Rocky Mountain News: High school in turmoil over teacher's remarks

Controversy over a high school teacher's comparison of President Bush to Adolf Hitler erupted into a day of turmoil Thursday — with a student protest, a threatened lawsuit and dueling talk shows. At the center of the storm was Overland High School teacher Jay Bennish, whose lecture in a world geography class last month also included harsh words about capitalism, U.S. foreign policy and the invasion of Iraq. (...) He said that in Bush's State of the Union speech, the president was, in effect, "threatening the whole planet." "Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say — we're the only ones who are right, everyone else is backwards," Bennish said. He told students he was "not saying that Bush and Hitler are exactly the same." "But," he said, "there's some eerie similarities to the tones that they use."