Flotsam and Jetsam - Is the President of Harvard a Plagiarist?

Hat Hair's KT hears Biden in Hollywood: “You’re the Reason that Donald Trump is a Former President". It was certainly a big factor. John Davidson at Da Fed believes the Media Fearmonger About A ‘Trump Dictatorship’ Because Biden Told Them To. Warren Beatty goes there, Joe Biden Meets the Gestapo. 

Fuzzy Slippers at LI sees the Biden Border Crisis: Military-Age Men From Across the Globe Flood Across Arizona Border. “there were a large number of Africans from countries Senegal, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt and elsewhere waiting to be processed and potentially released into the U.S. Others were from the Middle East and Asia”. Hat Hair's KT again, reporting a Democrat Governor Toured the Border as She Demands Federal Aid from Biden, Arizona's Katie Hobbs. A report from Breitbart, 5,000 Illegal Migrants Are Released into the U.S. Daily, Biden Admin Privately Tells Congress. At Da Caller, Illegal Immigration Surges Months After Biden, Trudeau Make Deal To Crack Down On Northern Border Influx. mrc-TV WHAT? Trucking Company Fined $700K By Biden Admin For Checking Green Cards Of Job Seekers. 

From the Free Bacon, Biden Admin Pays Anti-Israel Group That Spreads Lies About Gaza War To Fight 'Disinformation'. The one thing the government is really good at is handing out money. At Da Caller, Biden Scores An Own-Goal On The Olympics, "President Joe Biden’s endorsement on Wednesday of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s request to compete in lacrosse under its own sovereign flag at the 2028 Olympics represents a dangerous shift in American policy and establishes a path toward further balkanization." I wouldn't mind taking the whole national team idea out of the Olympics, and letting the best athletes compete on their own merits. 

Margot Cleveland at Da Fed concludes There’s Only One Explanation For Hunter Biden’s Simple Indictment Taking So Long: 2020 Election Interference.

At NYPo, President Biden just pledged to shut down 60% of America’s electric power. Rick Moran at PJM notes Now the Left Is Going to War Against a 'Sandwich Shop Monopoly'. They just hate business in general. Shmuel Katzen at Am Spec asks What Does It Take To Be a Statesman? before noting "Biden is clearly failing at this task." Ed Driscoll at Insty, GREAT MOMENTS IN STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: GOP Sen. Mitt Romney doesn’t rule out voting for Biden, says Trump has ‘authoritarian’ interests. "Flashback to 2012: Biden: Romney’s approach to financial regulation will ‘put y’all back in chains.’"

Althouse, Trump is way ahead of Biden in Georgia and Michigan... according to CNN. ""CNN Polls: Trump leads Biden in Michigan and Georgia as broad majorities hold negative views of the current president." Isn't impossible to visualize an Electoral College win for Biden if he loses those states? Here's an interactive Electoral College map."  At Am Think John Kudla takes An Early Look at Biden versus Trump, and concluded the +2 Trump from RCP is about right. Mike LaChance at LI at reports Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy Endorses Trump for 2024, Would Consider Working in His Administration. “I believe Donald Trump will win, I believe that Republicans will gain more seats in the House, and that Republicans will win the Senate”   From TNP, These 60 Seconds of Trump’s Hannity Town Hall Were a Masterclass In Political Communications. Althouse finds "We’ll turn toward abstraction. I predict that Donald Trump is going to win the election and, when people seek some sort of relief valve or means to move forward..." ""... I don’t think they’re going to do that by looking at a bunch of figurative paintings. We’ll need to stare into the blur and ask the biggest possible questions: 'Who are we? What are we? What the hell are we doing?' And those are questions that abstraction, as a mode, posits … I also think we’ll encounter a radical new abstraction.  . . . Says the painter Adam Pendleton, 39, answering the question "What will the cultural trends be?," part of a large collection of answered questions in "The T Predictor: What We’ll Be Obsessing Over in 2024/We asked 46 artists, filmmakers, chefs and other creative people to forecast next year’s cultural trends. (Spoiler: We’re all going to be wearing a lot of brown)" (T/ The NYT Style Magazine)." The inimitable Kurt Schlichter at TownHall thinks Democrats Are Right to Be Scared of Trump’s Vengeance, "Vengeance? Oh yeah. The more brutal, the better." Breitbart, Romney: Haley Is the ‘Only One that Has a Shot’ to Beat Trump for GOP Nomination. His endorsement is yet another reason to be leery of Nikki.

Dan Chaitin at Da Wire hears McCarthy Giving Parting Advice To Speaker Johnson “I think the best advice I could give to him: you’re the speaker of the House. Do not — do not govern in the idea that you’re afraid somebody’s going to make a motion to vacate.” 

At Da Caller Kate Anderson calls it a ‘A Cynical Strategy’: Less Than Two Years After Dobbs, Abortion Is Headed To The Supreme Court Again 

In August 2022, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Idaho for banning all abortions and the state’s Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed a motion with Kagan on Nov. 27, asking that the law be allowed to remain in effect as the lawsuit plays out. The Biden administration is trying to push a “very tortured interpretation” of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which prohibits hospitals from turning away patients having a medical emergency, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erin Hawley told the DCNF, and the stage is being set for the nation’s highest court to weigh in on the issue again.
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In 2023, the Idaho legislature amended its law that originally only provided doctors with the right to an affirmative defense if they performed an emergency abortion and created an exception in the law that allows the procedure for saving the life of the mother and in cases of rape and incest. Daniel told the DCNF that the Idaho law, particularly in light of this change, is perfectly in line with EMTALA.

David Lanza at Am Think thinks January 6 Is the Dems’ Electoral Strategy. From NYPo, In the name of ‘fake news,’ NewsGuard extorts sites to follow the government narrative

Chris Rufo at Substack, Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist? "The embattled Harvard president’s dissertation raises troubling questions." Sure looks like it. A politician might get away with it (Biden certainly did), but academics take stealing their words personally. Insty, PLAGIARISM PROBLEMS FOR HARVARD PREZ CLAUDINE GAY?  Jen Van Laar at TownHall, Harvard President Claudine Gay Plagiarized Portions of Her Ph.D. Dissertation. Twitchy claims another Smoking GUN: Leaked, Woke AF 2020 Memo from Harvard Pres. Claudine Gay Exposes What She REALLY Believes. Meh, it's just typical arglebargle. J.R. Dunn at Am Think thinks Elise Stefanik is smiting the unworthy. Hollywood in Toto sees ‘SNL’ Goes ‘Republicans Pounce’ Route on Ivy League Presidents "Far-Left sketch series skewers GOP's Stefanik, not morally bankrupt leaders." Insty "That latter route was chosen by the New York Times today, which some say is not a satirical TV show produced by Lorne Michaels, though the jury is still out." NYT, As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment. "Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years."  After a tense congressional hearing last week, many on the left are joining them.  Personally I'd rather pounce than seize. RedState's Nick Arama takes on SNL's Horrible Unfunny Take on Ivy League Presidents Mocks Elise Stefanik and Has People Talking. Debby Sanders at Am Spec speculates about  An Academic Reckoning on Anti-Semitism and Speech, "Given their own campuses' records on speech, the three university presidents looked like frauds."  Clarice Feldman at Am Think thinks Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest.  Althouse wonders Did the 3 university presidents fall into "Ms. Stefanik's prosecutorial trap"? "I'm reading "Questioning University Presidents on Antisemitism, Stefanik Goes Viral/The No. 4 Republican, a Harvard alumna with a fraught relationship with her alma mater, had a confrontation over campus responses to antisemitism that resonated across the political spectrum" (NYT)." Sarah Hoyt at Insty chimes in IF THEY WERE THE TYPE OF PEOPLE WHO ‘DO THE RIGHT THING’ WOULD THEY EVER HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS? Harvard, MIT presidents face increased calls to ‘do the right thing’ after UPenn’s Magill resigned over response to antisemitism and MINDS SO OPEN THEIR BRAINS HAVE FALLEN OUT – ‘RIGHT OF RESISTANCE” DOES NOT TRUMP RIGHT OF SELF DEFENSE: GWU faculty ignore Hamas atrocities, defend attack on Israel: ‘Right of resistance’. 

Althouse finds "[A]ntisemitic and anti-Israel protests on campuses — and the university presidents’ lawyerly responses at last week’s hearing — were akin to... the 'Zoom moment' during the pandemic..." "
"... when some parents first listened closely to what their children were learning in school and concluded it was 'subpar in quality and radical in content.' '" From Am Think, Stuart Creque sees The End of Allyship in the left. Bob Spencer at Front Page, Survey: Students Who Hate Israel the Most Know the Least About It. "Really, are you surprised?" An example at NYPo, California coffee shop fires antisemitic employees who blocked Jewish customer from using bathroom. Vicky Taft at PJM examines the options,  'Pathological Liar' or 'Brave' Victim? The Curious Case of the 'Islamophobic Hate Crime' at Stanford. The demand for hate crimes exceeds the supply, so they have to invent them. 

 At WaEx, Mark Judge (remember him?) discourses on the Maestro and Hollywood’s retroactive repression. "Maestro, the new film starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, is in many ways a terrific movie . The actors are first-rate. The movie is based on the life of conductor Leonard Bernstein, so the music is incredible. Yet Maestro is also an example of what I call Hollywood’s “retroactive repression.” Liberal filmmakers like to make movies about conflict and overcoming bullies. Because America is the freest country on Earth, with gay marriage and severe punishment for racism , Hollywood has to go back in time to find the bad guys — bigots, homophobes, rednecks, and anti-communists." Ben Bartee at PJM wants you to WATCH: Undercover Video Exposes Pornhub’s Child-Grooming Strategy. Insty, THE PROLES AREN’T BUYING WHAT THE LEADERS ARE SELLING: Photos show mostly empty seats for Dylan Mulvaney event at Penn State. From Da Caller, Nashville Police Announce End Of Investigation Into Leak Of School Shooter’s Manifesto. “The investigation has not identified current MNPD employees, or employees of any partner agency, as engaging in the unauthorized release of the images,” per the press statement. “Persons placed on administrative assignment for certain periods during the pendency of the investigation have returned to their regular duties.”

At JTN, Greg Piper, Follow the science? Feds mull research veto for indigenous groups, using religion as science, "FOIA production shows National Science Foundation quickly discussed reviewer's broadside against enabling "settler scientists." Former fed warns against agencies considering "quackery" such as cautery in science policy." Science is dead, long live science!