The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University is looking for help. According to an ad placed at the American Poliitical Science Association's website (password protected, but I'm a member) the Reuters Institute seeks a Ph.D. in political science and:

You will engage in research on aspects of the relationship between journalism on the one hand and politics and society on the other. The successful applicant may be expected to make a major contribution to an Institute project analysing and reporting on the state of the world's media via a comparative study of selected countries.

Given the bias in academia, don't hold your breath for whatever report comes out of this.

No mention whether photoshopping skills are required, but I bet they couldn't hurt.

Hat tip to the esteemed political scientist, the world renown Professor Chaos, who apparently spends the majority of his day cruising the APSA website looking for a job at a university in a Red State. Hot coeds prefered. Where does Bethany go to school again?

PS--Professor Chaos says I should apply under my own name. Now that would be a hell of a coup!

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Steven Jones has been placed on paid leave while BYU reviews his involvement with the 911 Truth Movement.

Deseret News:"BYU has repeatedly said that it does not endorse assertions made by individual faculty," the statement said. "We are, however, concerned about the increasingly speculative and accusatory nature of these statements by Dr. Jones."

Last fall, BYU faculty posted statements on the university Web site that questioned whether Jones subjected the paper to rigorous academic peer review before he posted it at physics.byu.edu. Jones removed the paper from BYU's Web site Thursday at the university's request.

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Miss England, Hammasa Kohistani, proves that the stereotype of beauty queens being hot but dumb is bascially right. It also doesn't do that much for the stereotype of moderate Muslims as over-sensitive whiney bitches who take every opportunity they can to whine and seethe about prejudice and backlash whenever someone suggest they do something about the extremists in their midst. Not. A. Thing.

Perhaps instead of whining about Blair's calls for Muslims to root out terrorists in their midsts, Ms. Kohistani would prefer to move back to Afghanistan where her parents fled from the Taliban? I hear the Taliban are resurgent and have a secret and abiding love for Muslim women in swimsuit competitions.

BBC:

The country's first Muslim Miss England has accused Prime Minister Tony Blair of fuelling hostility towards Islam in the wake of the London bombings.

Hammasa Kohistani, 19, said government statements since last year's 7 July attacks had created a "negative image" of Muslims....

"Tony Blair addressed Muslims in particular, telling them that they need to sort out the problem within," she said....

That was a huge stereotype of the Islamic community.

"Even the more moderate Muslims have been stereotyped negatively and feel they have to take actions to prove themselves."

Previously: Hot Muslim Becomes Miss England

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Classes start tomorrow. Yikes!

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(Austin, Texas) Updating a previous Jawa post regarding the controversy over an educator's nude photos on the Internet, Austin High School art teacher Tamara Hoover (pic) has resigned from her job.

From Statesman.com:

Hoover submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday. She said that she will receive a $14,850 settlement from the Austin school district, several months' salary. District officials said that a settlement is pending and that the board of trustees is expected to consider it Monday. Mel Waxler, the district's general counsel, would not confirm the amount, saying he was not at liberty to discuss the matter before it is finalized.

Hoover said she's sad about the outcome but will focus on moving forward.

"I wasn't prepared to stop teaching. I never wanted to resign from teaching," she said. "I don't think this is the most ideal outcome. I was definitely impressed by (the district's) willingness to come to the table. I just wish they would have done that in the beginning."

Hoover's plans include obtaining credentials to teach at the university level. Likely remaining hidden are some hard feelings. Publicly, she leaves on a positive note through her praise of the students and staff at Austin High School.

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Anyone who follows trends in educational systems will not be surprised by this report.

From TimesOnline.co.uk:

Schools would no longer be required to teach children the difference between right and wrong under plans to revise the core aims of the National Curriculum.

Instead, under a new wording that reflects a world of relative rather than absolute values, teachers would be asked to encourage pupils to develop "secure values and beliefs."

The draft also purges references to promoting leadership skills and deletes the requirement to teach children about Britain's cultural heritage.

Ministers have asked for the curriculum’s aims to be slimmed down to give schools more flexibility in the way they teach pupils aged 11 to 14.

But I wonder if the motive has less to do with flexibility in education and more to do with political appeasement to the Muslims in the UK. It would seem logical and consistent with the effort last year when Muslims successfully pressured the Brits into teaching Islam to primary school children, ostensibly to breed harmony. Muslim leader Iqbal Sacranie stated that every child must have "access to high quality Islamic resources."

It's also interesting that the target of no values education will be children ages 11 through 14. Hey, kids! Now that you have learned Islam in primary school, listen up. You have access to high quality Islamic resources so you can forget right and wrong and forget that you're a British subject. Everything is relative.

And what better time to tell a bunch of kids to do their own thing than when they are juggling raging hormones and funny feelings?

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Hydraulic hybrid technologies: an idea whose time has come? There's a quick summary here on how hydraulic hybrids work. Thee article also makes the following claim:

One key advantage of the Hydraulic Hybrid regenerative braking system is that it can be installed in the existing powertrain without substantial modifications to the existing vehicle architecture.

It's claimed that hydraulic hybrid technology adds only $600-$1000 to the cost of a vehicle. I find this a bit hard to believe, but if it's true, the fuel savings could easily provide a payback in 6-12 months. Compare that to an electric hybrid setup, which adds several thousand and takes at least several years to pay back. Roll in the finance cost, and an electric hybrid setup may never pay for itself.

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Via Ace of Spades HQ:

Magnets implanted in fingertips give users a sixth sense for detecting, well, magnetic fields. Which may sound useless, until you find yourself being stalked by an electromagnetic ninja. Which, if my life is any indication, happens every two or three months.

Also in the same post, much discussion on droids, particularly on droid whores.

It's a wretched hive over there. Watch your step.

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1 Jawa report?

Posted by: greyrooster at July 19, 2006 06:04 AM (XuA/R)

2 Has the Jawa Report been Hijacked by Mony Python wannabee's? Where is the real hard hitting opinion? Why is it the best post I have read in the past 3 days is from the kid in the Phillipines who likes to post pictures of nekkid women rubbing their private parts on the American flag?

BTW the Goldstein/Fisch blogwar has culminated in the Ajunct Prof resigning her position, and then immediately going into spin control. Now it seems she blames the right for her slimemy postings.

Posted by: Cmunk at July 19, 2006 09:59 AM (7teJ9)

3 Man my typing is really really bad.

Monty, not Mony, Adjunct, not Ajunct. slimey not slimemy. And Slimemy may even be wrong. ( years of private school shot to hell. Sorry Sister Mary Joseph.

Posted by: Cmunk at July 19, 2006 10:03 AM (7teJ9)

4 See it's not that easy Rusty's email is on the contact thread. You can be next to write a hard hitting opinion!

Posted by: Howie at July 19, 2006 10:05 AM (D3+20)

5 I don't have posting privileges. I would love to post here a couple of times a day.

Posted by: Cmunk at July 19, 2006 11:07 AM (7teJ9)

6 magnets in their fingertips MAGNITO IS ALIVE AND WELL

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This story out of MIT: Nanotechnology 'fertile' for energy breakthrough:

"I think we'll see the peaking of oil and natural gas sooner than most of those in the fossil fuel industry think," said David Carlson, chief scientist at BP Solar. "By 2035 photovoltaics could produce about 10 percent of the world's electricity and play a major role in reducing carbon dioxide emissions."

Photovoltaics is the technical term for generating electricity from light.

MIT's Vladimir Bulovic said. . .

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We interrupt your regularly-scheduled blog posts to bring you an important free message from Jawa Report's ongoing Terrorist Infiltration Effort (TIE) fighting public education program.

As always, please be on your guard. This person, whose sex appears to that of a girl, may be a terrorist. You will note her hairstyle, with its upturned ends, which has been described by a number of witnesses as "horny."

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In an essay for Time, Peter Reinart, enfant terrible of the "new" Left, argues that the proper response to Islamist terrorism is no response other than the "containment" the US used during the Cold War. Beinart would use the example of Iraq to encourage containment of Iran. The trouble is, containment assumes a halfway rational foe. JFK could threaten the USSR with nuclear annihilation and be taken seriously; the mad mullahs of Iran know that Allah will protect them from such a circumstance, and in fact, superstitious dread among the American populace makes even a tactical nuclear deterrent unbelievable.

Besides assuming facts not in evidence - that Saddam was an impotent tyrant who would have fallen eventually under the weight of sanctions without military intervention, that he possessed nothing with which to threaten the West - Beinart ignores inconvenient facts.

He doesn't mention French and Russian perfidy in the Oil-For Food Program, doesn't even acknowledge that decades of hands-off diplomacy in the Middle East served only to entrench and further radicalize anti-Western regimes; regimes that controlled oil resources vital to the survival of Western civilization. The Soviet Union and its natural resources could have disappeared overnight and barely registered a blip on the American and European economies.

Beinart also errs in comparing a nineteenth century atheist ideology to the fervor of a primitivist, and rapidly growing, major religion.

Most significant of all, Beinart does not mention 9/11, an attack most certainly endorsed and cheered by Saddam Hussein and his ilk, if not actively supported. It is 9/11 that should inform Beinart that he is pursuing the wrong paradigm: we face another World War II, not a repeat of the Cold War.

Of course Beinart's claim to fame is a book whose premise is that only liberals can fight terror, proof enough of delusional thought patterns.

Originally posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.

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Teacher Mr. Muhammad al-Fascidullah says, “Class, Let’s go over some of our quiz questions for Friday’s test. Raise your hands and I’ll call out your name. Remember don’t speak out of turn or the principal’ will deal with you. Right Lefty?”

Lefty raises his left arm.

Mr. al-Fascidullah, “Yes you may speak.”

Lefty, "It’s hard to write with your left hand."

Teacher, "Yes Lefty. That is hard. Now every religion other than Islam is….?

Hands raise, “Yes Abdullah?”

Abdullah, “Every religion other than Islam is false and whoever dies outside of Islam enters hellfire!”

Mr. al-Fascidullah, “Very good Abdulla! Next question, True belief means?

Hyperactive Mahmood jumps in enthusiastically, "True belief means . . . that you hate the polytheists and infidels but do not treat them unjustly! Just punishment for infidels is Death!”

Mr. al-Fascidullah, “Mahmood! Just punishment for speaking out of turn is?

Mahmood, sheepishly, “My right arm.”

Mr. al-Fascidullah, “One more time young man! But since you are correct I’ll show mercy this time. You really are a good student, you just need more patience. Next questions, Jews are apes Christians are….?

Hands up, “Yes you Fes al-Amerinfidel, our exchange student from the Saudi Islamic School in America, What are they teaching you there?

Fes Recites faithfully, "As cited in Ibn Abbas: The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."

"They are the Jews, whom God has cursed and with whom He is so angry that He will never again be satisfied [with them]."

"Some of the people of the Sabbath were punished by being turned into apes and swine. Some of them were made to worship the devil, and not God, through consecration, sacrifice, prayer, appeals for help, and other types of worship. Some of the Jews worship the devil. Likewise, some members of this nation worship the devil, and not God."

Mr. al-Fascidullah surprised, “Very good! Ok students, we are out of time, It’s time for another special film presentation in the Gym. Today’s movie is titled, Ten Reasons Allah Wants You to Martyr Yourself…

…Oh, And don’t forget Blood money for a free infidel is half of the blood money for a male Muslim, whether or not he is 'of the book' or not 'of the book. Blood money for a woman: Half of the blood money for a man, in accordance with his religion. The blood money for a Muslim woman is half of the blood money for a male Muslim, and the blood money for an infidel woman is half of the blood money for a male infidel.

It will be on the test! Dismissed.”

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Some people believe that political statements probably don't belong in a mathematics course. I agree.

From SeattleTimes.com:

(Bellevue, Washington) Bellevue Community College Board of Trustees issued a statement Saturday condemning the behavior of an instructor who wrote a racially insulting math question recently brought to the college's attention by students.

The question began, "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second." It went on to ask when the watermelon would hit the ground, based on a formula provided.

As corrective action, the math department issued an apology and the college announced the creation of a new vice-president for diversity and blah, blah, blah. No mention was made regarding the oozing liberalism of an infected institution of high learning.

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Nashville Blogger Bill Hobs has resigned or lost his job at Belmont University over blogging.

Glenn Reynolds via Instapundit : BILL HOBBS HAS LOST HIS JOB FOR BLOGGING: The Knoxville News-Sentinel's Michael Silence calls it "sickening" and "pathetic." He's right

Updated : Glenn Reynolds is on the case with this update: Glen makes a good point too

one crucial difference between bloggers and journalists: Get a columnist or reporter fired, and you might actually silence him/her. Get bloggers fired from their day jobs, and you've given them more time -- and more reason -- to go after you and yours

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Liberals amazed that Commander-in-Chief has authority to declassify information
The liberal media watchdog (that pooch can't be getting much exercise) group Media Matters for America shrilly complains that CNN and Fox reporters "accepted without question [the] claim that Bush's NIE 'declassification' was legal".

There's a good reason they did. MMA should have waited so they could have included such bastions of conservative propaganda as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times in their complaint. more...

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And they were grown without using stem cells.

From the Washington Post:

Researchers said yesterday that they have grown complete urinary bladders in a laboratory and transplanted them into patients, improving their health and achieving a Holy Grail of medicine: the first cultivation of working replacements for failing solid organs in people.

The "neo-bladders," each one grown in a small laboratory container from a pinch of a patient's own cells, have been working in seven young patients for an average of almost four years, according to a report released yesterday by the British journal the Lancet. The organs have remained free of the many complications that bedevil the conventional practice of surgically constructing bladders from other tissues.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto and Vince Aut Morire.

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Though most Americans are unaware of it, the American Civil Liberties Union takes millions of dollars per year from the American taxpayers to cover attorneys' fees for suing them. This is based on a Federal law that requires a plaintiff's attorneys' fees to be paid by the government if a court finds that the plaintiff's civil rights have been violated. The law has become a gravy train for the rapacious solicitors who make the aCLU their career. more...

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From the Washington Post, indications that the mullahs have gone too far:

TEHRAN -- Nine months after the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, Iranian politics has shifted so sharply to the right that some traditional conservatives are warning of the dangers of radicalism.

With reformists sidelined and Ahmadinejad setting a strident new tone on the global stage, figures from the extreme right of Iran's political spectrum are defining the terms of political debate in the country. In remarks that set off a domestic firestorm, a senior cleric close to the new president suggested in January that Iranian voters were largely irrelevant because the government requires only the approval of God.

Now is the time to make the Iranian people understand clearly what their leaders are monkeying with, and perhaps to make Russia and Red China question the wisdom of sucking up to the current regime.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.

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Clinton Taylor at Townhall quoting Yale student Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi in his former official capacity as front-man for the Taliban:

So for the Afghans, he is a good guy. If we were to hand this good guy to the U.S., what kind of justification will we give to our people?

Apparently he had impressed the mullahs with his footwork in America, because soon after he returned, Mr. Rahmatullah went to work as a personal adviser to Mullah Omar.....

When UPI’s Arnaud de Borchgrave interviewed Mullah Omar in June 2001, Mr. Rahmatullah did all the talking. Where Mullah Omar comes off as the strong, silent type in the interview, Mr. Rahmatullah emerges as the idea man, the big picture guy, the strategist with both eyes open, Mullah Omar having lost one of his fighting the Soviets.

We've known Clinton Taylor for some time now. Long time readers may recall that I appeared on his Stanford radio program awhile back. Apparently I'm a much better blogger than radio guest since I've never been invited back! In any event, keep up the good work Clint.

UPDATE: More on the Yale Taliban problem here by Penraker (via Glenn). In another note and aside, rumor has it that the WSJ's John Fund is a Jawa Report reader.

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The George Mason University Patriots, the poster-child of a libertarian-oriented university... and unique in its niche, is playing in the NCAA tournament tonight at 7:10PM againt evil statist anti-libertarian Michigan State University. Your assignment is to root for the underdog... (and I don't mean the Spartans).

Whisper in Evolution's or God's ear, whichever appeals to you... We aren't above appealing to dumb luck either, if you happen to know her telephone number. Sucking down more beer than is strictly healthy is optional...

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As you may recall Clinton and Debbie are co-authors of an idea to mail fake fingernails to Yale in response to it’s admission of a former Taliban spokesman to the university. The protest is intended to point out that the policy of the Taliban was to remove the fingernails and toenails of women in Afghanistan who painted their nails. A Yale employee, one Alexis Surovov, apparently used university records to look up the pair of Yale alumni so he could call them “retarded” via email. Yale has suspended Mr. Sorovov, but Yale has still not addressed the problem of just why Mr. Rahmatulla is still at Yale. I have Mr. Taylor’s reaction below as well as a more from the WSJ opinionjournal and links to all Jawa Report coverage the extended entry.

Clinton W. Talylor via Townhall : Just an apology would have sufficed. (A personal one, though, instead of a general one through the media. Let's not pretend they don't know my e-mail address.) Mr. Surovov accessing our records to send us a letter was creepy and lame, and kind of funny. It's not funny that they welcome the Taliban's spokesman on campus as a student, which is the real, unacknowledged problem here. Still, Mr. Surovov's suspension in the Yale Alumni Office creates an opportunity for Yale. They need to defend to the alumni their indefensible decision to admit the Taliban's deputy foreign minister. Mr. Rahmatullah is a certified expert at defending the indefensible. Rather than re-admitting Rahmatullah as a sophomore this month, perhaps Yale's Development Office should hire him.

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Tooling around the internet this morning, I came across ex-Taliban spokesman and current Yale student Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi's NCAA tournament picks. It looks like he thinks Duke will beat UCONN. If Duke is trailing at the half, I'd get myself out of the arena quick. I hear that in addition to stoning infidels in his free time, Hashemi is a chronic gambler.....and he hates to lose!

More on Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi and how you can pressure Yale University here.

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Is there really free speech on college campuses today? Yes.

And by yes I mean as long as you don't say or print anything which isn't exactly what we want you to say or print.

And it's not like we're going to arrest you for saying or printing stuff. You're just going to get fired.

Oh, and you might just fail all of your classes.

And there is a slight possibility that we'll kick you out of school.

Marginal chance that we'll also ruin your reputation by labelling you bigot.

Might just ruin your career if you hope to go into the media.

Or any other occupation where people might not want to work with a bigot.

Which, now that I think about it, is pretty much all of them.

Other than that, the college campus remains the last true refuge for free speech on the earth.

Go support Acton Gort who just got fired from the The Daily Illini for printing the Muhammed cartoons. He could use it right now.

Peoria Pundit claims that the Daily Illini is the now officially the crappiest student newspaper in America. Hard to argue.

Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds

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My friend at Signal 94 isn't what you'd call a prolific blogger - two posts since starting up the site on Friday - but quality trumps quantity most of the time, as it does here.

Sig94 doesn't offer any solutions, just the observations of a beat cop:

This is not a “bad” young man. He is not a criminal. He does not use alcohol or drugs. He is courteous, respectful and is very intelligent. He is also a vegan; I do not comprehend how he can work as a burger flipper. He has made a series of bad decisions in his young life and now has made another that is very different from all his prior bad choices.

He has condemned two other people to a life of grinding poverty. And if not an entire lifetime, at least a long, very difficult period of precarious, hand to mouth, daily living. These three people are on the Road To Poverty.

"Signal 94" means "end of shift".

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Hey, Yale. I got something in my pocket for you. Remember to keep sending your fake fingernails to Yale.

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