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Commie thugs are after Ann Coulter again! An open letter to the University of Calgary regarding their staff member's plan to shut down the Ann Coulter speech:Dear University of Calgary I am writing to you about Jason Devine, who is an MA student at the University of Calgary. http://hist.ucalgary.ca/profiles/jason-corey-devine I emailed the University a few weeks ago because the Calgary Anti-Racist Action, a group that Jason Devine leads, was conducting a postering campaign against a young, female student on your campus, claiming that she was associated with the Aryan Guard. It turned out that the first round of posters resulted...

You know what to do. What a great, "educational" and "learning" experience this would be for a young person.

An almost ten minute excerpt from a 1982 Canadian Broadcasting Corp. documentary on the KGB. The posted section focuses on Communist Cuba's involvement in training, funding and giving orders to the Weathermen.Much of the info comes from an interview with Larry Grathwohl, who is in the film No Place to Hide.The CBC documentary ties the Weathermen, the Cuban government and a French-Canadian seperatist group,the FLQ.The documentary also features an interview with an unnamed Cuban and an unnamed figure involved with the FLQ and a 1965 plot by balck radicals to bomb the Statue of Liberty.The video was just posted today....

On a recent visit to New Zealand, I happened across a book that I had long intended to read, In the Belly of the Beast, by Jack Henry Abbott. (Before the advent of the Internet, which equalised world prices, New Zealand used to be the best place in the English-speaking world for second-hand books.) The name probably faintly rings a bell. He was a career criminal, and had spent the vast majority of his life in penal institutions of one kind or another. At the time he first wrote to Norman Mailer, he was serving a sentence of up to...