Fail 101: Prof Cameron Johnston misses the point of his own class lecture. Fail 102: York University fails as a inculcator of knowledge.

York University Social Sciences and Humanities Prof Cameron Johnston, in Toronto, created an apparent firestorm when a student, not paying attention, heard him say “all Jews should be sterilized”, when he used the statement as an example of a type of opinion that someone should not be entitled to hold (for the record, Johnston, being [...]

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CAUT Responds to Ud’O Provost Francois Houle

The sh!tstorm continues over the University of Ottawa’s treatment of Ann Coulter, in her three-city speaking tour of Canada.   While it speaks loudly all on its own that Ms Coulter could not be safely accommodated in Canada’s capital, there is heavy discussion on both sides of the border about Liberal Alan Rock’s university, the University of/d’Ottawa [...]

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The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Ann Coulter came to Ottawa to speak last night, and Ottawa’s Bolsheviks decided she shouldn’t. After the international incident created by the University of Ottawa’s Provost, you might have thought that a Canadian university might have had the intellectual enthusiasm to debate the pros, cons and nuances of her presentation. You’d be wrong. Free speech [...]

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Ann Coulter: “I was hoping for a fruit basket, not a threat to prosecute”

Ann Coulter writes in Breitbart’s Big Government about the mendaciously stupid letter she received from one Francois Houle, Vice-President Academic and Provost, Universite d’Ottawa, basically advising Ms. Coulter to STFU, and implicitly, go home. Dear Ms. Coulter, I understand that you have been invited by University of Ottawa Campus Conservatives to speak at the University [...]

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Hmmm, where’d we leave the matches and rope?

Video: The obligatory “Dan Rather mumbles something about Obama and watermelons” clip Hot Air: posted at 4:49 pm on March 8, 2010 by Allahpundit Limbaugh played the audio this afternoon and now it’s anywhere and everywhere. Ironically, it’s the fact that it’s so cringeworthy that makes me think it was innocently intended: Had Document Dan [...]

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