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Tucker Carlson had already unearthed proof back in 2018 that the Obama administration had placed a new emphasis on diversity over traditional hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration. President Donald Trump suggested during a news briefing Thursday that the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., may have had something to do with the lowering of standards for air traffic controllers that occurred first during the Obama administration and later during President Joe Biden's time in office.

After often remaining silent about her name being used in cultural disputes, Caitlin Clark has spoken up. The WNBA phenom was named Time's Athlete of the Year after putting women's basketball and women's sports on the map. After she entered the league, there were several comments made about her being White. WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson said Clark being White was a "huge thing" when it came to Clark's popularity. Angel Reese even said there had been "a lot of racism" from Iowa and Indiana Fever fans. Connecticut Sun player DiJonai Carrington, who poked Clark in the eye during a Connecticut...

A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy may continue to consider race when evaluating candidates to attend the elite military school, even after the U.S. Supreme Court last year barred civilian colleges from employing similar affirmative action policies.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy can continue considering race in its admissions process, ruling that military cohesion and other national security factors mean the officer training school should not be subjected to the same standards as civilian universities. During a two-week bench trial in September, attorneys for the school argued that prioritizing diversity in the military makes it stronger, more effective and more widely respected. The group behind the case, Students for Fair Admissions, also brought the lawsuit challenging affirmative action that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last...

The blatant anti-white discrimination at NASA has led to bloated budgets, caustic work conditions, and many of our best engineers leaving the field. The spotlight tends to shine on NASA only when a tragedy occurs or when there are issues such as the recent ones with Boeing’s Starliner. The removal of that spotlight coupled with incompetent congressional leadership has left NASA without a strong sense of purpose. This alone would be enough to damage the space program, but there’s another rather large issue: for decades, NASA has engaged in open discrimination against white male engineers. This discrimination has led to...

The ongoing controversy surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion has spilled over into the 2024 presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris on the path to becoming the Democratic nominee. Earlier this week, Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett suggested in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju that President Joe Biden chose Harris as a running mate because she was a Black woman. “100% she is a DEI hire,” Burchett said. Supporters have defended Harris, who, if elected, would become the nation’s first female president. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, UN ambassador Susan Rice called the attacks from Republicans “extremely...

Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned. The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation. Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported. Trump was receiving a LESSER level of protection afforded to former presidents and major party presidential candidates when 20-year-old...

There was a surreal scene at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday as irate senior senators chased the embattled director of the U.S. Secret Service into a women's bathroom. 'You answer to us!' 'You can't hide from us!' Senators Marsha Blackburn and John Barrasso shouted and pointed angrily - pursuing Secret Service director Kimberly A. Cheatle through the lobby of Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum and up a flight of stairs.

DEI director Loucious Hires said when every Secret Service agent makes DEI a 'mission imperative' the agency will have 'achieved our ultimate goal'

"See something, say something." After the 9/11 disaster, that phrase served as a terse marching order for alert American citizens willing to help stop terror attacks on U.S. soil. "See something, say something" is superb national security advice. 9/11 demonstrated America is under attack. Every citizen can contribute to the defense effort. On Saturday, July 13, several alert citizens attending a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, saw a young man lurking near a building adjacent to the fairground where presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump intended to deliver a speech. The young man was later seen on the...

The near-assassination of former President Donald Trump is the Secret Service’s most stunning failure in decades. That’s the opinion of her boss, Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure,” he said Monday on CNN; on ABC, it was: “A direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur.” The total security breakdown at Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally — which came an inch from killing the ex-prez, and did take Corey Comperatore’s life with two other civilians put in critical condition — is on her,...

After Microsoft laid off an internal team focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, a team leader blasted the company for a lack of investment in these efforts. "True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020," a leader of the team wrote in an email sent to thousands of employees, which was viewed by Business Insider. The email states the team was eliminated due to "changing business needs" as of July 1. It's unclear how many employees were affected. Many technology companies, including Microsoft, made commitments to improve diversity...

During a portion of an interview with ABC News that was aired on Monday’s broadcast of “World News Tonight,” Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle stated that the assassination attempt on 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump “should have never happened” and “The buck stops with me,” but she does plan to stay in her position. Cheatle said, “This is an event that should have never happened.” ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas then asked, “Who is most responsible for this happening?”

The agency has sacrificed its basic mission on the altar of DEI.It was a shot heard around the world. On Saturday, a gunman whom the FBI has identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a burst of rifle shots at former president Donald Trump, grazing his ear and nearly killing him. The attempted assassination is an historic, and perilous, moment. We’ll get commentaries and investigations, and the government will announce reforms. But amid all the chaos weaves the thread of another story, one that reveals a mounting problem in our political life. A surprising number of the Secret Service agents protecting...

CBS News Report reveals what Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been focused on: diversity hires

“called employees who don’t accept notions included in CRT, such as the existence of ‘White privilege,’ a ‘poison to culture and climate,’ and criticized equality in favor of equity”. Nancy Dome is a DEI trainer who works for Epoch Education, an organization that trains teachers and school administrators. Dome reportedly frowns upon people who object to the concepts taught in Epoch’s training sessions, such as white privilege. In one training video that is apparently no longer available to the public, she allegedly suggested that the American flag is becoming a symbol of hate. Isn’t this the natural progression of the...

Hopefully this doesn’t lead to some kind of tragedy, like the door blowing off of a Boeing jet. But that’s really crazy to think something like that would happen, just because you’re replacing the people who run the airline system with mentally retarded people. Fox News: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

Earlier this week, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots."It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."Civil rights groups were understandably horrified at the billionaire's racist comments."The only thing anyone needs to hear from Musk about diversity in the workplace is an apology," Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, told NBC News,...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has waded in on a woke row after a hospital listed people automatically guilty of privilege. Musk took to social media to leave a short but clear comment on the matter. The 52-year-old, who acquired the social media giant in October 2022, simply said: “This must end!” Musk was responding to an update released by a hospital in Baltimore. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has waded in on a woke row after a hospital listed people automatically guilty of privilege. Musk took to social media to leave a short but clear comment on the matter. The 52-year-old,...

You can probably hear the cracks forming in hardened leftist bastions throughout institutions of higher learning from here.WATCH — @realchrisrufo celebrates Governor DeSantis’ ELIMINATION of DEI. “This legislation will immediately abolish all of those programs. DONE.” pic.twitter.com/mMFMLcbyJr— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) May 15, 2023And the high-pitched keening.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday banning tax dollars from being used in state colleges for diversity, equity and inclusion programs (DEI) in a sweeping measure that also places restrictions on classroom discussion of race.While DEI programs are meant to assist in building racial, social and religious diversity among university...