A devout Christian family fled to the U.S. 15 years ago on account of its persecution by the German state. Despite an initially successful asylum claim and setting down roots in Tennessee, the Obama administration saw fit to deracinate the Romeike clan. The Biden administration was set to follow through with the family's expulsion this month but came up against significant opposition.
An instructor at Stanford University has been suspended after targeting Jewish students as “colonizers” and making them stand in a corner of the room. The pro-terrorist Stanford instructor then told the students, “This is what Israel does to the Palestinians.”
...“Yesterday we sent out [messages] that we aren’t proud of,” BLM Chicago tweeted. “We stand with Palestine & the people who will do what they must to live free. Our hearts are with, the grieving mothers, those rescuing babies from rubble, who are in danger of being wiped out completely.”
The group, which has more than 60,000 followers, posted an image of a person paragliding with a Palestinian flag attached to its parachute and “I stand with Palestine” written beneath, leading to outrage.
Their original tweet was deleted but later on, the group put out a statement defending their stance. The follow-up didn't go over well either.Did it recently get awkward for some BLM supporters?...
As we reported Thursday, DeSantis said that he had "issued an executive order to send airplanes to Israel to rescue the 20,000 Americans who are now stranded amid a war," with approximately 1,000 of them from Florida.
Kinzinger thought that was worth an eye roll.
And then he turned off replies. We noticed that Kinzinger hasn't added an Israeli flag emoji next to his beloved Ukrainian flag.
Students’ ACT scores hit a more than 30-year record low, according to the organization that administers the college admissions test. Meanwhile, some universities have opted to drop admission testing requirements altogether.
High school students’ results have been declining for six consecutive years. Approximately 1.4 million students took the test this year, an increase from the previous year, and the average composite score declined by 0.3 points from 2022.
A father of four recently stripped down to a spaghetti-strap crop top and short shorts at a Gilbert, Arizona, school board meeting to protest a more lenient dress code proposal at his kids' school district.
What are the details?
“Under the proposed policy, this would be appropriate in a classroom,” Ira Latham told the governing board members of the Higley Unified School District last month as he removed his shirt and pants, revealing a much more — ahem — revealing getup.
“The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.” - — Thomas Jefferson in his 1813 letter to John Adams
"...When Americans learn about the founding age of this country, they learn mostly about revolutionary opposition to monarchy, foreign rule, and unjust taxation...
That’s all well and good.
They also learn, rightly, about the founding generation’s deep resentment of the hereditary aristocracies of Europe. In the words of the historian Gordon Wood, the founders saw American republicanism as “a vindication of frustrated talent at the expense of birth and blood. For too long, they felt merit had been denied.”
But there is a second, often untold story. The founders were indeed opposed to the aristocracies of Europe, and to the total rejection of egalitarianism inherent to monarchy; but they did not discount the idea that certain people had greater talents than others, and that this was relevant for government. Quite the contrary. Jefferson called this the “natural aristocracy” — an elite based not on wealth or birth, but on virtue and talent...
Sometimes a flare goes up in the darkness and you can see where everyone is standing.
"...The bodies of all the young festivalgoers, pensioners and beheaded babies hadn’t even been found before people began making excuses for their murder. And even praised the mass slaughter. On Sunday, just 24 hours after the atrocities, Hamas terrorists were still killing Jews in Israel. And radical extremists were gathering in Times Square to celebrate their actions.
According to Kelly, while these horrifying images are circulating, there are Washington Post journalists liking tweets that say things like: “What did you think decolonization meant? Did you think it meant vibes? Losers.”
“That happened,” Kelly says, disgusted. “Her name is Karen Attia. She writes for the Washington Post.”
There is an old expression: “Success has a thousand fathers but failure is always an orphan.”
"We can judge the results of the pandemic response, then, by the number of people who claim it as their own.
So far the answer seems to be: none. These days, if you listen to the rhetoric, you would think that absolutely no one forced anyone to do anything, not even take the jab.
There were no mask mandates.
No one was ever locked down.
There were some mistakes, sure, but those came only from doing the best we could with the knowledge we had.
Other than make well-considered recommendations, they didn’t force anyone to do anything...
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.
A tearful Israeli mother whose boys, 12 and 16, were taken hostage by Hamas amid its surprise attack against Israel accused MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell of trying to garner sympathy for "animal human beings" in the terror organization.
What are the details?
The mother, whose name wasn't given, sat for a video interview with Mitchell and frequently sobbed as she gave a gut-wrenching description of listening on the phone as her sons were abducted by Hamas after hiding in a safe room in their home.
"Walmart’s recent decision to shut downhalf of its Chicago stores highlights a troubling reality for big-box retailers: operating in urban markets isn’t easy...
The company says it closed the stores because they hadn’t been profitable in years... Some observers have blamed higher levels of shoplifting for the retailer’s retreat from urban markets... Companies including Target (TGT), Albertsons (ACI), and Lowe’s (LOW) have called out more instances of so-called inventory shrink, or the loss of inventory tied to theft, administrative errors, and damage...
