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At least 70,000 troops — most of them Iraqi — were deploying Wednesday on the streets of Baghdad in an effort to bring security to the Iraqi capital, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

This is good news.  The Iraqis are beginning to assert themselves and defend their country from insurgents and other terrorists.  The even new uniforms to distinguish themselves from the terrorists.  As the Iraqis begin to take over, we can start bringing our troops home.

This is great news.  But we can’t have great news coming out of Iraq, so CNN has to play devil’s advocate and say this is good news, but…..

Despite the crackdown, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday killed two people and wounded 10 others, police told CNN.

The incident took place in the Qahira neighborhood of northern Baghdad.

In a separate attack, a police patrol in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Waziriya was targeted in roadside bombing. But the explosive missed the patrol, and no one was hurt in the attack.

There is a war in Iraq, so why do they need to tell us about a bomb which injured and killed no one?  I guess they would call this good news.  I believe CNN is including the news of the bomb to convince everyone that things are not going well in Iraq.

CNN turns around again to talk about President Bush’s surprise trip to Iraq before doing an about face again to talk about Italy pulling their troops out.  We have all know for some time, ever since the election of a new center-left government, that they would be withdrawing their 3000 troops.

When there is bad news, the MSM tell all about the bad news.  But when there is good news, they have to temper the good with the bad.  The left wing agenda of the MSM like CNN is troubling.  Is there any wonder the MSM is losing viewers, at a time when Fox is rising?

Tags: Bias, Iraq, War by Chuck
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I support free speech at America’s colleges and universities even when many of the views of the professors do not mirror my own.  A difference of opinion is good, since it challenges students to think, to see views other than their own.  Of course that does not mean I didn’t wish the professors I had in college were a little more middle of the road.  There is no question our universities need to be more political diverse in their classrooms.  As it is, the atmosphere on campus has become so politically correct that no one questions some of the more outrageous comments of many professors because of their ‘ethnicity’ or pedigree as a liberal.  For example take one Ward Churchill.

A University of Colorado committee recommended on Tuesday firing a professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” citing repeated research misconduct. (snip)

The school’s investigation focused on allegations that Churchill committed research misconduct and plagiarism.

Churchill is threatening to sue claiming the investigation into his writings were an attempt to silence him.

The panel did not address his essay relating the 2001 terrorist attacks to U.S. abuses abroad. The essay referred to some World Trade Center victims as “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who carried out Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews during World War II.

Churchill’s case has been cited by conservatives as an example of how universities have overstocked their faculties with leftists. Others raised concerns about academic freedom.

A report a year ago by the American Enterprise Institute showed that most professors on college campuses today are more than 85% liberal.  This only promotes leftward thinking.  In this case there are no dissenting views, only liberal ones.  This is the mold Ward Churchill fit into, an America hating liberal and a fraud.

Dr. Louis Talman, at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at
Metropolitan State College of Denver, boiled the entire episode down to an over abundance of political correctness at college campuses along with college administrators not doing their jobs.

The university faculty take the first hit; they (and in particular the Communications Department) supinely allowed adminstrators to railroad, with no review, a tenured appointment for a scholar of unproven merit. Those administrators, from department chair up the chain to the Univeristy CEO, take the same hit. They and the faculty were in hot pursuit of that well-known chimera, diversity. Of course, the hit damages faculty more; they are still here where we can see how their shame tarnishes their tenured glory. No one will fire the administrators either; they’re safe in cozy jobs elsewhere.

Dr. Talman goes on to state that while what Churchill said was repulsive, but he should not be fired for saying it because what he said falls under free speech.  And Talman is right, the hateful, idiotic statements by Churchill falls under free speech.  Talman made one other rather remarkable point, if Ward Churchill had not made the accusation against the 9/11 victims, others would not have found he was a fraud and a plagiarist.   Again, Talman is right on target.  Even hear of the old story whose punch line says, “Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”  The moniker fits this big mouth liberal.

The ones who should be fired are the ones who did not check into his background.  The ones who should be fired are those who continued to accept Churchill’s less than acceptable work without questioning his authenticity.

In spite of political correctness run amuck, the University of Colorado Committee on Research Misconduct has recommended the firing of Ward Churchill for repeated and deliberate misconduct.  And now it time for this fake Indian to pay the piper for his misdeeds.  As Marathon Pundits says:

Well, Ward’s chickens are finally coming home to roost. After three decades as a Native American poseur, America-hater, and academic fraud, the end of Churchill’s undeserved career is in sight.

Amen to that.

Tags: Corruption, Democrats, Moonbats, Bias, Politics by Chuck
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