Legal Insurrection by Mike LaChance Thursday, May 2, 2024

“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.”

Bill Ayers, famous for being a leading member of the ‘Weather Underground,’ a domestic terror group in the 1960s, showed up at the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago, where he ended up teaching for years.

People who remember the 2008 election will recall that Ayers became a political lightning rod because he was an old friend of Barack Obama, who famously dismissed their relationship, calling Ayers just a ‘guy from the neighborhood.’

FOX News reports:

    Obama-connected professor who led radical group that bombed US speaks at anti-Israel encampment

    A retired professor with connections to former President Barack Obama and a history of involvement in far-left militant activism spoke at an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago.

    An anti-Israel encampment formed on the Main Quadrangle or “Quad” of the University of Chicago Monday was visited by Bill Ayers roughly seven hours into the demonstration, according to reporting from the Chicago Maroon and the Hyde Park Herald.

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/obamas-domestic-terror-buddy-bill-ayers-shows-up-to-support-campus-occupiers-at-u-chicago/

MDM News: Marine Corps Charting Aviation Path to 2040
5/1/2024
By Sean Carberry   
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Marine Corps is updating its current aviation platforms for the service’s crisis response mission, but it has also launched a new project to evaluate long-term aviation needs to address evolving and future threats and support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force.

The first phase of Project Eagle began in 2022, although the service just started rolling out public information in April. The project is designed as a long-range planning framework for continuous modernization of Marine Aviation, Col. Brian Grant, branch head of Air Warfare Systems in the Deputy Commandant for Aviation, said at the Modern Day Marine conference May 1.

“It identifies opportunities to procure [and] sustain relevant capabilities that are lethal, resilient, persistent and sustainable across a range of military operations,” he said during a panel discussion. The project’s “vision and strategy balances crisis response and modernization with maximizing potential of the stand in force as a contribution to the Joint Force.”

The project will look across three future years defense programs starting in fiscal year 2026 and will allow the Marine Corps “to make data-informed capability and fiscal decisions aligned with Force Design and its modernization efforts,” he continued.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/5/1/marine-corps-charting-aviation-path-to-2040

Can The Current Universities Be Saved? › American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson
5–7 minutes

Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system.

The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated.

No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate.

Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year.

Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170 percent.

Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus.

more
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/02/can-the-current-universities-be-saved/

MAY 2, 2024
Demeaning, Diminishing, Destroying
The language hurled against Jews is often similar to words used by the Nazis in the 1930s.

 
If history proves anything it shows if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings.

In the case of African Americans, it was slavery and the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court in 1857 that upheld that evil practice, justifying it by claiming Blacks were not citizens of the United States. An earlier “compromise” in 1787 declared that for purposes of representation in Congress, enslaved Blacks in a state would be counted as three-fifths of the number of white inhabitants of that state. Jim Crow laws enacted by Southern Democrats went further by preventing most Blacks from voting.

In modern times, the unborn have been denied their right to live through abortion and the claim by some that fetuses are not fully human, thus justifying the procedure.

Which brings me to the current demonstrations against Israel and Jews on many college camp uses.

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/106480-demeaning-diminishing-destroying-2024-05-02