College Presidents Expose the Moral Rot Within Their Institutions

• The presidents of Harvard , Penn, and MIT appeared before a House committee on Wednesday to answer for their shameful inaction in the face of antisemitic rhetoric and attacks on their campuses.
• The whole nation has watched aghast over the past few months as students have shown themselves to be in a state of moral confusion inculcated by the universities and their DEI departments’ promotion of an “an oppressed v. oppressor” narrative, which identifies terrorists as the oppressed and the women they raped as their oppressors.
• Their craven responses were as non-committal as their handlers obviously wanted, which served only to indict their institutions.
• The hearing by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce was called to examine what specific steps the three universities had taken following their campuses’ embrace of the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7, but all of higher education was put on the stand.
• Everything from the rot of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the new racial segregation on campus to academia’s rigid, intolerant ideological partisanship, and its funding by nefarious foreign entities, was laid bare for the nation to see.
• This intense pressure from alumni and others pushed University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill to resign over the weekend.

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Shoe Finally Drops on Hunter Biden. But It’s Only 1 Shoe.

• The Justice Department finally has obtained a serious indictment against Hunter Biden, one that charges him with nine felony and misdemeanor violations of federal tax law.
• Noticeably absent from the salacious, 56-page indictment issued Thursday evening are any charges related to the failure of President Joe Biden’s son to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
• This indictment came about for three reasons: because brave IRS whistleblowers testified under oath, at great expense to their careers, that the government was going easy on Hunter Biden, because an earlier sweetheart deal fell apart when a federal judge uncovered DOJ’s shady plea agreement with Hunter, and because ongoing congressional oversight and public outrage pressured DOJ to get to the bottom of this sordid affair.
• This indictment is a first step in providing a full reckoning for Hunter Biden’s criminal misconduct. But it will take a lot more than indicting the president’s son for obvious tax fraud to erase that idea that we have a rigged system of justice in this country.

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Don’t Hold Up Israel Aid to Further Ukraine War Funding

• In October, President Biden sent a $106 billion supplemental spending request to Congress. Biden and his allies in Congress are attempting to hijack needed aid for Israel and use empty promises of ‘border security’ to convince conservatives to support the spending package.
• Conservatives blocked the first version of this package last week, but some lawmakers continue to negotiate a so-called ‘border security’ deal to pass Biden’s supplemental request.
• Foreign aid should be considered as standalone packages in Congress—and vital support for our allies in Israel should not be held hostage to squeeze taxpayers for another $61 billion for Ukraine. The ‘border security’ funding President Biden has requested will only be used to speed up the processing of illegal aliens, not stop and reverse the flow. 
• Taxpayers should not send another dime to Ukraine until there is a publicly available accounting of how the U.S. contribution so far has been used—and the Biden administration provides a plan that defines the end goal.
• Perhaps most importantly, President Biden’s request for $13.6 billion to fund his version of “border security” would not stop the worst border crisis in American history, but would speed up the processing and release of illegal aliens into the United States and provide grants to sanctuary cities overwhelmed with the consequences of their own actions. 

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