Hillary Clinton promises a systematic review of the Bush administration’s executive power grab if elected–with an eye toward relinquishing some of those powers.

Hmmm. I’ve never been an advocate of kicking a buffoon when he’s down. But it seems our friend David Horowitz may be padding his list of colleges and universities participating in Islamofascism Awareness Week (aka “the biggest conservative campus protest ever”). According to ThinkProgress, Horowitz has already been caught adding names of schools that aren’t participating in his mumbojumbo in any way. Indeed, they even got caught listing Liberty University, the school Jerry Falwell founded. But now Liberty has demanded their name be removed.

And think about it, when you can’t get Jerry Falwell U. to sign on for Islamofascism Awareness Week things have come to a pretty sorry pass, right?

And now comes this from TPM Reader JL …

I am the Vice President of the Drexel University College Democrats (www.drexeldems.org ), and I was checking out Horowitz’s list of colleges participating in TAW. I was suprised to see my own school, Drexel University ( www.drexel.edu ) on the list, because I’m pretty tuned into political events on campus, and I hadn’t heard anything. Long story short, a certain former Drexel College Repubilcan leader contacted Horowitz’s group and said Drexel was participating.

The problem is, however, there is no college republican group on campus. They are not recognized this year, have not even filed any paperwork to be recognized, and as far as I can tell from speaking to their former leader, no plans to start the chapter again. I can definitavely say that there are no plans for TAW week at Drexel University.

I thought it was worth pointing out that one of the “participating” colleges is most decidedly not participating. There are no speakers, movies, or other events planned, and there has been no announcement of TAW either. I suspect that Drexel is not the only ghost participant in that list. Apparently, all it takes to be listed as a participating school is for a single conservative student to email Horowitz and say “I’d like to do that on my campus.” No follow-through.

Best,
John Lloyd
VP Drexel Democrats

PS- Long time reader first time caller.

So it turns out that the campaign against Islamofascism is plagued by phony data and incompetent management …

Late Update: If it turns out that these are yet more of the outrageous attacks and lies that Horowitz has had to suffer and endure on behalf of Western Civilization, we’ll let you know. David?

Yet Later Update: So far we’ve heard from students at Tufts and Temple who haven’t heard anything about events even those schools are listed.

On the subject of Islamofascism Awareness Week, if you’re a student on a campus where the event is occurring, we definitely want to hear from you. Even if you’re an aging grad student or staff or faculty member. Actually, we’d definitely like to hear from you if Horowitz has put your school’s name on the list even if nothing’s happening. But even more if something really is happening. Take a handcam, shoot some video of the events for us. We’re going to try to do a salute to Islamofascism Awareness Week follow-up episode. And your contributions will help us bring IAW the honor and publicity it deserves.

Mitt Romney is the latest to flub the names of the Democratic senator and the terrorist.

Larry Johnson has more on “Valerie Plame Wilson and the Ultimate Betrayal.”

At today’s White House press briefing, Iran’s nuclear program . . . a European missile shield . . . the Vice President’s saber-rattling . . . Pete Stark’s apology . . . and the Turkish-Kurdish conflict:

Spencer Ackerman previews the Frontline episode that airs tonight about the brewing crisis with Iran. He gives it a big thumbs up. I’ll be watching.

Senate Dems give AG-nominee Mike Mukasey a waterboarding primer (not literally).

Over at TPMCafe’s Table for One, Bob Drogin posts on how the Curveball case was a prime example of the “high-priest mystique of intelligence and national security concealing tawdry ambition, frightening ineptitude and weak leadership.”

We’ve dedicated a lot of space today to discussing the issue of Islamofascism Awareness Week. So in case you missed our video primer on what’s going on, check out today’s episode of TPMtv …

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Late Update: TPM Reader PB explains how he’ll observe the event …

In honor of Islamofascism awareness week I am busy rewriting all of my old history books in order to properly show that the danger of some men in caves, along with one moderate regional power are in fact a greater threat to the United States then were the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, the secessionist Confederacy, and even the Redcoats from our founding days. Mostly the work is easy, however I am having a bit of trouble figuring out how to explain that Reagan the Infallible in fact saw that these Islamofascists were a greater threat than the Evil Empire even when he was supporting them in Afghanistan.