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Youngsters in Churchill are warned not to dress in furry white costumes, to steer clear of baited traps stuffed with seal meat and to listen for the tell-tale sound of fireworks. That's because these candy-seekers have more to worry about than ghosts and goblins. They need to avoid a different kind of predator on Halloween - the polar bear. School children get a visit from the polar bear patrol team to go over safety tips. On the day of Halloween, several conservation officers take to the sky in a helicopter to see if there are any bears nearby. As dusk...

Americans tend to revere our preeminent honorary citizen, Sir Winston Churchill. That view is apparently not shared by Barak Obama, who made one of his first official acts the unceremonious return to the British embassy of a bust of the great wartime leader that George W. Bush had received from Tony Blair shortly after 9/11. snip Winston Churchill considered his inability to prevent the carnage of World War II to be a personal failure. In truth, then – as now – the responsibility ultimately rests not with the watchman who sounds the alarm, but with those who fail to heed...

I recently watched a movie called “Into the Storm” which followed Sir Winston through the years before the war through the end of the war.  Towards the end of the movie, Churchill gave a speech on the radio about the perils of Socialism that I found very interesting.  Here is the text of the actual speech: My friends, I must tell you that a Socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Although it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of...

Was Churchill a war criminal? Was Truman? Misperceptions, flawed findings of Goldstone Report on Gaza War Ophir Falk -Yedioth Ahronoth thelastcrusade.org After London was relentlessly bombed during the days and nights of WWII, Winston Churchill instructed the Royal Air Force to practically wipe out a number of European cities that were considered German strongholds. Thousands of civilians were killed by the British air raids, but it was a decisive factor in the eventual victory of the allied forces. Was Churchill a war criminal? Richard Goldstone might think so, but most reasonable people consider him a war hero.Public norms and...

School wants $52,000 for expenses related to suit against former professor. The University of Colorado is asking for more than $52,000 from Ward Churchill to recover costs the school incurred fighting a lawsuit filed by the former ethnic studies professor. The total tab, filed in Denver District Court last week, includes individual expenses ranging from $2 for courthouse parking to $22,095 for "in-trial video and visual exhibits." "The university believes that what we've filed is both fair and appropriate for some of the expenses that we incurred during the trial," said Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for the University of Colorado system....

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events. Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on...

Israel PM Netanyahu’s Address to UN 64th General Assembly - Text, Video (Photo) Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN asks the world body "have you no shame" for hosting the Iran President who denies the Holocaust? Netanyahu reminds the world that England defended herself against Nazi rocket attacks by leveling cities in Europe while Israel went house to house in Gaza placing her own troops at risk to avoid civilian casualties. And it was Israel which was named as the aggressor by the UN for defending herself against Hamas terror rockets on her cities and towns. Why did...

Jeffrey Lord has an interesting article today in The American Spectator. I have to admit that the title of Lord's article, "Is Sarah Palin the Next Ted Kennedy", gave me considerable pause. What could the two possibly have in common? Despite my misgivings, I felt compelled to read Lord's article. In his piece, Lord spends at least as much time comparing Governor Palin to Winston Churchill as he does comparing her to Ted Kennedy. I find the Churchill comparison much more appropriate. Mr. Lord begins his piece with an account of one of Winston Churchill’s famous quotes: The British statesman...

When Winston Churchill learned in the spring of 1945 that the Americans were going to halt their advance on Berlin from the west and leave Hitler's capital to the mercies of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, he was furious. The United States government had made an absolute commitment not to let post-war Europe separate out into distinct areas of political influence. But now this was precisely what was being allowed to happen. Russian behaviour was worsening by the day as Stalin's all-conquering men rolled up the countries in the east and made them satellites of Moscow, in defiance...

Last week we saw Barack Obama’s “Wile E. Coyote” style diplomacy blow up in his face. Once again he has embarrassed America on the world stage. The headlines from the Democrat controlled media screamed in outrage over the United Kingdom’s release of a murdering Libyan terrorist. Wile E. Obama’s continuing sharp insults to the British caught up to him and blew up in our faces. In the world of international diplomacy everything is connected. Obama’s anti British history Obama’s deep anti British feelings were learned at the knee of his Kenyan grandfather. He was a nationalistic Mau-Mau, a group bent...

French anti-war campaigners have desecrated a statue of Winston Churchill in central Paris on the anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule. The night time attack saw the bronze hands of the £250,000 statue daubed in red paint. The initials RH were also daubed on the statue, perhaps a reference to Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, who flew to Britain at the height of the Second World War to allegedly try and make peace. Instead, Churchill had him thrown in prison in 1941, and the war continued for a further four years. After the war, Hess was tried at...

On Sunday, September 3, 1939 - 70 years ago next month - Britain declared war on Germany in fulfilment of its pledge to aid Poland, invaded by the Nazis. 'I know now that it will come to me to deal with Mr Hitler,' Winston Churchill told a cousin a few days earlier. He perceived his own hour of destiny at hand. That same afternoon, he was summoned to Downing Street by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. For most of the decade Churchill had been a scourge of the Tory government. From 'the wilderness' of the Commons back benches, he denounced the...

Journalism: After the eulogies, the fact remains that "the most trusted man in America" betrayed that trust. He helped snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Vietnam and tried hard to do the same in Iraq.President Obama on Friday praised Walter Cronkite as a journalistic icon, calling the CBS anchor the "voice of certainty in an uncertain world." More to the point, he was the father of advocacy journalism, the patron saint of media bias. He went from reporting news to recreating it in his own image. Far from the image of the patriotic war correspondent, Cronkite was a...

Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill has met his own Little Big HornAcademic Fraud and pretend Indian Ward Churchill got the ultimate smackdown from Judge Larry Naves. No money, no reinstatement, nada. He even took back the $1 settlement the last jury gave him. You get a big award of doodly-squat, tonto! Thus ends the Churchill-CU Circus. Naves is a well-respected judge appointed by Democrat Roy Romer, so this will not be overturned. Even the Daily Camera, newspaper of the People's Republic of Boulder, says it's past time to kick this charlatan to the curb. Native American-Hippie Chic Here in the West,...

(This is part 2 of an article.) Recently neo-fascists opposed to Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court, have argued that she doesn’t respect the “sanctity” of the law and chooses instead to be guided by her personal beliefs. But if there is such a thing as “sanctity” of the law, why are so many Supreme Court cases decided by five-four votes split along ideological lines? Where is this concern when self-loathing Clarence Thomas uses his experiences at Yale University, not the law, to dismantle affirmative action programs, or when Antonin Scalia unethically hears cases where...

Ward Churchill could find himself on the hook for up to $50,000 in out-of-pocket costs the University of Colorado incurred fighting the lawsuit the former ethnic studies professor filed against it, CU's lead attorney said Wednesday. CU attorney Patrick O'Rourke said he plans to file for recovery of those costs -- which include flying witnesses in and out of Colorado and creating deposition transcripts -- over the next 15 days and said the amount would be in the "five figures" and likely just shy of $50,000. "We've got to go through and add it up -- it's not a staggering...

Al Gore likens fight against climate change to battle with Nazis Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis. The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change. He also accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions. Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston...

All eyes will be on Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves on Wednesday as he takes arguments at an all-day hearing for and against giving ousted professor Ward Churchill his job back at the University of Colorado. The hearing is the culmination of a lengthy dispute between CU and the controversial professor, who was fired two years ago. The judge has the option of ruling from the bench at the end of the hearing or issuing a written decision later. Neither the judge’s clerk nor the attorneys in the case would hazard a guess as to when Naves might announce...

Along the high street in Kumbar Bazaar, normally a bustling market town, every shop has either been smashed by shells and missiles or sealed with steel shutters. The only sounds carried on the hot morning air are birdsong and the soft, throaty clatter of the engines idling in the tanks guarding our rear. A forlorn cow, its ribs jutting, picks its way through the debris. I turn to Major Zafar, the young Pakistani officer showing us round. 'What is happening to the animals, now their owners have fled?' He smiles ruefully and shrugs: 'Nothing. They are free.' Last week, photographer...

Here is how a LEADER responds to tyrants!In 1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited his old Public School (public schools are the equivalent of private schools in the U.S.) to raise the spirits of war weary students. He gave some sound advice to the students. The essence of which can also be applied to situations like the current Iranian uprising: [audio at site] (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

Former CU professor will appear on 'Stories from the Edge of Free Speech' on June 29. The controversial academic-misconduct case surrounding Ward Churchill will be prominently featured in an upcoming documentary about free speech that is scheduled to air later this month on HBO. Key players in the case, including Churchill, are interviewed for the documentary, called "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech." CU system Ken McConnellogue, in an interview, said that the school fired Churchill because he did not meet academic standards.

WE musn't allow the left to make us forget that Winston Churchill was a ruthless warrior. Churchill's greatness was so overwhelming that even some liberals are now detecting it and putting it to use. Chris Matthews is a fan. ("What he did, of course, was save the honor of the 20th century," the TV talking head said in a speech.) Another is talking head Keith Olbermann, who was referring to Churchill when he spoke recently of the "great men" who dwarf today's conservatives, those supposed moral pygmies. So, perhaps, is President Obama, who, despite returning to Britain a Churchill bust...

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill will make his case for getting his job back during a one-day hearing to be held July 1, a Denver District Court clerk said Wednesday. Chief Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves will preside over the hearing, during which both Churchill and the University of Colorado will argue for and against reinstatement of the former controversial ethnic studies professor. Churchill was fired nearly two years ago by the CU regents after the school claimed he had committed widespread and systematic academic fraud.

For five years, Winston Churchill played perhaps the single most important role in thwarting the Nazis during WWII, with his intrepid leadership and rhetoric inspiring millions of Britons and other members of the free world to fight Hitler's Germany to the bitter end. Continuing the story of Churchill told in HBO's award-winning film, "The Gathering Storm," INTO THE STORM is set against the backdrop of World War II, and offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, whose prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage to his lifelong supporter,...

Here is a video interview done by Hardball's Chris Matthews tonight about a new HBO film entitled, "Into the Storm," which focuses on the leadership of Winston Churchill during World War II. The film is set to air on HBO May 31, at 9:00 pm et. . . . . (Watch Video)

President Bush explained himself better that President Obama has so far...Despite his erudite, professorial mien, President Obama sure doesn't explain things well. The inarticulate Cowboy from Texas was much more thoughtful when discussing the economy, foreign policy, and stem cells than The Great Orator from Chicago. Has anyone noticed this besides me? Obama's "Nothing should stand in the way of science, but I prohibit human cloning" is logically incoherent, but nobody cares because he looks good and sounds good spouting such inanitiesThe press is so enamored of this tall, handsome man, that if he came out on the front lawn...

Given that the definitions and practices of brutal interrogation methods, past and present, remain part of our modern-day debate, it seems worthwhile to revisit the remarks President Obama made during his “100 Days” news conference about Winston Churchill’s views on torture and gather some of the discussion that has ensued since then. ... It would seem, from many accounts, that Mr. Obama misspoke. It remains unclear whether Churchill ever uttered the words “we don’t torture,” but no citation has surfaced among biographers or historians that we’ve seen so far. Last week, Michael Tomasky was one of the first to point...

Sixteen people banned from entering the UK are "named and shamed" by the Home Office. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October last year so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate. The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far- right US talk show host.

During the president's last press conference, he mistakenly used a blogger's post as a real quote to prove that Winston Churchill Did not torture. Not only was the quote incorrect, but Churchill DID torture. He did not believe in physical torture, but his "grand inquisitor" Col. Robin Stephens was an expert in intimidation. Colonel Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens was the commander of the wartime spy prison and interrogation centre codenamed Camp 020, an ugly Victorian mansion surrounded by barbed wire on the edge of Ham Common. In the course of the war, some 500 enemy spies from 44 countries passed...

Even if you are an intelligent man, reading Andrew Sullivan can make you stupid. It happened to President Obama this week. At his 100-day press conference, President Obama invoked Churchill rejecting the use of torture for interrogation in the days of the Blitz during World War II. Obama instructed the assembled multitude: "I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when the entire British--all of the...

Amy Davidson of the New Yorker should take up bowling or gardening because history doesn't seem to be her thang, if you will. In the aftermath of Barack Obama's own false historical reference, made during a Wednesday press conference, of famed WWII era English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Davidson jumped to her keyboard to further garble history with an April 30 blog post on her Close Read blog at the New Yorker website. On Wednesday, Obama made a reference to an "article" he was reading "the other day" wherein he discovered that during WWII Prime Minister Winston Churchill supposedly said...

IN his press conference Wednesday night, President Obama offered a nice little sermonette on "shortcuts." Asked about his decision to release the "torture memos" and ban waterboarding, Obama said: "I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when . . . all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat . . . Churchill understood, you start taking shortcuts, over time, that...

      May 1, 2009 A Tribute to Margaret Thatcher--30 Years On  by Robin Harris, D. Phil. WebMemo #2419 Thirty years ago, Britain embarked upon a conservative revolution that not only transformed the country but left an indelible and unmistakable impact on the rest of the world. Only two British Prime Ministers--Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher--have by force of personality and power of example done anything like this.In The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill wrote of his initial thoughts after his election as Prime Minister in May 1940: As I went to bed at about 3 a.m., I was...

Last night, Barack Obama said he had recently read an article about Winston Churchill during the London blitz. "Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when the entire British -- all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat," Obama said. "And then the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking short-cuts, over time, that corrodes what's -- what's best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country." It was, perhaps, the most powerful anecdote of the night, and an apparently powerful moral condemnation of President Bush, an admitted admirer of Churchill who kept the...

OBAMA’s 100 DAYS OF ENCHANTMENT press conference WILL BE REMEMBERED for one’s reporters fawning question: What has “Enchanted you the most from [sic.] serving in this office?” Jeff Zeleny, who writes for the – wait for it – New York Times, buried hard news by becaming part of the story. However, the ho-hum presser featured important revelations on three foreign policy issues: “torture,” Iraq, and releasing state secrets. Obama’s comments on abortion and illegal immigration should have raised eyebrows, as should a series of statements that would have gotten Dan Quayle or George W. Bush crucified. The Real Churchill Record...

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's legal team is aiming to get the ethnic studies scholar back in the classroom as soon as the fall semester, a Churchill attorney said Wednesday. Qusair Mohamedbhai, one of three lawyers ... Deciding whether Churchill gets his job back at CU, or is awarded a financial settlement instead, rests with Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves. The deadline for Churchill to file his reinstatement motion is Monday. The university will have 15 days to respond. Ken McConnellogue, a spokesman for the CU system, said the university will have a response once it reviews...

The British government operated a secret torture centre during the second world war to extract information and confessions from German prisoners, according to official papers which have been unearthed by the Guardian. More than 3,000 prisoners passed through the centre, where many were systematically beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand still for more than 24 hours at a time and threatened with execution or unnecessary surgery. Some are also alleged to have been starved and subjected to extremes of temperature in specially built showers, while others later complained that they had been threatened with electric shock torture or menaced...

Niall Ferguson writes about Winston Churchill and torture in a LATimes op-ed today: (h/t: Andrew Sullivan) As Winston Churchill insisted throughout the war, treating POWs well is wise, if only to increase the chances that your own men will be well treated if they too are captured. Even in World War II, there was in fact a high degree of reciprocity. The British treated Germans POWs well and were well treated by the Germans in return; the Germans treated Russian POWs abysmally and got their bloody deserts when the tables were turned. This is a weak argument against the aggressive...

Ward Churchill Redux? by: Deborah Lambert, April 27, 2009 The Ward Churchill saga is far from over. After the U. of Colorado prof was fired for plagiarism, a jury ruled that he was the victim of a “wrongful firing suit,” according to the AP and other sources. Churchill was elated by the latest turn of events, and reiterated his firing for plagiarism was “just a cover, adding that he never would have been fired if he hadn’t called the World Trade Center victims ‘little Eichmanns.’” All Churchill wants is to be reinstated at his old job. However, he’ll have to...

BOULDER, Colo. (Legal Newsline)-The controversial University of Colorado professor who likened victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to a Nazi leader has been awarded just $1 in damages for wrongful termination. A jury panel of four women and two men in Denver found Thursday that Ward Churchill was fired as a professor of ethnic studies at the Boulder campus in retaliation for his remarks. The jury deliberated for a day and a half. For its part, the university's board of regents claimed it fired 61-year-old Churchill for academic misconduct, including plagiarism.

Yesterday, it was reported that a victim of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center by Islamic jihadists was positively identified, seven and a half years after his death: The city medical examiner's office says 54-year-old Manuel Emilio Mejia has been identified from remains found at the World Trade Center site in the months after the 2001 terrorist attack. Mejia was a kitchen worker at Windows on the World, the restaurant on top of the trade center's north tower. Manuel Emilio Mejia was the 1,624th victim to be identified. More than 1,100 others still have not been positively identified....

BOULDER, Colo. (Legal Newsline)-The controversial University of Colorado professor who likened victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to a Nazi leader has been awarded just $1 in damages for wrongful termination.

After a four-week trial, a jury in Denver is deliberating the case of Ward L. Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor who says he was fired because of an essay he wrote in which he called victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks “little Eichmanns.” The university says Mr. Churchill plagiarized and falsified parts of his academic research, particularly on American Indians, and cited this as grounds for his dismissal in July 2007. Mr. Churchill brought a wrongful termination suit against the university, seeking monetary damages for lost wages and harm to his reputation. He also wants to...

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/03/americans-are-not-little-eichmanns/ As Ward Churchill's lawsuit against the University of Colorado ends its second week, followers of Churchill gear up for a rally of support. El Marco takes a look at Churchill's supporters, and at the followers of Adolf Eichmann who attacked America on 9/11. Yes, there is a huge, unreported, Adolf Eichmann connection to Islamic terror groups.

>>Professor Says Ward Churchill Firing Unfair (Denver, CO) -- A college professor told jurors on Thursday a former University of Colorado-Boulder professor, who called some victims of September 11th "Little Eichmanns," was unfairly fired. The school says they fired Ward Churchill in 2007 because he plagiarized and falsified American Indian research. But University of Hawaii professor David Stannard says he doesn't believe Churchill purposefully enlarged how many American Indians were killed by a smallpox outbreak to 400-thousand, claiming Churchill may have used information from two authors and combined numbers. CU lawyer Patrick O'Rourke says Churchill only cited one author and...

"As a teacher, your responsibility is to challenge dogma and orthodoxy, not to just accept it." Really? Says who? In this case, it's remorseless left-wing terrorist Bill Ayers. The co- founder of the murderous Weather Underground was in Boulder last week at a rally to defend his soulmate, Ward Churchill, in advance of Churchill's court date to overturn his firing from the University of Colorado. It should be recalled that Churchill wasn't fired for challenging dogma, nor was he fired for his defamatory ravings against this country and the victims of 9/11. He was fired for academic fraud after an...

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill went to court Tuesday in a bid to get his job back, contending that he never committed plagiarism and was instead jettisoned for likening Sept. 11 victims to Nazi bureaucrats when blaming what he called unjust U.S. policy for the terrorist attacks. David Lane, Mr. Churchill´s attorney, argued that the university caved under pressure from the "howling mob," which he described as a nationwide conservative smear campaign aimed at destroying Mr. Churchill´s reputation.

One gets the vision of top level security men, clad in their black suits and matching sunglasses, earpieces in place, scanning the aisles from left to right as Obama rolls up his sleeves and gets elbow-deep in the ‘2 for $11’ DVD bin at Wal-mart.

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