American colleges used to pride themselves on their commitment to free speech and free inquiry. That’s the only way learning takes place, we thought, and you’d have to go back to the Dark Ages to find people who disagreed. Only now the Dark Ages have returned, with college speech codes, barking-mad left-wing student mobs and faculties that refuse to hire open conservatives.
This week, President Trump took a big step to stop the madness with one of the most important speeches of his presidency.
Trump signed an executive order to authorize the denial of federal funds to colleges that suppress student free-speech rights.
On the West Side, the street shows no fear of Chicago police - Chicago Tribune
"I’d hate it when some old-time police sergeant, usually an old white guy but sometimes black, would stand, hand on hip and sigh.
And in the laconic and bitterly ironic tone of Chicago police, he’d make the big speech of five words: “Gonna be a bad summer.”
I’d cringe, because, well, who the hell doesn’t know this?
People are outside in summer. Rich people go places. But poor people go outside. And in Chicago, guns go outside with them. Calling it “gun violence” lets local politicians off the hook, because they want to shift the blame away from the lousy schools they’ve provided and taxes that cripple or drive away businesses so there are no jobs. The proper name is “gang violence,” and the gangs kill people over drugs, money, over revenge, over nothing, over they just felt like it.
It was always going to be a bad summer.
But something happened the other day on the West Side that makes me think that old archetype of a sergeant may be right this time.
Authorities confirmed that two police officers — TAC cops, not rookies — were making a drug arrest shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday.
A mob appeared, threatening the officers, surrounding them, threatening to reach for their own weapons to shoot them dead, and the cops let the suspect go.
What is learned here? The street is officially no longer afraid of the Chicago police..." Read all.
Lawsuit Seeks Documents Potentially Showing FBI Ignored Intelligence Community IG Evidence That Chinese Hacked Clinton’s Server | The Daily Caller:
The watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to produce records detailing the FBI response to warnings that a foreign power has comprised then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server.
The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that Clinton’s server was compromised with malware that caused every one of Clinton’s emails to be copied to a foreign entity, according to a congressman on the House Judiciary Committee.
Whole Christian villages wiped out, media silent - Metro Voice News "Another week. Hundreds more dead and wounded Christians lay in villages in Nigeria while the world sleeps.
Brothers and sisters in Christ were the target of yet more bloody attacks in the last seven days as Boko Haram terrorists captured the town of Michika in Nigeria’s far eastern state of Adamawa.
It was a scorched earth attack with little left standing and few people left alive.
This time, however, the terrorists exchanging fire with government troops but the response was not enough to save families.
According to an op-ed in the Washington Examiner by journalist Douglas Burton, the attack continued for hours with an unknown number of casualties, although initial reports mentioned: “scores killed.”
...That fact remains unreported by American secular media.
University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson and suspect Nathaniel David Rowland. (Columbia Police Dept.)
Police arrested a man Saturday in connection with the death of a college student who apparently got into the suspect's car thinking it was her Uber ride. Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, was arrested early Saturday..."
What a mess. So many questions, and so little transparency in this nutty, high-visibility case. For example, why did the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office drop the case against Jussie Smollett? Why did it agree to have the record sealed? Why didn’t it consult with the police who investigated the crimes before disposing of the case? Why did it give Smollett a sweetheart deal, rather than force him to go to trial or at least insist on a guilty plea, or even a plea of no contest? Was there political pressure to drop the case? And if so, who exerted the pressure on whom, and to what end?
Exceedingly rich, white men (and women) who invest in biomedical companies are funding myriad transgender organizations whose agenda will make them gobs of money.
"...when Time magazine announced a transgender tipping point on its cover, I had already begun to examine the money behind the transgender project.
I have watched as all-women’s safe spaces, universities, and sports opened their doors to any man who chose to identify as a woman. Whereas men who identify as transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible. I was astonished that such a huge cultural change as the opening of sex-protected spaces was happening at such a meteoric pace and without consideration for women and girls’ safety, deliberation, or public debate.
Concurrent with these rapid changes, I witnessed an overhaul in the English language with new pronouns and a near-tyrannical assault on those who did not use them.
Laws mandating new speech were passed.
...These elements, along with media saturation of the issue, had me wondering: Is this really a civil rights issue for a tiny part of the population with body dysphoria, or is there a bigger agenda with moneyed interests that we are not seeing?
This article can only begin to graze the surface of this question, but considering transgenderism has basically exploded in the middle of capitalism, which is notorious for subsuming social justice movements, there is value in beginning this examination.
Who Is Funding the Transgender Movement?..." Read all!
"Pastor (and MTM CEO) Dennis Van Kampen published an absurd yarn of a pro-Trump hate mob victimizing his homeless shelter before yesterday’s Trump rally in Grand Rapids. Far-left activist Dennis Van Kampen seems to be the latest in a long line of desperate leftists faking hate crimes to manufacture sympathy for their fledgling cause in the age of President Donald Trump. “I am heartbroken, angry and ashamed. Yesterday the lines of people waiting to attend the Trump rally ran right in front of our mission. Red hats and white men as far as the eye could see,” Van Kampen wrote, already showing his extreme leftist bias in his first sentences... ...Van Kampen, who has a Facebook profile picture with a “#HereToStay I Support DACA” frame to show his support for illegal immigrants, works as CEO of Mel Trotter Ministries, a not-for-profit organization that helps the homeless of Grand Rapids. ...VanKampen deleted the original post hours after making it, as it was beginning to go viral with many Trump supporters calling him out and demanding evidence for his allegations. He can run but cannot hide from accountability as the many conservative West Michigan donors to Mel Trotter Ministries will ultimately demand answers about the organization’s leftist CEO’s baseless attempt to defame them." Read it all and make some noise!!
Border crisis beginning to bring pain home for Americans - Washington Times:
Lines at U.S. border crossings are already increasing as hundreds of officers are pulled off duty there and redeployed to help the Border Patrol process the surge of illegal immigrants being caught sneaking into the country elsewhere.
The lines represent the first real pain many Americans will feel from the illegal immigrant crisis.
But it’s going to get worse, officials said.
History for March 31 - On-This-Day.com Rene Descartes 1596 - Philosopher, "I think, therefore I am", Leo Buscaglia 1924, Gordie (Gordon) Howe 1928 - Hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers) Richard Chamberlain 1934 - Actor ("The Bourne Identity"), Christopher Walken 1943 - Actor ("The Deerhunter," "Pulp Fiction"), Al Gore 1948 - U.S. Vice President under President Bill Clinton 1880 - Wabash, IN, became the first town to be completely illuminated with electric light. 1918 - For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.
OPINION: Don’t Forget All The Democrats And Media Who Accused Trump Of ‘Treason’ | The Daily Caller:
For the past two years, Democrat politicians, liberal pundits and disgruntled former national security officials have stoked “collusion” hysteria in the media with accusations of treason against President Trump.
The mainstream media were able to keep their fake collusion narrative going for so long in large part because a steady stream of “expert” commentators were on hand to assure liberal journalists that the hoax was real.
The climate scientist depicted in the strip bears a striking resemblance to Mann, who developed the disputed “hockey stick” graph, which he claims proves global warming is imminently upon us.
After the strip was published, Mann threw a fit on Twitter.
You’re A Sucker For Not Believing That The System Is Rigged "Imagine you spent two years completely screwing up at your job, I mean not merely getting every single thing wrong but loudly, proudly getting in everyone else’s face about how right you are.
You’d get fired, terminated, 86’d, and Schiff-canned. But not the mainstream media.
The media hacks failed for two years-plus, nonstop and without equivocation, but are they ever going to be held to account?
No, they’re just going to gather in a big circle and Pulitzer each other. Imagine you committed a racial hate crime where you falsely accused people who didn’t look or think like you of a horrible atrocity, and that you’d have gladly picked some poor saps with the wrong skin tone out of a line-up and sent them to prison for decades given the chance. ...Now, what are the chances the DA is going to transform your 16 felony counts into a $10K fine and a couple days community servicing?
Your chances of said outcome are poor.
They are poor because your pals are neither Mrs. Obama or Willie Brown’s gal pal. Now imagine that you studied really hard while the rich kids partied and smoked dope and splattered water on you by running their BMWs through puddles as you walked home from high school.
...Our elite is not elite.
Instead, it’s a bunch of bums who somehow got a little money and took the reins of power and are now shaking-down our great nation for every penny they can wring out of it.
We owe them nothing – not respect, not gratitude and certainly not obedience. If you still wonder how we got Trump, just look around you. He’s a cry for help, a scream against the injustice we’re surrounded by.
This injustice is poison to our country.
This injustice is what makes republics fall apart, when the worthless ruling class pushes its contempt in the people’s collective face so hard and for so long that the population finally screams “The hell with this!” It can’t continue. It won’t continue.
That’s the essential message of my novels People's Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire, about an America split apart into red and blue nations and going uphill and way, way downhill, respectively. Check ‘em out so that when the consequences of our failed elite’s venal, stupid decisions arrive, you won’t be surprised.
Nellie Ohr, a former Fusion GPS contractor and wife to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told Congress that she “favored” Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign, and would not have researched the Democrat as she did Donald Trump.
“I would probably have been less comfortable doing opposition research that would have gone against Hillary Clinton,” Nellie Ohr told a congressional task force on Oct. 19, according to a transcript released Thursday.
Alleged Mexican drug dealer disappears after low bond, upsetting Detroit police chief - mlive.com
"DETROIT – Detroit police Chief James Craig said he’s “disappointed” and “troubled” that a man arrested with enough narcotics to earn a life sentence could flee to Mexico after a Detroit-area judge required him to pay a bond of just $200. Speaking with the media on Friday, Craig asked why Mexican national Jose Antonio Lopez, who he described as a mid-to-high level drug dealer, was treated by a Romulus magistrate as if he were someone who stole a Hersey candy bar a third time. Lopez’s bond was set by a visiting weekend judge on March 2. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy told the Associated Press that her office typically doesn't have an assistant prosecutor at weekend arraignments but said a high bond in Lopez' case was a "no-brainer." ...Lopez didn’t appear in court on March 12. Defense attorney William Winters says he hasn’t heard from Lopez, according to the Associated Press."
Wikipedia Editors Paid to Protect Political, Tech, and Media Figures | Breitbart
"A report in Huffington Post recently revealed the case of Wikipedia editor Ed Sussman, who was paid by media clients such as NBC and Axios to help diminish critical material.
Paid editors operating in a similar manner to Sussman have worked on behalf of CNN contributor Hilary Rosen and the CEOs of Reddit and Intel, among other clients.
Other conduct by Sussman not covered by the Huffington Post shows him authoring fluff pieces for NBC executives and getting his proposed changes approved by another paid Wikipedia editor..." Read all.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul implicated former President Barack Obama and former CIA Director John Brennan in the dissemination of the Steele dossier throughout the U.S. government before and after the 2016 presidential election in a Thursday morning interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Readers have likely heard of O’Sullivan’s Law: “any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.” The corollary is that the left seeks to destroy the unusual organization that successfully resists this evolution. The left is going after AIPAC precisely because it cooperates with Republicans and Democrats, and because it cooperates with the Israeli government whether its led by the left or the right. ...the constant refrain on the left that AIPAC is “right-wing” in fact should be translated to “it’s not left-wing, and anything not left-wing is implicitly right-wing and must be destroyed.”---Posted by David Bernstein" (AIPAC--American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies) More "O'Sullivan's Law":
Ban on plastic bags comes close to reality in a 3rd state
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and fellow Democrats who control the Legislature have reached a deal to make New York the third state with a ban on single-use plastic grocery bags as they worked to finalize budget agreements, officials said Friday.
The ban would prohibit grocery stores from providing plastic bags for most purchases, something California has been doing since a statewide ban was approved in 2016. Hawaii has an effective statewide ban, with all its counties imposing their own restrictions.
Supporters of such bans say they keep plastic bags from entering the environment and causing damage to ecosystems and waterways..." Read all.
On Wednesday, Education Secretary DeVos responded to widespread criticism of the proposed spending reduction with a statement saying:
The Special Olympics is not a federal program. It’s a private organization. I love its work, and I have personally supported its mission. Because of its important work, it is able to raise more than $100 million every year. There are dozens of worthy nonprofits that support students and adults with disabilities that don’t get a dime of federal grant money. But given our current budget realities, the federal government cannot fund every worthy program, particularly ones that enjoy robust support from private donations.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., confronted DeVos on the proposed spending reforms during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Thursday and said that whoever came up with the idea for the cuts “gets a Special Olympic gold medal for insensitivity.”...
DeVos responded to Durbin’s questions by saying that she wasn’t personally involved in that decision and that she hopes that the debate drives more private donations to the organization.
She added: “Let’s not use disabled children in a twisted way for your political narrative. That is just disgusting and it’s shameful.”
Furthermore, according to a report at Politico, DeVos has even been an advocate against cutting the grant funding for years.
But Durbin’s not alone. Multiple congressional Democrats have used the news to score points against the administration.
The Slow Suicide Of The Liberal Media Continues | The Daily Caller:
Ratings for CNN and MSNBC have cratered as their audiences realize they’d been lied to for two years. Will they come back? Did they walk away out of disgust or because they don’t want to hear the truth? Probably a little bit of both. We discuss.
The Duke Lacrosse Player Still Outrunning His Past | Vanity Fair "...The entire Duke-lacrosse criminal case, from the night in question to the dismissal of the criminal charges against three players—Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and David Evans—took 13 months.
In that time, lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was forced to resign; the remainder of the team’s promising 2006 season, for which Duke returned six All Americans, was canceled; and nearly the entire nation, including many of the players’ own professors, presumed their guilt.
Pressler would eventually settle with the university for an unknown amount, and Finnerty, Seligmann, and Evans are thought to have received as much as $20 million each in a confidential settlement with Duke.
If that is correct, then between legal fees, settlements, and other public-relations fees, the party on the night of March 13, 2006 may have cost Duke $100 million.
For what was subsequently adjudged to be his many shortcomings in the handling of the Duke lacrosse case, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was fired from office, was disbarred and was sentenced to one day in jail—the only person who spent any time in jail in connection with the case.
Faced with the prospect of $180 million worth of lawsuits filed against him by the Duke players, he also filed for personal bankruptcy..." Read all!
History for March 30 - On-This-Day.com Vincent Van Gogh 1853, Peter Marshall 1930 - Game show host ("Hollywood Squares"), John Astin 1930 - Actor ("Addams Family") Warren Beatty 1937 - Actor, Eric Clapton 1945 - Musician, Celine Dion 1968 - Singer 1867 - The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars. 1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.
American colleges used to pride themselves on their commitment to free speech and free inquiry. That’s the only way learning takes place, we thought, and you’d have to go back to the Dark Ages to find people who disagreed. Only now the Dark Ages have returned, with college speech codes, barking-mad left-wing student mobs and faculties that refuse to hire open conservatives.
Calling it “gun violence” lets local politicians off the hook, because they want to shift the blame away from the lousy schools they’ve provided and taxes that cripple or drive away businesses so there are no jobs.
Whole Christian villages wiped out, media silent - Metro Voice News
What a mess. So many questions, and so little transparency in this nutty, high-visibility case. For example, why did the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office drop the case against Jussie Smollett? Why did it agree to have the record sealed? Why didn’t it consult with the police who investigated the crimes before disposing of the case? Why did it give Smollett a sweetheart deal, rather than force him to go to trial or at least insist on a guilty plea, or even a plea of no contest? Was there political pressure to drop the case? And if so, who exerted the pressure on whom, and to what end?
Whereas men who identify as transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible.
ANOTHER HATE HOAX: Michigan Minister Publishes, Deletes Smollett-Style Hate Fantasies from Trump Rally - Big League Politics
“I am heartbroken, angry and ashamed. Yesterday the lines of people waiting to attend the Trump rally ran right in front of our mission. Red hats and white men as far as the eye could see,” Van Kampen wrote, already showing his extreme leftist bias in his first sentences...
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Nellie Ohr, a former Fusion GPS contractor and wife to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told Congress that she “favored” Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign, and would not have researched the Democrat as she did Donald Trump.
Wikipedia Editors Paid to Protect Political, Tech, and Media Figures | Breitbart
Readers have likely heard of O’Sullivan’s Law: “any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.” 
Readers have likely heard of O’Sullivan’s Law: “any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.” 
Ban on plastic bags comes close to reality in a 3rd state
"...The entire Duke-lacrosse criminal case, from the night in question to the dismissal of the criminal charges against three players—Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and David Evans—took 13 months.
