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Thought this might interest you all — y’know, give you a sense of the kinds of things college students are carrying around in their beer-besotted, weed-befogged, and the WB-addled brains these days. This quarter (the university where I work runs on the quarter rather then the semester system) I’m teaching persuasive writing, a ten-week argument and research course in which students are encouraged to select their own topics for investigation

As Charles Johnson notes, “In spite of the huge caches of illegal weapons found in Arafat

As Charles Johnson notes, “In spite of the huge caches of illegal weapons found in Arafat

Writing in The Washington Times, Arnold Beichman, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, catalogues the actions that demonstrate how Israel has been “singled out by a majority of the U.N. membership for extinction.” Writes Beichman: I will document this statement with a catalogue of actions taken by the U.N. in the half-century of the its existence that will demonstrate:

A nice essay (from the editors at the left-centrist The New Republic) on the increasingly sychophantic

Dr. Steven Davis, a professor of animal science at Oregon State University, reports that a vegetarian diet may be responsible for killing more animals than a diet centered around meat. Here’s the gist, from the ABC News story, “Invisible Victims”: One of the reasons most commonly cited by vegetarians for giving up meat is the conviction that other animals have a right to life as well as humans. But when

On the occasion of the death of Barbara Handler, co-founder of Mattel, veteran breast-cancer activist, and creator of the Barbie doll (who died over the weekend at age 85), the New Republic’s Michelle Cottle writes a nice

On the occasion of the death of Barbara Handler, co-founder of Mattel, veteran breast-cancer activist, and creator of the Barbie doll (who died over the weekend at age 85), the New Republic’s Michelle Cottle writes a nice

…So it seems an Israeli drone caught on video the “funeral procession” of a “martyr,” shrouded in a Palestinian flag and being carried by some of his brethren as oart of a Palestinian authority PR photo op. All very somber. …Except for one thing: about midway through the procession, the martyr’s body accidentally fell out of the flag and hit the dirt. [Cut!] No problems. Because as the video shows,