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Mamdani Signs Law Giving Nonprofits First Dibs on Distressed NYC Buildings

DSA Already Embedding Its Political Message in Classrooms

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

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Sleepy Joe Enters the Race Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 28, 2019 2 Comments

All the news you may have missed....

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

Former Obama Spokeswoman: Elizabeth Warren ungrateful, owes Joe Biden for her political career

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2019 17 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has been tearing into Joe Biden since Biden announced he's running for president. Warren, whose polling and fundraising is underwhelming, clearly is not happy that Biden beat everyone, even Bernie and Beto, in his first 24 hour haul of $6.3 million. That's more than Warren raised the entire 1st Quarter of 2019.

https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1122140959968350209?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

NY Times publishes clearly anti-Semitic cartoon, deletes only after intense criticism

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 27, 2019 63 Comments

The left's alarming and increasingly blatant Anti-Semitism has reached new lows. The New York Times International edition published an absolutely appalling cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is featured as a dachshund, leading a presumably "blind" President Trump. It is so horrifically offensive that the New York Times has since deleted the image online and issued an Editor's Note explaining that publishing it was an "error in judgment" because the cartoon is "offensive" for containing "anti-Semitic tropes." I'm not sure how effective such a note can possibly be since we have all just had (re)confirmed our worst fears about that publication.

No, Democrats, the Obama-Biden Administration Was Not Scandal-Free

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 27, 2019 35 Comments

Joe Biden started his official 2020 presidential campaign launch with a bang this week by declaring two glaring whoppers in two days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LqVBkYZhYI

North Korea sends $2 million bill to U.S. for Otto Warmbier’s medical expenses

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 27, 2019 23 Comments

The fallout from the failed Hanoi Summit has been streaming out of North Korea over this past week.

TPUSA Members: UT Tyler Attack Reflects Growing Campus Hostility Toward Conservatives

UT Austin Funds Graduate Student Research on ‘Reproductive Justice’

Texas Tech Regents Eliminate Several Race, Gender Studies Courses

Ransomware Gang Claims Credit for Vanderbilt Cyberattack

Occidental College Hosts Transgender Event That Mocks Trump

Franklin & Marshall College Drops Plan to Adopt 'Gender Neutral' Mascot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amlS8OjMQy4&t=138s

German Party Introduces Bill to End State Funding for BDS

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 27, 2019 0 Comments

Germany's center-right Free Democratic Party (FDP) has introduced a bill to end government support for anti-Israel BDS Movement. The proposed legislation seeks a ban on state funding to organizations involved in boycott and delegitimization campaign against Israel. Germany—directly as well as thorough European Union institutions—hands out millions of euros each year to activists and NGOs that run the anti-Israel boycott campaign.

Middlebury College Student Govt Demands Students be Able to Approve Campus Speakers

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 27, 2019 36 Comments

Middlebury College in Vermont has a recurring problem. When conservative speakers come to campus, all hell breaks loose. Now the student government has proposed a solution. They want the right to vet speakers before they come to campus in order to assure that the speaker's values match those of the campus community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l-254XnpkA

No Free Lunch Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 27, 2019 0 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

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Avengers: Endgame: A Fun, Messy Spectacle to Conclude the Infinity Saga

Posted by Tyler Hummel on April 26, 2019 15 Comments

Avengers: Endgame is a big, ambitious, messy spectacle with some of the largest setpieces ever dedicated to film in its climax. As fun as it is, it's not a terribly well-tuned movie. Unfortunately, it's quite messy.

Dems continue to shower male candidates with cash: Biden tops Bernie and Beto in 1st 24 hours

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 26, 2019 17 Comments

If fundraising is any indicator, Biden is the man to beat. At least as of today, at least until he opens his mouth again.

Palestinian terrorist Vallmoe Shqaire, who lied to gain U.S. citizenship, gets 9 months in prison, will be deported

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2019 17 Comments

In a case reminiscent of Rasmea Odeh, another Palestinian terrorist who concealed his terrorist past was indicted for obtaining naturalization by fraud. In the September 28, 2018, Indictment (pdf.), Vallmoe Shqaire was charged with one Count based on the following false statements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoAf_I3ULwE

Rosenstein Criticized Obama Admin Over Reaction to Russia, Called Out Comey

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 26, 2019 18 Comments

Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is no friend to President Donald Trump, criticized President Barack Obama's administration over its handling of Russia hacking in 2016 and called out former FBI Director James Comey at the Public Servants Dinner of the Armenian Bar Association. From Fox News:

“The FBI disclosed classified evidence about the investigation to ranking legislators and their staffers,” he said. “Someone selectively leaked details to the news media. The FBI director [Comey] announced at a congressional hearing that there was a counterintelligence investigation that might result in criminal charges. Then the former FBI director alleged that the president pressured him to close the investigation, and the president denied that the conversation occurred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6x1D_w9hV0

Biden on The View: Sorry, Not Sorry for Touching Women

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 26, 2019 21 Comments

Former Vice President gave his first interview after announcing his presidential campaign on The View this morning. Many topics came up, including his inappropriate touching of women and Anita Hill. The five women pressed him for apologies, but Biden stopped short of providing one.

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

Expectations Smashed as U.S. Economy Grew at 3.2% in First Quarter

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 26, 2019 13 Comments

I have to admit this news shocked me after lukewarm jobs reports in January and February. The Commerce Department announced this morning the economy grew at a 3.2% rate in the first quarter due to "higher exports and inventory investment." Economists predicted a 2.5% GDP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_XG431meA

Los Angeles County Declares Measles Outbreak

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 26, 2019 24 Comments

We have followed the rapid spread of measles cases around the nation. The last time we reported, a measles-infected visitor had stopped into Google's Silicon Valley headquarters and public health officials had to issue appropriate warnings. Now, officials have declareda measles outbreak in Los Angeles County.

Back to the Future: Biden Hires Anita Dunn, Former Obama Adviser Who Praised Mao

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 26, 2019 12 Comments

The Joe Biden 2020 campaign has hired Anita Dunn as an adviser. If her name sounds familiar, it's because she served in the early days of the Obama administration as White House communications director. She's also a fan of communist dictator Mao Zedong.

Report documents how Hamas controls the violent Gaza ‘Great March of Return’

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2019 5 Comments

The so-called "Great March of Return" are the weekly riots at the Gaza-Israel border in which Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups mount operations to breach the border fence and attack Israelis under cover of civilians, including women and children. As we have documented extensively, the "children" involved often are teenage military members of terrorist groups. The terrorist groups cynically use these teenagers and also civilian "protesters" for propaganda purposes when they are injured or killed.