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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

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

Is JEXODUS happening? The movement to encourage Jews to free themselves of the Democratic Party

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2019 42 Comments

The first time I heard of JEXODUS was a few days ago, when a friend texted me. March 10 at 9:57 p.m., to be precise. The text message was "The Jexodus woman is a model. They will follow her."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLRKtSLwU9U

Bad Omen for Dems’ 2020 Florida hopes: Pro-Trump Gov. DeSantis Approval Rating Soars

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 13, 2019 13 Comments

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has only held the post for two months, but a Quinnipiac University poll shows that 59% of the citizens gave him their approval. The Democrats? 42%! I know DeSantis has only served two months, but this could be trouble for the Democrats in 2020.

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ohio Law Defunding Planned Parenthood

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 13, 2019 19 Comments

Following the truly horrific 2015 revelations that Planned Parenthood was harvesting baby parts and haggling over baby brains for profit, Republican governors across the nation moved to ban taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. In February 2016, then-Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law a bill that restricted state funding to Planned Parenthood. While a lower court had previously blocked the state from stripping $1.5 million in funding from the nation's top abortion provider, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Ohio can indeed defund Planned Parenthood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjlHoabxsn0

Manafort Receives 43 More Months in Prison as NY DA Indicts Him on 16 Charges

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 13, 2019 32 Comments

US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Paul Manafort, the former campaign chair for President Donald Trump, to an additional 43 months. US District Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Manafort to 47 months. That means Manafort will spend 90 months in prison for a total of 7.5 years, "minus nine months credit for time served." Right after sentencing, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., indicted Manafort on 16 charges that Trump cannot pardon him from.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/4042524-ice-agents-conduct-drug-raid-on-multiple-homes-in-chino/

Realtor converts California homes into marijuana farms with millions from China

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 13, 2019 10 Comments

Late last year, I reported that fentanyl from China kills over 29,000 Americans annually. Now it appears that China wants to expand its drug-pushing options. A California realtor has been arrested for converting homes into "grow houses" for marijuana with millions from the Asian nation.

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

Jim Acosta pounces and seizes on Trump comment that Democrats are “anti-Israel,” “anti-Jewish” party

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 13, 2019 36 Comments

CNN's Jim Acosta is nothing if not predictable. In the middle of the Democratic party infighting caused by the anti-Semitic rhetoric we've heard from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in recent weeks, Acosta saw fit not to question the comments themselves, but instead President Trump's grim assessment of the Democratic party's relationship with the Jewish community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQ_l-S3T0c

Wealthy Parents, Celebrities Charged by FBI in Massive College Admissions Cheating Scandal

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 13, 2019 59 Comments

In a sweeping sting dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," the FBI and federal authorities in Boston have charged 50 people in what has become the largest college admissions cheating scandal in history. Parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, allegedly paid millions in bribes, to secure college admission for their children. Payments were not made directly to schools, but to coaches and other figures.

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

Nicholas Sandmann Sues CNN – Read the Complaint with Exhibits

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2019 44 Comments

Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington, Kentucky teen maligned by the media, has filed his second lawsuit. The first lawsuit was against The Washington Post, Covington teen Nicholas Sandmann sues The Washington Post for defamation:

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

Avenatti: I broke up with Stormy before she broke up with me!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2019 18 Comments

This quote from the L.A. Times about Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford) parting ways perfectly sums up the result of Avenatti's legal prowess:

"While the two lawsuits produced no courtroom victory for Avenatti, they did turn him into a celebrity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaaaG1ww-Z0

Parliament Rejects Theresa May’s Brexit Deal a Second Time

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 12, 2019 11 Comments

Parliament handed beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May another defeat as the members rejected her Brexit deal for a second time. They shot it down 391-242, even though May sought out "last minute legal assurances on the backstop from Brussels."

NYC Bartender Disciplined for Refusing Service to Man in MAGA Hat

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 12, 2019 35 Comments

Jake's Dilemma, a bar on the Upper West Side in New York City, has disciplined a bartender who refused service to Dion Cini since he wore a MAGA hat. From NBC New York:

He said a female bartender had been serving him, and when a new bartender started his shift he saw them whispering together and looking at him. “I knew what was going to happen so I started recording. I’ve been refused service before in New York City but I've never had service when they've taken my money and then kicked me out before I finished my food,” he said.

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1693012/hate-in-crown-heights-black-man-deliberately-kicks-carriage-pushed-by-jewish-woman-see-the-video.html

Man Kicks Stroller Pushed by Orthodox Jewish Woman in Brooklyn

Posted by Cameron Gray on March 12, 2019 36 Comments

Last month, we told you about the latest, violent, anti-Semitic attacks in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Here's a reminder of how bad it's become there:

Some 10 people were violently attacked in the last 60 days alone,” noted Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, who heads the Crown Heights-based “Jewish Future Alliance,” in a statement on Wednesday.

https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight

Tucker Carlson Responds to Latest Media Matters Attack: “We will never bow to the mob. Ever.”

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 12, 2019 19 Comments

Media Matters has a mission. It exists for the purpose of removing conservative voices from the airwaves. They're the same people who targeted Rush Limbaugh in 2012, and have been targeting Fox News for over a decade, as Professor Jacobson wrote in 2011, Media Matters Plans “Guerrilla Warfare and Sabotage” on Fox News And Conservative Websites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8xdcZlp6I

Pelosi Drops a Truth Bomb About the Risks of Impeaching Trump; Tom Steyer Melts Down

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 12, 2019 44 Comments

I read with great interest FiveThirtyEight's breakdown of "The Six Wings of the Democratic Party," so you can imagine my amusement when "Progressive Old Guard" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) finally said what we all know to be true: the House would be ridiculously stupid to impeach President Trump. Okay, she didn't say it quite like that, but that was the gist of it. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Pelosi announced that she was about to "give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Ewwpt9bSY

Rep. Omar on Obama and Trump: ‘One is Human. The Other is Really Not’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 12, 2019 31 Comments

Last week, Politico published an interview with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), which included harsh words against President Barack Obama. Omar attempted to clear her name with a recording of her interview, but she ended up owning herself. So will she get it right on the third try?

Sarah Lawrence College “students of color” protesters issue 9-pages of demands, target conservative professor

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2019 49 Comments

In early November 2018, we covered the story of a conservative Sarah Lawrence College professor Samuel Abrams who came under attack after writing an Op-Ed in The New York Times advocating for diversity of opinion on campuses.

https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1104158940378615809

Dan Crenshaw Reveals Captain America Glass Eye Design to a Stunned Chris Evans

Posted by Stacey Matthews on March 11, 2019 7 Comments

Captain America actor Chris Evans visited Capitol Hill last week to talk to lawmakers about a variety of issues, but one meeting in particular threw the star for a loop.