Law School Conservative

If a conversation between Lee Bollinger and I were to ever transpire, it might read a bit like this: “Mr. Bollinger, you resemble all the signs of a petty a cruel academic dictator. You are a chalk-sniffing dork, who consistently reminds the world of how utterly dumb really smart people can be. How about you hop off of your high horse and duke it out with me in the streets. That’s right scumbag – I’m challenging you to a street fight, and I’m going to kick your ass.”

If you’re angry at my remarks than go pound sand. It’s my first amendment right, and any attempt for you to say that I’m not allowed to call Mr. Bollinger a dork is a violation of my first amendment right. After all, it’s not like I’m denying the holocaust or anything. By the way, did I mention that slavery actually never happened? Well, maybe it did, but I want more research done on the subject.

Ok, so Lee would likely have some very well thought out responses to such small minded gibberish, coming from a know-nothing like me. He would probably triumph very quickly by reminding me that my remarks are vile, and are highly suspect of hate speech. On the contrary however, isn’t that precisely the sort of speech that ought to win me podium at Columbia?

Again, it’s my first amendment right to say what I want. If I really did want to suggest that slavery never occurred, surely you would want to know why I would ever say something so offensive. I would surely reply (if I was a liberal), “It’s my first amendment right.” Anyone with half a brain would spot this circular reasoning and point out to me that is not a reason.

It is here that we arrive at the real paradox of Columbia’s vile, disgusting and outright degrading decision to invite the world’s biggest anti-Semite to speak in its halls. Bollinger says its because of Columbia’s commitment to free speech and its “almost single-minded commitment to pursue the truth.” But free speech is not a reason, and when you deny the holocaust there is not much truth to be passed around, so what is the real reason?

The real reason is because the students and faculty at Columbia actually like this guy. Not all of them, but a large body of them. They like him because they are in agreement on several key issues. One, America is a terrorist country. Two, American is the evil power in the war on terror, and three, America should not have invaded Iraq. The clever (and pathetically stupid) student body at Columbia thought it would be a slap in the face to the Bush administration, and desired it to be a show of proof that we can communicate with Iran in a productive way, and it was the duty of academia to set our country straight. After all, they are smarter than everyone else in the country.

While it seems everyone has come around to agree that having Ahmadinejad speak was a bad decision, Columbia’s student body and faculty have escaped without showing their cards. Everyone needs to understand that the real reason they invited this lunatic to speak is because in today’s war on terror, America is the enemy, and its up to the academics at Columbia to save the world from its menace.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

With renewed confidence after the whole Gonzales debacle last week, Congress once again pushes to get someone else to say what they want to hear. After interrogating Gonzales, guilty of nothing more than having a public relations team so bad that it couldn’t make Mother Teresa look good, they now turn their proverbial sights to the Pentagon, to ask questions about the tragic death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan (back when the democrats still liked war) and the rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

The situation is this, the Army thought there may have been a predator drone flying overhead. They looked to see if this was true and found nothing. The hope was to get video evidence and clear up a friendly fire accident. Again, they found nothing.

Congress now seems to think that the Army doesn’t know what its talking about and is SURE there was a drone there, and that the military is hiding it. Now, after however many admissions of responsibility, why would the Army hide this video? It can either prove them right and show that Tillman’s death was a result of a screw up, or prove them wrong and prove it was the Taliban.

Now as for Jessica Lynch, I don’t know what they are getting at. There is a tape of the whole rescue, and this evidently has more to do with Lynch’s portrayal as a “Rambo” than anything else. For the record, Lynch was on a gurney the whole time, and the most she did was hold a “thumbs up” sign.

So, off to watch this hearing, and see what exactly Congress thinks they know that the Army doesn’t.

By: Nathan D. Fox

Another piece of insanity from my favorite insane nation out there: Iran.  Eighteen grisly murders justified because the victims were participating in “un-Islamic activities.”  I am certainly curious as to what an “un-Islamic activity” is.  I don’t know about you, but a country with a judicial system this irrational certainly sounds like a nation wise enough to handle nuclear power; or as G.W Bush says “nu-cu-lare” power.  But before I get too judgmental, at least the murderers may be liable for monetary damages.  I do not mean to lecture, but insanity like this is why we need to be educated about the risks of radical Islam.  Unfortunately, most Americans are simply tired of hearing about it.  I would rather not speculate as to what it will take for us to wake up and realize that the threat to our safety has not been neutralized.