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Yes, question their patriotism. Plus: An update on the Oakland Airport incident.

Moonbat zoning laws.

Home of the free speech movement, home of the free speech disrupters.

These colors don’t run.

Call to arms.

Can there be peaceful coexistence between developers and People’s Park?

Zombie reports, you decide.

Source: SFGate.com
Via the San Francisco Chronicle, they’ve taken over an old oak tree, because they’d rather leave the grove it belongs to standing than allow university officials to make an athletic building more earthquake-safe for staff and students. But I love this paragraph the most:
UC plans to remove about three dozen trees from the grove [...]

The CalPatriot blog shares pictures of a small but stalwart pro-immigration enforcement contingent at UC Berkeley today (hat tip: Tom):

Anti-enforcement forces attempted to block these pro-borders messages with…

…a Mexican flag.
Gotta love the self-proclaimed center of the Free Speech Movement.
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Flashbacks…
Speech at UC Berkeley
Berkeley cancels Veteran’s Day event
Berkeley bares it all
Berkeley hates diversity
Berkeley vs. America

…of thought. (Thanks, Jeff!)

File this under “We support our troops…by refusing to honor their service.”
Via Knight-Ridder:
Berkeley’s Veterans Day ceremony, scheduled for Nov. 11, was abruptly canceled on Monday because the volunteer organizing committee split over the political content.
At issue was a proposal by the chairman, singer/songwriter Country Joe McDonald, to have Bill Mitchell, a co-founder of Cindy Sheehan’s [...]

Zombie captures nudist moonbats in action at an anti-war protest in Berzerkeley.
Warning: Not safe for work.
Reader feedback from Lynne S.:
After washing out my eyes and being debriefed by professionals, I have figured out their unique idea for the war against terrorism! We use the Berkeley gang to scare the Radical Islamics into submission! An army [...]

You know you haven’t made it in public life if you haven’t been compared to Hitler. Beautiful Atrocities illustrates the point beautifully with a Hitler analogy compendium:
In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes
Here’s my entry (scroll down to the 12th picture to see the artwork of a talented Berkeleyite who rendered [...]

The CEO of Advanced Micro Devices says $100 laptops may be available in less than three years. UC Berkeley professor Jasper Rine should be relieved.

A new exhibit at the Berkeley Public Library shows the positive side of the Black Panthers:
BERKELEY — Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once called the Black Panthers the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country.”
But a collection of black-and-white photographs on display at the Berkeley Public Library shows a softer and more [...]

A San Francisco Chronicle editorial writer reports on how Berkeley residents have had enough of tax-hiking ballot measures.
Mirabile dictu! What’s next? A Reagan memorial at the People’s Park?

CalStuff has excellent coverage of the event, including photos of both protesters and supporters, the news media, and campus police (who, by the way, did a great job maintaining order).
Great column by Melanie Smith at the Cal Patriot. An excerpt:
Prior to the event, I asked a few prospective protestors what they thought of Ms. Malkin’s [...]