A top al-Qaeda operative, jailed in 2008 for his role in orchestrating a terror plot, recently had his parole bid blocked after it was determined that he was likely to revert back to acts of terror.

Famed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon took to X on Monday to lay out a lengthy thread decimating Vice President Kamala Harris’ record as district attorney in San Francisco. Dhillon began by saying a member of Harris’ staff told her that when Harris was the San Francisco DA, “one of her top deputies regularly rounded the office urging prosecutors to stop by Harris’ fundraisers for re-election to donate and/or volunteer.” The staffer reportedly told Dhillon that she was told it would be “good for her career to contribute.” Dhillon went on to say that “the supervisor in one of the criminal units was a no-show who literally phoned it in from San Diego, filling out fake time sheets from there where his boyfriend was.” “This went on for years, only ending under George Gascon’s tenure,” Dhillon continued. While Harris was the DA in San Francisco, the supervisor in one of the criminal units was a no-show who literally phoned it in from San Diego, filling out fake time sheets from there where his boyfriend was. This went on for years, only ending under George Gascon’s tenure. — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 14, 2024 The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a Daily Wire inquiry. Dhillon then said a prosecutor in Harris’ DA office told her that “as policy, [the office] did not allege prior crime ‘strikes’ in indictments as is routinely done in other counties such as the one where the deputy DA had come from.” That deputy DA “was criticized for alleging strikes; only supervisors were allowed to authorize this and it was rarely done, yet another way Harris went soft on crime,” Dhillon said. “What does it mean when you don’t allege strikes? [I]t means that a career criminal, a violent criminal, who commits multiple crimes gets two years instead of 25 to life. The prosecutor complained about this internally but it went nowhere.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 What does it mean when you don’t allege strikes? it means that a career criminal, a violent criminal, who commits multiple crimes gets two years instead of 25 to life. The prosecutor complained about this internally but it went nowhere. — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 14, 2024 Dhillon also brought up how Harris violated her pledge to stay under a voluntary spending cap when she ran for DA back in 2003. California’s Ethics Commission claimed the violations were “unintentional,” but Harris was fined $34,000 anyway, the San Francisco Chronicle reported at the time. It was the largest fine under San Francisco’s campaign finance law at the time. After Harris won the election, Dhillon said in a post on X, Harris “immediately sent out mass ‘let’s make a deal’ letters to every defense lawyer with a pending murder case.” “These cases were almost all pled out to manslaughter or even lesser charges, and then Harris claimed these as convictions on murder cases for her closure rate,” Dhillon wrote. “This is unheard of and set a tone of defense lawyers not taking her office seriously.” When Kamala Harris became the DA after violating the campaign finance limits to out-raise and outspend her former boss, who did obey the limits, she immediately sent out mass “let’s make a deal” letters to every defense lawyer with a pending murder case. These cases were almost… — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 14, 2024 Dhillon then moved on to Harris’ “incompetence,” which “got two gang violence witnesses killed, by housing them just across county lines. The bad guys found and killed them, the cases then fell apart. And scared witnesses then refused to testify against more bad guys. Rinse and repeat.” Kamala Harris’ incompetence got two gang violence witnesses killed, by housing them just across county lines. The bad guys found and killed them, the cases then fell apart. And scared witnesses then refused to testify against more bad guys. Rinse and repeat. pic.twitter.com/Z8kdNSAQcX — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 14, 2024 Dhillon also took Harris to task for her low conviction rate, which she said “was a widely known joke in CA law enforcement circles.” “And everyone — especially the criminals — knew and exploited it,” Dhillon added. Harris also “manipulated the stats as DA by charging only cases that were ‘trial ready’ in the first place — an absurd metric as most cases are built up after charging on a probable cause basis,” Dhillon said. “Even so, her conviction rate was a joke,” Dhillon concluded. Kamala Harris manipulated the stats as DA by charging only cases that were “trial ready” in the first place — an absurd metric as most cases are built up after charging on a probable cause basis. Even so, her conviction rate was a joke. pic.twitter.com/s43ej0EgNp — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) October 14, 2024

A billionaire investor said on Wednesday that the market — in which multiple stock indices rose to record highs this week — anticipates victory by former President Donald Trump. Stanley Druckenmiller, the chairman and CEO of Duquesne Family Office, made the assessment during an interview on Bloomberg Television just under three weeks before Election Day. “The market and the inside of the market is very convinced Trump is going to win,” Duquesne Family Office Chair and CEO Stanley Druckenmiller says https://t.co/U2lNkFZd30 pic.twitter.com/jtDyvRoZD9 — Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) October 16, 2024 “I must say in the last 12 days, the market and the inside of the market is very convinced Trump is going to win,” Druckenmiller said. “You can see it in the bank stocks, you can see it in crypto, you can even see it in DJT, his social media company,” he added. “Throughout the whole, I would say, the industries that are deregulated — if we had deregulation — will benefit from Trump or outperforming the others,” Druckenmiller said. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Druckenmiller emphasized how it is an “evolving situation” and he personally does not have “conviction” on who will emerge the winner. But Druckenmiller explained that he likes “market indicators” for the economy and finance, as well as elections. “I remember how right the market was on Ronald Reagan in 1980, despite what the pundits were saying,” he said. Trump has been surging ahead in betting markets over the past several days, even though polling shows a close race between him and Vice President Kamala Harris. Druckenmiller took a swipe at the polls, saying, “Who knows what these polls even mean. No one even responds to them anymore.” The hedge fund manager also talked about which political party will take control of one or both chambers of Congress. He said a “blue sweep is extremely unlikely,” noting that Republicans seem to be on the verge of taking back the Senate even if Harris wins the presidential race. Druckenmiller said a “red sweep” is more likely than a Trump presidency with a “blue Congress” because he doubts voters backing the former president would split the ticket for Democrats in Congress. The economy could be “potentially stronger” for three to six months with a “red sweep,” Druckenmiller said before cautioning that a “bad response” in fixed-income markets could “snuff out” the equity rally. Regardless of what the markets may be predicting, Druckenmiller said he would not personally support Trump or Harris and would “probably write in someone.” Although he contended both candidates are “unified on some things” like industrial policy, Druckenmiller noted concerns with Trump’s tariffs plan and negotiation tactics with foreign countries. Harris would be “much worse in terms of anti-bigness, anti-business, and regulation,” Druckenmiller said.

Hollywood star Al Pacino has revealed in his new memoir that one of his most famous roles — Michael Corleone in “The Godfather” — almost didn’t happen. In the 84-year-old’s new book “Sonny Boy,” Pacino said if it wasn’t for director Francis Ford Coppola’s belief in him to nail the role of the mob boss’ son he would’ve been let go from the project when others were less impressed with his work, Page Six reported. Pacino wrote in the book about a meeting he had with Coppola when the studio was upset about his performance once filming started. “You know how much you mean to me,” the director said, according to Pacino’s book. “How much faith I had in you. Well, you’re not cutting it.” The director showed the actor footage and the two agreed there wasn’t “anything spectacular here.” Pacino admitted he had been underplaying the part because he wanted the power of Michael to appear to shock the audience. Al Pacino was almost fired from iconic ‘Godfather’ role in favor of these A-listers: memoir https://t.co/V8oHjvzoOw pic.twitter.com/zByWnHmVTQ — Page Six (@PageSix) October 15, 2024 “My idea was that this guy comes out of nowhere,” the “Serpico” star wrote. “That was the power of this characterization. That was the only way this could work: the emergence of this person, the discovery of his capacity and his potential.” Because Coppola believed Pacino was the right actor for the role, the director decided to shoot one of the most iconic scenes in the movie, the restaurant shooting the next day, where Corleone’s character shows he can become the head of the family and do what was needed. Pacino wrote that Coppola moved up the filming of the scene “to give the doubters back in Hollywood some incentive to believe in me and keep me in the picture.” After 15 hours of shooting, Pacino’s portrayal of his character’s double murder did the trick with the studio, and silenced any further doubt that he wasn’t the right guy for the job. “They knew I was going through a difficult time, feeling like I had the world on my shoulders, knowing that any day the axe could fall on me … Sterling [Hayden] and Al Lettieri helped keep up my morale; they set a one and were role models for me,” Pacino wrote in the book about the two stars he shared the scene with. “Because of that scene I just performed, they kept me in the film,” he added. The “Scarface” star admitted he went to the premiere in 1974 but ditched out of the theater because he “didn’t want to see the finished product. “As soon as the lights went out, I went out.” The Hollywood star admitted that he never watched the film until recently, when he went to the screening for its 50th anniversary in 2022. Related: Al Pacino Talks About That Role He Regrets Turning Down, Takes Dig At Harrison Ford

There have been a lot of moments in American politics when candidates realize they’re trailing badly in the polls, so they do something extreme in an effort to win some support. It usually doesn’t work out too well. Think of the “Dean Scream” back in 2004, which was supposed to rally the base after a tough loss in the Iowa caucuses. It ended up being played about 600 times on cable news until Dean dropped out of the race. Or if you want to go back further, think of George McGovern’s plan to shake up the race in 1972 by picking a totally unvetted running mate. That was exciting right up until it emerged that his running mate had received electro-shock therapy several times to treat his chronic mental illness. McGovern ended up losing 49 states.  As we enter the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election, it’s clear that the Kamala Harris campaign now finds itself in a similar desperation mode. They’re trailing badly in pretty much every important poll and prediction market that matters. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz admit that they’re now the “underdogs” in the race. And so, inevitably, they’re feeling the pressure to do something unthinkable in a desperate attempt to win back votes. They have to throw out the playbook and try a new strategy. In recent days, we’ve learned what this last-minute Hail Mary looks like. It means that Harris will actually go out in public and speak without a script. This clearly wasn’t the plan when she first entered the race. For the first month of her candidacy, Kamala Harris was completely shut off from the media. It was one of the most surreal periods in modern presidential politics. We had a presidential nominee who wouldn’t talk to any journalists at all — even journalists who are friendly to her campaign.  But now Harris has no choice. She’s facing a blowout loss. So, now she has an interview with Fox News planned for tonight. She’s also participating in “radio town halls” with hosts like “Charlamagne Tha God.” Unfortunately for Harris, already, this strategy isn’t going well. Like so many other Hail Mary’s in presidential politics, it’s backfiring. And it’s backfiring because every single time Harris opens her mouth, it becomes very clear why her campaign was hiding her away for so long.  Let’s start with one of the questions asked on “Charlamagne tha God’s” show, because the question raises a bunch of its own issues. It concerns taxpayer-funded reparations for black people. Watch: Vice President Kamala Harris says she's open to using taxpayer's money to pay racial reparations: "It has to be studied, there's no question about that." She adds: "In terms of my immediate plan … as it relates to the economy … I grew up in the middle class" pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29 — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 15, 2024 The first thing he says is, “We all know that America became great on the backs of free black labor.” So, I guess we’re pretending that slaves didn’t cost anything, for starters. That’s being conflated here with the idea that “black people weren’t paid.” That might seem like an irrelevant distinction but actually, it matters quite a bit in relation to the argument he’s making. As a factual matter, slavery involved massive investments that ultimately slowed the progress of this country dramatically. It turned out to be a much worse investment than the alternative. A professor at Brown University named David Meyer has said that, in the South prior to the Civil War, “investments were heavily concentrated in slaves,” relative to the North. And that led to the South’s failure to, “to build a deep and broad industrial infrastructure.” That includes services like railroads and schools. Once slavery was abolished, that infrastructure is what led to this country’s success in the generations following the Civil War. We became the top economy in the entire world once we jettisoned slavery. What didn’t lead to this country’s success — before or during the civil war — was slavery. The majority of slaves were involved in growing or picking cotton. But as the Foundation for Economic Education has reported, cotton didn’t account for a big portion of the overall U.S. economy. Economic historians, “have observed that although cotton exports comprised a tremendous share of total exports prior to the Civil War, they accounted for only around 5 percent of the nation’s overall gross domestic product, an important contribution but not the backbone of American economic development.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 So, if you’re saying that slavery was instrumental to this country’s success, you’re vastly overstating the case. And it’s an argument that applies to many other countries far more credibly than it applies to ours. Africa was the last continent to officially abolish slavery, and that didn’t happen until the 1980s. So, why exactly is this America’s burden to bear? Why are we uniquely responsible for slavery? And why would we want to stoke the kind of generational race hatred that’s led to the murders of white farmers in places like South Africa? And for that matter, when is Kamala Harris going to pay her reparations? The Washington Free Beacon has reported that Harris was the “descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica.” So, why hasn’t she pulled a Robin DiAngelo and opened her purse to offer black Americans some of her own money? She hasn’t even handed over a single dollar as far as I can tell, much less 20 dollars. It’s an outrage. But it’s not one that Harris has ever addressed. Maybe she’ll explain her reasoning in my next movie. Instead, in this “radio town hall,” Harris predictably chose to focus on the “systemic” ideal of reparations. And here’s her plan in that regard: Vice President Kamala Harris says she's open to using taxpayer's money to pay racial reparations: "It has to be studied, there's no question about that." She adds: "In terms of my immediate plan … as it relates to the economy … I grew up in the middle class" pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29 — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 15, 2024 She starts rambling again about growing up in a middle-class family or whatever, even though she didn’t actually grow up in a middle-class family, and even though (as always) it’s completely irrelevant to what she’s talking about. But already — just from this short, 30-second answer — it’s clear that Harris herself doesn’t even know what she’s saying. In response to that question about reparations, here’s what she just said: “It has to be studied. I’ve been very clear about that position.” But she hasn’t been “very clear” about that position. In fact you can find multiple clips of Harris stating that she supports reparations. She doesn’t support a “study” of reparations, she actually thinks they should be paid out, in some form. Watch: Kamala says she’s in favor of reparations because America is racist and there are inequities including Black people not being able to vote pic.twitter.com/DFlafInsJd — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 2, 2024 "There have to be some form of reparations" – Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/xkhMKWEu0z — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 30, 2024 So, this is, once again, a complete retreat from what Kamala Harris previously claimed to believe. We can add it to the list of policies that she supported back in California, but disavows now. That’s a list that includes decriminalizing illegal immigration, providing free healthcare to illegals, abolishing private health insurance, banning gas-powered cars, banning fracking, confiscating guns, and so on. Now “taxpayer-funded reparations” are on the chopping block, at least temporarily. Now Harris says that reparations must be “studied.” WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show But that’s already happened too. And it happened in Harris’ home state of California, as I discussed earlier this year, all the way back in February. California established a “reparations task force.” That task force suggested that it would be a good idea to pay more than a million dollars to every descendant of a slave — which, altogether, would cost something like a trillion dollars. And then a bunch of lawmakers decided to reel that back in. They suggested that “reparations” shouldn’t consist of cash payments after all, after Gavin Newsom pointed out that the state is broke and doesn’t have the ability to pay anything. This was a whole conversation that lasted for years, in Harris’ home state. But apparently she’s not aware of this conversation. She wants to keep having it, again and again, for the rest of time. This is a dodge that’s meant to hide the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has already announced massive race-based reparations plans, and continues to do so. They started with billions of dollars in race-based aid to black farmers. They continued with various affirmative action programs in the government — which, as I outlined last week, now involves filing a lawsuit against any fire department or police department that declines to hire black people, regardless of how unqualified they are. And just the other day, Kamala Harris herself personally announced an openly racist policy to send money directly to black people, solely because they’re black. Here’s an image of the plan Kamala Harris’ account posted on social media: Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. pic.twitter.com/cUCdsvvYZ6 — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 15, 2024 Here are the key bullet points: “Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. … Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe. …. Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.” So, first of all, a loan that’s “fully forgivable” isn’t actually a loan. It’s a cash payout. The government is never going to see any of that money back. But even if this were just a loan, it’d still be a completely unconstitutional, overtly anti-white policy, to the point that it’s insane that any presidential candidate would ever put this in writing. This is a stage of desperation that has no parallel in American politics. Kamala Harris’ campaign is now so underwater among black voters that they’re straight-up offering to hand them cash, and get them some weed. Oh, and they’re going to “protect cryptocurrency investments so black men know their money is safe.” You can read that 20 times, and still have no idea what they’re talking about. Does Bitcoin work differently for black people? And why wouldn’t we want to make sure that everyone — not just black people — feel that their crypto is “safe”? No one knows. Kamala Harris doesn’t know. Imagine asking her to explain what that line means. She probably has no idea someone wrote that and posted it to her account. What’s underlying all of these proposals isn’t just anti-white racism, although that’s a big part of it. This is also about Kamala Harris’ deep and abiding disdain for America and its history. This alone makes her unqualified for the position she’s seeking. It’s the same reason she posted on social media the other day about “Indigenous People’s Day,” instead of Columbus Day. She’s previously gone on the record saying Columbus Day should no longer exist: Kamala Harris: I'll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People's Day pic.twitter.com/sM2Um8YrFF — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 14, 2024 We’re at a point in this country where the political Left and Right celebrate different national holidays. And we’re in this position because of politicians like Kamala Harris, who have nothing to offer. So, in the absence of any substance, she’s trying to destroy anything Americans have in common. She’s trying to revise America’s history, which is the go-to move for communist dictators throughout the ages. And for good measure, she’s looting the treasury for the benefit of her preferred racial groups.  Fortunately for the Trump campaign, Kamala Harris isn’t capable of hiding any of this. Every time she sits down for an interview, Kamala Harris makes it very clear she doesn’t know anything. She also doesn’t have any idea what she’s saying. She wants to simultaneously signal that she’s backing off reparations, even as she proposes explicit payments to Americans on the basis of their skin color. This is the kind of incoherence that defines the last days of a desperate campaign. And it’s a sign that Kamala Harris’ campaign — like so many other transparent train wrecks in modern politics — is on a path to a very public implosion in just a couple of weeks.

A property management company is accusing local officials in Colorado of “scapegoating” it to cover up a failure to police violent criminal gang members who have taken over rental properties. CBZ Management, which manages multiple properties in Colorado, says it has lost control of apartment buildings in the city of Aurora to members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. In a series of posts from its recently created X account, CBZ accused local officials on Tuesday of ignoring the gang problem to shift blame for rising crime. The management company said that the city has hit it with a series of “code violations” to cover for the real problem: violent gang members taking over the properties and extorting illegal rents from residents. “Like many large, older properties, code violations can happen. We have always addressed them promptly. Our track record proves this. In 2023 we passed 3 full building inspections that included a detailed walk-through of every unit,” the company said on X. “So how does the city shut down 99 apartments for code violations after declaring everything up to code? Because it wasn’t about code violations — it was about a criminal takeover of our buildings and the city’s refusal to address it, instead choosing to blame us.” “The real issue is the rise in crime in Aurora, illegal immigration and the city’s attempt to shift the blame onto us,” the company continued. “However, we believe crime prevention and deterrence are primarily the police’s responsibility.” The real issue is the rise in crime in Aurora, illegal immigration and the city's attempt to shift the blame onto us. Attached is a letter from the Aurora Chief of Police, threatening to shut down our property by labeling it a criminal nuisance. The letter states, "property… — Cbz Management (@CbzManagement) October 15, 2024 The company says that one of its representatives was attacked when looking into gang activities at one of its properties. In an earlier thread on X, the company posted a video of the alleged incident alongside a photo of the representative with his face bruised and bloody. The representative sought treatment at a hospital afterward, the company said. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 After some time, we noticed a rise in crime and tenant complaints. The most alarming moment occurred when our local CBZ representative was attacked at the end of 2023. He had gone to inspect a recently vacated three-bedroom apartment (a rare occurrence for such a large unit)… pic.twitter.com/VkzMwmlixA — Cbz Management (@CbzManagement) October 11, 2024 CBZ cited multiple instances of apparent neglect by police and city officials, referencing an investigation into the situation by the law firm Perkins Coie on behalf of one of CBZ’s lenders and the trouble CBZ’s private security firm had with getting the police to respond to problems. Local officials have blamed the company, citing it for code violations that have totaled tens of thousands of dollars in fines. Former residents have filed lawsuits against the property manager alleging illegal evictions and poor property conditions. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has called the company an “out-of-state slumlord.” CBZ said it has been unfairly maligned to cover for local officials’ inaction and inability to crack down on the Tren de Aragua gang. “If the city had fulfilled its basic responsibilities instead of deflecting blame, our $1.3 million investment could have contributed to revitalizing Aurora. Instead, hardworking tenants lost their homes due to the city’s failure to protect them. As a result, we have been harmed, our lenders have suffered, and the City of Aurora is now under national scrutiny — rightfully so,” the company said. In addition to Aurora, Tren de Aragua gangs have taken over apartment buildings in San Antonio, Texas, as well, according to the Daily Mail.

A pair of Department of Education programs meant to boost national security are funding college departments that employ anti-American professors associated with campus anti-Semitism. The National Resource Centers (NRC) Program and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships program aim to bolster “the security and prosperity of the United States” by training future diplomats and foreign language experts. But these grants often go to university departments housing radical professors whose ideologies clash with that of the United States diplomatic corps. According to an analysis from OpenTheBooks, Columbia University used its radical professor Dr. Joseph Massad as a selling point in a successful grant application to the Department of Education. Massad called Hamas’ October 7 attack “a stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance.” According to the Middle East Forum, students said Massad “takes a categorically anti-U.S. tack at every possible opportunity,” and lists “the West’s various cultural crimes ad nauseam.” “In 2002, Massad gave a talk at Columbia called ‘On Zionism and Jewish Supremacy,’” OpenTheBooks said. Between 2020 and 2024, Columbia received $2.8 million under the FLAS program alone, making it the second-highest recipient of Middle East FLAS funding, OpenTheBooks found. It also received numerous NRC grants, including one ongoing grant intended to shape how the Middle East is taught in American schools. The top overall grant recipient was Indiana University, which employs professor Abdulkader Sinno, the faculty advisor for a group that protested Jewish students on campus and accused Israel of “Genecide” [sic] and “colonialism.” Sinno was suspended for the Spring and Summer 2024 semesters after violating the rules to host an event for the radical Palestinian Solidarity Committee. The university’s vice provost had “concerns regarding [Sinno’s] judgment,” and noted his “threatening behavior toward a colleague.” and bias reports filed against him. Sinno eventually gave a speech at an “alternative” graduation for Palestinian students. Georgetown University, long a breeding ground for U.S. diplomats, was the third-highest recipient of Middle East FLAS grants. The director of its Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service is Fida Adely, who sits on the national advisory board of the Faculty for Justice in Palestine, the sister group of Students for Justice in Palestine, which has been banned from some campuses for supporting terrorism and promoting anti-Semitism. “FJP’s ‘Back to School 2024’ statement criticizes ‘mechanisms for suppressing speech, criminalizing protest and weaponizing fragility.’ They say Israel’s war against Hamas exposes ‘the depths of settler colonial depravity,’” OpenTheBooks said. FJP collaborates with Birzeit University, a radical university in the West Bank where the student council is dominated by Hamas supporters. And Adely argued that a “dialogue” about Israel is not enough, and a boycott is necessary, not a “fantasy of ‘coexistence.’” Georgetown has received more than $1 billion from foreign countries, a Daily Wire review of federal records showed, including more than $800 million from Qatar, where Hamas leadership operates. The university has also received $30 million from Saudi Arabia, in part to fund the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. The Foreign Service department, which has a program named after Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, employs professor Jonathan A.C. Brown, who has defended slavery because it is authorized in the Quran, and is married to the daughter of a man who was deported for funding the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In 2019, the Department of Education wrote to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to say that the money it received under the NRC program was not being used for its intended purpose. “Federal funding is conditioned on a demonstration that a given center or program is a ‘national resource’ for teaching of any modem foreign language [and] for instruction in fields needed to provide full understanding of areas, regions, or countries in which such language is commonly used,” it said. “It is unlawful for institutions of higher education to use Title VI funds differently.” The Department found “very little serious instruction preparing individuals to understand the geopolitical challenges to U.S. national security and economic needs but quite a considerable emphasis on advancing ideological priorities.” Instead of teaching actual language skills, the university was offering low-effort programming film criticism in the Middle East or about “Love and Desire in Modern Iran,” and left-wing ideology like “gender-bending and subversion on the early modern Ottoman Intellectual History.” “While the Duke-UNC CMES may certainly offer programs in Iranian art and film, these programs should not be funded or subsidized in any way by American taxpayers under Title VI unless you are able to clearly demonstrate that such programs are secondary to more rigorous coursework helping American students to become fluent Farsi speakers and to prepare for work in areas of national need,” it said. The UNC program “appears to lack balance as it offers very few, if any, programs focused on the historic discrimination faced by, and current circumstances of, religious minorities in the Middle East, including Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Yadizis [sic], Kurds, Druze, and others.”  It was also training aspiring teachers to teach students about “the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.” Related: Virginia School System Sold China A Handbook On ‘How To Clone’ America’s Top STEM School

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign is facing renewed criticism following allegations of plagiarism in her 2009 book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer. Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, working with Austrian academic Stefan Weber, uncovered several passages that bear strong similarities to other sources. These accusations have ignited debate among political observers, with media outlets both defending and scrutinizing the vice president. The accusations surfaced when Rufo shared side-by-side comparisons of Harris's writing and prior sources, highlighting five instances where sections from her book closely mirrored language from sources like Wikipedia, the Associated Press, and various reports from criminal justice institutions. These allegations claim that Harris's book, co-written with Joan O'C. Hamilton, took content from articles and government reports without proper attribution. In some cases, citations were provided in footnotes but lacked the necessary quotation marks that would typically indicate verbatim excerpts. In other cases, no attribution was made at all. #ComradeKamala is a Plagiarist. Her Book is going to bomb. Why?? Who is Guiding her?? She keeps shooting herself in the foot. Both feet. pic.twitter.com/KH9jqDYSrf — NotYourBankersHome (@Legalator) October 14, 2024 Stefan Weber, known as a "plagiarism hunter," issued a report that detailed more examples of alleged copying. One instance involved the Goodwill Industries program, where Harris allegedly copied promotional content without proper citation. Another section involved details about a Subway store, which Harris reportedly altered to reference a sandwich shop clerk to better fit the context of her narrative. These findings raise questions about the transparency of the writing process for her book. Responding to the allegations, Harris's campaign spokesman, James Singer, dismissed the claims, stating, “This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the vice president clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.” The campaign emphasized that none of the contested passages involved the theft of another writer's original ideas but rather factual information and descriptions. Despite the defense, the controversy continues to swirl, as critics argue that proper academic standards were not followed. While Kamala Harris is throwing the race card and white shaming, Taiwan and China are close to war, and Israel and Iran are at war. They are evacuating the embassy in Beruit, Lebanon right now. Harris is a POS. I said what I said. Source: US Embassy .gov pic.twitter.com/zxZy2pSWqU — The Constitutionalist (@WeWillBeFree24) October 14, 2024 The allegations have sparked outrage on social media, with many users drawing comparisons to past political scandals involving plagiarism. President Joe Biden, for example, faced similar accusations during his 1987 presidential campaign when he used passages from British politician Neil Kinnock without proper attribution. Many conservative voices have highlighted this historical parallel, with some suggesting that the issue reflects a deeper problem of intellectual dishonesty within the Democratic Party. Criticism of Harris from the right has been fierce. One Twitter user wrote, “Of course she is a plagiarist! She’s a Marxist Commie and has never had her own original thought,” while others echoed the sentiment, calling into question her authenticity as a politician. These claims have fueled a wider narrative that portrays Harris as unoriginal and untrustworthy, a theme that has been recurrent in conservative critiques of her political career. However, some media outlets have offered a more tempered view of the scandal. According to The New York Times, while Harris may have failed to properly attribute some information, the plagiarized passages do not rise to the level of the most serious offenses, which would involve the appropriation of someone else’s ideas or thoughts. The paper also noted that politicians have weathered similar storms in the past, and Harris’s plagiarism scandal, while embarrassing, might not have a lasting impact on her political career. Despite these defenses, the timing of the allegations—just weeks before the 2024 presidential election—could be damaging. Harris has been on a media blitz, trying to shore up support as she prepares for what could be a tough battle in a divided political landscape. Whether this controversy will have lasting effects on her campaign remains to be seen, but it is clear that the issue has given her political opponents new ammunition to use against her. The post Harris Campaign Denies Plagiarism Allegations Despite Media Scrutiny appeared first on The Conservative Brief.

We sometimes wonder if there is anything Prince William can’t do. The heir to the English throne is an excellent husband and father, a seemingly genuine and kind person, and apparently a pretty good athlete. People reported that the Prince of Wales attended an engagement with the NFL Foundation UK on October 15 and impressed everyone there. It Seems Prince William’s Got A Pretty Good Arm If he didn’t have to be bogged down with royal duties, some think William could have a football career. (Photo by Kin Cheung – WPA Pool / Getty Images) Former Welsh rugby player Louis Rees-Zammit told People William impressed him. “It was great. It was a lot better than mine,” he said of the prince’s throw. Rees-Zammit added, “Thankfully in my position, I just have to run and catch. He could definitely be a quarterback one day!” It’s no secret William loves sports and encourages his children George, 11, Charlotte, 9, and Louis, 6, to play. Phoebe Schecter, GB Women’s Flag Football, told People William’s teaching his kids something new. (Photo by Kin Cheung – WPA Pool / Getty Images) “He’s going to try and teach his kids now,” she said. “We got him an American football to bring home. And we talked a lot about multi-sports and how good that is. He was a multi-sport athlete growing up, but said he wasn’t very good.” Schecter said young People love William and did a great job interacting with them. (Photo by Kin Cheung – WPA Pool / Getty Images) “When we surprised them and said he was coming, they were in shock, in disbelief,” she said. “I wish I’d had a camera. And then, when he engaged with them, he threw some footballs with the young girls. He was terrific with them. High fives all around, great energy, and on the field they were in complete shock he was playing the sport with them. One little boy came to hand him the ball and just stared at him in admiration!” This story’s featured image is by Kin Cheung – WPA Pool / Getty Images. The post NFL Player Is Thoroughly Impressed By Prince Williams Throwing Arm appeared first on InspireMore.

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