Back a third time on the Ward Churchill hiccup. It’s just too much fun to resist. So go ahead and shout me down if you’re bored by reading more on this. But here goes: Colorado University Law Professor Paul Campos says it best: “The deeper one digs into the Ward Churchill scandal, the more amazing [...]

Oh no. Hollywood has enlisted. Beyond the stale stereotypes of a Marxist Hollywood, USA Today reports the real face of Tinseltown (at least the one I know and loathe). It’s always about the money and now it’s time, it seems,  to cash in on the war and the plight of our overextended troops: In a [...]

My good pal from the days of the Salvadoran war, Frank Smyth, has posted his usual sort of provocative piece over at Foreign Policy in Focus. Frank is a veteran journo who covered not only the war in El Salvador, but also the Gulf War and the Shi’ite uprising in 1991. He’s also done some [...]

Some friends have asked me why spend any time at all on the Ward Churchill hub-bub and it’s a totally legitimate question. What is the point, they ask, of beating up on such a pathethetic element and risk playing into the hands of such right-wing ideologues as O’Reilly-Limbaugh-Instapundit? Fortunately, Swarthmore history professor Timothy Burke has [...]

Move over, Mumia. The Left has a new cause celebre that’s a guaranteed loser: Ward Churchill. The Colorado University professor and Native American activist is in a tub of hot water for the staggeringly outrageous remarks he wrote on the morrow of 9/11. Praising the “gallant sacrifices” of the “combat teams” who downed the World [...]

Think about this for a moment. The President of the United States has been in power for more than four years but he has yet to grant an interview to the Los Angeles Times. The LAT is the paper of record of America’s second largest city and one of the two or three largest circulation [...]

Stranded at a San Francisco journalism conference, I watched the State of the Union address tonight in the hotel room of my Nation magazine colleague David Corn who is also participating in the confab. I will get to David’s take on the speech in a moment. But first let me say I was nauseated and [...]

For another day or two. Tied up in meetings.