COLLUSION: Hillary Clinton group wired $500,000 to climate activists behind disruptive protests.

SAD NEWS FROM BILL WHITTLE: Dick Rutan has died.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Richard Glenn Rutan flew west on Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:08 PM PDT

The last time Dick Rutan flew towards the western horizon was on December 14, 1986 when he and copilot Jeana Yeager set the last great aviation record by flying around the world, nonstop and unrefueled, in nine days, three minutes and 44 seconds in an aircraft called ‘Voyager,’ designed by his younger brother, legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan.

A highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Dick Rutan flew 325 combat missions and was awarded the Silver Star, the Purple Heart, the Air Medal with three silver oak leaf clusters, the Collier Trophy and was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross – twice.

During his time in the skies over Vietnam, Dick was a member of an elite group of Fast Forward Air Controllers, often loitering over enemy anti-aircraft positions for six hours or more in a single sortie. These extremely hazardous missions had the call sign ‘Misty’; Dick Rutan was, and will forever be, Misty Four-Zero.

He spent his last day in the company of friends and family, including his brother, Burt, and passed away peacefully at Kootenai Health Hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in the company of his loving wife of 25 years, Kris Rutan. He is survived by daughters Holly Hogan and Jill Hoffman, and his four grandchildren, Jack, Sean, Noelle, and Haley.

Rest in peace.

WELL, GOOD: The toppling of the woke authoritarians: From Scotland to New Zealand to Canada, politicians are on a collision course with the public.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Biden Judicial Nominee Honored by Anti-Israel Group Whose Board Member Cheers Hamas.

HARVARD COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER PUBLISHED EDITORIAL LIKENING ISRAEL TO HITLER:

[Maria Ressa], the CEO of the Philippines-based news site Rappler and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will give the university’s commencement address on May 23, at a time when Harvard faces a congressional investigation for what House Republicans have called a “failure to protect Jewish students” and as anti-Semitism has surged on college campuses across the country.

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In a November editorial, Rappler called for a ceasefire and compared Israel’s actions to those by Adolf Hitler, according to a translation.

“What Israel is doing is clearly a disproportionate response and its intention is not simply to retaliate, but to launch an all-out war,” the editorial said. “In the intensity of Israel’s godlike technology, its paleolithic instincts can be seen in the lack of effort to differentiate between civilians and its enemy Hamas.”

The editorial said Israel’s actions were “about to reach genocide.”

“It is a great irony that the [Jewish] race that suffered centuries of oppression, even genocide at the hands of Adolf Hitler, is now [denying] the same aspirations [for] the Palestinians,” said the column.

“We like to think that our world is more modern, more aware, and more compassionate, compared for example to the time of Adolf Hitler, or the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,” the editorial went on.

In its coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict, Rappler has also referred to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as “militant” groups rather than terrorist organizations.

Ressa did not respond to a request for comment. Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

Why are Democrat-monopoly Ivy League schools such cesspits of Antisemitism?

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WE ARE GOVERNED BY MORONS. “He literally does not know the most basic things about government finance despite being an acknowledged ‘expert’ on the subject. He has the same grasp of basic economics as a third grader.”

IT SEEMS THAT WAY TO ME: The Hysterical Opposition to the Antisemitism Awareness Act is Unfounded.

THE WEEKENDS AT THE COLLEGE DIDN’T TURN OUT LIKE YOU PLANNED:

'I've Never Felt So Alive,' Thinks Police Officer While Clotheslining Communist Ivy League Student https://t.co/t7TFdZHYUP pic.twitter.com/rFKikHQ3lH

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 3, 2024

The plastic garbage-can shields may have looked cool, but mostly just hampered their users and provided a convenient handle.

JIM GERAGHTY: Biden-Harris a Profile in Cowardice on Campus Disorder.

On the menu today: More than a day late and a dollar short, President Biden says that breaking the law on college campuses is wrong. But he’s still ahead of his vice president, the former prosecutor, who for weeks has had absolutely nothing to say about the lawlessness that took over college campuses. If the objective for the protesters was to make some noise and postpone finals, maybe they accomplished what they set out to do. But if their objective was to influence or change U.S. public opinion, they failed miserably. Read on.

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Still, at least Biden eventually was roused to address the issue. As far as I can tell, Vice President Kamala Harris has not made any public remarks about the campus protests. The New York Times noted, “Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning on Monday in Wisconsin, again took sharp swipes at former President Donald J. Trump for his actions on abortion, a hot topic across the country. But she stayed silent on the war in Gaza, another issue erupting elsewhere among the critical bloc of young voters she has been courting.” While speaking in Atlanta, “Harris did not address recent protests on Georgia college campuses tied to the White House’s handling of the conflict in Gaza.”

The vice president is a former prosecutor. She doesn’t have any thoughts on lawbreaking and whether the police should be called in on campus? For much of the reelection campaign, she’s been on a college tour!

Harris expressed her thoughts in 2020: Kamala Harris Lies, Claiming That She Never Promoted the Bail Fund That Bailed Out BLM Rioters As Well As Murderers and R4pists; But the Tweet In Which She Promoted that Bail Fund Is Still Up!

THE ENEMY WITHIN: The ‘Micro-Intifada’: How American Protesters Are Being Trained in ‘Militancy:’ Guides created by radical groups are teaching pro-Palestinian students to use violence on campus.

MATT TAIBBI: The Atlantic Compares Walter Kirn to Donald Trump: The latest “What happened to you, man?” piece goes next-level. “The Atlantic churned out a paint-by-numbers hit piece on my friend Walter Kirn this week, and yes, I’m pissed about it. Really, is there no end to this nastiness? The chief complaint of ‘The Blindness of Elites’ is that Walter, formerly well-regarded smart person, spends too much time complaining about ‘elites’ instead of Donald Trump.”

The elites suck, people are. noticing, and those who are paid to keep people from noticing are turning up the volumne.

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches Chang’e-6 mission to collect first samples from the moon’s far side.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: South Korea Plan for Space Based Solar for More Than All US Nuclear Power.

JACK DUNPHY: On the Violent Left, Eternal Recurrence.

BOEING: From Aviation Excellence to ESG Disaster.

IT’S NOT JUST SEC/ACC SCHOOLS NOW:

Patriots at University of Chicago break up the path of the pro-Palestine protesters and waive the American Flag.

This trend is spreading! 🇺🇸

There's hope!https://t.co/lLN71hXImx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024

WHY, INDEED? “But who are the outside agitators? If they are not students, who are they? How about some details? Lots of them were arrested. Why isn’t there a torrent of detail about what sort of people they are?”

YES, THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS IN LONDON AND BERLIN WERE HILARIOUS: The United States Is Exporting Its Social Movements (and Its Social Problems): Both U.S. protests and radical movements are going global.

Basically, we’re doing socially what China did microbially with exporting Covid — if this shit is going to be our problem, it’s going to be everybody’s problem.

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BEEGE WELBORN: Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah – I’ve Joined My College Intifada.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: EVs are the most expensive vehicles to operate over 1,000 miles, according to iSeeCars.

NOW IT’S AT LSU:

All they had to do was not mess with our flag 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/LabTeVHLIi

— Old Row (@OldRowOfficial) May 3, 2024

Your mistake is thinking frat guys are protesting. They’re not.

They are out there telling these blobs to eat shit, fuck off, and never touch the flag again.

If they didn’t fuck with the flag and the US, no one would be bothering the losers playing Barbie land infitada. https://t.co/1fOMVBFiSf

— Nick Watts (@internwatts) May 3, 2024

“Barbieland Intifada.” Heh. That one’s gonna stick.

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