In the May-June 2011 issue of Moment Magazine, Wiener bragged: “I’m a big deal.” And yet, when his email is “hacked” it’s no big deal and not a federal matter, even after he boasts that he was appointed to the
When the Hezbollah and Hamas supporting Professor Bassam Frangieh brought Syrian ambassador to America Imad Moustapha to Claremont McKenna College’s campus in 2009, a student in the Arabic program asked, in all seriousness, what America could do to help Syria
With his budget, President Obama shows he misunderstands arithmetic; with his energy plan, he shows he misunderstands supply and demand. Or perhaps, as his congressional critics allege, he understands them all too well. Speaker Boehner laid out the charges: “[The
Bill Gates of Microsoft fame (or infamy) visited the Claremont Colleges this past week. You can watch that visit here. What follows is a transcript typed by one of my associates of that event. Gates, after discussing his foundation’s work,
The wisdom of intervening in Libya’s internal civil war is for others to judge, but what is obvious is that it is but another incident in a long, long list in which America has intervened on behalf of its European
The left often dismisses Calvin Coolidge for not being activist enough in forcing Americans to submit to their favorite charity– government. But when it came to real charity, such as when the Japanese people suffered a horrific earthquake in 1923
Israel-obsessed blogger Philip Weiss lies about he seeing “ruins” of hospital that isn’t ruined. The hospital is pictured at left, the place where the alleged terrorists were is at right. Philip Weiss — “I’ve been to Gaza. I saw the
Pro-Hugo Chavez propagandist, Oliver Stone, came to Pomona College to promote his film, “South of the Border.” Stone, fresh off making the 2010 list of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s top ten anti-Semitic slurs for his belittling of the Holocaust ,
At at a 2:45 PM meeting on Wednesday with Counsul General Jacob Dayan of Israel at Scripps College, I asked him what he says to the people who wrongly say that Hezbollah isn’t a terrorist organization. He answered very directly,
Pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas Professor Bassam Frangieh, head of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Claremont McKenna College, delivers a twenty-minute rant at the University of Bridgeport in 2007. Frangieh claims, among other things, that Islam is “very democratic” and that Saddam
The reliably pro-Hugo Chavez Pomona College Professor Miguel Tinker Salas attacked corporate media and the TEA party at a SEIU event in Los Angeles with Cynthia McKinney on December 11th. The talk was titled, “Resistance & Liberation in a Time
In my town of Claremont, CA, the FBI just arrested a man for sending “threatening letters containing a powdery substance” to multiple government offices in Los Angeles County. Here‘s how the FBI describes it: Claremont Man Arrested for Sending Threatening
Bassam Frangieh, Claremont McKenna College’s resident Hamas, Hezbollah and Saddam Hussein-supporting head of Arabic and Middle East Studies, trains the next generation of Arabic diplomats at one of America’s top colleges. We’ve already exposed his anti-Israel views, but today, we’ll
Now that Hezbollah has brought down the government of Lebanon without firing a shot, will the Kuwaiti government fund Bassam Frangieh, a pro-Saddam Hussein, pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Claremont McKenna College? According to a
This past week’s “blood libel” comment from Sarah Palin brought forth the seeming unlikeliest of defenders, Alan Dershowitz, who, in an exclusive to Big Government, defended the former governor’s comments from her obsessed detractors. Conservatives are justifiably pleased that their
Unfortunately, those looking for real leadership on the part of Scripps College in the wake of the horrendous shooting of Gabrielle Giffords SC ’93 will have to look elsewhere than the statements of its president, Lori Bettison-Varga. President Bettison-Varga uses
Increased pressure from alumni, parents, students, faculty, and the general public, has finally forced Dean of Faculty Gregory D. Hess to issue a statement to the faculty on Bassam Frangieh’s support of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. (Frangieh, as I
At Claremont McKenna, America’s best conservative liberal arts college, President Pamela Gann’s administration still hasn’t issued a statement on the views of Bassam Frangieh, its Hezbollah-and-Hamas-supporting Middle East Studies director, despite repeated requests from alumni, students, and faculty. With his
Despite repeated calls for a statement from alumni, from faculty members, from parents, and from students, no one in Claremont McKenna’s administration has spoken out to my Big Peace article about Professor Bassam Frangieh’s support for terrorist groups Hamas and
At Claremont McKenna College, one of America’s best conservative liberal arts college, Bassam Frangieh, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, teaches a senior seminar on “Trends and Movements in the Modern Middle East” about “the emergence of the Modern Middle
Up is Pixar’s most ambitious film yet. It teaches us the truth that Pixar knows well: Life isn’t a series of merit badges or experiences, but of relationships, well cultivated. The best relationships are love stories and this is no
Talent is rarely celebrated. In our culture of public mediocrity, talent becomes just another thing that the left despises. How often we hear, “Oh, so in so, is only good because they are rich/white/privileged.” Indeed, whole swaths of our society
Is the incredible out of the reach of social planners? The Founders believed that happiness is the object of government, by which they meant virtue, or the proper workings of the human soul. It was an ancient understanding, founded on
Pixar’s Finding Nemo is easily the darkest of the films. Marlin, a clownfish, starts off promising his wife, Coral, the whole ocean: Marlin: So, Coral, when you said you wanted an ocean view, you didn’t think you were going to
Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. depicts a country that has all but disappeared: blue-collar, ethnic America. It’s a scene that’s been vanishing from the American imagination for quite awhile. In part, this scene is economic, but partly, it’s because Hollywood treats blue-collar
