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GIVEN ALL THE LEFTIES CHEERING FOR LUIGI MANGIONE, IS THIS A SURPRISE? Months after CEO’s killing, an intruder is arrested near UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnesota. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man was arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnesota after threatening violence, months after the company's CEO was killed, authorities said Monday. The man was spotted around 11 a.m. in a parking lot outside of the UnitedHealthcare corporate campus in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka. City spokesman Andy Wittenborg said the man contacted the FBI's field office in Minneapolis once he arrived, and an FBI negotiator made contact with him by phone. https://www.yahoo.com/news/person-arrested-unitedhealthcare-headquarters-reports-173629433.html

Everything 'deflects' when you are wearing blinders. Try just reading once without a presumption bias of what the poster is saying. You may learn something. ADDED: Just the because the reply was not what you wanted doesn't make it defection. .

Imagine being so shallow that when you post on a public forum you are trying to "win" "You lost, I win" .

Leftist PPP"ers this afternoon Very obvious. HARVARD, HEIGHT, and MARYLAND 'FATHERS" Hysterical.

Miami Herald: Dolphins players have turned on McDaniel Isn't this usually a training camp/season kind of thing ? Who turns against their head coach in the off season

Going to El Salvador to ask for an El Salvador citizen, who was an illegal alien in the US, and is a gang member, to be returned to the US where he has a deportation order in place.

If you haven't been following the El Salvador deportation case, let me bring you up to speed: Judge: Hey Trump, you can't deport that guy to El Salvador. Trump: Yeah. Well. I did. Judge: Well now you have to bring him back. Trump: No can do compadre. He's under El Salvador control. I have no power there. Judge: You at least to have to TRY. Trump: That's fine. The El Salvador President is at my house right now. Judge: And? Trump: I asked him. Judge: AND? Trump: He said no. Judge: Did you really ask him? Trump: Lol no. Judge: Lol.

More winning.

That's what makes them reliable.

Cut something else from your budget ! You know that there is waste.

More for 2025 Good luck Virginia.

LIKE HILLSDALE. FO: Trump Frees Harvard ... From Federal Funding (Plus Irony From Obama) Ed Morrissey Harvard declared that it would not "surrender its independence" after the Trump administration demanded significant changes in policies relating to the anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns on its campus. Hours later, they received good news ... ... the White House thinks Harvard should be independent as well: This is a curious kind of "independence" that Harvard claims to defend. If Harvard had been independent in the first place, the federal government wouldn't have any say over its operations. By receiving federal grant money for research, student loans to subsidize its tuition, and other federal monies, Harvard has essentially accepted federal oversight in how the school operates. This is not a new concept; every administration has used the threat of suspension of federal funding to enforce its interpretation of federal laws and regulations in campus policies, especially Titles Vi, VII, and IX. So it's rather amusing to see Obama attempting to rally support for Harvard's "independence" while slurping at the federal trough {snip} At some point, a federal judge will order Trump to restore funding, and this case will wend its way to the Supreme Court, which will likely quash the order. Harvard is not entitled to federal funding if it refuses to comply with the administration's interpretations of civil-rights laws. However, it would be far cleaner for the administration and the Republicans in Congress to put an end to all federal funding for higher education, as I argued in October 2023 in my essay, "Decolonize Academia Now!" The federal government has no constitutional authority to subsidize colleges and universities, and the 60-year experiment in doing so has transformed Academia into an indoctrination center for the Left, corrupted education to the core, and created disastrous follow-on effects in primary and secondary education. Put all colleges and universities on the Hillsdale plan. Let them survive with true pricing signals, and enforce civil-rights laws through the Department of Justice in a sane and rational manner. That will not just end the problems, but will cleanly eliminate the entitlement mentality currently gripping Academia. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/04/15/fo-trump-frees-harvard-from-federal-funding-n3801803 ,

First thing that I noticed also. I cannot imagine that it is really that high.

Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk Admin responds by pulling $2.2 billion in grants and contracts Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series of demands, several aimed at combating anti-Semitism on campus, according to an email sent Monday to faculty members from university president Alan Garber. The decision puts billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard at risk: The Trump administration announced late last month that it was examining nearly $9 billion in grants and contracts to the school, and it froze $2.2 billion in Harvard grants just hours after Garber's announcement. https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-rejects-deal-with-trump-admin-putting-billions-in-federal-funding-at-risk/

Trump’s Challenge to Xi May be the Entire Story Mark Simon When you spend enough time around experts on China, “China hands”, it starts to become obvious that for the vast majority there is an accepted doctrine, mindset, if you will; of China being superior to the West in just about every way. Whether diplomatic skills, where we were told by Kissinger, “the Chinese play the long game”, or sycophants like Hank Greenberg or Hank Paulson, who just wait for a subject to cross by, and then earnestly explain how China is superior; its hard find a subject from which China hands will not conclude China is just better than us. President Trump never bought into the China myth, even more deliberately he doesn’t buy into the competence or validity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For Trump, China is a business opportunity at best, a destroyer of American jobs and a rival for global leadership at its worst. The US President prefers the latter but is prepared to deal with the former. Trump long ago concluded China was ripping the US off in trade. In 2017 he noted that Xi Jinping wasn’t going to do anything about the trade disparity and so President Trump did what he has always done to a business or political adversary; he punched Xi in the face with unilateral tariffs and a deepening of defense ties with Japan. In 2025 Donald Trump is back in office, and once again he walked across the school yard, picked out the bully, and smack. We have a new tariff battle between he and Xi Jinping. Just like he has done with the Panama Canal and TikTok, Trump makes no bones about targeting Xi. Protocol and respect for Chinese tradition are out the door with Trump. Concerns with the workings of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, are meaningless to President Trump. For the last 50 years the accepted way to deal with the CCP was to make it about policy, make it about the system. Striking out a particular leader was just not in the diplomatic playbook. The logic for non-confrontation with a Chinese leader seemed solid. Face is everything in China, and if you make a leader lose Face, then you talks go nowhere. But Donald Trump doesn’t care about Face. Does anyone think that Trump thinks Xi holds some special status where Trump doesn’t get to have a go at him? Why would we not think Trump doesn’t understand that the more he can put Xi to the test externally, the more Xi will feel the pressure internally. It’s high stakes poker. It’s also typical Trump. {snip} China scholars, diplomatic elites, CCP officials, and even President Xi, follow a plan when it comes to how the world is supposed to deal with the CCP and Chinese leaders. It’s a plan that has worked well for Xi and the CCP. Only one problem. President Trump doesn’t like the plan and has no intention of letting any opponents plan determine his tactics. So, the world needs to get ready, and diplomats might want to consider options as Trump enters the ring with Xi. For there is wisdom in the words of noted diplomat Mike Tyson, “Everyone’s got a plan, until someone punches you in the face”. https://marksimonappledaily.substack.com/p/trumps-challenge-to-xi-may-be-the?

Well, that's just "mean".