January 2025

Freshmen at Yale Want Stronger Free Speech Protections

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 22, 2025 3 Comments

“The freshman class came to campus in the middle of serious debate, on campus and nationally, about free speech and resoundingly decided that free speech was the right way forward.”...

Trump Orders Agencies to Close DEI Offices, Place Staff on Leave

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 22, 2025 30 Comments

Everything must happen by 5 PM ET today....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV_j4Dh9koA

American Historical Assoc. Vetoes Controversial Anti-Israel Resolution

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 22, 2025 4 Comments

"The measure was, according to numerous groups which commented on it, intemperate and needlessly political"...

Trump Announces Stargate: $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Investment in the U.S.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 22, 2025 29 Comments

"Stargate" is likely to be paired with a substantial increase in the nation's nuclear energy capacity....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2IPa5Akv4

Biden’s last-minute pardons “proved beyond any doubt that there really was a Biden crime family”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2025 63 Comments

My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer: "Just because Joe Biden pardoned the Biden crime family, I'm not sure we need to rush out and change the Constitution...

Indians Cheer as Usha Vance Makes History as First Indian-American Second Lady

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 21, 2025 22 Comments

Indian news website First Post: "It was Usha Vance’s day."...

https://youtu.be/W7qI9FaQ-cc?si=sfkn75VNkThKK0i4

Supreme Court to Review School Refusing Parental Religious Opt-Out for LGBTQ+ Curriculum

Posted by James Nault on January 21, 2025 25 Comments

Equal Protection Project considering filing an amicus brief supporting the parents' right to opt their kids out of objectionable grade-school curriculum on religious grounds...

Biden’s Final Commutation Was Too Much Even for Christopher Wray

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on January 21, 2025 30 Comments

Peltier's guilt looks pretty conclusive. And the timing of this commutation, coming in literally the last few minutes of Biden's presidency, suggests that his inner circle knew that too. ...

Trump Suspends Security Clearance of 51 Officials Who Protected Hunter’s Laptop

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 21, 2025 45 Comments

The list includes James Clapper, Leon Panetta, Jeremy Bash (ex-husband of CNN's Dana Bash), John Bolton, and John Brennan....

Bishop Gives Trump, Vance Woke Lecture on Immigrants: ‘The People Who Pick Our Crops’

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 21, 2025 77 Comments

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Australia: Childcare Center Set on Fire in Antisemitic Attack in Sydney

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 21, 2025 18 Comments

Australia's "Federal police are investigating if antisemitic attacks in Australia are being funded by "overseas actors" paying local criminals, sometimes in cryptocurrency."...