April 23, 2024

I WASN’T CONSIDERING IT BUT THANK YOU: If You’re Considering Voting for RFK Jr., Think Again. “According to recently resurfaced writings and interviews, RFK Jr. has been a lifelong opponent of voter ID requirements. Materials that Fox News Digital reviewed show that Kennedy called voter ID laws ‘racially rancid’ and insisted that voter fraud was ‘non-existent.'”

Posted at 10:08 am by Stephen Green

THE JEWS WHO DIDN’T LEAVE EGYPT, and their modern analogs. “For American Jews, our addiction to being insiders is especially dangerous at this moment, because it means siding with people who don’t like Jews very much, and in some cases actively wish us harm. But it’s more than that, for everyone: When status becomes the reward for serving those in power, who in turn reduce the rest of the population to forms of abject powerlessness, then seeking it out becomes toxic.”

Posted at 9:52 am by Glenn Reynolds

BIDENOMICS: Luxury house sales remain strong while overall market slumps. “As CNBC reports, sales of luxury homes are increasing while the overall market experiences its downturn. Overall real estate sales fell 4% nationwide in the first quarter, according to Redfin. Yet, luxury real estate sales increased more than 2%, posting their best year-over-year gains in three years.”

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Psst…Merrick Garland — I Found Your Domestic Terrorists. “A good rule of thumb in 2024 America is to find out where any leftist protests are happening and steer clear of them, because that’s where the real potential for violence is. I’m not saying that they’re all violent, I’m just saying that large groups of entitled, permanently aggrieved leftists who have grown up in a world without consequences can be a bit powder keg-ish.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

PRIORITIES: Military Could Hit Troops With Courts-Martial For Refusing To Use Preferred Pronouns, Experts Say. “A 2020 Equal Opportunity law opened the door for commanders to subject someone who refuses to affirm a transgender servicemember’s so-called gender identity to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for charges related to harassment, Capt. Thomas Wheatley, an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Such a move would likely infringe on a servicemember’s constitutional rights to uphold their conscience, but it might not prevent leaders from employing more subtle ways of disciplining service members.”

If this goes into effect, it will serve the same “progressive” interest the military vaccine mandate did — drive more traditional warriors out of the service.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Recruiting crisis? What recruiting crisis?

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

OH, COLUMBIA: Columbia Professors Declare Solidarity With Student Protesters and Call for Shafik’s Resignation. “A group of Columbia University professors held a rally Monday to express solidarity with the anti-Semitic students suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus and to lambaste university president Minouche Shafik for cracking down on them.”

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Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S AN ORGANIZED CAMPAIGN BY PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA. THAT’S NOT ME TALKING, THAT’S THEM.

Related: Why are tent cities springing up at elite colleges?

It’s an organized campaign by people who hate America.

Posted at 7:34 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA’S MARXIST ENCLAVES: I Used To Run Columbia’s Pro-Israel Group. This Anti-Semitism Is Nothing New.

The quad where I so fondly remember spending my days as an undergraduate is now home to a university-sanctioned encampment of hate, sequestering Columbia’s Jewish community into their dorm rooms — and even leaving campus entirely — in fear of their physical safety. New York Mayor Eric Adams’ offers to activate the NYPD to dispel the pro-Palestinian mob have fallen on deaf ears with university administrators, including President Minouche Shafik. Unfortunately, this unfolding chaos is just a new chapter of anti-Semitism that has long been embedded in the culture at Columbia and other elite universities nationwide.

As an American Jew, I was proud to serve as president of Columbia’s largest pro-Israel group, then known as LionPAC, during my junior year in 2010-2011. My tenure involved routinely responding to a variety of protests against the Jewish state. Mock “apartheid walls” and cardboard cutouts of Israeli tanks were erected on Low Steps. Holocaust deniers, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine, spoke freely under the infinite confines of “academic freedom”. And students simply trying to walk to class were subjected to “die ins” on College Walk, where anti-Israel activists donning fake IDF uniforms and machine guns would pretend to slaughter Palestinians, who would lay lifeless on the ground for minutes on end. These charades were no surprise at a university that hosted one of the world’s most prolific Holocaust deniers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and tenured Professor Joseph Massad, who called Hamas’ October 7th slaughter of innocent Israeli Jews a “stunning” and “astonishing” display of “Palestinian resistance”.

In other words, today’s protests are a natural manifestation of Columbia’s seemingly limitless tolerance for anti-Semitism.

The intimidation starts at the top: “In my experience, Columbia’s pro-Israel faculty have always eschewed public activism out of fear of professional exile or termination.”

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Outspoken Jewish professor barred from Columbia campus — but administration turns blind eye to even bigger tent city springing up.

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Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds