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Presidents of prestigious universities often make outrageous decisions inconsistent with such bedrock values as freedom of expression and providing the accused with traditional American due process. The shameful manner in which Princeton University fired Joshua Katz, a distinguished scholar and winner of several teaching awards, leads me to consider Christopher Eisgruber to be the worst Ivy League president, eclipsing even the earlier shenanigans of Yale’s Peter Salovey. Princeton’s invidious ousting of Katz is objectionable on at least six grounds: For those unfamiliar with the case, Prof. Katz was fired over alleged improprieties related to an offense—having consensual sexual relations with...

The ShopRite worker arrested for allegedly hitting Rudy Giuliani on the back inside a Staten Island supermarket walked free from court Monday after his charges were downgraded. Daniel Gill, 39, who was still dressed in his ShopRite uniform following his Sunday arrest, kept his head down and refused to answer questions as he left Staten Island Criminal Court after his arraignment Monday. His charges were downgraded to third-degree assault, third-degree menacing, and second-degree harassment over the caught-on-camera attack inside the supermarket. Gill, who had no priors, was initially charged with second-degree assault involving a person over age 65. Judge Gerianne...

Russia fired a series of rockets at a shopping center in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, on Monday, raising alarm bells that Russia is stepping up its attacks on civilian structures regardless of the loss of life.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday there were more than a thousand civilians inside the shopping mall and the casualties to come might bring even more shock and horror to Ukrainian people already confronting so much death and destruction as Russia has been waging war in Ukraine for 124 days.“The number of victims is impossible to imagine,” Zelensky said on Telegram. “The mall is on fire, rescuers...

Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt obligations for the first time since the Bolshevik revolution in 1918. Sanctions launched by an alliance of western nations in response to president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have hobbled the Kremlin’s access to its assets, meaning it has been unable to pay foreign investors. Moscow missed a grace period deadline today on a $100m interest payment that was originally due on 27 May, tipping the country into default for the first time in over a century... America’s Treasury department blocked Russia from making payments last May (out of sanctions frozen funds), effectively...

"When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." "If we...

Democrats still have control over the media, which is why you may not know that they’re losing popularity at an alarming rate.In the last year, more than 1 million voters across 43 states have made the switch back to the republican party.The vast majority of these voters include former Donald Trump voters who turned against him in 2020.What does this all mean?Basically, it means that the people who turned away from President Trump have realized what a mistake they made!Of course, this is only good news if our elections are fair.There is still widespread evidence of voter fraud.Still, this cuts...

The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.” It sounds boring. Actually, it would have fundamentally changed, in the best possible way, the entire functioning of the administrative bureaucracy that rules this country in a way that bypasses both the legislative and judicial process, and has ruined the checks and balances inherent in the US Constitution. The administrative state for the better part of a century, and really dating back to the Pendleton Act of...

"The melee led to the deaths of five people and injuries to over 100 Capitol Police officers, but it would have been significantly worse if the insurrectionists had mounted an gun-powered incursion." Still beating this drum....disingenuous trash. There was one person killed that day. An unarmed protester, by police.

PolitiFact’s routine tendency to defend President Biden’s accuracy in his public proclamations continued within hours of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on Friday. Biden claimed America was now an “outlier among developed nations” in the world. Madison Czopek and Tom Kertscher claimed this was “Mostly True.” This was their quickie summary: -- The reversal of Roe v. Wade eliminated the national right to abortion access in the U.S., leaving it to states to regulate. -- That makes the U.S. an outlier among other developed nations, which have laws or court rulings that provide for national access to abortion. This was...

<p>The photo shows Zelenskyy appearing not to reciprocate Macron's seemingly enthusiastic hug.</p><p>The photo has since become an instant internet meme.</p><p>Zelenskyy's ear at the time. The two had just concluded a joint news conference alongside other European Union leaders.</p>

In the days and weeks after George Floyd’s fentanyl overdose, America’s universities proudly proclaimed an imminent “racial reckoning” on campus. “Diversity,” understood in a very specific way, became the top objective. Harvard’s university press published books on how to eliminate schools that were “too white.” Activists demanded the abolition of “white supremacist” standardized tests, and dozens of schools swiftly complied. Two years have passed. Last fall, American colleges welcomed their first 100% post-George Floyd classes, and the results are clear: At one elite school after another, ordinary white Americans are being treated as academia’s “undesirables” and are slowly being cleansed...

At 10:11 a.m. SCOTUSBlog released the decision to overturn Roe v Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. When the decision was read in front of the Court building in Washington D.C., pro-life counter-protestors cheered with delight. The abortion activists however, broke out every swear in the book, sobbed, and threw rage filled temper tantrums. The MRCTV team visited SCOTUS for the momentous event and captured the reactions of civilians. The abortion activists carried vile signs including ones that said “Off With Their *****,” “I Am A Vagina Voter,” and “Pro-Life Is A Lie, They Don’t Care If People...

About 75% of these "children" that claim to be age 15-17. Potentially thousands of parentless children will be detained at an abandoned school campus within a middle-class neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, before the children are released to sponsors across the country. The government is hiring 800 workers to staff the facility, the American Hebrew Academy said in a statement, an indication of just how wide-scale the operation will become in the next few weeks. The campus includes 16 dormitory buildings, 35 residential staff apartments, and an $18 million athletic center that features rock climbing walls, basketball courts, and an...

Learn how to make a bug hotel to provide a valuable habitat for pollinators and other insects Knowing how to make a bug hotel is a valuable addition to the garden, encouraging and protecting a wide range of pollinators and other insects. A popular addition to wildlife garden ideas, these bug hotels can be found ready made online, in supermarkets and garden centres. However, they are great to make at home too. HOW TO MAKE A BUG HOUSE: STEP BY STEP GUIDE Start by sourcing your materials – ensure that all the wood is natural and untreated. Even better is...

<p>Police said an argument over a sandwich at a Downtown Atlanta Subway restaurant led to a deadly shooting.</p><p>ATLANTA - An argument over mayonnaise at a Downtown Atlanta Subway ended with one worker dead and another in the hospital.</p><p>Police say the shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. at a Subway located at a gas station on Northside Drive Southwest.</p>

Nathan W. Jones leads the Bay Area chapter of the Black Gun Owners Assn. But until a few years ago, he wasn't even into guns. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. And George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sending racial justice protesters into the streets. And white supremacists trashed the U.S. Capitol in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Suddenly, it seemed as if America was on the brink. And with the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe vs. Wade on Friday, emboldening a militant array of white Christian nationalists, we clearly still are. "I had visions of mobs dragging people through the...

Cruise Lines Can’t Duck Their Debt-As the cruise industry recovers, debt that buoyed business during the pandemic now could sink stocksWall Street Journal 6-27-22Cruise ships, it seems, are like ducks—elegant and effortless above the water, fighting like crazy to stay afloat beneath. On the surface, the industry is finally steaming ahead after over a year at bay: The world has reopened, occupancy limits have relaxed and bookings are at or above prepandemic levels. Carnival Corp., CCL -1.76%▼ Royal Caribbean Group RCL -2.98%▼ and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings NCLH -2.84%▼ are all eyeing a near-term return to profitability this year—a milestone...

Key Points: -The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot announced it will hold a new hearing on Tuesday “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” -The surprise hearing was set for 1 p.m. ET on Capitol Hill. - It was not immediately clear which witness or witnesses planned to testify.The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot announced it will hold a new hearing on Tuesday “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” The surprise hearing, set for 1 p.m. ET on Capitol Hill, was announced Monday afternoon. It was not...

Los Angeles, 2019. Bursts of flame erupt over a city bathed in perpetual twilight. From the pyramid-like offices of the Tyrell Corporation, we see an eye in close-up, the lights of the city reflected in it. Whether this eye is human is yet to be determined. But, ultimately, in Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterwork, the eye of the beholder is irrelevant. In the world of Blade Runner the future is a hardscrabble hellscape with no escape. Is it any wonder, then, that Rutger Hauer’s band of rogue replicants – humanoid worker robots designed to blend in with the flesh and...

Europe imports up to 200 million mostly wild frogs every year. The giant African bullfrog (pictured) may already be extinct in Swaziland. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy A voracious appetite for frogs’ legs among the French and Belgians is driving species in Indonesia, Turkey and Albania to the brink of extinction, according to a report. Europe imports as many as 200 million mostly wild frogs every year, contributing to a serious depletion of native species abroad. Scientists estimate that the Anatolian water frog could be extinct in Turkey by 2032, because of over-exploitation while other species such as the Albanian water...