On Tuesday, I blogged about the University of Washington’s Student Senate voting down of a proposal to build a memorial honoring Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, an alumnus of UW. UW student body President Lee Dunbar mentioned in a letter here that another memorial was under consideration that would include, in addition to Boyington, four other UW Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. That has been confirmed:
The University of Washington’s student senate has rejected a memorial for Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. Why? WND has the details:
The Heritage Foundation argues that it is.
You’ll rarely see me praise the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, mainly because it’s against my religion (I’m a Duke Blue Devils fan all the way ) but I’ve got to take my hat off to them this morning for printing their own Mohammed cartoon – not any of the ones that have sparked such an uproar – but one that has already caused quite a stir in and around what is arguably North Carolina’s most liberal college campus.
I missed the story of the Madison, WI elementary school (reg. req.) where teachers gave third graders an assignment to write letters to their congressmen and media outlets urging an end to the war in Iraq the first time around, but Frontpage has a good write up about it here:
