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 [...]

As Turkey gallops toward Sharia, it betrays its former ally Israel. “Oren: Turkey has embraced the leaders of Iran and Hamas,” by Hilary Leila Krieger for the Jerusalem Post, June 6 (thanks to all who sent this in): WASHINGTON – Israel envoy criticized Ankara’s outreach to terrorist groups Friday,…

Commentary: At the National Tea Party Convention, Andrew Breitbart made an interesting series of remarks about where the persistent liberal victimhood memes come from: “Bad, racist, homophobic—all those buzzwords that they learned in their freshman orientation class at Wesleyan—are used as weapons to try to destroy you and intimidate you to not speak up.” Well, [...]

Multiculturalism, which is not so much about the appreciation of diverse human cultures, as it is about the theology of gender, race and class oppression, is the academic religion that sanctions these campus witch-hunts. Its imperatives are established in the “student orientation” sessions required of every entering freshman. “A central goal of these [orientation] programs,” [...]

After getting caught drunk driving from a gay nightclub in a state vehicle, California State Senator Roy Ashburn has announced he’s gay. This is particularly controversial because he’s also a Republican with a socially-conservative voting record.  For that, the Daily Beast’s Meghan McCain accuses him of hypocrisy:
The second part that’s upsetting about Ashburn’s story is [...]