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Univ. of Wisconsin: Betraying Free Speech
By pursuing campus climate instead of free speech UW betrays both...
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2002 7:14pm PDT
When Lovers Become Strangers. Why the Saudis Cheated on America.
SOMETIMES lovers become strangers....
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2002 6:49pm PDT
Palestine and the Geocentric Left
LEFTIST THEORY has always reminded me of the old earth-centered universe. Back then, whenever anybody observed something going on in the skies that contradicted the model, he would tweak and adapt it to account for the new phenomenon. Eventually the whole contraption became so intricate and unwieldy that it collapsed. The problem wasn't that the model was not sufficiently elaborate, but rather that it was fundamentally flawed and had to be discarded....
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2002 6:20pm PDT
Why Capitol Hill Supports Israel
A friend from the Arab world wrote to ask me: “How do these disastrous votes blindly supporting Israel come about? Is there anything one can do to enlighten these people?”
This story should provide some answers....
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2002 9:34am PDT
ARABS QUIETLY CHEERING YASSER'S DANCE OF DEATH
THERE'S a Mideast saying that the only people who hate Yasser Arafat more than the Israelis are . . . the Arabs....
Posted: Thu, May 9, 2002 6:46pm PDT
Anti-Israel Movement Grows on America's Campuses
A Harvard group protesting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is just the latest to demand that its university divest itself of investments that involve companies with significant operations in Israel....
Posted: Wed, May 8, 2002 10:26pm PDT
Bush Delegates Ally With Conservative Muslims
Saviors of the Children...
Posted: Wed, May 8, 2002 10:17pm PDT
Vegan KILLS confused GAY man
VEGAN Charged in Dutch Politician's Assassination...
Posted: Wed, May 8, 2002 10:01pm PDT
Those Gaudy Saudis
NOT SINCE "Pork: The Other White Meat" has there been an American ad blitz as pathetically farfetched as the Saudi embassy’s current venture, "The People of Saudi Arabia: Allies Against Terrorism."...
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2002 11:02pm PDT
Cynthia McKinney: An American Hero
Cynthia McKinney a few pickles short of an eighth grade sex-ed class, or crazy…like a fox?...
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2002 7:04pm PDT
May 11 SF March for Mumia
May 11, 2002, San Francisco March for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Assemble: 10:30 a.m. at Embarcadero and Market Street (Embarcadero BART). March to Civic Center Plaza at 1 p.m. Sponsored by Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal at 415/695-7745...
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2002 1:33am PDT
Swedes less well off than African Americans
STOCKHOLM, May 4 (Reuters) - Swedes, usually perceived in Europe as a comfortable, middle class lot, are poorer than African Americans, the most economically deprived group in the United States, a Swedish study showed on Saturday....
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 11:00pm PDT
Imbalance on campuses
exclusion of dissent has become the rule on campus...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 10:45pm PDT
Israelis Arrest Two Americans, One from Cali
Israeli authorities have arrested two Americans affiliated with relief organizations, including a Muslim commentator who recently described by telephone and in e-mails the destruction he saw in Jenin: 'He reported basically the destruction and smell of death under the rubble...'...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 3:51pm PDT
Tory Party leader sacked over racist 'joke' about Pakistanis
...minister made her comments about Asians being "10 a penny" in Britain, just hours after the far right British National Party had claimed a third council seat in Burnley, just 30 miles from where she was appearing......
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 10:39am PDT
War Criminal are covering their Ass
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration, flouting the advice of major allies and outraging human rights organizations, renounced on Monday legal obligations toward the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court....
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 9:10am PDT
Please, Dad, Tell Me: How Do I Stop Being Complicit?
Dear Dad,
It was an enormously heavy responsibility you raised me with. You taught me that the Jews have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that the holocaust could only happen because the Germans were silent. You taught me that Jews must never, never, never be silent when injustice occurs, because our silence makes us complicit....
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 6:30am PDT
Burying Jenin
A plump woman with white hair and a sun-wizened face sits cross-legged in the entrance to her home. “My name is Maali Wahdan and I live here,” she says stoutly. Her figure is framed by jagged concrete. Red spray paint in the rear of the room indicates that the caved-in structure is now slated for demolition...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2002 6:05am PDT