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The Left’s march through Western institutions in the forms of DEI/CRT, “social justice”, and all manner of woo-woo wokeism has consequences. Let’s take schools of medicine for $200, Alex. One of the premier medical schools, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, is failing. Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame. ... “One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot. Another said...

The 80 year old billionaire wed his 30 year old boyfriend Donovan Michaels in Beverly Hills, they say. Two couples attended the small ceremony which was held in the shroud of secrecy. Congrats to all. Geffen, a media mogul, is said to be worth $7.7 billion. He’s used much of his wealth in enormous acts of philanthropy, endowing museums, arts centers, and hospitals. In the past Geffen was famously linked with Cher. But in more recent years he’s had a string of boyfriends. And now he’s tied the knot. Joni Mitchell sang that Geffen was a “free man in Paris”...

David Geffen has had a busy summer on his megayacht, as evidenced by the Instagrams shared with his 37,300 followers. The movie and music mogul, who seems to enjoy posting pics of famous friends on Instagram, has shared a string of images these past few months including a busy August when he welcomed (at the same time) Oprah Winfrey and BFF Gayle King, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger with wife Willow Bay, Barry Diller with wife Diane von Furstenberg, and Diane Sawyer. “Great week in Sicily,” Geffen wrote with a pic of Winfrey, King, Iger, Bay and Sawyer with...

The music mogul had hoped to net $100 million for the property, which has several structures, a swimming pool and spa, a theater, a gym and an outdoor living room with fireplace.

They've spent the last month quietly recuperating in French Polynesia since leaving the White House earlier this year. But Barack and Michelle Obama interrupted the quiet island life they've become accustomed to this weekend with a star-studded jaunt out to sea. The former First Couple joined Bruce Springsteen Tom Hanks and their wives on music mogul David Geffen's superyacht Rising Sun on Friday, making quite the splash as they arrived at the vessel off the island of Mo'orea in a spruced up speedboat. Once on board, the Obama's played tourists, posing romantically on the upper deck while they had their...

Officials in Beverly Hills say they tried it all: educational campaigns, usage restrictions and written notices for people suspected of wasting water. Despite those efforts, the community missed its savings target every month since June, when a statewide 25% reduction in urban water consumption became mandatory amid the punishing drought. As a result, state regulators fined the city, saying publicly that its water wasters "should be ashamed." About four months ago, city officials got tough. Beverly Hills sent letters to dozens of customers in November warning them of high water use and urging them to cut back. The city also...

After creating a huge post regarding all the different ways that the left shuffles funding around towards NPR, I realized it was probably a bit too long and I thought there might be a better way. So here is a visual which should help make it easier:

For years there has been debate about which of Carly Simon's ex-boyfriends could have inspired the hit song You're So Vain. But while former lovers Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens and Warren Beatty were left wondering whether 'this song is about you', they have been proved wrong. For the Seventies singer has finally revealed the real inspiration behind her hit track wasn't a boyfriend at all - it was openly gay record producer David Geffen. Simon, 64, ended the 38 year guessing game by whispering the name backwards on a reworked version of the song for her new album...

SINGER CARLY SIMON has finally ended a 38-year guessing game - by naming the subject of hit You're So Vain. The catty lyrics were believed to be aimed at an ex-boyfriend such as MICK JAGGER, CAT STEVENS, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON or WARREN BEATTY. But now the target has been revealed as gay producer DAVID GEFFEN, at the time head of Carly's Elektra record label. And rather than being angry about a failed relationship, Carly is thought to have resented the effort he put into promoting rival JONI MITCHELL. Carly, 64, had always claimed in public that the song was a "composite"...

November 24, 2009 Glamour and Taste: Obama Tent Feast To Curry Favour With India Giles Whittell in Washington The Obamas' first state dinner is in honour of an abstemious vegetarian There will be music from the composer of the Slumdog Millionaire theme, food from an Ethiopian-born Swedish chef and cedar chips sprinkled on the roofs of the portable lavatories. There may also be the faint patter of drizzle on canvas. The first state dinner of the Obama era, held tonight in a tent village on the South Lawn of the White House, will honour an Indian Prime Minister described by...

Broad, Geffen make Forbes' list of top billionaire collectors July 24, 2009 When it comes to wealth-porn lists of billionaires and their possessions, no one does it with more enthusiasm -- and regularity -- than Forbes. The publication today released its list of the world's top billionaire art collectors and the ranking contains many of the international art world's usual suspects: Eli Broad, David Geffen, François Pinault and more. Unlike the more comprehensive ARTnews 200 list that was published a few weeks ago, the Forbes list concentrates on billionaires and excludes gallery owners and other art trade notables. Topping the...

Obama's Billionaires Claire Obusan President-elect Barack Obama has had a slew of billionaire backers with him on his journey to the White House--plutocrats who provide economic and political advice and help to raise money. Lots of money. Obama's Billionaire Buddies Obama's national finance chairwoman during his presidential campaign was Penny Pritzker, one of 11 members of the famous Chicago family that appear on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans (combined net worth as of September: $21.6 billion). As of Nov. 24, 2008, Obama's campaign had raised a record-breaking $742 million during the election, according to the Center for...

In 1985, Barack Obama traveled halfway across the country to take a job that he didn't fully understand. But, while he knew little about his new vocation--community organizer--it still had a romantic ring, at least to his 24-year-old ears. With his old classmates from Columbia, he had talked frequently about political change. Now, he was moving to Chicago to put that talk into action. His 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, recounts his idealistic effusions: "Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. That's what I'll do. I'll organize black folks....

They were supposed to be the A Team in American politics. The Clinton Machine that inspired fear and admiration throughout the political world. They had guided Hillary through two successful Senate races in a state where she had never lived and helped her recover from scandals that nearly crippled her -- the pardons, the White House gifts, the Peter Paul fundraiser. They seemed invincible. But ever since the presidential campaign started, the Clinton operation has looked amateurish, flat-footed, defensive, and tactically clumsy. They don't seem to be at all ready for the big time. Obama has repeatedly outmaneuvered Hillary's campaign,...

WHY HILLARY'S MAGICALLY APPEARING THESIS IS LIKE CLINTON'S FOLEY HIT JOB (and not like her Rose Law Firm billing records)     by Mia T, 3.03.07       illary's thesis hit the fan just in time to stop the bleeding. Another week of falling stars 1 and dropping numbers 2 and Barack Obama would have missus clinton dead and buried before the IRS 3 could say "David Geffen." 4 The means of delivery was MSNBC "investigative" reporter Bill Dedman's scoop, 5 Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis. The online article announced to the world that ms. rodham's senior thesis,...

HILLARY CLINTON = 'GANGSTER POLITICS, DUAL MONARCHY AND THE MORAL CONSISTENCY OF A DOORKNOB': Pat CaddellCLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART FIVE by Mia T, 3.02.07 THE CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO: THE SERIES HILLARY! Can a chintzed-and-powdered villain win the White House?LEADING INDICATORS SAY 'NO'MISSUS CLINTON'S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PROBLEM - PART FIVECLINTON-GEFFEN IMBOGLIO-PART SIX AL GORE, THE OSCAR, THE NOBEL, THE CLINTONS + DAVID GEFFENCLINTON-GEFFEN IMBOGLIO-PART FOUR HEAR DENNIS MILLER: WHY GEFFEN DUMPED HILLARY,WHY CLINTON 'DOES NOT WANT TO LOCK HORNS WITH DAVID GEFFEN'CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART THREE (video and transcript) CLINTON vs. GORE + GEFFEN: POST-OSCAR ANALYSIS (HAS HOLLYWOOD DUMPED HILLARY?)CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART TWO WHY THE...

HILLARY! Can a chintzed-and-powdered villain win the White House?LEADING INDICATORS SAY 'NO' by Mia T, 3.01.07 ven the most casual observer of the American political scene would agree: It's a tossup as to whose stage presence, hillary clinton's or Al Gore's, is the more ridiculous. But as opposed to hillary-on-stage, Al thereon has a saving grace: He doesn't try to appear human. To the contrary, Al Gore embraces his humanoid essence. (In fairness to missus clinton, 'inhuman' is a measurably less salable descriptor than 'humanoid.') To better understand why this is such an advantage for Mr. Gore, simply consider...

HEAR DENNIS MILLER: • WHY GEFFEN DUMPED HILLARY • WHY CLINTON 'DOES NOT WANT TO LOCK HORNS WITH DAVID GEFFEN' CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART THREE (video and transcript)   by Mia T, 2.27.07       TRANSCRIPT: DENNIS MILLER: Listen. Hillary Clinton looked bad yesterday because Obama is the "new." She looks very old to me. And this Wolfson thing that they released today. This press release by Wolfson.... David Geffen is a friend of mine. He's always been kind to me and my wife. But let me say this. He's a BIG, BIG BRAIN. And you know how they always...

CLINTON vs. GORE + GEFFEN: POST-OSCAR ANALYSIS(HAS HOLLYWOOD DUMPED HILLARY?)CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART TWO PART ONE:WHY THE GEFFEN IMBROGLIO SIGNALS CLINTON'S END 'HILLARY'S STRATEGY--NOBODY GETS TO CRITICIZE HER' -- CHRIS MATTHEWSwith a WARNING FOR DAVID GEFFEN by Mia T, 2.26.07 ot sure whose stage presence is more ridiculus, hillary's or Al's. But at least Al Gore doesn't try to sound human. To understand why this is such an advantage for Gore, simply consider missus clinton's recent 'conversation' (with herself). It was risible. Unintentional theater of the absurd: The villain a soulless, angry, arrogant scold oozing cloying, saccharine-coated evil, pulsating to the...