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Here’s today’s headline:

Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent

And here’s a snippet of the article:
LONDON Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.
The new review suggests that even infrequent [...]

Tags: charlie-sheen, Conspiracy Theories, Fun with Numbers, marijuana, phobia, pot, psychosis, rosie-odonnell, uber-liberal, ultra-liberal, War On Drugs, ward-churchill

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Finally.? I’ve been following the Ward Churchill saga for about two and a half years.? Finally, he gets what he deserved.? He got canned.? The saga’s not completely over yet.? After taking two and half years to figure out he lied about his credentials and plagiarized to boot, he’s threatening [...]

Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Ethics, Idiot of the day, plagiarism, ward-churchill

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A while back I did a series of articles on Ward Churchill. In fact, it was over a year ago. I made it perfectly clear I did not think it was proper conduct for an “educator” funded with public money to be using that position to espouse their personal political agendas. And, as [...]

Tags: Ethics, ward-churchill

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This is a classic situation unfolding. Before getting into why, just read this from Michelle Malkin’s blog:
Bennish: [tape begins with class already underway. Bennish completing an unintelligble statement about Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.] Why do we have troops in Colombia fighting in their civil war for over 30 years. Most Americans don’t even know [...]

Tags: Idiot of the day, jay-bennish, ward-churchill

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Eugene Volokh relays a story:
A graduate student at LeMoyne College has been expelled for writing a paper on his opinion that corporal punishment should be allowed in the classroom. Scott McConnell was working on his master’s degree in the science education program at LeMoyne. He wrote his Classroom Management Plan paper in November. After receiving [...]

Tags: freedom-of-speech, Opinions, ward-churchill

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Gerald Dworkin of Left2Right writes ( yeah, I know, this is getting a bit redundant. ):
Being a free speech fanatic I will hold my nose and defend Churchill right to speak at Hamilton (if there are threats of violence then protect the speaker), and against any attempts to dismiss him from his academic position.
Here [...]

Tags: freedom-of-speech, Opinions, ward-churchill

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