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It's not exactly the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, but it was damned satisfying to watch. Pro-Palestinian protesters at the City College of New York had removed the American flag from the flagpole at the start of their protests two weeks ago and raised the Palestinian flag. After the NYPD swarmed the CUNY campus and began arresting dozens of protesters, several cops began to take down the Palestinian flag. They were none too gentle about it either. Then, NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry and several other officers raised the American flag.

Ex-NPR senior editor Uri Berliner appeared again on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation show on Tuesday night. “I think that really, NPR has a lot of soul searching to do about representing the country at large. Being a publicly funded news organization and really trying to represent this country in all its great diversity and viewpoints.” It should seem obvious that NPR is impervious to "soul searching" since they didn't want Berliner to work there any more after he raised his questions about viewpoint diversity. Cuomo asked about morning host Steve Inskeep and then other people at NPR saying Berliner "cherry-picked" his stories and got it wrong. "Do you think in retrospect that

More than half of cats around the first Texas dairy farm to test positive for bird flu this spring died after drinking raw milk from the infected cows, scientists reported this week, offering a window into a toll the virus has taken during its unprecedented spread through the cattle industry. The report, published Tuesday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, chronicles the early investigation by veterinarians and academic laboratories into a disease that started spreading through cows across the region earlier this year. Cats at the Texas farm had been fed raw milk from cows that turned out to be infected with highly

Senior Democrats are reportedly in "panic mode" about the violent demonstrations that have broken out across America's college campuses as the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East imperil Joe Biden's chances of re-election. Protests against Israel's war against Hamas have spread like wildfire over the past few days, with major demonstrations taking place at some of the country's top universities, including Columbia and University College of Los Angeles (UCLA). According to a report from Axios, Democrats in Congress are increasingly concerned about the optics of said demonstrations and fear it could even cost them the White House:

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- Authorities declared an unlawful assembly at UCLA Wednesday evening and began preparing to disperse a massive crowd of protesters and counter-protesters that had grown in size after violent conflicts on campus overnight. The Los Angeles Police Department declared a tactical alert as officers in riot gear positioned themselves on campus to remove protesters who all day had been signaling their intentions to dig in to their positions. During the daytime, members of the pro-Palestinian protest group were handing out supplies that included umbrellas, helmets, gas masks and goggles. A sign at one tent read "Protection kits 4 tonight."

President Biden is in a difficult position when it comes to student protests. That's almost certainly why we've heard so little from him while all of this is going on all around the country. At today's White House press briefing, AP reporter Zeke Miller asked the press secretary about it. KJP responded by bringing up Biden's record on anti-Semitism and how he spoke out after the 2017 march at UVA. "Let's not forget in 2017. He was very clear what we saw — the anti-Semitic vile that we saw in Charlottesville — on the streets of Charlottesville. He called that out. He called that out," she said.

NEW YORK — Duane Eddy, the pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died. He was 86. Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his wife, Deed Abbate. With his raucous rhythms, backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar’s bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones.

The Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to pass a repeal of the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court last month. The bill, which the state House approved last week, will soon head to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs for her signature. Hobbs has said she will sign the repeal bill. Two state Senate Republicans — Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope — joined all 14 Democrats in the narrowly divided chamber in approving a repeal of the Civil War-era law that held the power to send a doctor to prison for providing nearly any kind of abortion care.

Lawmakers are recommending a criminal investigation into the president of a nonprofit organization that for years funneled U.S. taxpayer dollars to a lab in Wuhan, China that was conducting research on bat coronaviruses. The EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) and its president Dr. Peter Daszak should be cut off from receiving future funding through the Department of Health and Human Services and should be criminally investigated for withholding information about U.S.-funded research that may have played a role in starting the Covid pandemic, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic urged in a report and corresponding documents released Wednesday morning.

...A Democrat Congresscritter starts talking about returning to Trump-era immigration policies. On National Public Radio. ON NPR! Man, that has to sting. How bad are the polls looking, Congresswoman? NATIONAL. PUBLIC. RADIO. Somebody said Trump was right--on NPR. A Democrat had to say it. NPR listeners had to hear it. A host had to swallow her bile. Hilarious. Schadenfruedeliscious. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: A group of self-described centrist Democrats are urging their colleagues to focus on border security, following the passage of the foreign aid bill. Five Democratic members of the House

The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 282 protestors at Columbia University and City University of New York (CUNY) on Tuesday night, Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD revealed in a Wednesday press conference. The NYPD arrested 173 protestors at CUNY and 119 protestors from Columbia, NYPD Patrol Chief John Chell told reporters during the press conference. Many of the arrestees were “outside agitators” and not students or affiliated with any of the universities, the NYPD revealed. “There are a number of different individuals who we know from over the years associated with protests not just in our city but in other cities as well

The morning after the NYPD broke up the Columbia University and City College protests and arrested scores of demonstrators, Mayor Eric Adams and the department continued to insist Wednesday that “outside agitators” were responsible for the unrest, but without providing specific examples. Heavily armored police quashed protesters’ siege of Hamilton Hall and the encampments set up on Columbia University and in City College, arresting 282 people at both locations. Police are still working to figure out how many students were among those locked up. Still, Hizzoner insisted that both demonstrators were co-opted and incited by professional agitators looking to influence young New Yorkers and whip them into a violent frenzy.