Columbia Dean Would Like to Invite Hitler

You Tube has video of insane man who is in desperate need of treatment.

Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad walks among us

The NY Daily News gives a battle cry that I can heartily echo.

Hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in a hornet's nest of outrage yesterday as Columbia University prepared to welcome him with open arms today and stuck by a dean's outrageous assertion that it would let Adolf Hitler speak, too.

The Holocaust-denying Iranian tyrant jetted into New York as students, faculty and political leaders protested Columbia's decision to roll out the red carpet.

Read the whole article.

Then go to these links:

What can we learn from a monster?

Monstrous idiocy

Jewish hero funded hall where thug will speak

Local Iranian expatriates discuss Ahmadinejad

How we can bring him down

The poverty of liberalism

While pointing out that the University of California has uninvited Larry Summers to speak and that Stanford’s faculty is upset with the appointment of Don Rumsfeld to the Hoover Institution, Roger Kimball points out that

“..The spectacle of these left-wing academics repudiating men like Larry Summers and Donald Rumsfeld even as they abase themselves scrambling to find excuses for welcoming a fanatic like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the halls of a great American University is disgusting. I think again of Bagehot's observation that "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it." Are we really willing to let ourselves--our ideals, our way of life--be carelessly traduced by a rancid leftism so enfeebled that it can no longer distinguish between free speech and suicide?”

Clarice Feldman thinks it may have something to do with Gary Sick.

Torture

I have just seen the first part of Ken Burns’ series on World War 2.

I never want to hear again from the moral cretins who refer to what the US has done during the Iraq war as “torture.”

The Jena 6

The Virginian Pilot could not be troubled to give us the details. Their focus was on the locals who went to Jena to demonstrate.

Here's a review of the case and a take-down of the LA Times.

If anyone has any other facts available, let me know.

Daily Kos Tells You How To Make An IED

A blogger on DailyKos gives step by step instructions for making IEDs to kill American soldiers.

But they support the troops.

And don't question their patriotism.

The Star of the NRA convention

From the American Thinker:

But the best speaker of the day was not a politician, lobbyist, nor even an NRA official. The best speaker, hands down, was a young army NCO. Everyone I asked agreed with that assessment. I can't express in words how amazingly his speech, his story, his utter love for this country moved me.


When he took the stage and began speaking unassuming, haltingly, somewhat softly spoken, I was concerned. I thought at the time as I later told him "I was feeling sorry for you speaking amongst such polished, intelligent speakers." However, I quickly followed up with "you kicked their asses!"


This young NCO, a man I won't identify by name to a wide audience until I get his permission, told of his massive injuries while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Trying to relay his story here seems futile. I can't match in print the emotion of the man nor the way I felt about him even were I a better writer. I don't think anyone could. But I will try and tell you a little about what he went through.


He talked of his 19 years in the Army, how he had seen friends die in combat, and then one day it was his turn. He and a few other Special Forces operators were pinned down in a four day battle against "a thousand Taliban" in Afghanistan. Unlike the typical Taliban hit and run tactic they massed and no one had been prepared for such a battle. He and his men held their position against an overwhelming force requiring Air Force ammunition drops several times when they were reduced to "40 rounds" between them.


As they maneuvered their vehicle (I believe he said he was on the gun in the turret) they got blown up. He described the sensation of heat, not just on his skin but in him. He struggled to pull himself from the vehicle. He looked down and saw his leg hanging by mere flesh, the bone splintered out into the sand. He got out, couldn't breathe and then felt a pop which eased his airway constriction. That pop was his abdominal lining bursting. He watched as his intestines began to leak from the stomach wounds.


Others came to his aid and they beat out the flames on his body. Disoriented, he began fighting the man who was hitting him. As they hovered over him to administer aid he felt the sting of what he thought was biting insects but soon realized was actually sand spitting up from the bullets hitting all around them. He said he "owed those men a debt he can never repay". I thought, no sir, it is us who owe them that debt. It is us who can never repay them for bringing you home to tell your story.


The sergeant said his plan if he got hit in combat was "to die". It never occurred to him he might live. He went from a Special Forces soldier to "a man who could not wipe his own butt" he said, apologizing for the graphic detail. No apology was needed of course.

Read the whole thing.

Three Developments in Syria

1. Iranians and Syrians died in a chemical weapons explosion back in July:
2. Israelis bombed a Syrian weapons site a week ago, and more and more information is coming to light about the target. It seems that the Syrians and the North Koreans may have been cooperating to build a nuclear bomb (so the Israelis decided to terminate the program):
3. Fewer Foreigners Crossing Into Iraq From Syria to Fight

I guess all three stories make sense when considered in light of this. As with the Sunnis in Iraq, the Syrians seem to have turned against al Qaeda as well. Not because they favor stability in Iraq but because they, like the Sunnis of the Anbar Province, have come to appreciate the fact that al Qaeda is not good for them.

I wonder how many people realize that if al Qaeda is taken out of the equation, casualties in Iraq will come way, way down (as they have in the first 3 weeks of this month)? Left wing anti-Bush fanatics don't know this because they believe that al Qaeda is just a tiny part of the equation, one that is preposterously exaggerated by neocons in an effort to deny that Iraq has simply fallen into a big ol' civil war. But I track casualties in Iraq, and anyone who does that knows better. If the Syrians keep this up, and if General Petraeus maintains his hot pursuit of AQI leadership, casualties are going to drop in a big way. Maybe now, maybe later, but it will happen so long as Syria continues to close the door.

Meanwhile, in every other way, Syria (like Iran) has apparently decided to be an enemy of the United States, and that may have contributed to the fact that George Bush gave his blessing to the Israeli attack on what may have been a Syrian nuclear facility.

Blackwater Pay

And how it compares to military pay and benefits.

Is the NY Times Guilty of a Crime?

Well, it turns out that they should have charged twice what they did to guarantee to MoveOn.org that the ad would run on a specific date.

The old gray lady has some explaining to do.

Officials at the New York Times have admitted a liberal activist group was permitted to pay half the rate it should have for a provocative ad condemning U.S. Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus.

The MoveOn ad, which cast Petraeus as "General Betray Us" and attacked his truthfulness, ran on the same day the commander made a highly anticipated appearance before Congress.

But since the liberal group paid the standby rate of $64,575 for the full-page ad, it should not have been guaranteed to run on Sept. 10, the day Petraeus warned Congress against a rapid withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Times personnel said.

"We made a mistake," Catherine Mathis, vice president of corporate communications for The Times, told the newspaper's public editor.

People are asking the question, did the NY Times commit a crime? If so, what crime?

Glenn Reynolds links to others who comment.

Ann Althouse comments on the NY Times admission that they - in effect - gave MoveOn.org a contribution of over $80,000.

The Times spokeman:

The Times bends over backward to accommodate advocacy ads, including ads from groups with which the newspaper disagrees editorially. Jespersen has rejected an ad from the National Right to Life Committee, not, he said, because of its message but because it pictured aborted fetuses. He also rejected an ad from MoveOn.org that contained a doctored photograph of Cheney. The photo was replaced, and the ad ran....

For me, two values collided here: the right of free speech — even if it’s abusive speech — and a strong personal revulsion toward the name-calling and personal attacks that now pass for political dialogue, obscuring rather than illuminating important policy issues. For The Times, there is another value: the protection of its brand as a newspaper that sets a high standard for civility. Were I in Jespersen’s shoes, I’d have demanded changes to eliminate “Betray Us,” a particularly low blow when aimed at a soldier.

Althouse response:

By the way, I'd have allowed them to use the language they wanted. I like to see how people choose to express themselves. It's helpful if it's not watered down for more comfortable consumption. I want to taste the poison so I can spit it out. And free speech is kind of an important value too, you know.

I agree with Althouse on this. If you are going to run an ad by an advocacy group, run the ad they wrote, don't edit it to make it "more acceptable" because that way the group is disguised. The MSM often does this, they edit text and pictures so that their audience does not see the really vile things that the Left says and does.

UPDATE: There's some major ass covering going on by MoveOn.org (being pushed we suspect by their partners in crime at the Times):

Now that the Times has revealed this mistake for the first time, and
while we believe that the $142,083 figure is above the market rate paid by
most organizations, out of an abundance of caution we have decided to pay
that rate for this ad. We will therefore wire the $77,083 difference to the
Times tomorrow (Monday, September 24, 2007).

Chump change for George Soros.

How do you protect yourself against Brownshirts?

Adolph and his band of merry brothers had an effective way with the opposition: physical intimidation. In fact they got into some good, lust brawls and attracted a bunch of beer hall fighters to beat up their opponents. In many cases these opponents were Communists, but in an irony of history that is little noted except for people with a fascination with this period in time, many Communists were converted to Nazis. Their ideology was similar, their hatreds were similar and the Nazis were apparently better brawlers.

I mention this because intimidation is again making significant inroads, especially around the campi. Here is a video of what I mean.

No punches were landed, but the people who hosted the event were simply shouted down and there appeared to be no effective way to take the floor away from a small number of loud, brawny, men who had not the slightest hesitation in taking over.

An example that ended differently was the “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” guy at the Kerry rally. There the police removed the disrupter. But if the police had not taken the initiative, he would have disrupted and effectively destroyed Kerry’s event.

If the Right is ever to try to regain the initiative, we have to have a strategy to counter these modern Brownshirts. I’m interested if there are people with military of law enforcement backgrounds who can make suggestions.

Overheard on the campus

Submission is his aim.

It seems, thank God, that the President of Iran will not visit the former site of the World Trade Centre. It would have been one humiliation too many for America to bear. Americans and people in the West in general, being naively provincial, fail to comprehend the meaning of the conduct of Iran’s savvy leader. By parading around New York City – and violating a sacred site – he means to demonstrate that the United States is impotent and weak. George Bush would never dare walk down the streets of an Islamic city or visit an Islamic holy site. But he, because we fear Islam, can walk with impunity. He not only, it would seem in such a situation, has nothing to fear from officialdom: but he has nothing to fear from Americans as well.

The fact that it’s even possible for as wretched a demon as Mohammed Ahmadinejad to even contemplate defiling Ground Zero with his presence is a sign of our moral decay.

Read the rest.

Ahmadinejad To Finally Speak His Mind

Roger Simon dissects the sorry excuses for Bollinger's invitation to the latter day Hitler to speak.

Hsu's Secrets Revealed

"Suitably Flip" has some of the key questions we need answered about Norman Hsu

Two of the biggest open questions were always 1) where is Hsu - a convicted con man and fugitive with no documented ability to turn a legitimate buck - getting these gobs of money, and 2) why is he squandering it on all these Democrats?

These specific Democrats.

[...]

There are still a lot of details yet to emerge that will undoubtedly shed additional light on these linkages, but it seems quite clear that Norman Hsu and Fred Hochberg are and have for some time been closely associated. It's abundantly clear that the Clintons and Hochberg are quite intimately associated. This seems to draw Hsu and Clinton uncomfortably close to one another.

And while the complexity and duplicity that saturates this whole affair may offer Hillary a bit of confusion cover that she can use to equivocate when pressed, it's now becoming increasingly far-fetched that Hillary took Norman Hsu for no more than a kindly, deep-pocketed fan

[...]
The grand total is now over $2.5 million and counting.

Pope Benedict Defends Religious Freedom

The Pope has again risked provoking the wrath of the Islamic world, by criticising its treatment of Christians.

Benedict XVI attacked Muslim nations where Christians are either persecuted or given the status of second-class citizens under the Shariah Islamic law.
He also defended the rights of Muslims to convert to Christianity, an act which warrants the death penalty in many Islamic countries.

It will be interesting to see how this is treated in the Western press and how Islam reacts.

The Truth About J Schools

One has to wonder what kind of journalists the storied Columbia School of Journalism intends to produce. If the column published this month by Idris Leppla ten days ago for the Columbia Spectator gives any hint, we can expect novices of the obvious who infantilize the people who serve as their subjects. This time she uses her brother, who applied to and entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, apparently without Idris and her mother realizing it meant joining the Navy.

The Columbia J School did not do her a favor by printing this.

And the Weekly Standard piles on.

Student Journalism Mega-Scoop
The United States Naval Academy is run by . . . the United States Navy. The Columbia Spectator has the scoop:
[...]

And this is only the first installment of a four-part series. Newsroom sources say part two will reveal that the United States Military Academy is, in fact, operated by the United States Army, and this despite the fact that the word 'Army' appears nowhere in the name of the "school."

And to read the original article The Truth About the Academies

Idris Leppa has gotten famous. Perhaps not the fame she wanted, but - Hey! - fame is fame. She seems to have gotten the message that this piece was ... what's the word: self absorbed, juvenile, condescending, poorly written, self-revealing, embarrassing, ...maybe all of those and more. So she has written a response. Here it is in part:

All I can say is that this article is not factual. It is based on emotion--and sadly emotion is what hinders rationality. Emotion and fear, emotion and uncertainty, emotion and sadness--is what prevents our clear vision and our normal perception of things. And I wrote this article as a function of my emotion. Because, truthfully, when any member of my family could be in danger (be it in the next month or next decade), I get emotional and I get fearful. Perhaps we all do. And for mothers and fathers whose lives have been bereaved by losing a son or daughter in the military, their lives may too become run by emotion.

The real question is: how do we balance an emotional knee jerk reaction to a personal experience with what should be done on a national level such that fewer families have to have this emotional shading of facts because they are too hurt to see anything else?

Read that last sentence again, and again, and again, and tell me what it means. She is a senior at Barnard/Columbia.

People who have fought in Iraq are passionate about the cause.

"My Iraq" Indeed.

The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating investments associated with prominent Democratic fund-raiser Hsu

What's amazing is that business people actually made political contributions in order to be fleeced by Norman Hsu. Paying for the rope used to hang you?

After Duke Prosecution Began to Collapse, Demonizing Continued

Note that none of the members of the news media that did so much to inflame this case are mentioned by name. I suppose one has to observe certain silences if one wants to be printed in the NY Times.