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Wild video released by the Prince George’s County Police Department shows what officers describe as "illegal car takeovers" that have been causing chaos in Maryland. The aerial footage captures dozens of people standing within feet of cars spinning wildly at high speeds in places like shopping center parking lots. The video landed amid an ongoing political battle over crime in Maryland. Gov. Wes Moore has invited President Donald Trump to take part in a "safety walk" in Baltimore to highlight crime-reduction efforts. Trump, meanwhile, has criticized Moore, accusing him of failing in public safety and posted on Truth Social in...

Ayers Under Fire by: Bethany Stotts, February 24, 2009 The Support Bill Ayers petition has now garnered signatures from thousands of academics and other citizens in support for former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, but Ayer’s reputation in academia may not be so rosy after his time in this year’s election spotlight. “It seems that the character assassination and slander of Bill Ayers and other people who have known Obama is not about to let up,” the petition states. It sports 4,291 signatures as of this writing. “While an important concern is the dishonesty of this campaign and the slanderous...

Professor Mark Bauerlein of Emory University traveled from Atlanta, Georgia to Millersville, Pennsylvania for hearings on academic freedom in late April to share his thoughts on how bias in academia becomes institutionalized. “If we get too much uniformity, too much agreement on debatable issues, too little dissent, then the group slides into complacency, insularity, and groupthink. Within the group, attitudes harden. As the years pass and the members reinforce each others’ opinions, those opinions start to look like more than just opinions. They become the truth. To agree with them is simply to be rational and ethical. Anybody who disagrees...

Drawing comparisons to Hitler, Mao and the Committee on Public Information, Dr. Kurt Smith of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania attacked the Pennsylvania state committee on Academic Freedom for the hearings they have been holding throughout the commonwealth. “Pennsylvania’s university professors stand accused today, investigated by this very committee, cast as leftists, Communists, and Socialists, who have conspired to secretly indoctrinate students in their leftist ideologies. Have we learned nothing over these past two millennia?” asked Smith, an assistant professor of Philosophy. Smith argued that House Resolution 177, which created the House Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Pa., did not...