Blair said the Palestinian aid package would total $3 billion “in the years to come.” The British leader said the assistance was designed “so that two states, Israel and Palestine, two peoples and two religions can live side by side in peace.”
I have to agree that it seems in very poor taste to hand $3B over to a terrorist organization the day after the bombings in London. How soon can we expect an Al Qaeda state to be given $3B to “live in peace” without the aid being conditional on actually trying to be peaceful?
The college affiliate of the National Education Association yesterday unanimously rejected a proposal to expand its policy on academic and professional freedom to protect “intellectual pluralism and the free exchange of ideas” in the nation’s classrooms.
Randy Jackson, a delegate to the NEA convention now under way, appeared before the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) summer meeting to defend his proposal, which was attacked roundly as part of a conservative agenda.
You’d have to think that the progressives are losing when they’re being forced, over and over, to come right out and state that they are opposed to intellectual freedom and personal liberty. They used to be able to spin around that.