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Post Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul Calls for genocide on college campuses violate New York's Human Rights Law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, & SUNY's Code of Conduct. We're prepared to take enforcement action if colleges & universities are found not in compliance. Read my letter to college presidents:

"Having become . . . much better than the angels" (Heb. 1:4). Through a deft use of the Old Testament, the writer proves that Christ is the mediator of a greater covenant. Man is a wonderful and amazing creation—higher than plants, animals, and any other material creation in this world. But there are created beings even higher than man—angels. Hebrews 2:9 shows this to be the case because when Jesus became a man, He was "made for a little while lower than the angels." After the fall of the rebellious angels under Lucifer, the angels in heaven were no longer...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 21 people have been shot, four fatally, in gun violence across Chicago this weekend, police said. A man was shot and killed Saturday night in the South Loop. The 32-year-old victim was found dead in the driver's seat of an SUV around 9:16 p.m. near South State Street and East Cermak Road, Chicago police said. He was shot more than once in the chest, police said. No one was in custody as police continue to investigate. Three people were shot, one fatally, in an exchange of gunfire on the city's Northwest Side early Saturday. Police...

Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss described living in a perpetual state of fear after Rudy Giuliani targeted the two Georgia election workers with conspiracy-fueled lies in the wake of the 2020 election. This week, a jury will tally the cost of those lies when Freeman and Moss' defamation suit against Giuliani goes to trial in Washington, D.C. A federal judge has already found the former New York City mayor liable for defamatory comments he made about the mother and daughter. The trial, slated to begin Monday, will determine the full scope of the damages and any penalties he will...

The European Commission on Monday said Germany should be allowed to pay the energy giant RWE some €2.6 billion ($2.8 billion) in state aid for the closure of coal power stations. Under German law, no more electricity is to be produced from coal from 2038 onward. However, the three-way "traffic light" coalition that makes up the German government had agreed to move the date forward to 2030. The Commission found that although the payment did constitute a form of state aid for the industry, this was necessary to achieve the goal of phasing out coal. "The Commission concluded that the...

In today's 'oh spare us' news, the left is having an absolute cow over Israeli troops flushing out Hamas terrorists from their snake holes and then forcing them to strip down to their underwear to prove to that yes, they were surrendering, and no, they didn't have a gun in their pants or a shiv in their shoes, or a strap-on bomb in their pocket, or a dynamite pack in some orifice, which is a pretty standard military safety precaution. Get a load of this from Qatar-linked al-Jazeera: Shawan Jabarin, director of the Al-Haq human rights organisation, said he was...

President Biden ignored reporters Friday while being pressed for the first time on his son Hunter's new indictment on federal tax charges. The indictment, which was handed down Thursday by DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, includes nine charges alleging a "four-year scheme" when he did not pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while also filing false tax reports. "Have you spoken to your son? Have you spoken to Hunter? Any comment on the new charges against your son, Mr. President?" reporters shouted as Biden...

The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene. Try as I might, I cannot understand the last one. Regardless, it’s absolutely the case that there has been a dramatic turning of events and our lives. It’s not just national. It’s global and devastating. I’m going with the Terrible Twenties. Everyone seems to agree that this moniker applies, regardless of class or political leanings. You can take your pick of the symptoms: ill-health, inflation, political division,...

Last week, a new Economist/YouGov poll found one in five young Americans stated that the Holocaust is a… The post Poll: 20% of Young People Say Holocaust is “Myth,” TikTok Users More Likely to be Antisemitic first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anew Economist/YouGov poll found one in five young Americans believe the Holocaust is a myth while nearly 30% believe Jews wield too much power in America. According to the poll last week, 20% of Americans ages 18 to 29 agreed with the statement, “The Holocaust is a myth,” while a greater percentage agreed...

One down, two to go. Bill Ackman appears to have a scorecard tracking which college presidents lose their jobs for their congressional statements on on-campus antisemitism, and now he's training his full fire on the two university leaders who remain. (excerpt) And Ackman's quest seems to be picking up after Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned from her position on Saturday. On Sunday, Ackman penned an open letter to Harvard's governing boards of directors, where he reiterated his call for Claudine Gay to be removed. "In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage...

The odds may still be stacked against her in the Republican primary. But should former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley capture the nomination, a stunning new poll suggests the general election would be a cakewalk for her.According to a new poll from the Wall Street Journal out Saturday, Haley — in a hypothetical one-on-one matchup with President Joe Biden — currently has a remarkable 17-point lead, 51-34. Should the matchup materialize and the margin hold, it would represent the largest winning general margin since 1984 — when former President Ronald Reagan topped Walter Mondale by 18 points.Of course, in order...

Warrantless “backdoor” searches of Americans’ private electronic communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are modern versions of the general warrants used and abused by King George III. The FBI has used Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to conduct warrantless “backdoor” searches of the private electronic communications of American citizens. It has done so, moreover, not just sporadically and by accident but quite deliberately and on hundreds of thousands of occasions. SNIP A shameful ployJohn Wilkes would be shocked by FISA 702, which the FBI has used hundreds of thousands of times to spy on Americans without...

Wealthiest 1 percent of world's population produce as much carbon as the bottom 66 percent, a new study shows. 'Ludicrous Hypocrisy' Global leaders and policymakers fixated on fighting the supposed ills of carbon emissions because of models predicting dangerous climate change have often drawn criticism for their use of carbon-spewing private jets. During World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos between May 22, 2022, and May 26, 2022, 1,040 private jets flew in and out of airports serving Davos, according to a January report by Greenpeace. The number of jets going in and out of Davos doubled during that week,...

A proposed state constitutional amendment on abortion access could boost Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) reelection chances in Montana if added to next year’s ballot. Favorable results for abortion rights activists in off-year ballot initiatives in Ohio and Kansas have prompted some Democratically-aligned groups to push for similar questions to be posed to voters in Montana, where Tester’s race will likely decide control of the U.S. Senate. Planned Parenthood Action Fund submitted a ballot initiative in the Treasure State late last month that, if affirmed, would enshrine Montanans with the right to make decisions about their pregnancy, including if they want...

FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, Dec. 10. The Richmond Whig of Dec. 9 furnishes the following: BRISTOL, Monday, Dec. 7. Gen. LONGSTREET has raised the siege of Knoxville, in consequence of heavy reinforcements received by BURNSIDE. On Friday night our forces fell back to Morristown, where a stand will probably be made. The work of putting the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad in running order will be pushed forward by Col. OWEN. Our loss at Knoxville was 600, principally in HOOD's division. Col. RUFF, of Georgia, was killed. Col. FISHER, of Mississippi, was seriously wounded. Capt. DUNN, of Gen. LONGSTREET's Staff, was...

Billboard trucks were sent to Harvard’s New England Campus on Sunday demanding the university’s president Claudine Gay be fired. The trucks displayed Claudine Gay’s photo along with the words “Fire Gay.” Claudine Gay came under fire for dismissing the calls for genocide against the Jews to be a violation of the school’s code of conduct in front of the House Education Committee earlier this month. Gay was among the university presidents grilled by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., regarding the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and the vocal calls of “intifada” during pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Stefanik asked Gay, “You understand that...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amid hundreds of lawsuits accusing clergy of sexual abuse, the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento announced on Saturday it intends to file for bankruptcy. Bishop Jaime Soto said he believes it is the most transparent, fair and respectful way to address all the claims.

DES MOINES, Iowa — A new poll is offering more insight into how Republican candidates are faring in Iowa with just five weeks left until the Iowa caucuses. For the first time during this campaign, support for Donald Trump jumped above 50%. The poll from the Des Moines Register, NBC News and Mediacom shows 51% of likely caucusgoers have Trump as their first choice for president. Ron DeSantis pulled out ahead of Nikki Haley with 19% support. Haley has 16%.

Illustration: a bumpersticker spelling out Fauci's name in the beginning letters of elements of the periodic table, with "Au" (gold) using 2 letters, with the motto "We Trust in Science". (It used to be "In God We Trust". I saw this bumpersticker on a car in Elk Grove/Sacramento.) We can recall that Dr. Fauci declared himself to be a kind of Science deity--I am Science. In history the process of an Emperor declaring himself divine is called, after the Greek phrase, apotheosis. We can recall that to make the Covid revolution work, legions of, implicit, Fauci supporters had to be...

Forbes Media chairman Steve Forbes and FBN's Larry Kudlow discuss the "moral rot" threatening Western civilization: STEVE FORBES: Well, that's the shock. We saw the antisemitism of the 1930s, we saw what happened in Germany and elsewhere. At least in this country, you didn't have it out in the open like we have today. So it's come out in the open. But the shameful and shocking thing is our civic leaders have not confronted it. They coddle it rather than condemning it. They don't want to seem judgmental. Somebody might criticize them. What it sets up is an environment where...