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In mid-September, UCLA's Race and Equity Director Johnathan Perkins was placed on leave for social media posts he made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.He did this on Bluesky, which is a hive of Leftists cheering on political violence. Here's just a sample of what he said:And here's more from ABC7 about Perkins' suspension from UCLA:UCLA's director of race and equity has been placed on leave over social media posts he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.Jonathan Perkins, an official with UCLA's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office, apparently published the remarks on BlueSky....

Officials in President Trump’s Justice Department have been scrutinizing crime data in recent months — they’ve found evidence that Democratic politicians have been skewing crime stats for their own benefit ahead of the midterm elections, The Post has learned. Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker — a vocal opponent of Trump’s use of federal troops for both immigration enforcement and fighting big-blue-city crime — has lately touted double-digit declines in Chicago crime rates where “shootings and homicides on our highways are down 60, 70, 80% depending on where you look.” But the number of felonies in Chicago — not to mention...

It’s day 20 of the Schumer Shutdown, and Donald Trump is winning. Don’t take my word for it—CNN is admitting that this Democrat-led fiasco has done nothing to hurt the president’s approval. In fact, Trump’s approval has increased. CNN’s Harry Enten broke down the numbers. In terms of ‘blame,’ even the networks data cruncher said, “it’s a different world’ for the better for the Trump White House. This wasn’t what Democrats wanted. They thought something would cave, which is a ludicrous concept: no way was Trump caving to Chuck Schumer and Temu Obama. Democrats shut down the show to extort...

Aging lefties waste a beautiful Saturday to pretend they are speaking truth to power.It’s difficult to think of a more effective way to illustrate the moral and intellectual emptiness of the American left than to have them march around demanding an end to an institution our founding fathers abolished 250 years ago. This is how the official “No Kings” website described what happened on Saturday: “On October 18, more than seven million of us rose up at more than 2,700 events in all 50 states, DC, and cities worldwide to say: America has no kings, and the power belongs to...

The White House's East Wing was being demolished on Monday to make way for President Donald Trump's gilded $250 million ballroom. Daily Mail photos showed a backhoe ripping into the once-pristine structure that has formed part of the White House complex for more than a century. Banging and crashing were heard throughout the area, as clusters of staffers and journalists watched construction equipment tear lumps out of the walls. When the ballroom project was originally announced, the president and White House officials suggested that at least a portion of the East Wing would stay intact. 'It won't interfere with the...

Weeks after the country learned that he was an illegal immigrant — and that he lived a thousand miles away in Iowa — former Des Moines schools Superintendent Ian Roberts’ name remains on Maryland’s voter rolls, according to multiple sources. How Mr. Roberts, who was arrested by ICE late last month, ended up on Maryland’s voter list in the first place has the makings of a scandal.That he remained on the list, and even had multiple absentee ballots printed for the address on file, even though he was long gone in Iowa and under Maryland’s own rules probably should have...

Eight Pacific Palisades properties, including a mansion featured in the HBO show “Succession,” were declared public nuisances for failing to clear toxic fire debris by Oct. 2. All of the owners either opted out of the federal cleanup programs, or were deemed ineligible. Owners must now remove the ash and rubble themselves or prepare for city contractors to come and clear the lots, and then send a bill. A burned-down hilltop mansion once featured in HBO’s “Succession” is one of eight Pacific Palisades properties declared a public nuisance by Los Angeles city officials who alleged the owner still hasn’t removed...

The national body of Students for Justice in Palestine backed Hamas’s grisly public executions of fellow Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, posting “Death to the Occupation, Death to Collaborators” on Instagram. The call for executions followed the murder of “journalist” Saleh Al-Jafarawi, known to critics as “Mr. FAFO” because he would post complaints about Israeli counterattacks after posting happily about Hamas attacks. Gaza has erupted into internecine violence since the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to agreed-upon ceasefire lines last Friday. Hamas has been executing members of rival armed groups and armed clans. Often, the executions are...

The president leverages America’s power well and ignores domestic criticism.Ned Price served in the Biden administration as deputy to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and as a senior adviser and spokesperson in the State Department.President Donald Trump’s brokering of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has elicited praise from across the political spectrum — and deservedly so. For his critics, this is a rare, perhaps singular, bright spot in a feckless foreign policy otherwise defined by impulse and improvisation.Far from ending Russia’s war against Ukraine on day one of his presidency, Trump has taken nearly every position imaginable...

I have held off on covering this because I wanted to see how things shook out and whether the “research” on this was valid, but now that Glenn Beck is covering it, I want to at least bring it to your attention. Is a Manhattan-sized ALIEN SHIP hurtling towards Earth?! Well, the short answer at this point is possibly so! Allow me to explain why…. Many believe it is shaped with structured geometric formations that don’t occur naturally in nature: It is reportedly made of a never-before-seen metal alloy mixture: Here are a bunch more: In fact, here’s a short...

I spent several hours putting together this 9:22 presentation that spells out how True the Ballot intends to address a deliquence that I have practiced from the time I first voted until now. The background music is Chic Corea's tune, "Friends," with the timing and tone well-suited. While I have had fruitful conversations with citizens and public officials alike, there has been a reported undercurrent behind my back asking, "Who is he to question our integrity?" I am Joe Citizen, who has questioned his own integrity first. Who among us thinks it is wise to participate in civil governance when...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region.For centuries, death and disaster met those searching for the fabled Northwest Passage. The promise of a shorter sea lane between Europe and Asia, somewhere through the icelocked labyrinth of Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, lured explorers like Sir John Franklin to their doom.Today, with sea ice melting fast, the Northwest Passage is open long enough to welcome thousands of tourists annually aboard large cruise ships. Nine are expected to dock this year at Gjoa...

The Senate needs to consider the "nuclear option" to end the Democrats' government shutdown, Rep. Chip Roy said Monday.

A federal appeals court ruled on Oct. 20 that President Donald Trump may deploy National Guard troops to deal with violence directed against federal immigration facilities in Portland while the case works its way through the lower courts.

If you really want to understand the horrors of war, don’t just read accounts written years after a battle, but instead read first-hand accounts by soldiers who were on the front lines. Similarly, to understand what has happened in the hostile takeover of American college English departments, it’s best to read a description by a professor who fought to preserve them as places where students are taught to write well by studying books by great authors. Fought and lost. His story is at once enlightening and depressing. The book at hand is Broken English Departments: The Repair Manual by Reynolds...

@RonPaul In an hysterical rant over the weekend, President Trump has blasted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as a couple of "wackos" who refuse to vote with the Republican Party. Meanwhile, President Trump has just announced that his first in-person fundraiser of the election cycle will be for...Lindsey Graham! Also today, Israel breaks ceasefire and kills dozens more Palestinians in Gaza.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — At a Spanish-speaking town hall, the Republican candidate for New Jersey governor assured two young Mexican immigrants who were brought to the United States as children that people without criminal records would not face deportation. Three nights later, Jack Ciattarelli headlined a “Make America Great Again”-style event where a far-right commentator joked about building a detention center like Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Garden State. “How about the Boardwalk Brig?” Jack Posobiec said with a laugh as he spoke later that evening at the rally.Ciattarelli, an unabashed ally of Donald Trump, recently gave the Republican president...

The new research offers “promising evidence that early allergen introduction is not only being adopted but may be making a measurable impact,” the authors concluded.The new research offers “promising evidence that early allergen introduction is not only being adopted but may be making a measurable impact,” the authors concluded.A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world.About 60,000 children have avoided developing peanut allergies after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending...

The San Jose Sharks have apologized after an apparent offensive message seeming to praise Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was displayed on the arena’s scoreboard during the team’s Hispanic heritage celebration on Saturday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Video shared with CNN showed the scoreboard displaying: “SJ SHARKS FANS LOVE ICE !! GET ‘EM BOYZ !” Some fans at SAP Center in San Jose, California, can be heard booing in response. Sharks fan Jessica Clark told CNN she and her group were “appalled” by the message. “They’re my favorite team — I even have tattoos — but this was something...

Summary Loan losses revive U.S. bank M&A talks Auto bankruptcies deepen credit market fears Bank boards have been discussing deals as regulatory landscape shifts M&A timeline among regional banks could accelerate NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Jitters around U.S. banks' exposure to loan losses have fueled expectations for more mergers and acquisitions as big buyers may be spurred to look to absorb smaller or weaker rivals, according to four senior industry sources. More than two years after the sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank that destabilized the industry, auto company collapses and bad loans have hurt bank stocks in...