Monday, June 14, 2010

UCI's Muslim Student Union Banned By School For One Year In Response To Unacceptable Heckling Of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren

ABC7 reports that the University of California-Irvine "has been investigating the Muslim Student Union after a protest at a speech by the Israeli ambassador earlier this year. Monday, the school announced its findings... Video of the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren's February speech at the University of California-Irvine posted on YouTube shows hecklers in action. Eleven students, all of them members of the Muslim Student Union of UCI, were arrested after repeated warnings to stop disrupting the speech. After a month-long investigation by the university, the MSU has been banned from campus for a year and placed on disciplinary probation for another year."

The following is the response from Shalom Elcott, the President of the Jewish Federation Orange County, California:

Tennessee Dem On Female Republicans: “You Have To Lift Their Skirts To Find Out If They Are Women”

Tennessee State Rep. Janis Sontany attacked female conservatives at a Democratic gathering over the weekend as not being real women. Sontany said of women Republican state lawmakers: "You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women. You sure can't find out by how they vote!"

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Hallmark Pulls Graduation Card About Solar System That Mentions "Black Holes" After NAACP Criticizes The Card As Racist

This is unreal, but not unsurprising. It is great to know that everything is going so well that this is apparently what the NAACP has to focus on to keep itself in business.