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Professors at other schools have added cautionary notes to their syllabi, but Columbia students have called for more say in the book-selection process, and for trigger warnings as campus policy By Mike...

TV Land pulls re-runs of 1980s sitcom "Dukes of Hazzard amid Confederate flag debate LOS ANGELES - TV Land has pulled re-runs of the 1980s sitcom "Dukes of Hazzard," the U.S. cable network said on Wednesday amid controversy over portrayals of the Confederate flag, which is notably featured on...

he blood-soaked executioners of ISIS have spared neither women nor children since the jihadist army established its caliphate a year ago, putting an estimated 74 kids and even more women to death for such offenses as practicing “magic” and refusing to fast during Ramadan. A total of 3,027...

From the “everybody breathes out poison” department. WUWT reader “Hell_Is_Like_Newark” writes: The Center for Biological Diversity has issued a petition to get CO2 listed as a toxic substance. CO2 will join the ranks of dioxin, cyanide, etc. For Immediate Release, June 30, 2015 Contact...

How to enforce gay agenda inside Native American tribes In years past our Indigenous Amerikan Komrades were ensconced in the Most Favored Status™ they so richly deserved after AmeriKKKa committed genocide against them. Then, something went egregiously wrong: 11 Native American Tribes...

Sheila Gunn Reid ‏@SheilaGunnReid Everytime CBC needed a self described veterans advocate" to bash Harper they trotted out Wayne Johnston. Oops. One of our friends north of the border send us a heads-up on this...

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on youtube. youtube. and facebook. oh my. Brian Lilley of TheRebel.Media reports that the state broadcaster is being selective about who can use their material for political ads and at least one internet law expert says they don't have a legal leg to stand on. After trying to censor...

Canadians are often curious about how others see them, so, for Canada Day, with the help of the International Council for Canadian Studies, CBC News reached out to the 7,000 or so academics outside Canada who teach courses about Canada. They call themselves Canadianists, and we wanted to...

As the death toll rises from a surprise attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, witness and victim testimony obtained by VICE News indicates the militants targeted civilians with drive-by killings and massacred entire families during a brazen suicide...

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OTTAWA - New Democrat MPs who are on the hook for $2.7 million for allegedly using parliamentary resources for partisan purposes now face the prospect of having their expense claims denied by the House of Commons. In a statement, Conservative whip John Duncan said House of Commons officials...

Tony Burbeck WCNCVerified account ‏@TonyWCNC Man flying Nazi flag outside his home says he will take flag down soon, says he is not racist, just likes flags...

Chris HadfieldVerified account ‏@Cmdr_Hadfield Cockpit view. In the F-86 Sabre, ready to fly with the #Snowbirds. About to start the engine. Lady Luck is with me...

hockey schtick ‏@hockeyschtick1 hockey schtick retweeted ClimateCentral Man-made CO2 only makes toxic plants grow bigger & faster: https://twitter.com/ClimateCentral/status/615742837485744128

mongrel backbone displayed again A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them during Ramadan. According to a report by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Public...

As a thought experiment, suppose cabinet mattered. Or at least, suppose we thought it should. Suppose, that is, there were a number of serious issues facing the country — the economy, national security, climate change, social and economic inequality — of a kind that placed a premium on...

It’s too soon by far to pass a verdict on Rachel Notley’s NDP government in Alberta — they were only elected last month, after all. Still, while the government’s first legislative session was brief, it saw a lot of activity. With a federal election coming this fall — and with the federal NDP...

As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the United States this week, many looked abroad for other symbol-based controversies. Germany, which had banned the swastika and other Nazi iconography after World War II, became an especially common reference: If the Germans had...