Archive for January, 2010

Class Warfare Entrenched

An English professor is trying to sell his class on society’s collective guilt.

January 29th, 2010
Topic: SAF

Washington Bickering Leaves Little Hope for Change

It's becoming increasingly clear that one of the results of the economic meltdown has been a parallel meltdown in the public's confidence that their bickering, partisan leaders in Washington can come together to deal with it, or with much of anything. When Americans were asked in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this week to [...]

January 28th, 2010
Topic: News and Press Coverage

Marxist Professor Howard Zinn, 1922-2010

Howard Zinn died Wednesday at the age of 87. He is best known for writing A People’s History of the United States (1980), a Marxist tract that describes America as a predatory and repressive capitalist state — sexist, racist, imperialist — that is run by a corporate ruling class for the benefit of the rich. A People’s History has [...]

January 28th, 2010
Topic: DTN

Pol Pot: The Communist Monster Who Turned Cambodia into a Gulag

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Party that ruled Cambodia from 1976-1979. “Khmer Rouge” (or Khmer Reds) was the French rendering of the organization’s official name: the “Communist Party of Cambodia.” Inspired by what he had witnessed during a trip to Mao Zedong’s China, Pol Pot envisioned an agrarian Communist utopia [...]

January 26th, 2010
Topic: DTN

Bribing The Taliban No Way To Win This War – Five More Years In Afghanistan

A leaked memo intended to be distributed at the close of the London Conference on Afghanistan this week tells a most disturbing story:  British troops can expect to continue combat operations against the Taliban for another five years.  Governments allied with the Brits, including the United States, are expected to pony up hundreds of millions [...]

Related posts:

  1. Karzai Wants West to Buy Off Taliban
  2. Retreat in Afghanistan
  3. Afghanistan: 52 Days And Still Waiting For A Decision
January 25th, 2010
Topic: DTN

The Death of a Radical

Feminist professor Mary Daly famously banned men from her Introduction to Feminist Ethics courses.

January 25th, 2010
Topic: SAF

The Left’s Love Affair with Che Guevara

 
Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the former executioner for Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba, has been lauded for decades by leftists like Bill Ayers, Ossie Davis, Jesse Jackson, Jeff Jones, Armando Navarro, Huey Newton, Michael Ratner, and Robert Scheer. More than 32 years after his death, Che’s iconic image continues to adorn all sorts of artifacts that leftists proudly display [...]

January 25th, 2010
Topic: DTN

Copies of “The Case For Israel: Democracy’s Outpost” Still Available For Students

To reserve your copy and host a screening, contact Jeff at Jeffrey@horowitzfreedomcenter.org or 818-849-3470 ext 206. A summary of the film is provided here after the link.

January 21st, 2010
Topic: TAP

FIRE – Temple University Charges Unconstitutional ‘Security’ Fee for Geert Wilders Event; Dutch Trial Begins Today over Controversial Expression

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Temple University Charges Unconstitutional ‘Security’ Fee for Geert Wilders Event; Dutch Trial Begins Today over Controversial Expression
January 20, 2010

Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ trial begins today in Amsterdam over his controversial remarks about terrorism and Islam. While such a trial would be unconstitutional in the United States thanks to the First Amendment, students at Temple University in Philadelphia are nevertheless facing an unconstitutional, after-the-fact security fee levied by the university for hosting a presentation by Wilders.

January 21st, 2010
Topic: Uncategorized

The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is an Internet webzine featuring mostly left-liberal participants. It was launched as a commercial venture on May 9, 2005, and takes its name from its creator Arianna Huffington, a “progressive independent” syndicated columnist, author, and media personality. The publication is the subject of an explosive new report titled, “Anti-Semitism and Israel-Hatred on Huffington Post.” [...]

January 20th, 2010
Topic: DTN