Eugene Volokh (with a little help from Jim Lindgren) has a series of posts about Ward Churchill - wanker extraordinaire - and freedom of speech. The link takes you to a page with all the related posts (pretty cool!). It's well worth reading - in light of the controversy over Mr. Churchill's reprehensible comments about 9/11. I've heard some pretty angry people calling for his hide. I can't say that I blame them, but Eugene's cautions about First Amendment rights are spot on! After reading his well reasoned argument, I no longer want to fire Churchill for his remarks - I think people should take a different approach...

The fact that the University of Colorado gave tenure to this moonbat, says all you need to know about the institution. From all I've read about the man, he's got extremely poor academic writing behind him, yet he is not only tenured, but head of the department! The only way to get universities to do a better job when granting tenure, is if people vote with their choices and wallets to attend schools that have a better class of professor. Money always talks... especially to universities. If they start losing the best and brightest of students because they are making poor choices for professors - they'll either change their ways or slide into complete obscurity - which would be a very fitting end to University of Colorado.

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