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  • Haitian migrant, 26, who came to US via Biden's parole program is charged with raping disabled girl at Boston shelter

    03/15/2024 5:06:27 PM PDT · by libh8er · 40 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3.15.2024 | Will Potter
    A Haitian migrant who came to the US via President Biden's controversial parole program has been charged with the rape of a 15-year-old disabled girl. Cory Alvarez, 26, was arraigned Thursday in Rockland, Massachusetts after allegedly attacking the girl in a hotel-turned-migrant center the night before. Rockland Police took the Haitian migrant into custody at the hotel, where Alvarez had been living, and the 15-year-old was transported to an area hospital. The suspected child rapist arrived in the US last June through the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program, according to Fox News. The program has been criticized...
  • Biden's Once-Acclaimed Nominee for US Attorney Suffers Brutal Fall from Grace, Ability to Practice Law Suspended

    03/17/2024 12:42:25 PM PDT · by george76 · 31 replies
    Western Journal ^ | March 17, 2024 | Warner Todd Huston
    A former U.S. attorney who resigned last year amid a DOJ investigation into unethical conduct and who was once a top candidate touted by Joe Biden and Democrats, now has even more trouble coming her way. Former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins was forced to resign in disgrace in May from her position as a U.S. attorney for Massachusetts after the Department of Justice launched a corruption investigation into her ... And now, a year later, she has lost her law license. ... When the Biden administration nominated her for the position .. Democrat senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren praised...
  • Harvard Grad Student Who Accosted Israeli Classmate and Supervised Undergraduate Students Glorified Convicted Palestinian Terrorist

    03/13/2024 7:18:03 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 12, 2024 | Collin Anderson
    Elom Tettey-Tamaklo praised failed suicide bomber Fatima Bernawi in a 2023 essay.. Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, the Harvard University graduate student who was filmed accosting an Israeli classmate at a campus protest, penned an essay last year glorifying a Palestinian terrorist who was imprisoned for her role in attempting to bomb a movie theater in Jerusalem in 1967. "When I started learning about Palestine, I was always struck by the women who featured prominently in the movement's work," Tettey-Tamaklo wrote in a March 2023 article published in the Institute for Palestine Studies. "However, one woman's story struck me and has stayed with...
  • Rachael Rollins suspended from practicing law in Massachusetts

    03/13/2024 6:59:01 AM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | March 12, 2024 | GAYLA CAWLEY
    Rollins resigned as the state’s top federal prosecutor last year.. Disgraced former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has been suspended from practicing law in the Bay State. Rollins’ law license was suspended on Feb. 20, for non-payment of registration fees, according to documents from the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County, where the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers filed a motion for suspension. The motion for Rollins’ suspension, among a number of other attorneys, was entered with the court on Jan. 16, and decided on Feb. 20, SJC documents show. “Upon consideration thereof, it is decided that each attorney whose name...
  • Israeli-born Columbia professor who called out rampant antisemitism on campus being investigated in ‘clear act of retaliation’

    03/10/2024 5:06:52 AM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 9, 2024, | Doree Lewak
    An Israeli-born Columbia University professor who gained notoriety for ripping the school’s failure to address rampant antisemitism on campus revealed this week he’s under investigation by the embattled Ivy — a probe he said is a “clear act of retaliation and an attempt to silence me.” ... “To say that civil rights are being violated does not begin to capture what Jews and Israelis are forced to endure on campus right now, ... Davidai — who considers himself “the most vocal faculty member in the United States and maybe the world” against antisemitism — declined to share details of the...
  • SJC rules in favor of Mass. town’s ban on tobacco sales to anyone born in 21st century

    03/08/2024 10:45:00 AM PST · by massmike · 25 replies
    Boston25news.com ^ | 03/08/2024 | Frank O'Laughlin
    BROOKLINE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Friday issued a ruling in favor of one town’s bylaw that bans anyone born in the 21st century from buying tobacco products. In the ruling, the SJC upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit known as “Six Brothers Inc. vs Brookline,” in which Brookline store owners argued that the town’s tobacco ban was unconstitutional. The lawsuit also argued that the bylaw conflicted with a 2018 statewide law that raised the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
  • Watchdog sounds alarm as feds near approving 10-knot maritime speed limit

    03/07/2024 5:39:43 AM PST · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    Just The News ^ | March 6, 2024 10:48pm | By Ben Whedon
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 10-knot speed limit for much of the Atlantic coast in a bid to protect the Whale population. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As the federal government nears final approval for a 10-knot maritime speed limit along the East Coast, the Southeastern legal Foundation is warning that such a move would adversely impact the economies of coastal communities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 10-knot speed limit for much of the Atlantic coast in a bid to protect the whale population. Violators could face up to $20,000 in fines and one...
  • Yale University employs nearly one administrator per undergrad

    03/04/2024 3:39:33 AM PST · by george76 · 19 replies
    College Fix ^ | MARCH 1, 2024 | Terrance Kible
    Growth came after Yale instituted a diversity hiring initiative and pledged to expand DEI offices campuswide Yale University employs more than three administrators and support staff for every four undergraduate students – roughly one administrator per undergrad, according to a College Fix analysis. Over the last decade, Yale added 631 administrators and support staff to its payroll, according to data provided by administrators to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. As the university embraced new DEI efforts, the number of administrators and support staff increased by 13 percent, from 4,942 to 5,573, between 2013-14 and 2021-22, the analysis found....
  • Wealthy Boston residents rail against migrant shelter that will soon open up in their neighborhood: 'Forced down our throats'

    03/01/2024 12:06:20 PM PST · by Twotone · 78 replies
    The Blaze ^ | February 29, 2024 | Cortney Weil
    Residents of a wealthy neighborhood in Boston expressed outrage at a recent community meeting after they learned that a new migrant shelter would soon open up nearby. On Tuesday night, residents gathered to meet with General Scott Rice, the emergency assistance director for Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, to discuss their concerns about a temporary migrant shelter opening up in Fort Point, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the Seaport area of Boston. The United Way of Massachusetts Bay is working with Healey's office to transform some Fort Point office space on Farnsworth Street, owned by the Unitarian Universalist Association, into...
  • Massachusetts Freedom Slate of GOP Committee Candidates

    03/01/2024 6:03:08 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 5 replies
    For MA FReepers who might need to know who to vote for on Tuesday.
  • Columbia University Hospital DEI Chief Is Serial Plagiarist, Complaint Alleges

    02/29/2024 3:25:29 AM PST · by george76 · 18 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 29, 2024 | Aaron Sibarium
    Alade McKen plagiarized pages of material from Wikipedia.. The chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer of Columbia University's medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting entire pages of material, without attribution, from sources that include Wikipedia, according to a complaint submitted to the university on Wednesday. The allegations implicate approximately a fifth of McKen's 163-page dissertation, "'UBUNTU' I am because we are: A case study examining the experiences of an African-centered Rites of Passage program within a community-based organization," submitted to Iowa State University's School of Education in 2021. More than two of those pages are...
  • The “Airman” Who Set Himself on Fire for Hamas was Antifa Ex-Cult Member

    02/27/2024 6:59:31 PM PST · by chickenlips · 34 replies
    Front Page magazine ^ | Feb. 27, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    If you had told the average person that an anarchist or an airman had set himself on fire to protest Israel’s campaign against Islamic terrorists, you would get two very different reactions. Unsurprisingly the media led with the data point most likely to produce a favorable reaction. And Aaron Bushnell cynically played the same game, wearing (the wrong) uniform to his Hamas suicide attempt rather than the Antifa red in which he had been previously photographed. The Washington Post gets around to admitting that Bushnell was an “anarchist”. Less than two weeks before Aaron Bushnell walked toward the gates of...
  • Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Leader Resigns Over School’s Refusal to Promise Changes: Report

    02/26/2024 2:51:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 26, 2024, | Melissa Koenig
    The co-chair of Harvard’s new antisemitism taskforce abruptly resigned over the weekend — reportedly after she became frustrated that university officials refused to commit to making changes to make the campus safer for Jewish faculty and staff. Harvard officials shockingly announced on Sunday that business professor Raffaella Sadun — who was appointed to the newly-created Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism just last month — had stepped down from her post. Sadun issued a statement that she was “grateful” for a chance to work on the taskforce and that she would continue to work on the issue as a faculty...
  • Harvard’s Plagiarism Problem Multiplies

    02/22/2024 4:09:40 PM PST · by TigerClaws · 27 replies
    Harvard has a plagiarism problem. At the beginning of the year, Claudine Gay resigned as university president following a plagiarism scandal. Weeks later, the Washington Free Beacon published a report indicating that Harvard’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, apparently plagiarized passages in multiple academic papers. Now allegations have emerged that another Harvard DEI administrator, Shirley Greene, of Harvard Extension School, plagiarized more than 40 passages of her 2008 dissertation, “Converging Frameworks: Examining the Impact of Diversity-Related College Experiences on Racial/Ethnic Identity Development.” According to the Harvard directory, Greene is a Title IX coordinator affiliated with the Office for Gender...
  • ‘This Has to Stop’: Harvard Set to Consider Institutional Neutrality

    02/23/2024 7:45:38 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 23 replies
    The Crimson ^ | February 21, 2024 | BY TILLY R. ROBINSON AND NEIL H. SHAH
    Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 is expected to announce a working group that will consider a policy of institutional neutrality, a move that comes just months after the University became embroiled in controversy over its response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.A formal stance of neutrality, in which Harvard would refrain from making political statements as an institution, would be a marked shift from the University’s current approach to politics. It would also, in theory, help the University avoid the pressure it’s faced in the past to take political positions on contentious issues — such as the...
  • Chair of Harvard University History Department Belongs to Group Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoon

    02/20/2024 6:51:08 PM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 20, 2024 | Jessica Costescu
    Sidney Chalhoub pledged to support 'Palestinian liberation' as part of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine ... The chairman of Harvard University's history department is a member of a faculty group, Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, that posted an anti-Semitic cartoon over the holiday weekend depicting a hand emblazoned with the Star of David holding a noose around the necks of one black man and one Arab man. In the background, a black arm swings a machete scrawled with the phrase, "liberation movement." The image was posted alongside a message from the faculty group arguing...
  • Unruly high school asks Massachusetts National Guard to restore order

    02/20/2024 2:22:07 PM PST · by matt04 · 53 replies
    Officials have asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to stop violence and address security concerns at a troubled high school in a city south of Boston, some school committee members said Monday. Four of the seven members of the Brockton School Committee backed the National Guard request amid teacher shortages and budget deficits, but city officials weren't unanimous in their support. The governor's office acknowledged the concerns about Brockton High School, where teachers reported fighting and drug use in the hallways, and verbal abuse of staff. “Our administration is committed to ensuring that schools are...
  • Team forfeits after girls basketball player allegedly hurt in play with male who identifies as female

    02/20/2024 11:55:25 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02/20/2024 | Justin Tasch
    A girls high school basketball team forfeited a recent game after three players were injured, including one who was allegedly hurt during a play involving a 6-foot male player on the other team who identifies as female. The Collegiate Charter School of Lowell in Massachusetts forfeited its Feb. 8 game against the KIPP Academy at halftime, with coach Kevin Ortins deciding to end the game as his roster was getting depleted four days before a playoff game, the school said. Fox News reported the KIPP Academy girls team has a male player with facial hair on its roster who identifies...
  • Eagle-eyed residents reveal sophisticated migrant smuggling operation at northern US border

    02/19/2024 11:40:16 AM PST · by george76 · 12 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 18, 2024 | Social Links forJack Morphet and Social Links forChris Nesi
    Unsettling Post footage and interviews with US residents along the Canadian border offer a rare glimpse into the thriving migrant smuggling operation that has taken hold up north in addition to the debacle to the south. ... smugglers have become so rampant that some locals are packing pistols to protect themselves and turning into amateur sleuths to help thwart them. “Now I’ve got the Border Patrol guys on speed dial,” local Chris Feeley, 52, recently grimly acknowledged. ... According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, the number of migrants illegally entering the US at the northern border last year...
  • Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama failures: 'Black faces in high places' couldn't deliver

    05/29/2020 11:32:44 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 29 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    Harvard philosophy professor Dr. Cornel West weighed in on the ongoing protests in reaction to George Floyd's death in police custody -- and the violence and destruction that have taken place in cities across the U.S. over the past several days. West noted that "black faces in high places" were not able to create needed change because they succumbed to the "capitalist economy" and "militarized nation-state." "The Black Lives Matter movement emerged under a black president, black attorney general, and black homeland security and they couldn't deliver," West said about the Obama administration during a CNN interview Friday night.