#The Supreme Court won’t allow racial preferences at service academies, either

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The Supreme Court ruled earlier this year in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that race-based college admissions are unconstitutional, overruling its precedent in Grutter v. Bollinger that upheld affirmative action in higher education admissions. Although the SFFA decision binds virtually all institutions of higher education, footnote four of the decision expressly excludes military service academies from the ruling, at least for now….

#With their Israel coverage, are the media trying to start World War III?

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Here’s a fun question: If the news media were trying to start World War III, what would they do differently? The way the news business has acquitted itself this week, it sure seems as if it’s trying to instigate all-out global conflict. On Tuesday, the world was confronted with shocking news: An Israeli airstrike had…

#Hold Hamas and all of its enablers accountable

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One of the things I love most about America is its nearly limitless capacity for charity and empathy. Americans are consistently among the world’s most generous donors to those in need or crisis. And particularly now, no one should shy away from sympathy for and support to Gazans. But one should not confuse sympathy for…

#State Department advises US citizens not to travel to Lebanon

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The Biden administration is now advising U.S. citizens not to travel to Lebanon amid the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict. In a travel advisory issued Tuesday, the State Department warned against travel to Lebanon due to “the unpredictable security situation related to rocket, missile, and artillery exchanges between Israel and [Hezbollah] or other armed militant factions.” The…

#Biden postpones trip to Colorado for ‘national security meetings’

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President Biden scrapped a planned trip to Colorado on Monday to promote his economic agenda and investments in wind tower manufacturing amid the ongoing conflict in Israel, the White House said. “The President’s trip to Colorado is postponed and it will be rescheduled. The President will remain at the White House to participate in national…

#Hamas claims 13 hostages killed in Israeli airstrikes

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Hamas claimed that 13 of the approximately 150 people held hostage in Gaza were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past day. Hamas said there were foreigners amongst those who died, but their nationalities were not disclosed. The recent fighting, which began when Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday, has resulted in some 2,800 deaths on…

#These lawmakers are washing their hands of Menendez’s PAC money

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About a dozen beneficiaries of Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) leadership PAC have either given back or plan to donate thousands of dollars they received from him in recent election cycles. They include his allies in the Senate as well as rising stars in New Jersey politics. Menendez, along with his wife, Nadine, and three businessmen,…

#How the Ukraine War was turned into a political football

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As Ukraine fights for its national survival, Congress chose the easy and wrong over the difficult and right this last week. The second and third order effects of the Biden administration’s “just enough” Ukrainian war funding strategy came to a political head as Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House voted to pass a “clean continuing resolution to keep the government funded at current spending…

#Gingrich: Republicans who supported McCarthy ouster are ‘traitors,’ should be primaried

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) labeled the Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as “traitors,” saying they should face primary challenges in 2024. “Ninety-six percent of the Republicans voted for McCarthy, 4 percent voted against him. From my position as a longtime Republican activist, they’re traitors,” Gingrich said on Fox…

#Trump says he’ll return to fraud trial on Tuesday after ‘good day’

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Former President Trump said he would return to court on Tuesday for the second day of a civil trial in New York centered on claims that Trump grossly overstated his wealth and engaged in a pattern of fraud. Trump, in a social media post early Tuesday morning, described the opening day of the trial as…