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Former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers wrote Tuesday that antisemitism had arrived at his former campus, in the form of the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement at the Harvard Crimson‘s support for it. As Breitbart News reported last week, the

Supporters of Roe v. Wade are spreading fears that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision overturning the landmark abortion case would mean that other Court precedents, including interracial marriage, could also be canceled.

“And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to case doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”

Rev. Franklin Graham praised the leaked draft decision of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade on Monday evening, describing it as “an answer to may years of prayers” since the decision declaring abortion a right was made in 1973.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vowed Monday evening to build a “firewall” around California in the form of a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion as a right, after a draft Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade (1973) leaked.

Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton went maskless at the 2022 Met Gala in New York on Monday night, as a masked black staffer attended the length train of her shimmering red evening gown.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called for Congress to “expand” the Supreme Court on Monday, as activists chanted “pack the Court!” outside the building after a draft decision leaked that would overturn the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision on abortion.

Comedian Trevor Noah took several potshots at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, claiming the governor was in the room — but he was not there.

Once students are taught to hate America, it is a short leap for them to hate Israel, and Jews, because in both cases they learn repudiate the idea that people can liberate themselves from oppression and earn success.

San Diego County lost over 11,000 residents from 2020 to 2021, marking the first time in a decade that the region with beautiful weather has lost population.

Nina Jankowicz, the newly-appointed head of the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, told Congress in October 2020 that she saw no role for the federal government in policing disinformation online.

Joe Biden has chosen a high-risk strategy against Russia in Ukraine without managing, explaining, or perhaps comprehending the dangers.

The editorial board of the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at the nation’s oldest university, called for a boycott of Israel for alleged “crimes against humanity,” and demanded a “free Palestine,” meaning the destruction of the State of Israel.

Nina Jankowicz, who leads the new Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security, said in 2020 that American democracy needed a “single, unifying candidate” rather than alternatives on the left or on the right.

Nina Jankowicz, the chair of the new Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security, wanted Facebook to censor Breitbart News, joining the left’s calls for Silicon Valley to censor conservative news outlets in 2019.

The White House Press Corps finds its work a “bore” under President Joe Biden, despite the prospect of war with Russia, rising inflation, a contracting economy, chaos at the border, the Hunter Biden scandal, and a variety of newsworthy crises.

California officials report that the state’s expected budget surplus has risen dramatically, and could reach $68 billion — more than twice the amount President Joe Biden requested from Congress on Thursday to fund weapons shipments to Ukraine.

California state regulators approved the construction of a 90-mile stretch of high-speed rail from San Jose to the rural town of Merced in the Central Valley.

Democrats only understand the danger of their own totalitarian ideas, like a “disinformation” agency, when the partisan shoe is on the other foot.

The war of words between California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) continued this week, with the latter referring to San Francisco as a “dumpster fire” that Democrats were fleeing, only to vote Democrat again in Florida.

Severe water restrictions have begun in Southern California, as the Metropolitan Water District has announced that residents of certain areas will be limited to watering outdoor plants just once a week, as the state suffers a third year of severe drought.

An internal investigation into the history of slavery associated with Harvard University reported Tuesday that several people associated with the institution owned a total of 70 slaves, and that Harvard benefited from money donated by slave owners.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported Tuesday that the number of recoded antisemitic incidents reached an all-time high in 2021, the first year of President Joe Biden’s administration, after he campaigned on stopping the rise of extremism.

Rhoda Kadalie’s support for Israel was among the more controversial stances taken by the late anti-apartheid activist, feminist, and columnist, who died last week at 68 after a battle with lung cancer.

Staff of the California Coastal Commission have recommended that a proposed desalination project in Orange County be rejected ahead of a deciding vote on May 12, despite urgent water needs highlighted by an ongoing drought in the region.

California’s drought continues, with the state’s snowpack only at 35% of the historical average, despite heavy snows in the Sierra Nevada that doubled the entire snowfall for the first quarter of the year.

One of the most impressive speeches in recent years was the eulogy delivered by the late Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) for boxing legend Muhammad Ali at his funeral in 2016.

The Los Angeles Times, whose left-wing bias extends beyond the editorial board to the news pages of the paper, endorsed Republican Lanhee Chen for California State Controller in the upcoming primary election in an unusual editorial Thursday.

My late mother-in-law, Rhoda Kadalie, who died on Saturday at the age of 68, was known (and feared) as a critic of South Africa’s post-apartheid government (which she had fought for the right to elect). She was also, however, a

Former South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) chair Barney Pityana, a theologian by training, is exploiting the recent death of anti-apartheid feminist pioneer Rhoda Kadalie in an attempt to settle old scores about the organization.

The Orange County coroner’s office has been ordered to pay $1.5 million to the family of a homeless man whom they were told was dead — though he was actually still alive, and a different homeless man had been buried in their loved one’s grace.

Rhoda Kadalie, a pioneering feminist, anti-apartheid activist, and Trump supporter, passed away on April 16 after a quiet battle with lung cancer. She left many memorable quotes: these are just a few that summarize her incredible life.

Republicans should rally around a 2020 proposal backed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to make it easier to remove presidents for mental incapacity under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, based on Joe Biden’s recent behavior.

The man who pleaded guilty to murdering black philanthropist Jacqueline Avant last year laughed in a jailhouse call laughed about shooting her in the back and bragged that he would leave prison early because Los Angeles prosecutors did not ask

Five associates of Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate with Special Counsel John H. Durham, according a filing in federal court revealed later Friday in Washington, DC.

Rhoda Kadalie, a feminist and anti-apartheid activist who became a prominent critic of the left even as she devoted herself to the advancement of the poor, passed away on Saturday, April 16, after a quiet battle with lung cancer.