News of the Week for May 5th<\/sup>, 2024<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Dead Dog in the Dakotas Derails VP Dreams<\/a> Inside the far-right plan to use civil rights law to disrupt the 2024 election<\/a> Republican Firebrand Ted Cruz Now Courts Democrats to Win Re-Election<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked<\/a> <\/p>\n Pennsylvania Capitol Rally Showcases Steadfast Commitment to Second Amendment Rights<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Small Miracle: A Completed New U.S. Nuclear Power Plant<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Biden Giving Obamacare to 100,000 Illegal Immigrants Is Gross Executive Overreach<\/a> <\/p>\n Europe planning new ‘nuclear umbrella’ with 300 French nuke missiles spread across continent for showdown with Russia<\/a> China May Be Preparing To Deploy Economic ‘Nuclear Option’<\/a> US Spies See China, Russia Militaries Working Closer on Taiwan<\/a> Cuban mercenaries in Ukraine kill their abusive Russian commander<\/a> Victims of Communism Day \u2014 2024<\/a> Manta Ray UUV Prototype Completes In-Water Testing<\/a> Is Venezuela Serious About Invading Guyana?<\/a> North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kids Online Safety Act receives bipartisan support despite censorship concerns<\/a> ‘American Privacy Rights Act of 2024’ Sneaks In Quotas<\/a> US campus protests: Rival Gaza protest groups clash at UCLA<\/a> Louisiana Sues Biden Over Title IX Interpretation Allowing Males in Female Sports and Spaces<\/a> Federal Court Again Rejects Texas’ Claim that Illegal Migration Qualifies as “Invasion”<\/a> A U.N. Official Dares America to Slash Its Budgetary Contribution<\/a> Violence erupts at UCLA as counter-protesters attack pro-Palestine camp<\/a> UCLA Pro-Israel Demonstrators Counterattack After Pro-Hamas Mob Beat Jewish Protester Unconcious<\/a> NYPD Retakes Columbia University From Illegal Occupiers<\/a> Obama’s Domestic Terror Buddy Bill Ayers Shows Up to Support Campus Occupiers at U. Chicago<\/a> Over $350,000 Raised to Thank UNC Pi Kappa Phi Brothers for Defending Flag Against Pro-Hamas Mob<\/a> ‘Possessed’ murder suspect ‘ate man’s face, eyeball and ear’ after killing him<\/a> Cops in riot gear shut down UCLA encampment after showdown with anti-Israel protesters wielding fire extinguishers<\/a> Which States Are Enacting the Best DEI Bans?<\/a> Rutgers Caves to Pro-Hamas Mob, Agrees to 8 of the 10 Demands<\/a> Campus Riots a Marriage of ‘Year Zero’ Leftists and Eighth Century Islamists<\/a> Portland State: Police Recover ‘Improvised Weapons’ Left Behind in Library by Pro-Hamas Mob<\/a> Kansas Board of Regents axes mandatory DEI statements<\/a> Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> US colleges face their next big challenge: furious parents<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nissan Employees in New Jersey Decertify UAW<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 14-year-old dead, 4 others injured after sword-wielding attacker goes on rampage in London<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Power of Weakness<\/a> Universities Reap the Protests They Sow<\/a> It’s Worth Going Down Fighting in Ukraine<\/a> As Universities Falter, Grifters Prosper<\/a> Some on the Right Are Having a Moral Meltdown<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2024<\/h1>\n
\nIf the hullabaloo about a deceased dog and South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is to be believed, Cujo is loose in Pierre, S.D., and he’s hunting for the governor’s political aspirations of becoming Donald Trump’s VP pick.<\/p>\n
\nAt a diner just off the freeway north of Sacramento, a mostly white crowd listened intently as it learned how to “save America” by leaning on the same laws that enshrined the rights of Black voters 60 years ago.<\/p>\n
\nThere are two sides to Ted Cruz, the Republican senator says.<\/p>\n<\/a>Abortion<\/h1>\n
Dobbs Decision<\/h2>\n
\nTwo years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation’s abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation’s courts, legislatures and political campaigns \u2014 and changing the course of lives.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nAt the Pennsylvania state Capitol steps in Harrisburg, a determined group of over 100 pro-gun activists gathered to defend their Second Amendment rights in an annual rally that has become a hallmark for gun rights advocacy in the region. Despite a recent decrease in attendance, the passion and resolve of participants at this year’s event were as palpable as ever.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &<\/a>“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nA small miracle: Yesterday Georgia Power announced that the second new nuclear unit at Plant Vogtle entered commercial service, “the first new commercial reactors built from scratch in the U.S. in more than three decades.”<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nAs James Lynch reports, the Biden administration has finalized a rule to give Obamacare to illegal immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nRussia warned it would ‘sink the British Isles’ with its nuke arsenal<\/p>\n
\nChina has been buying up commodities at a rapid clip, prompting analysts to wonder out loud whether Beijing is preparing to choose the economic “nuclear option.”<\/p>\n
\nUS intelligence officials assess that Russia and China are working more closely together on military issues, including a potential invasion of Taiwan, prompting new planning across the government to counter a potential scenario in which the countries fight in coordination.<\/p>\n
\nWhoa! All is not well on the Ukrainian front. Young Cubans fighting for Czar Vlad the Invader have set a shining example for their fellow Cubans back on the island by executing their Russian commander. Yeah. Don’t let anyone abuse you or turn you into a slave.<\/p>\n
\nMay Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.<\/p>\n
\nDARPA program exhibits modular, first-of-kind capabilities<\/p>\n
\nPresident Nicol\u00e1s Maduro of Venezuela is an exuberant dictator, a lover of military salutes who is being investigated for crimes against humanity, but he’s not reckless enough to invade neighboring Guyana, is he? Would the leader of a country in an ever-deepening economic crisis risk starting Latin America’s first interstate war this century? Well, maybe.<\/p>\n
\nOn 2 January, a young Ukrainian weapons inspector, Khrystyna Kimachuk, got word that an unusual-looking missile had crashed into a building in the city of Kharkiv. She began calling her contacts in the Ukrainian military, desperate to get her hands on it. Within a week, she had the mangled debris splayed out in front of her at a secure location in the capital Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nThe Kids Online Safety Act is a proposed bill that’s received bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats, however critics are vocal about the potential chilling effects it will have on freedom of speech.<\/p>\n
\nIn the name of preventing bias, APRA imposes quotas. And it imposes them everywhere.<\/p>\n
\nPro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups have clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as demonstrations over the war in Gaza continue across US campuses.<\/p>\n
\nIdaho, Mississippi, and Montana joined the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
\nThe ruling builds on the same court’s two prior decisions to the same effect.<\/p>\n
\nOn Wednesday, the United Nations’ top human-rights official, Volker Turk, practically dared Congress to slash America\u2019s massive contribution to the U.N.’s main budgetary fund, called the regular budget, when he spoke out about “a series of heavy-handed steps taken to disperse and dismantle protests” across U.S. college campuses. He expressed concern that law enforcement was using force in a disproportionate way.<\/p>\n
\nUniversity vice-chancellor condemns ‘horrific acts of violence’ as footage shows people wielding sticks<\/p>\n
\nPro-Israel and Jewish students fought back after the school did nothing for days.<\/p>\n
\nThe occupation of a key administrative building was more than even the weak Columbia administration was willing to tolerate.<\/p>\n
\n“Ayers was hunted by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the 1970 bombing of the New York City Police Department headquarters, 1971 bombing of the United States Capitol building and the 1972 bombing of the Pentagon.”<\/p>\n
\n“Throw ’em a rager.”<\/p>\n
\nA man has been accused of killing a convenience store customer before ‘eating’ his face in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n
\nPolice in riot gear dismantled the anti-Israel protest encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles campus early Thursday, spraying tear gas and shooting what appeared to be rubber balls as they faced off with violent protesters wielding fire extinguishers and pepper spray.<\/p>\n
\nThe Martin Center looks at half a dozen attempts to regulate ideological extremism on campus.<\/p>\n
\nA big one: Rutgers agreed to display flags of occupied people. So\u2026Rutgers agrees that Israel is occupied land? The school agrees that the state of Israel is illegal?<\/p>\n
\n“This is a serious situation. It’s the extreme left that wants to tear us down. Almost Khmer Rouge, go back to Year Zero and start over. And the extreme Islamists, who are worshiping Hamas, who want to take us back to the eighth century.”<\/p>\n
\nThe mob trashed the library. They stole rare books and comic books.<\/p>\n
\nTo comply with anti-DEI Kansas legislation, the state\u2019s Board of Regents prohibited public universities from mandating DEI statements for students and employees.<\/p>\n
\nPulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples<\/p>\n
\nRiver rides, purple robes, and aesthetic injuries.<\/p>\n
\nParents at Ivy League universities beset by Gaza protests are demanding refunds and arranging transfers<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nWhile the press was celebrating the United Auto Workers union’s win in a representation election at Volkswagen in Tennessee, it mostly ignored that other workers already represented by the UAW were in the process of voting the union out. A majority of Nissan employees at the company\u2019s facility in Somerset, N.J., petitioned to decertify the UAW in early April, and the election was held on April 24.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nA man wielding a sword went on the attack in London early Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring at least four others, including two cops, after first driving a van into a house, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nModern liberals have distilled the true essence of Marxism, which is the idea that every human relationship is exploitative. Lenin summed it up as “who\/whom”\u2013who is doing what to whom? <\/p>\n
\nBanning campouts in common areas is the kind of reasonable, content-neutral restriction on public protest that should be easy for universities to enforce. Their failure to do so has damaged their reputations, and now the discussion of “amnesty” for the student protesters discredits them further.<\/p>\n
\nIf you want a serious intra-conservative debate on U.S. aid to the Ukrainian war effort, I highly recommend listening to my colleagues Noah Rothman, Charlie Cooke, and Michael Brendan Dougherty on The Editors, a debate continued at director’s-cut length on Charlie\u2019s podcast. I side mostly with Noah and Charlie \u2014 Michael is outnumbered here at National Review in opposing aid \u2014 but it’s a rigorous and passionate debate on both sides.<\/p>\n
\nYoung men are drifting toward the wrong alternatives to four-year degrees.<\/p>\n
\nMy disdain for the Left began at a young age. From as early as I can recall, I hated evil, and I therefore always hated communism. When I realized the Left either supported communism or, at the very least, opposed anti-communism, I understood that leftism was a force for evil. Liberals and conservatives hated communism; leftists did not.<\/p>\n