Army Private Subjected to Anti-Semitic Attacks Brutally Beaten By Soldiers
PVT Michael Handman, 20, claims to have been the victim of intense anti-Semitic harrassment (being called "kike" and "fucking Jew," being forced to remove his kippot), and then subsequently being beaten to the point of requiring hospitalization. Mikey Weinstein's Military Religious Freedom Foundation is now looking into the case.
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Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times
From the Army Times -- the first ever active-unit assignment to the US Army Northern Command. A brigade combat team will be deployed to Georgia (under a command in Colorado Springs) presumably as part of a permanent domestic mission. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this is just ever-so-slightly unnerving.
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Scott Jaschik, "New Form of Adjunct Abuse," Inside Higher Ed (Sept. 11, 2008) - San Antonio adjuncts forced to "waive" compensation for full courseload
From the page: "Adjuncts are being encouraged to take on extra courses, as the institution can’t afford to hire as many full timers as it would like. But San Antonio also has rules — providing benefits and higher base pay — to those who teach 12 credits or more. What to do? The college is asking some part timers to take on the extra courses that bring their total to 12 or beyond, but then to agree in writing to pretend that they aren’t teaching 12 credits."
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Christopher Noxon, "Is my kid a dick, or is he just 2?," Salon (Sept. 8, 2008)
"My son bullies me, insults his mother and once punched an old man in the nuts. I know it's probably just a phase. But what if it isn't?"
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Brad Hicks, "Forbidden knowledge": maternal infanticide is more common than you'd like to believe
Inter alia: (1) as many as 75% of SIDS cases may be maternal infanticide; and (2) scientific findings about maternal infanticide's prevalence in both animal and human populations has been systematically suppressed as too shocking for public consumption. T
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