Critics should remember that, in nine tenths of Iraq, peace reigns. Thousands of Iraqi towns and villages are untroubled by insurrection and continue to regard the British and Americans as liberators. They cannot be abandoned to terrorists, fanatics and friends of the defunct dictatorship. To urge that we should go on as we are is an unpopular line of argument. That it is unpopular does not, however, mean it is wrong.
album came out in 1983. After three straight Christian-themed albums, this release was a return-to-form for the one-time Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota.Neighborhood Bully
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
Yet another incident of censorship and administrative abuse has arisen at DePaul University. This time, as today's press release explains, the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) protested affirmative action by holding an affirmative action bake sale, which was intended to spark debate. Before an hour had passed, however, the Dean of Students, in true DePaul style, shut the bake sale down.
The students who organized the bake sale are now under investigation for possible violations of DePaul's Anti-Discriminatory Harassment Policy and Procedures. First, DePaul spokeswoman Denise Mattson said that the bake sale was held in an inappropriate location, yet FIRE has proof that the PETA student group was allowed to hold an anti-fur protest in the exact same location a week later. Then, when student organizer Michael O'Shea asked why he was under investigation, Assistant Vice President of Community relations Cindy Summers replied that "t]here is no 'because' for the investigation that is pre-determined." In short, administrators stopped the bake sale for some reason that they cannot defend, and are now hunting for an excuse to persecute the DCAs even further.
I wish I could say that this behavior is surprising, but FIRE Interim President Greg Lukianoff got it right when he said that "f]ighting repression at DePaul is becoming a full-time job." FIRE first got involved with DePaul last march when the university threw due process to the wind and fired Professor Thomas Klocek for arguing with students outside of class. FIRE then intervened when the College Republicans were prohibited from protesting a visit to campus by controversial Professor Ward Churchill, then again when DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider lied to FIRE about DePaul's policies.
Despite these blatant abuses of power to chill debate on campus, silence conservative speech, and intimidate students and faculty who disagree with the administration's views, DePaul's Mattson has stated that "[t]he university absolutely firmly believes in free speech for students," and even went so far as to say, "[t]hat's what the university is about: giving students the opportunity to explore different point of views." But with DePaul's track record, Mattson isn't fooling anyone, and promises like this one seem more like a punch line than an actual commitment.
Ditka has been hired by Scott Tissue to urge Americans to stagger their trips to the bathroom during halftime of the Super Bowl.
"It's better known as the 'Great Halftime Flush,'" Ditka said during the commercial. "It's equal to all the water which tumbles over Niagara Falls in seven minutes.
Ditka is also promoting a Web site, which has tips on preventing clogged toilets.
"The Halftime Flush -- that's very serious business," Ditka said. "I mean, you've got 90 million Americans flushing toilets. You could have a tragic clogging problem in America."
Bibles found in the possession of visitors to Saudi Arabia are routinely confiscated by customs officials, and in some cases copies allegedly have been put through a paper shredder, according to religious rights campaigners.
Reports from the Islamic world of the abuse of Bibles and other items important to Christians emerge from time to time, but generally have little impact - in contrast to the wave of Muslim anger sparked by a Newsweek report, since retracted, of Koran desecration by the U.S. military.
Claims of Bible desecration in Saudi Arabia have been made by others.
"One Christian recently reported that his personal Bible was put into a shredder once he entered customs," the late Nagi Kheir, spokesman for the American Coptic Association and a veteran campaigner for religious freedom in the Middle East, wrote in an article several years ago.
"Some Christians have reported that upon entering Saudi Arabia they have had their personal Bibles taken from them and placed into a paper shredder," the U.S.-based organization International Christian Concern said in a 2001 report.
Yes, another book about "the Sixties."What seems to excite Nugent as much as hunting--maybe more--is antagonism to anti-hunting, not just the individuals and the organizations, but the mind-set.
Nothing else accounts for the anger. After all, there is no visible anti-hunting movement. Still, some hunters become infuriated about the mere existence of anti-hunting sentiment, impotent though it may be.
House Republicans, wounded by lobbyist scandals, have called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate more than 10 Democratic members headed by Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Nydia Velazquez of New York.
Schakowsky's husband, consumer advocate Robert Creamer, has been indicted in a check-kiting scheme. (My note: Last summer Creamer pleaded guilty to related charges and is awaiting sentencing.) The Republicans contend that because she signed tax returns with him, that she should be investigated by the ethics committee. Velazquez is accused of violating House ethics guidelines by using her congressional office to endorse Judge Margarita Lopez Torres as Brooklyn Surrogate Court judge.
We need to recognize, because Judge Alito will be confirmed, that, if we're going to oppose a nominee that we've got to persuade the American people that, in fact, their values are at stake.
Over 400 activists of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal were arrested here and elsewhere in Punjab after they clashed with police during their protest against a planned marathon in Lahore on Sunday.
Clashes in the city resulted in injuries to five students and seven police personnel, including an SP. Ten public transport buses were damaged allegedly by the protesters.
According to sources, nearly 215 people were rounded up in Lahore, over 70 in Multan, 35 in Sargodha and as many in Faisalabad and the remaining in other towns of the province. The MMA claimed that over 500 of its activists had been picked up only in Lahore.
We successfully showed that it was truly Anthony Porter that committed this murder.
In 1999, Simon sat in his home in Milwaukee and confessed on videotape to the murders of Marilyn Green and Jerry Hillard on Chicago's South Side. The confession -- coupled with statements from Inez and Walter -- meant freedom for Anthony Porter, who had been convicted and nearly executed for the crimes. Inez swore last month, she made her 1999 statement against Alstory because she was angry at her ex-husband and had been offered money, movie and book deals by Northwestern journalism professor David Protess. She says Protess also promised to help free Walter and her son, Sonny Jackson -- both of whom are in prison for murder.
In an exclusive interview, Simon told ABC7's Paul Meinke that he confessed on videotape after Paul Ciolino, a private investigator hired by Protess, convinced him that he was about to be arrested but that if he cooperated, he would do at most a couple of years in prison. Instead he was sentenced to 30 seven years.
A Ball State University freshman found inside the campus bookstore after hours last night told police he needed to use the books for a class project.
Eighteen-year-old Timothy Whybrew was charged with trespassing.
Police say they decided not to charge him with burglary, because he had "good intentions" for being in the bookstore after it closed for the day.
Police say he stayed in the bookstore after the seven p-m closing because he had a class project due and didn't want to buy the books he needed.
In a surprise reversal, Oprah Winfrey apologized to her national television audience this morning for defending James Frey and said she now feels duped by the embattled author of the best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces."
"I made a mistake," a somber Winfrey said at the opening of the live show, "and I left the impression that the truth does not matter, and I am deeply sorry about that because that is not what I believe."
Winfrey's apology and pointed questions about incidents and people in the book appeared to take Frey by surprise as he sat across the couch from Winfrey today as they had done during a much more convivial show four months earlier.
"It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped," Winfrey told a startled-looking Frey who licked his lips often before speaking. "More importantly, I feel you betrayed millions of readers...As I sit here today, I don't know what is true, and I don't know what isn't."
was a big flop. Who's going to believe--or pay money--for a book by someone who doesn't tell the truth?, a Native American author. Or is he? as a 2001 Notable Book.
, awaits sentencing for bank fraud and tax violations. Creamer drew the attention of federal authorities after a tax kiting scheme was discovered while Creamer was running the Illinois Public Action Council, a consumer advocacy group. While those airborne checks were being circulated, Schakowsky was serving on the board of directors of IPAC. Hundreds of Iraqis staged a demonstration in the restive city of Samarra on Tuesday in a show of defiance against al Qaeda militants they blamed for killing dozens of police recruits last week.
Nationalist rebels and tribal leaders in the city north of Baghdad had already let it be known they were joining forces to try to expel the foreign-influenced Islamists from the area, part of a trend in Sunni Arab areas that U.S. commanders have pointed to optimistically as a sign of political development.
The protesters, estimated by police to number 700 to 1,000 and organized by the Iraqi Islamic Party and Muslim Scholars Association, major forces in Sunni politics, accused al Qaeda of killing some 40 local men who were hauled off a bus near Samarra last week after leaving a police academy in Baghdad and killed.
Justice Scalia arrived and left Colorado without spending any extra days to engage in recreational activity," Leo's statement said. "He arrived at the hotel the night before the course at 11 p.m., having traveled by car for three hours ... He departed at around 6:30 a.m. the morning after the course ended in order to fly back home. The event started at 8 a.m. each of the mornings, and, despite ABC Nightline's emphasis on Justice Scalia participating in tennis at the hotel, he spent less than two hours playing the game over the course of those two days.
The visits will give the two sides opportunities to discuss avenues for bolstering parliamentary ties and issues of mutual interest.
A Yemeni man repatriated last year from the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appeared before a state security court in Sanaa yesterday charged with drug trafficking.
Karama Saeed Khamsan, 33, was accused of traveling to Pakistan to secure the delivery of two tons of hashish for $533,000 for a Yemeni partner.
The consignment was due to be smuggled across the Arabian Sea to the southern Yemeni province of Al-Mahra and then through the porous borders to Saudi Arabia.
DePaul permits student organizations to share political views. The expression of those views must take place in a civil, tolerant and respectful manner. Mattson added that although DePaul accepts the opinions and views of all its students, the area DCA chose to conduct its rally was inappropriate. The main hallway in the Student Center is not the proper area for the debate. We need to make sure that there is an environment for that speech that is safe for everyone.
This had nothing to do with religion. It had nothing to do with ethnicity. My side is that it has everything to do with free speech.
We emphatically reject that this is at all a matter of academic freedom. For DePaul, it was about his conduct, not his content.
DePaul Conservative Alliance stirs up the student body with a questionable approach on affirmative action
It's two more years of maturity. I think at 16, we're just not ready to be behind a wheel of a car.
Mr Assad, who himself is suspected of ordering the killing of the Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, said: "Of the many assassinations that Israel carried out in a methodical and organized way, the most dangerous thing that Israel did was the assassination of President Yasser Arafat."
According to the Dean (My note, Chuck Suchar), DePaul hopes through the “Theme Series” to achieve the following objectives:
to engage in a College wide (and broader) conversation about the current state of and developing trends in the global order, not only for the purpose of advancing a theme of great interest to faculty and students but also to significantly enhance the community of intellect and engagement in the University;
to promote a wide range of views and participants in this conversation about empire and opposition (bold print mine) in its contemporary and historical dimensions utilizing the increasingly global interests of our faculty and students;
to question the nature of the American role and the role of other nations and interests in the emerging order and consider the forms of appropriate action, engagement and scholarship in light of that assessment.
In other words, it is to be a one-sided campaign of on-campus brainwashing designed to turn DePaul students into Manchurian candidates of radical political correctness.
"It is useful for you to read the book 'The Rogue State.'"
"I was glad. I knew it would help the book's sales and I was not bothered by who it was coming from."
"When it is time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope."
"It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like."
Abu Hamza al-Masri, the former imam of the radical north London Finsbury Park Mosque, defended suicide bombings in a British court today, saying that they are an appropriate form of warfare and "the highest form of martyrdom," The Times reports."These missions would increase the number of satellites for military purposes. It would increase the slavery of governance of other countries by America. It is a punishment from God. Muslims see it that way. It is a trinity of evil because it carried Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu, a trinity of evil against Islam. The fact that the motor of the craft fell on Palestine - all these are messages from God. It is a strong message, for the Israeli, to be taken up there to space and he spoke about the Holocaust, to try to make religious advancement from it and gain some moral high ground, hence you have seen this message over Palestine."
In an unexpected twist in the Election Day tire slashing trial, four former Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, have agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanors.
The plea agreements came in the middle of jury deliberations after an eight-day trial on felony property damage charges that carried potential 3 1/2 year prison terms upon conviction.
Michael Pratt, 33, Sowande Omokunde, 26, Lewis G. Caldwell, 29, and Lavelle Mohammad, 36, have all pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property. Omokunde is Moore's son.
Prosecutors will recommend probation sentences as part of the deal, and that the four together pay $5,317 in restitution for the damaged tires.
The surprise resolution was offered by prosecutors at 2 p.m., nearly 7 hours into deliberations and an hour after a jury note complained of an impasse.
Defendant Justin Howell, 21, was the only one of the five charged not included in the deal. The no contest pleas have not been formally made yet, but when they are, jurors will be left to deliberate the felony charge against Howell.
In a possible sign one or more guilty verdicts could be coming this morning, the jury in the Election Day 2004 tire-slashing case sent a note to Circuit Judge Michael Brennan asking whether, when filling out their verdict forms for each of the five defendants, anything should be written in to indicate which of three possible theories of party to a crime a person was being found guilty under.
The jury has now been deliberating for 4 ½ hours.
Milwaukee County District Attorney David Feiss told jurors that testimony from several national Democratic campaign workers brought to Milwaukee showed the defendants acted together to cause the damage and then were heard talking about the vandalism once back at the Democratic office the morning of the election.
``If the defendants had not gone back and bragged to their co-workers, they might have gotten away with it,'' Feiss said.
Defense attorney Rodney Cubbie attempted to raise doubts about the credibility of the national operatives' testimony which blamed the defendants, saying each of the witnesses lied to investigators, some more than once.
``These guys got blamed because they're convenient, that's why they got blamed,'' he said.
Based on his record, I'm concerned that Judge Alito will not be willing to stand up to a president who is determined to seize too much power over our personal lives.
Despite scientific progress, the state of man’s health is worrying and health-threatening social issues have been increasing rapidly, the Leader said.
The problems of people throughout the world, especially the worrying state of health, stem from the discrimination, selfishness, and injustice practiced by the major powers, he added.
“Hunger, sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, alcoholism, and psychological warfare practiced by global propaganda machines are the most significant social ills threatening health in the modern world,” he noted.
Various religions, especially Islam, offer valuable recommendations for human health and wellbeing which should be practiced in societies more than before, (Khameini) stated.
When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about."
The Illinois senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input."
"There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if you are the ordinary voter, you don't have access," Obama said. "That should be a source of concern for all of us."
An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The year-old Bruin Alumni Association says it is concerned about professors who use lecture time to press positions against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations, among other things. Its Web site has a list of what it calls the college's 30 most radical professors.
Any sober, concerned citizen would look at this and see right through it as a reactionary form of McCarthyism," said education professor Peter McLaren, one of those cited by the association. "Any decent American is going to see through this kind of right-wing propaganda. I just find it has no credibility."
Councils that tow away cars run the risk of breaking human rights legislation, the parking appeal service has said.
Yesterday it said they must use the power to clamp and remove vehicles reasonably if they were to avoid being held to have broken the law.
The advice was contained in the annual report of the National Parking Adjudication Service, which hears appeals against tickets issued by councils outside London.
Political analyst Dr. Majid Goudarzi: "In ancient, pre-Islamic times, there were strange disputes between the Jews and the Christians. The Jews believed that the Messiah had not come and would not come. Apparently, it was for them to decide when the Messiah would come and who he would be.
"When Jesus appeared, many people became followers of this great prophet. The king of Yemen at that time, who was probably a Jew – as can be seen in some sources – said to [the Christians]: "You have two options – either you convert [to Judaism] and renounce your Christianity, or else we will burn you.
"They prepared a great pit of fire, and burned those Christians who refused to renounce the pure religion of Jesus.
"This case of burning people, of burning believers, has become engraved in the Jewish consciousness. Later they exploited this issue, and said that in World War II – between 1942 and 1945 – the Germans did this to them. They failed to mention that historic event, and the fact that they themselves had done the same to the Christians.
Iqbal Siddiqu, editor-in-chief of Crescent International, London: "This is the image of the Jewish people that is being promoted, and the Holocaust – the supposed Holocaust – is being constantly used and mythologized, in order to serve this political agenda, which ultimately means, of course, the interests of the State of Israel."
Dr. Majid Goudarzi: "A country like Israel... Its flag has two colors: blue and white. The upper stripe represents the Nile, and the bottom stripe the Euphrates. It says that its reign stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. It puts the Star of David in the middle, and demonstrates its aggressive character daily, by raising this flag. I hope that one day humanity will reach the conclusion that the only solution for this cancerous tumor is surgery."
Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 has severed his ties to all-male Owl Club, a spokesman for the eighth-term Massachusetts Democrat told The Crimson today.
Kennedy’s affiliation with the Harvard final club drew national attention after the senator criticized Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. for having once joined Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), which opposed the integration of women at Alito’s alma mater.
"I would never have you in my classroom."
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about."
about her life as an English literature professor is Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran. The regime he founded, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is currently headed by a hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "I have to tell you that the Ayatollah himself was no novice in sexual matters," Nassrin (one of Professor Nafisi's students) went on. "I've been translating his magnum opus,"The Political, Philosophical, Social, and Religious Principles of Ayatollah Khomeini,"
"But it's already been translated," said Manna. "What's the point?"
"Yes," said Nassrin, "parts of it have been translated, but after it became the butt of party jokes, ever since the embassies abroad found out that people were reading the book not for their edification but for fun, the translations have been very hard to find. And anyway, my translation is thorough—it has references and cross-references to works by other worthies. Did you know that one way to cure a man's sexual appetites is by having sex with animals? And then there's the problem of sex with chickens. You have to ask yourself if a man who has had sex with a chicken can then eat the chicken afterwards. Our leader has provided us with an answer: No, neither he nor his immediate family or next-door neighbors can eat of that chicken's meat, but it's okay for a neighbor who lives two doors away. My father would rather I spent my time on such texts than on Jane Austen or Nabokov?" she added, rather mischievously.
We were not startled by Nassrin's erudite allusions to the works of Ayatollah Khomeini. She was referring to a famous text by Khomeini, the equivalent of his dissertation—required to be written by all who reach the rank of ayatollah—aimed at responding to the questions and dilemmas that could be posed to them by their disciples. Many others before Khomeini had written in almost identical manner. What was disturbing was that these texts were taken seriously by people who ruled us and in whose hands lay our fate and the fate of our country. Every day on national television and radio these guardians of morality and culture would make similar statements and discuss such matters as if they were the most serious themes for contemplation and consideration.
At the annual commemoration in Chicago of the birth of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Rev. Jesse Jackson today found himself disputing a biographer's assertion that the civil rights leader once accused Jackson of trying to use the movement to promote himself.
The passage in question is in historian Taylor Branch's recently published "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68," the third and final installment of his biography of King.
Following a breakfast in King's honor held every year by Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jackson this morning told reporters that King and his colleagues often argued about strategy, but that after those meetings everyone reached consensus.
Fuk King Kwok was waiting for his driver's license to be printed when his name was called and a chuckling Illinois secretary of state employee offered some advice.
"She [said] this is a dangerous name," the Chinese immigrant recalled. "She [said] the name translated is not so good, maybe I should change [it]. The word I hear is not so good."
The majority of questioners rambled on and on about their Cubs-related heartbreak before offering an actual question, many plugging their Cubs-related blog.
The first awkward occasion occurred when one particularly long-winded blogger groused that White Sox GM Ken Williams and manager Ozzie Guillen were "smoking cigars with their feet up and laughing at us, laughing at you guys, laughing at the North Side."
The fan then accused Hendry of failing to address the team's off-season needs, of overestimating Jacque Jones' talent and having a payroll of only $75 million. Hendry's equally long-winded response was that he beefed up the bullpen, has faith in Jones, acquired leadoff man Juan Pierre and has a $90 million payroll that could balloon to $100 million.
Intelligence sources say Iran will begin feeding converted uranium into 164 centrifuges at Natanz this week. That could enable it to create enriched uranium of sufficient quality for nuclear weapons production within three years.
Previous estimates of the minimum time required had ranged from five to 10 years.
Sad to say, we don't hear much about Ray Davies these days. The last time the one-time Kinks leader got any attention was in 2004-- when he was shot in the leg by a mugger in New Orleans. Davies, possibly fearing he had turned into the 90-pound weakling he sang about in his 1979 hit "Superman," decided to run after the thief--he'd taken off with Ray's girlfriend's purse. will be released next month. is from the Golden Era. It's now considered one of the best rock albums ever--however, it didn't even crack Billboard's Top 200 list when it was released in 1968. came out a year later, it paired the wistfulness of "Village Green" with the hard rock sound of the Kinks' early years. And for a while, Ray Davies' Kinks were commercially successful in the United States again. in 1971. Do you like politics and rock music? If so, find copies of the Kinks' underrated rock opera "Preservation Act 1" and "Act 2" from 1973 and 1974. and "Misfits."Hasn't Illinois always been run this way?
Isn't Blagojevich's predecessor, Republican George Ryan, currently on trial on various corruption charges?
We are a civilized and ancient nation, and a nation that has culture and logic does not need nuclear weapons.
Despite the technological progress in the world, a few Western countries are mentally living in medieval times and say you don't have the right to scientific progress.
If they want to destroy the Iranian nation's rights by that course, they will not succeed.
Michael Palin is facing moves to oust him as president of a leading environmental group because of his passion for long-distance air travel.
The Times has learnt that senior members of Transport 2000, which campaigns for sustainable travel and against growth in flights, believe that Palin sets a poor example.
On screen he is seen riding dog sleds, camels, elephants and hot-air balloons. But few viewers will have realised how many air miles he clocked up making the programmes. For the Himalayas series alone, Palin made seven return trips between London and Asia. His share of the carbon dioxide emissions of those flights was 24 tonnes, 12 times more than the average car emits in a year.
The 1983 essay "In Defense of Elitism" by Harry Crocker III included this line, read dramatically by Kennedy: "People nowadays just don't seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns blacks and hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and hispanic..."
On one side, you have such lawmakers as Jack Murtha and Nancy Pelosi saying the Iraq situation is such a mess that we must withdraw our troops. In the middle, you have Hillary Clinton and John Kerry saying that Bush has badly botched the war but we must stay the course while searching for better solutions. And then there are folks like Joe Lieberman, who are strongly supporting the president.
The 2000 veep nominee, if you hadn't noticed, is drawing all kinds of flak from liberal activists, some of whom would like to sabotage his reelection bid (Lieberman's old nemesis Lowell Weicker is already making noises about running). But in a larger sense, the argument over Lieberman has become a proxy war for where Democrats should stand on the overriding issues of Iraq and terrorism.
He said the mostly Asian pilgrims who perished Sunday as they pressed to throw stones at three pillars representing Satan in the valley of Mina near Mecca "met their fate because their place and time of death has been decided the moment they were born."
"We hope that their place in paradise with the faithful is assured because they have fulfilled their pilgrimage duties."
In questioning Alito on Wednesday morning, Durbin pressed him on abortion, specifically on why he could not say if he found "constitutional support'' for a woman's right to choose or if the Supreme Court rulings were the settled law of the land.
"You can't bring yourself to say there's a constitutional basis for the right of a woman's privacy when she is deciding, making a tragic, painful decision about continuing a pregnancy that may risk her health or her life, I'm troubled by that,'' Durbin said.
Coburn brandished a 1989 letter Durbin, then a House member, wrote to a Springfield constituent when he said he believed Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling paving the way for legalized abortion, should be reversed.
Five Democratic activists accused of slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans on Election Day 2004 are now charging that "professional political operatives" with the Democratic Party actually damaged the tires and then set up the activists to take the blame.
Attorney Sheldon Shellow, who is representing accused tire-slasher Sowande Omokunde – son of Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) – said the operatives' loathing of Republicans and President Bush motivated the slashings.
The GOP rented more than 100 vehicles for a get-out-the-vote campaign in Milwaukee on Nov. 2, 2004. The vehicles were parked in a lot adjacent to a Bush campaign office, and party workers planned to drive poll watchers to polling places by 7 a.m. and transport any voters who didn't have a ride.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised
The time has come at last
To throw away this mask
So everyone can see
My true identity...
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
The American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council representing the National and International leadership of the American Indian Movement once again is vehemently and emphatically repudiating and condemning the outrageous statements made by academic literary and Indian fraud, Ward Churchill in relationship to the 9-11 tragedy in New York City that claimed thousands of innocent people’s lives.
Churchill’s statement that these people deserved what happened to them, and calling them little Eichmanns, comparing them to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who implemented Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews and others, should be condemned by all.
The sorry part of this is Ward Churchill has fraudulently represented himself as an Indian, and a member of the American Indian Movement, a situation that has lifted him into the position of a lecturer on Indian activism. He has used the American Indian Movement’s chapter in Denver to attack the leadership of the official American Indian Movement with his misinformation and propaganda campaigns.
"The crushing hand of fate here seems to always come down against the workers and the consumers and in favor of these established institutions and corporations," Durbin told Alito on the judge's third day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Well now, there then, you're right -- as in "correct," not politically (I'm still convinced you're a closet leftie) -- there's almost nothing on the list
that I'm in much of a position to answer.
As a newly-minted Republican myself -- that's right, I've decided that the Grand Old Party could do with a little truth in advertising about itself, and have already announced my joining up to provide whatever assistance I can along those lines -- I'll take a stab at the one about my younger colleagues, however.
The Young Republics SHOULD feel resentful about not being funded -- as a "cultural group," no less -- by those typically much less affluent and emphatically more marginalized than themselves. After all, that's what makes them Republicans.
As to who underwrote my fee -- which,I'll have to admit, while hefty enough by any reasonable standard, didn't quite measure up to that by such really discrimated-against Republican types as Ann Coulter (of course, I've not yet figured out the secret of how she manages to deliver a glazed glare out both sides of her head at once while delivering lines about what a blessing it was for humanity that Chivington and friends exterminated all the barriers to civilization littering up the Colorado landscape a while back, so I guess I've got a way to go before I deserve to be on her pay scale, eh?).
As to who underwrote my tab, I've really got no idea, other that it had nothing to do with tuition. I was told simply that it was money dedicated to that purpose by an "anonymous private donor."
Scuttlebutt has it, however, that it was actually a fat cat Republican alumnus of DePaul who hoped to drum up an "issue" that stood to give his guys on campus could focus on and thus piggy-back a bit of visibility for themselves.
Combine that with there being a rightwing faculty member at DePaul in rather desperate need of being able to claim he'd actually published something -- you know, "scholarly production," and all that -- and the fact that The American
Thinker had been so remiss as to have not yet dedicated a piece to me...
Well, you see his point. A lot of birds with one check, doncha think?
Recording? Not my call. But, then, it was a genuine pleasure to see that younger folk still possess the rudimentary skills necessary to take notes rather than merely push a button.
I did a sort of informal evaluation while I was speaking and -- guess what? -- the blond kid who is was told heads up the YR was far and away the most proficient -- or at least the most frenetic -- of the lot.
That's about it.
WC
My back channels tell me, however, that i
"I'm sorry to report that your memo seeking a job in the Reagan administration does not evidence an open mind," the Illinois Democrat told Alito during the opening of a second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It evidences a mind that sadly is closed in some areas."
"The things that I said in the 1985 memo were a true expression of my views at the time from my vantage point as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office," Alito said. "But that was 20 years ago and a great deal has happened in the case law since then."
If Islam wants to be taken seriously as a religion of peace, than it has to stop killing people.
A top Saudi cleric told Muslim pilgrims marking the climax of haj on Tuesday that the West was using the global phenomenon of terrorism to scare people away from Islam and discredit legitimate Muslim causes.
Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudeis, the state-appointed preacher at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, also called for stability in Iraq and said Islam was innocent of the charge of "terrorism."
"The campaign against Islam has become fierce and Muslims are being described in insulting terms to distort the image of Islam and scare people away from it," he told the 2.5 million pilgrims in a sermon to mark the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.
He accused Western countries of hypocrisy in promoting freedom and democracy, citing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"When the oppressor Zionist enemy uses its war of smart bombs and tanks against our brothers in Palestine, violating our holy sites, that's not terrorism to their mind -- but defending land, religion and honor is," Sudeis said.
"Islam is innocent of this grave phenomenon (of terrorism). The shedding of blood in this country and other Muslim countries is a forbidden criminal act," the cleric said, adding that fighting Islamic rulers was "foolish" and counterproductive."
It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims.
While much of the country will be focused this week on the highly partisan battles expected during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, five Milwaukee Democratic activists will be fighting their own battle: They are going to trial for allegedly slashing tires outside a Republican Party office during the 2004 presidential election.
The sons of a first-term congresswoman and Milwaukee's former acting mayor are among the five charged with slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans to drive voters and monitors to the polls on Election Day.
Sowande Omokunde, son of Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., and Michael Pratt, the son of former Milwaukee acting mayor Marvin Pratt, are among those charged with criminal damage to property, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The two-week trial is expected to begin Tuesday morning in Milwaukee, after jury selection. The trial will be broadcast live on the Web at Court TV Extra.
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – The U.S. recently began a $3 million airlift of winter supplies and equipment to assist border guards in Tajikistan. Deliveries of food, winter clothing, medical supplies, tents and other needed supplies began arriving in Tajikistan on January 2 and will continue over the next several days.
The first supplies flown in by U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft from Afghanistan, consisted of 100,000 ready-to-eat meals for the border guards. The supplies are being delivered at the request of the Tajik government to assist border guard units during the winter months.
U.S. Charge d’Affaires Thomas Armbruster and Head of Tajik Border Guard International Relations Department, Erkin Tojibaev, helped unload the first shipment at Dushanbe International Airport January 2. Charge Armbruster noted how Tajikistan recently supplied Pakistan with emergency food assistance following the devastating earthquake there and how the international community responded to assist the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. “This airlift is in the same spirit of friends helping friends in need,” said Armbruster.
Increased attention to the challenges for the Tajik Border Guards is an ongoing effort of the United States, Tajikistan and other partners including the United Nations Office of Drug Control and the European Union’s Border project to better secure Tajikistan’s borders and to stop the trafficking of people, drugs and weapons in order to encourage regional trade and help ensure global security.
The ability to rapidly shift assistance to areas needed has been a hallmark of U.S. – Tajik cooperation on border security and is a sign of the confidence the United States has in Tajik border guards.
Sen. Russ Feingold hasn't uttered the "i" word, but he won't preclude impeachment proceedings against President Bush over the administration's domestic surveillance program.
Feingold, D-Wis., was asked about the possibility of impeaching Bush during a campaign appearance with Senate candidate Bernie Sanders in Vermont on Saturday.
Feingold didn't use the word impeachment in his reply, but said he wouldn't take anything off the table.
"It's almost inconceivable that this was legally defensible," Feingold said, according to an account in the Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer.
Illinois' lieutenant governor wants to stop protesters from disrupting funeral services.
Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn wants lawmakers to pass the "Let them Rest In Peace Act."
The act is in response to recent protests at the funerals of several Illinoisans who were killed while serving in the military.
Quinn says grieving military families shouldn't have to put up with such protests. But he says his proposal is designed to balance concern for the families with the protesters' rights to freedom of speech.
The proposed legislation would ban protests during any funeral and for 30 minutes before and after the service. It also would create a 300-foot zone of privacy around the funeral site.
The trial for five people who worked for the John Kerry presidential campaign begins Monday (January 9, 2006).
They're accused of slashing the tires of 20 vehicles outside Republican headquarters in Milwaukee election day morning.
The 77 witnesses include National AFLCIO President John Sweeney and U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Illinois)
The five will be tried together and is expected to go about two weeks. If convicted, each suspect could get three and a-half years in prison and a $10,000
fine.
And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Iranians who reported this note that this year's message in conjunction with the Muslim Haj came from his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for the first time.
I think it is good that both Paul Ciolino and David Protess are telling their stories in this case. I urge them both to petition the court in favor of the evidentiary hearing so we can all find out what happened without the bluster and bravado.
It's also amusing that perhaps the two biggest media hounds in Illinois history are complaining about the "public relations offensive" being mounted against them.
In his response on this website, Paul Ciolino acts as if he's never seen a dime for his participation in this case. Yet in one of the countless interviews posted on his company website, tooling around in one of his $100,000 cars, he explains his technique in interviewing
Alstory Simon:
"We just bull-rushed him, and mentally he couldn't recover," Ciolino says.
Oh, and he's one of the five best private eyes in America. Dan Rather says so on his website.
Here's are a few "Homicide 101" facts that the private eye doesn't mention in his response:
--Nobody places Alstory Simon in the park at the time of the shootings.
--No physical evidence exists against Alstory Simon.
--No unrecanted witnesses exist against Alstory Simon.
--Despite countless media reports to the contrary, several people placed Anthony Porter at the scene at the time of the shooting.
--Anthony Porter's criminal record was far worse than Alstory Simon's at the time of the murders.
--At the time of the murders, Porter was wanted for shooting a guy in the head in the vicinity a few days prior.
--Porter stuck up a guy in the park the night of the murders.
--After he was "bull-rushed" into confessing, Alstory Simon was given the "bull-rusher's" good friend as an attorney.
--The bull-rusher and the professor were given an award by the attorney for their efforts in exposing Alstory Simon while the attorney was representing Alstory Simon under a charge of murder.
I have no idea who committed the murders in question, but I'm dubious of the Simon confession. I believe it warrants a new hearing.
Professor Protess in his response expresses surprise at some of the brazen statements attributed to him in the Simon petition. While he certainly will get his chance to answers these questions more fully, I don't dismiss them at first blush.
Why? Because I've heard Protess make overstatements in the media many times over the years.
In a case I'm involved in, Protess just said indignantly on national television last month that a man who was convicted for a 1986 murder and later released from prison was nowhere near the murder scene at the approximate time of the murders.
The public record in that case clearly shows that the man admits he was driving near the scene at the approximate time on his way to mailing a letter in the early morning hours.
In that same case, Protess has suggested twice on national television that a man I represent should be a suspect without a shred of concrete evidence to back it up.
My client recently passed a polygraph.
So I don't always take the professor at face value.
Want proof of his penchant for exaggeration? How about his own words, in his response a few hours ago:
"In almost 20 years of reporting and writing about miscarriages of justice, Simon's case involves one of the most clear-cut cases of guilt that I have ever seen."
Having just returned from a quick trip to Cuba via Mexico City, I began my day today with a compelling need to get tuned back in to the haps up here in the belly of the beast. You know, the really important stuff, like Ward Churchill's speaking schedule.
In a piece titled "The Weather Underground and Ward Churchill - UPDATED!" Jim Paine's betters over at MARATHON PUNDIT credit KHOW's Dan Craplis (my note, it's Caplis) for "breaking the story" that Churchill has "taken credit" for fellow Weatherman Brian Flanigan's supposedly breaking Chicago corporation council Richard Elrod's neck during Weather's Days of Rage action in 1969. The fable is then recycled on something called BILL BARR'S WEST SIDE, complete with attribution to both Craplis and PUNDIT.
We shall of course proceed to parse, but, first things first: Thanks are due to the PUNDIT for posting the Barr family Xmas card cum portrait. A picture, they say, is work a whole pile of words, and if ever there was a visual living up to that billing, this is it. The Barr group shot should be adopted as a poster image by the Anti-Incest Society of North America.
First of all, not to put too fine a point on it, but there's a rather significant difference between Weatherman (with which both Churchill and the FBI have said he was affiliated in 1969) and the subsequent Weather Underground Organization (of which Churchill has neither claimed to have been a member, nor, so far as I can find, has the FBI ever accused him of being one).
The professor has a long history of controversial remarks, including telling a local newspaper in 1987 that he taught the Weather Underground how to make bombs, the Daily Camera said earlier this month.
From the inside, it looks like a modern, luxury apartment in Manhattan, complete with Swedish furniture and indoor plumbing. From the outside, it is just another tent in a Haj camp in the middle of the holy site of Mina, Saudi Arabia.
Five-star service is what the pilgrim who has rented this ornamental tent is going to receive when he and his entourage arrive at the Adwaia Al-Iman pilgrim's camp.
It is not common to see such a tent next to those of the commoners in Mina or in any other holy site during the Haj season. But, nowadays, some companies are betting there are wealthy pilgrims eager to shell out prices far greater than those of any luxury executive suite on Park Avenue.
The tent is divided into two main sections. The first section has three lavish bedrooms, a large living room and two bathrooms (one is in the master bedroom). The other section is smaller and it has one bedroom, one bathroom and a medium living room.
Even by the standards of the rich pilgrims that seek out Hussein'’s services, this tent is an extreme example.
"The charge for providing this tent is SR800,000 ($213,000) for five days only," said Hussein. "But this charge also includes five-star transportation and meals."
Baha'is believe in a process of progressive revelation recognizing the major religions' founders including Adam, Noah, Zoroaster (Zarathustra), Krishna, Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad. Like Muslims, Baha'is' interpret religious history in terms of a series of prophetic dispensations. Each prophet, or Manifestation, brings a somewhat broader and more advanced revelation for the time and place it appeared in. Unlike contemporary Muslims, Baha'is do not believe that this process of progressive revelation has an end.
All it would have taken for Dhabihu'llah Mahrami to end his decadelong imprisonment in an Iranian jail was the renunciation of his faith.
But on repeated occasions, Mahrami, a follower of the Baha'i faith, Iran's largest religious minority, refused.
His death of unknown causes last month in a government jail where he had been held on charges of abandoning Islam brought international attention to the ongoing struggle Baha'is have faced in Iran since the birth of their religion about 150 years ago.
Saturday night, about 150 people gathered at the North American Baha'i Temple in Wilmette to honor Mahrami, who was named a martyr by the religion's international leadership shortly after his death.
Since the Islamic revolution of 1979, more than 200 Iranian Baha'i followers have been killed and hundreds more imprisoned by the Iranian government, Baha'i officials estimate. Discrimination against students and workers of the Baha'i faith has also affected thousands.
The persecution, Fullmer said, stems from the belief among orthodox Muslim clerics that "any claim of having a religious revelation after Muhammad is heresy."
, Cal once baked bread?"Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"
The Muslim Council of Britain, the country's main Islamic umbrella group, has decided to boycott the National Holocaust Day for the second year running saying that the January 26 event was not "sufficiently inclusive."
"The MCB would be honored to participate in a national memorial day providing that it clearly affirmed that the lives of all people, regardless of race or religion, are to be valued equally," a spokesman for the organization said.
Stephen Smith, the chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said, "Holocaust Memorial Day has always been an inclusive event. That is why, from its first year, survivors from Bosnia, Rwanda and the holocaust have come together: Jews, Muslims and Christians, as well as non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust."
He said, "Holocaust Memorial Day is an opportunity for all communities and faiths to learn from a salutary past and expose all forms of racism - including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism - xenophobia, discrimination and bigotry."
, contains this telling snippet of conversation:Robert, how did you relate to the Sixties?
He replied, "I didn't."
We wrote Destructive Generation in the mid-Eighties because of the way that Sixties radicalism was continuing to influence how America thought and felt twenty years after the fact. Today, another twenty years further on, the Sixties is still the undead decade. Far from being yesterday's news, as it should be, it is still the white sound of our intellectual life, decanting its poisonous old wine into new bottles, fomenting our culture wars, and picking the scabs off the angry social wounds that have been with us now for a generation. A new edition of this book, which some commentators have been kind enough to refer to as a "classic," seems entirely appropriate.
Also, DePaul University prevents its on-campus group College Republicans from posting fliers protesting a visit by controversial professor Ward Churchill. Can they really do that? We’ll debate it.
Under pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), DePaul University has lifted a vague ban on “propaganda” that it used last fall to silence student protest of a campus appearance by controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill.
“The revocation of the ‘propaganda’ ban is a step in the right direction for DePaul,” said FIRE Interim President Greg Lukianoff. “Yet DePaul’s disregard for freedom of expression reaches far beyond this one policy. The true test will be how DePaul reacts the next time students attempt to express dissenting opinions.”
DePaul’s College Republicans (CRs) suffered censorship last October after they opposed the university’s invitation to Churchill to lecture and lead a student workshop. To protest the events, the CRs produced flyers recounting some of Churchill’s controversial remarks. When the CRs submitted the flyers for approval, administrators responded first by misleading the CRs into thinking that the event was cancelled, then by invoking a policy that stated, “We do not approve propaganda.” The students, who did not believe that quoting a person’s own remarks was “propaganda,” posted the flyers anyway, leading to a formal warning from DePaul and a surreptitious addition to the policy saying that posters could be used only to promote events, not to protest them.
The CRs contacted FIRE, and on November 23, 2005, FIRE wrote a letter to DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider, pointing out that the vague and constantly shifting ban on "propaganda" gave administrators the unfettered power to censor student speech at will. Holtschneider replied on December 12, incorrectly asserting that no DePaul policies mentioned the word “propaganda” and stating that the policy prohibits the denunciation of any speaker appearing at DePaul. Yet FIRE’s research shows that not only did the “propaganda” ban exist, but the stipulation that flyers may only “promote events” appeared in the policy after the College Republicans’ flyers were denied approval.
Italian beef. Deep-dish pizza. Hot dogs. The foods closely associated with Chicago aren't known for being healthy for the waistline.
But news Friday that Men's Fitness magazine has ranked Chicago as the "fattest city in America" took many Windy City residents by surprise.
Sure, they chuckle at Saturday Night Live's portrayal of Chicago's "Super Fans" (Think Chris Farley in a football jersey and grass skirt, "choking" on a bratwurst while singing the praises of "Da Bears.")
But the country's fattest city?
"We successfully showed that it was truly Anthony Porter that committed this murder."
The point remains that Eric is trying to avoid a discussion of the very serious issues raised by Sotos and Ekl on behalf of Simon. He's doing it by attacking Sotos and Ekl and now, Joe Birkett. I have no idea what Joe Birkett has to do with Alstory Simon. Eric not once that I can recall ever publicly questioned the motives of anybody who tried to help other potentially wrongfully convicted people. And he knows some of those people have histories and motives arguably is "questionable" as Ekl and Sotos. One of the very serious issues raised in this case involves an allegation that the investigator in this case, Ciolino, after Simon "confessed" to him, steered Simon to a friendly attorney to make sure the story didn't unravel. I don't know anyone who believes it is proper for an investigator in a case who elicits a surprise confession to be providing the attorney for that man. What Eric's column also doesn't mention is that all witnesses against Simon have recanted and there is no physical evidence whatsoever. Certainly a case worth exploring, at the very least.
Time is running short for those with ideas about preventing vote fraud in St. Clair County.
The Vote Fraud Review Committee is seeking ideas about ways to prevent vote fraud in St. Clair County (My note: where East St. Louis is). Their next meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the O'Fallon Log Cabin, which is located on the north side of O'Fallon Community Park. No additional meeting dates have been announced.
Written comments or suggestions can be sent to the committee at: P.O. Box 24337, Belleville,IL 62223-9337.
POOR BILL AYERS. His timing could not have been worse. Just when his widely publicized memoir of his days as a terrorist was coming out, our nation suffered its worst terrorist assault ever.
Indeed, the very morning of the attack, the New York Times printed a fawning profile of Ayers and his comrade in terror, Bernardine Dohrn. Under the headline "No Regrets for a Love of Explosives," accompanied by a large color photo of the couple, Ayers boasts that he bombed New York City’s police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972—and proudly adds, "I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough." Asked whether he would do it again, he answers, "I don’t want to discount the possibility." Or, as he puts it in Fugitive Days: A Memoir
William Ayers is a school reform activist, Distinguished Professor of Education, and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches courses in interpretive research, urban school change, and youth and the modern predicament. He is the founder of the Center for Youth and Society and founder and co-director of the Small Schools Workshop.
A graduate of the Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University, he has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education. His interests focus on the political and cultural contexts of schooling as well as the meaning and ethical purposes of teachers, students, and families. His articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, The Nation, and The Cambridge Journal of Education. His books include A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), The Good Preschool Teacher, (Teachers College Press, 1989), and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, (Teachers College Press, 1993) which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. Recent edited books include To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children's Lives, (Teachers College Press, 1995), (with Janet Miller) A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation, (Teachers College Press, 1997), (with Pat Ford) City Kids/City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row, (The New Press, 1996), (with Jean Ann Hunt and Therese Quinn) Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader, (The New Press and Teachers College Press, 1998), (with Mike Klonsky and Gabrielle Lyon) A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools, (Teachers College Press, 2000), and (with Rick Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn) Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment. A handbook for parents, students, educators and citizens, (The New Press, 2001). His latest book is Fugitive Days: A Memoir, (Beacon Press, 2001).
According to law‑enforcement records, there were a total of 284 arrests, 40 of them on felony charges, and several serious injuries; bail charges exceeded $1.5 million. Of those arrested, 104 were college students, mostly from the Midwest and New York. Another 20 were high‑school students, and the rest were either part‑time or full‑time activists. Fifty‑seven police were hospitalized and over one million dollars of damage was caused to property in the city of Chicago.
You don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
I remember the old SDS Weatherman song about Richard Elrod, the City Attorney who tackled Weathermen Brian Sullican (note Bill sent a correction, Brian Flannigan was the name of the creep) during the days-of-rage leaving Elrod badly injured.
It was sung to the tune of Lay-Lady-Lay (my note, that's right, another Dylan song) and went,
Lay Elrod Lay,
Lay in Iron Lung,
Stay Elrod stay,
Stay in your bed a while,
and then went into some refrain about the People's Army being a push over or something.
Pretty ugly song sung by some ugly people.
The professor has a long history of controversial remarks, including telling a local newspaper in 1987 that he taught the Weather Underground how to make bombs, the Daily Camera said earlier this month.
