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this one always makes me laugh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc

But of course, I also love Henry Rollins letter to Ann Coulter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgSBhlw-o9E&mode=related&search=

Yeah, she shoulda had her facts straight. When you're as polarizing as her & you know that everyone is going to take a shot at your credibility, you better damn sure have your shit tight.

I couldn't get the Rollins letter to download...I'll try later. But come on Hank, you were the lead singer of Black Flag! Stick to what you do best or as Laura Ingraham so aptly put it in her best seller, "Shut Up & Sing".

Seriously, Rollins is intelligent & articulate w/ the gift of word but I chuckle when entertainers preach to us. Granted, it's their right, but I can still chuckle at their audacity. "Liar" was a cool video, though!
 

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Getting back to the topic of this thread..Newt rocks. If hilary was named that, she would have said it was named after Rockne. Everything about her personal life, she relates to other famous people. LOL Too bad Edmund Hillary was also a guy....

Newt is a great historian and professor, and would really emphasize education reform and improvements. Wouldn't you think the teachers union would support him????????????
 

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Sure there is limited budget...but let's talk about Budget for a moment shall we?

Remember that infamous $87 Billion supplemental war bill???

I would like to know why $55Million of it was allocated BY CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA) for an AMAZON RAIN FOREST BIO-DOME in Iowa.

That is only ONE of the many DOZENS of allocations that REPUBLICANS made using that bill. All were for use in the US for NON-military purposes. $10 Million for a fish hatchery in Tennessee. No problem...done.

All of this came from the SUPPLEMENTAL WAR BILL.

These were not Democrats messing with money allocated for the military...

I missed this earlier, didn't you know that all politics are local?? It sickens me and every conservative. This is why all republican presidents (not dems) should have line item veto power.
 

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I missed this earlier, didn't you know that all politics are local?? It sickens me and every conservative. This is why all republican presidents (not dems) should have line item veto power.

If the Dems should not have it or the Republicans, than neither should have it.
 

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Newt is a great historian and professor, and would really emphasize education reform and improvements. Wouldn't you think the teachers union would support him????????????

He was an untenured professor at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia (he was denied tenure...ouch!).
 

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He was an untenured professor at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia (he was denied tenure...ouch!).

How schocked I am, amazing how the ex-gov libs find soo many jobs at universities.


The line item veto was a silly comment, but not too bad of an idea. Cut the pork!
 

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31 pages regarding Newt. This is solid. Its alot better than the 107 pages on global warming. I'm surpirsed nobody started a thread about the Hillary video that was on the news yesterday. Its a knock off of the old apple ad. My sources say it was started by stonebreakerwasgod. But i haven't confirmed it yet. Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo&mode=related&search=

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259591,00.html

Damn, how did you know?
 

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How schocked I am, amazing how the ex-gov libs find soo many jobs at universities.

Western Georgia is far from a bed of Liberalism.

There are PLENTY of conservative Universities in the world filled with plenty of conservatives.

Newt happened to be undistunguished in his History career...but he made it to be Speaker of the House of Representatives of the USA. I think that outweighs his mediocre teaching career.
 

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Western Georgia is far from a bed of Liberalism.

There are PLENTY of conservative Universities in the world filled with plenty of conservatives.

Newt happened to be undistunguished in his History career...but he made it to be Speaker of the House of Representatives of the USA. I think that outweighs his mediocre teaching career.
I have heard him talk about history, his grasp of it seems fairly far reaching. I would not base his career on the fact that he did not get tenure or dept chair, as those things can be political in nature.

Is that why college students keep calling int to radio shows on a daily basis saying how awful their teacher is? Today on Hannity, a girl said that her professor wanted the class to write a paper on how bad Bush was doing in Iraq(or something to that effect). Does academic freedom mean that you can have students write papers and give them the conclusion they HAVE to find?

IN A PSYCHOLOGY CLASS, NO LESS!

No wonder libs hate David Horowitz, he is doing a bang up job exposing the indoctrination going on in the halls of 'learning'.
 

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I have heard him talk about history, his grasp of it seems fairly far reaching. I would not base his career on the fact that he did not get tenure or dept chair, as those things can be political in nature.

Is that why college students keep calling int to radio shows on a daily basis saying how awful their teacher is? Today on Hannity, a girl said that her professor wanted the class to write a paper on how bad Bush was doing in Iraq(or something to that effect). Does academic freedom mean that you can have students write papers and give them the conclusion they HAVE to find?

IN A PSYCHOLOGY CLASS, NO LESS!

No wonder libs hate David Horowitz, he is doing a bang up job exposing the indoctrination going on in the halls of 'learning'.

Horowitz has exposed a lot of wrongdoing. Ever read his book "Hating Whitey"? This guy was in the trenches when it came to '60s radicalism, so he knows of what he speaks.
 

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I will never forgive him for his venal attacks on my religion.

Wow, that's too bad...I had no idea. I;ve never heard him discuss religion too much. Mostly he just exposes the liberal or sometimes communist bias by college professors & sheds light on his history w/ the Black Panthers & his commie parents while living in Cali.
There's no place for attacking religion. I would've hoped that he stuck to civil debate & not attacks or hate.
 

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The guy sure seems to have come full circle. Ever since I have heard him speak in the last seveal years, I have agreed with all he has said. He seems to have America's interest at heart. While you expect some liberal dudes at colleges, especially at some more than others, does it have to be so institutionalized to where it is the norm? What ever happened to getting kids to learn how to think, not doing it for them!
 

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Wow, that's too bad...I had no idea. I;ve never heard him discuss religion too much. Mostly he just exposes the liberal or sometimes communist bias by college professors & sheds light on his history w/ the Black Panthers & his commie parents while living in Cali.
There's no place for attacking religion. I would've hoped that he stuck to civil debate & not attacks or hate.

It's in that very book...he attacks Caroline Higgins for her Quaker teachings.
 

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People also think that bush, cheney, rove, rumsfeld, gonzalez, wolfowtiz (?), rice, newt, delay, rush, and hannity are the devils incarnate. It amazes me that they are all evil, not one good thing about them.

That said, if he said something that personally offended you, it would sense to slam Davd H. If it makes you feel better, my religion/beliefs/political leaders get attacked daily
 

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It's in that very book...he attacks Caroline Higgins for her Quaker teachings.

I need to go back & read it then b/c it totally escaped me. I'll check it out.

I looked in the index & Caroline Higgins or Quaker was not found. Sure you got the right book? Page number? Chapter? Not doubting you, just interested to see what he said. I'd read the book again, but I didn't take Evelyn Wood's course on speedreading, so fill me in!
 
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I need to go back & read it then b/c it totally escaped me. I'll check it out.

I looked in the index & Caroline Higgins or Quaker was not found. Sure you got the right book? Page number? Chapter? Not doubting you, just interested to see what he said. I'd read the book again, but I didn't take Evelyn Wood's course on speedreading, so fill me in!

She is on his list of 101 most dangerous professors. Feel free to post what he wrote about her...
 

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People also think that bush, cheney, rove, rumsfeld, gonzalez, wolfowtiz (?), rice, newt, delay, rush, and hannity are the devils incarnate. It amazes me that they are all evil, not one good thing about them.

That said, if he said something that personally offended you, it would sense to slam Davd H. If it makes you feel better, my religion/beliefs/political leaders get attacked daily

If someone writes that Catholicism is one of the 101 most dangerous things in America today, I would not forgive them either...
 

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She is on his list of 101 most dangerous professors. Feel free to post what he wrote about her...

Unfortunately, it's not in the book "Hating Whitey". When you included that list, I thought it sounded like a book title, so I looked on-line, & the book is entitled, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by David Horowitz.
 

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Yup...that's the book I am referring to.

I refered to it in this post too:
http://www.irishenvy.com/forums/showpost.php?p=132499&postcount=34

I checked out the quotes taken from the book & from Caroline Higgins' response. Sounds like he had a good idea that went south when he tried to fill the list of 101 w/ professors who shouldn't have been incl. Ward Churchill, Angela Davis, Berube, Chomsky are no-brainers, but Higgins shouldn't have been incl. by my brief review.

The quotes from racerrelations.com & InsideHigherEd.com, said that "she made the list for teaching classes on peace & social justice @ Earlham College, a Quaker college. Quakers are, by theology, pacifists & teaching a class on peace at such a school is the equivalent of teaching about Jesus @ Baylor."

I, in no way, read the book. But the quotes I read from the education sites discussing Higgins inclusion didn't malign the Quaker religion as much as it was just incorrect to include her as a "commie" poisoning young people's minds in college. She seemed pretty classy about it in her comments. Based on what I found, I wouldn't call it a crime worthy of burning in hell, but I don't have your perspective. You sounded pretty sensitive to his remarks so I'll assume he said something more inflammatory about your religion...like I said I haven't read the book.
 
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