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Xavier University Cancels Commencement Speech by U.N. Ambassador – HotAir

Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans rescinded an invitation to United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield to speak at the university’s commencement. It was the second school to do so.  The University of Vermont also canceled Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement address. The reason is the protests on campus.  Both schools pointed to pressure from students and the community […]

China Mandates Military Training for Young Students – HotAir

Military and foreign policy analysts have been warning us for quite some time that China has been steadily preparing itself to be on a war footing. The massive investments they have made in their military were a powerful indicator, and that’s not a recent development. (In February, Foreign Policy Magazine revealed that China’s inflation-adjusted military […]

PolitiFact Shames Talk of ‘Outside Agitators’ in College Protests

You can tell when the PolitiFact website is going to negotiate around the facts. On May 7, its top headline on the homepage asked: “Are ‘outside agitators’ co-opting campus protests?” This isn’t quite the right question. The media have presented these events as “student” protests, so if half the participants aren’t college students, how would […]

The Hims Edition – HotAir

The CEO of Hims, a telehealth and online pharmacy, is backtracking on a controversial tweet he published last week.  Andrew Dudum found out the hard way that is it best for CEOs, especially those of publicly traded companies, to keep their personal opinions to themselves. He tweeted that he is “eager” to hire pro-Hamas protesters. […]

Bill Ayers is Back and Bringing 1968 Vibes with Him – HotAir

Bill Ayers, a domestic terrorist from the 1960s, is back. He’s out reminiscing about the good old days and inspiring the pro-Hamas protesters on the University of Chicago campus.  To walk down memory lane a little bit, Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground. It was a revolutionary group that sought to overthrow what […]

Occupying a Building Is NOW ‘Peaceful Protest’ – HotAir

All this time, I thought storming a building – any building (but then again, I could be thinking too much) – was an act of aggression, intimidation, and inherently violent. …The riot — which followed a months-long disinformation campaign by former President Donald Trump and his allies, who claimed without evidence that the election had […]