Daily News Roundup

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NOTABLE QUOTES

Jack Fitzhenry contributor to The Daily Signal: Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher, arguing for the federal government, maintained that persuasive speech is all that the government used when seeking to have vaccine- or lockdown-skeptical posts deplatformed. That may be a creative re-characterization of the lengthy harangues, neither mild nor persuasive in tone, emailed multiple times a week by White House officials to executives at Facebook, Google, and X (formerly Twitter). Nevertheless, Fletcher’s interpretation of these messages met with little skepticism from the bench, save for a few probing questions from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Two justices with past White House experience, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh, noted that contact between executive officials and media outlets is frequent and (in their view) generally untroubling.

Josephy Simonson contributor to The Washington Beacon: “Left-wing college administrators want to transform their campuses into sanctuary cities,” Vance told the Free Beacon. “Their latest scheme at the University of California is the most lawless yet: ignore federal law and hire illegal immigrants. We cannot let American tax dollars fund illegal wages.”

Ana Low contributor to The Daily Signal: At George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences there are numerous courses available on topics such as “disrupting racism” and “advancing health through an intersectional health equity lens.” One course explicitly calls on “disrupters” to challenge our “racist” cultures, policies, and practices. Reminder: This is a medical school, not the Black Lives Matter homepage.

Eileen F. Toplansky contributor to American Thinker: Ultimately, woke medicine will destroy the Hippocratic Oath. The idea of race-based healthcare is morally unethical, repugnant, and intrinsically destructive.

Vince Coyner contributor to American Thinker: If America is coming apart at the seams, it’s not because of any “systemic racism” but, rather, because Democrats have seen fit to weaponize blacks, and not just against whites, but against the very fabric of America. This plays itself out in major cities across the country where most black Americans live and dominate politics.

Stephen Green contributor to PJMedia.com: “Outlaw your car” sounds like such an outrageous phrase, and technically speaking, it isn’t true — but only barely. What practical difference is there between outlawing something, and regulating it out of existence?

Brenda Hafera contributor to The Heritage Foundation: If there is a single direct driver of the boy crisis, it is the absence of fathers. Today, approximately 40 percent of children are born out of wedlock. Just 62 percent of Millennials were raised by both parents, compared to 71 percent of Gen Xers, 85 percent of Baby Boomers, and 87 percent of Silents.

Glenn Greenwald journalist and author posted on X: Liberals took all the people they were calling “Nazis” as recently as 10 years ago and turned them into their icons and heroes the second they expressed opposition to Trump. I’ll never stop loving the fact that the Bush/Cheney WH spokeswoman is the most beloved MSNBC host.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

O’Neil: Note to Ketanji Brown Jackson: The First Amendment Should ‘Hamstring’ the Government. That’s the Entire Point.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested during oral arguments Monday that the First Amendment should not be allowed to “hamstring” the government amid a crisis. Jackson asked J. Benjamin Aguiñaga, the solicitor general of Louisiana, a rather revealing question about the issue. “So, my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson said. The Supreme Court justice presented an extremely unlikely hypothetical that most American young people would find very insulting. She presented a scenario in which young people took cellphone video of their peers jumping out of windows, and that trend went viral on social media (preposterous), Big Tech companies failed to take action on their own (very unlikely), and the government wanted to stop it. She asked Aguiñaga, […] The amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The amendment does not include a “crisis-exemption clause” allowing the government to trample on free speech if the president declares a national emergency.

Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/19/note-ketanji-brown-jackson-first-amendment-should-hamstring-government-thats-entire-point/

Glenn Greenwald X Post: What Ketanji Brown Jackson said yesterday at Oral Argument was, in one sense, shocking to hear from a Justice. But it was also an expression of the central view now embraced by most US institutions: online free speech is too dangerous, and the US Gov’t must therefore police it: . . .

Watch the 6:44 minute Greenwald video on X/Twitter.

Cole & Fritze: Supreme Court allows Texas to begin enforcing controversial immigration law

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The court’s three liberals dissented. Legal challenges to the law are ongoing at a federal appeals court, but the decision hands a significant – yet temporary – win to Texas, which has been battling the Biden administration over immigration policy. […] Senate Bill 4, signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in December, makes entering Texas illegally a state crime and allows state judges to order immigrants to be deported. Immigration enforcement, generally, is a function of the federal government. […] The Biden administration, two immigration advocacy groups and El Paso County are challenging the law.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-begin-enforcing-controversial-immigration-law/index.html#

Schonfeld: Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that a man’s challenge to his former placement on the No Fly List can move forward, finding the government failed to show his lawsuit is moot. Yonas Fikre, a U.S. citizen who previously resided in Sudan, claimed his placement on the list was unlawful and sued the FBI. The government later removed him from the list and signaled it was unlikely he would be readded. It then contended Fikre’s lawsuit was moot as a result and should be tossed. The government warned that not declaring lawsuits like Fikre’s moot at the onset could require the government to disclose classified information. The Supreme Court rejected that assertion, enabling Fikre’s case to move ahead.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-unanimously-rules-against-145238248.html

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF

(WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS?) Revolver.news: Revealed: RINO “four-man scheme” to keep Trump out of the White House if he wins—now we know why they removed Santos…

It’s no secret that the Democrats and RINOs aren’t exactly overflowing with dignity, especially when it comes to President Trump. Their fear of him—and what he stands for, which is us, the people—makes them toss logic, reason, and any semblance of shame out the window in their attempts to block him, and by extension, us, from claiming the power that’s rightfully and constitutionally ours. What does that say about the state of our putrid government? Well, we’re about to tell you. Get ready for this latest, and brace yourself; the stench of rotting RINO is about to get really strong. […] If you’ve ever questioned the reality of the Uniparty, let this be your wake-up call. It’s alive, kicking, and using every ounce of its energy to fight the people.

Read more: https://revolver.news/2024/03/revealed-rino-four-man-scheme-to-keep-trump-out-of-white-house-george-santos-twist/

Steffen: JUST IN: Trump Sues George Stephanopoulos And ABC For Defamation

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have filed suit against ABC host and former Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos after he incorrectly claimed that the Republican was found guilty of rape in his civil case against E. Jean Carroll. In a 20-page filing in Miami federal court, Trump attorney Alejandro Brito writes that Stephanopoulos exhibited “malice” and a “reckless” disregard for the truth in a recent interview with Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-NC) while speaking about the Carroll ruling against Trump where he was found liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape.

Read more/Watch the 2:16 minute video: https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-trump-sues-george-stephanopoulos-and-abc-for-defamation-mstef/?utm_source=whatfinger

Sundance: Peter Navarro Delivers Remarks Before Reporting to Federal Prison for Contempt of a Congressional J6 Subpoena

I have a great deal of sympathy for Navarro. I firmly believe he was unfairly targeted by the J6 committee and a weaponized DOJ who were looking for any opportunity to target people in Donald Trump’s orbit – including Navarro and Steve Bannon. I regard Navarro as a really awesome ally, and functionally very smart and apt at the responsibilities he held in the White House. Navarro is a good man. Navarro was charged with failure to provide testimony and documents to Congress. Navarro argued that executive privilege covered his refusal to provide testimony and documents. The executive privilege that covers private conversation is held by President Trump and cannot be, should not be, waived by any advisor to the president. However, there is a key element in the executive privilege aspect that is mostly overlooked by righteous pundits and conservative analysts as it pertains specifically to Navarro. […] Peter Navarro is a good man, a very good man, who unfortunately made some strategic legal mistakes. I have a great deal of sympathy for Peter Navarro and feel he has been very unjustly targeted.

Read more./Watch the 21 minute Navarro video: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/19/peter-navarro-delivers-remarks-before-reporting-to-federal-prison-for-contempt-of-a-congression-subpoena/

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/NEW WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Habeshian: Exclusive: AI chatbots provide inaccurate election information, Former OSTP director warns

AI chatbots are spitting out false election information, former OSTP Dir. Alondra Nelson told Axios’ Ina Fried at the annual What’s Next Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Why it matters: Nelson, who helped launch The AI Democracy Projects, said the group’s recent survey of election information on AI chatbots found that more than half of them churned out inaccurate information ahead of what’s expected to be a closely contested presidential race. “Elections officials were mortified” by the results, she said.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/19/artificial-intelligence-elections-2024-alondra-nelson

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE  POWER & CONTROL

Wilson: Jeff Bezos demonizes farming and invests £1 billion in fake food production

At the Aspen Ideas Climate, Bezos Earth Fund vice chair Lauren Sánchez announced an initial $60 million commitment to establish Bezos Centres for Sustainable Protein as part of the Bezos Earth Fund’s $1 billion commitment to food transformation. The food transformation Sánchez dreams of is “plant-based lab-grown meats.” For anyone who has any logic or common sense, no such food exists nor can it ever.

The Aspen Ideas Climate conference was held in Miami, Florida over the three days of 11-13 March 2024. It had five themes:

  • Big Bets on Tech: Charting the course for sustainable technologies of the future which included climate technology, biotechnology, lab-cultured “food,” artificial intelligence, geoengineering and new ideas for creating and storing energy.
  • Building things: Such as urban landscapes, infrastructure and “reimagined” economies that lead to a “sustainable and inclusive future.”
  • Financing the Future: A seismic shift in financial strategies, from billions to trillions globally, is required to address the “climate crisis,” so they claim.
  • Healthy Planet, Healthy Community.
  • Narratives of Change: “From the resonance of music to the subtleties of architecture, from stirring art to imaginative fiction, profound calls to action are often hidden in the unexpected. Experience the captivating stories that inspire change from some of the most unanticipated sources.”  Which has undertones of using psychological techniques to bring about the desired change.

[…] As has become the mantra for those promoting and hoping to capitalize from the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Bezos Earth Fund blatantly attacked farmers and food production stating that “food is the second largest cause of climate change, and agriculture is the primary driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss.”

Read more: https://expose-news.com/2024/03/19/bezos-demonises-farming-and-invests-in-fake-food/

War Room: Dave Walsh: “Less Than 4% Of The World’s Energy Is Provided By Wind And Solar”

Watch the 15:51 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4k9a7i-dave-walsh-less-than-4-of-the-worlds-energy-is-provided-by-wind-and-solar.html

JUDCIARY

Mordowanec: Undocumented Immigrants Have Right to Own Guns, Judge Rules

A judge this month dropped gun charges against an illegal migrant in Illinois, sparking further debate about the rights associated with the Second Amendment. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois referenced lower court rulings in dismissing firearm possession charges against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, who was illegally or unlawfully in the United States when he possessed a handgun in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on June 1, 2020.”The Court finds that Carbajal-Flores’ criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense,” Coleman, who was appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her eight-page ruling filed March 8.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/undocumented-immigrants-have-right-own-guns-judge-rules-1880806

Gerstein & Frazier: New Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants back on hold

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave Texas the go-ahead to enforce a new state law authorizing police to arrest and detain people for illegally crossing the border from Mexico, but hours later a federal appeals court reinstated an injunction blocking the law from being implemented.

[…] On Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court — over the dissent of three liberal justices — turned down the requests to put the law on hold. However, late Tuesday night, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted, 2-1, to restore the preliminary injunction a district court judge granted preventing Texas officials from enforcing the statute. […] Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and Judge Irma Ramirez, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, joined in the order Tuesday night restoring the earlier injunction against the law. Richman and Ramirez did not explain their reasoning. Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of President Donald Trump, dissented.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/19/texas-arrest-migrants-supreme-court-mexico-border-00147825

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY

Laura: What is the Biden administration hiding over the Afghanistan withdrawal?

Biden’s generals appeared before the U.S. House.

Watch the 9:34 minute video: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6349275348112

Greenfield: Gen. Milley: “I Don’t Know the Exact Number of Americans That Were Left Behind”

Miley took his disputes with Trump public when no lives were at stake and kept his private with Biden when lives were at stake. At the Congressional hearing on Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan disaster, Gen. Milley showed the presence of mind and command of detail that he was famous for.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/gen-milley-i-dont-know-the-exact-number-of-americans-that-were-left-behind/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Bensman: Biden Broke Haiti

aiti has now entered a metaphorical Hall of Failed States, where it can be alphabetically exhibited between Congo and Libya. Now, a Florida Keys-bound refugee flotilla of rickety sail boats—ever the irresistible love object of news video cameras—is taking form as a kind of torpedo heading at President Joe Biden’s November re-election ambitions. But whether the administration heads off the ships at sea or lets thousands of Haitian immigrants mar the waterfront views of wealthy Floridian vacation homeowners, most Americans should know the bitterly ironic backstory of how Biden himself essentially ordered up Haiti’s current post-apocalyptic fate and now stands to reap what he sowed politically. Haiti’s deep underlying problems certainly long predate Biden’s presidency. But he was the one who signed, sealed, and delivered the Haitian state’s final execution orders. More specifically, as reporting in my 2023 book Overrun reveals, he did it in the months of September and October 2021, when 15,000 Haitians suddenly showed up in Del Rio, Texas, as a major political problem for Democrats ahead of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/biden-broke-haiti/

Levy: Port of No Return: The US Plan for Aid Relief in Gaza

While the initiative demonstrates the US commitment to humanitarian assistance, it also carries great risks. During other attempts to bring aid to conflict-torn areas, like civil war-torn Lebanon and Somalia, US aid distribution and peacekeeping efforts became full combat operations. Both of those combat operations faced critical failures that resulted in US casualties and humiliating US withdrawals. If successful, the Gaza port could be the first step of a Washington-led regional “Marshall Plan” – but failure would strengthen regional adversaries.

Read more: https://besacenter.org/port-of-no-return-the-us-plan-for-aid-relief-in-gaza/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Lendman: The Democrat Open Borders Plan to Entrench Single-Party Rule | Explained in Under Two Minutes

Watch the 1:39 minute video: https://summarynews.whatfinger.com/2024/03/18/the-democrat-open-borders-plan-to-entrench-single-party-rule-explained-in-under-two-minutes/

War Room: Ben Bergquam: “It Was The Illegal Invasion That Tipped The Scales”

Chicago residents going MAGA?

Watch the 13:28 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4k9enr-ben-bergquam-it-was-the-illegal-invasion-that-tipped-the-scales.html

Judicial Watch: Venezuelan Gang Entering U.S. via Mexico “Will Unleash an Unprecedented Reign of Terror”

Among the myriad of detrimental impacts that come with President Joe Biden’s reprehensible open border policies is the infiltration of Venezuela’s largest criminal gang, which has battered American cities with its trademark of gruesome crimes. The syndicate is called Tren de Aragua and it is operating throughout the U.S., according to both local and federal law enforcement officials. Last month a Georgia nursing student was brutally murdered by a member of the gang, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, who entered the country illegally through the Mexican border in the fall of 2022 and was released into the U.S. despite appearing on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list as a member of the deadly gang. A few months ago, a former cop was ambushed, robbed and murdered in Miami, Florida by members of the gang who left him dead in his sports utility vehicle with his hands and feet bound with tape.

Read more: https://www.judicialwatch.org/venezuelan-gang-entering-border/

Elon Musk X post: Speech with full context

Watch the 1:29 minute Trump video: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769362828954132928

Taer: Terror watchlisted migrant criminal from Colombia arrested at Texas border

A Colombian national was found to be a “positive match” on the terror watchlist and identified as a former member of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) after he was arrested for illegally crossing the southern border, The Post can reveal. Jerminton Genaro-Quinones Carvajal — who was arrested near El Paso, Texas, on March 8 — admitted to previously overseeing the “transportation of goods and unmarked crates” which he knew sometimes contained firearms, ammunition and cocaine for the FARC, according to an exclusively obtained internal US Border Patrol memo.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/us-news/terror-watchlisted-migrant-criminal-nabbed-at-texas-border/

Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Border Patrol Welding Open Border Wall Flood Gates

In the lawsuit Judicial Watch cites an August 22, 2023, report by the New York Post in which the U.S. Border Patrol admits it was responsible for a decision to weld open more than 100 “flood gates” in the wall at the U.S. southern border in Arizona, allowing access points for illegal aliens to unlawfully enter the U.S. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the Department of Homeland Security failed to comply with an August 28, 2023, FOIA request for: All documents and communications from August 25, 2022 to August 25, 2023, relating to welding open 114 flood gates in the border wall in Arizona.

Read more: https://www.judicialwatch.org/open-border-wall-flood-gates/

Potter: President Biden, 81, bizarrely wanders off stage as he is being introduced at Phoenix diner to pull faces at a baby telling guests he ‘couldn’t resist’ – as another tot can’t hide their boredom

The president, 81, made a beeline for the youngster while his campaign manager introduced him at a Mexican diner in Phoenix on Tuesday. […] Biden’s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez had been addressing the crowd for around a minute before Biden became distracted by the child. He pulled a face at the baby before meandering off the stage, drawing laughs from onlookers as Chavez Rodriguez continued her remarks. The 81-year-old talked up the child and their mother and reportedly asked ‘how old’ the infant was, while repeatedly pulling faces at the crowd and appearing to try make the child laugh.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13217161/Biden-baby-brain-wanders-stage-arizona.html

WAR IN ISRAEL

Milliere: Israel Betrayed?

  • It seems clear that the Biden administration would like to see the rapid creation of a Palestinian state or at least a “Palestinian unity government” — unfortunately composed of the Palestinian Authority and the terrorist group Hamas — and, abracadabra, recognize it.
  • The Palestinian leaders have, in fact, been admirably clear: They do not want a state alongside Israel, they want a state instead of Israel.
  • “[W]hile Qatar is helping assemble a new ‘technocratic’ front for the terrorists, the Moscow summit made it clear that the real agenda of the new government would be terror against Israel and the U.S.” — Daniel Greenfield, journalist, March 12, 2024.
  • “They [families of the hostages] can raise hell for the release of their loved ones – in media, in Congress, and by demonstrating in front of the Embassy of Qatar on M Street in Washington, D.C. Qatar is extremely and incredibly sensitive to being exposed in any way as a terror-sponsoring state […] A single statement by a U.S. Department of Defense official, about relocating – or even considering relocating – this base from Qatar to another country that is not a state sponsor of terrorism is all it would take to get the American hostages released. Even indicating that the U.S. has other options besides Qatar would do it.” — Yigal Carmon, Founder and President of the Middle East Media Research Institute, November 6, 2023.
  • Qatar is not an honest broker […]

Read more: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20488/israel-betrayed

Xiao: Chinese Envoy Meets With Hamas, Celebrates Ties With Terrorist Group

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs envoy, Wang Kejian, met with the head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Qatar on Sunday. Wang said the Chinese government is keen on maintaining relations with Hamas, describing the organization as “part of the Palestinian national fabric” and advocating for “the Palestinian people’s just demands for freedom, independence, and the establishment of the Palestinian state,” according to a Tuesday statement by Hamas.

Read more: https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/chinese-envoy-meets-with-hamas-celebrates-ties-with-terrorist-group/

Bernstein: I’ve Won an Argument about Israel I Wish I Hadn’t

Over my 20+ years of blogging at Volokh, commenters have often questioned why I focused my attention on what I saw as unfair attacks on Israel, rather than on Israeli policies I disagreed with that might be obstacles to a future peace deal. My response was consistent: debates over specific Israeli policies were a sideshow. Israel’s harshest critics simply wanted Israel to cease to exist, and given that this goal could likely be achieved only via genocide, I chose to focus my attention on that. My commenters were also pretty consistent, arguing that I was being paranoid, that the vast majority of critics, even the harshest ones, wanted a two-state solution, not to eliminate Israel.

Read more: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/03/17/ive-won-an-argument-about-israel-i-wish-i-hadnt/

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CULTURE REVOLUTION

Hafera: Men Without Meaning: The Harmful Effects of Expressive Individualism

This literature points to the absence of fathers, the failures of our education system and policies, and changes in both the job market and our culture, among other things, as culprits in creating and exacerbating the boy crisis. What unifies such texts is not a single policy, but a question: How and why are boys and men struggling to flourish? […] Political scientist Warren Farrell and counselor John Gray’s The Boy Crisis provides a comprehensive outline of the crisis with staggering statistics. The crisis is mental, physical, economic, and academic. On average, the IQs of boys are dropping, and the gap between women’s life expectancy and men’s is increasing. In the United Kingdom, the leading cause of death for men under 50 years old is suicide; in the United States, it is the second leading cause of death for men under 45 years old. In 2020, only 25 percent of men ages 17–24 (slightly more than the 21 percent of females) qualified for military service; the majority were disqualified for being overweight, having issues with drug abuse, for mental health and medical/physical reasons, or for a combination of those factors. […] Perhaps most essentially, addressing the boy crisis must include fostering and revitalizing our nation’s churches, a culture that supports family formation and stability, and the American national character. The boy crisis is not merely a political problem. It is also a spiritual one: a want of purpose brought on by the rise of expressive individualism. [NOTE: The Silent Generation are people born from 1928 to  1945.]

Read more: https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/men-without-meaning-the-harmful-effects-expressive-individualism

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH IS A RELIC OF THE PAST

Low: DEI or DIE?: Medical Schools Are Infected With Wokeism, Putting Patients at Risk

Recent reports and congressional hearings have shed light on the dark and discriminatory nature of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regimes on college campuses. The capture of American institutions by DEI and destructive ideologies such as critical race theory is on full display, and the consequences of Marxist groupthink at undergraduate institutions have been extensively exposed. Law schools—institutions where our Constitution should perhaps be the most revered—have also been unmasked as centers of censorship and indoctrination, leaving the future arbiters of our laws unable to think critically and objectively. When law students undergo ideological reeducation, principles of American jurisprudence are undermined, leading to a workforce that prioritizes woke activism over legal integrity and feelings over facts. In like fashion, when medical students are indoctrinated with DEI—instead of focusing on unarguable biology, essential surgical practice, and clinical care—lives can be destroyed in a much more literal sense.

Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/19/dei-die-americas-medical-schools-infected-wokeism/

Toplansky: State of American Health Care

Once the envy of the world, American medical care continues to be infected with Leftist woke ideology with abysmal and terrifying outcomes. Under the term “health equity” the only parameter that matters appears to be a person’s melanin level, not his need for timely medical treatment.

Consequently: More than 10 million nonblack Americans with chronic kidney disease may have seen their treatments or transplants delayed because of policy changes enacted after 2020.  Some of those patients now face greater risk of death because national transplant organizations have embraced racial activism. Patients of all races deserve a formula that accurately estimates their individual kidney function, not one that favors one racial group at the expense of others.

Read more at American Thinker.

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Phillips: Republicans want to ban DEI in medical schools netting over $180 BILLION per year: New bill would specifically yank federal funding from any school with diversity offices or that ‘discriminates on race’ including by ‘forcing’ liberal beliefs

‘The EDUCATE Act compels medical schools and accrediting agencies to uphold colorblind admissions processes and prohibits the coercion of students who hold certain political opinions. Diversity strengthens medicine, but not if it’s achieved through exclusionary practices.’ […] In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Murphy and Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist and chairman of Do No Harm, warned that accrediting institutions are currently pushing medical schools to teach ‘political activism.’ The Supreme Court in a landmark ruling last year banned the practice of affirmative action in colleges and higher education. But Murphy and Goldfarb in their op-ed insist medical schools are still teaching ‘intersectionality,” “colonization” and “white supremacy” while promoting the idea that people are either “oppressors” or “oppressed.” These concepts push medical students to treat patients differently based on race, sex or “gender identity.”’

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13215505/Republicans-ban-DEI-medical-schools.html

UNIVERSAL BAR EXAM SOON TO BE RELIC OF THE PAST?

Hoffman: Washington Supreme Court rules prospective lawyers no longer have to pass ‘racist’ bar exam, claims it ‘blocks marginalized groups’ from practicing law

On Monday, the left-leaning Washington SupremeCourt filed a pair of orders approving “alternative pathways” for people to become lawyers, nixing the requirement to pass the universal bar exam. The court claimed the test “blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law” and that bar has “racism and classism written into the test itself.”  By doing so, the Evergreen State joined Oregon, the only other state to officially approve alternatives to the bar exam. The Bar Licensure Task Force, chaired by Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis and Seattle University Law School Dean Anthony Varona, studied options to the traditional bar exam following a year of pandemic-related bar exam modifications. The Task Force concluded in their analysis that the traditional bar exam “disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law, and the traditional bar exam is at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers.”   

Read more: https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-supreme-court-rules-prospective-lawyers-no-longer-have-to-pass-racist-bar-exam-claims-it-blocks-marginalized-groups-from-practicing-law

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Whedon: DC AG drops charges against Gold Star father who disrupted Biden’s SOTU speech

Nikoui attended the State of the Union as a guest of Florida GOP Rep. Brian Mast, Fox News reported. He interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech by yelling “Abbey Gate!” before he was removed from the chamber. He was subsequently arrested by Capitol Police.

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/dc-ag-drops-charges-against-gold-star-father-who-disrupted-bidens-sotu-speech

TheLibertyDaily: Homeowner ARRESTED for Confronting Squatters at Her Million-Dollar Home

Watch the 4:33 minute news report: https://rumble.com/v4k5y9f-homeowner-arrested-for-confronting-squatters-at-her-million-dollar-home.html

THEY’RE DOUBLING DOWN! – Mark Dice ‘These lies are dangerous’

Trump did not call a bloodbath for America if he doesn’t win the election.

Watch the 8:44 minute video: https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2024/03/19/theyre-doubling-down-mark-dice-%f0%9f%a4%a3/

Simonson: JD Vance, Jim Banks Move To Stop Colleges From Hiring Illegal Immigrants

‘Left-wing college administrators want to transform their campuses into sanctuary cities,’ Vance says. A pair of congressional Republicans want to ban colleges and universities from hiring illegal aliens as campus employees, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) and Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) on Tuesday will introduce legislation that would condition a school’s eligibility for federal funds on compliance with federal law prohibiting businesses from employing illegal immigrants. The bill, which was exclusively provided to the Free Beacon, would also require all federally funded higher education institutions implement E-Verify, a federal program that checks the immigration status of all employees.

Read more: https://freebeacon.com/campus/jd-vance-jim-banks-move-to-stop-colleges-from-hiring-illegal-immigrants/

Taigo: Texas tells BlackRock to kick rocks

In yet another stunning blow to BlackRock and its dubious environmental, social, governance (ESG) scores agenda, Texas has officially divested $8.5 billion from the woke monster-asset management-company. Specifically, the Texas Permanent School Fund, which oversees the $8.5 billion, told BlackRock it would terminate its relationship with the world’s largest asset management company due to BlackRock’s penchant for bullying and boycotting energy companies.According to Texas Permanent School Fund chair Aaron Kinsey, “BlackRock’s dominant and persistent leadership in the ESG movement immeasurably damages our state’s oil and gas economy and the very companies that generate revenues for our PSF… The PSF will not stand idle as our financial future is attacked by Wall Street.”

Read more at American Thinker.

Phillips: Read United Airlines’ Safety Letter Hours Before 10th Incident in Two Weeks

The CEO of United Airlines reassured customers that it would “continue to run an operation that puts safety first” only hours before the carrier suffered a tenth incident with one of its planes in two weeks. On Monday, a flight from San Francisco to Osaka, Japan, was held on the runway for an hour and 45 minutes before returning to the gate to be decanted at around 1:45 p.m. after what a spokesperson described as “an engine start issue.” The flight eventually departed later the same afternoon.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/read-united-airlines-safety-letter-hours-before-10th-incident-1880896

What a fat load of trash! MAUREEN CALLAHAN slams Oprah as a dishonest shill whose Ozempic special was a glorified Big Pharma ad that indulged her lies about weight-loss jabs […] and fed her oversized ego

If we’re going to talk shame and blame, let’s talk about Oprah. More specifically, let’s talk about the one-hour infomercial she just did for Ozempic, Wegovy and Big Pharma, pushing controversial weight-loss drugs — super-expensive ones at that — on the general public, including children, implying that they’re safe for all. ‘Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution’, which aired Monday night on ABC and is now streaming on Hulu, was billed as ‘An Oprah Special’. Rightly so. This was more about the central conflict of Oprah’s life, her weight-loss struggles, rather than what these drugs mean for public health, or our understanding of obesity, and whether the potential side effects — you know, minor complications like pancreatitis or cancer — are worth the risk. The only thing that remains oversized about Oprah is her ego. Alas, there’s no drug in the world to remedy that. […] And after publicly insisting, as recently as last July, that she would never use a weight-loss jab because that would be ‘the easy way out’, Oprah was forced to admit that yes, she had been using a drug — which one, she has never said — after dropping forty pounds in mere months. She lied. She’s a total hypocrite who did not apologize in her ‘special’ for lying. She acted as if her subsequent departure from Weight Watchers was a mark of integrity and high-handedly told us she donated her remaining stock.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13215791/Oprah-lie-Ozempic-special-big-pharma-commericial-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

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