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Archive for November 15th, 2005
The Zoo is doing the Blogosphere Political Compass project. I did mine some time ago; here’s the October graph:
See the red dot on the right? That’s me.
Posted by rightwingprof on November 15, 2005 at 8:26 pm under Conservatism.
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Actually, since Yahoo news goes away so quickly, the text is reproduced below.
Complaint: ‘Narnia’ reading contest forces Christian message on students
By Samantha Murphy, Court TVWed Nov 9, 4:57 PM ET
(Court TV) — An advocacy group claims a Florida reading contest involving the classic novel and upcoming film “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” violates the role of religion in the classroom.
Attorneys for The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), however, say they will support in court any school threatened by the claim free of charge.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) group has demanded Gov. Jeb Bush’s statewide contest stop using C.S. Lewis’ Christian allegory as the only book for the contest.
“We are not advocating censorship and we are not asking the book to be removed from the contest,” said Robert Boston, AUSCS’s assistant director of communications. “But we are asking that the contest be expanded and that other books be added to the list. Some students may not feel comfortable reading a Christian allegory.”
The organization sent a letter to Gov. Bush claiming that the inclusion of the book violates the idea of “religious neutrality” in schools.The letter also quotes political reporter John J. Miller, who stated the fundamental purpose of the Narnia stories is “to convey the reality of Christian truth and that learning about Aslan prepares [a child] to learn about Jesus.” The novel’s central character Aslan, who is a lion, is often seen as a symbol of Jesus Christ.
“If students want to read it, that’s fine, but I don’t think the state should be sponsoring a book based on religion if alternatives aren’t given,” Boston said.
However, ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb said although Christian elements exist in the text and film, the contest aims to spark students’ interest in reading as it coincides with the film release.
“This should not even be an issue,” McCaleb said. “I don’t understand why they are picking on schools and a contest that intend to help kids read. The story is about right and wrong, and should not raise religious conversion issues.”
Published in 1950, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” chronicles the adventures of four children who are magically transported from the back of their wardrobe to Narnia, a frozen winterland of good and evil.
Gov. Bush’s program, “Just Read, Florida!” is backed by President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act and launched the contest to promote literacy in grades 3-12 before the release of the film version on Dec. 9, 2005.
Students are encouraged to submit one essay, illustration or short video about the book and could win gift certificates or a book autographed by Gov. Bush and his wife Columba.
Boston, however, said the state is denying access to contest prizes for those students who choose not to read it, and who have no other books to choose from.
McCaleb argues that numerous books encouraged to be read in schools have religious undertones, including “The Lord of the Rings,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
“I am dumbfounded how they believe students shouldn’t be reading this book in the contest,” McCaleb said. “It violates freedom of speech.”
Boston would not comment on whether the AUSCS will press charges against the state if the contest is not expanded.
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Posted by rightwingprof on November 15, 2005 at 7:13 pm under Conservatism, Wackjobs.
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Posted by rightwingprof on November 15, 2005 at 6:08 pm under Conservatism, Politics, Wackjobs, GWOT.
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Here is the list of spies identified in the Venona papers (source: Wikipedia). In addition to the 190 names below, there are an additional 139 identified only by covert names who have not yet been identified.
So much for liberal complaints about McCarthy.
- John Abt United States Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; special assistant to the United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
- Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
- Lydia Altschuler
- Thomas Babin, Yugoslavia Section Office of Strategic Services
- Marion Bachrach, (*) congressional office manager of Congressman John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
- Rudy Baker
- Vladimir Barash
- Joel Barr, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
- Alice Barrows, United States Office of Education
- Theodore Bayer, President, Russky Golos Publishing
- George Beiser, National Research Establishment, Research and Development Board; engineer Bell Aircraft
- Aleksandr Belenky, General Electric
- Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
- Elizabeth Bentley
- Marion Davis Berdecio, Office of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
- Josef Berger, (*) Democratic National Committee
- Joseph Bernstein, Board of Economic Warfare
- Walter Sol Bernstein, Hollywood Screenwriter, listed on the MPAA’s Hollywood blacklist
- T.A. Bisson, Board of Economic Warfare
- Thomas Lessing Black, Bureau of Standards United States Department of Commerce
- Samuel Bloomfield, (*) Eastern European Division, Research and Analysis Division, Office of Strategic Services
- Robinson Bobrow
- Ralph Bowen, (*) United States Department of State
- Abraham Brothman, chemist
- Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States
- Rose Browder
- William Browder
- Michael Burd, Head of Midland Export Corporation
- Paul Burns, employee of TASS
- Norman Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
- James Callahan
- Sylvia Callen
- Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
- Lona Cohen
- Morris Cohen
- Eugene Franklin Coleman, RCA electrical engineer
- Anna Colloms, New York City schoolteacher
- Judith Coplon, Foreign Agents Registration section, United States Department of Justice
- Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
- Byron Darling, United States Rubber Company; United States Office of Scientific Research & Development
- Eugene Dennis, General Secretary CPUSA
- Samuel Dickstein, United States Congressman from New York; New York State Supreme Court Justice
- Martha Dodd, daughter of United States Ambassador to Germany William Dodd, Popular Front
- William Dodd Jr., son of William Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany; Democratic Congressional candidate
- Laurence Duggan, head of United States Department of State Division of American Republics
- Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov, U.S. Army
- Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
- Frank Dziedzik, National Oil Products Company
- Nathan Einhorn, Executive Secretary of American Newspaper Guild
- Max Elitcher, (*) Naval Ordinance Section, National Bureau of Standards
- Jacob Epstein, International Brigades
- Jack Fahy, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
- Linn Markley Farish, Liaison Officer with Tito’s Yugoslav Partisan forces, Office of Strategic Services
- Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
- Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
- Isaac Folkoff
- Jane Foster, Board of Economic Warfare; Office of Strategic Services; Netherlands Study Unit
- Zalmond Franklin
- Isabel Gallardo
- Boleslaw Gebert, National Officer of Polonia Society of International Workers Order
- Harrison George, senior CPUSA leadership, editor of People’s World
- Rebecca Getzoff
- Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
- Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
- Harry Gold
- Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research United States Department of Treasury Department; United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; United States Bureau of Employment Security
- Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York
- Jacob Golos
- George Gorchoff
- Gerald Graze, United States Department of State
- David Greenglass
- Ruth Greenglass
- Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
- Theodore Hall
- Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis Section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
- Kitty Harris
- William Henwood, Standard Oil of California
- Clarence Hiskey, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project
- Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State
- Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
- Louis Horvitz, International Brigades
- Rosa Isaak, Executive Secretary of the American-Russian Institute
- Herman R. Jacobson, Avery Manufacturing Company
- Bella Joseph, motion picture division of Office of Strategic Services
- Emma Harriet Joseph, (*) Office of Strategic Services
- Julius Joseph, National Resources Planning Board; Federal Security Agency; Social Security Board; Office of Emergency Management; Labor War Manpower Commission; Deputy Chief, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
- Gertrude Kahn
- David Karr, Office of War Information; chief aide to journalist Drew Pearson
- Joseph Katz
- Helen Grace Scott Keenan, Office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Office of United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis War Criminals, Office of Strategic Services
- Mary Jane Keeney, Board of Economic Warfare; Allied Staff on Reparations; United Nations
- Philip Keeney, Office of the Coordinator of Information (later OSS)
- Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York
- Helen Koral
- Samuel Krafsur, jounralist TASS
- Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
- Christina Krotkova, Office of War Information
- Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov
- Stephen Laird, Hollywood Producer; Time Magazine Reporter; Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent
- Rudy Lambert, California Communist party labor director and head of security
- Oskar Lange
- Trude Lash, United Nations Human Rights Committee
- Richard Lauterbach, Time Magazine
- Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
- Michael Leshing, superintendent of Twentieth Century Fox film laboratories
- Leo Levanas, Shell Oil Company
- Morris Libau
- Helen Lowry
- Willaim Mackey
- Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
- William Malisoff, owner of United Laboratories of New York
- Hede Massing, journalist
- Robert Menaker
- Floyd Miller
- James Walter Miller, United States Post Office, Office of Censorship
- Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
- Robert Minor, Office of Strategic Services
- Leonard Mins, Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services
- Arthur Moosen
- Vladimir Morkovin, Office of Naval Research
- Boris Moros, Hollywood Producer
- Nicola Napoli, president of Artkino, distributor of Soviet films
- Franz Leopold Neumann, consultant at Board of Economic Warfare; Deputy Chief of the Central European Section of Office of Strategic Services; First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
- Melita Norwood
- Eugénie Olkhine
- Rose Olsen
- Frank Oppenheimer, (*) physicist
- Nicholas W. Orloff
- Nadia Morris Osipovich
- Edna Patterson
- William Perl, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Army Air Base; Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
- Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; Head of Branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution
- Burton Perry
- Aleksandr N. Petroff, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft
- Emma Phillips
- Paul Pinsky
- William Pinsly, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
- William Plourde, engineer with Bell Aircraft
- Vladimir Pozner, head Russian Division photographic section United States War Department
- Lee Pressman Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
- Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
- Esther Trebach Rand, United Palestine Appeal
- Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
- Peter Rhodes, Foreign Broadcasting Monitoring Service, Allied Military Headquarters London; Chief of the Atlantic News Service, Office of War Information
- Stephen Rich
- Kenneth Richardson, World Wide Electronics
- Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Samuel Rodman, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Allan Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
- Julius Rosenberg, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
- Ethel Rosenberg
- Amadeo Sabatini, International Brigades
- Alfred Sarant, United States Army Signal Corps laboratories
- Saville Sax, Young Communist League
- Marion Schultz, chair of the United Russian Committee for Aid to the Native Country
- Bernard Schuster
- Milton Schwartz
- John Scott, Office of Strategic Services
- Ricardo Setaro, journalist/writer Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
- Charles Bradford Sheppard, Hazeltine Electronics
- Anne Sidorovich
- Michael Sidorovich
- George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
- Greg Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
- Helen Silvermaster
- Morton Sobell, General Electric
- Jack Soble
- Robert Soblen
- Johannes Steele, journalist and radio commentator
- Alfred Kaufman Stern, Popular Front
- I. F. Stone, (*) journalist for The Nation
- Augustina Stridsberg
- Anna Louise Strong, journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, The Nation and Asia
- Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
- Mikhail Tkach, editor of the Ukrainian Daily News
- Lud Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
- Irving Charles Velson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; American Labor Party candidate for New York State Senate
- Margietta Voge
- George Vuchinich, 2nt. United States Army assigned to Office of Strategic Services
- Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
- Enos Wicher, Wave Propagation Research, Division of War Research, Columbia University
- Maria Wicher
- Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
- Ruth Beverly Wilson
- Ignacy Witczak
- Ilya Wolston, United States Army military intelligence
- Flora Wovschin, Office of War Information; United States Department of State
- Jones Orin York
- Daniel Zaret, United States Army Explosives Division
- Mark Zborowski
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Posted by rightwingprof on November 15, 2005 at 3:54 pm under Conservatism.
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I just discovered a new blog (well, new in the sense that I didn’t know about it before today), Where Have You Gone, Ronald Reagan? It’s going on my A-list.
One of the best responses to Clooney’s new movie, as well as liberal whining about “McCarthyism” is here. An excerpt:
However, with so many pledging their loyalties to the Russian cult of State, Liberals chose instead to destroy McCarthy, write fiction portraying “victimhood”, and sling counter charges that the only danger we faced as Americans was from reckless Republicans with the audacity to ask about their fraternization with the enemy. While millions were marched off to gulags to dig their own graves, American Liberals sobbed hysterically about being blacklisted by film studios or questioned about their actual support for actual Communists. {Keep in mind that Democrats during this time supported the internment of thousands of innocent Japanese citizens.}
Posted by rightwingprof on November 15, 2005 at 2:14 pm under Conservatism, Wackjobs.
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