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Chicago Mayor Attempts to Play Hide-the-Illegal-Aliens From Democrat Convention Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to hide the illegal aliens housed in his city from the Democrat National Convention this summer. He wants to move them away from the convention's venue. Out of sight, out of mind. The Democrat mayor who supports sanctuary cities wants to build a temporary shelter close to Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side ahead of the convention. Ald. Nicole Lee said her office was told that Johnson is considering moving illegal aliens from the Loop to a new shelter in Bridgeport. https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/05/08/chicago-mayor-attempts-to-hide-illegal-aliens-from-democrat-convention-n3787994 .

Illegal Migrants Send List of 'Demands' to Denver Mayor The Spanish word for audacity is "audacia." Perhaps the municipal officials in Denver, Colorado should practice using that language. After struggling for more than a year to shelter and feed the army of illegal migrants that have flooded into the city, Denver finally began imposing some limits on how long people could stay in the municipal intake shelters. This angered some of the migrants who were forced to leave the shelters and a group of them set up an encampment on public property as the spring weather began to improve. The encampment is located under an overpass near the railroad tracks. The Mayor's office repeatedly requested that the migrants evacuate the encampment and move to other shelters that were set up to house them. But the migrants refused, and now they have sent an advocate with a list of demands that they say must be met before they will agree to relocate to a shelter. If you think this sounds like an outtake from the movie Idiocracy, you're not alone. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/05/08/illegal-migrants-send-list-of-demands-to-denver-mayor-n3787995 .

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Unanimous 4th Circuit Upholds Religious Liberty in Employment Decisions FTA: “Religious schools should be allowed to employ teachers and administrators who share the same goals, views, and values that adhere to their religion, and the 4th Circuit’s decision upholds that fundamental freedom. The court rightly recognized that the ability of religious schools to make employment decisions based on their beliefs is ‘grounded…in constitutional structure’ and that religious employers should be free to operate without fear of punishment by government officials or courts.” In its decision, the 4th Circuit wrote: “Our court has recognized before that seemingly secular tasks like the teaching of English and drama may be so imbued with religious significance that they implicate the ministerial exception…we think the principle carries through: The ministerial exception protects religious institutions in their dealings with individuals who perform tasks so central to their religious missions – even if the tasks themselves do not advertise their religious nature.” https://adfmedia.org/case/billard-v-charlotte-catholic-high-school .

How About a Nice Slice of STFU to Go With Your Inflation, Tax Hikes, and Global Wars? STEPHEN GREEN When Presidentish Joe Biden took office more than three years ago, every reader here knew we were in for bad times. It used to be when we lost an election, we had to suffer through four or (Lord help us) eight years of bad policy — inflation, overspending, overregulation, and maybe a small war or two. Now, we get four years or (seriously, Lord, we could use some help here) eight years of chipping away at the foundations of the Republic. New details have emerged that the Biden administration planted dynamite in the hole created by Barack Obama. Rep. Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an 800-page report that reads like Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Take a look: In March 2021, an Amazon employee emailed others within the company about the reason for the Amazon bookstore's new content moderation policy change: "[T]he impetus for this request is criticism from the Biden Administration about sensitive books we're giving prominent placement to." In March 2021, just one day prior to a scheduled call with the White House, an Amazon employee explained how changes to Amazon's bookstore policies were being applied "due to criticism from the Biden people." In July 2021, when Facebook executive Nick Clegg asked a Facebook employee why the company censored the man-made theory of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the employee responded: "Because we were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more. . . . We shouldn't have done it." YouTube "shared with the Biden White House a new 'policy proposal' to censor more content criticizing the safety and efficacy of vaccines, asking for 'any feedback' the White House could provide before the policy had been finalized." Someone at the Biden White House got back to YouTube with, "at first blush, seems like a great step." One Facebook executive's email revealed that the company was brainstorming "additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration." Facebook's internal communications also revealed that "The Surgeon General wants us to remove true information about [COVID vaccine] side effects," and, of course, Facebook eventually complied. Mark Zuckerberg tried to resist at least at one point, emailing that "when we compromise our standards due to an administration in either direction, we'll often regret it." But the White House applied more pressure, and Zuckerberg caved. There's a word for using government power to silence debate: censorship. More at the link: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/05/08/how-about-a-nice-slice-of-stfu-to-go-with-your-inflation-tax-hikes-and-global-wars-n4928864 .

'Here's One Big Reason' the CEO of NPR Declined to Testify at Today's Bias Hearing The House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee is holding a hearing today titled “Examining Accusations of Ideological Bias at NPR, a Taxpayer-Funded News Entity. ”NPR's CEO declined to appear at the hearing about bias in the media operation she runs: A spokesperson for NPR confirmed to Fox News Digital that Maher would not be appearing as requested before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, citing an all-day meeting with the organization's board of directors. Why did Maher decline to appear at a hearing about bias at NPR (that gained steam with former editor Uri Berliner's recent article)? The top answer couldn't be more clear, as Joe Concha pointed out: https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/05/08/heres-one-big-reason-the-ceo-of-npr-declined-to-testify-before-congress-today-n2396032

Back to the thread: Can the current universities be saved? Victor Davis Hanson VDH is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,” Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Elite higher education in America — long unquestioned as globally preeminent — is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system. The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated. No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate. Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year. Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170%. Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus. At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities. As applicants grew scarcer and expenses went up, universities began offering "full-service" student-aid packages, heavily reliant on government-subsidized student loans. The collective indebtedness of over 40 million student borrowers is nearing $2 trillion. Worse still, an entire new array of therapeutic majors and minors appeared in the social sciences. Most of these gender/race/environmental courses did not emphasize analytical, mathematical, or oral and written skills. Such course work did not impress employers. Faculty hiring had become increasingly non-meritocratic based on diversity/equity/inclusion criteria. New faculty hires have sought to institutionalize self-serving DEI and recalibrate higher education to prepare a new generation for self-perpetuating radical ideologies. At the more elite campuses, racial quotas vastly curtailed the number of Asian and white students. But that racialist social engineering project required dropping the SAT requirement and comparative ranking of high school grade point averages. As less well-prepared students entered college, faculty either inflated grades (80% are A/A- now at Yale), watered down their course requirements, or added new soft-ball classes. To do otherwise while attempting to retain old standards earned targeted faculty charges of racism and worse. More at the link: https://www.semissourian.com/story/3039271.html

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YOUR BODY YOUR CHOICE ! Earlier this week we told you about Princeton protesters who accused the school of creating "unsafe conditions" for their hunger strike campout/protest. One member of the bivouac bunch claimed the school "refuses still to allow our strikers to have tents, leaving them huddled under umbrellas, vulnerable and unsafe." That was two days ago, and now the same people have a new complaint: LaborUnionNews.com @WorkPlaceRpt There are plenty of restaurants nearby. Take mom and dad's credit card and grab some tacos. You'll be fine. https://twitter.com/WorkPlaceRpt/status/1788175566975209735? https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/05/08/princeton-hunger-strikers-now-complaining-school-officials-arent-monitoring-their-medical-condition-n2396019

Things we knew early on, but were called “conspiracy theories” from those who made billions from Covid policy lies: The virus came from Wuhan Lockdowns didn’t work Masks didn’t work Keeping kids out of school was dumb Masking children was cruel Social distancing was pointless The vaccines didn’t stop transmission The vaccines had deadly and serious side effects Boosters didn’t work Keeping us locked in our houses made things worse “Trust the science” was a lie used by tyrants The WHO, CDC, and FDA are corrupt

Bombshell Evidence Proves That the FBI Staged the Infamous Mar-a-Lago Raid Photo. FBI spokesman: “Well, we did do the nose. . . . And the hat. But he is a witch!” (Press crowd: “Burn him! Burn him!”) https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/05/08/bombshell-evidence-proves-fbi-staged-infamous-mar-a-lago-raid-photo-n4928850#google_vignette .