[JustTheNews] Scrutiny on university presidents has intensified in the wake of a congressional hearing on antisemitism.
Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake wants to look into federal funding at elite universities if she is elected to the United States Senate come November 2024.
Lake sat down for a wide-ranging policy interview with The Center Square, where she was asked about issues ranging from education, tribal issues, and the economy.
"I think our universities need to concentrate on educating our young generation. Truly educating, not indoctrinating, not forcing CRT not forcing this DEI garbage," Lake said.
Scrutiny on university presidents has intensified in the wake of a congressional hearing on antisemitism with Harvard President Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth. Magill resigned and Gay is now facing calls to step down amid both her controversial remarks about antisemitism and a plagiarism scandal.
Despite being private universities, they still receive millions from the federal government. For example, Harvard University received $676 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2023, according to its financial overview.
"We need to look at the federal funding going into these almost indoctrination camps," Lake added.
"It's outrageous what they're doing to our kids on these universities. That those presidents from these Ivy League schools could not stand up and speak out against a genocide is appalling. And we do need to look at how we're spending federal money in these universities because they're not churning out a quality education for our young people. Just the opposite," she said.
Lake, who previously ran for governor in 2022, was also asked about her goals when it comes to Arizona's tribal communities, which play an important role in the state's governmental dynamic.
"When you really think about the 22 tribes, we are almost a melting pot because so many people actually move here from all over the country and really all over the world. People love Arizona. And so, I wanna have a great relationship with them."
"A lot of people believe that if you're not a Democrat, you can't have a good relationship with the tribes. I disagree with that. The people who live on our various Indian tribes and reservations want to have security," she said. "They want to make sure that the drugs aren't taking the lives of their children. They want to have safe streets, and they want to have the issues that are plaguing them to be solved. So I think just like other Arizonans, we can solve problems with common sense, America First policies."
However, one of the issues heavily impacting the tribes and Arizonans as a whole is water policy. As much of the issue ties into federal policy, senators often play a role in water issues, such as Colorado River usage. Lake said that she's hoping other methods to increase water access for the state will be employed.
"We need to look at things like desalination. All of Israel's water comes from desalination. We can do that here. But access to getting the water is critical and the infrastructure needs to be placed and funded to do that. So much of our federal funding though, there's so much red tape that goes through it. And there's also so much waste where we fund something and then we wonder, does the problem ever get solved?" the Republican said.
"And so we need to make sure there's great oversight in that kind of funding, but every Arizonan, regardless of where they live, should have access to clean, fresh water," she continued.
In regards to the economy, The Center Square asked how she would approach an economic downturn or national emergency, like another pandemic, that would prompt calls for another government stimulus. Many Republicans have credited recent high government spending bills to inflation.
"Usually when there's a big catastrophic situation, a lot of bad decisions are made because we try to have the government come in and fix everything. So sometimes it almost takes a deep breath, slow down, maybe do something very small initially just to get people through, and then let's reassess," she said. "Because a lot of the things that happened during COVID, it was almost done in a panic. Now we look back at it and go, this was outrageous of the spending that was happening, and it's gonna hurt our economy for decades to come."
Lake is widely expected to win the Republican nomination for Senate, and she will likely face off against Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego. Incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who's now an independent after leaving the Democratic Party last year, has not said yet whether or not she'll seek re-election.
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[Federalist] The Sanfords lose internet and power, and they witness an oil tanker grounds ashore before their eyes, planes falling out of the sky, drones dropping "Death to America" pamphlets, Tesla vehicles self-crashing into one another in a coordinated effort to block roadways, and bombs dropping on New York City.
Many commentators, like "Great Reset" whistleblower Eva Vlaardingerbroek, believe the film is an exercise in "predictive programming." What Vlaardingerbroek means by "predictive programming" is that certain movies, books, or government reports intentionally convey messages intended to prepare or "program" the public for future events.
In other words, "Leave the World Behind" is a sick way for the elites in the tech and finance world to prime the public for an imminent cyberattack that they just so happen to benefit from.
Skipping down:
In these uniquely uncertain times, it’s fair to assume that we’ll all face hardships outside of our control. That’s the point of “Leave the World Behind” — to make us feel afraid and helpless. But we actually do have control over a few key things. We don’t have to be like the Sanfords. We can cultivate a loving, cohesive family by spending time with one another, being patient with one another, and recognizing the value each member brings to the family. We also don’t need to surrender to the fear porn, especially if we have faith in Christ and know that this world is not our final destination.
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Saw that lame movie before knowing the Obunders produced it. The dialogue was very unrealistic as was how most people would react to such an event. Yes, the husband was pussification on steroids.
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[Epoch Times] Elon Musk is the world’s richest man but also the number one target of the world’s richest governments and their associated industrialists. The reason traces entirely to his independence of mind and the actions that follow from that.
In times of censorship, he bought and now protects a free-speech platform, the only one remaining with any real reach into the public mind. Countless millions of people are deeply grateful, even if the platform is a long way from profitability.
Further, he is innovating in a time of stagnation with Tesla, Starlink, and SpaceX. He is outspoken against the many forms of despotism of our time. He was an original dissident against COVID controls, and probably the most prominent, keeping his factories running in defiance of the governor and then even leaving California for Texas to find more freedom.
This is the whole reason he is fending off attacks from every angle. An embarrassment to the globalists, kleptocrats, socialists, and commies.
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There is a reason he's no longer living in South Africa. I believe I know what that reason is. Perhaps some folks should listen a bit more closely to this young man.
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Hopefully he invents a way around Heinlein's "bad luck."
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The government needs to careful. Elon is a mad scientist, he built space rockets that land on floating barges, remember NASA laughed at him, he built a car company in America, something that has not been successfully done in a century, he control a global communication system. He is a haircut and a shaved cat away from Dr Evil.
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He liked a picture on my Facebook page. I don't think it was really him.
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The Daily Mail joins the attack, reporting on a three=year old incident, which may have been as simple as the worker getting in between the robot and its target.
80-100 years ago, punch press operators sometimes lost fingers. A couple of years ago, a guy caught his necktie in a rotating machine with horribly messy results.
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Spacex/Starlink will be the backbone of next generation US war fighting capability. I hope Musk is making friends in the DOD, if they’re not too busy touching up their lipstick.
Heh. Worked at a tool and die place where everyone in the "front office" had to wear a coat and tie. If you had to go out on the shop floor you had to remove jacket and tie for safety reasons. So, everyone found a reason to go out on the floor right after arriving at work.
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A couple of years ago, a guy caught his necktie in a rotating machine with horribly messy results.
Never walk on the factory floor wearing something loose, not even if you’re just passing through. A female engineer* of my acquaintance told about taking a shortcut across the floor in our paper factory... Since she wasn’t staying, she didn’t bother to put on a hairnet. Naturally, her long ponytail got caught in the rollers. One of the workers heard her scream and hit the emergency shut-off, stopping the thing just before her head was pulled in. They had to cut her hair off to set her free, and she never grew it longer than an inch below her ears until she retired.
[RussiaToday] In yet another case of blowback, reflecting the failure of Western military interventionism in West Asia, Yemen’s Ansarallah (Houthi) movement has inserted itself as an active participant in the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza. First launching batches of loitering munitions, ballistic and cruise missiles towards Israel, Ansarallah then moved on to prevent the passage of Israeli-owned or operated ships through the Red Sea, before announcing a complete closure of the shipping route for any vessels destined to dock at the port of Eilat.
They did announce that, yes. In practice, though, they went for any ship not Russian, Chinese, or Iranian passing in their vicinity, no matter where it might be headed — Egypt’s Suez Canal hardest hit. But since the Houthis aren’t fond of Egypt, I s’pose that’s a twofer.
After the Houthis seized a number of ships, while attacking others with drone strikes, activity at Eilat has dropped some 85%. International and Israeli shipping companies have opted to take the long route, which in some cases takes an additional 12 days, to reach Israel
...and everyone else...
with their cargo, a costly diversion to say the least. In opposition to this, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin traveled to the region and announced the formation of a multinational naval task force to be deployed in the Red Sea. Despite talk of the coalition including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and even the United Arab Emirates, the only Arab nation that joined was Bahrain.
So, without a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to back them up, usually required to make the militarisation of a territory legal under international law, the US has launched yet another foreign intervention. This one is significant because it failed to convince any major regional players to join, demonstrating the decline in American influence, but has also elevated the status of Yemen’s Ansarallah. I don't see a problem. All these shipping companies have to do is hire Hunter at million $ a year.
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"We are in a multi-arena war, we are being attacked from seven different sectors - Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Yemen and Iran," Gallant told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "We have already reacted and acted in six of these decrees, and I say here in the most explicit way - anyone who acts against us is a potential target, there is no immunity for anyone."
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[RIA] The fact that there is now a gloomy mood in Ukraine is noted by almost all Western reporters who have visited there. In fact, no one believes in victory over Russia anymore, despite the constant incantations of official propaganda. A correspondent for the British The Times notes a sharp contrast with the emotions that reigned in Kiev at the end of last year.
Reports from the front frighten all Western supporters.
German Bild correspondent Paul Ronzheimer called them “unbearable.” Just think about this eloquent fact, which was told to the Western press by a certain Ukrainian Armed Forces officer fighting in the Kharkov region : “I don’t even give call signs to new guys anymore. Most of them don’t live long.” One can imagine the nature of the battles if their officers a priori treat recruits as cannon fodder.
Against this backdrop, Western journalists describe an ever-widening gap between reality and bravura Ukrainian propaganda. The same Ronzheimer writes: “Official statements at press conferences or in interviews coincide less and less with reality.” And against this background, the flight of the propagandists themselves, who for a long time painted Ukrainians victorious pictures from the front, and are now looking for any opportunity to move beyond the cordon, is especially indicative.
In November, one of the main spokesmen of the Zelensky regime, Alexey Arestovich, publicly announced his flight from Ukraine, voicing reports about Ukraine’s incredible “victories” even before the start of the North Military District. This propagandist told all sorts of stories about how “Russia is about to be defeated.” Now he is met somewhere on the streets of New York .
And how instantly the tone of his statements changed! The other day, in an interview with a foreign agent, without blinking an eye, he launched into a tirade: “Ukraine no longer exists... This Ukraine is a corpse! We are now in a situation: let the dead bury their dead.” He said this monotonously in his calm voice - exactly the same when he said just a year ago: “Russia has already lost.” Moreover, he said it as if he himself was not involved in turning his country into a “corpse.”
And at the end of last week, the Ukrainian media were shocked by another flight. Alexey Pechiy, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the recent EU summit held in Brussels , publicly announced his non-return . This name doesn’t mean much to a Russian viewer or reader, but in Ukraine they know it very well. He did not leave the screens, as he was one of the hosts of the 24-hour Telethon.
Almost every day this propagandist went on air on Ukrainian TV and informed viewers about the incredible “victories” of Ukraine! "Moscow will burn!" - he scared recently. "Russia is leaving the left bank of the Dnieper !" - the propagandist delighted his audience. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces broke through the occupiers’ defenses,” he said just a few weeks ago. "Russian drones attacked NATO territory !" — the same leader frightened Ukraine’s Western allies. In general, one can quote and quote these pearls of rather primitive and monotonous propaganda. Every day there is a new sensation!
And so Pechiy shocks his fans with the message: “I made a difficult decision for myself, and I understand that public condemnation awaits me in Ukraine.” The propagandist said that he remains in Europe to “promote the Ukrainian agenda in Western society.” This is what desertion is called now.
Let us emphasize that it is very difficult for men of military age to leave Ukraine. People go to incredible lengths to break out of this collective prison. Who pretends to be a woman, who tries to give colossal bribes in order to cross the border, who risks their lives wandering through the Carpathian forests or swimming across rivers, who arranges fictitious marriages with disabled people or mothers of many children. Precisely because they know: being sent to the front, they will not even have time to receive a call sign.
If Petro Poroshenko could not get out of his country, then less high-ranking citizens of Ukraine have much less chance of doing so. Pechiy found a way. Now his colleagues call him “the hero of the Brussels Cauldron” and suggest that the Ukrainian media will henceforth send mostly girls on business trips abroad. Everyone understands that his other comrades in the propaganda workshop will also want to follow Pechiy.
Let us repeat, flight from Ukraine has become a mass phenomenon. Stand-up comedian Andrei Shchegel, who left this year, simply stated: “It’s the guys’ choice to die,” and he himself chose to “run away like a rat” (in the original he used a more rude verb). Not so long ago, the Ukrainian media themselves admitted that from 40 to 60 percent of diplomats do not return from business trips abroad. And although the Kiev Foreign Ministry eagerly rushed to refute these data, few believed in this refutation: there is less and less faith in official statements. And of course, the flight of all those who not only disseminated, but generated these official statements will not add to this faith.
The Ukrainian ship of state is rapidly sinking. That is why the rats are fleeing this ship, taking advantage of every opportunity. What will happen next to those whom they forced to believe in unrealistic “victories” does not bother them at all. It is said: “The dead bury the dead.” Sitting in New York or Brussels, you can now speak the truth in a calm voice, without feeling any responsibility for these dead.
[Mises] According to the Case-Shiller index, home prices have increased 44 percent since February 2020. That's just an average, of course, and some markets have seen increases in prices that are far higher. Even in middle-American housing markets, however—where home prices are supposedly more reasonable than on the coasts—prices have soared. In Cleveland, for example, the index is up 40 percent since early 2020. During the same period, the index rose 50 percent in Atlanta and 33 percent in Chicago. This sort of price inflation is not merely a product of the physical supply of housing. Demand for housing has been greatly inflated by nearly fifteen years of historic lows in interest rates, following by immense flows of newly created money during the Covid Panic. As economist Brendan Brown has noted, even as consumer price growth appeared low from 2008 to 2020, the effects of monetary inflation have long been visible in asset price inflation (e.g., home prices).
It is not at all surprising then that property taxes are rising as well. Fortunately for homeowners, though, property taxes have so far not kept up with market prices....
More than one curmudgeonly libertarian has described the residential property tax as "rent you pay to to the government to live in your own house." This isn't wrong. Moreover, residential property taxes can be especially devastating in times of economic stress—much more devastating than income taxes.
For example, as the economy worsens, we can expect unemployment rates to rise, and for real incomes to fall even more than they already have over the past two years. Now, when it comes to income taxes, a falling income generally means a lower income-tax bill. Yet, do our property taxes go down when we lose a job or suffer a pay cut? Almost certainly not. Indeed, if new assessments come on the tail end of an inflationary period, homeowners may be hit with a fresh new increase in property taxes just as employment fortunes are worsening. The next step, of course, may be moving your whole family into your aging parent's basement....
Moreover, a focus on state income taxes as the "worst" state tax can lead some to inappropriately downplay the true costs of property taxes. For example, states with no income tax, such as Texas, like to tout this fact as if a lack of an income tax rendered Texas more or less tax free. This, of course, is not remotely true. Texas has the third-highest property tax burden in the nation, behind only New Jersey and New Hampshire, and only slightly better than Illinois. (New Hampshire doesn't have an income tax either.) This isn't a recommendation for Texas to adopt a income tax, of course. There are indeed benefits that flow from the lack of an income tax. But every government will fight to get tax revenue from somewhere, and property taxes are likely to be a very lucrative source of tax revenue in coming years. It's just yet another growing burden we endure in our age of easy money and price inflation.
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CA Dems are always hard at work trying to get around Prop 13
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^ natural for them. You know from each according to their means, to each according to their need. Politicians have an unquenchable need to spend other peoples money.
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Without Proposition 13, I could not keep my house in California. I certainly could not afford my house if I had to buy it today. Not even close. I know people now who pay more in property taxes than I ever paid for my mortgage. Way more. And for houses that are not as big and nice as mine.
Of course the Democrats are working hard to repeal Prop. 13 or to find sneaky ways around it. These are the same people who opposed it back in 1978...teachers unions and school administrators were horrified at the prospect of access to their cash cow being restricted in any way. But I talked to people at the time who were literally being taxed out of their property. Farmers in particular would lose their farms and then developers would grab the land and build massive housing tracts. It wasn't very green. Still isn't.
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residential property tax as "rent you pay to to the government to live in your own house."
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Well, your property is worth how secure it is. Ironically, a 35,000 acre ranch in Texas is only as secure as you make it. Your house in the suburbs is insurable to the extent that the cops are busting burglars.
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I am still skeptical about anyone fast off the mark to explain why Trump's bad personnel choices are not his fault.
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"What they do?
They smile in your face
All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
They smile in your face
All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)".
The O'Jays.
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^ Fantastic tune. True lyrics.
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M. Murcek, I'd always assumed opportunists took the jobs thinking they could manipulate Trump. When they found out he wasn't the easily tricked dolt they'd thought he was they became bitter and backstabbed hoping to enjoy the love of the swamp again.
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See also:
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I believe Trump is a decent man. The swamp is no place for a decent man.
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During his time in office, LBJ said of the Vietnam War: "I'm like a hitchhiker caught in a Texas hailstorm. You can't run. You can't hide. And you can't make it stop."
That's the swamp. It will not be drained. All you can do is detour around it and fence it off as useless land.
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Sam Donaldson said official Washington made the mistake of "believing Reagan was a likable moax." By the time they found out they had underestimated him the USSR was on the verge of falling.
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Make no mistake. Half of Washington considered the USSR to be a "partner" they could work with or even survive being taken over by.
Happily, that cadre in DC today has partners like the alphabet people and the muzz. It's not going to play out well for them.
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[Breitbart] Political strategist Roger Stone told Breitbart News that "people don’t really understand how tough Donald Trump is," adding that the 45th president "really believes that he is going to run the gauntlet, despite the efforts to weaponize the judicial system — that he’s going to win."
"People don’t really understand how tough Donald Trump is," Stone told Breitbart News at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona. "I worked for Richard Nixon, I worked for Senator Bob Dole, both very, very tough guys, but not nearly as tough as Trump."
Stone added that "under this enormous pressure where he’s being framed in at least four or five different totally ridiculous lawsuits in an effort to smear him and to put obstacles in the way of his presidential campaign, he remains buoyant, good humored, confident, determined, resolute."
"He literally is the toughest person I know," the political strategist affirmed. "He really believes that he is going to run the gauntlet, despite the efforts to weaponize the judicial system — that he’s going to win."
Stone went on to say that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is "the biggest, most important grassroots political movement in American history."
"We’ve had a conservative movement in America — it essentially started with the campaign of Barry Goldwater, manifested itself in the election of Ronald Reagan; we weeded out the racists and the bigots and the antisemites through the leadership of Bill Buckley, but it was time for that movement to be revitalized," Stone said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
In times of censorship, he bought and now protects a free-speech platform, the only one remaining with any real reach into the public mind. Countless millions of people are deeply grateful, even if the platform is a long way from profitability.
