Lawmakers Raise Alarm Over Indiana University Program

Universities are supposed to teach our kids, that was the plan. Instead, a flagship Indiana school spent a decade training foreign groups while ignoring ties to terror. 

Republican State Rep. Andrew Ireland says the Indiana University Muslim Philanthropy Initiative partnered with an organization linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is not a rumor, it's a fact revealed in a Breitbart interview. 

The school spent taxpayer money on this while local families struggle. According to reports, Breitbart News Daily was informed that the project sought to instruct individuals, mostly abroad, on managing fundraising and directing NGOs and nonprofits focused on Muslim issues and causes. 

That sounds nice on paper, but the reality is far darker. 

Ireland said that the organization they collaborated with serves as “actually a front for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.” He pointed out that Washington Free Beacon broke the story when the U.S. The university hosted programs with them for years. 

Ireland and other patriots in the Indiana General Assembly stepped up. They sent a letter to the school to find out what was happening. The school did not seem to know until they were caught.This was a massive waste of public funds. 

The initiative was built to serve the world, not Indiana. Ireland called it a “sore thumb for the university.” 

In 2022, the same group had to apologize for inviting a man who provided material aid to Palestinian terror organizations. That was a “real hiccup,” Ireland said. But they kept going. Now, the school has shut down the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative completely. It was a decade of “gallivanting around the world” instead of focusing on Hoosiers. 

State universities should serve the people who pay their bills, not radical groups overseas. Ireland calls this the “woke mind virus.” He says universities today serve anyone and everyone except the next generation of Indiana families. They are ignoring the need for jobs and gainful employment right here at home.

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James Talarico seen on camera driving rental truck in "Real Texas" campaign ad

Flip the 'a' and the 'e' in Texas

In the latest chapter of Democrats trying to cosplay as salt-of-the-earth Texans, a campaign ad peddling James Talarico as some macho working-class badass shows the Democrat gripping the wheel of a Dodge Ram 1500 that, according to a report published Wednesday, traces straight back to an Enterprise rental lot.

Digital news outlet Semafor’s David Weigel dug up the detail. The plate is right there on screen for anyone with eyes. 

Talarico’s everyday ride is a Chevy Colorado. That midsize pickup has starred in his other ads and the usual glowing profiles. The Ram 1500 he commandeers for this particular macho adjacent performance is a full-size model. Too bad he wasn't smoking a stogie as he sat behind the wheel.

The ad, titled “Waking Up,” opens with Texans crawling out of bed before the roosters and casts Talarico as one of the boys. 

He talks about being raised by a single mother “guided by faith,” his years as a teacher, and his work in the state House to lower drug costs and cut property taxes. [Why do we glorify single mothers as if that's a badge of honor?]

“I’ll take on corruption and make this economy work for working people again,” Talarico says in the ad, while not saying that he'll take on dishonesty.

Weigel asked whether the candidate’s car was in the shop. He said he did not hear back.

Politico’s Adam Wren posted a photo of what he identified as “The Talarico Colorado,” confirming the candidate’s usual vehicle. He may have previously owned a Mazda MX-5 Miata, but there is no proof of that. [Grok the "gayest car.]

One widely followed account wrote that Talarico “rented a truck from Enterprise for his ad to look like a real Texan.” A Texas political action committee asked why the candidate was “dodging questions about the rental truck.”Talarico beat Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the March primary to win the Democrat nomination. He now leads Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race. A Texas Public Opinion Research survey put him ahead 45 percent to 40 percent, with a nine-point edge among non-college-educated voters. Critics have flagged a gap between how he presents himself and how he votes.

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Iranian crowd attempts to stop the hanging of 2 men to no avail

Just before dawn on Tuesday, hundreds of Iranians gathered in Isfahan in the hope of preventing the hanging of two young men.

The security forces instead dispersed the crowd with violence and publicly executed 25-year-old Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and 28-year-old Amirhossein Safari Hosseinabadi. Both men had been convicted on charges arising from clashes which the Iranian authorities claim left four security officers dead.

Human rights groups state that the sentences followed proceedings marked by allegations of torture, forced confessions and closed-door trials.These executions form part of the regime’s response to the nationwide uprising that began in late December, after a currency collapse, soaring inflation and worsening living conditions sparked protests across Iran.

The forces of the Iranian regime answered with a sweeping crackdown that included internet shutdowns, mass arrests and the widespread use of lethal force.

The hangings, which reportedly took place at 3:40 a.m. local time and coincided with the morning call to prayer, proceeded despite last-minute appeals from United Nations experts, international human rights organizations and the State Department.

The Islamic regime are barbarians and need to be removed with prejudice.

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Bibi vows to visit the Big Apple in spite of the worm who said he'd arrest him

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear Tuesday that he has no intention of letting New York City's newest progressive jihadi and failed rapper, decide where he can and cannot travel. Despite Mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani's repeated demands that he be arrested if he sets foot in the city, Netanyahu announced he will still attend the United Nations General Assembly in September. 

"I'm going to New York," Netanyahu said during an interview with "Hannity" after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Evidently, Bibi, a former IDF's Sayeret Matkal elite unit, is unafraid of the Uganda soy boy.

Apparently, being threatened with arrest by an anti-Semitic mayor who is too ignorant to realize that he cannot legally arrest him, ranked somewhere below "Tuesday" on Netanyahu's list of concerns.

"I'm going to speak the truth in front of this hate-spewing elected official who's pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others. He's turning them against New York Jews," Bibi said.

Netanyahu accused the Marx fan of reviving a political tradition that civilized nations were supposed to have buried generations ago, warning that the mayor's rhetoric deliberately fuels hostility toward Jewish residents, but everyone knows what Mamdani thinks of Jews.

Mamdani has spent years attacking Netanyahu over Israel's military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. 

The mayor's wife, Rama Sawaf Duwaji, even "liked" a post from The Slow Factory that showed photos of the border breach on October 7, 2023. On the next day, the witch liked posts from People's Forum NYC, among others supporting "Palestine resistance" including "From the river to the sea" messaging. Zohran is married to this harpy.

Most recently, Mamdani labeled the Israeli leader a "war criminal" and "the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people." He had nothing bad to say about the Hamassholes who initiated the attack on innocent Israelis.

Although Mamdani, a POS, admitted he has no legal authority to arrest Netanyahu under the International Criminal Court warrant, that minor inconvenience did not stop him from encouraging federal officials to do it instead. Apparently, in progressive politics, legal authority is now viewed as more of a suggestion than a requirement.

Netanyahu responded by comparing the atmosphere to one of history's darker chapters.

"What are we in the 1930s? What is this? So much hate, so many lies," Netanyahu told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

The prime minister also blasted the International Criminal Court, calling it a "corrupt, evil organization" that seems remarkably selective about who qualifies as a war criminal. Think about that fact.

"They don't charge Hezbollah… Supposedly, they charged Hamas, but a guy who's already dead. So no, it's fake. It's one big fake," he told Fox News.

Netanyahu warned that once unelected international bureaucrats begin inventing crimes for democratic leaders defending their countries from terrorists, it is only a matter of time before America lands in the crosshairs.

"They could say that the president of the United States is a war criminal, that American soldiers, valiantly fighting next to us, shoulder to shoulder, against the tyranny in Tehran, that they're war criminals."

Meanwhile, former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another leftist dolt, joined Mamdani's campaign to arrest Netanyahu, proving that nothing unites New York's progressive establishment quite like treating Israel's elected leader more harshly than the terrorist organizations trying to destroy his country.

Netanyahu also praised his latest meeting with President Trump, dismissing the media's endless hopes of finding daylight between Washington and Jerusalem.

"I always hate to disappoint our would-be critics who are trying to find cracks in our alliance. And what they find, like today, is a wall of granite," he said.

The Israeli leader emphasized that both governments remain committed to preventing Iran's radical regime from obtaining nuclear weapons. This is to the benefit of not only Israel and the United States, it's a benefit to the entire free world.

"We don't want to see this fanatic regime in Tehran have nuclear weapons to threaten every American and to threaten the peace of the world, and to threaten the existence of Israel," Bibi continued. "So we have a common goal, and it's gonna be achieved, either through diplomatic means or other means."

For now, Netanyahu appears unconcerned that New York's mayor wants him arrested. After spending years dealing with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran's ayatollahs, and the United Nations, surviving a press conference in Manhattan may end up being the easiest challenge on his itinerary.

Mamdani needs to be thrown out of office, either by vote or governor Hochul's intervention. But the chances of the latter happening are slim to none.

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Wisconsin brewery that dangled free beer for Trump's death just got its alcohol permit yanked, and the owner is sobbing into his progressive pint glass

Leftist owner of the Minocqua Brewing Co., Kirk Bangstad vows to fight 'tooth and nail' after the Department of Revenue ordered the establishment's license pulled by Aug 4. 

In a development that will shock absolutely no one who has watched left-wing activism turn businesses into political therapy sessions, a Wisconsin brewery famous for its anti-Trump social media tantrums has finally had its permit to operate revoked by state officials who apparently decided enough was enough. 

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that liberal activist and brewery owner Kirk Bangstad is "vowing to fight ‘tooth and nail’ [and he might even pull hair] after receiving a letter from the state's Department of Revenue revoking Minocqua Brewing Co.'s permit to operate in Wisconsin, according to a July 26 newsletter sent to his supporters."

"As you can imagine, I’m not taking this lying down," Bangstad wrote in a Substack post on Sunday. "We’re going to fight the state of Wisconsin tooth and nail, and once again, they’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us."

Not surprisingly, he asked readers to donate to his legal defense fund, writing, "As usual, fighting to keep my business alive means I have to pay lawyers, and that’s never cheap. Every time this [happens], I rack up $100K in legal bills before we even see a judge. If you can help chip in to the Minocqua Company’s legal defense fund, I’d really appreciate it."

The revocation of the beer license goes into effect on Aug. 4, the Sentinel reported. The business has locations in Madison and Minocqua, where one assumes the clientele consists mainly of people who order "resistance IPAs" and then lecture the bartender about systemic injustice. 

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue said, "The Wisconsin Division of Alcohol Beverages is dedicated to the fair and consistent enforcement of alcohol beverages regulations in Wisconsin. The division is required to follow and implement state law, including ensuring permit holders and licensees follow all applicable laws and regulations. The division takes appropriate actions when these laws are not followed." The spokesperson added, "We can confirm that the Department of Revenue has issued notice of a Brewer's permit revocation for two Minocqua Brewing Company locations and notice of an Alcohol Beverage Warehouse permit revocation for one location. The business has until August 4th to appeal and can operate during the appeal process. Should the business decide to appeal, the next step would be to appeal to the Secretary of the Department of Revenue, who will assign the appeal to a Department of Revenue hearing examiner for their recommendations as to proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law."

The Sentinel reported that state regulators pursued revoking Bangstad's alcohol license after authorities seized canned beer from his company in June, alleging it had been transported from Illinois without the required permits and taxes. The newspaper also reported that Bangstad criticized the proposed action as an excessive response, arguing the alleged tax violations did not warrant shutting down his business. How dare the state expect a self-styled resistance warrior to bother with boring things like following tax laws when there are orange men to rage against? 

Of course, the real flavor of this operation has never been about hops. 

On Jan. 22, the Minocqua Brewing Company appeared to suggest it would give free beer to patrons if Trump was killed, and while not explicitly using his name, posted on Facebook, "Free beer, all day long the day he dies." 

The post continued, "Show us this post when it happens in a few months and we’ll make good on that promise." The post was updated to say, "we meant the Madison Taproom because that’s open all year, if he dies in the summer, then it’s gonna be the Minocqua Taproom."

In reply to comment on the post, the company also did not refer to Trump by name but said that the post hinted at a high-profile figure when asked whether the timeline for the deal could be moved up earlier. "Well that's up to you and your ability to act like a cia [sic] agent," the company wrote. 

Following the April shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where Trump was present, the company wrote on Facebook, "Well, we almost got #freebeerday." That should tell us something about Bangstad's intentions.

"Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle," the post added. "We’ll never know. Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens."

Bangstad owns the brewery and is also the founder of the Minocqua Brewing Company SuperPAC, which "aims to remove Republican federal and state elected officials who perpetuated the election lies that caused the Insurrection of January 6, 2021, and whose downplaying of the seriousness of COVID-19 caused so many unnecessary deaths in our country," according to the brewery’s website. 

In other words, a SuperPAC that exists to punish people for noticing that 2020 was messy and that lockdowns were not the unalloyed triumph progressives claimed. Bangstad declined to comment directly but made jokes about the deaths of Trump and Mitch McConnell and made disparaging remarks about Fox. 

He's a real classy douchbagel, especially when it comes to asking for other people's money for his crusade against sanity. 

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Sleepy Joe's Preemptive Pardon of Fauci Won't Cover Any Fresh Lies to Congress, Comer Warns

House Republicans are calling for a rare dose of accountability ahead of Dr. Anthony "Tony" Fauci's Senate hearing Wednesday, a development that has left the nation's most celebrated public health celebrity scrambling to update his memoir title from "I Am Science" to "I Am Science, Your Honor.

"Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), condemns Dr. Anthony Fauci as a 'megalomaniac' and 'infamous villain' following the release of his private diary entries. Johnson alleges Fauci knowingly funded gain-of-function research, contradicted himself on COVID-19's origin, pushed experimental vaccines over early treatments, and oversaw devastating lockdown policies.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), is warning Fauci that his presidential pardon has limits ahead of the former public health official's high-profile day on Capitol Hill. 

Fauci is set to testify before a GOP-led Senate panel on Wednesday, days after hundreds of pages of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary entries were made public, revealing a man who spent more time polishing his halo than tracking where the virus came from. "We now know why President Biden gave a blanket pardon to Dr. Fauci. While obsessing about his own fame, Dr. Fauci wasn't truthful with the American people about the origins of COVID and advised schools to be closed," Comer told Fox News Digital."

Americans are still reaping the consequences of Dr. Fauci's actions. 

Biden's pardon doesn't cover Dr. Fauci's testimony this week and if he continues to lie, he must be held accountable. "Fauci was among several recipients of controversial "preemptive pardons" by former President Joe Biden made during the final hours of the Democratic administration. The pardon covers any offenses from January 1, 2014, through its issue date, or anything related "to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.

"Because the pardon covers conduct during his government service, there will likely be some debate over whether it would protect him from liability stemming from his testimony. Legal experts on the left are already preparing arguments that "lying under oath" somehow counts as essential pandemic response work. But other House Republicans are also accusing Fauci of behaving in a way that hurts public trust in U.S. health, including the co-chairs of the House GOP Doctors' Caucus, both of whom are physicians themselves and therefore apparently qualified to notice when someone treats science like a choose-your-own-adventure book.

"Dr. Fauci, who never met a mirror he didn't love, put politics above science during the pandemic. He is primarily responsible for the resulting multi-generational erosion of trust in American medicine," 

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), told Fox News Digital. "A perfect example of ego destroying whatever achievements he had prior to the pandemic."Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital that Fauci "must be held accountable" by the House as well as the Senate."The release of Dr. Fauci's diary entries validates what many Americans suspected all along: he was not honest about the origins of COVID-19," Joyce said. 

"His fixation on preserving his own image and maintaining a position of power eroded public trust, undermined the integrity of our public health institutions, and failed the American people." Diary entries made public by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a medical doctor and longtime Fauci critic and chair of the committee before which Fauci is appearing on Wednesday, show the high-profile doctor reflecting on his pandemic-era fame and raising questions about the disease's origins, mostly while admiring how well the lighting hit his face during television interviews.

Some entries appear to show Fauci taking credit for influencing policies that closed schools during the pandemic, something that has become one of the most hotly debated aspects of how the government handled COVID. But he lied and told the House Oversight Committee in January 2024, "I did not close the schools." 

Historians are now racing to determine which version of Fauci will appear under oath this week: the one who shut down childhood or the one who merely suggested it while looking very concerned on cable news. 

Fauci has long denied any wrongdoing and instead has argued that he's been made a political target by people on the right who are critical of how governments handled COVID-19, a defense that works best when delivered from behind a presidential pardon and a wall of media flattery.

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Trump Says Some Republicans Want to ‘Obliterate’ Iran While Others Prefer a Nice Little Chat First

U.S. airstrikes carried out a day earlier, on July 17, 2026,
in Iran's Hormozgan Province did this.

Apparently the Grand Old Party is having its usual family meeting about Iran, and the options on the table range from “please pass the nukes” to “maybe we should text them first.” 

President Donald Trump explained this morning on “Fox & Friends” that some elected Republicans are begging the U.S. to hit Iran “harder” than ever before, while the more refined members of the party would rather try sweet-talking Tehran into a deal before anyone starts rearranging the country’s infrastructure with high explosives.

Steve Doocy, ever the calm adult in the room, asked where the Republican coalition currently stands on the Iran situation, especially with midterms lurking in November like an unpaid bill.

"Some Republicans said, 'well, why don't we hit them harder?'" Trump said, adding, "You have a group of people that want it to be obliterated in the truest sense of the word. Then you have a group that says, this is actually a good time to make a deal for them."

The deal-loving Republicans, Trump helpfully clarified, still keep a backup plan in their back pocket: if the Iranians refuse to play nice, just “finish the job.” Finishing the job, in this particular vocabulary, means turning Iran’s bridges, power plants, and other inconvenient pieces of modern life into modern art via airstrikes.

"I think about 91 million people without power, without bridges," Trump added. "So I think we have a very strong position right now. They know I'm going to do that. If they don't make a deal, the bridges are going to be gone literally in less than . . . two hours."

Now that is a "strong negotiating position." 

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Bryan Kohberger Demands Do-Over After Pleading Guilty to Butchering Four Idaho Students

Convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger, who last year admitted to slaughtering four University of Idaho students in cold blood, now wants to yank his guilty plea and demand a shiny new trial, according to The New York Times. 

Kohberger, already locked up for life without parole, issued a statement from his Idaho prison cell to the paper. "My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,” the murdering scumcrumpet said. 

The weird-eyed admitted killer now doubled down on an “absolute claim of innocence.” In July 2025, this aspiring criminologist pleaded guilty to murdering 21-year-olds Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin inside their off-campus rental home back in November 2022. 

Pretrial evidence piled up like unpaid student loans. 

Cops found his DNA on the sheath of the murder knife, the very same knife he ordered off Amazon months earlier. His car matched the one captured on surveillance circling the crime scene like a hungry vulture. No motive or personal link to the victims ever turned up, yet prosecutors still cut him a deal: skip the death penalty if he confessed and waved goodbye to any appeals. 

Kohberger refused to address the mountain of evidence against him, insisting the whole mess would be handled "appropriately in a trial setting." He also told the Times he drafted the challenge documents all by himself, noting that plenty of his defense lawyers recalled how he always griped about the plea deal and the evidence. 

"Unanswered questions seem to multiply with each piece of discovery unsealed," Kohberger said in his statement. Apparently, he doesn't like the idea of living in prison for the rest of his life, and his biggest worry is what might happen to him if he drops the soap in the shower.

Steve Goncalves, father of murdered Kaylee Goncalves, declined comment, saying he first needed to talk it over with his family. Smart move when the man who butchered your daughter suddenly rediscovers his "truth."

After more than a month with zero suspects, Pennsylvania state police and the FBI finally nabbed Kohberger in a dawn raid at his parents’ home near the Poconos. At the time he was a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. 

Former professors and classmates described him as "obsessed" with serial killers, criminal behavior, and the psychology of antisocial types during his classes. 

If anything is true here, it's that Kohberger is an “expert on crime” because he committed one, a really big one.

Legal experts note that convicts usually get one year from judgment to attack a conviction over major constitutional defects or incompetent counsel. Whether this late-blooming innocence claim earns him a second shot remains anybody’s guess.

It's possible, if he gets a new trial and is convicted, that he gets the death sentence, proving justice moves in mysterious ways.

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