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Maumee judge unhappy with city's budget cutsWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | email@example.com
A local judge isn't happy with Maumee's recently passed budget, which cut funding to Maumee Municipal Court.
To help balance its $16.5 million budget, Maumee City Council made cuts to court funding, which will see an 18 percent decrease in its total budget.
The cuts include a 21 percent cut in the personnel budget, with finance committee members questioning the need for six after-hours clerks, who provide 24-hour services for tasks such as warrants.
The budget was passed unanimously during the council's March 17 meeting.
In a March 17 letter to council members, Judge Gary Byers said the cuts will mean more work for other clerks and their overtime will negate any planned savings.
"The clerks that the city proposes to terminate process thousands of court cases filed in the court and enter case information into the court's computerized case management system. This includes the processing of arrest and search warrants at all hours of the night, which is a necessary and essential service to the public and police," Byers wrote. "With or without these clerks, the same number of cases will need to be processed, but by six fewer people. Therefore, the processing of case files will be slowed profoundly and staff will need to work overtime. Considering the cost of overtime wages and unemployment compensation benefits to the terminated court clerks, it is questioned whether any true reductions will be realized."
The court currently employs 16 clerks — a clerk, chief deputy clerk, nine full-time clerks and five part-time clerks — who handle 9,000 to 10,000 cases per year. When drawing up the budget, council members questioned the need for two of the full-time clerks and four of the part-time clerks.
Byers said he is especially concerned because the night-shift clerks allow the court to immediately process after-hours cases, particularly those involving domestic violence and vehicular homicide, and issue warrants if needed.
"If they are successful in getting us to do away with these folks, the delays that could happen could cost somebody's life. It's not worth the risk to the community to remove these people and slow down the whole process, so we are resisting that reduction. It's not worth a few dollars to lose somebody."
Councilman Dan Hazard, a member of the finance committee, said the court's caseload has dropped by 41 percent since 2001, but the court employs the same number of staff members and personnel costs have increased by 34 percent.
"When you look at that, you have to make a decision whether it's a reasonable request," Hazard said. "When we went through the court's budget, we asked questions relative to some of these specific positions and whether they were reasonable or necessary. If we don't have the caseload, we don't have the need for personnel in that area."
Byers said it's true there are fewer cases today than in 2001, but the number of cases have been on the rise the past few years and processing the cases takes specialized skills. The court handled 9,345 cases in 2013.
Maumee is also the only area suburban court that staffs a 24-hour clerk's office, Hazard said. Other area communities have an on-call clerk overnight rather than someone staffing the building, he said.
Hazard also said many departments have cut costs by not filling positions of those who leave or retire, but the court has always filled its empty positions. Byers said that's because the positions are necessary for the court to function. Byers also rejected the suggestion that dispatchers help cover clerk duties, calling it a conflict of interest.
Hazard also noted that city council agrees on a budget for the court and makes suggestions, but doesn't mandate any staff changes and Byers could find a way to keep the clerks using money from other sources.
"We pass a budget line item for personnel for the court, but we didn't actually vote to remove anybody," Hazard said. "We did discuss the reasonableness and necessity of the them."
The court receives funding from other sources, such as the court fees, the state and other municipalities, such as Waterville and Whitehouse, but Maumee is its primary funding source.
The total budget for the court is $1.36 million, an 18 percent decrease from the $1.66 million budgeted last year. The city budgeted 1.1 million for court personnel this year, compared to 1.4 million last year.
Last year, the city provided about $705,000 to the court. This year it is expected to provide the court $587,000, which is the budgeted expenses over projected revenue for 2014.
Maumee Mayor Richard Carr said he is proud the city was able to pass a balanced budget for 2014, after having come into office in November 2012 facing a proposed budget with a $1.7 million deficit.
"We did not increase taxes, we did not create new fees such as a garbage fee, we did not reallocate our budget percentages taking money from one fund and transferring it to another; instead, we began an intensive scrutiny of every expense in our City and began reducing spending," he said in an email. "Last Monday, our Council passed a true balanced budget for 2014. None of our reductions will impact services that are presently provided for our residents and businesses."
Byers noted that court revenue going to the city of Maumee has increased almost 24 percent, from $644,000 in 2009 to $846,000 in 2013. However, Carr said, its expenses still exceed its revenue.
"The expenses of the Maumee Municipal Court exceeded its revenue in 2001 by $272,993; in 2013 the expenses of the Maumee Municipal Court exceeded its revenue by over $700,000," Carr wrote. "We have the same number of employees handling 41 percent fewer cases at a time when our court costs us nearly a half million dollars a year more than it cost us in 2001."
Byers also said the court has reduced its costs over the past five years. Among the cost-saving measures have been more arraignments via closed-circuit television cameras and alternate sentencings such as electronic monitoring. The court also laid off a chief supervision officer in the probation department last month, with Byers taking over that employee's duties.
Hazard said he was aware of the court's cost-cutting measures over the years.
"Judge Byers is really in tune with technology. He's been proactive in that regard and I really applaud him for that," Hazard said. "This is my obligation to the tax payers and just a disagreement as to whether this is reasonable."
Byers is also peeved by many city employees getting raises while the court is expected to cut staff.
"It's a matter of fairness," Byers said.
Hazard noted that a prosecutor's position was recently cut and a secretary in the administration had hours reduced.
"We're not just picking on the court," he said.
Hazard said the judge's letter was delivered to his house and he didn't see it before the meeting, but it wouldn't have affected his decision.
"I have nothing but respect for Judge Byers, both personally and professionally," Hazard said. "But we have a responsibility as elected officials to do due diligence in looking at budgets and presenting a balanced budget. The mayor worked diligently with council to present a balanced budget and looked line-by-line at every department's budget to see how we could get there."
Byers said he plans to try to find a way to keep the clerks.
One of the full-time clerks has been in that job for 25 years, the other for eight. Both are paid $49,603. The four part-timers were all hired in 2013 and make $10.20 per hour.
"These folks are necessary for the court to function and we need to keep them," Byers said. "I hope they reconsider."
Hazard said the budget has been passed and will not be reviewed. Byers can take the council's decision to court, but he said he hasn't yet decided if he will.
Tags: Dan Hazard, Judge Gary Byers, Maumee City Council, Maumee Municipal Court, Richard Carr


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Milligan College's baseball team picked up its first win of the year Tuesday, defeating Trevecca Nazarene 19-11 in Nashville.
The Buffs scored four runs in the first and seven in the second to go up 11-1. Trevecca rallied with a five-run third, but Milligan responded in the fourth with four more runs, including a two-run homer by Wesley Jones.
Ryan White led the Buffs at the plate, going 3-for-4 with four RBIs. Jones drove in three runs on two hits, while Joe Purus had three hits and Hunter Carpenter added two. On the mound, Logan Wright picked up the win in relief. Tyler Wilson started, giving up six runs on six hits.
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A Des Moines woman had her identity stolen. But even though police know who the suspect is and where she lives, they're powerless to make an arrest.
"It`s scary. I didn`t think that I would ever have to be afraid. I don`t really know what to do." says Lauren Nystrom.
Nystrom had her purse stolen back in December. Two months later, sheriff's deputies in Iowa County say 24-year old Joanie Butler of Des Moines was in an accident, and gave them Nystrom's license. At the time, police didn't realize they were duped. Since then, the license has been used to cash several checks in Nystrom's name, ruining her credit.
Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies couldn't find where Butler lived but we did. And we confronted her. "Were you in a car accident on Feburary 11th?" reporter Aaron Brilbeck asked Butler, "No, somebody stole my car that day but it wasn`t me." she replied, but was not able to tell us where the car was, where it was found, or whether there was a police report.
Butler's husband, who has an extensive criminal record that includes several counts of forgery and robbery, then asked us to leave. "Are you an officer?" he asked "You know what, she don`t wanna talk to you.'
Butler is charged with presenting a license known to be that of another, operating without a license, and driving without insurance. Des Moines police say, even though they now know where Butler lives, they have no plans to arrest her because the crimes happened outside of their jurisdiction.


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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
CAMP DOHA, Kuwait, Dec. 28, 1998 Defense Secretary William S. Cohen brought gifts. He brought congressmen, entertainers and media. But what really caused troops in the Persian Gulf to whoop, whistle and holler was the promise of more pay.
"I listened to you very carefully when we talked last time, and I asked you what issues were on your mind," the secretary reminded soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines at this desert base outside Kuwait City. "You mentioned two things -- pay and retirement."
The mass of troops released an acknowledging "hooah," and from the midst of the crowd, someone yelled, "Show us the money."
Cohen quickly replied: "We're going to show you the money. We're going to have the largest pay raise since 1981. We're going to have a 4.4 percent increase starting next year. We're going to change that redux [retirement] program from 40 to 50 percent."
Cohen had announced at the Pentagon a day earlier that the military is seeking a 4.4 percent pay raise for fiscal 2000 and a 3.9 percent hike for each of the five following years. The proposed retirement package calls for a return to a 50 percent of base pay retirement after 20 years of military service. The redux retirement package -- effective for service members who came in after Aug. 1, 1986 -- gives service members 40 percent after serving 20 years.
At each stop in the Gulf, military men and women applauded, cheered, stomped and whistled when the secretary announced the new pay and benefits proposal. Many hailed the raise as long-overdue and a step in the right direction.
The secretary elected to personally carry the news to service members on the front lines of the recent showdown with Iraq. So, he invited 60 or so staff and guests on a 60-hour, 13,240 mile trip to remote sites on the Arabian Peninsula and to the USS Enterprise in the Persian Gulf.
Enroute to the Gulf aboard a National Airborne Operations Center 747 out of Offut AFB, Neb., Cohen explained why the trip was important. "We need to get out there and remind the troops how indebted we are as a nation to what they're going through," the secretary said.
"They don't get overtime," Cohen continued. "They don't get double time. They have to leave their families at a moment's notice. It's a tremendously stressful life they're engaged in."
Despite the hardships, however, service members are committed to the military, Cohen said. "We have the finest force in the world and that's because of the quality of the people. We have to keep that quality up and that means we have to be competitive with a robust economy. We can't quite match it, but we may be able to compensate in other ways. If there are things we can do to lessen the burden, we want to do them."
Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and Pennsylvania Rep. John P. Murtha accompanied Cohen on the whirlwind pre-Christmas trip, as did Marine Corps Gen. Anthony C, Zinni, commander U.S. Central Command, and the services' senior enlisted members. At each stop, the military leaders and congressmen thanked service members for taking on Saddam Hussein and voiced support for the proposed compensation package.
Inouye, who earned the Distinguished Service Cross and lost an arm during World War II, told the troops, "I'm an old infantryman myself. Let me assure you, the Congress of the United States will swiftly approve the pay raise and the retirement program."
Murtha, a former Marine, later teased service members aboard the USS Enterprise assembled under clear blue skies with temperatures in the mid-70s. "Twenty-six hours ago, when I left Pennsylvania," he said, "it was 26 degrees and snowing -- so you should be happy to be here."
At Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Murtha spoke of the nation's gratitude for the sacrifice military members make serving the nation. "The country is dedicated to the troops that are serving all over the world. But this is not only one of the most difficult, it is absolutely the most important national security deployment in the entire world today."
Zinni, Desert Fox commander, told the troops they'd performed magnificently. On the way to the Gulf, he recalled what a tense time it was during the operation, waiting each night for the safe return of all the strike aircraft. "I can't think of anything better than to be out there with the people who made it happen," he said.
Facing America's military men and women from the stage at Camp Doha, Zinni said proudly: "I've been asked over the past several days why Saddam Hussein didn't put up more resistance, why he didn't move South. When I look out and see you, there's no doubt in my mind why the sucker wouldn't fight."
At Prince Sultan Air Base, a remote, high-security site where about 4,000 service members enforce Iraq's southern no-fly zone, Cohen told airmen he took what he learned from service members to the president and to the chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The pay raise proposal shows defense leaders are aware of the sacrifices and stresses service members face, Cohen said. "We want to make sure we give you the best quality of life we can. We want to stay as competitive as we can with the private sector. We want to make sure we can keep you in the military."
Aboard the USS Enterprise, things were relatively quiet until Cohen and his party showed up. It was four days after Desert Fox strikes ended, and the more than 5,000 sailors, Marines and guests aboard were enjoying a no-fly day. For a few hours, Cohen changed all that. The secretary and his wife, Janet Langhart, came aboard bearing gifts and music.
Along with news of the pay raise, Cohen announced that ATT had donated about 34,000 $10 Global prepaid calling cards for troops in the Gulf, and at bases in Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary. Service members at other bases in the Gulf could call home at half price rates using AT&T's Global Military Saver Plus calling plan.
Then Langhart introduced a few friends -- singer- songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter, winner of four country- music Grammy awards, Carole King, whose songwriting career spans four decades and includes the best selling female solo album, Tapestry, and David Ball, one of country music's newest stars.
"They could be on tour," Langhart said. "They could be in the studio writing music or with their families. Instead they chose to be here with you."


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By: Danielle Todesco, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Photo: Parrish Denison
The family of the man who was shot and killed by APD officers Tuesday night says he didn't have to die.
They don't dispute that he may have broken the law, but are upset about how police handled the situation.
The family admits Parrish Denison, or Duke as they call him, has a long criminal record. But, they say he was not a violent man and they don't believe he posed a threat to officers as he tried to run from them.
Denison's mother, sister, brother and son all came down from Farmington Wednesday after they heard he may have been involved in the shooting.
His mother, Charlotte, tells KOB Eyewitness News 4 they were told they were not allowed to see the body or I.D. him. However, APD Chief Ray Schultz said in a news conference Wednesday that they were waiting on the family to positively identify the man.
What's even more upsetting to this family is how the incident went down. They say they have questions as to why he was ever shot at.
"Maybe he didn't have to die. He wasn't shooting at them. I don't think that he would have shot at them," Denison's sister Sunny said.
Denison's son Beau added, "If they would have released the dogs, he would have gotten bit up a little bit but he would have surrendered right there and dropped, I know my Dad. I know my Dad. He's never been violent. And I'd rather him have a few bite marks than be dead right now."
They also say he did have tattoos but was never involved in gangs.
KOB looked up his criminal history and found in the past 20 years he had several run-ins with authorities, all in San Juan County where he's from.


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ENGT250 Introduction to Engineering Communications
Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics: Applied Engineering Technology
- I. Course Number and Title
- ENGT250 Introduction to Engineering Communications
- II. Number of Credits
- 3 credits
- III. Minimum Number of Instructional Minutes Per Semester
- 2250
- IV. Prerequisites
- ENGT240 (C or better) and PHYS107 (C or better)
- Corequisites
- None
- V. Other Pertinent Information
- None
- VI. Catalog Course Description
- This course provides a non-calculus overview of the principles and applications of analog and digital data transmission via RF, microwave, wire, and fiber-optic technology associated with the transmission and reception of data. Topics include wired and wireless local area networks, cellular, satellite, radio, and microwave transmission.
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
Learning Goals:
- Course Students will:
- analyze and explain engineering communications problems;
- analyze the basic physical laws underlying the problem;
- identify and evaluate components and systems used in engineering communications; and
- analyze information theory in communications systems.
- Core (if applicable) This course is not included in the Core.
Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities:
- introduction to communications: wired & wireless
- information bearing signals
- modulation types
- noise in communications systems
- receiver fundamentals
- transmitter fundamentals
- wired versus wireless transmission media
- analog versus digital systems
- information theory in communications systems
Assessment Methods for Core Learning Goals:
- Course The evaluative tools may include any or all of the following as specified by the individual instructor's course format: objective examinations, research reports, laboratory reports, online activities and discussion, quizzes, projects, and papers.
- Core (if applicable) This course is not included in the Core.
Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Students:Students use educational resources as approved by the department and specified in the individual instructor's format.
- VIII. Teaching Methods Employed
- Section VIII is not being used in new and revised syllabi as of 12/10/08.
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Lake Tahoe, Calif. -- (CNN, KCRA) An injured bear forced part of a ski resort at Lake Tahoe to close Monday.
Wildlife officials had to rescue the animal and get it treated. X-rays taken right after the bear was rescued showed no broken bones just open wounds and trauma.
Wildlife officials say when they weighed the bear it weighed 49 pounds. This is probably a little thinner than normal for a first year cub.
When asked about whether this incident was yet another impact of the drought the Lake Tahoe Wildlife official responded with a definite yes. Wildlife care officials say in a normal winter this bear likely never would have wandered out on a ski run this early in March.
They also said he should still be sleeping for another month in hibernation. But because of this up and down weather they are seeing chipmunks and robins out a month early; the wildlife are reacting to the drought.
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UFC NEWS – "Mayhem": Bisping Has A "Strike and Bike" Fighting Style
"I think the one big point that everybody is trying to make is that Michael Bisping's kickboxing is so good. It's okay. But it's more of a jab and jog style. Strike and bike. He just runs in a circle and punches to not engage in the fight. Well, my style of striking is come forward, come forward, come forward. He's going to be backing up, I'm coming forward twice as fast. I feel like, as far as the stand up goes, he's going to have a lot of trouble keeping me off for one round, let alone five rounds. And then as far as the grappling goes, my takedowns are better than his takedown defense and my grappling is better than his jiu-jitsu. I really feel like… it's great that people are counting me out. I really like it. I really like to be in this position. Really like it. I can't wait to show my skills on Saturday night."
15 Responses to "UFC NEWS – "Mayhem": Bisping Has A "Strike and Bike" Fighting Style"
Kick his ass sea bass!!
Bisping has pillow hands and his style of pitter patter point fighting is almost as weak as Edgars running away all the time style. If the UFC ever wants to really se who's the figher is all they need to do is make the cage about half the size it is now. B isping Edgar, Rashad use the huge cage to run away instead of fight
PUNCH BISPING IN THE FACE!! Nd then .. well finish him …
i just want to see you rock him standing then finish him with a choke…." YOU WANT TO GO NIGHT NIGHT, EVERYBODY GOES NIGHT NIGHT"!!
HAHAHA! A title, are you serious Bisping??? The Spider would murder your no trick pony ass!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I almost started crying I was laughing so hard.
That reprter is HOT!!!!!
Bisbing can't win unless he's in England. Come on Mayhem shut his mouth..
Enjoyed seeing Hendo rock his cocky ass to sleep, and I hope to see you lullaby his ass to sleep with a nice tight choke
Wolfs Lair sucks…. Sorry Rampage, freaking get out of there and take Tiki with you if you want! If Mayhem is training with Mark Munoz then I have no doubt that he will win this fight. Maybe we will see some Donkey Kong style GnP from Mayhem.
If Bisping loses he should fight Bryan Stann.
Dodson is going to beat TJ easily because TJ has been picking easy fights this whole entire TUF.
Miller is gonna whoop that ass!!! cant wait to see it on tv too lol
"strike and bike" is a very accurate statement too lol
your all nuts if you think mayhem has a chance.bisping couldn't get taken down at lhw.do u think miller has a chance.bisping by tko
Rashad couldn't keep bisping down..
strike and bike that describes bispings style perfectly. and the fact that 40 is cheering for bisping is gonna bring him extra bad luck lol.
lol "A bunch of different guys rotating on me."
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Russian Trading Bank (formerly Spetsinvestbank) has been successfully operating in the Russian market for the last 15 years. In 2010, Russian Trading Bank (RTB) changed its strategy for offering financial services. Today, the mission to "Be a reliable supporter for our clients" is the guiding principle of future development of the Bank.
With the perspective of extensive use of the internet for business in mind, company management decided to create a new internet resource which would be an attractive and convenient place for visitors that would develop into one of the main channels for sales of banking products. The overall project was broken down into the following elements: development of a new interface with a pleasant design, optimize site structure including consideration of SEO, and to create special sections for potential and existing clients. Visually, the site must present the value and convenience which it brings to clients clearly. The ultimate goal of the project is to raise the number of "leads" orders for banking services from potential clients.
|"We needed an internet resource where our potential clients could find all the relevant information about products which meet their specific needs, to see testimonials from existing bank clients, and where existing clients have a personal area where account information can be viewed easily to help make financial decisions," said Alexander Avrutin, board member of RTB.
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Topping the desires for design was the need for the site not to be heavy' or cumbersome to use. A system of sections and subsections which complicate many sites in the financial sector was to be strictly avoided. With the new site, management aimed at simplicity of navigation and easy access to information.
RTB chose WebProfiters of Moscow, Russia, as the contractor for the project. WebProfiters has a vast amount of experience and knowledge in the field of creating websites which sell products and services. Founded in 2007, WebProfiters has served over 200 clients, many of whom came to the company needing sites which effectively sell products and services to customers. The main services offered by the company have evolved to the present day to include:
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WebProfiters recommends Bitrix Site Manager for web projects which they design, and the project for the RTB group was no exception. WebProfiters' experience makes them confident in the stable and versatile functioning of Bitrix' products and their proven capabilities in integration with databases, user interfaces, and performance in high-traffic situations all important factors for financial service sites.
Among the numerous advantages of Bitrix Site Manager, the winning points in this project were the range of functionality, flexibility, extreme performance, and complete technical support. The product's ready platform significantly reduced development time and thus the project budget for this project. The majority of the client's needs were already met by features standard in Bitrix Site manager, leaving only some adjustments in various components in accordance with the client's needs. The WebProfiters team is convinced that Bitrix Site Manager can support and improve the functioning of practically any site and can help bring even the most ambitious designer's plans to reality. Licenses of all editions of Bitrix Site Manager allow the creation of at least two independent web projects based on a single installation (locally or on a remote server).
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Development of the various web resources lasted about 4 months and was completed in September of 2010. The site went online before this period ended, thanks to the quick and simple implementation of user functions such as registration, authentication and assignment of user rights.
Centralized site management throughout the organization and optimized access for employees were immediately noticed by the company as big factors in saving time and money. Content management and minor structural changes are simpler and quicker and can be performed by bank employees, not just the IT department or consultants another substantial savings. Bitrix Site Manager allows access to be adjusted quickly for large or small segments of the user and employee base.
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Published: February 10, 2004
A federal appeals court rejected a second appeal by the Uzan family of Turkey seeking to reverse a $4.2 billion judgment that Motorola and Nokia won last summer.
The Uzans, Turkey's fourth-richest family, challenged a Sept. 26 ruling by a three-judge panel of the same court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. In that decision, the court affirmed a July ruling by a lower court judge who ruled that the Uzans defrauded the companies out of $2.7 billion.
The denial of the motion for reconsideration by the court leaves an appeal to the United States Supreme Court as the family's only legal recourse.
Judge Jed Rakoff of United States District Court ruled in July that the Uzans borrowed money from Motorola to finance a cellular network with no intention of repaying.
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Seattle Metropolitan ranks Whitman best in Northwest, features Dr. Ball
Seattle Metropolitan magazine joins the legions of those who believe Whitman is the greatest, ranking it No. 1 of 39 Northwest colleges and universities in its October 2008 issue. The publication is a lifestyle-oriented magazine serving the city of Seattle.
Among comments in the description: "If you can get in, Whitman might be one of the best schools for all-around college experience in the Northwest — college being the operative word." Variables used to rank the schools included sophomore retention rates, student satisfaction with academics and campus social life, SAT scores and average GPA, and more.
The issue also includes a Q&A with Professor Emeritus George Ball, who the editor calls "the social conscience of Whitman College and a candid mentor to students, dishing out advice on education, life and even sex." One of Dr. Ball's quotes: "On war — 'It's so hard to think that the weapons of power are with the people without real conscience.'"
See the article at Whitman in the News
Fouts Center Open House is Oct. 25
All campus community members and the public are invited to the Fouts Center for Visual Arts Open House Saturday, Oct. 25, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Feel free to bring your family, friends and neighbors to help the college celebrate the opening of Whitman's newest building at 150 S. Park St.
Faculty members will be available to guide you through this amazing structure, and students will provide art demonstrations using their new state-of-the-art facilities. Coffee, tea and hot cider will be provided.
Five decades of Whitman football coaches, players reunite
Gridiron veterans from Whitman's storied past will gather on campus this weekend for the first Alumni Football Reunion. Approximately 150 alumni, guests and former football coaches will be on campus, said Nancy Mitchell, associate director of alumni relations. Coaches from five decades of the football program will join alumni from the classes 1938 through 1979 for a weekend of activities. "We'd appreciate your joining us on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Borleske Stadium for a ceremony to honor past football players and coaches," she said. (In case of severe weather the ceremony will be moved to the Young Ballroom, Reid Campus Center.)
Other weekend events include a "Punt, Pass and Kick" competition and a talk by G. Thomas Edwards, professor of history emeritus, "The History of Football at Whitman: Excitement and Controversy 1897-1976." A complete schedule of events is here.
Faculty Accomplishments
Paul Apostolidis, associate professor of politics and Judge and Mrs. Timothy A. Paul chair of political science, has been interviewed by Anna King twice in the last month on NPR concerning Latino politics in the Yakima Valley. "Apparently there are more Latino candidates running (in the Yakima Valley) this year than ever before," said Apostolidis. "It's my sense that our students' research (The State of the State of Washington Latinos) has played a real role in helping propel these kinds of changes." He also spoke about the problems that his students have identified with the election rules that dilute minority votes and about challenges and successes with Latino mobilization. Read the report online at www.walatinos.org)
"In The State of the State of Washington Latinos: 2006," Ian Warner '07 researched the lack of Latino political representation in Sunnyside, Wash., and concluded that the use of at-large city council elections was responsible for the disparity in Latino representation and possibly represented a violation of the Fair Voting Rights Act. After an investigation by the federal Department of Justice, which agreed with Warner, the city decided to make changes in its election methods.
Further research has been done by Nick Dollar '09, who found similar problems in school board elections in other Yakima Valley towns; and Emma Fulkerson '08, who contributed new research last spring about new and promising steps that local Latino organizations and leaders are making to spark more voter participation and civic engagement.
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Wednesday, Oct. 15
Screening: The presidential debate will be screened at 5:30 p.m. in Maxey Auditorium.
Thursday, Oct. 16
Visiting Writers Reading Series: Poet Robert Wrigley will present a reading of his works. 7 p.m., Kimball Auditorium, Hunter Conservatory.
Thursday, Oct. 16
History Lecture: Historian and Professor Robert Stacey will present "Writing the History of the Jews of Medieval England: Why It Matters," the 2008 Skotheim Lecture in History. 7:30 p.m., Olin 130.
Friday, Oct. 17
Lecture: Visiting Lecturer Shadia Drury, Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and professor of philosophy and political thought at the University of Regina in Canada, will present "Chauvinism of the West." 7:30 p.m., Olin 157.
Friday, Oct. 17, and Sunday, Oct. 19
Film: Cinema Arts Series presents "Take My Eyes" (Bollain 2004, Spain). 7:30 p.m., Kimball Auditorium, Hunter Conservatory.
Monday, Oct. 20
Lecture: "Overcoming the Silence of Generational Poverty" will be presented by Donna Beegle. 7:30 p.m., Maxey Auditorium.
Monday, Oct. 20
Lecture: Visiting educator Gary Genosko will present "Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and Technology." 7:30 p.m., Kimball Auditorium, Hunter Conservatory.
Thursday, Oct .23, through Sunday, Oct. 26
Theater: Harper Joy Theatre presents "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder: A requiem for an America that may never have existed, this stage treasure attempts, in the words of the playwright, "to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life." 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Alexander Stage, Harper Joy Theatre. Tickets and questions, call the Box Office at 527-5180.
Thursday, Oct. 23
Illustrated Presentation: "The Caves of Mustang: Recent Discoveries Near Nepal's Border with Tibet" will be presented by Broughton Coburn, project leader of a reconnaissance expedition to Mustang, a formerly forbidden kingdom in Tibet that remains a pristine relic of culture, history and art. Coburn's expedition found human skeletons, abandoned ancient text folios and much more. He will deliver a thought-provoking and entertaining illustrated presentation in which he will share this year's findings with the public for the first time. A film of the expedition is being produced for a National Geographic Television special to be aired in March, 2009. 7 p.m., Kimball Auditorium, Hunter Conservatory.
Saturday, Oct. 25
Open House: Whitman College presents an open house for the Fouts Center for Visual Arts. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m, 150 S. Park St..
Save the date!
Wednesday, Nov. 5
O'Donnell Lecture: Tomson Highway, aboriginal playwright, author, and activist from Canada, will present an O'Donnell Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Auditorium. At the age of 30, Highway wrote his first play, the award-winning "The Rez Sisters." This play, about the lives of aboriginal women on the reservation, catapulted him into fame and set the stage for his next play, "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing," about the lives of aboriginal men The Ashton J. and Virginia Graham O'Donnell Visiting Professorship in Global Studies was established in 2002 by the 1943 Whitman alumni to give current and future students the chance to experience the opportunities the O'Donnells enjoyed in their careers. Ashton's career after Whitman allowed them extensive travel, business dealings with domestic and international clientele, and diplomatic responsibilities with the U.S. Department of State.
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September 6, 2011 (Woodridge, IL)
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. announced today that David Kelsey has been named chief financial officer (CFO).
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Kelsey has a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University.
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Headquartered in Woodridge, Ill., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils for use in personal care products, detergents and cleaners, lubricants and additives, engineered polymers, and other specialty chemicals markets. Commercial shipments from the company's first biorefinery, a 180,000 MT joint venture with Wilmar International Limited located in Gresik, Indonesia, began in 2013. The biorefinery is the first based on Elevance's proprietary metathesis technology with a Natchez, Miss., biorefinery scheduled to be the second biorefinery with a capacity of 280,000 MT. To learn more, visit www.elevance.com or www.renewicals.com.


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The program is administered by the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board, which has 108 members representing 35 States and 4 geographical units, with 1 additional unit representing importers. Each year, the Secretary appoints one-third of all Board members from cattle producers and importers nominated by eligible organizations.
The Board administers the Order, approves budgets, and elects 10 members to a Beef Promotion Operating Committee. This Committee--consisting of 20 members (3 Board Officers, 7 Board members, and 10 individuals from State beef councils)--is responsible for developing budgets, awarding contracts, and approving projects for beef promotion and research activities. The Board also elects an 11-member Executive Committee to perform necessary administrative functions and act on behalf of the Board under authority granted by the Board between Board meetings. The Boards office is located in Englewood, Colorado.
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With reference to your coverage of the Mayor's BRT2 decision on Friday. Readers may be interested to hear that there were 167 statements submitted on this issue and we believe that the vast majority were against the scheme. They hadn't been made available by the Council and there was little reference to them in the Cabinet debate. It is as if there is a collective Council denial of the level of opposition to BRT2.
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-the c£50m scheme has a funding gap of £12m which is likely to increase. As your report stated, the capital cost of the original scheme increased by 6% in the last year. The scheme cost does not allow for electric powered buses referred to by the Cabinet and it is difficult to see how this can be implemented for the North Somerset buses using the route as the operator (First) would be obliged to purchase these higher cost buses
-a substantial element of the benefits comes from measures proposed for the city centre loop. Without these, the Benefit Cost Ratio for the Ashton Vale to city centre section would be much lower but this is disguised in the way that 'benefits' are presented
- Our transport consultant finds the traffic assessment for the Hotwell Road option to be 'perverse' because it appears to be designed to fail by use of over-engineering (continuous bus lanes on Brunel Way ) whereas the Cumberland road option has been designed with 'light touch 'bus gates
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In 1959, the recently formed John Birch Society issued an urgent alert: Christmas was under attack. In a JBS pamphlet titled "There Goes Christmas?!" a writer named Hubert Kregeloh warned, "One of the techniques now being applied by the Reds to weaken the pillar of religion in our country is the drive to take Christ out of Christmas — to denude the event of its religious meaning." The central front in this perfidious assault was American department stores, where the "Godless UN" was scheming to replace religious decorations with internationalist celebrations of universal brotherhood.
"The UN fanatics launched their assault on Christmas in 1958, but too late to get very far before the holy day was at hand," the pamphlet explained. "They are already busy, however, at this very moment, on efforts to poison the 1959 Christmas season with their high-pressure propaganda. What they now want to put over on the American people is simply this: Department stores throughout the country are to utilize UN symbols and emblems as Christmas decorations."
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At the time, the campaign to save Christmas was not widely treated as a matter of great national import. The John Birch Society was generally regarded as a crank, far-right outfit whose paranoid conspiracy theories (it believed fluoridated water was part of an evil communist plot to poison America's brains) put it outside the pale of reasonable discourse. Staffers on the ultra-right 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign tried to prevent Birchers from volunteering because they carried the taint of extremism. The John Birch Society didn't have access to a major television network. But a lot has changed since then.
Last December, warnings about a war on Christmas — a war whose central front was the nation's department stores — once against emanated from the right, but this time, they were on national TV and talk radio. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly began running a regular segment called "Christmas Under Siege." "All over the country, Christmas is taking flak," O'Reilly declared on Dec. 7. "In Denver this past weekend, no religious floats were permitted in the holiday parade there. In New York City, Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg unveiled the 'holiday tree,' and no Christian Christmas symbols are allowed in the public schools. Federated Department Stores — that's Macy's — have done away with the Christmas greeting 'Merry Christmas.'" Instead, Macy's was using the malign phrase "Happy Holidays." Noting this, Pat Buchanan wrote, "What we are witnessing here are hate crimes against Christianity."
This year the war on Christmas canard has come early, and with it the latest opportunity for religious conservatives to cast themselves as the oppressed victims of secular tyrants. In October, Fox News anchor John Gibson published a book titled "The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought," which envisions a vast conspiracy with tentacles reaching into many aspects of American life. "The plot to ban Christmas itself is anything but secret," writes Gibson. "It is embedded in the secular 'Humanist Manifesto' (in its three iterations from the American Humanist Association), in the philosophy of teaching of John Dewey, in the legal opinions of Laurence Tribe, in the rulings of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on which sits the most liberal jurist in the land, Stephen Reinhardt, who is married to Ramona Ripston, the southern California ACLU executive director and the national group's most liberal and effective leader."
As the holidays approach, the right is making ever more fevered preparations to thwart this ostensible conspiracy. Last week, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights launched a short-lived boycott of Wal-Mart, charging the megastore with "insulting Christians by effectively banning Christmas." The American Family Association called for a Thanksgiving-weekend boycott of Target because of the chain's purported refusal to use the phrase "Merry Christmas" in its advertising. (Target denies having such a policy.) A few days later, Jerry Falwell announced he was joining with the Christian right legal group Liberty Counsel's "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign," which intends to sue officials who try to curb religious Christmas celebrations in schools or other public places. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "The 8,000 members of the Christian Educators Association International will be the campaign's 'eyes and ears' in the nation's public schools. They'll be reporting to 750 Liberty Counsel lawyers who are ready to pounce if, for example, a teacher is muzzled from leading the third-graders in 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.'" Meanwhile, the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian right legal outfit co-founded by James Dobson, has ramped up its three-year-old "Christmas project," organizing over 800 lawyers to defend the sacred holiday. "It's a sad day in America when you have to retain a lawyer to wish someone a merry Christmas," says Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for ADF.
Despite Johnson's lamentations, one can in fact offer Christmas greetings without legal counsel. Christmas trees are permitted in public schools. (They're considered secular symbols.) Nativity scenes are allowed on public property, although if the government erects one, it has to be part of a larger display that also includes other, secular signs of the holiday season, or displays referring to other religions. (The operative Supreme Court precedent is 1984′s Lynch v. Donnelly, where the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a city-sponsored Christmas display including a crèche, reindeer, a Christmas tree, candy-striped poles and a banner that read "Seasons Greetings" was permissible. "The display is sponsored by the city to celebrate the Holiday and to depict the origins of that Holiday," the majority wrote. "These are legitimate secular purposes.") Students are allowed to distribute religious holiday cards and literature in school. If the administration tries to stop them, the ACLU will step in to defend the students' free-speech rights, as they did in 2003 when teenagers in Massachusetts were suspended for passing out candy canes with Christian messages.
In fact, there is no war on Christmas. What there is, rather, is a burgeoning myth of a war on Christmas, assembled out of old reactionary tropes, urban legends, exaggerated anecdotes and increasingly organized hostility to the American Civil Liberties Union. It's a myth that can be self-fulfilling, as school board members and local politicians believe the false conservative claim that they can't celebrate Christmas without getting sued by the ACLU and thus jettison beloved traditions, enraging citizens and perpetuating a potent culture-war meme. This in turn furthers the myth of an anti-Christmas conspiracy.
"You have a dynamic here, where you have the Christian right hysterically overrepresenting the problem, and then anecdotally you have some towns where lawyers restrict any kind of display or representation of religion, which is equally absurd," says Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at Political Research Associates and one of the foremost experts on the religious right. "It's a closed loop. In that dynamic, neither the secular humanists or the ACLU are playing a role."
The myth of the war on Christmas has two parts. The first, echoing the John Birch Society, charges that department stores are trying to replace the celebration of Jesus' birthday with some secularized, universal winter holiday season, a switch encompassed by the godless greeting "Happy Holidays." The second asserts that the ACLU and other groups like the Anti-Defamation League and People for the American Way are trying to ban public Christmas displays. Like all conspiracy theories, there are a few grains of truth at the center of it — some schools, in an overzealous attempt to promote inclusiveness, have taken silly steps like renaming their Christmas trees "friendship trees." Some have indeed infringed on religious students' First Amendment rights. Weaving these stories together, the myth of the war on Christmas claims that the ACLU has forced Christmas into hiding, and that Christians must therefore battle to reclaim their rightful place in the culture.
"Those who would ban Christmas and Christians should not mistake the signs on the horizon," writes Gibson in "The War on Christmas. "The Christians are coming to retake their place in the public square, and the most natural battleground in this war is Christmas."
Gibson's colleague O'Reilly seems to have made it his special mission to crusade against the phrase "Happy Holidays." On Nov. 9, he presented an "investigation" into department stores that don't use the phrase "Merry Christmas." Sears/Kmart, he reported, had a banner on its Web site that, rather than openly proclaiming Christmas, said, "Wish Book Holiday 2005." "They were the worst we had to deal with," O'Reilly said after the company's spokesman refused to answer questions about their Christ-free Web site.
"I think the backlash against stores that don't say 'Merry Christmas' is enormous because now people are aware of the issue," he continued. "I know everybody's hypersensitive about are they going to say 'Merry Christmas'? Are they going to say 'Happy Holidays'? They're hypersensitive. And when you walk into a secular environment, most Christians are looking around, and they're really aware of it."
This, in fact, might be true — having heard that the bland phrase "Happy Holidays" is part of a war against Christmas, some shoppers may be especially attuned for signs of subtle seasonal disrespect. On Nov. 11, a woman sent an e-mail complaining about the use of the phrase "Happy Holidays" at Wal-Mart and received a reply from a cheekily impertinent customer service employee that seemed to confirm the right's worst fears. "Santa is also borrowed from the Caucuses (sic), mistletoe from the Celts, yule log from the Goths, the time from the Visigoth and the tree from the worship of Baal. It is a wide wide world," the Wal-Mart worker wrote. In response, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights launched its boycott, claiming Wal-Mart had "banned" Christmas. Wal-Mart quickly fired the offending employee and apologized. The boycott was called off, but the right remains unhappy about the store's continuing use of "Happy Holidays," leaving open the possibility of more teapot tempests as the Christmas season progresses.
Claims that Wal-Mart, of all places, is trying to ban Christmas resonate with some segments of the right because they're part of a larger, older story line about a giant, diabolical plot to rob God-fearing Americans of their traditions and erode their very identity. "The wagers of this war on Christmas are a cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wracked Christians — not just Jewish people," Gibson writes. Also involved are mainline churches whose congregants "vote for John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Barney Frank. They are liberal by definition, and they proclaim their liberal values; I began to connect the dots and discerned the outlines of the conspiracy."
Gibson, of course, is not the first to connect the dots. The John Birch Society wasn't, either. As the Web site News Hounds pointed out last year, Henry Ford was sounding the alarm about the war on Christmas in his notorious 1921 tract "The International Jew." "The whole record of the Jewish opposition to Christmas, Easter and other Christian festivals, and their opposition to certain patriotic songs, shows the venom and directness of [their] attack," Ford wrote. He listed local outrages: "Christmas celebrations or carols in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Paul and New York met with strong Jewish opposition … Local Council of Jewish Women of Baltimore petitions school board to prohibit Christmas exercises … The Council of the University Settlement, at the request of the New York Kehillah [Jewish leadership], adopts this resolution: 'That in the holiday celebrations held annually by the Kindergarten Association at the University Settlement every feature of any sectarian character, including Christmas trees, Christmas programs and Christmas songs, shall be eliminated.'"
To compare today's "war on Christmas" demagogues to Henry Ford is not to call them anti-Semites. Rather, they are purveyors of a conspiracy theory that repeatedly crops up in America. The malefactors change — Jews, the U.N., the ACLU — but the outlines stay the same. The scheme is always massive, reaching up to the highest levels of power.
In order to prove this conspiracy, Gibson, O'Reilly and others like them gather anecdotes from around the country of officials putting petty restrictions on the speech of aggrieved Christians. Some of these are exaggerated, some legitimate, but none support their paranoid claims of a vast secular-humanist conspiracy. Just as O'Reilly said, Faith Bible Church's religious float was indeed turned down for Denver's parade of lights — since the parade is only an hour long, its organizers don't include any religious floats because they can't include all of them and don't want to show favoritism. Federated Department Stores did start using "Happy Holidays" in its national promotions, but left local stores free to use the phrase "Merry Christmas" in their advertising. In a statement responding to the war on Christmas hype, Federated wrote, "Our stores recognize and celebrate Christmas in a variety of ways, including Christmas decorations, Christmas music, Christmas-themed merchandise and Christmas trim-a-tree shops. And since our employees are free to wish any customer a Merry Christmas, you will frequently hear such expressions of holiday cheer in our stores as part of celebrating the season." Whether or not one agrees with these policies, they are not part of a campaign, a plot or a war. (If anything, they demonstrate that American business, hardly a bastion of godless communism or secular humanism, always plays it safe.)
The right's melding of concrete documentation and wild speculation is common to conspiracy theorists; as Richard Hofstadter wrote in his classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," "The typical procedure of the higher paranoid scholarship is to start with such defensible assumptions and with a careful accumulation of facts, or at least of what appear to be facts, and to marshal these facts toward an overwhelming 'proof' of the particular conspiracy that is to be established."
Not surprisingly, fair-minded outsiders who weigh the same facts come to quite different conclusions.
Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center and the author of "Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Religious Liberty in the Public Schools," is one of the heroes of Gibson's book. Gibson writes about how he resolved a crisis that arose in Mustang, Okla., when, fearing a lawsuit, the superintendent of schools ordered a nativity scene cut from an elementary school Christmas pageant, infuriating many in the town. Haynes was eventually flown out to mediate. He had, writes Gibson, "made something of a career out of rushing in as if he were driving an ambulance, lights flashing and sirens blaring, after schools had made disastrous policy decisions on restricting religious liberty in schools."
According to Haynes, though, there is no war on Christmas. "I certainly wouldn't put it that way," he says. "The big picture is that there's more religion now in public schools than ever in modern history. There's no question about that. But it's not there in terms of the government imposing religion or sponsoring it, and that bothers some people on the right. They miss the good old days when public schools were semi-established Protestant schools."
In the last two decades, says Haynes, "religion has come into the public schools in all kinds of ways … many schools now understand that students have religious liberty rights in a public school, so you can go to many public schools today and kids will be giving each other religious literature, they will be sharing their faith. You go to most public schools now and see kids praying around the flagpole before school."
The reason fights over Christmas iconography recur, says Haynes, is that "there are still some school administrators who are so afraid to deal with religion that they go too far in keeping it out, and it only takes a few bad stories in this era of the Internet for many conservative religious people across the country to think that public schools are hostile to their faith."
Ironically, when school officials do go too far, the ACLU is likely to challenge them, on the grounds that the government can neither promote nor restrict religious speech. "A lot of the things the ACLU does to help religious people and religious students are not high-profile cases; they don't get much attention," says Haynes. "The Christian student who is told she can't bring her Bible to school, the ACLU gets those kinds of calls, and often it doesn't become a lawsuit, but they will quietly tell the school you can't do this, you have to treat everyone fairly."
Indeed, one case that ACLU president Nadine Strossen loves to talk about is that of Rita Warren, a retired woman who calls herself the "Lone Ranger of the manger" and whose life mission is to put nativity scenes in public places. When she placed a plastic crèche on the lawn in front of the government building in Fairfax, Va., the government ordered her to remove it. Warren called the ACLU, and they discovered that the city of Fairfax had allowed others to erect displays on the property. "Once the government allows displays of any kind to be placed on public property, it can't then discriminate against some display because of the viewpoint," says Kent Willis, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia. "The government could not discriminate against her religious display any more than it could take specific action to promote her religious display. It has to treat us the same."
These stories rarely get much play, especially since the ACLU lacks a publicity apparatus that can compete with the religious right. "We're not in the business to defend ourselves as an organization," says Strossen.
Mike Johnson of the Alliance Defense Fund knows about the Warren case, but he dismisses it. "They always use this — it's like their get out of jail card. This one case cannot change 80 years of history." Throughout those 80 years, he says, the ACLU's "ultimate and underlying agenda is to silence people of faith. They do not want God mentioned in the public square. If they could completely censor that out, they would … The ACLU has a pretty sordid past. They were founded by a guy, Roger Baldwin, who was an avowed atheist, and he had a certain agenda. He wrote about being a socialist, and communism was his goal."
But Americans are catching on to the ACLU's malign influence and fighting back, says Johnson. Johnson's boss, ADF president Alan Sears, has just co-written a book with Craig Osten titled "The ALCU vs. America." The ACLU and its allies, they write, "terrorize local communities on an almost daily basis with letters, e-mails and telephone calls to silence Christmas and other religious activity." But the terrorists can be beaten: "It will take sacrifice, perseverance, and a concerted effort by millions of Americans to defeat the ACLU, its many allies, and their agenda. But with God's grace, we are confident it can and will be done."
As Johnson notes, O'Reilly invited Sears onto his show to talk about his book, catapulting it to No. 20 on Amazon. "You can only push the American people so far, and then there's a backlash," Johnson says. "The ACLU in recent years has just pushed Christian America to the limit. From its earliest stage, the ACLU has deliberately chipped away at the legal and moral and religious foundations of our republic."
The war on Christmas trope lets the right pretend to be playing defense when it's really on the offensive — against the ACLU, separation of church and state, and pluralism, to name just a few targets. "The revolution against Christianity has been under way for a few years," writes Gibson, "and now the counterrevolution is gearing up."
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