A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.

Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges.

McIntyre and Davis, who works as a production manager in the school’s theater department, are both regulars at Toast, a popular university bar on Broadway and 125th Street, sources said.

The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about “white privilege” with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said. McIntyre, who is known as “Mac” at the bar, shoved Davis, and when the other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up, the prof slugged Davis in the face, witnesses said.

“The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise,” bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. “I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me.”

The other patron involved in the dispute said McIntyre then took a swing at him after he yelled, “You don’t hit a woman!”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/prof_busted_in_columbia_gal_punch_JmsXQ3NzaAt8uG6uUySGTN#ixzz0Waqno2Kn

No doubt the Justice Department will investigate to find out what outrage the white woman committed to cause this event.

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not to disclose the existence of this request” unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department’s subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward “promoting social and economic justice” and “social change.”)

The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded “all IP traffic to and from http://www.indymedia.us” on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to “include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information,” including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers’ Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml?tag=mncol;txt

Proof again, in my opinion, that liberals have zero respect for the Constitution and our rights to privacy.

In a key phrase from his address, the President directly challenged radical Islam and the Muslims who have praised Major Hassan as a ‘hero’

It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know—no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice—in this world, and the next.

These are trying times for our country. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the same extremists who killed nearly 3,000 Americans continue to endanger America,, our allies and innocent Afghans and Pakistanis. In Iraq, we are working to bring a war to a successful end, as there are still those who would deny the Iraqi people the future that Americans and Iraqis have sacrificed so much for.

The full text of the President’s speech can be read here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/10/transcript-obamas-remarks-fort-hood-memorial-service/

In the years following that terrible event, the liberal left mocked the President again and again for seeming perplexed.

Worse, he was blamed for an event which was actually years in the planning, but which occured on his watch, 8 months into his presidency.

Under remarkably similar circumstances, another Muslim extremist attack has just occured, this time on President Obama’s watch, just 10 months into his presidency. His reaction was equally awkward.

Likewise, there is mounting evidence that a number of agencies under Obama’s supervision knew  some time ago that something was amiss with Major Hassan.

Is Obama any more culpable than President Bush? No.  Is he any less culpable?  No.

As Harry Truman once said, “The buck stops here.”

Unlike Bush, will Obama get yet another pass from a fawning main-stream media?  Time will tell.

It is, in fact, a blatant power-play, intended to boost metropolitan numbers for congressional redistricting, generate billions more in federal grants to democrat-controlled cities and pander to the Hispanic bloc. 

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year’s census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen.

The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics said Vitter’s plan would discourage immigrants from responding to the census and would be hugely expensive. They also said that it’s long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects the data.

The plan fell after a 60-39 procedural vote made it ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.

This is nothing less than a direct, blatant assault on the very meaning and intent of citizenship; a disgrace of monstrous proportions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_counting_immigrants_1

2.  Public figures like President Obama and former Governor Sarah Palin have little or no impact on state and local elections.

3.  Local voters resent outside interference by ideologues and power-brokers in local elections.

4.  3rd party candidates almost never win elections, no matter what their political persuasion is.

5.  Conservatives will never succeed as a third-party.

6.  The destiny of conservatism lies within the Republican Party.

7.  Conservative economic principles sell well.

8.  Americans don’t want gay marriage legalized.

9.  The Republican Party is alive and well.

10. The mainstream liberal media and conservative radio have far less influence on state and local elections than we think they do.

11. Whole blocs of the Democratic party - Labor, youth, blacks - can be hard to motivate for state and local races, unless they see something to be gained for themselves.

12. The Republican base will almost always vote as a matter of principle, no matter what.

13. More and more, elections are decided by undeclared, uncommitted voters who frequently lean right.

14. Off-year and special elections tend to benefit the party out of power.

15. The Democrats should be nervous - very nervous - about 2010.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP)—Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state—31 in all—in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine—known for its moderate, independent-minded electorate—and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign.

With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the votes.

“The institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine and across the nation,” declared Frank Schubert, chief organizer for the winning side.

In every state where the people have voted on it, homosexual marriage has been defeated, and Maine becomes the 31st to do so.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/04/maine-voters-reject-gay-marriage/?feat=home_headlines

WATERTOWN, N.Y. - One day after conservative activists succeeded in forcing Republican Dede Scozzafava to quit New York’s special congressional election, many residents in this sleepy town just south of the Canadian border say they are fed up with outsiders influencing the race.

And while the district leans Republican, it is far from clear where the state assemblywoman’s former supporters will direct their votes Tuesday. In an odd twist, Mrs. Scozzafava on Sunday endorsed Democratic nominee Bill Owens, while Republican leaders have thrown their support behind Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. The two men were locked in a statistical dead heat as of Saturday.

“I think it’s a shame,” electrician William O’Donnell said of Mrs. Scozzafava’s withdrawal. A self-described “ex-Republican,” Mr. O’Donnell blamed her poor showing in the polls on “outsiders coming up and trying to push their agenda down our throats.”

“The only thing they care about is getting one more seat [in Congress]. After that, they’re not going to care about what’s going on up here,” he said.

An Owens victory, resulting from voter resentment over outside conservative influence, would be an ironic and telling result. A Hoffman win would send up a clear signal to the GOP nationwide.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/02/outsiders-influence-irks-voters-in-ny-house-race/