April 24, 2006

'The Lobby' and 'The Protocols'. At InContext, Lynn B compares the Stephen Walt-John Mearsheimer paper The Israel Lobby with infamous antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and finds more than a few striking similarities: ‘The Lobby’ & ‘The Protocols’. [Little Green Footballs] 11:28:51 AM

Court Won't Hear Fight Over Jesus Poster (AP). AP - The Supreme Court refused Monday to get involved in a fight over a Jesus poster that a New York kindergarten student submitted for a class assignment on ways to save the environment. The Baldwinsville Central School District in suburban Syracuse wanted justices to stop a lawsuit filed by Antonio Peck and his parents, who claim his free-speech rights were violated when school officials censored his poster. The justices' action leaves in place an appeals court ruling that requires a trial to determine whether Antonio's rights were violated when school officials obscured a robed figure in the boy's poster in displaying it at a school assembly in 1999. Antonio, now in the 6th grade, received considerable help from his mother, JoAnne, with two posters, the first of which was rejected because it did not depict any conservation efforts to save the environment. [Yahoo! News: Politics News] 10:45:17 AM