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Kill-the-Jews protesters at Columbia have taken over that school’s main administration building, Hamilton Hall. Scenes from the campus are horrifying: It will be interesting to see whether these vandals are punished as harshly as the January 6 protesters. These riots are a disaster for Columbia. This is true in several respects; for one thing, the demonstrators are robotic morons, mindlessly repeating pro-genocide chants. Intellectually, they are about on a par with Joe Biden reading “pause” off the teleprompter. I wonder whether Columbia’s academic reputation can recover. For another, the university’s administration has behaved spinelessly throughout the crisis. Columbia administrators have thus joined those from Harvard, MIT and Penn as objects of ridicule. Perhaps most notably, campus riots like the ones at Columbia could be a disaster for the Democratic Party. That is what happened in the late 60s. Voters hate these childish and destructive outbursts. Conservatives like Ronald Reagan (and moderates like S.I. Hiyakawa) who stood up to student tantrums became heroes, while soft-on-crime Democrats suffered. That likely will happen again. Worst of all, the antiwar (ar, more accurately, pro-Viet Cong) riots that engulfed the Democratic National Convention in 1968 likely dealt a death blow to Hubert Humphrey’s candidacy. The same thing could happen again, in the same venue–Chicago. Democrats had better figure out a way to deal with their pro-genocide left, or they could be in trouble. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/disaster-at-columbia.php

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Hard decisions are just that, hard, she explained. https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/04/28/kristi-noem-defiant-in-wake-of-outrage-over-dog-shooting-story-n2173461

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Time For Another Lecture From Our Betters on Islamophobia DAVID STROM I am deeply concerned that we haven't condemned Islamophobia in the past ten or so minutes. It is long past time we confronted the plague of hate being directed at our Muslim brothers and sisters. Well, brothers, at least. The sisters should stay at home unless a male is escorting them in their burkhas. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/30/time-for-another-lecture-from-our-betters-on-islamophobia-n3787458 .

Fani Willis Fails to Show Up For Debate April 30, 2024 Democratic Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ political opponent debated with an empty podium after Willis skipped the county’s first Democratic Party debate, local reports show. Willis is the Georgia district attorney who brought forth the election inference case against former President Trump, charging him and 18 co-defendants with racketeering over allegations they tried to overthrow the 2020 election. Willis became embroiled in controversy when she was accused of having an “improper” relationship with the special counsel she hired, Nathan Wade. A judge ordered Willis last month to either remove herself from the case or fire Wade, with Wade ultimately resigning. The Fulton County Democratic Party held its first primary debate on Sunday, but Willis was a no-show, leaving her political opponent to take the stage alone, where he criticized his fellow Democrat for hiring a romantic partner for the high-level case. https://www.offthepress.com/fani-willis-a-no-show-for-debate/ .

Oh, we know. Shocking moment pro-Palestine protester tells counter-demonstrator ‘You’re just a white person, we don’t like white people’ at UCLA. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13357999/Pro-Palestine-protester-tells-counter-demonstrator-Youre-just-white-person-UCLA.html .

Outlaw Joe Biden Wants Us to Believe That He Has Been Arrested At Least Twice. To hear Old Joe Biden tell it, in his younger days he was one tough hombre, fearsome enough to face down Corn Pop. He even says he has been on the wrong side of the law more than once and has been arrested at least twice. No, not for anything that had to do with Ashley or Hunter Biden. In Old Joe’s addled recollections, he has been arrested at least twice for standing up for justice and righteousness. Sure, Joe. And you’re fully in charge of your administration, too. https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/04/29/outlaw-joe-biden-wants-us-to-believe-that-he-has-been-arrested-at-least-twice-n4928602 .

"There is a long and honorable history of civil disobedience in the United States, but true civil disobedience ultimately honors and respects the rule of law." "In a 1965 appearance on 'Meet the Press,' the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the principle perfectly: 'When one breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust, he must do it openly, he must do it cheerfully, he must do it lovingly, he must do it civilly — not uncivilly — and he must do it with a willingness to accept the penalty.' But what we’re seeing on a number of campuses isn’t free expression, nor is it civil disobedience. It’s outright lawlessness. No matter the frustration of campus activists or their desire to be heard, true civil disobedience shouldn’t violate the rights of others. Indefinitely occupying a quad violates the rights of other speakers to use the same space. Relentless, loud protest violates the rights of students to sleep or study in peace. And when protests become truly threatening or intimidating, they can violate the civil rights of other students, especially if those students are targeted on the basis of their race, sex, color or national origin." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/opinion/protests-college-free-speech.html?smid=url-share

The White House Is Sticking With This Narrative on Border Security by Rebecca Downs The Biden White House has gone back and forth plenty of times teasing as to if the president will actually do anything when it comes to fixing the crisis at the southern border. Even though what negotiators in the Senate came up with was objectively a bad border bill killed almost three months ago now, the White House is still trying to bring back the idea of voting on and passing such a bill, rather than having Biden take executive action. On Monday morning, POLITICO published an article highlighting how "Biden said he’d take another stab at a border bill — but nothing appears in the works." https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/04/29/the-white-house-is-back-to-this-narrative-on-border-security-n2638427 .