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[Ed.: Be sure to see the 3-minute video of these thugs being sent back!! Made me smile.]
Indiana’s Chatterbox Jazz Club Kicks Out Patron for Wearing MAGA Hat
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Boston Women’s Soccer Team Changes Name After Transgender Activists Flip Out Over Slogan
Trump Administration Defiantly Tells Radical Judge to Pound Sand Following Controversial Ruling
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US Unleashes Devastating Strike Against Houthi Terror Bases in Yemen
March 16, 2025 Jewish Breaking News – With Houthi terrorists having their fun decimating US and Israeli shipping routes in the Red Sea for the past 17 months, President Donald Trump ordered a striking bombing raid on Saturday targeting terrorist cells in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa and northern province of Saada.
“Our brave Warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorists’ bases, leaders, and missile defenses to protect American shipping, air, and naval assets, and to restore Navigational Freedom,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “No terrorist force will stop American commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the Waterways of the World.”
“Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at US aircraft, and targeted our Troops and Allies,” he claimed, adding that their “piracy, violence, and terrorism” had cost “billions of dollars” and put innocent lives at risk.
Trump also criticized his predecessor, calling the Biden administration “pathetically weak” for allowing the terror group to continue its maritime campaign unchecked for so long. He warned Iran that Washington would hold Tehran “fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it” if support for the Houthis continued.
The Houthis immediately blamed the US and UK for what they called “wicked” aggression targeting residential areas while claiming 31 were killed and 101 injured. While the UK didn’t participate directly in the strikes, British forces provided routine refueling support for American aircraft, according to the BBC.
In support of Hamas post October 7, 2023, the Houthis have systematically attacked shipping vessels linked to Israel in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Nearly 15% of global seaborne trade typically passes through these waters, including vital oil and liquefied natural gas shipments. Major shipping companies have since abandoned the Red Sea route entirely, choosing instead to take the much longer journey around southern Africa.
Despite multiple rounds of US and British air strikes on Houthi targets, the Iranian-backed group has shown no sign of abandoning its campaign. Israel has also conducted separate operations against Houthi positions since July, retaliating for approximately 400 missiles and drones reportedly launched at Israeli territory.
BIG BREAKING VIDEO – SpaceX just launched 4-crew mission to save the abandoned astronauts on the ISS
MAR. 14, 2025 7:26 PM THE RIGHT SCOOP – SpaceX just launched a 4-crew mission to head to the International Space Station to save the astronauts that Joe Biden abandoned there last year.
What a historic launch and an beautiful spectacle for all the world to see:
WATCH [1:14]
This was an hour before launch…
U.S. Will Send 300 Tren de Aragua Gangsters to El Salvador — They Now Face a Fate Worse Than Death
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BREAKING: Obama Judge Orders Trump Admin to Turn Around Planes Deporting Venezuelan Gang Members
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Second Biden Autopen Discovered: New Analysis of Second Frequently Used Autopen for Biden’s Pardons
[Ed.: This implies that Biden’s ‘pardons’ are meaningless, and that Fauci and the others can and will be prosecuted!]
AG Pam Bondi Provides Update on Epstein Files, January 6, JFK, and MLK Assassination Documents
Crazed Maniac Zelensky Keeps Pushing for WWIII – Brags that New Long Range Missiles Can Hit Moscow
WTH? State Department Paid Big Money to Put Hillary Clinton Up at 5 Star Hotel in France in 2024
WATCH: VP Vance Says Germany ‘Is Killing Itself’ With Unchecked Mass Migration
Victor Davis Hanson Says a ‘Reckoning’ Has Finally Come for Radical Left Wing Higher Education
Tornadoes Reported Near St. Louis and 1.5 Inch-Size Hail Balls! – Severe Storm and Tornado Warnings
The tide has turned against elite universities — and it’s about time By Victor Davis Hanson
March 14, 2025 New York Post – Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal — and suicidal.
They did so with impunity.
Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished.
By the 1970s, nonprofit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and nonpartisan.
Instead, they customarily violated iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring and promotions.
Graduation ceremonies became overtly racially and ethnically segregated.
The same was true for dorms and “theme houses.”
So-called “safe spaces,” in the spirit of the Jim Crow South, reserved areas of campus solely for particular races.
Affluent foreign students often openly protested on behalf of designated terrorist groups like Hamas.
First-Amendment-protected free speech all but vanished on elite campuses.
Any guest speaker who dared to critique abortion on demand, Middle East orthodoxy, biological males dominating women’s sports or diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) dogmas was likely to be shouted down, or on occasion roughed up.
University administrators either ignored the violence done to the Bill of Rights or quietly approved when their rowdy students were turned loose on supposed conservatives.
But in their hubris, the universities began a series of blunders that may now end them as they once were.
They began gouging government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation by grabbing anywhere from 30% to 60% of individual campus grants as “overhead.”
Yet they usually charged most private foundation grants a far more modest 15% surcharge — as if a lax government did not object to overcharging.
They pushed for a vast expansion of the student-loan program, whose portfolio of federally guaranteed loans reached $1.7 trillion.
But once the federal government guaranteed student loans against default, universities began jacking up their fees and tuition well above the annual rate of inflation.
Elite universities did not grasp that the more they began warping their curricula with DEI gut courses, radical green agendas and postmodern race and gender theories, the less time they had to offer students their once gold-standard general education curricula of Western Civ, history, literature, philosophy, math and science.
Soon employers started to notice that the new therapeutic courses were also married to race and sex-based admissions.
The SAT and ACT were, for a time, dropped.
So were comparative rankings of high-school grade-point averages.
Soon, once-iconic degrees were no longer any guarantee of the ability to write and speak well, think analytically or compute competently.
Employers often began to prefer graduates from those state schools where DEI was muted, admissions were competitive and teaching remained rigorous and non-ideological.
Finally, after Oct. 7, 2023, growing antisemitism on campuses became unapologetic, overt and violent.
Thousands of Middle Eastern guest students brazenly cheered on Hamas terrorists.
The campus Marxist orthodoxy that Jews and Israel were “victimizing white people” and Palestinians were noble “non-white victims” ensured that Jewish students were chased and physically attacked on campuses.
A disgusted public watched invertebrate administrators either greenlight the antisemitic violence or ludicrously deny it.
So, there was bound to be a public reckoning.
And now it has arrived.
Congress may soon pass legislation that will tax the annual multimillion-dollar income from multibillion-dollar endowments at somewhere between 15% and 20%.
There will be no more “overhead” or “surcharges” on government campus grants allowed larger than 15%.
Those two reforms alone could cost some of the richest campuses nearly a half billion dollars a year in lost income.
Racially offensive DEI programs will disqualify schools from federal support.
Foreign student guests who break US laws or violate university rules will have their visas yanked.
Campuses will have to abide by the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the Bill of Rights or forgo federal funds.
All these remedies enjoy broad public support.
For the first time in memory, a majority of Americans disapprove of current higher education.
Only 10% of Americans believe an Ivy League degree translates into becoming a better American worker.
In a nation of declining fertility, smaller numbers of youths choosing college and a federal government $36 trillion in debt, universities have very little leverage.
They can return to the original mission of offering rigorous, meritocratic and disinterested education, guarantee constitutional protections for all on campus and slash their vast administrative bloat.
Or continue as they are, ensuring only further mediocrity, public dislike — and eventual irrelevancy.
Detained Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil worked at UNRWA, got ‘rigorous security clearance’ as British gov staffer years before protests By Emily Crane
March 14, 2025 New York Post – Detained anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil worked for the controversial United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees while pursuing his graduate degree at Columbia University.
The campus rabble-rouser’s stint at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees came after he held a senior position at the UK office for Syria in Lebanon for four years, according to multiple reports.
The role would have required a thorough background check and “rigorous security clearance,” Andrew Waller, one of Khalil’s former co-workers there, told The Guardian.
He was involved, too, with a British government program, known as the Syria Chevening Program, which dishes out fully funded scholarships to foreign students who “show potential to inspire” so they can study in the UK.
Khalil — a Syrian-born Palestinian who is also a citizen of Algeria — stopped working there roughly two years ago — right before he relocated to the US in 2022 to enroll at Columbia.
Just about three years later, he would become the poster boy for President Trump’s crackdown on anti-Israel college protesters.
Khalil, 30, was grabbed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Saturday at his Columbia-owned apartment building and later transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana, where he faces deportation.
The new details about his trajectory before he became a student leader of last spring’s riotous campus protests emerged as Khalil, now a permanent legal resident, continues to fight the Trump administration’s push to revoke his green card and boot him from the US.
Born in 1995, Khalil was raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria after his grandparents were displaced from Tiberias, his lawyer has said in court papers.
After civil war broke out in Syria, he fled for Lebanon at 18, the Guardian reported, pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
He then got the gig at the UK office for Syria, a diplomatic mission within the UK embassy in Beirut.
There, he worked in a support role that helped inform British foreign policy on Syria given his knowledge of the region, as well as his Arabic skills, the newspaper reported.
After rising up the ranks, he decided to pursue a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and moved to the US on a student visa in December 2022.
From June through November 2023, he was a political affairs officer with the UNRWA.
The infamous relief agency was stripped of tens of millions in federal funding after an explosive report that some of its members took part in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
Following the bloodshed and the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Khalil became a driving force behind many of the anti-Israel protests, building takeovers and encampments that plagued Columbia for more than a year.
He had a leading role in Columbia United Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — an umbrella of radical student organizations that sympathizes with terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and has previously called for the “end of Western civilization.”
Khalil acted as the main negotiator between CUAD and Columbia administrators during the encampment protests that saw scores of tents set up for weeks on the Morningside Heights campus.
The group also spearheaded the violent takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last April.
He has been pictured at various campus protests over the past year — speaking into bullhorns, taking part in dance circles and marching draped in a keffiyeh head scarf.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, while defending the Trump administration’s move to deport Khalil this week, said “pro-Hamas propaganda fliers with the logo of Hamas” were handed out at some of the protests.
Khalil has also been a regular fixture on news programs discussing the group’s disruptive efforts — including an interview on Quds News Network where he spoke in Arabic.
At one point, Khalil was filmed telling CUAD members during a forum that “we’ve tried armed resistance, which is legitimate under international law, but Israel calls it terrorism.”
He became a permanent US resident after marrying his wife, Noor Abdalla, in the Big Apple in 2023.
The pair had originally met in Lebanon in 2016 when Abdalla, a US citizen, was part of the scholarship program Khalil was overseeing at the time.
They had a seven-year long-distance relationship before tying the knot, she revealed in a Reuters interview this week.
The couple, who are expecting their first child in late April, live in an off-campus apartment owned by Columbia, where ICE agents detained him last week.
His lawyers are currently battling it out in court to prevent his deportation — arguing that ICE detained him illegally.
The attorneys argue Khalil — who completed his graduate degree in December — is being detained in violation of his First Amendment right to free speech, as “retaliation” by the Trump admin over views it disagrees with.
The Trump administration has argued it can legally boot Khalil given his role in the anti-Israel campus protests.
Officials have said that while Khalil isn’t accused of or charged with a crime, his actions are “contrary to national and foreign policy interests.”
Khalil’s wife, a 28-year-old dentist in New York, said her husband tried to prep her on what to do if an ICE agent showed up at their door, but she dismissed him — just days before he was nabbed.
“I didn’t take him seriously,” Abdalla told Reuters. “Clearly I was naïve.”
