Monthly Archives: October 2005

October 19, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Why Are University Faculties So Liberal?

John Tierney looks for answers: I am in debt to liberal scholars across America. After I wrote about the leftward tilt on campus, they sent me treatises explaining that the shortage of conservatives on faculties is not a result of bias. Professors helpfully offered other theories why conservatives do not grace the halls of academe: 1 Conservatives do not value knowledge for its own sake. 2 Conservatives do not care »
October 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

In Israel, it’s news…

that the Baltimore tunnel suspects are from Egypt and Jordan . Maybe you’ve seen it in the American media, but I learned it only from the AP report in the Jerusalem Post: “Detainees in U.S. tunnel case to be deported.” »
October 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

A word from Centcom

Our friends at Centcom have issued a press release condemning the allegations of alleged misconduct by U.S. service members, including the burning of dead enemy combatant bodies. The story has been circulating today; Centcom wants the world to know that it does not condone the alleged conduct. »
October 19, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Has Bush Seen the Light on Illegal Immigration?

It will take more than one day’s headlines to convince anyone. But it certainly will be welcome if Bush follows up his vow to “return every single illegal entrant, with no exceptions,” with some concrete action. It seems clear, though, that Bush has gotten the message that he needs to shore up his position with the party’s conservative base. Now if he would just veto a couple of spending bills, »
October 19, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Saddam Stands Trial

The trial of Saddam Hussein is underway, sort of. He made a brief appearance, long enough to plead “not guilty,” and the trial was adjourned until the end of November. News accounts give the impression that he is still able to dominate the scene, despite being in the dock. Michelle Malkin has a roundup that includes links to news coverage that is sympathetic to Saddam. Which raises the question: who »
October 19, 2005 — John Hinderaker

DePaul Invites Churchill, Suppresses Republicans

DePaul University in Chicago has invited Ward Churchill to its campus to speak on–of all things–human rights. The college’s Republicans have tried to mobilize opposition to Churchill’s visit, but have been blocked by the college’s administration. Amazingly, the Republicans were denied the right to post flyers criticizing Churchill’s visit on the ground that the flyers were “propaganda”! Filmmaker Andrew Marcus has set up a terrific web site to follow the »
October 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Two giants

NRO has posted a terrific interview with our friend Steve Hayward on his new book that we wrote about here earlier this month: “Two giants.” »
October 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Staged attacks

Don’t miss Todd Manzi’s reconstruction of the assault on Bill Bennett that is posted at Human Events: “The vast left-wing conspiracy: Attack on Bill Bennett was staged.” The key actor in Manzi’s reconstruction of the events at issue is, not surprisingly for those who have followed John’s posts on it the past couple years, the Associated Press. Manzi calls it “[t]he 500-pound guerrilla of the vast left-wing conspiracy.” Michelle Malkin, »
October 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Guralnick plus

Tom Spaulding takes up the subject of favorite books on popular music over at Caught Up in the Fable. Tom’s post is “When they was fab.” »
October 19, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Preferring approval voting

One of the issues raised by the proposed constitutional revisions to the Dartmouth alumni association constitution is the desirability of traditional “approval voting” as provided in the present constitution versus “preference voting” provided in the proposed constitution. On Monday, the Dartmouth daily student newspaper published a good column by Professor Robert Norman on the superiority of approval voting: “A superior voting system.” Yesterday the paper ran a good letter to »
October 18, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Another Motion to Dismiss

Another of the Republican defendants charged by partisan hack Ronnie Earle has moved to dismiss the charges on grounds of “outrageous government conduct.” The motion, filed on behalf of Jim Ellis, calls the case brought by Earle a “grim spectacle of a prosecutor run amok, intent on indicting his political opponents at any cost.” That seems like a fair assessment, given everything we now know. This is not a fun »
October 18, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Anything But the Facts

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is considered a mainstream Democrat, not a fringe figure on the left. And he is generally regarded as a principled liberal. So what can we conclude about the state of the Democratic Party when its best representatives, like Dionne, can’t make an honest argument? Consider Dionne’s latest column, a triumphalist account of the legal troubles now besetting Republicans Tom DeLay, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. »
October 18, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Photos from the Iraqi Election

Gateway Pundit has some excellent photos from Saturday’s election in Iraq which you probably haven’t seen elsewhere, including this one: »
October 18, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Saddam Goes On Trial

Is it just me, or has there been astonishingly little interest in the trial of Saddam Hussein, which is scheduled to start tomorrow? Apparently there will be a series of proceedings in which different “crimes” will be prosecuted. The first one deals with the 1982 killing of approximately 150 Shia after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Saddam. I’d like to see the prosecutors lead off with something more recent, but »
October 18, 2005 — Scott Johnson

What’s the story?

Below John posts our correspondence from one of the Wall Street Journal reporters who wrote its weird Joel Hinrichs/blogs story. John cites Michelle Malkin’s incendiary “The OU bomber & bias against blogs.” (Michelle has an update here.) See also Jason Smith’s related post “Where does the mainstream media get this stuff?” over at Generation Why? »
October 18, 2005 — John Hinderaker

Where’s the Coverage?

Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran what I believe was its first (and so far, only) story on the Oklahoma University bomber, Joel Hinrichs. However, the Journal didn’t pursue the many strange angles and still-unknown facts of that incident. Instead, the paper took the main story to be the fact that blogs (inclulding this one) have discussed and speculated about the Oklahoma bombing. The Journal’s article, which we commented »
October 18, 2005 — Scott Johnson

We try harder

The New York Times has collected posts by bloggers that discuss Judith Miller and the New York Times: “Bloggers discuss the Miller case.” The Times lists the posts in order of popularity. The good news, as far as I can tell from a quick look, is that John’s post “Judy Miller speaks” has come in second to Jay Rosen’s Pressthink post here. JOHN adds: I think my advice to Ms. »