From our Déjà Vu All Over Again, The Sequel department: Professor John M. Ellis has "Two Cheers for Ward Churchill's Dismissal" (not three, because CU hasn't been taken to task for hiring and tenuring The Perfesser in the first place). (via Drunkablog) We first used the Capone analogy as it applies to Churchill's case back in June '05 (comments section), then Churchill himself used it in September of that same year; Opinion Journal used in it in May '06.
Update: And LA Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez capones CU. Considering what the word "capone" means, its use to describe virtually anything connected with Churchill seems almost too apt.

Many conservatives believe the firing of University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill will now reduce liberal politics in academia. Many liberals believe that his firing will uphold high standards of academic scholarship. Both are wrong — because the firing of Churchill reveals a very pernicious kind of exclusionary dogmatism in scholarly research and writing and media reporting. The firing of Professor Churchill for alleged research misconduct ignored evidence to the contrary provided by professors who know his work best, ignored evidence from a committee of scholars who found the investigating committee itself guilty of research misconduct, and ignored all Indigenous evidence and perspectives that are critical of Eurocentric versions of the history of the European invasion of the Americas.

...More than one commenter to Witherspoon's essay remains unconvinced. The best expression of this lack is from "DBL":

I read Mr. Witherspoon’s looking for some defense of Churchill and found none. Churchill was fired for fabrication, lying and other academic misconduct and Mr. Witherspoon offered no explanation or defense on these charges. Instead, Mr. Witherspoon merely amplified on his views of how horrible the European explorers and settlers of the New World were.

Well, as experienced lawyers teach youngsters, when the facts are on your side, pound on the facts, when the law is on your side, pound on the law, and when neither the facts nor the law is on your side, pound on the table. Mr. Witherspoon has done an admirable job of pounding on the table, but I doubt that will be enough to persuade anyone of Churchill’s innocence of the charges of academic misconduct.

We stood on the sidewalk in front of the club while Sergeant Madden cuffed [Jaimes] and put in the back of the patrol car. Carole [Standing Elk's] face was bleeding, her glasses damaged, and her wrist was broken, but while the officer was busy with the woman, Churchill came and stood in front of Carole. He is a very tall, big man, and he stooped over and got face to face with Carole, called her a filthy name I would never repeat, and spit in her face.