Author: Aaron Barlow

Don’t Gloat About DeLay; Get Scared

As most of us know, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is trying to avoid facing his own ethical lapses by attacking others, including the judiciary.  This might simply seem humorous (an exterminator with a degree in biology...

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Tempest in a Pie Pan

Anyone familiar with the 1939 Cary Grant film Gunga Din knows that our word “thug” comes from “thuggee,” word for members of a Hindu fundamentalist movement dedicated to sneak attack and murder. Here in...

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Debates with Wingnut Horowitz

David Horowitz and his Front Page Magazine have been taking on left-wing academics in a series of online debates.  The first was Michael Berube of Penn State.  The third will be with Timothy Burke of Swarthmore...

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Pie-ing Horowitz

Though I’ve never thought that hitting someone in the face with a pie is particularly effective, I must take note of pie victim David Horowitz’s statement that There’s a wave of violence on college campuses,...

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