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How do you get 6,000 college students whipped up into a lather? Here's one way: Secretly install low-flow, eco-shower heads in their dorms over winter break. The slow drip has triggered a deluge of complaints in bathrooms all over Stanford University. But a compromise may be ending the water wars. Officials now promise to retrofit hundreds of showers with politically incorrect, higher-pressure nozzles. With a fury normally reserved for the University of California-Berkeley, students complained in an e-mail petition, a letter-writing campaign, a newspaper editorial and meetings with Stanford officials. "It is like showering under a sink faucet," said Christian...

... it gets to make choices about what -- and whom -- to cover. A survey of doctors in Britain's National Health Service show that a significant percentage of providers want government to cut off benefits to the elderly, the obese, smokers, and others: Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives. Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. Fertility treatment and "social"...

(Sick of) OBAMA'S "THE NOTION THAT SOMEHOW"As liberals liked/like to ridicule Rudy (and others) on their vocabulary, it strikes me as odd that the followibng boring one sentence, which is basically Oabama's siganture -- isn't noticed, frankly I am getting sick of it...Nov. 8, 2007Obama: You know, it was hard to take such a claim seriously. I mean, he was specifically referring to a situation in the debate where Senator Clinton offered an answer on immigration, a perfectly legitimate question. Senator Dodd in very civil tones said, "I respectfully disagree." Senator Clinton then appeared to contradict her own answer, and...

<p>In Arabists' rule - Apparently, If you attempt to defend yourself against racist Arabs you are 'the racist'</p> <p>The second point is that the same survey supposedly collected for ACRI asked no questions about Arab racism against Jews. How curious. ...</p>

War on [Islamofascism] terror is real, and deserves concern December 16, 2007 Editor, the Record: Take notice, liberals (specifically the few John Edwards supporters out there). A recent news headline reads: "Thousands in Sudan Call for British Teddy Bear Teacher's Execution." In summary, thousands of practitioners of Islam, the "religion of peace," are calling for the death of an emigrant British teacher for nothing more than naming a teddy bear after Mohammed. This type of irresponsible behavior may not come as a surprise to most sensible Americans, as they realize the threat of Islamofascism is very real, and if not...

Legislators must take a stand and stop the cycle Drivers passing through Georgia often go home with their trunks filled with pecans, peaches, peanuts or other souvenirs. Unfortunately, some also head home with guns, giving rise to the term "iron pipeline" to describe the illegal flow of firearms from Georgia to the Northeast. The state's weak gun laws make it easier for criminals to buy a firearm here than in New York or New Jersey, where tighter controls govern firearm sales. Those states, for example, require background checks for purchases at gun shows, and permits and waiting periods to buy...

Clegg on the slide in Lib pollThe front runner for the Lib Dem leadership was said to be fading yesterday as voting started. Nick Clegg suffered a crisis of confidence after a shaky week. But his camp claimed that the race was still 60/40 in their favour. Meanwhile, a supporter of rival Chris Huhne said it was as "at worst 50/50, at best Chris is edging it". Advertisement Clegg, the Home Affairs spokesman, started as favourite to replace Sir Menzies Campbell, getting the support of most of the party's 63 MPs. But as the contest became dirty this week, he...

Cambridge votes down scouts’ aid for Iraq GIs By Mike Underwood Friday, November 16, 2007 Big-hearted Boy Scouts collecting donations for care packages for U.S. troops are still scratching their heads after being sent packing from polling stations when Cambridge officials ruled their generous effort “political.” “We just wanted to make a lot of troops happy,” said Scout Patrick O’Connor, 16. “I was devastated that someone would think to take (the donation boxes) out,” he said. O’Connor of West Cambridge was one of the Scouts who wanted to collect toiletries, magazines, candy and other items for care packages after one...

Clinton's planted student speaks out, says she just wants honesty - Tue Nov 13 2007 08:17:37 ET The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events--and whose story in her campus newspaper has now made its way around the world--said Monday that "voters have a right to know what happened, adding that she "wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant." In an exclusive taped interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwZ8IcdhUAw David Horowitz - Liberal Arts

Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources" [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/reliable.sources/] Nov. 04 07 9:20 AM: I saw some posting on your 'Going off the bus' blog, it tries very hard to refute the claim that Obama is not experienced [as Hillary is], so, Is it not a [very] liberal blog? Jay Rosen, 'I am sorry, I couldn't understand your question"... It's also a "schtick"-trick in order to buy some time before answering an off guard question.

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week - Terrorism Awareness Project During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism-awareness-week/ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kicks off; Update ...Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kicks off; Update: Just in time for IFA Week…a new bin Laden tape. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/22/islamo-fascism-awareness-week-kicks-off/ Interview on Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on National Review Online, It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week — the brainchild of David Horowitz, warrior for truth on American college campuses. Horowitz’s Terrorism Awareness ...http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDI5NDA2YTFiMDkyZTJkYjI3NDIyMzhlOTc5MDc3ZjM= Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Begins An open invitation to any college students who haven’t been brainwashed: email...

Tom Bevan Krugman's Fear http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20071029/cm_rcp/krugmans_fear ...Apparently, being in favor of a strong response to terrorism now means you're a bigot as well. It's a ridiculous, ad hominem attack, and one that perhaps obscures the larger importance of the rest of the column. Krugman is in many ways a weather vane of liberal opinion, though he doesn't so much generate new ideas as regurgitate and amplify what he sees and hears among his clique in the liberal intelligentsia and the progressive blogosphere. And this column offers a couple of excellent clues about how the left would like to frame this election,...

The Left Tries to Quash Free Speech October 23rd, 2007 by Warner Todd Huston Once again, the fascist left tries to quash free speech on one of our oppressive University campuses. Here is a great report on it from some folks who banded together to record the event on video and photographs.Nonie Darwish at Berkeley during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” is a nationwide series of lectures and presentations organized by conservative writer David Horowitz and his various organizations. On the evening of October 22, dozens of famous speakers gave lectures at universities around the country, mostly on...

Hitchens: Islamofascism a Valid Term At Slate, Christopher Hitchens defends the use of the term “Islamofascism” to good effect.Hitchens first takes on the faux-intellectuals who refuse to make the obvious connection between modern, radical Islam and manner of life that imposes on those unlucky enough to fall under its sway: It’s quite the done thing, in liberal academic circles, to sneer at any comparison between fascist and jihadist ideology. People like Tony Judt write to me to say, in effect, that it’s ahistorical and simplistic to do so. And in some media circles, another kind of reluctance applies: Alan Colmes...

Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican trying to inject new life into his beleaguered presidential campaign, plans to offer a resolution this week for Congress to apologize for slavery and segregation. Brownback, of Kansas, told The Boston Globe's editorial board yesterday he will join an unnamed Democrat in sponsoring the proposal. He said he expects a tough fight on the resolution, even though it will not include any call for reparations. "They were federal policies," he said. "They were wrong. The only way for us to move forward . . . is at the end of day acknowledging those, taking ownership...

9th Circuit: Sex offenders welcome here! Over the years, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has earned itself a reputation as the legal bastion of San Francisco looniness, and a recent decision will do nothing to change that. On Tuesday, the court decided that Alberto Quintero-Salazar - a Mexican national and legal resident of the U.S. - could not be deported on the basis of a sex crime he committed in 1998, namely illegal intercourse between an adult over 21 and a youth under 16. According to the court, adults taking sexual advantage of a minor (so long as...

If the increasingly conventional wisdom that the Netroots movement is now the driving force behind today's Democrat Party is true, than a look into their actual agenda for America is something voters considering supporting Democrat politicians in 2008 might want to take a very close look at. It's posted by Chris Bowers at Open Left and looked at in plain terms, is substantial and should give conservatives and Libertarians cause for concern. Below are just some bullet points from the larger plan. You think the "Fairness Doctrine" is bad, you haven't seen anything yet: Reversing Corporate Media Consolidation. Using improved...

It's not exactly the old-time religion, but suddenly there's sawdust on the trail. If some other worthy actually wins the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a new career open to them, reprising Jim and Tammy Faye. Praise the Lord. Just when everyone thought that no Democrat wanted to be caught in church dead or alive, it's revival time. First Hillary started talking about the influence of the Methodist social gospel on her life — this must have been heck all these years for Bubba, a hymn-singing good ol' Baptist boy — and now Barack Obama invokes God...

Brad Pitt has spoken about his choice for next President of the United States – His good pal George Clooney! Speaking to Parade magazine, the Ocean’s Eleven actor encouraged his fellow co-star to run for political office, and if George fails then Ben Affleck should try out for President instead. He says: "I never thought about it. I have no desire at this point. Maybe I serve better by not going through that door. "George should do it! He'd be quite good. I think Ben Affleck should run." We think Ben Affleck would be better suited. He needs a career...