RealClearPolitics – Sometimes, an Extremist Really is an Extremist.

By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, BETH STEBNER and JEREMY OLSHAN
Last Updated: 1:17 PM, November 10, 2009
Posted: 2:57 AM, November 10, 2009

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.

LIONEL McINTYRE "Unfortunate event."

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!”

“He knocked the glasses right off my face,” said the man, who would only give his first name as “Shannon.” “The punch came out of nowhere. Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing about it — apparently I wasn’t doing enough.”

McIntyre had squabbled with Davis several weeks earlier over issues involving race, witnesses said. As soon as the professor threw the punch Friday, server Rob Dalton and another employee tossed him out.

“It was a real sucker punch,” Dalton said. “Camille’s a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn’t deserve anything like this.”

Davis was spotted wearing sunglasses yesterday to conceal the black eye. Reached at her Columbia office, she declined to comment on the alleged attack.

McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night.

“It was a very unfortunate event,” he said afterwards. “I didn’t mean for it to explode the way it did.”

Additional reporting by Sarah Makuta

The warning signs were all there: the justification of homicide bombings; the spewing of anti-American hatred; the efforts to reach Al Qaeda …

But the U.S. military treated Major Nidal Malik Hasan with kid gloves, even after giving him a poor performance review. And though he was on the radar screen of at least one U.S. intelligence agency, no action was taken that might have prevented the Army psychiatrist from allegedly gunning down 13 people and wounding 29 others in the Fort Hood massacre last week.

“There were definitely clear indications that Hasan’s loyalties were not with America,” Lt. Col. Val Finnell, Hasan’s classmate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., told FoxNews.com in an exclusive interview. He and Hasan were students in the school’s public health master’s degree program from 2007-2008.

“There were all sorts of … comments made throughout the year that made me question his loyalty to the United States, but nothing was done,” said Finnell, who recalled one class during which Hasan gave a presentation justifying homicide bombings.

“The issue here is that there’s a political correctness climate in the military. They don’t want to say anything because it would be considered questioning somebody’s religious belief, or they’re afraid of an equal opportunity lawsuit.

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Maoist Anita Dunn, Obama’s White House Communications Director, is quitting. Evidence of the strength of the Tea Party Movement?

Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, Officials Say – ABC News.

…but hey, Obama says, Don’t jump to any conclusions. So, we’re totally safe, right? Right. Good. Alrighty, then.

By Noel Bagwell
November 9, 2009

I’m excited about Shadow Complex, a new twist on side-scrolling platform games available for download exclusively from Xbox Live. If you loved old classics like Castlevania, Metroid and Megaman, you’ll probably love Shadow Complex, too. For only $15.00 on Xbox Live, it’s a deal! This is probably old news, but it’s new to me, and I can’t wait to try this game out – possibly over Christmas break.

Ft. Hood Gunman Shouted “Allahu Akbar!” Before Opening Fire.

Obama: Don’t jump to conclusions.

Isn’t this like saying, “Don’t examine the evidence,” or “ignore evidence that would potentially lead to politically incorrect conclusions”? How dangerous is that?!

Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote.

Republican Leader John Boehner | Speaker Pelosi’s Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium.