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Progressive Podcaster Targets Vance With Violent Rhetoric: ‘Keep Firing, Pistols Firing'

Dems Hit Panic Button As El-Sayed's Black Voter Problems Remain Problematic

We Are One-Year "Display Ad Free" - First Anniversary Fundraiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8KLnvgk6Mw

Faculty Fear At Cornell: “I worry every day I enter class that I will say something that a student will find offensive”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2021 51 Comments

Anonymous faculty member opposing proposed Critical Race Theory mandates: "I no longer teach topics that I taught only a couple of years ago, and which I taught without anyone complaining that I was being offensive...

Tim Scott Slams Biden for Breaking Bipartisan Promises, Use of Race as Political Weapon

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 29, 2021 13 Comments

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) delivered a superb rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, trying to remind us that we are all Americans.

Branco Cartoon – Law and Odor

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 29, 2021 12 Comments

Hot takes....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKKIh0wM0z4

Report: Cuomo Aides Hid Number of COVID Nursing Home Deaths for Months

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 28, 2021 14 Comments

If this is not a scandal then nothing is a scandal. Seriously. The New York Times dropped the ultimate bombshell on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: His aides spent months overruling state health officials when it came to the true number of the COVID nursing home deaths.

GMU President Cites ‘Diversity’ to Justify Illegal Goal of Race-Based Hiring

Posted by Hans Bader on April 28, 2021 56 Comments

The president of George Mason University wants to give minorities a big advantage in hiring until the faculty is as heavily minority as the school's student body and the future, mostly non-white U.S. population. This is illegal, say lawyers and law professors. Indeed, GMU's president, Gregory Washington, recognized that objection in an April 15 email to the university's faculty, before saying it wouldn't stop him from giving minorities a preference in hiring. Washington quoted a professor as saying:

Analysis: Almost Half of California Students Unprepared for College or Jobs

SUNY Old Westbury Requires DEI Coursework, Offers Class on Black Lives Matter

Graduate Workers Union at Harvard Launches Strike

University of Providence in Montana to Close at the End of This School Year

Syracuse Requires Identity and Racism Seminar for First-Year Students

U. Minnesota Voter Outreach Program Run by Democratic Activists

Louisville Police Department’s ‘Manpower is Critically Low’ as Crime Rates Grow

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 28, 2021 34 Comments

Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) came to the forefront last year with the death of Breonna Taylor in March 2020. Black Lives Matter staged protests and speeches condemning the police. The Justice Department will launch "a 'pattern or practice' investigation into the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government and the LMPD."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyb-DjVT5_c

Teachers Unions Increased Donations to Democrats When Congress Debated Reopening Schools

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 28, 2021 8 Comments

Coincidence? I doubt it. Roll Call revealed large teachers unions increased their donations to Democrats when Congress debated reopening schools earlier this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UZCjnSmOc

Federal Agents Search Rudy Giuliani’s NYC Apartment

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 28, 2021 87 Comments

Rudy Giuliani's lawyer Robert Costello confirmed federal investigators raided the former mayor's New York City apartment:

Mr. Giuliani, who became President Trump’s personal lawyer, has been under investigation since at least 2019 by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office for his business dealings in Ukraine, for possible violation of federal lobbying laws.

Democrats, Media Blame Trump Over Census Counts, Gov. Cuomo Says He’s Exploring ‘Legal Options’

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 28, 2021 36 Comments

On Monday, we learned more about official census counts from the U.S. government and how the numbers would impact states' future representation in the House of Representatives.

Freedom and Consequences in the Age of COVID

Posted by Katya Sedgwick on April 28, 2021 7 Comments

Recent visitors to Russia (and Ukraine, and Belarus) note the dearth of masks on crowded sidewalks. In early March, as the COVID pandemic was raging in the region and intensive care units were filled over capacity, restaurants were also filled over capacity — all booked up for corporate parties celebrating International Women’s Day, a major holiday in the post-Soviet world. A veritable woke feast in the time of pestilence.

Iran Preys on German Companies for Nuclear Know-How and Equipment: German Intel Report

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 28, 2021 8 Comments

As U.S. President Joe Biden negotiates with Iran to revive the Obama-era nuclear deal, German intelligence has exposed the regime's efforts to advance its nuclear weapons program.

https://twitter.com/KunkleFredrick/status/1298344285079838720?s=20

Lecture: “Cancel culture, as it exists now, is … really the warfare of personal destruction”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2021 25 Comments

My online lecture today for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East: Cancel culture has "morphed into an extremely dangerous targeting of people, attempts to destroy their lives, to so-called dox them, to harass them, to harass their employers, to harass people who know them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mPM4vM7PNA

Julian Elie Khater, 32, of State College, Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, West Virginia, are charged in spraying the chemical irritant at Capitol police officers Brian Sicknick and Caroline Edwards, as well as Metropolitan Police Department officer Damian Chapman.