Horowitz Calls Ahmadinejad ‘Persian Hitler’
Several days after the story of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Columbia University visit inflamed the blogosphere, professional outrage monger David Horowitz has weighed in. Robert Stacy McCain has the story on the front page of today's Washington Times. Columbia University's invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the Ivy League school's New York City campus tomorrow is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 23, 2007 07:47
Civility, Hypocrisy, and the Rules of Political Debate
Glenn Greenwald argues that many of those now condemning MoveOn.org and/or demanding that Democrats condemn MoveOn.org for suggesting General David Petraeus would "betray us" are hypocrites, since many have used inflammatory rhetoric themselves. He's surely right in many particulars. Those on the Ann Coulter wing of the Right, who routinely throw around words like "traitors" and "treason" to describe mainstream ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 12, 2007 15:49
Ward Churchill Fired for Academic Misconduct
After years of controversy, Colorado University finally fired Ward Churchill yesterday afternoon. CU President Hank Brown had earlier recommended the dismissal. In the end, there really wasn’t much choice, Brown said. Churchill "falsified history and fabricated history." And Churchill "did not express regret, apologize or agree to refrain from this behavior in the future," Brown said. Some 25 faculty members on three ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 25, 2007 15:55
Eric Muller’s Michelle Malkin Obsession
UNC lawprof Eric Muller posts about Michelle Malkin, a lot, on his blog, Is That Legal? Yesterday's installment is a rather inexplicable rant saying that her recent syndicated column criticizing Charlotte Church's transition from Christian rock teen queen to 20-year-old skank is hypocritical because--brace yourself!--Malkin wore a bikini and went to parties in 1992 and he has photos to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 29, 2006 15:29
Move to Fire Professor For 9/11 Conspiracy Views
A student activist group has joined New Hampshire Governor John Lynch in trying to fire a University of New Hampshire professor for his rather bizarre views on the 9/11 attacks. A small group of students has started a petition to remove a University of New Hampshire professor who believes that Bush administration officials planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks or knew ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 29, 2006 09:05
Ward Churchill Fired for Academic Misconduct
University of Colorado Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano has come to a decision with regard to Ward Churchill. The money sentence from a long announcement: "Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado, Boulder." While I strongly disagreed with some of my conservative colleagues who thought Churchill ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 26, 2006 18:44
Ward Churchill Report Released
The University of Colorado yesterday released its report [PDF] from its investigation into scholarly misconduct charges against controversial professor Ward Churchill. The Denver Post summarizes the findings thusly: University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill plagiarized, fabricated and falsified material and was disrespectful of American Indian traditions in his writings, a report released today said. Three of the five scholars who ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 17, 2006 09:43
Diana York Blaine Feminist Professor Nude on Flickr
Human Events reports on a feminist professor at USC letting it all hang out for the World Wide Web to see. A California professor has been exposed … well, actually, she exposed herself (and with a smile). Dr. Diana York Blaine—a women’s studies professor at the University of Southern California—has decided to post topless photos of herself (warning: photos contain nudity) ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 10, 2006 10:58
Attacking Ben Domenech II
On Wednesday, I defended Ben Domenech against inflammatory and over-the-top attacks by several bloggers on the Left, challenging opponents to, "Criticize his arguments, not his upbringing." Now, a second round of attacks are underway that attempt to do just that. Several people are calling Domenech a racist by lifting selected quotes from various blog posts, including one referring ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 24, 2006 10:12
Jay Bennish and the Rights of Students and Teachers
Jay Bennish, the Colorado high school who was suspended after a student taped him comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler in a classroom discussion, is planning a federal lawsuit to get his job back. Katherine Blake reports for Denver's CBS4: The high school geography teacher placed on paid leave for comments he made during a class lecture about President Bush ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 3, 2006 11:52
