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The Covid-19 pandemic forced colleges to shift to online learning, often with disastrous results. Students are no fools and many of them are suing for a discount. They have realized what higher education is loath to admit: Instruction is not what they, their parents and the American taxpayer are paying full price for. The most common discount on offer appears to be a 10% tuition reduction, but some students are pushing for far more. They claim that nonacademic activities, from school plays and concerts to networking and parties, represent a lot more than 10% of the price tag of college....

A top official with the billionaire-backed Berggruen Institute has called for the kidnapping and execution of writer Michael Anton for exposing the color revolution coup that is taking place to oust President Donald Trump from office regardless of November’s voting results. Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams highlighted the grotesque tweet made by Vice President of Programs Nils Gilman comparing Anton to French fascist sympathizer Robert Brasillach: The Berggruen Institute has collaborated intently with the Washington Post in the past. The rag, owned by Amazon founder and technocratic globalist Jeff Bezos, worked with Berggruen on WorldPost, which later became Noema Magazine....

Australia's stinging trees have leaves that look "a bit fuzzy and not that scary" when you first see them, says pain researcher Irina Vetter. But don't be fooled. "If you look closely, you can see that the fuzziness is actually just tiny little silica needles that are filled with fluid, which really we can think about as a venom now," Vetter told As It Happens host Carol Off. "And it gets injected into your skin sort of in a fashion like a hypodermic needle." Vetter, a pain researcher at the University of Queensland, has co-authored a new study examining...

There is a growing debate over whether or not Mitch McConnell should discard the committee process on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and simply take the vote to the floor of the Senate. Here’s why I support a middle ground position on that question. Contrary to popular belief, there is no constitutional requirement for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on any nominee by the President. This is true of all positions, whether they be political appointees to run the federal bureaucracy or judicial appointees at the district, appellate and Supreme Court levels. Here is the text of the...

The Supreme Court is now a central issue in the election campaign, and House Democrats are helpfully holding a hearing Tuesday on the subject. This is a chance for the Republican minority to ask Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about his ties to what he likes to call “dark money” and court packing. The subject of Jerry Nadler’s Judiciary Committee hearing is "Maintaining Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: Examining the Causes and Consequences of Court Capture.” One purpose of the hearing is to give Mr. Whitehouse, who is in the Senate minority, a chance to showcase his political...

If Ken Starr, in The Wall Street Journal, praises his late friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg as humane, conscientious and just plain nice, that's good enough for me. We can talk later about who's going to take her Supreme Court seat and when. I am minded, in the meantime, to remember her less as a constitutional bulldozer and more as a jurist cognizant of considerations --tact and caution, chiefly -- that bolster a democratic republic's survival chances. Down to cases. Roe v. Wade, the 7-2 decision whereby the court turned abortion into a pregnant woman's personal right. A right Ginsburg supported...

We’ve seen it repeatedly since George Floyd’s drug overdose: Chanting mobs of mostly young, white people surround diners at restaurants or drivers in cars and force them to repeat the “black lives matter” mantra. While some of those happily chant along, it’s evident that many are doing so because they are terrified of the screaming, violent, obscene mob surrounding them. For many of us, it’s like watching an American reprise of China’s Red Guard and its frightening struggle sessions. Paul Joseph Watson agrees. He’s has put together a video that shows how precisely today’s mob replicates China’s Red Guard. I...

Jill Biden's ex-husband has said he was 'betrayed by the Bidens', claiming once again that he was still married to Jill when she met Joe, and denying the well-publicized story of the Bidens' meeting on a blind date. Bill Stevenson, 72, told Inside Edition the Bidens' fairytale story of meeting on a blind date shortly after Jill finalized her divorce and while Joe was dealing with the trauma of his first wife's death in a car crash was a lie. During tonight's interview, host Steven Fabian asked Stevenson: Is the story of the blind date true? 'No, not even a...

image from flickr.com U.S. Army Material Command John B. Snyder, Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y.   CC 2.0  12 January, 2012. In Louisville, Kentucky, the City has reached a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit rising from the no-knock raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment. Breonna's boyfriend thought the raid was a home invasion.  An exchange of gunfire through the door resulted in Breonna being killed on 13 March of this year. (edit) the shots which killed Breonna were fired inside the apartment. Only one shot was fired by Breonna's boyfriend. Several shots were fired from outside the apartment to inside, but did...

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The protests continued for more than 101 days before smoke from wildfires stalled the nightly demonstrations earlier this month. Friday was the first late-night protest in more than a week. It was also the first since Mayor Ted Wheeler barred Portland police from unleashing tear gas on demonstrators and people who live nearby. Yet social media was still filled with reports of tear gas Friday night. Multiple independent reporters said federal officers deployed gas as they forced the crowd away from a South Portland Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building. Federal officials have not yet confirmed the reports. Live videos from...

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed legislation that he described as “bold” on Monday. Judging by the plain text of the proposal and the responses to it, bold is an understatement. Under the “new criminal offenses” section established by the would-be Combatting Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act, DeSantis declared it a third-degree felony to obstruct traffic during an “unpermitted protest, demonstration or violent or disorderly assembly.” Notably, the next clause purports to remove liability for injury or death a driver causes if that driver is “fleeing for safety from a mob. Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum...

By WYFF | September 21, 2020 at 3:23 PM EDT - Updated September 21 at 10:48 PM DUNCAN, S.C. (WYFF) - A North Carolina man was arrested in the Upstate after he was caught looking under a woman’s bathroom stall at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, according to Duncan police Chief Carl Long. Long said a 15-year-old girl spotted Douglas Lane, 53, looking underneath the bathroom stall. He said it happened Sunday at the Duncan restaurant. Douglas Lane arrested outside Cracker Barrel in Duncan. Long said parents in town for a girl’s softball tournament stopped Lane until officers arrived. A WYFF...

The status of news related to George Soros on Fox News gets curiouser and curiouser. On September 16, Newt Gingrich was unceremoniously interrupted and silenced he began mentioning Soros’s funding the campaigns of radical district attorneys on the daytime show Outnumbered, sparking outrage on the part of many viewers. But last night, the network’s top-rated star, Tucker Carlson, took up the subject of Soros funding radical DAs as a lead-in to an interview with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has proposed legislation cracking down on violent demonstrators of the sort that have not been prosecuted by Soros-funded DAs. Here is...

By the last American mail we have the reply of the President of the United States to the proposal submitted by Lord JOHN RUSSELL for putting an end to the Slave-trade, and we regret to learn that they do not, upon the whole, appear to meet the views of the American Government. Our readers will recollect that the Foreign Minister has expressed an opinion to the effect that three things must be done before this traffic can be suppressed. The first is to establish a more efficient system of cruising off the coasts of Cuba; the second is to establish...

China is threatening to cut off our supply of critical medicines even as we suffer in the midst of a pandemic. A shocking headline from the South China Morning Post on August 26 highlights just how real this threat truly is: “China Could Weaponise drug exports to retaliate against US chip restrictions, Beijing Advisor Says.” As I have highlighted in a previous op-ed, this threat must not be taken lightly. The South China Morning Post is owned by Alibaba and believed by many to be a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. Li Daokui, the advisor quoted in the article, is a...

Donald Trump has outsourced his Middle East policy to his son-in-law Jared Kushner. At best, it would be a waste of time, as Kushner had no experience in foreign policy. At worst, he will use this opportunity to line his own pockets. That was one of the many lines of attacks waged by the mainstream media on President Trump. Why is amateur Kushner in the White House at all, they asked indignantly? Then something unexpected happened: The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced peace deals with Israel. This good news for the world was bad news for the media. The...

[Note: This piece is heavy on video content.] Fox News can’t mute Tucker Carlson. – Fox is moving increasingly left during its daytime programming, but the ratings power of its evening host lineup is keeping that four-hour block steadfastly conservative. Late last week, we saw the spectacle of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich being shut down by Harris Faulkner, Melissa Francis and Marie Harf when he raised the unarguable fact that George Soros has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade supporting radical anarchists in district attorney elections all over the country. This summer, we...

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are on the cusp of making history. With Trump having named two justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, they have an opening to elevate a third justice to fill the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, thereby securing the constitutionalism of the court for a generation. Trump and McConnell need only persuade 50 of the 53 Senate Republicans to vote to confirm the nominee Trump says he will send up at week's end, following the days of mourning for Ginsburg. Two Republican senators, however, Susan Collins of...

Off and on the Democrats have been discussing we all need to eat more vegetables consistent with their Green New Deal plans they have for us all in which meat, at the bare minimum, would become even more expensive than it is now. Eating meat, particularly beef, is considered too expensive and creates climate change/global warming because of all the bovine methane filling the air. National Socialism also discussed how vegetarian diets would be more sustainable for Germany and the New World Order they were planning for Europe, particularly after the war was won ...