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The University of California announced Sunday it has pledged $1 billion over the next five years toward research and development of clean energy technology to fight climate change as part of a coalition led by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. "The University of California, with its 10 campuses and three national energy labs, is home to some of the best climate scientists in the world and as a public research institution we take the imperative to solve global climate change very seriously," said UC President Janet Napolitano.

Janet Napolitano's experience dealing with terror threats while secretary of Homeland Security may come in handy at her new gig as president of the University of California system, where liberal students have already presented her with a list of wacky demands. A letter endorsed by nearly a dozen student groups includes the phrase: “We demand that you implement the following across the UC system.” Those demands include making the system a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants, barring the use of system funds or resources going to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which Napolitano oversaw in her previous job), impose mandatory sensitivity...

The opposition to the President’s nomination of Alberto R. Gonzales as Attorney General focused the attention of Congress, and America, on allegations that Mr. Gonzales’ authored an advisory memorandum for the president that at least implicitly approved the torture of prisoners in the War on Terror for the purpose of obtaining information. The broad claims of Democrats who opposed his nomination were that any opinion supporting the use of psychological or physical pain or duress for the purpose of eliciting information from a prisoner, or detainee, i.e., torture, mild or severe, is wrong, and should have disqualified Mr. Gonzales from...

America's Anti-Free Speech Movement The nation's leftists, whether in academia or the news media tout themselves as advocates of free speech. Back in 1964, it was Mario Savio a campus leftist who led the Free Speech Movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, a movement that without question played a vital role in placing American universities center stage in the flow of political ideas no matter how controversial, unpatriotic and vulgar. From the Nazis to the Stalinists leftists have always supported free speech rights, at least initially. Why? Because speech is important for the realization of leftist...

CAPTION THESE PICTURES - Proterrorists and Palestinians, students(?), at Wheeler Hall, U. Cal, Berkeley,4/9/02,after their occupation of Wheeler Hall and Sather Gate.