Amherst College is pressing the Washington Free Beacon to blur out the faces of students who performed mock sex acts in the college’s main chapel during an official orientation event. The $93,000-a-year college claims that the Free Beacon’s publication of videos of the performance led to “serious doxxing”…
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Trump’s Venezuela Operation Deals Blow to Another Dangerous Trade: Iranian Drones
The Trump administration has pointed to stymieing the Venezuelan drug trade as a central motivation behind its operation to capture dictator Nicolás Maduro. But narcotics are not the only dangerous export the operation crippled: Taking out Maduro and asserting U.S. authority in the country means delivering a big…
Pro-Hamas Chants Erupt Outside NYC Synagogue at Rally Promoted by Mamdani-Linked Group
Chants of “we support Hamas” and “globalize the intifada” erupted outside a Queens synagogue Thursday at an anti-Israel event promoted by a Muslim group with extensive ties to New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. Dozens of keffiyah-clad activists appeared in Kew Gardens Hills to protest an event to…
Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Identified Himself as an Egyptian Citizen When He Became a Columbia Professor. Now His Campaign Says He ‘Made a Mistake.’
As an assistant professor at Columbia University, Abdul El-Sayed said he held dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship. El-Sayed is now running for a Michigan Senate seat, and his campaign says that was a mistake—he’s not an Egyptian citizen and never has been. El-Sayed was born in Michigan to Egyptian émigrés….
Democrat Graham Platner Rallies With ‘Good Friend’ Somali Lawmaker Who’s a ‘Person of Interest’ in Congressional Fraud Investigation
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine—Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine rallied alongside a Somali-born state lawmaker tied to a nonprofit under congressional investigation for allegedly defrauding the state of millions of dollars in Medicaid payments. At a “Tax the Rich to Fund Health Care” rally on Tuesday, Platner was…
She’s Running for Senate in Arkansas as a Lifelong Farmer—After Hiring a Marketing Firm To Build a ‘New Brand’ as ‘FarmHerHallie’
Hallie Shoffner is running for Senate in Arkansas as a lifelong farmer who had no plans to run for office. But Shoffner spent years working as a left-wing activist—and hired a marketing firm to build a “new brand” as “FarmHerHallie,” a Washington Free Beacon review found. Shoffner has…
Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Compared an Oklahoma Ban on Sharia Law to the Trail of Tears
The left-wing candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, compared a move to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma to the Trail of Tears. “You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears,” El-Sayed told the Oklahoma chapter of the Council…
Take My Governor—Please
Editor’s note: The week before Kamala Harris tapped Tim Walz as her running mate last August, we ran this piece from Minneapolis’s Scott W. Johnson. We are reposting it now, in the wake of Walz’s announcement that he will not run for a third term. Tim Walz has reportedly…
The Dumbest Year by Far (Until the Next One)
Merry Christmas and all that. We’ve just a few days left in what has been by far the dumbest year on record. Don’t worry—the next one will be even dumber, and 2028 is going to reach forbidding heights of stupidity for which none of us are adequately prepared. Enjoy…
Nuclear Firm Working With Chinese Military Companies Pushes for $900 Million US Uranium Contract
On its face, Orano Federal Services, a North Carolina-based nuclear fuel cycle company, is a plausible partner for a $900 million Department of Energy contract to produce uranium for America’s nuclear plants. But the firm’s parent company, the French majority state-owned Orano Group, works with two Chinese military…