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It’s interesting to juxtapose a country confronting an exterminationist culture with privileged students demanding that Sabra hummus be banned on campus.

Years ago, I was the Controller for a county government about 50 miles north of Madison, WI. One of the stormiest board meetings I ever attended was a debate on building an animal shelter. On one...

I see the cops have cleared that building at Columbia the Hamas sympathizers broke into. They issued demands for global Intifada and free food, but got zip ties instead. Jamaal Bowman decried the...

These seem to be sentiments they’ve honored more with words than deeds in recent years.

Does the First Amendment apply to pitching a tent on private property? If you camp on my lawn and present me with a list of demands, I’d be setting the cops on you.

When the people who shout...

I think you may be right. Some people who see another four years of Trump as “An existential threat to our democracy” and Biden as “Complicit in genocide” will need to decide which hyperbolic...

I started at U of Illinois in 1976, and participated in the AFROTC program there. There was a certain amount of jeering and sneering and threats aimed at people in uniform then. It seemed to mainly...

So at a couple of dozen campuses we are seeing an outbreak of “occupation” campouts. Maybe in the belief that university administrations are critical contributors to the Israeli defense...

I knew a guy who returned from an overseas deployment to find squatters in his house. It took something like five months to get rid of them.

I can hear you now.

I think there is a spectrum of homelessness ranging from the totally feckless to people whipsawed by the housing market to privileged kids getting suspended from Barnard and whining about being...

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinese-money-american-universities-244bab09

It seems the Chinese have been the largest source of foreign money since 2013.

I assume there are conspiracy theory...

I was thinking more class disruptions and antisemitic romps, but you’re right.

The People’s Republic of China has also been pouring cash into US universities for some time now.

I see that Israel ignored Biden’s advice to “take the win” and do nothing. The Iranians referred to the attackers as “infiltrators” rather than “Israelis”, which may mean they won’t or can’t...

I see Berliner has been suspended without pay for not getting prior approval for “working outside the network”, and warned he will be fired if he does it again.

Over the years, NPR seems to have...

Happened all over the country. Coming as they did so soon after that mostly peaceful Iranian attack, you have to wonder who’s handling their schedules. Doubt they won a lot of hearts and minds in...

I see that after this weekend’s flagrant act of self-defense, outraged protesters decided to block traffic all over the US.

So the Iranians and their proxies launched over 300 missiles and drones at Israel from Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon. The great majority of them were intercepted by Israeli, US, British, French and...

I listen to “Honestly” a lot. You can see why they hounded her out of the New York Times.

Yeah. I always loved that story. I can just picture Cochran performing in the Infernal Court of Appeals.

As on pundit put it, “Johnnie Cochran’s greatest challenge looms”.

Speaking of fun with calendars, I see the Democrats have scheduled their national convention after the filing deadlines for Ohio and Alabama. They are apparently relying on the legislatures of those...

It falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. The solar calendar date bobs around a bit.

I liked Bari Weiss’ line about NPR not considering all things anymore.

Recently watched “The Incomparable Mr Buckley”, the latest installment in the PBS “American Masters” series on the life and career of William F Buckley.. I really enjoyed some of the footage, but it...