“A tenured math professor who complained Temple University wanted him to inflate grades and ‘dummy down’ course work has been fired on grounds of incompetence, his attorney said. Martin Eisen, 69, who worked at Temple for nearly 35 years, had been on paid leave since August 1999 while the university investigated students’ complaints about his grading practices.” ‘Our position is that he is not incompetent,’ Daily said. ‘What Temple demanded

“The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center has issued a ‘high-importance’ bulletin warning about potential terrorist threats to American water-supply systems,” FOXNews reports. “The alert was issued after a computer owned by an individual indirectly linked to Usama bin Laden was found to contain several software programs used for structural engineering of ‘dams and other water-retaining structures.’ The NIPC bulletin also noted that terror suspects have shown ‘interest’ in insecticides and

The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes examines the upsurge in recent support for the GOP and asks (rhetorically), why the dramatic shift in polling numbers? For Barnes, the answer is issue inversion. Issues that were paramount in voters’ minds before the attacks–health care, Social Security, the environment–are now peripheral. These are Democratic issues. And issues that were peripheral–terrorism, national security, homeland security–are now central. These are Republican issues. Bush pursues the

Sometimes a headline says it all: from The Houston Chronicle: Johnnie Cochran hired to represent Enron workers.” Good grief. …Okay, okay…I’ll go first: “If the figures don’t fit, you must remit…!” Post yours below using the convenient “comments” link. Go ‘head, you know ya wants to…

“Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, approved a plan yesterday for security measures to seal off Jerusalem from the West Bank,” The Independent reports. “The plan is expected to include look-out towers, electronic cameras, trenches and more military checkpoints.” Proposals to fortify the entire metropolis — including its occupied Arab eastern half — came as the city spent another day on the highest alert. Mr Sharon — who campaigned for election

“Republicans say they may take action to stop congressional investigators from suing Vice President Dick Cheney to get information on business executives who met with him and his aides on energy policy.” the AP reports. ‘I think it may come to that,’ said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Congress’ investigative arm, the General Accounting Office, shouldn’t be ‘trying to impose disclosure on internal

“A Utah woman has won $270,000 in damages against a fundamentalist church which promised her the Second Coming. Kaziah Hancock was told she could meet Jesus in the flesh if she handed over land and water rights to the Salt Lake City church. When he didn’t show up, she sued the church for breach of contract, fraud and emotional distress and won.” Textbook contract law — which (blessedly?) protects idiots

The AP’s Brian Murphy reports that “[j]ailed fighters of the fallen Taliban shout the name of their former foe, but no longer in anger. ‘We want to go to an American prison,’ many plead. Anything, they say, to leave Shibergan prison in northern Afghanistan, now jammed to more than 10 times its capacity with about 3,500 men. But unlike the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, this has been a

I readily admit when I’m wrong. Turns out shoe searches might not be such a bad idea, after all. But let’s get it right, can we? I mean, you’d think our new and improved, federalized airport security crews would be able to keep tabs on one shoeless guy whose hightops had explosives residue on them, wouldn’t you…? And now that security’s been federalized, we get to pay for such institutional

Here’s an excerpt from John O’Sullivan’s rather keen and candid column on the cult of diversity: both political parties support diversity preferences