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The recent criticism of hate speech on campus is entirely appropriate. But we ought to make one exception to this rule: the “religious right,” a retrograde coterie of unattractive common folk who seek to impose their irrational beliefs on the rest of us. These fundamentalists lie awake at night, plotting the imposition of the truths they have received by revelation from God. God has decreed the necessity of prohibiting abortion and gay marriage, lest the land be scourged by His wrath, so the unquestioning hordes of Jesus-freaks flood the polls on election day. The few who are at Yale (here...

CNN has fired producer Chez Pazienza after the network brass realized he had been blogging at his own left-wing site and several others over a period of years: In a phone interview this morning, Mr. Pazienza, 38, said he joined CNN as a senior producer in January 2004 and has consistently received positive performance evaluations of his work. He spent his first year at CNN at the network’s headquarters in Atlanta, then moved to New York to work on “CNN Daybreak,” which has since been canceled, then “American Morning,” which is shown Monday through Friday, from 6 to 9 a.m....

There is quite a lot of interesting, but wild, speculation running around the blog-o-sphere, progressive circles and just plain dinner conversation these days about whether BushCo will allow a peaceful and constitutional transfer of Executive power in the ’08 elections. Unless or until George Bush appears on our TV boxes one night, wearing a dark blue suit, white shirt and red tie with his hands sweatily clasped in a desperate death grip on top of his desk in the Oval Office, telling us that some catastrophic event, whether man-made or natural, has just occurred somewhere, and he must, for the...

It was inevitable. George W. Bush was eventually going to nominate a Supreme Court justice. The resignation of Sandra Day O’Connor is the moment the right wing have been waiting for. Actually they didn’t sit around waiting. They made it all happen when they stole the 2000 presidential election. Bush may be inarticulate and suffering from some sort of learning disability but he is a very shrewd politician. Just as Thomas was a replacement for a black justice, O’Connor’s replacement will probably be female and to add icing to the cake may also be black. ... Many years have passed...

After reading the posting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338106/posts, I am motivated to provide my first post – a vanity which asks “Are there Freepers who are man enough for a strong, independent, self-supporting woman? The 150-plus responses I read appear to be mostly from Troglodytes or not-yet-grown party-boys, or momma’s spoiled brats who want a wife to continue to take care of their needs and enable their current, adolescent lifestyle. Too many posts are extolling the benefits of wives who are suitably subservient – from third-world nations. What about President Regan’s assertion that marriage is a process by which men are civilized though...

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MICAH WRIGHT: "I WAS NEVER AN ARMY RANGER"On his Delphi forum, Micah Wright has posted a confession – he never was an Army Ranger, something he had claimed since shortly after his debut as a comics writer, as well as the author of remixed Propaganda, a book which lampooned World War II-era American propaganda posters. A version of statement had been on Wright's website since April 25th apparently, however, he opted to post it on his Delphi forum Saturday. Wright began his statement (which has since been edited) with a recap of what he used to tout as his...

<p>Today's question: What do you get when more than 60 of the world's top scientists, 20 Nobel Laureates among them, get together and write one of the most scathing, damning reports in the history of modern science, aimed squarely at BushCo's thoroughly atrocious record of cover-ups and obfuscations and outright lies regarding the health of the planet?</p>

The indispensible Lileks is on a roll today. Check him out in The Bleat

THE "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of terrorism and suffering on a scale that al-Qaeda could only imagine.That is what this week's bloody bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad tells us.It is a "wake-up call", according to Mary Robinson, the former UN Humanitarian Commissioner.She is right, of course, but it is a call that millions of people sounded on the streets of London and all...

Some time very soon, President George Bush is expected to sign a $400 billion bill adding a prescription-drug benefit to Medicare -- and he is sure to be flanked not only by Republicans but also by Democrats, perhaps including that arch-liberal, Senator Ted Kennedy. It's an image that is apt to drive former President Bill Clinton around the bend. The Democrats have, in effect, agreed to hand to Bush precisely the kind of politically precious legislative victory on health care that the Republicans went to any lengths to deny to Clinton back in 1994. Could it be that the Democrats...

Hold your nose if you click on this website. Al Jazeera now has an english language website. Here is a sampling of their thought provoking headlines... Will US fabricate WMD evidence? Democrats urge probe into post-war contracts Civilians, US tank crew killed in attempt to destroy arms The main web address is http://english.aljazeera.net When I put in that web address, I immediatly get transfered to http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/index.asp?cu_no=1&lng=0&template_id=1&temp_type=44 I remember reading somewhere that you can only access this site using Microsoft Explorer. Not sure if that is still true, I am computer illiterate.

Al Jazeera has just launched their English text website. It will not be visible to you unless you're using Internet Explorer because it requires Microsoft's XML parser. If you don't have Internet Explorer you can try clicking on this link to bypass the initial redirection. http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/index.asp?cu_no=1&lng=0&template_id=5&temp_type=44age. This website is new and there is not much on it. Check out this website if you want more "news" from the mideast. http://www.jihadunspun.com/home.php Check out this link for help translating arabic text. http://www.aljazeera.net/help/2001/12/12-13-2.htm

English translation of the document made public by Al-Ansaar News Agency --------------------------------------------------------- Exposing the New Crusader War - Usama Bin Laden -February 2003 Praise be to Allah, then again Praise be to Him, who revealed the Verse of the Sword to His servant and His Messenger (SAWS) in order to establish the Truth and to eradicate Falsehood. So Praise be to Allah who says: "Then when the Sacred Months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform Salah...

I don’t want to be a bloodthirsty fiend squatting on a heap of skulls, waving a lasso made of my enemies’ entrails over my head, whooping like Conan on Spring Break in Lemuria. I want nothing more than a well-ordered world of rational people, a globe where societies react with instinctive revulsion to barbarism and smother it in its cradle. Where a sociopathic rogue leader who seizes power is extirpated by altruistic neighbors - who promptly help the vanquished nation rebuild its civic institutions. I want a world in which international law is respected by all, because it reflects the...