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September 2012

PHYLLIS CHESLER:PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS…ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1094/presidential-elections This piece is dedicated to Prime Minister Netanyahu, writes Prof. Chesler, ‘who would be treated like royalty were he to visit my home’. Prof. Phyllis Chesler is the author of fifteen books, including Women and Madness (Doubleday, 1972), The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and […]

TURNS OUT THAT OBAMA WAS NEVER OFFERED TENURE AT UNIVESITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/12/former-univ-of-chicago-law-school-dean-obama-was-never-offered-tenure/ A longtime professor and one-time interim dean of the University of Chicago Law School told The Daily Caller that Barack Obama was never offered tenure, despite the assertions of a New York Times reporter who covers the president and the first family.“Other faculty members dreamed of tenured positions; [Obama] turned them down,” wrote Times […]

All the Islamophobia You Can Shake a Stick At by Daniel Greenfield

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3344/islamophobia Any concerns about Islam can be dismissed as illegitimate by attaching a “phobia” at the end of it, and the power of the “phobia” is not just limited to killing debate about the famously moderate religion, but any “extreme” versions of it as well. Most Americans were introduced to the term “Islamophobia” after the […]

How Not to Frame an Election Narrative by Douglas Murray

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3340/conservative-election-narrative It seems that the political right ends up time and again fighting on terrain which has been set out for them to lose on. How does the political left win so many arguments? More than any other cause, it seems to be that the political right ends up time and again fighting on terrain […]