drunkablog | March 31, 2009
What’s happening in the Churchill trial? Oh, my. John Aguilar in the Camera:
Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves threw out one of Ward Churchill’s two claims this afternoon, ruling that the former professor’s assertion that the University of Colorado launched an investigation into his scholarship in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights was not [...]
ari | March 31, 2009
S. E. Cupp worries that “the media” blasted the likes of Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, and George W. Bush over their religious beliefs while giving Democrats a pass.
For example, Bill Clinton wrote that children “can express their beliefs in homework, through artwork, and during class presentations, as long as it’s relevant to the assignment. They [...]
ari | March 30, 2009
Recently I discussed the hoopla over the Pope’s comments on condoms and AIDS. He said condom distribution does not reduce AIDS in Africa and may increase it. I said it’s a mistake to think that condom distribution is a key issue, but that the Pope’s general view on condom use is nevertheless wrong.
Frank Pastore has [...]
drunkablog | March 29, 2009
Top story at the Post: “Chily Europe awaits Obama.”
Update: They were quicker than usual on the correction.
drunkablog | March 29, 2009
A free-speech group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), is challenging fees schools charge student groups to provide security at campus speaking events, including the $2700 the University of Colorado billed two student groups who brought ex-terrorist Bill Ayers and eco-bore Derrick Jensen to speak in support of Ward Churchill earlier this month. [...]
drunkablog | March 28, 2009
The pirate with the shock-resistant parrot finds more Churchillian twisting of sources about the Mandan smallpox epidemic in Ward’s article for Works and Days, published only weeks before the start of the trial. Of course, the article is in part recycled from an earlier piece.
CU attorney Patrick O’Rourke brought up this same article earlier in [...]
drunkablog | March 28, 2009
Major computer malfunction at the D-blog manse yesterday, so I’ll just refer you over to fellow shit-knitter PB for yesterday’s Churchill trial news. But here I’ll note this piece in the Salt Lake Tribune by Jonathan Zimmerman on Ward Churchill and civil-rights pioneer John Hope Franklin, who died Wednesday at 94:
When John Hope Franklin started [...]
ari | March 27, 2009
I despise Barack Obama for a lot of reasons, but his support for the right to get an abortion is not among them (though I don’t think tax dollars should go to fund abortion or any other medical procedure).
The Town Hall columnist Laura Hollis is upset that Obama will speak at Notre Dame’s graduation ceremony [...]
drunkablog | March 26, 2009
Face The State on the Churchill jury:
Insiders are buzzing that David Lane, attorney for embattled former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, intentionally selected younger, less educated jurors who are likely to be more sympathetic toward his client. . . .
After attorneys for both sides were each allowed to strike up to six prospective jurors, [...]
drunkablog | March 25, 2009
Not exactly “Garbo speaks,” but yes, that mean little woman, Ward Churchill’s frau Natsu Saito, cried on the stand today while defending her may-un:
Natsu Taylor Saito broke down while describing how the University of Colorado effectively discredited her husband’s life work and his attempts to challenge the dominant version of history and give traditionally oppressed [...]
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