Like almost every PoliSci Chair, I received an e-mail from the Political Science Department at King Saud University about the detention and imprisonment without charge of one of their colleagues, Professor Matrook Al-Faleh, asking “all Political Science departments and civil society organizations to exert all their pressure upon the Saudi government to release” Al-Faleh and [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Saudi political scientist arrested by secret police
Posted in Academia, Miscellaneous, PoliSci: The Discipline, tagged Posted by Jon Taylor, Posted by the PoliSci Department on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignment
Posted in Academia, Campaigns and Elections, Houston and Texas, Miscellaneous, PoliSci: The Discipline, tagged Posted by the PoliSci Department on May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Five Questions About Saturday’s DNC Rules Committee Meeting — Marie Horrigan, CQ Politics
Olympic Pride Resurges in Wake of Earthquake — Edward Cody, Washington Post
Can Nintendo’s Wii Fit get your sorry, lazy ass in shape? — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine
Tremont Tower: How Bad Could It Be, Really? — Swamplot: Houston’s Real Estate Landscape Blog
No Passion for [...]
Announcing the creation of CatholicHigherEd.org
Posted in Academia, PoliSci Departmental Stuff, PoliSci: The Discipline, UST, tagged Posted by Jon Taylor on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
The Cardinal Newman Society has launched a new division: The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education.
UST’s own Dr. John Hittinger, Vice President for Academic Affairs, is on the Advisory Board. Cool!
The purpose of the Center is to study Catholic colleges and universities in accordance with the guidelines of Ex corde Ecclesiae and in a manner [...]
Bob Dole’s open letter to Scott McClellan…
Posted in Campaigns and Elections, tagged Posted by Jon Taylor, Posted by Michelle Carnahan on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
In a word: Ouch.
Scott,
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in [...]
Are you ready for some Football?!!
Posted in Houston, Houston and Texas, PoliSci Departmental Stuff, UST, tagged Posted by the PoliSci Department on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Powder Puff Football, that is!
A reminder that our own Michelle Carnahan will be playing in the 3rd Annual Blondes vs. Brunettes Powder Puff Football Game on Saturday. Michelle’s team — The Brunettes — will be in blue tomorrow. For those of you attending the game, Michelle will be wearing the #14 jersey and is undoubtedly the [...]
Ferraro Wants Study on Racism, Sexism in 2008 Race
Posted in Academia, Campaigns and Elections, tagged Posted by J.P. Faletta on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You have got to be kidding me! Sigh…
From today’s New York Times Caucus Blog comes this little bon mot:
Geraldine Ferraro, who has been making headlines for months over what she contends is the sexist treatment of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in this presidential cycle, has penned an Op-Ed in the Boston Globe.
In it, she asserts that the “effects of [...]
Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignment
Posted in Academia, Campaigns and Elections, Houston and Texas, Miscellaneous, PoliSci: The Discipline, tagged Posted by the PoliSci Department on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Female VP hopefuls contrast with Clinton — Ben Adler, The Politico
Terrorism and the Olympics — Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Mexico’s Ghost Towns — John Gibler, In These Times
Will the youth vote win it for Obama this fall? –Paul Maslin, Salon Magazine
Can Charity Change China? — Leslie Hook, Wall Street Journal
Indiana Photo ID Law Works — [...]
Libertarian support levels
Posted in Campaigns and Elections, tagged Posted by J.P. Faletta, Posted by Jon Taylor on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Source: Zogby International, May 2008.
Could Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr be like Green Party candidate Ralph Nader — a “spoiler” come November? Maybe.
A recent Zogby Poll suggests that Barr would receive about 3% of the vote and Ralph Nader would receive about 4% of the vote on Election Day. One big caveat: Zogby’s numbers suggest a much bigger [...]
Panoramic view of Sichuan Earthquake damage
Posted in Academia, Miscellaneous, tagged Posted by Jon Taylor on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a screen capture of a Washington Post 360 degree panoramic view of the devastation in the town of Yingxiu, Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, PR China — very close to the epicenter of the Sicuhan earthquake of May 12th. The sides of the mountains used to be filled with trees, but landslides have made [...]
A Tumbler for a Tough Campaign
Posted in Campaigns and Elections, tagged Posted by J.P. Faletta on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From today’s New York Times’ Caucus Blog:
In the course of her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has bemoaned the triviality of elections, and that they seem to have devolved into a contest of who America “would rather have a beer with.”
“We tried that once and it didn’t work out so well,” she has said, referring to [...]
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