROTC program on campus due to their alleged anti-homosexual stance, but [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Sep 24 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iran, U.S. News
Here are a few highlights from the reported 30 minute interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad at a hotel near the United Nations:
Iran has no intention on leading an offensive against Israel or any other country.
Does anyone really believe this? The day before he was scheduled to leave to the United States, he presided [...]
Terry Trippany on Sep 24 2007 | Filed under: Health Care, Health and Science
While Hillary Clinton touts the benefits of government managed healthcare there is a failing experiment going on in the UK with the same type of system. Cancer survival rate in the UK lag behind the European average and the rate for the elderly is so abysmal it is called a “cancer timebomb“.
There are many [...]
Terry Trippany on Sep 23 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iran, Iraq, Linkfest, Media Watch
A smiling liar sat in front of American cameras on American soil and refused to answer a key question about Iranian’s support of the insurgency in Iraq.
