It's a common complaint, the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into almost every corner of the globe by the United States government. And it's a justifiable complaint. We have our own problems here at home, with our major cities descending into chaos, deteriorating infrastructure, and our national debt past the stratosphere--out of near-Earth orbit, and well on its way to Saturn and points beyond.
After the crackdown on the campus encampment radicals at the City College of New York (CCNY) and Columbia, with the police going in and clearing the campuses of the encampments and the occupied building, leftist officials had a meltdown.
The nation's capital is frequently, and justly, referred to as the Swamp. It's not a comical appellation, unlike the famous name of the primary characters' lodgings in Richard Hooker's novel, "M A S H" - it's a pejorative--and a well-deserved one. Representatives from the various states run on one agenda, go to the Capitol, then amazingly and mysteriously get drawn into what is no longer really a swamp so much as an eastern version of the LaBrea tar pits.
A trio of bipartisan lawmakers are taking advantage of the
UCLA medical student Eliana Jolkovsky, who has been posting videos from campus on her Instagram and Twitter accounts since a pro-Hamas encampment was established last week, appeared on Fox News' America Reports on Thursday to speak about her experiences with the antisemitic mob and said that despite claims that it was a "peaceful protest," that it was violent from day one.
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As RedState reported on Tuesday, Northwestern University folded up like a cheap suit to antisemitic, pro-Hamas demonstrators, and committed to scholarships to Palestinian students, Palestinian faculty appointments, and special housing for Muslim students.
We've seen a lot of unhinged behavior by the radical leftists setting up encampments on colleges around the country, including antisemitic harassment, violence, taking over buildings, and attacking police.
President Joe Biden made some very unkind comments about Japan on Wednesday, comparing the nation to Russia and China over what Biden says is economic stagnation due to "xenophobia."
On Thursday, President Biden flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of the law enforcement officers
In January of 2009, I was entering my last semester at Marshall University, in West Virginia. I was a liberal arts major, focusing on religious studies and sociology. I had taken two years of Arabic and worked with Muslim students on campus, helping them with navigating classes and providing friendship. I honestly hadn’t thought much about Israel outside of religious terms and considered myself politically neutral. That all changed abruptly during what would be known as Operation Cast Lead, or...