Victory for Academic Freedom: ‘Human Heredity’ Professor Receives $100,000 Settlement – FIRE

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

July 26th, 2010
Topic: News and Press Coverage

Zbigniew Brzezinki: Oh My God, Obama is the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter

Like so many other ideological leftists who thought that Barack Obama would prove himself to be their very own secular messiah, Carter National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinki is sorely disappointed by the president. Where he once thought Obama could raise ‘the masses’ to new heights by radically transforming society, Brzezinski now realizes that the man who [...]

July 16th, 2010
Topic: NRB

Should Sarah Palin Compare the Obama Administration to the Nazis?

Hitler, as an unqualified example of pure evil, is often used as a standard by which one can judge other lesser forms of evil. People of all stripes and political persuasions refer to Hitler and his Nazis in their speeches. But as time moves on, and the memory of Hitler’s actions becomes [...]

July 3rd, 2010
Topic: NRB

Obama: Pinko and the Brain – Narf!

Everything you need to understand about Barack Obama can be gleaned from watching any episode of Pinky and The Brain. All the elements are there, the quest for world domination, the Byzantine plots, a brilliant and dreadfully persistent mind hatching schemes of impossible complexity on a daily basis.
The punchline of course is that President Obama [...]

June 3rd, 2010
Topic: NRB