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It has saddened to me watch Harvard, a university that I love from which I have greatly benefited, self-immolate through gross mismanagement, poor governance, and ideological capture that have occurred over the last 15 or so years, and that have been brought into clear focus beginning on October 8, 2023. When a day after the launch of the Hamas attack on Israel, 33 Harvard student organizations held the victims “solely responsible” for the acts of the terrorists while their extraordinarily barbaric acts were still underway, I realized that something had gone profoundly wrong at my alma mater. Further investigations on...

The Treasury Department is phasing out penny production by early next year after President Donald Trump ordered the government to halt the “wasteful” minting of the coins. The Treasury will stop making pennies by early 2026, which will require businesses to start rounding up or down to the nearest five cents, the agency confirmed in a statement to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Daniel Penny was honored Wednesday by the Marine Corps League at an Iwo Jima Day in Boston — where the former Devil Dog received the prestigious Semper Fidelis achievement award. Penny — who was acquitted last year of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway — attended the event with defense attorneys Thomas Kenniff and Steve Raiser, who also took home appreciation plaques. ... The league “honored Danny for representing the Esprit De Corps of the Marines, defined by selfless service and sacrifice, when he risked his life by defending...

President Donald Trump directed the Treasury Department to cease minting pennies. The penny has been circulating for 233 years, first established in 1792. Trump has been against the creation of a CBDC, but this move is clearly one massive step illustrating the long-term trend of inflation. More than that, the penny was the descendant of the Roman Denarius, and its origin stretches back to the Punic Wars of the Roman Republic when the Denarius first appeared. Before that, Rome’s coinage complied with the Greek monetary standard. The cost of the Punic Wars was highly inflationary, and the Romans issued the...

In a move potentially foretold by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), it seems the U.S. could be on the verge of ending penny production. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he had asked the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, calling them “wasteful.” “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,”...

Daniel Penny landed a cushy job at a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm less than two months after he was acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. The Marine veteran was hired by Andreesen Horowitz to work in Manhattan as a deal partner on the firm’s American Dynamism team, which invests in government and defense tech, according to the company’s website. Penny was lauded for his “courage” in an internal memo sent to all employees Tuesday afternoon. “I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” David Ulevitch,...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has a new target to cut down costs: the US penny. DOGE said on X that the penny costs over 3 cents to make and cost US taxpayers over $179 million in the 2023 fiscal year. “The Mint produced over 4.5 billion pennies in FY2023, around 40% of the 11.4 billion coins for circulation produced,” the post read in part. The US Mint in 2023 reported it circulated around 4.1 billion pennies. In fiscal year 2024, the US Mint said in its annual report that the US penny costs about 3.7 cents to produce...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is targeting one of the federal government’s most notorious examples of waste: the penny. Getting rid of the penny would be an early test of DOGE’s influence: Could it help eliminate a piece of government inefficiency that has survived decades of reform attempts? On Tuesday, DOGE’s account on X highlighted the coin’s mounting costs: In fiscal year 2023, taxpayers spent more than $179 million producing over 4.5 billion pennies, with each coin costing more than three cents to make. Despite bipartisan recognition of the penny’s costs since at least the 1970s, efforts to phase...

Daniel Penny, the young Marine veteran who earlier this week beat murder charges brought by Alvin Bragg, will be Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s special guest at the upcoming Army-Navy football game on Saturday. FLVoiceNews’ Eric Daugherty wrote on X that the two men will be joined by President-elect Donald Trump in a private suite. “Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance added in a post on X. “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens...

Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance invited recently acquitted Daniel Penny to the Army-Navy football game scheduled for Saturday ... Penny is expected to join Vance and President-elect Donald Trump in his suite at the game set in Landover, Md.,

Lawsuit would target DA Alvin Bragg and the medical examiner's office.. Marine veteran Daniel Penny's defense team is eyeing a malicious prosecution lawsuit against District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others behind the charges, turning the tables after the lengthy high-profile case concluded with an acquittal. "Just like Danny said in his interview, it was like they wanted to try and get him on something," Penny's defense attorney Steven Raiser said Wednesday, reacting to the acquittal on "Fox & Friends." "They knew they weren't going to be able to get him, so they had to get rid of that top count...

The Holy Bible has an important arc of justice written throughout its pages. Christians naturally have a hope that scores are settled and wrongs are righted, and every time justice prevails on this side of eternity’s veil, we are reminded in the justice that will ultimately be done by God at his judgment. The Scriptures are replete with calls and pleas for justice. Consider Amos 5:24… But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream This verse was quoted by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his I Have a Dream speech on August 28, 1963 at...

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said New York City subway riders should be scared of Daniel Penny after he was found not guilty in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely — sparking swift backlash from straphangers who blasted the lefty lawmaker as “delusional.” Penny, 26, was acquitted of all charges by a Manhattan jury Monday following the high-profile trial over the fatal, caught-on-camera encounter with the troubled homeless man on an uptown F train last year. In a previous clip that has gone viral on X after the acquittal, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Penny’s apparent lack of remorse could mean he could...

Daniel Penny has been acquitted, but his hassles are not over. The race vultures have descended on Penny in New York and are looking to profit off the corpse of Jordan Neely. They are turning what was tragic for all involved into an utter farce. And that includes his father. Following quickly behind the acquittal was a barrage of mis- and disinformation and lies spewed by various interested parties and the media. Of course, the first of them was Neely's father Andre Zachary. Accompanied by lawyer Donte Mills, Zachary had to read a statement about how much he cared for...

Penny and his lawyers celebrated in a bar in New York City. “He was trying to help people on that train, and he did,” Penny’s lawyer said. “I’m just glad that the jury was able to truly evaluate that as a potential cause of de*th and that Danny was justified in the actions that he took,” he said. WATCH:

The far-right is rejoicing at Daniel Penny being found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 New York City subway strangling death of Jordan Neely. Penny, who is white, put Neely, a Black man, in a chokehold for six minutes while other train passengers captured the incident on film. Penny’s lawyers argued that he believed Neely was a volatile, mentally ill man who posed a threat to the public. Neely was unarmed and had a muffin in his pocket, but Penny quickly became a hero to the right wing. Right-wing figures, including one Donald Trump staffer, immediately...

*The recent not-guilty verdict for Daniel Penny, who faced charges related to the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway, has sparked a heated national debate. Following the jury’s decision, which found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide, public figures across the political spectrum have voiced their opinions, revealing stark contrasts in perspectives. Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained notoriety for his acquittal in a high-profile shooting case, congratulated Penny, stating on social media platform X, “Congratulations on your NOT GUILTY Daniel Penny!!!!” Rittenhouse’s support underscores a growing sentiment among some conservatives who view Penny’s case as one...

The New York Daily News held a vigil for Neely ... CNN remembered Neely as “an entertainer” and “a kind and sweet soul.” He was a “talented dancer” who had a “fan club,” The Guardian recounted. Those who defended Neely and the subway riders who assisted him were guilty of “spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it,” The Independent’s Alex Woodward declared. Elected officials in New York went further in the effort to cast Penny as the true threat to civic order. “To say anything else is an equivocation that will only further a narrative...

NY BLM leader Hawk Newsome calls for “Black vigilantes” to step up in response to Daniel Penny’s acquittal We need some black vigilantes. People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same?”

A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city’s mental health system and crime underground. The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put him behind bars for up to four years — in Neely’s chokehold death aboard a crowded uptown F train in May 2023.