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The U.S. college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out. A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting emotional distress on everyone whose "rights to a fair chance at entrance to college" were stolen through their alleged conspiracy. In the largest known college admissions scandal in U.S. history, federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a California company made about $25 million by charging parents...

Now is the time for impeachment. People in D.C. ask: What would it mean for our 2020 strategy? But I ask what it means for the people I grew up with, the residents of my district, and what it means for all of us, as Americans, to have Donald Trump remain our president. Trump’s years in office are years we cannot get back. But more dangerous than the loss of time is allowing Trump’s precedents to take root. In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has indicted Paul Manafort for mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies. This is a nakedly political prosecution. Democrats, who run the Empire State, are apoplectic that President Trump could pardon his former campaign manager, who has been sentenced to 90 months in prison in the Mueller probe. Well, as the New York Times notes, the New York state charges filed Wednesday are based on bank loans that were part of the fraud charges brought by Robert Mueller in the Virginia case. The Times says that “the Manhattan prosecutors deferred their inquiry...

The number of civilians who have been stopped, questioned, and frisked by the NYPD has dropped dramatically during the de Blasio Administration, going from a high of nearly 700,000 in 2011 when Mayor Bloomberg was in charge, to a low of 12,000 in 2017, a new report shows.

A subway poster advertising a commemorative book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg was defaced with anti-Semitic and other slurs. The NYPD's hate crimes unit is investigating slur-ridden "DIE" graffiti scrawled on a Brooklyn subway station poster of Ruth Bader Ginsburg after a rider flagged it on Twitter Tuesday. "What is going to be done about this?" the rider captioned in her tweet, tagging the mayor's office, the MTA and NYPD among other accounts. She said it was spotted at the Nassau Avenue G train stop. "DIE" in all capital letters is scrawled in black marker across Ginsburg's forehead on the poster;...

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Is this the great reckoning for higher education? Did it take “Aunt Becky” from “Full House” to finally wake a generation to the idea college – especially expensive, elite colleges - are nothing more than the educational version of time shares in Cancun? Let’s hope. Years ago, I remember discussing college plans with my friends and parents. I was an aspiring radio personality. My focus in high school was exclusively media and performance. As I look back on that time, I remember EVERYONE telling me why I HAD to go to “BIG COLLEGE X” because EVERYONE knew that’s where you...

Nearly a Dozen Real Estate Honchos Charged in College Cheating Scheme Nearly a dozen real estate CEOs were among the nearly 50 people charged in a nationwide scheme to cheat on college entrance exams to get children into elite colleges, federal prosecutors said. The mostly California-based suspects, which include a former Cushman & Wakefield broker and the former CEO of investment management firm Pimco, allegedly bribed coaches and school administrators to gain admissions into schools like Yale, Stanford, USC and Georgetown, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced this morning. From 2011 to 2019, prosecutors said that William Singer, 58,...

An internal chart prepared by federal investigators working on the so-called "Midyear Exam" probe into Hillary Clinton's emails, exclusively reviewed by Fox News, contained the words "NOTE: DOJ not willing to charge this" next to a key statute on the mishandling of classified information. The notation appeared to contradict former FBI Director James Comey's repeated claims that his team made its decision that Clinton should not face criminal charges independently. Fox News has confirmed the chart served as a critical tip that provided the basis for Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe's explosive questioning of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page last...

READ: The transcribed interview of Peter Strzok by the Committee on the Judiciary, joint with the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. INTERVIEW OF: PETER STRZOK https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/06.27.18%20Interview%20Of%20Peter%20Strzok.pdf

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top prosecutor Andrew Weissmann will by leaving his role at the special counsel’s office and Justice Department soon, to the Special Counsel’s office. Special Counsel spokesman Peter Carr told SaraACarter.com that “Andrew Weissmann will be concluding his detail to the Special Counsel’s Office in the near future.” Carr did not elaborate on whether or not Mueller’s Special Counsel will be wrapping up. Weissmann, described by The New York Times as Mueller’s “Pitbull” for his style and tactics of prosecuting cases. In 2015 Weissmann was selected to run the Department of Justice’s criminal fraud section and was...

A federal judge ordered multiple senior Obama Administration officials, State Department officials and former Hillary Clinton aides Thursday to provide answers under oath to questions requested by Judicial Watch after a roughly four year court battle. Judicial Watch, a leading conservative non-profit watchdog group, announced the schedule of depositions in their case in a press release Thursday. The Judicial Watch questions regard two separate cases regarding the Obama administration’s actions during the Benghazi terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Libya, and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to send classified government emails. “Judicial Watch is...

An official statement of the Serbian ChurchÂ’s position on the Patriarchate of ConstantinopleÂ’s actions in Ukraine and the schismatic Ukrainian Church it created there was sent to Patriarch Bartholomew and published on the site of the Russian PatriarchateÂ’s Synodal Department for External Church Relations in late February and subsequently on the site of the Serbian Orthodox Church. And, as the Serbian site Politika reported on Tuesday, the Serbian hierarchs subsequently sent their position statement to all the Local Churches, informing them that they consider ConstantinopleÂ’s actions non-canonical, and that the only Church they recognize in Ukraine is that headed by...

Asra Nomani comes with the message not to fear Trump, but to fear Islamic extremism Nancy Pelosi tried to offset the storm of criticism against new Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s succession of anti-Semitic remarks by claiming “I don’t think Ilhan Omar is Anti-Semitic. She has a different experience in her use of words, and she doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with meaning she doesn’t realize.” Pelosi showed her ignorance of the cultural and ethnic background that allowed Somali-born Omar to say what she said, and mean what she said. But Pelosi did stumble on the kernel of...

The U.S. does not have to be Venezuela, either socialist or grid down As if the complete — and inevitable — collapse of Venezuela’s disastrous socialist experiment were not bad enough, the long-suffering population there is now five days into a near-total collapse of its electric grid. People are increasingly desperate for the most basic necessities of life, most especially water.

Make it a One-Way Ticket, President Guaido: A magnificent idea whose time has come: Sending Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and all other self-professed socialist Democrats to visit Venezuela to witness the kind of socialism they’re shilling, playing live in human tragedy. Venezuelan President Juan Guaido issued them a personal invite on Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan Show on Monday.

As William Barr completes his first month as attorney general under the Trump administration, the White House is calling on him to take more action against members of the Department of Justice. Disagreement over General Flynn case led to departure. Andrew Weissmann is leaving the Mueller team, after being pushed out yesterday by William Barr… SCOOP: Barr and Mueller’s discussions on General Flynn led to memo ending cooperation. Weissman pushed to continue pic.twitter.com/nuXCA3UizO — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 14, 2019 Sanitized version from NPR......... https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703108073/top-mueller-prosecutor-stepping-down-in-latest-clue-russia-inquiry-may-be-ending

Matins, Hours, Typica and Vespers for Clean Thursday the fourth day of Lent (English & Slavonic- appx 3:13 hrs)

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Republicans are undermining the President of The United States, some even dress up as Constitutional conservatives. Some of them don’t understand the Constitution, the separation of powers, or the budget process.

The public's anger is steadily building as more and more corruption, in all its forms, is exposed. The globalist deep state elites and their compromised and complicit minions in Hollywood /media are increasingly becoming the targets of anger, scorn, ridicule and disgust. Check out the scathing comments to Lori Loughlin's daughter in the wake of the College entrance corruption scandal coming to light. https://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/lori-loughlins-daughter-is-getting-absolutely-roasted-on-social-media-right-now/85910633/