Churchill trial update

by John Martin | 11:44 pm, March 12, 2009

Got in a little late to the Churchill trial this morning, while Chutch attorney David Lane was questioning Deward Walker, an associate professor of anthropology at CU (where he also teaches in the ethnic studies department). Walker chaired the committee that reviewed Ward’s work prior to his receiving tenure in (I think) 1996. Lane essentially [...]

Ordeal by trial

by John Martin | 7:18 pm, March 10, 2009

Attended most of today’s Wart-trial proceedings. Yeah, I heard the “howling mob at the gates demanding the big, fat haid of Ward Churchill” line from Lane, which the accounts I’ve read lead with, but why is that surprising? Here’s my scoop: Did you know there’s a piece of software called TrialDirector? Blurb: Imagine your next [...]

D-blog gets results

by John Martin | 11:29 pm, February 27, 2009

Get out your cameras! Get out your mini-digi tape recorders! E-mail received from Bronson Hilliard, CU’s Director of Media Stuff: John: I’m pleased to report to you that after working with the organizers of the Ayers visit, they are waiving all prohibitions against audio and video recording by bloggers, mainstream media, regular citizens and other [...]

Churchill case heats up

by John Martin | 10:57 pm, January 30, 2009

RMN: Ward Churchill and Bill Owens have frosty encounter Former Gov. Bill Owens on Friday compared onetime CU professor Ward Churchill to a famous movie maker — and it wasn’t a compliment. “In retirement, he’s starting to look a lot like Michael Moore,” Owens said of the overweight and frumpy director of Bowling for Columbine [...]

The Stasi would have loved her

by John Martin | 4:24 pm, January 28, 2009

Everybody’s had this, so I’ll just pile on. Post columnist Kristen Browning-Blas channels the civil-rights stalwarts of yore (and mine): Have you ever been in that awkward situation where someone makes an off-color joke, or worse, a blatantly racist one? People laugh uncomfortably, or look away, or pretend they didn’t hear. Maybe your son’s new [...]

Salazar opposes Gitmo plan

by John Martin | 12:19 pm, January 28, 2009

NIMBY: Republicans who oppose moving terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay to Colorado’s Supermax prison now have a Democratic ally:  Rep. John Salazar. The Western Slope congressman says prisoners at the Cuba-based U.S. Naval detention center should not be sent to the maximum-security prison in Florence. “I frankly think it seems more appropriate to send them [...]

Post travel: Obamatouring Chicago

by John Martin | 9:53 pm, January 24, 2009

Sorry, think I just threw up in your mouth a little (or however the cliché goes). The Post’s interestingly named Electa Draper (not as good as “Chantal Unfug,” of course) joins the worshippers: The city of Chicago has many faces, but the one that is inescapable this winter is President-elect Barack Obama’s. . . . [...]

Denver Pally rally

by John Martin | 11:22 am, December 31, 2008

Didn’t even know it was happening until I got an e-mail from Codestink about 3:00 yesterday afternoon telling me the rally started at 5:00 p.m. Had to be doontoon anyhow, so I stopped by. West steps of the Capitol and along Lincoln, like always. Honk if you hate Jews! Lots of kiddies at this one. [...]

Rally against California gay-marriage ban in Denver

by John Martin | 5:13 pm, November 15, 2008

The News: Mark Brown came to Saturday’s rally for gay rights for a simple reason: To honor his partner, who died suddenly earlier this week. Brown was one of an estimated crowd of 500 to 700 people who attended a rally in support of gay marriage Saturday at the City and County Building in Denver. [...]

The other Bill Ayers interview yesterday

by John Martin | 3:50 pm, November 15, 2008

He and the transcendentally nasty Bernardine Dohrn were interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy N!ow. Read the whole thing if you can stomach it and you like playing “Spot the Lies,” but just a quote or two here to give you the flavor: Ayers: [I] was not a terrorist. I never was a terrorist. And [...]

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