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N.Y. GOV. HOCHUL: JOHNSON ‘ADDING’ TO COLUMBIA DIVISION

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., over his trip to Columbia University, saying his visit “is only adding to the division” over the ongoing pro-Palestinian protest on campus.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--


Humor/Satire/Cartoons

‘TRUMP WILL RECEIVE A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL,’ SAYS JUDGE AS CONSTRUCTION CREW BUILDS GALLOWS OUTSIDE COURTROOM

NEW YORK - Judge Juan Manuel Merchan was reassuring the public that former President Trump would receive a fair trial when he was interrupted by the sound of construction crews assembling giant gallows outside the courthouse.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Babylon Bee--


Political Science

Politics Polluting Real Science

Steve Milloy’s Junk Science Home Page

TOP STUDY: CARBON EMISSIONS CANNOT CAUSE ‘GLOBAL WARMING’

A bombshell new peer-reviewed study has provided conclusive scientific evidence proving that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Earth’s atmosphere cannot cause “global warming.”

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Slay News--

Editorial Comment

The “global warming/climate change” conspiracy theorists will undoubtedly falsely claim that this study has been “debunked”. They’ll never admit they were wrong. - @BillKriebel


The Culture War

STATE COURT CASE PREDICTED AS POSSIBLE PATH TO DEMISE OF SAME-SEX ‘MARRIAGE’

A court case that already has been in the system for years is being pushed up to the level of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and it is expected ultimately to be before the Supreme Court, where it could be a vehicle to overturn that institution’s creation of same-sex marriage [sic] for the nation.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--WND--


17 STATES CHALLENGE FEDERAL RULES ENTITLING WORKERS TO ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ABORTION

Republican attorneys general from 17 states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions, calling the rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--


JUSTICE ASKS BIDEN DOJ POINT-BLANK WHY ABORTION STATUTE USES PHRASE ‘UNBORN CHILD’

Justice Samuel Alito asked Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar why the statute the government argues mandates emergency room doctors to perform abortions in a state that bans them uses the phrase “unborn child.”

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--WND (Daily Caller)--


FEMINISM HAS LEFT MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN LIKE ME SINGLE, CHILDLESS AND DEPRESSED

by Petronella Wyatt

I increasingly feel that feminism has failed my generation.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--MSN News (The Telegraph)--


Media Watch

Newsmax.com Compilation
Media Research Center

NPR BOSS ACCUSED OF BEING SOMETHING FAR MORE IMPACTFUL THAN JUST ANOTHER RADICAL WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANOINTEE

A Peabody Award-winning senior business editor who worked for NPR for 25 years penned a damning exposé earlier this month, confirming critics’ suspicions that NPR is a Democratic propaganda machine.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--


News of the Day

GORSUCH HITS BULL’S-EYE IN DESCRIBING CORE OF ‘IMMUNITY’ DISPUTE

Justice Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Supreme Court is being credited with hitting the bull’s-eye of the dispute over presidential immunity. He’s concerned about how political operatives in the future could weaponize criminal law to target their political opponents.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--WND--


HOUSE REPUBLICANS LAY OUT EVIDENCE OF MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S ‘PARTISAN AIM’ TO PROSECUTE TRUMP

The House Judiciary Committee mapped out the early stages of the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money case against Donald Trump in a report on Thursday, accusing a retired attorney of forcing a prosecution against the former president for political purposes.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Washington Examiner--


‘MARY POPPINS OF DISINFORMATION’ RETURNS WITH NEW GROUP TO DEFEND DISINFORMATION INDUSTRY

The Biden administration’s former “disinformation czar,” ousted after an apparent attempt to create an Orwellian ministry of truth within the Department of Defense, has launched a new nonprofit that declares criticism of “disinformation researchers” such as herself as a chief threat to the United States of America.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Daily Wire--


WHITE HOUSE SAYS YOU DIDN’T HEAR THAT NEWEST BIDEN BLUNDER

The White House is telling you that you really didn’t hear Joe Biden’s latest blunder. Even if you heard it.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--WND--


JONATHAN TURLEY SAYS ALVIN BRAGG IS MAKING TRUMP’S IMMUNITY CASE ‘FOR HIM’

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg helped former President Donald Trump make his case for immunity.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--The Daily Caller--


LAW PROFESSOR TAKES APART ALVIN BRAGG’S CASE AGAINST TRUMP - THEN PREDICTS THE OUTCOME

Jed Handelsman Shugerman, a law professor at Boston University, thinks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump is a “historic mistake.”

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--

Editorial Comment

Hate makes people do really stupid things. Trump haters take note. - @BillKriebel


NANCY PELOSI SAYS ISRAEL’S NETANYAHU ‘SHOULD RESIGN’ AS PRIME MINISTER

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, adding another influential voice to Democratic criticism of the Israeli leader.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--MSN News (NBC News)--


TENNESSEE TEACHERS MAY SOON CARRY GUNS

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill permitting teachers and staff to carry a concealed weapon under certain conditions, despite angry theatrics from activists.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--


HOW MANY MORE TIMES WILL JOE BIDEN MENTION THIS AT THE PODIUM THIS YEAR?

by Matt Vespa

It’s got to the point where this can become a drinking game. Okay, that’s too much, but it’s certainly something that’s becoming so frequent that you could place a bet on FanDuel. This afternoon, the president delivered remarks about the CHIPS and Science Act at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse, New York. And somehow, he decided to thread his son’s death into the mix:

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TownHall.com--


SENATE DEMOCRATS REVIVE AN OLD ANTEBELLUM TACTIC TO PROTECT MAYORKAS

by Jeff Mayhugh

The Senate’s Democratic majority made quick work last week of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment trial. After several procedural votes, both articles of impeachment were voted down on mostly party lines. And just like that, the people’s check on executive power was silenced.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--


BIDEN: ‘I’M GONNA RAISE SOME TAXES’

by Nate Jackson

Yeah, you can say that again. Joe Biden’s budget plan goes to great lengths to wring more money out of the American people.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Patriot Post--


HOW BIDEN’S PAROLES OF MIGRANTS COULD PROMPT ILLEGAL VOTER REGISTRATION

by Fred Lucas

The Biden administration’s expanded mass parole program for illegal immigrants could threaten lawful voter registration, election law and border experts contend.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Daily Signal--


Tales of Political Correctness

And news of occasional victories over it

‘SOCIAL MANIAS DIE QUIETLY’

Lionel Shriver on why elites are rarely held accountable for their most damaging mistakes.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Sp!ked--


DC RESIDENT TO MAYOR: SINCE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ARE PERMITTED, CAN TOURISTS CAMP TOO?

If Washington, D.C., isn’t going to clean up homeless encampments, it should embrace equal opportunity for all and allow tourists to pitch a tent and save on hotel costs, one city resident says.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Daily Signal--


EPA’S FINAL POWER PLANT REGULATIONS CALLED ‘EXTREME’

The Environmental Protection Agency, under the direction of President Joe Biden, released its final regulations for power plants on Thursday amid warnings from industry experts that the mandates will have a deleterious effect on the nation’s energy needs.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

Editorial Comment

Let’s start calling “climate change” what it is - a conspiracy theory. - @BillKriebel


Our Brave New Schools

NYC COUNCILWOMEN: PROFESSORS INDOCTRINATED PROTESTING STUDENTS

New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a Republican, told Newsmax on Thursday that many of the students protesting the war in Gaza “have been indoctrinated by the professors that are standing there with them.”

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

Editorial Comment

When people are borrowing money to pay for being indoctrinated, the rest of us sure as heck shouldn’t have to bear that debt. - @BillKriebel


NYU PROF RIPS HATE SPEECH DOUBLE STANDARD: IF I SAID ‘LYNCH THE BLACKS’ OR ‘BURN THE GAYS’ I’D ‘NEVER WORK IN ACADEMIA AGAIN’

Amid the anti-Israel protests erupting on colleges campuses of late - which have boiled over into anti-Semitism - New York University professor Scott Galloway blasted what he sees as a “double standard” when it comes to repercussions for hate speech on campus.

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--

Editorial Comment

If the left didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all. - @BillKriebel


Selected Commentary and Analysis

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of the editor.

LEFTIST ACTIVISTS SAID ‘BELIEVE ALL WOMEN’ DIDN’T APPLY TO ME

Commentary by Paula Scanlan

April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time dedicated to shedding light on an issue that disproportionately affects women and girls and building support for policies to fight sexual assault and violence. Yet, there are few advocates raising awareness for the women and girls who are forced to undress alongside fully grown men. How is it not considered harassment when minors are told they must undress in front of males fully intact with male genitalia and if they complain they will face punishment?

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--TownHall.com--


AS JEWISH STUDENTS FEAR FOR THEIR SAFETY, BIDEN HAS MICHIGAN ON HIS MIND

Commentary by Elizabeth Stauffer

Just as Kristallnacht was a seminal event in Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the recent explosion of antisemitic demonstrations on Ivy League campuses is a tipping point for President Joe Biden’s America.

(Posted Friday, April 26, 2024 )   <Read it>

--Washington Examiner--


QUITTERS IN OFFICE: BETRAYING VOTERS ONE RESIGNATION AT A TIME

Commentary by Jacob Lane

Remember being a kid when your parents drilled into you, “If you start something, finish it”?

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--


TRUMP NOT SENDING HIS BEST

Commentary by Ann Coulter

Picture your ideal Republican candidate. Would they look something like this?

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--AnnCoulter.com--


WHY HAS THE LEFT FINALLY NOTICED PEDOPHILIA?

Commentary by Jack Cashill

Scrolling through Twitter on Tuesday, I came across a sober video message from celebrity gadabout Paris Hilton. Dressed down in a modest track suit, Ms. Hilton sounded all the word [sic] like what the media might call a “QAnon fanatic.”

(Posted Thursday, April 25, 2024 )   <Read it>

--WND--


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