Miscellanea: Let's Not Speak Ill of the Dead Edition

Many, many interesting items of note today - I can only scratch the surface. I'll lead with the death of Susan Sontag. I'm not a big fan of piling on someone the very day they die, so I'll just say that I think her post-9/11 comments were symptoms of a bitterness that I see all too often among the Left towards their country (and it appears they served as talking points for future Weekly Jackass Bill Maher). I hope her family and friends find solace and may she rest in peace. We'll examine her comments in more depth someday - but today is not that day...

Meanwhile, Bob Felton at Civil Commotion detects that oh-so-subtle media bias creeping in while comparing the coverage of Sontag's death with that of Reggie White (hat tip to Michelle Malkin)...

David Horowitz and his support of academic diversity are the subject of this CNN article. It's fairly interesting - consider this quote in light of the simply overwhelming liberal bias in academia:

"It's often phrased in the language of academic freedom. That's what's so strange about it," said Ellen Schrecker, a Yeshiva University historian who has written about academic freedom during the McCarthy area. "What they're saying is, 'We want people to reflect our point of view.' "

That would be an accurate statement about the academic Left, but she's talking about the conservatives!....

RealClearPolitics has a slew of good links on the events in the Ukraine...