EMBATTLED C.U. PROFESSOR WARD CHURCHILL NOW ACCUSED OF PLAGIARISM
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Now Playing: Professor Ward Churchill accused of plagiarism (HA-HAAA)
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Nova Scotia school sends C.U.
a report on Churchill essay...

University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work.

Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote.

"The article . . . is, in the opinion of our legal counsel, plagiarism," Dalhousie spokesman Charles Crosby said in summarizing the report's findings.

Churchill did not return calls to his home or office Thursday seeking comment.

Dalhousie began an investigation after professor Fay G. Cohen complained that Churchill used her research and writing in an essay without her permission and without giving her credit. Although the investigation substantiated her allegations, Cohen didn't pursue the matter because she felt threatened by Churchill, Crosby said.

Crosby said Cohen told Dalhousie officials in 1997 that Churchill had called her in the middle of the night and said, "I'll get you for this."

Cohen still declines to talk publicly about her experience with Churchill, but she agreed the Dalhousie report could be shared with CU officials, Crosby said, because "whatever concerns she may have about her safety are outweighed by the importance she attaches to this information getting out there."

Crosby declined a request for a copy of the report but said it does not contain information about the alleged threat from Churchill.

It is not clear if CU officials are aware of the alleged threat. A CU spokeswoman said officials there would not comment on any matter related to an ongoing review of Churchill's work.

A three-person panel is reviewing that to determine if he meets the standards of professional integrity set by CU.

The CU Board of Regents ordered the review after the public outcry over an essay Churchill wrote comparing victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to notorious Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann. Since then, Churchill has come under fire for some of his other writings and speeches, his scholarship, his claim of American Indian ancestry, and even his artwork.

The review panel, led by Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano, originally was expected to issue its report this week but said it likely won't be released before Monday and perhaps later.

In 1991, Churchill edited a book of essays published in Copenhagen, Denmark, which included a piece by Cohen on Indian treaty fishing rights in the Northwest and Wisconsin. When publishers wanted to reprint the essay in the United States, Cohen declined to allow her essay to appear, Crosby said.

So, Churchill penned an essay on the same topic under the name of the Institute for Natural Progress, a research organization he founded with Winona LaDuke. In the contributors section of the book, Churchill said he took the lead role in preparing the essay.

Rocky Mountain News ** Prof accused of plagiarism

Soros slams USA's War On Terror
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

US billionaire financier George Soros slammed as dangerous Washington's strategy to fight terrorism, saying it was creating anger and resentment around the world.

Speaking on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser the day an international conference on terrorism opened in Madrid, Soros said Spain had "a very different response to terrorism - a healthier response".

The Hungarian-born businessman, who spent millions last year opposing US President George W Bush's re-election, said US policies had had negative consequences.

"Producing innocent victims creates anger and resentment. And this anger and resentment feeds terrorism," he said, according to the station.

Spanish translation of his English comments.

In Iraq, he said, "there are more people wanting to kill Americans than there were before. These people didn't think like that before the Americans arrived and did what they did. The attitude of creating innocent victims creates terrorists. It's as simple as that."

Meanwhile, a NATO plane, 7,015 police and an anti-aircraft battery were deployed over and around Madrid to provide security for an international conference on terrorism.

The strict measures were designed to protect the event, which is to run until Friday, when the city will mark the first anniversary of the 11 March, 2004 train bombings blamed on al-Qaeda that killed 191 people.

More than a dozen heads of state and government are expected over the course of the conference, including kings Juan Carlos of Spain and Mohammed VI of Morocco, UN secretary general Kofi Annan, EU foreign policy supremo Javier Solana, and 200 experts from 52 countries.

According to the Spanish interior ministry, the police presence included units specialised in nuclear, biological and chemical attacks.

A Nato AWACS surveillance plane was ensuring that no aircraft violate the restricted airspace over the city during the week.

The defence ministry said it had set up an anti-aircraft missile battery at a military base outside the capital.

Security around possible targets, such as Spain's nuclear power stations, has also been reinforced, officials said.

Red State Cities Grow Faster Than Blue
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Euro-America
Topic: News

An important division is emerging between the rapidly growing, business-friendly "aspirational cities" like Reno, Boise, Orlando, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Salt Lake City, and the declining "Euro-American cities" like Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, author Joel Kotkin argues in the current issue of the Weekly Standard. His article, picked up over the weekend in a column by George Will, lumps New York among the Euro-American cities and offers some unflattering quotes and anecdotes about our home.

Mr. Kotkin quotes Rick Szatkowski, senior vice president of an Internet marketing company based in Ft. Myers, Fla. "We have been able to grow and expand here in a way that would have been impossible in New York, where people can't afford to live and smaller businesses have a hard time operating," Mr. Szatkowski is quoted as saying. Mr. Kotkin reports that New York has fewer private sector jobs today than it had in 1969. He chides "Euro-American cities" for their "very low birth rates" and says that they "fail to create opportunities for their working and middle classes" and have "all but given up on improving education for middle class families."

Well, we'd be the first to acknowledge that New York City's tax and regulatory regime could be more conducive to small businesses, and that the city and state could make housing here less expensive by easing taxes and regulations. But with all due respect to Mr. Kotkin, we do think that, in lumping New York in with the other declining cities, he is missing something. For there are important ways in which New York, as a city of immigrants, has much more in common with the Sunbelt boom towns that Mr. Kotkin labels as aspirational.

For one thing, the birth rate distinction Mr. Kotkin makes just doesn't hold up to scrutiny, as any resident of Boro Park, Brooklyn, could have told him. New York City's birth rate of about 1.57 new New Yorkers a year for every 100 residents is a lot closer to Clark County, Nev. (home of Las Vegas), where the rate is 1.59, than the 1.18 rate of San Francisco. The claim that New York is more "Euro-American" than Las Vegas, or than Phoenix, doesn't hold up on demographic grounds, either. Percentage-wise, New York City has more Asian-born (9%) and Latin-American born (19%) residents than either Las Vegas or Phoenix, according to the Census Bureau. What could be more "aspirational" than to immigrate to a new country?

There are parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island - even Manhattan, for that matter - that are dense with immigrant-run small businesses. If New York isn't creating opportunities for the "working and middle classes," no one seems to have gotten word to the working and middle classes who are choosing to make the city their home. As for giving up on improving education for middle-class families, what about the 50 new charter schools in the city being set up under the leadership of Chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Bloomberg? What about Stuyvesant High School, where 51% of the student body is Asian-American?

Our own sense is that while New York went through a period of decline in the 1970s and 1980s, a comeback began in 1993 with the election of Mayor Giuliani. Much is yet to be done to consolidate the gains made under the Giuliani administration. But the immigrants settling in New York and the parents bringing new children into the world here are a sign that, when compared with residents of Phoenix or Las Vegas or any other Sunbelt city, New Yorkers are every bit as American and aspirational and most importantly optimistic as them all. And they will be only more so if the Republicans can muster the will to put through tax and spending reforms, and deregulation of business, that will make it easier for aspirations to be realized.

NY Sun ** Euro-America

Can You Believe This One? Hillary Says Kids Exposed to Too Many Lewinskys
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: Clinton assails "epidemic" of media sex and violence
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

New York Senator Hillary Clinton is calling for greater government and parental scrutiny of media children watch and play, saying kids are suffering from a "silent epidemic" from media sex and violence.

At a forum today hosted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the New York Democrat noted parental worries about the influence of violent video games, the Internet and sexually explicit television programs.

Clinton said the public health is threatened by increasingly raw media content.

Over time, she says, that media-driven desensitization teaches children -- quote -- "that it's OK to dis people because they're women or they're a different color or they're from a different place."

The senator took direct aim at one popular video game, Grand Theft Auto, and its crime spree role-playing. She says it's a game that encourages players to have sex with and then murder prostitutes.

She and Senators Sam Brownback of Kansas, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania want the government to closely monitor the media impact on the development of young children.

WSTM - NBC 3 ~ Central New York ** Clinton assails "epidemic" of media sex and violence

RUSH LIMBAUGH: It's Not That Bush Is Right, It's That You Liberals Are Wrong!
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Topic: Yahoo Chat Stuff
Listen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence ~ AUDIO CLIP

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Let me read you the lead paragraph of this from the Associated Press. "Support for President Bush's mission of spreading democracy throughout the world, especially the Mideast is winning accolades from an unlikely source." Hmm. "Unlikely source." Who would this be? It happens to be "New Mexico's governor Bill Richardson, a prominent Democrat often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate." Yeah, till he said this. (Laughing.) "Richardson, former US ambassador to the UN, energy secretary under President Clinton yesterday cited serious promise to lower the profile of its 14,000 troops in Lebanon as 'a very significant result of US pressure.' Richardson was on the Today Show yesterday. He said, 'I believe the Bush administration deserves credit for putting pressure and saying that authoritarian regimes have to go. In the past US policy has winked at Saudi Arabia and Egypt because of America's stakes in the region such as energy and military basis,' Richardson said, 'We kinda said, "Okay, it's all right to not be democratic," but the president no longer taking that answer,'" and Richardson becomes an "unlikely ally" as does Senator Lieberman who has become an unlikely ally.

How do you Democrats feel to be characterized as "unlikely" when you support freedom and democracy around the world? (Laughing.) Does it grate on you to know that when the subject is freedom and democracy around the world, you are unlikely supporters? (Laughing.) I just love the way these Democrats are getting boxed in by their own buddies in the mainstream press. So now, folks, if you are a Democrat, if you are a liberal, and you and you agree with the concept of human freedom, you are unlikely, and you are an unlikely ally of President Bush. Now in another story here today in the Washington Post. Boy, these things are starting to cascade. The headline: "Is Bush Right? President's critics reconsider democracy's prospects in the Middle East," as though it's all up to the critics to reassess! It's all up to the critics here to reconsider and... I tell you what, let me save this till after the break because I've got a point to make. Just as I said last week that this whole lexicon is out of whack here. "The nuclear option" when we talk about ending the Democrat filibuster of judicial nominees? That's not a nuclear option. That's restoring the Constitution. It's the Democrats that are engaging in the nuclear option. The nuclear option, to blow up the Constitution by instituting these filibusters. By the same token around you a little tired of hearing liberals say, "Hey, you know what? Bush may have been right." That's not the right context. That's not the news. The news is not that Bush may have been right. What do you think the news is? This is a lexicon lesson, folks. This is a lesson in using the language. The news is not that Bush "might have been right" or, "Ooh, it looks like Bush was right," or "Is Bush right." Right, Mr. Snerdley! The news is that you liberals are wrong! You were wrong and you're wrong again. That's the news. It's not that Bush was right. It's that you liberals were wrong.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Washington Post today: "Is Bush Right? President's Critics Reconsider Democracy's Prospects in the Middle East. In countries where President George Bush and his policies are deeply unpopular, online commentators are starting to think the unthinkable." This is a story by Jefferson Morley. "'Could George W. Bush Be Right?' asked Claus Christian Malzahn in the German newsweekly Der Spiegel. Essayist Guy Sorman asked last month in the Paris daily Le Figaro, 'And If Bush Was Right?' In Canada, anti-war columnist Richard Gwyn of the Toronto Star answered: 'It is time to set down in type the most difficult sentence in the English language. That sentence is short and simple. It is this: Bush was right.' ... Sorman says, "'These dramas did not occur. Either Bush is lucky, or it is too early to judge or [Bush's] analysis was not false.' Rudiger Lentz, Washington correspondent for the German broadcast network Deutsche Welle, wrote, 'There have been many good reasons to criticize the messianic political style of Bush's first term. But isn't it time now to stop finger-pointing and bickering?'"

Anyway, the story is replete with all kinds of examples from all over the world, with this similar headline and question: Uhhh, was Bush right? Maybe Bush is right? You know something, folks? This is a classic illustration just how the mainstream press considers themselves to still be in charge, how liberals in general still have a haughty, elitist attitude that they are the smart people in the room because the question is not, "Was Bush right?" The issue is, you on the left were wrong. What it is now is CYA time -- Cover Your you-know-what -- on the left. Our high priest journalism, those who are arrogant on the left, our smug pundits are finally facing up to reality, the battle Iraq, the war on terrorism: brilliant strategery. It's beginning to pay off. The "open season of freedom" is spreading from the Ukraine to Iraq, from Palestine to Lebanon. The anti-war left, the Bush-hating left, the hate America left, is shifting from predicting doom to warning that we're "not out of the woods yet." "Don't get too optimistic. We're not out of the woods yet. This could all still backfire -- we hope; we hope!" Nancy Soderberg, remember? "We still have China and North Korea, hopefully," she said, meaning to go wrong. So the bad-news-for-America crowd is still out there hoping but they have to begrudgingly, to cover their rear ends in case it all ends up well. "Ah, you know, maybe Bush was right. So we get these begrudging thoughts. Oh, like it's some big concession to have to make! Oh, like they're so big as people! These are really large people! Why, folks, they can look out there and they can assess something and they can be honest about it, our liberal friends. "Was Bush right?"

But, my friends, that's not the point of all this. What is? It's not that Bush was right. That isn't the news. The news is, the left was WRONG. They are always wrong, far more often than not. On the most important issue of our times, the so-called experts were wrong -- and they weren't just a little wrong. They were dead wrong. Not on calling the election or predicting a Super Bowl or an Oscar winner. They were dead wrong on no less a matter than peace, world peace. They were dead wrong! They've been wrong since we started in against the Soviet Union. They were wrong against the Sandanistas in Nicaragua. They are on the wrong side each and every time when seminal historical questions of world peace are involved -- and I am not boasting here. This is not a See, I Told You So. Being right is my job. You know, I'm not going to sit here and say, "Oh, boy am I something great," because being right is my job. So to sit here and say, "Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! See, I Told You So." That's as though this is unique, my being right. But my being right is not unique. It's commonplace. The other side being wrong is also not unique. It is commonplace. But the problem is being wrong is not their job. Before our smug and smuggest move on to their next wisdom, their next solution to the next problem, they ought to first take a deep breath (heaving sigh) maybe another deep breath (heaving sigh), maybe even one more deep breath, and say, we were wrong. Our president, our commander-in-chief, smarter than we are. Because that's the bottom line: The cowboy, the frat boy, the dunce, the idiot, the man who lacks nuance is smarter than you are on the left. Not that "he's right," is not the news. The news is: You were wrong, and not just were; you are wrong. You are wrong constantly on the big issues of our times.

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Read the Articles...
(Washington Post: Is Bush Right? - Jefferson Morley)
(AP: Richardson praises Bush's Mideast policy)

Rush Limbaugh ** It's Not That Bush Is Right, It's That You Liberals Are Wrong!

Air traffic controller nodded off
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Odd Stuff

An aeroplane was forced to circle for more than half an hour after an air traffic controller dozed off.

The pilot of the cargo plane said he attempted a number of times to contact the controller for permission to land - but got no answer.

He was forced to circle around Nice Airport in France until the sleepy controller was woken up by security officials more than 30 minutes later.

French air traffic control service DGAC described the case as "extremely rare" and said the cargo plane "had never been in difficulty".

An internal investigation has now been set up to find out why the controller fell asleep on the job.

Ananova.com UK ** Air traffic controller nodded off

TERESA'S BACK: ELECTION WAS HACKED!
Mood:  silly
Now Playing: Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way...
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Teresa Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November's election, the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER reports, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes.

"Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."

Heinz Kerry did not offer any specific evidence that votes on the machines were altered.

"We in the United States are not a banana republic," added Heinz Kerry during a fundraiser in Seattle.

"I fear for '06," she said.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ** In The Northwest: Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way

Now girls as young as this five year old think they have to be slim to be popular
Mood:  sad
Now Playing: THIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD THINKS SHE HAS TO BE SLIM TO BE POPULAR
Topic: Lib Loser Stories

Girls as young as five are unhappy with their bodies and want to be thinner, according to a study which blames peer pressure in a child's early years at school.

Most girls thought that being slim would make them more popular, claimed the research in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. They would also have no hesitation in dieting if they gained weight. The study was conducted among five- to eight-year-olds in South Australia, but experts said last night that British children felt "paranoid" about their weight - partly because of the Government's anti-obesity message.

Dr Andrew Hill, of Leeds University Medical School, said research among more than 200 eight-year-olds showed a high awareness of the campaign against obesity. "Children have absorbed anti-fat messages loud and clear", he said. "To get people to listen about a condition, you talk it up, and we have got obesity on the health agenda.

"We have upped the ante, adding to negativity about being fat, but we need to be careful now so people are not paranoid about being fat.

"We want people who are overweight to do something about it. We don't want to terrorise youngsters."

The UK Eating Disorders Association said it was known that children as young as eight had been diagnosed with eating disorders and there may have been instances in younger children.

A spokesman said: "Low self-esteem is a major contributory factor of eating disorders: media images, peer pressure and family situations can also affect people. We are concerned but not surprised that school children as young as six are affected by them."

The latest research was conducted by academics at Flinders University among 81 girls. They were asked what they thought about their peers' level of unhappiness with their bodies and if they discussed body shape.

Almost half (46.9 per cent) wanted to be thinner, and 45.7 per cent said they would go on a diet if they gained weight. Among five-year-olds, 28.6 per cent wished they were thinner. After being shown pictures of a girl before and after putting on weight, 35 per cent of the girls thought her eating habits were to blame, and 28.6 per cent said she should go on a diet. Around 71 per cent of girls aged seven said they wanted to be thinner.

The report's authors said: "Body dissatisfaction and dieting awareness develop over the first two years of schooling."

Most of the girls believed that being thin would make them more likeable, although few said they discussed their bodies with friends. Their ideas about their friends' unhappiness with their bodies were linked to their own unhappiness with their bodies.

"It is therefore possible that peer transmissions of ideals about appearance could also occur through comments when trying on clothes or talking about pop stars when watching television," the report said.

Deanne Jade, of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, said the research should be treated cautiously because children often picked out a thin image as desirable when shown one by researchers but had no problem making friends with children of all shapes and sizes at school.

"What we do know, however, is that by the time they reach adulthood, 95 per cent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies and seven out of 10 girls have been on a diet," she said.

UK Telegraph ** Now girls as young as this five year old think they have to be slim to be popular

Now we know who's funding the insurgents... ITALY !
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: Italians kept U.S. forces in dark
Topic: My Columns

Fanatical fruitcake lib loser Giuliana Sgrena, the former Iraq hostage and reporter for the Communist daily il Manifesto, charged that U.S. forces might have deliberately targeted her because Washington opposes Italy's policy of dealing with kidnappers.

First of all, it would've been nice to KNOW Italy's policy was to pay out millions to kidnappers in Iraq. Second, I'd love to know how the hell she thinks the U.S. forces knew her communist ass was in the car speeding towards the checkpoint, and how they knew the fucktarded frame of mind of the occupants of the vehicle.

But I'm sure those answers will go by the wayside to promote a new long line of bullshit conspiracy theories that U.S. troops are targeting anti-Iraq war journalists. Because her babbling bullshit newspaper ardently opposes Italy's deployment of 3,000 troops in Iraq as part of the U.S.-led coalition (even though they offered no direct evidence to support the charge.)

It'll be (almost) like Easton Jordan at CNN all over again, except nobody will resign. These commie lib peacenik pacifist fucktards will just go on babbling the bullshit only they want to hear... not the truth. Kind of like CBS' "myopic zeal" here at home.

ONE OF THE MANY OFFICIAL NEWS STORIES.....
Washington Times ** Italians kept U.S. forces in dark

MICHELLE MALKIN WROTE A COLUMN ABOUT IT BETTER THAN I EVER COULD.....
Michelle Malkin ** The ransom of the red reporter

PLAYGIRL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OUTS HERSELF ~ AS A REPUBLICAN !
Mood:  surprised
Topic: News

When it comes to sex and politics, Democrats are the more liberal, right? Not so fast. Playgirl editor-in-chief Michele Zipp explores "down and dirty" politics and examines sexuality on both sides of the aisle. In the process she comes to a realization about herself and reveals for the first time she?s now a Republican.

"Siding with the GOP when you live in the bluest state around is almost like wearing a Boston Red Sox jersey at a New York Yankees' home game," says Zipp in the April issue of PLAYGIRL. "I cannot tell you how many times a person assumed I voted for John Kerry in 2004. Most of the time, I don?t have the heart to tell them, or the energy to discuss my reasons for going red this election year. But this is Playgirl magazine so it?s about time I was the one who bared what?s underneath."

How could a member of the media who produces adult entertainment for women possibly side with conservatives from the red states?

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Zipp spells it out. "Those on the right are presumed to be all about power and greed ? two really sexy traits in the bedroom. They want it, they want it now, and they?ll do anything to get it. And I?m not talking about some pansy-assed victory, I?m talking about full on jackpot, satisfaction for all."

"The Democrats of the Sixties were all about making love and not war while a war-loving Republican is a man who would fight, bleed, sacrifice, and die for his country. Could you imagine what that very same man would do for his wife in the bedroom?" asks Zipp.