University Bans Chick-Fil-A

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Last month, a dean from Rider University in New Jersey announced her resignation over the school’s decision to ban Chick-fil-A from becoming an on-campus restaurant.

In November, the university removed Chick-Fil-A from a list of possible new restaurant franchises to bring to campus, claiming that the fast food chain is “perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community.”

Cynthia Newman, the dean of the College of Business announced her resignation — which will become effective on August, 31 — in a statement that reflected on the handling of the situation, Campus Reform reports.

“As some of you already know, I am a committed follower of Jesus Christ. As such I endeavor every day to do exactly what Chick-fil-A puts forwards as its overarching corporate value: to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to me and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with me,” Newman said in the announcement. “During my initial conversations, I expressed how disappointed I was, not that the decision has been made to not have Chick-fil-A on campus … but rather that the University leadership had made such a judgemental statement about Chick-fil-A’s values — values that reflect the essence of the Christian as well as other faiths.” . . .

“Unfortunately, that did not happen,” Newman said. “Instead a second email was issued without any type of an apology and I, along with other campus leaders, was given a set of talking points about the Chick-fil-A decision that we were to use to respond to those who were critical of the decision. I could not, in a good conscience as a committed Christian, adhere to those talking points.” (Read more from “University Bans Chick-Fil-A” HERE)

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Born at Just 24 Weeks, World’s ‘Tiniest Baby’ Boy Goes Home

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As the debate escalates in the U.S. over late-term abortion, the world’s “tiniest baby” boy ever recorded to have survived, who was born at just 24 weeks and weighing under 10 ounces, has just gone home healthy.

The boy, whose name has not been released, was born by Caesarean-section weighing just 9.45 ounces, which is lighter than the previous all-time recorded low for a baby boy set a decade ago.

The child spent several months at the Keio University Hospital in Tokyo after being born three months early in August. While his mother said she at times doubted that he would survive, the boy was finally released to go home on Feb. 20 — and made history in the process. . .

World Health News tweeted out a photo of the tiny baby in celebration of his full release from the hospital. “A baby boy weighing just 268 grams (9.45 oz) at birth was sent home after months in a Tokyo hospital, the smallest surviving male baby in the world, Keio University hospital said,” World Health News tweeted. . .

The baby’s weight breaks the previous record for a boy: 9.67 ounces, recorded in Germany in 2009. (Read more from “Born at Just 24 Weeks, World’s ‘Tiniest Baby’ Boy Goes Home” HERE)

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Funding U.S. Sovereignty

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We were a Nevada family when promoters first floated the idea of a high-speed magnetic-levitation (“maglev”) rail project between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It would travel across the desert at speeds up to 300 mph, arriving in Anaheim in 81 minutes.

We were stoked. My grandsons would be surfers! But like most such proposals, this one couldn’t find adequate financial backing.

A more recent fast-rail proposal would connect Los Angeles to San Francisco, 380 miles distant, at speeds up to 220 mph. This one found financing aplenty, but lacked adult supervision.

The initial 2008 estimate was $33.6 billion in construction costs. That’s what California voters agreed to. Completion was projected by 2028. By 2012, the California government said make that $53.4 billion. Then last year, they said – what the heck – make it $63.2 billion, but it won’t be finished until 2033. The boondoggle’s other legs lift the overall cost to $98.1 billion.

Former California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown apparently wasn’t cut out for managing large projects like this one. Current Gov. Gavin Newsome pulled the plug shortly after his inauguration in January. “There’s been too little oversight,” he said, “and not enough transparency.”

But “before you celebrate the sudden outbreak of common sense in California,” as Investor’s Business Daily cracked last month, Newsome made the astonishing announcement that he still wants to build the bullet train from Merced (pop. 83,000) to Bakersfield (pop. 380,000).

In between the two is Fresno (pop. 512,000). It’s extremely unlikely that these populations will yield enough ridership to keep the rail system solvent. That’s $10.6 billion down the drain, just in construction costs, and then a system that will almost certainly bleed red ink deep into this century.

Far be it from me to stigmatize mental illness, but this appears to be lunacy. Can we at least agree that we don’t want our accountants to be lunatics? Still, it’s California. If you live in a different state, why should you care about the latest outbreak of moon-barking on the Left Coast? Because you’ve got $3.5 billion “skin in the game.”

Yes, your federal government has participated in the funding for this proposed project. It was supposed to be a matching grant, dollar-for-dollar. But by the end of last year, the state of California had spent $3 billion on the project, and only 15 percent was California money. The rest, a little over $2.5 billion, was your money.

Democrat Newsome has clung to the Merced-to-Bakersfield black hole because quitting would trigger “sending $3.5 billion in federal funding back to Donald Trump.”

This is a disturbing rationale. An American public official would rather pour $10.6 billion of hard-earned taxpayers’ money into a guaranteed failure than to return it to the people who may have better uses for it, maybe even an urgent need for it?

But I have to thank Gov. Newsome for provoking me to think that through. What could we do with $3.5 billion on the federal side?

Well, Congress said we can’t afford to fund $5 billion in border fencing. We only appropriated $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new fencing at the border. That’s $25 million per mile of fencing. At that rate, we could build another 140 miles of fence, for a combined total of 195 miles fenced this year.

But why does it cost so much? In 2007, when fencing was built under the Secure Fence Act of 2006, it cost $2.8 million per mile. By 2008, it cost $3.9 million per mile. I understand that labor costs escalate, and perhaps we’re building a higher quality of fence nowadays. But if the fence cost $10 million per mile, we could build 137 miles of fence with the Congressional appropriation, and 420 miles of fence with the repaid California rail grant. Even at $12.5 million, we could build 110 miles with the Congressional appropriation and 280 miles with the repaid California rail grant.

In the long run, we should finance the fence and all the necessary manpower and technology at the border by a tax on foreign remittances to the sources of illegal immigration.

That’s a tax on Western Union, Moneygram, bank transfers and money orders originating in the U.S. and destined for any of the countries that benefits from their citizens extracting wealth from our country and sending it home.

This is a fair tax because it burdens the groups that make immigration enforcement expensive. It doesn’t focus unfairly on Mexicans, but also on Central American sources of illegal immigration.

It also burdens illegal immigrants who have not come across the southern border, but have overstayed student and tourist visas. There are more illegal immigrants here from India, for example, than from Nicaragua.

It’s less fair that the tax on foreign remittances can’t distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. Even U.S. citizens would have to pay the tax to send money to friends and family in countries that are sources of large numbers of illegal immigrants. But the fact remains that they are removing wealth from our economy and our communities, on a one-way trip to foreign countries. We’re entitled to take that into account.

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Smollett Is Heir Apparent to Tawana Brawley

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Actor Jussie Smollett is out on bail now after Chicago police arrested him for filing a false report that white attackers in Trump campaign hats thrashed him, shouted racist and homophobic slurs, looped a rope around his neck, poured gasoline on him and screamed “this is M.A.G.A. country.”

Fortunately, an abundance of surveillance cameras disproved Smollett’s hoax. He paid two young (Black) friends to stage the fake attack.

Smollett is the latest hustler to attempt to cash in on Liberals’ eagerness to lynch toxic (conservative) males. He may spend some time in jail because he was clumsy, and failed to study the lessons of Clarence Thomas, Roy Moore and Brett Kavanaugh before launching his own false accusations.

If he had played it smarter, he’d be a martyr now, on the college lecture circuit, invited to deliver witty comments on MSNBC and CNN news panels. But he was dumb.

Smollett’s factual claims were unambiguous. They were subject to evidence, of which there was plenty. No memories faded in three weeks. He was guided by no crafty lawyers.

Recorded video from approximately 55 public and private surveillance cameras, including residential doorbell cameras, presented an obstacle for Smollett’s scheme that Anita Hill, Leigh Corfman and Christine Blasey Ford never had to overcome.

False racially-charged accusations have a long history in our country. The age of powerful reaction against racial outrages dawned, perhaps, with the brutal 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmet Till in Mississippi, based on a white woman’s false accusation that the boy had grabbed her waist and muttered obscenities.

Emmet’s mom brought his body home to Chicago, insisted on an open-casket funeral and forbade the mortician to clean up the boy’s bloated and mutilated corpse. Tens of thousands came to view the body, and it was photographed and published in the Black press nationwide. It galvanized Black racial solidarity and confronted white people of conscience.

The power of outrage to mobilize support was impossible to ignore, and the Civil Rights movement continued to draw strength from outrages at Little Rock, the University of Mississippi, Edmund Pettus Bridge and Birmingham. Unfortunately, outrage is agnostic. It can serve injustice as well as justice.

In my day, there was the hoax in which Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old girl managed by Al Sharpton, accused white police officers and a white prosecutor of kidnapping and sexually degrading her over a period of several days.

Bill Cosby offered a $25 thousand reward for information leading to a conviction. Boxing promoter Don King offered $100 thousand to pay for Brawley’s education. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan led a march of 1,000 people through the streets of a neighboring town. A gulf of 34 percent opened between Blacks and whites, as 85 percent of whites but only 51 percent of Blacks said Brawley was lying.

Brawley’s grandmother took refuge in churches to avoid police who wanted to question her concerning a timeline of the girl’s whereabouts. Police were so concerned about the possibility of race riots that they decided not to enter the churches. The alleged victim Tawana defied a subpoena to testify before an investigating grand jury.

That grand jury heard 180 witnesses, including high school classmates who said young Tawana came to late-night parties during the period when she was supposedly held captive. One witness saw her climb into the dumpster where she was discovered nude, wrapped in trash bags and smeared with feces.

The rape kit showed no evidence of sexual assault. Vulgar and racially inflammatory words were written on her body in charcoal, but upside down, suggesting that she wrote them herself.

The grand jury exonerated the accused men in a 170-page report based on 250 exhibits and more than 6,000 pages of testimony. One of her boyfriends told Newsday a year later that Tawana confided that she and her mother conceived the lie to avoid punishment by her step-father for staying out all night.

Yet director Spike Lee flashed “Tawana told the truth” graffiti in his film Do the Right Thing. He gave Sharpton and Brawley cameos in Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” music video, which he directed and produced.

When one of the falsely accused men won defamation suits against Sharpton and Brawley in civil court, O.J. Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran paid Sharpton’s judgment. Brawley changed her name to Maryam Muhammad and fled the state without paying any of her judgment for 26 years. Attorneys finally tracked her down in 2013 and got a court order garnishing money from her paychecks as a nurse.

A Columbia Law School professor, under the pall of “critical race theory,” said it doesn’t matter whether Tawana was lying or not. Professor Patricia Williams wrote that young Brawley was “the victim of some unspeakable crime. No matter how she got there. No matter who did it to her – and even if she did it to herself.”

This is invincible ignorance. Even after an accusation is refuted in detail, victimhood prevails. It is absolute impunity for false witness. Thus Anita Hill and Angela Davis are honored for “speaking truth to power.” Frothing young feminists man the barricades shouting that “we believe Christine” when Dr. Ford hasn’t even testified yet, much less been cross-examined.

Film star Terrence Howard doubled down on his young co-star’s veracity despite the testimony of the surveillance cameras, and said nobody can judge Smollett but God. But didn’t he judge fictional white Trump supporters in M.A.G.A. hats? Is Smollett alone immune to human judgment for violating norms of decency and law?

Well, apparently yes. When Smollett’s allegations first hit the news, presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker both rushed to denounce it as a “modern day lynching.” Booker denounced Republican legislators for a “lack of urgency” regarding lynching. After the lies were revealed as a criminal hoax, neither Democrat apologized.

Booker, for one, said he is reserving judgment until the final report of the investigation is complete. Now that Booker’s anointed victim is under accusation, the senator has rediscovered a devotion to due process and the presumption of innocence. Long time no see!

Fasten your seatbelts, America. If hard-Left rhetorical arsonists have their way, we are entering a truth-free zone.

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Soros Money Used to Promote Movement Against Israel

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Money tied to George Soros, a liberal billionaire who uses his wealth to support a number of Democratic and progressive causes, funded the creation of a database that singles out business investment in Israel.

The EIRIS Foundation, a charity organization that focuses on investment research, received donations totaling nearly $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations to build a “Business in Occupied Lands” database, according to financial reports from the U.K. Charity Commission between 2015 to 2017.

The database is advertised as a way to help companies practice better corporate social responsibility, i.e., ethical business investing. However, the information from the database only focuses on two areas: Crimea and Israel, which the EIRIS Foundation simply refers to as “Palestine.” Despite claiming the Business in Occupied Lands project to be an “objective” collection of information on corporate operations in Israel, the EIRIS Foundation frames the region as “illegally administered.”

While a growing number of companies across the world are implementing corporate social responsibility into their business practices in an effort to promote justice, experts point out that more partisan-driven actors have weaponized corporate social responsibility to reach political goals. Namely, it has been used to boost the BDS movement, a global campaign that seeks the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” of Israel and Israeli-linked businesses.

“In addition to being promoted by groups affiliated with the BDS movement, elements of the Foreign Boycott Campaign have recently been adopted by [corporate social responsibility] advisors and companies that employ CSR programs. As a result, the Foreign Boycott Campaign represents the intersection of several strains of discrimination with CSR,” Marc Greedorfer writes in an upcoming law review article. (Read more from “Soros Money Used to Promote Movement Against Israel” HERE)

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This Is How Rand Paul Will Vote Regarding National Emergency

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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said he will vote against a resolution in an attempt to terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency for border wall funding.

Paul will join a group of three Republicans who have expressed their concerns with Trump’s declaration for a national emergency, saying they do not believe the president should be allowed to override Congress to such a degree.

“I can’t vote to give extraconstitutional powers to the President,” Paul said, to the Bowling Green Daily News Saturday. “I can’t vote to give the President the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress,” he continued. “We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.” He was speaking to the Warren County Republican Party. . .

“As a U.S. senator, I cannot justify providing the executive with more ways to bypass Congress,” Tillis wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post. “As a conservative, I cannot endorse a precedent that I know future left-wing presidents will exploit to advance radical policies that will erode economic and individual freedoms.” . . .

Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro introduced the resolution, which he said will pass the House, as 222 cosponsors have jumped on board. Castro sent out a tweet saying his resolution would terminate Trump’s national emergency. Democrats only need 218 supporters to pass the resolution. (Read more from “This Is How Rand Paul Will Vote for National Emergency” HERE)

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CNN Analyst Compares Trump’s Call to Reclaim American Heritage to Hitler. But Look Who Said It First.

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President Donald Trump, during a two-hour speech at CPAC Saturday, called for Americans to reclaim their national heritage.

“The men and women here today are on the front lines of protecting America’s interests, defending America’s value, and reclaiming our nation’s priceless heritage,” Trump said. “Right now we have people in Congress that hate our country, and you know that and we can name every one of them if they want. They hate our country.”

After the speech CNN analyst Samantha Vinograd took exception with Trump’s call to action.

Vinograd, who also works as a senior adviser at the University of Delaware’s Biden Institute and formerly served in the Obama administration on the National Security Council, compared Trump’s words to the ideals of Adolf Hitler. . .

During a speech at the 2011 Florida Democratic Party Convention, [Joe] Biden declared: “It’s time to fight back! It’s time to reclaim our heritage! It’s time — and we are ready!”

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After Jewish Dem Calls Her out, Omar Doubles Down on Anti-Semitic Accusation

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Just two days after a top House Democrat condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for her troubling history of anti-Semitism, the freshman lawmaker ignited controversy once again on Sunday when she appeared to accuse a Jewish congresswoman of wanting her to pledge allegiance to Israel.

Omar’s comments seemed to double down on her belief that pro-Israel lawmakers hold dual loyalty. Such accusations are exhausted anti-Semitic charges. . .

On Sunday, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, called for Omar to “engage in further dialogue with the Jewish community” to understand why “anti-Semitic tropes that accuse Jews of dual loyalty” are offensive and considered racist. . .

She essentially doubled down on her charge that pro-Israel lawmakers have dual loyalty, adding that she believes she is being pressured to support Israel.

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Transgender Decides She Is Now an Alien

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[Jareth] Nebula spent the first 29 years of [her] life as a woman before transitioning into a male. . .

Nebula has had [her] nipples removed in order to be more authentic, and regularly shaves [her] eyebrows.

“After coming out as transgender and believing I had finally found myself, I realized I was wrong. I wasn’t male or female, or even human,” Nebula told The Sun. “I don’t think or feel like humans. I can’t really explain it to others. I’m simply otherworldly.”

Nebula, who was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare condition affecting connective tissues in the body, said that [she] felt different from other people even as a child. [She] later said that [she] discovered [she] was agender, having no gender in particular.

“I’d always been obsessed with aliens, too, and what it means to be extraterrestrial, so the idea of being an agender alien fit perfectly as an identity for me,” [she] added.

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Dems Continue Their Assault on the Trump Administration by Launching Another Probe

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Democrats are desperate to take down President Donald Trump. The Russia probe has proven to be ineffective and, quite frankly, a waste of time and taxpayer money. They didn’t find what they wanted so now they’re launching another probe.

During an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said the Committee plans to request documents from more than 60 people at the White House and Trump Organization. The reason? They want to “protect the rule of law,” USA Today reported. . .

“The White House seems to have used its power for personal enrichment in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution,” Nadler said. “We don’t have the facts yet, but we’re going to initiate proper investigations. Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen.”

The Committee is especially interested in hearing from Donald Trump Jr. and Adam Weisselberg, the chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, and plans to release the full list of names on Monday.

Trump took to Twitter to remind the public that the probe is nothing more than a “witch hunt.”

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