"Go-go boots", "Babe", "dumb", child is a "genetic freak" [Updated]

Norman Finkelstein is a controversial professor and author of several books. In fact, he is the most despicable kind of academic; he uses his status as a Jew and the child of Holocaust survivors to not only to vehemently criticize Israel while defending terrorists, but to also accuse them of exaggerating the Holocaust and creating a "Holocaust industry". His tenure at De Paul University was denied last year over his inflammatory remarks, and very recently, on a recent visit to Israel, he was b... more

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Legislation S.22 , is titled the "Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007", or the "21 century GI Bill". The bill grants a free four-year education at any state college for anyone serving in the military for three years after September 11, 2001. Sounds generous, but unfortunately it also means that few soldiers will stick around after that three years. Correctly, President Bush opposes it, since retention is always important in the military - particularly now. But the New Yor... more

Memorial Day was first known as Decoration Day, and was enacted to honor Union soldiers of the US Civil War. After WWI, it was changed to include the fallen from all our nation’s wars. But some myopic people can’t see past the current conflict or forget partisan squabbles even for one day. Just a few examples from around the Internet: Brandon Friedman (the anti-veteran veteran) at the Daily Kos invokes Memorial Day to claim that anyone who opposes S 22 , the so-called "2... more