Jack Bauer Gets Caught

Last week, Kiefer Sutherland, the actor who portrays Jack Bauer on the popular show "24." Was briefly arrested for DUI. I never understood how that guy could actually run around town killing people for 24 hours and not get exhausted and collapse at some point--I know I would.

The Jena Six (Jena, LA)

In Jena, LA, six black students are being accused of beating up a white student. The case grew out of an incident in which a black student asked to sit under a tree in the school that was known to be off-limits to blacks. White students then hung nooses on the tree branch in an act of racial hatred. The school decided to chop down the tree to try to restore racial peace. Unfortunately, if you chop down the tree and the roots remain, then the problem is only partially solved. The fact that they had a "white only" tree and that school officials didn't address this problem shows that they are not doing all they can to remedy the situation.

Iraqi Terrorist Insurgents Disrupt Iraqi Lives

Iraqi terrorists have declared that they will increase their attacks during the holy month of Ramadan--a special spiritual time for Muslims.

Bin Laden's First New Footage In 3 Years!

The intelligence community is going crazy predicting whether Bin Laden will call for a new attack in his newest video--stay tuned!

From the expanses of space to restricted mobility

Lisa Nowak, the jealous astronaut who was caught driving to Florida in a diaper to see her ex, recently got put on parole (including removing her ankle bracelet) but with restricted travel.

Brandeis Graduation 2007

Congratulations Class of 2007!

Norman Finkelstein's Distortions

Norman Finkelstein purports to be a scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but even those whom he repeatedly cites in his work or calls his inspirations (e.g., historian Benny Morris and Robert Novick) call him a fraudulent historian and accuse him of distorting or selectively citing their work. His thesis is that the conflict and the solution are really SO SIMPLE (basically Israel has to do everything the biased UN and ICJ say) and that everything is Israel's fault. However, he often ignores or trivializes the problems of Palestinian terrorism or the repeated military attacks by Arab countries on Israel, which have nearly destroyed the state's existence. The conflict is so simple, he says, and most of the controvery is fabricated by people who want to draw attention from Israel, who is the real perpetrator of violence. Of course, he easily maintains this by dismissing anyone who doesn't agree with him as outside the fold of sane or legitimate scholarship, or lacking in moral values. He essentially rips out pages from the book of Middle East history, selectively ignoring the facts which are not convenient to his point of view, in order to support his ideas. His latest lecture at our campus was a two-hour or so Israel bashing session (sparing the Palestinians the rod) as well as personal attacks on our university and its president, as well as on other scholars in the field.
We must stand up and demand honest intellectual scholarship on this matter.