You know that the Academic Left is Getting it's Ox Gored when...

...the American Historical Association announces that it will no longer investigate charges of fraud or plagiarism.

The AHA site explains:

On May 5, 2003 the American Historical Association (AHA) announced that it would no longer investigate charges of plagiarism and fraud leveled against historians. The organization explained that it "does not believe that the modest benefits to the profession justify the time, energy, and effort that have gone into the process."

Odd, how the AHA is now worried about the cost/benefit aspect of self-policing, now that the tendentious use of spurious historical data to support partisan political positions by a gauchista historian was thoroughly ventilated in the free market of ideas.

Of course, the AHA is not as concerned about expending "time, energy and effort" on other gauchista agenda items, such as passing resolutions against the Iraq War - -

"Statement of Historians Against the War.

At a meeting on the evening of Friday, January 3, at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, historians from more than forty colleges and universities agreed to form a new national network, "Historians Against the War." A committee was appointed to draft the following statement:

We historians call for a halt to the march towards war against Iraq. We are deeply concerned about the needless destruction of human life, the undermining of constitutional government in the U.S., the egregious curtailment of civil liberties and human rights at home and abroad, and the obstruction of world peace for the indefinite future."

Priorities - always priorities.