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he University of Michigan has fired its $927,000-a-year president for having an affair with a subordinate, a year after implementing wide sexual misconduct rules to stop people in power sleeping with their staff. Mark Schlissel, 64, was informed in a letter on Saturday that he was being fired from the role he has held since July 2014. The university has also made public 118 pages of emails between him and the woman he had an affair with. She is not named and it's unclear how their romance came to light. Among his pick-up lines are: 'Can I lure you to...

Kavanaugh Strikes Back “I have been to hell and then some.” September 27, 2018 Daniel Greenfield 178 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism “I have been to hell and then some.” When Brett Kavanaugh showed up for his confirmation hearing, he was affable and cheerful. He made a joke about his daughter’s television debut. He complimented senators from both parties. He was a non-controversial nominee looking to go through the process and then move on to the Supreme Court. But now Judge...

The Left’s Unfunny War on Comedy Laugh at the left, if you dare. September 14, 2018 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. Norm MacDonald was getting his hair and makeup done for The Tonight Show when the comedian was told by Jimmy Fallon, the show’s host, that he wouldn’t be going on. It wasn’t the first time that NBC had booted Norm. During the Saturday Night Live era, he had been fired from the show for repeatedly calling O.J. Simpson...

Luxury Socialism and the End of the Working Left Who needs necessities, when the government can give you luxuries? September 11, 2018 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism “Plan C is not ‘the organisation of the working classes’ nor do we see a necessity for one,” declares the leading Luxury Communist organization in the UK. Luxury Communism isn’t for the working class. Plan C’s motto of “Luxury for All” could just as easily be the slogan for a new hotel...

#AbolishICE “Abolished” Mollie Tibbetts The greatest monument to Mollie is not a tombstone, but a wall. August 23, 2018 Daniel Greenfield 156 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. In July, as the left chanted “Abolish ICE,” calling for the end of immigration enforcement, a Mexican illegal abolished Mollie Tibbetts. The two stories came together in August as Cristhian Bahena Rivera led law enforcement to the body of the 20-year-old college student that he had buried in a cornfield. On the same day...

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Perfect Storm And why religious freedom is at stake. August 22, 2018 Daniel Greenfield 37 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. The nation’s longest running civil rights mail order scam has almost $450 million in assets. The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by a lawyer who had formerly defended a violent racist who beat a Freedom Rider on behalf of the KKK, has a swollen bank account but is headed for a reckoning. Like most big scams,...

Thursday, August 09, 2018 Rename America Posted by Daniel Greenfield Austin’s Equity Office has recommended renaming the Texas city because of Stephen F. Austin's alleged views on slavery. But why stop at just renaming Austin when Amerigo Vespucci took and sold slaves. Austin, Texas is named after Stephen F. Austin, but America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. New York City has been on its own anti-history binge, demoting the statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ and tearing out plaques memorializing Robert E. Lee attached to a tree that he had once planted, but it’s got bigger problems. The city is...

The ADL Betrays Jews to Left-Wing Anti-Semitism An irrelevant organization has one last chance. May 22, 2018 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. The ADL has been irrelevant for 50 years. Its full organizational name, the Anti-Defamation League, like that of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is rarely used because that identity and mission lie in another era. The ADL was founded in 1913 to promote the acceptance of Jews in mainstream society. Its founding charter...

The Religion of Racism Only believing in white evil can save you now. May 14, 2018 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. Obama once called slavery, “America’s original sin”. Jim Wallis, a member of Obama’s White House Faith Council, has a book out titled, "America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege". Accusations of sinfulness usually tell us more about the values of the accuser than the accused. If racism is America’s original sin, then its redemption lies in anti-racism. For liberal...

Sunday, April 22, 2018 Big Banks Target the Bill of Rights Posted by Daniel Greenfield The American people lent $45 billion to Bank of America during the bailout. That bailout came with a hefty $100 billion guarantee against losses on toxic assets. That money came from American taxpayers. It came from gun owners and non-gun owners. But Bank of America has warned that it will refuse to lend money to manufacturers of “assault-style guns”. It had previously announced it was edging away from the coal business to fight global warming. Citigroup got $476 billion in cash and guarantees: the most...

September 16, 2012 Ambassador Susan Rice Denies Obama Needs Viagra Daniel Greenfield Visiting in Cairo to check out the River of Denial, Ambassador Susan Rice, one of the 40 least qualified members of the administration, assured reporters that Obama is not impotent and America is not under attack by Muslims around the world. Then she explained her plans to fly home by closing her eyes and clicking her heels three times. “We’re not impotent,we’re not even less popular to challenge that assessment” said Rice. ” What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi and many other parts of the region...

Ruby was a knishman who I remember in Bayview Projects, Canarsie, in the early-mid sixties. Everyone remembered his most famous quote, spoken with a BOOMING voice: "GET YOUR HOT POTATO KNISHES, I WANT TO SEND MY WIFE TO FLORIDA! My other recollections of Ruby as a kid not yet 10 years old are: -Ruby was always in the best of spirits (I do not recall EVER seeing such a serious face as in the picture). -We often did not have the 12 cents for the knish. Ruby would still let us hang out by his wagon. He would give us...