Bidy of NM nuclear lab worker discovered by hiker

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has raised concerns about what he describes as a "sinister" pattern involving the deaths and disappearances of 11 U.S. scientists connected to nuclear, aerospace, and defense research. Former FBI agent Nicole Parker has examined the unusual cases, pointing to troubling details such as missing cell phones and erased digital data. In a separate case, an Iranian national was arrested for allegedly trafficking drones and weapons on behalf of Iran, drawing attention to serious national security issues affecting both the White House and NASA.

One of the 11 individuals who had mysteriously disappeared and who may have had connections to U.S. nuclear secrets or rocket technology has now been found. A hiker discovered the body in a national forest in New Mexico.

Authorities identified the remains as those of Melissa Casias, 54, an employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Her disappearance became part of broader speculation surrounding scientists and laboratory-affiliated personnel who had either vanished or died under unclear circumstances. These incidents attracted the attention of President Donald Trump and prompted an investigation by the House Oversight Committee.

According to a Facebook post issued late Saturday night by the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau (NMSPBI), a hiker found Casias' remains on Thursday in the McGaffey Ridge area of Carson National Forest. A handgun was found beside her body.

"The cause and manner of death have not yet been determined," police stated. Authorities added that the Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI) identified the remains as those of Casias and is conducting a "further anthropological examination."

Casias, who lived in Taos, New Mexico, worked at LANL alongside Anthony Chavez. Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the nation's leading nuclear research facilities. Both Casias and Chavez were among the individuals whose disappearances were considered suspicious in FBI and House Oversight Committee investigations.

"The New Mexico State Police extend their deepest condolences to the Casias and Mondragon families during this difficult time," the agency said in its statement.

Police reported that Casias was declared missing on June 25, 2025, after she failed to arrive at work and did not return home following a visit to her daughter at work. Family members later discovered that she had left behind her purse, identification, and cell phones, raising concerns for her safety and leading to a missing persons investigation.

State police emphasized that the investigation remains active and ongoing.

In an April 20 letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, the House Oversight Committee stated that it was examining "recent unconfirmed public reporting" suggesting that individuals connected to "U.S. nuclear secrets or rocket technology" had either disappeared or died in recent years.

"Public reports raise questions about a possible sinister connection between a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances which began in 2023," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Eric Burlison, (R-MO) wrote in a request for information from federal agencies.

According to the committee's statement, the reported cases included two individuals connected to Los Alamos National Laboratory, two affiliated with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an MIT scientist involved in nuclear fusion research who was shot by the Brown University mass shooter, a pharmaceutical researcher, and a government contractor employed at a facility that produces components for nuclear weapons.

Authorities have not established any connection between Casias' death and the other cases. Officials have suggested that the incidents are likely unrelated, and the House committee noted that the reports under review remain unconfirmed.

Steven Garcia, 48, an employee of the Kansas City National Security Campus, was reported missing on August 28, 2025, after leaving his Albuquerque home on foot carrying only a handgun.

Casias' disappearance had previously led New Mexico authorities to issue a Missing Endangered Advisory after she was last seen in the Taos area. She was 53 years old at the time she disappeared.

The discovery of her remains in Carson National Forest brings the search for Casias to an end. However, investigators are still working to determine how she died and to identify the owner of the handgun found beside her body.

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Oct. 7 was just the beginning Iran and Hamas warn: the plotting sickens

Sinwar before he went into hiding waving goodbye before hiding in tunnels

It's no secret Muslims are taught to hate the Jews and to distrust Christians. It's in their scripture and taught in  UNRWA-financed schools and madrassas in the Middle East. So it should come as no surprise to learn that Iran-backed jihad groups plan to turn the Islamic "holy" month of Ramadan into the "second phase of October 7" and torch the Middle East, as Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserted on Tuesday.

"The main goal of Hamas is to take Ramadan, with an emphasis on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, and turn it into the second phase of their plan that began on October 7. This is the main goal of Hamas, and it is being amplified by Iran and Hezbollah,” Gallant said following a situational assessment at the Israel Defense Forces' Central Command, which is responsible for Judea and Samaria.

"We cannot let them have this, and that means we need to do everything we can to bring calm to the area," Gallant continued. "We must not give Hamas what it failed to achieve during the beginning of the war and [let it achieve] 'unity of the battlefields,'" he said, referring to the Hamasshole's attempts to spark a multi-front war.

If Hamas had its way, they would rename the month "The Ramadan Bomb-a-thon." Since starting the war with the barbaric attack on Israeli civilians [mostly], the violence continued to escalate across northwestern Negev on October 7. 

A total of 41 Israeli airstrikes have been carried out in the West Bank since the start of the war, as well as more than 200 counter-terror operations in Palestinian towns. Jews fighting back after being attacked has angered not only the Muslim communities across the globe, but also leftist students attending Islamic-funded universities in Western nations.

For example, between 2014 and 2019, over $5 billion was donated to US schools by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. We see the impact this had when observing the anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist demonstrations have been occurring in such formerly prestigious schools like Cornell ($1.2 billion), Harvard ($894 million), and MIT ($859 million), just to name a few.

Judea and Samaria  saw a dramatic rise in terrorist attacks in 2023 compared to the previous year, with shootings reaching their highest level since the Second Intifada of 2000-05, IDF data shows.

Since October 7, around 3,300 Palestinian terror suspects have been captured in arrest raids throughout the Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, including more than 1,350 who were associated with Hamas, the IDF said on Tuesday.

In the Gaza Strip, IDF forces are closing in on the position of Hamas' cowardly former leader Yahya Sinwar, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing current and former Israeli officials familiar with the intelligence. Sinwar is believed to be hiding in tunnels below Khan Younis, where he has surrounded himself with human shields comprised of hostages taken on Oct. 7 and Palestinians who have been taken in by Hamas altogether.

"It's not about locating him, it's about doing something" without risking the lives of the hostages, one senior Israeli official told the newspaper.

However, the operation in Gaza cannot conclude until Sinwar is captured, killed, or removed from power, officials stressed to The Washington Post.

Speaking at a World Zionist Organisation conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari vowed to get to Sinwar "dead or alive." 

"We are fighting Hamas from the north to the south," Hagari told attendees. "We will finish in Rafah; it is an important city – there are hostages in Rafah," Hagari was quoted as saying. The city of Rafah is the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza and could be the key to ending the war.

Our very own US Rear Adm. Rachel Levine responded with "Fighting is just so silly."

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Israeli Defense Forces eliminated only 20% to 30% of Hamassholes

A Major Hamasshole Pastime

It looks like Israel has only eliminated between 20 and 30 percent of violent Hamasshole terrorists in Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. 

More needs to be done.

While the neutralizing of the Hamas anti-Semites make Harvard, UPenn, NYU, and MIT students [among many others] angry, it also makes a clear statement: Jews are not so easy to f*** with anymore. They will not march into the gas chambers without a fight. They will not stand by when the Jewish State is mercilessly attacked, their children murdered, beheaded, burned or taken hostage, raped, or mutilated, their women and men slaughtered merely for being Jewish.

But the anti-Semites are calling for a ceasefire by Israel, not so much for Hamas to do the same. The Jew-haters are claiming Israel is committing genocide in spite of the amazing growth of the people of Gaza from several hundred thousand to several million, while the Jewish populations across the Middle East has practically reached zero.

It's estimated that Hamas' numbers were about 30,000 terrorists. Last week, the IDF reported that about 9,000 of them had been killed.

It's a good start.

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Job-scared MIT president tap dances after anti-Semitic colleagues "resign"

The Stooges

Only now does the woke president of MIT want to take decisive actions against anti-Semitism. Now that she and two of her female school president colleagues shamefully testified in front of Congress about their respective school policies regarding harassment and threats, does Susan Kornbluth want to walk it back and pretend she isn't woke, isn't willing to swallow her own Jewish background for the religion of the left.

Unless you've recently returned from a trip to the International Space Station, you know about the situation whereby Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT if calling for the genocide of Jews constituted a violation of their school's policy. This comes after the October 7 barbaric attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 Israelis. 

Not one of them had the guts to agree that it was harassment to call for the genocide of all the Jews, which obviously goes against their respective schools' policies. Jewish students had to lock themselves away from the pro-Hamassholes banging on the doors trying to get at them.

Liz Magill of UPenn was the first to resign after various wealthy alumni refused to donate to the schools in the future. And while most of them were Jewish, there was a significant number who aren't but refused to go along with the Hamasshole-supporting left.

So Magill "resigned" and just this week Gay of Harvard also resigned, but she did it without the insight and class that a person in that position ought to show. Instead, she chalked it up, not to her alleged plagiarism, her anemic academic publications that were also likely plagiarized, and her Capitol Hill performance, instead, she pulled the race card from her nether regions where Al Sharpton keeps his, and blamed it on her skin color.

Now MIT's Kornbluth is promising to take "proactive measures" to combat anti-Semitism wherever she finds it on campus. 

If a Jew is hiding behind a tree she will not call for a Muslim to come and kill him, instead she will take measures to protect his right to not be killed because with Magill and Gay gone, she's a changed woman.

“We have been listening to our community and working steadily for many weeks to identify the issues that most urgently need our attention,” Kornbluth wrote in a letter to the school. “As we begin this new year, I want to name the challenges I’m seeing and hearing about, and put us on a path to solving them together.”

Is she freaking kidding? She had to listen to her community to know right from wrong; good from evil? Anti-Semitism isn't new at MIT and it certainly isn't new at Harvard and UPenn. Their racism is historic and it isn't going to go away with committees Kornbluth now wants to form.

She didn't just wake up to these problems--she's part of the problem and houses must be cleaned of this dirt.

Two down, one to go--at least for now.

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Billionaire Harvard donor not donating to Harvard after Gay went neo-Nazi in. Congressional hearing

"I have not yet begun to fight"

Jewish billionaire Len Blavatnik and his family foundation have donated over $270,000,000 to Harvard University in the past. Now that Harvard's affirmative action president Claudine Gay has come out as a plagiaristic Jew-hater the philanthropist has decided to stop shelling out money to an organization that refuses to condemn genocide against Jews, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

Ukrainian-born Blavatnik, is worth over $31 billion and Harvard would clearly like to keep getting his monetary support in order to push DEI and other woke bull crap, but refusing to label the call for genocide against the Jewish people harassment or bullying under Harvard's policies, when misgendering a person or saying there are two genders is grounds for expulsion, is a bridge too far for Blavatnik.

He is only the latest donor to close his wallet in protest after Gay refused to call out genocide when she along with the other two stooges basically mouthed the same claims that it all depended upon the "context" and "behavior."

"The problem Harvard has is that all their sources of revenue are strained," David Bergeron told Bloomberg. He is a former deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Education Department. "Their ability to raise money is clearly strained and their ability to leverage federal programs is potentially at risk."

Gay is facing pressure to resign not only for her antisemitic leanings, but also her alleged plagiarism that has now been growing like a tumor.

Bill Ackman, another billionaire investor and influential Harvard alum, is pushing for the university to fire so called Doctor Gay, claiming her handling of antisemitism on campus since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel has cost the university more than a billion dollars in donations.

However, Harvard and a number of other top universities, receive bribe money from the Middle East to gain influence on what is being taught, so it isn't as if all funding for Harvard is going to dry up; and they still have an enormous tuition income. They'll continue to get foreign funding, but the cut-off of private money is bound to hurt.

Fox Business reported that in a letter to Harvard's governing boards of directors posted on X Sunday, Ackman argued Gay "has done more damage to the reputation" of the institution than any other individual in its nearly 500-year history, going through a litany of criticisms over her leadership which he says has contributed to major donors withdrawing significant gifts that are adding up.

"President Gay’s failures have led to billions of dollars of cancelled, paused, and withdrawn donations to the university," Ackman wrote. "I am personally aware of more than a billion dollars of terminated donations from a small group of Harvard’s most generous Jewish and non-Jewish alumni."

Ackman added, "I have been copied and blind copied on numerous letters and emails to the University from alums who have written scathing letters to Gay and/or the Board withdrawing donations."

Ackman called for the resignations of all three stooges: UPenn's Liz Magill (who finally "resigned"), Sally Kornbluth of MIT, and the present stooge discussed here. The three of them refused to say that calling for genocide of the Jews on their campuses violated the rules and amounted to harassment.

One down and two to go.

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"Doctor" Gay's continued clusterfrack from her Congressional testimony

Claudine Gay: anti-Semite and alleged plagiarist

Ever since the "Three Stooges of Ivy" testified before Congress, people are taking sides. The anti-Semites, media and useful idiots on one side, and decent, fair-minded people on the other.

Since their testimony Liz Magill, former President of the University of Pennsylvania had to resign, and now two stooges remain: Claudine Gay of Harvard University and Sally Kornbluth of MIT. For now, Gay seems to be the next school president in the public crosshairs.

The law firm Edelson PC has ended recruiting at Harvard Law School due to Gay's disgusting testimony whereby she argued that context was required to determine whether calls for Jewish genocide violated the school's bullying and harassment policies. We know that misgendering a person or using the wrong pronouns does, but hey, this is about those, you know, Joooze.

NEW: Edelson PC, a major law firm, will no longer participate in on-campus interviews at Harvard Law School due to Claudine Gay’s Congressional testimony.

“Dr. Gay was in a position to help lead the country. She did the very opposite,” writes founder and CEO Jay Edelson: pic.twitter.com/aTWhX62BKL— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) December 16, 2023

Anyway, the firm’s CEO Jay Edelson announced the change in a Dec. 14 letter to the Law School’s director of recruitment and operations, Jesse Ohrenberger.

“We, along with the rest of the nation, observed Dr. Claudine Gay’s testimony before Congress, wherein she refused to unequivocally state that advocating for genocide would breach the school’s code of conduct,” Edelson wrote. “In light of these events, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our participation in on-campus interviews.”

Edelson’s decision came "despite [Gay's] belated [bull-crap] apology."

"[T]he gravity of her initial response cannot be overlooked. As an expert in political and social studies, Dr. Gay certainly knew to expect the types of questions that would be asked of her," Edelson's letter stated.

The issue regarding Gay's alleged dissertation plagiarism was not addressed by Edelson nor was the fact that she appears to be an affirmative action hire.

He noted that the firm’s move will not punish students. Rather than recruiting on campus, they committed to "exploring alternative channels to connect with those students interested in opportunities at Edelson PC, ensuring that our actions are directed appropriately at the administration and do not penalize students for matters beyond their control."

When asked about the allegations regarding plagiarism, Gay said, "I have not yet begun to fight. I shall fight them on the beaches. I shall fight them on the landing grounds. I shall fight them in the fields and in the streets. I will fight them in the cities. I will never surrender!" she said.

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Magill resigns as UPenn President--time to clean the ivy from the houses

The smirk says it all

New York Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik (R-NY) applauded the resignation of Liz Magill of UPenn who resigned from the post on Saturday for refusing to condemn anti-Semitism as a form of harassment against Jewish students. 

Magill, along with ivy league school presidents Clauding Gay, of Harvard and Sally Kornbluth, of MIT, testified at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday where Rep. Stefanik asked Magill if "calling for the genocide of Jews violate[s] Penn’s rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?"

L to R: Fraus Magill, Gay, Kornbluth

"If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment, yes," Magill responded, later adding, "It is a context-dependent decision."

"This is unacceptable. Ms. Magill, I’m gonna give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment? Yes or no?" Stefanik then asked.

Magill and the rest of her cohorts did a River Dance around the question and refused to condemn the anti-Semitism that runs rampant at her school and the others, where Jewish students have to fear for their safety, and in at least one case at UPenn, had to lock themselves in a room to avoid have violence perpetrated against them.

Rep. Stefanik applauded the resignation of University of Magill on Saturday after hearing about the resignation. 

Rep. Elise Stefanik

"One down. Two to go," Stefanik posted to X Saturday. "This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most "prestigious" higher education institutions in America. This forced resignation of the president of @Penn is the bare minimum of what is required. These universities can anticipate a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation of all facets of their institutions negligent perpetration of antisemitism including administrative, faculty, funding, and overall leadership and governance."

"@Harvard and @MIT do the right thing. The world is watching," she added.

Board of Trustees Chairman Scott L. Bok wrote in a statement Saturday that Magill has resigned.

"I write to share that President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania. She will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law," Bok wrote.

So yes, it's one down, two to go, but let's not stop there. Many schools across the country are allowing blatant anti-Semitism to fester like puss pimples on the butts of the women of the Squad. It's ugly and has no place in the world's greatest nation.

And closing the borders might be a good start to deal with part of the problem too.

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Harvard president suddenly feels "regret" for her testimony before Congress

Harvard President Claudine Gay testified before Congress Tuesday and now feels sorry for the blowback she's gotten after anti-Semitic remarks she made on antisemitism. [H/T Fox News]

"I am sorry. Words matter." the obvious anti-Semite said in an interview with The Harvard Crimson on Thursday regarding her testimony.

"When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret," she said, in an attempt to keep her job. 

On Tuesday, Gay sat before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to discuss antisemitism and threats against Jewish students on Harvard’s campus. She, like her two colleague clowns from MIT and UPenn, refused to say that the genocidal chants and threats students made against Jews should be considered harassment because of "context," and for some reason she now claims to be sorry.

During an exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), she was asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campus violates the university’s codes of conduct related to bullying and harassment.

Gay said it would depend on the "context" of the incident. That is, if the harassment happened to be against black, Muslims, LGBTQ, or other "disenfranchised" groups, then yes, it would be harassment and should result in serious consequences for the perpetrators. But in this case, it's about those, you know, the Jews. They think they're so great with their Albert Einstein and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but they're not.

When asked to give a yes or no answer, Gay said antisemitic speech could warrant action from Harvard if the conduct crosses into bullying, harassment and intimidation.

Stefanik again pressed Gay to provide a simple yes or no response.

"Again, it depends on the context," Gay said.

Rep. Stefanik said on Fox News' "Faulkner Focus" Wednesday that she was "shaken" after the three stooges who refused to state that calling for Jewish genocide would violate their respective university codes of conduct.

ELISE STEFANIK: I've been in a number of very high-profile congressional hearings over the years and the pathetic moral depravity on display by the witnesses, the three university presidents from Harvard, M.I.T and Penn. I've never witnessed anything like that. And I asked the question in such a way that it was easy. Yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews, in fact, does violate their policies and code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment. And their answers were pathetic. I was so shaken and what was probably the most tragic aspect of the hearing to me was there were a number of Jewish students from those schools in the audience sitting behind them. And to watch just the fear as they're listening to the presidents of these universities fail to answer a basic question of moral clarity. It was abysmal. They don't deserve the dignity of resigning. They need to be fired.

Following the well-deserved blasting Gay received on social media, she tried convincing us that some had "confused" a right to free expression with the notion that Harvard condones "calls for violence against Jewish students."

"Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account," she blathered.

Gay further clarified her comments during her interview with the Crimson.

"I got caught up in what had become at that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures," Gay said. "What I should have had the presence of mind to do in that moment was return to my guiding truth, which is that calls for violence against our Jewish community — threats to our Jewish students — have no place at Harvard and will never go unchallenged. Substantively, I failed to convey what is my truth."

Whenever anyone uses the words 'my truth,' they are lying by implying their beliefs comport with reality. People use that term to absolve themselves of wrongdoing. There is only 'truth,' and it doesn't belong to anyone--it's fact. 

All of three presidents who testified on Capitol Hill, and all others who refuse to hold those students who hate and make threats of genocide, need to be fired.

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UPenn loses $100,000,000 donation after Magill's congressional testimony

Frau Elizabeth Magill

University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, along with Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Each one of these bozos had similar prepared answers to the question posed by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as to whether calling for the death of Jews went against the harassment policies of their respective schools. Each said, in effect, that it depended upon the context and whether the harassment went against an individual.

It was obvious that they were coached as to what to say and it was both cold and disgusting to hear them each refuse to admit what a 3-year-old could answer correctly. Not only that, but if the "context" was about black people or LGBTQ people, people would be expelled, if not indeed incarcerated.

So people chanting and calling for the genocide of Jews must be explored under an academic microscope because these three universitards are too simpleminded to recognize neo-Nazi and Islamic rhetoric in front of their smug faces.

That smugness and refusal to protect Jewish students has  cost UPenn $100 million (via Axios):

A UPenn donor is withdrawing a gift worth around $100 million to protest the school's response to antisemitism on campus. [With such a strong move, you might think the next thing to happen is for the school to forbid men to compete against women in sports.]

The final straw for Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, was fed up with Tuesday's widely criticized congressional testimony by Penn's president Magill.

The gift from Stevens, a Penn undergrad alum, was given in December 2017 to help establish a center for innovation in finance. It was in the form of limited partnership units in Stone Ridge, with the current value estimated at around $100 million.

Stevens, in a letter from his lawyers to Penn, alleges that the school has violated the terms of the limited partnership agreement, including its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.

"Its permissive approach to hate speech calling for violence against Jews and laissez faire attitude toward harassment and discrimination against Jewish students would violate any policies of rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion, including those of Stone Ridge," Stevens wrote.

Magill has the constitutional right to say whatever she wants and defend her belief that Jews should all die, and Ross Stevens has the same right stand by his moral principals and refuse to support the school that holds the genocidal hatred. 

So UPenn can keep Magill on board as their president, but they should not expect decent people to support the school. Hopefully, this will carry over to every university and academic institution that supports hatred of any group of individuals.

Context? Schmontext. 

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Ivy League Presidents try damage control after anti-Semitic testimonies

L to R: Frau Magill, Frau Gay, Frau Kornbluth [photo: Babylon Bee]

Question: What’s the difference between a lightbulb and a prostitute?

Answer: You can unscrew a lightbulb.

The presidents of Harvard, and UPenn made a feeble attempt at damage control after they testified on Capitol Hill for the House Committee on Education and the Workplace on Tuesday regarding anti-Semitism at their respective schools of leftist learning and along with the president of MIT came off with talking points that were obviously prearranged, perhaps by a legal team. But they received tons of negative feedback from the public and knew they were screwed.

Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, and University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill each testified and when Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked them whether the call for genocide and mass violence against Jews would be considered a violation of harassment and bullying policies of their schools, she was stunned by the responses she received.

[H/T Townhall.com]

They tried to play it off as free speech and as long as nobody acted out on it, no foul, no harm. It all "depends on the context," or "when speech crosses into conduct."

What a load of crap. Put the shoe on the other foot and see how they would have responded if, say, genocide of blacks or gays was called for by students. You don't have to imagine the response because it's obvious.

Their prepared answers and failure to  "answer with moral clarity" shocked both those on the left and the right.

This is a question a child could answer, unless the child grew up in Gaza, perhaps.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, was livid.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement on Wednesday, “It’s unbelievable that this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country. Any statements that advocate for the systematic murder of Jews are dangerous and revolting — and we should all stand firmly against them, on the side of human dignity and the most basic values that unite us as Americans.

“It should not be hard to condemn genocide, genocide against Jews, genocide against anyone else,” he told reporters. “I’ve said many times, leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test. There should be no nuance to that — she needed to give a one-word answer,” he added.

By Wednesday afternoon, a petition calling for Ms. Magill’s resignation had grown to more than 3,000 signatures. Marc Rowan, the chief of Apollo Global Management and the board chair at the Wharton School of Business at Penn, asked the board of trustees to rescind their support for Ms. Magill.

“How much damage to our reputation are we willing to accept?” he wrote in a letter to the trustees.

Governor Shapiro, who is a nonvoting member of Penn’s board, urged the trustees to meet soon.

University sources, speaking on background, said that efforts were underway to hold a board meeting by phone this week. The university did not respond immediately to a request for comment. [...]

One can imagine people in the Middle East scrambling to deal with damage control.

Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and Harvard alumnus, called on all three presidents to resign, citing the exchanges over genocide.

“It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews,” he wrote on X. “This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress.”

“They must all resign in disgrace,” he continued. “If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.” 

With so many calls to resign, Gay and Magill did damage control on Wednesday.

“In that moment, I was focused on our university’s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable, [blah, blah, blah]” Magill said in a video statement. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It’s evil — plain and simple.”

Her Peter Strzok smile no longer seen on her face as she put on a serious demeanor and faked sincerity.

She went on to say she believed "it would be harassment or intimidation" and said Penn is initiating "a serious and careful look at our policies."

While donors may stop donating to these institutes of wokeism, unless something is done about stopping federal funding and foreign donations, nothing is going to change.

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New Report slams global warming: "Not reality ..."

World leaders, particularly those in the EU, have criticized President Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. The agreement would have saddled the US with many billions of dollars in debt and economic losses while other nations didn't need to do much more than shake hands and collect a bunch of money.

Now a new report that analyzed Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) has blown the doors off Al Gore's private polluting jet. The report, produced by NASA, the NOAA and HADLEY proves Trump was right on target with his refusal to be part of the farce.

According to the report, which was peer reviewed by the EPA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, several of America's leading universities, administrators and scientists, the data is nothing more than balderdash.

In this research report, the most important surface data adjustment issues are identified and past changes in previous historical data are quantified. It was found that each new version of GAST has nearly always shown a steeper warming linear trend over its entire history.

The conclusive findings are that the three GAST data sets are not a valid representation of reality. In fact, the magnitude of their historical data adjustments, that removed their cyclical temperature patterns, are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.

What this means is that it's impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that the recent years have been the warmest ever, despite the Al Gorean imbeciles claiming record setting warming.

Since GAST data set validity is a necessary condition for the EPA's GHG/CO2 Endangerment Finding, it's also invalidated by these findings, which only shows warming, never cooling as historical data shows. They conveniently left that out.

What this all means is that the data has been falsified and tampered with, but we all know the left will claim that some deniers just want to destroy the earth.

The real data looks a lot like this:










But you'll never get the left to admit it.

So the establishment will continue to push the need for huge, costly initiatives to reduce green house gases and global temperatures to "normal" levels. Even though there is no global warming according to the report.

The best part is that nobody supporting the Paris Climate Agreement and the other initiatives have a clue what their massive regulations will really do to curb climate change--just ask them and watch their eyes glaze over like donuts.

Like Al Jazeera Gore and Bill Nye "the Pseudoscience Guy," I'm not a meteorologist nor an expert on global warming/climate change. 

As a realist, however, I don't see an immediate problem here. In fact, I see global warming, if it even exists microscopically, as a good thing, particularly for third world countries where people use toxic materials like cow dung to keep warm.

And anyone who goes to see Gore's sequel to his first fake documentary is going to witness more balderdash.



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Boston On Lockdown

Well, one of the Islamic terrorists is dead; the brother of the 19 year old who's still on the loose. They came here about 10 years ago from Chechnya. The older brother, age 26, is dead, riddled with holes and shrapnel while his younger brother, Dzhokahar, is still out there--he's 19 years old. Authorities are asking residents of Boston and surrounding areas to stay at home if possible.

Dzhokar (pronounced "Joecar") Tsarnaev went to a prestigious school where he excelled in wrestling, and is currently at large. Fox News reports that he was a pre-med student.

An MIT peace officer was killed as he sat in his patrol car. This takes the total to four people killed for jihad.

I was not at all surprised to learn that these terrorists are Muslims; the fact that they placed one of the bombs next to an 8 year old child at the race, and were willing to randomly kill Americans, is often the jihadist signature. They are willing to kill infidels in order to selfishly attain Jannah, or heaven, for themselves.

Fox News wonders what we should call the terrorists. Should we call them domestic terrorists or foreign terrorists. After all, they've been in the United States for about ten years. I don't believe it's a question of where they come from to determine how they should be labeled; they're Islamic terrorists and geography cannot change that fact. 

When people are not insane, are Muslim, and are willing to kill and die for their beliefs, they have a more "spiritual" agenda. known as jihad. I hope we will recognize this for what it is and not stick our collective head into the sand like frightened ostriches. We must know who the terrorists are and not pretend they are otherwise.

As I conclude this article, Dzhokar is still out there with an "assault rifle" and explosives. I wonder how he was able to get them in Massachusetts, a state with the strictest gun control laws.

My latest novel, Jihad Joe, is about Islamic terrorism and suspense.  In it I challenge the precepts of the religion through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three Gitmo prisoners.  Of course, American policy demands we never give in to terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.

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