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April 27, 2006

Professor Cole, redux

Nail Yale’s Clint Taylor lets loose on Juan Cole, and in the process, I suspect, speaks for a number of conservatives who have come out against Yale’s desire to hire Professor Cole (myself included): Yale’s free to hire Prof. Cole, and I’m free to complain about it.  As I said in the entry below, I’m not qualified to evaluate his Middle Eastern Studies credentials.  I am, however, qualified to evaluate

“The Jesus Cartoons”

Allah, at Hot Air: Another American university tackles free speech, and everyone involved embarrasses themselves — except the conservatives. A parable for our times. World Net Daily broke the news yesterday that a far-left student newspaper at the University of Oregon — called “The Insurgent” appropriately enough — decided to publish 12 deliberately offensive cartoons of Jesus in their March issue. Why? Because the Oregon Commentator, a conservative student newspaper

Mapping McCarthy, continued

Even as National Democrats are making noises about instituting impeachment proceedings against President Bush (and perhaps even VP Cheney), and more former intel personnel spin their CYA stories for a (thus far) compliant and helpful media (on “60 Minutes,” for instance, former CIA official Tyler Drumheller claimed the Bushies cherrypicked intel to take us to war—which doesn’t seem to jibe with the investigative finding that the Bushies did NOT apply

The “the elevator seems to be on the fritz again” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

… … … … … … “You pushed the button, right?” “Yup.” … … … … “Wanna maybe try pushing it again?” “Sure.” … … … … … “Well, shit.” “Yup.”