“It’s a racist war!” The University of Washington student Senate insists: ‘Our purpose for existing is to make things more equal and get rid of institutional racism

“It’s a racist war!” The University of Washington student Senate insists: ‘Our purpose for existing is to make things more equal and get rid of institutional racism

Calling them, “an abomination to God,” a New Mexico church leader is planning to burn a bunch ‘o’ Harry Potter books, according to this Reuters’ story: Pastor Jack Brock said he would have a ‘holy bonfire’ on Sunday at the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo in southern New Mexico to torch books about the fictional teen-age wizard who is wildly popular with young people. ‘These books encourage our youth to

Jacob Sullum

Farrukh Dhondy has written an excellent piece for the WSJ Opinion Journal, looking at how certain progressivist misdiagnoses of Islamic fundamentalism have actually exacerbated the terrorist threat to liberal nations like the U.S. and Britain. What

The University of Wisconsin is not so safe as it initially claimed to be, The New York Times reports: The revised figures being submitted to the Department of Education will show 19 sexual assaults on the Madison campus in 2000, 9 in residence halls. The university previously reported only two assaults, none of them in the dormitories [

From Japan Today: U.S. special forces are cutting off the fingers of dead al-Qaida fighters in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan to clarify through DNA analysis whether accused terrorist Osama bin Laden died in the battle of Tora Bora, The Sunday Times reported. In a dispatch from Tora Bora, the newspaper reported that the fingers will be turned over to the FBI for DNA analysis to clarify whether bin Laden

The Times of London reports that Rich Reid was bumped from his original flight for looking just like a crazed, bomb-wielding, potential suicide terrorist. He was then vigorously interrogated by French authorities (

CNN is reporting that the roughly 10 ounces of explosives Reid had in his shoe were PETN-based plastic explosives: PETN is one of the compounds that makes up plastic explosives such as Semtex, the main ingredient in the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. PETN — Pentaerythrite tetranitrate — is a sophisticated explosive compound and not easily obtained, according to experts, and there

CNN is reporting that the roughly 10 ounces of explosives Reid had in his shoe were PETN-based plastic explosives: PETN is one of the compounds that makes up plastic explosives such as Semtex, the main ingredient in the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. PETN — Pentaerythrite tetranitrate — is a sophisticated explosive compound and not easily obtained, according to experts, and there