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Governor signs bill banning legacy admissions at public colleges
By Brandon Poulter
Daily Caller News Foundation
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill Friday banning legacy admissions at public colleges in the state.
Several states have moved to eliminate legacy admissions, which are admissions based on prior familial attendance to a school, after the fall of race-based admissions at the Supreme Court in June 2023. The bill passed the Virginia Senate with bipartisan support, 39-0, and passed the state’s House of Delegates 99-0, and has now been signed by Youngkin.
“Governor Youngkin has consistently advocated for merit-based admissions to Virginia’s colleges and universities. In Virginia, students can be encouraged to know their hard work and academic career will be recognized on its merit,” a spokesperson for Youngkin told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“No public institution of higher education shall provide any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student’s legacy status or such student’s familial relationship to any donor to such institution,” the bill reads.
“It’s about fairness. It’s about higher ed being available to everybody,” Virginia Democratic state Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg, the bill’s sponsor, said in an interview before the Senate vote, according to The Associated Press.
The Connecticut legislature’s education committee said it plans to look into legacy admissions during this upcoming legislative session, according to the Connecticut Mirror. Federal legislation was also introduced in November to eliminate legacy admissions in Congress by Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young and Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.
Nearly 56% of the top 250 colleges and universities in the U.S. used legacy admissions in the enrollment process.
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CNN Pundit Kara Swisher: Biden Should Denounce Trump as ‘Rapist, Racist, Fascist’
Former Fox host Chris Wallace came over to CNN to be a major pillar of CNN-Plus. Oops. Now he hosts a weekend show with panels that are almost all liberal. A token Trump-distancing conservative is allowed. On Saturday, for example, they discussed CNN’s daily obsession: How can Trump be defeated in November?
Wallace touted the latest liberal talking point “gaining currency among pundits, ‘Trump amnesia,’ the idea that a lot of people just forget all the things that happened in his four years in office.” Sarah Longwell, publisher of the liberal anti-Trump website The Bulwark, suggested Trump isn’t very visible right now. (He’s doing more interviews than Biden!)
Then ,as our Brent Baker plucked out, regular Wallace panelist Kara Swisher, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, dropped her snark bomb:
Advice from @karaswisher on CNN’s Chris Wallace Show: “Biden has to get in there very hard and go ‘rapist, racist, fascist’ over and over and over again.” pic.twitter.com/hrPeKsaApr
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) March 9, 2024
SWISHER: In that regard, if he’s [Trump’s] going to be shameless, which is his greatest asset, the shamelessness of him, then Biden has to get in there very hard and go “rapist, racist, fascist,” over and over and over again. And then the trials are happening at the same time. He’s just had to pay — he’s just $93 million poorer right now, and just hammer it in with those three things — “rapist, racist, fascist.”
The lone conservative in the room, John McCormack of the anti-Trump website The Dispatch, replied: “But here’s the thing. Voters haven’t forgotten what the economy was like in 2019. They remember it. And I don’t think presidents deserve credit. They get blame or credit for what happens on their watch. And voters aren’t thinking, oh, well inflation is cooling. They are comparing the numbers today to the numbers four or five years ago.”
McCormack was the odd man out when Wallace’s panel graded Biden’s State of the Union speech for style points at the top.
Kara Swisher: “A nine because I think he did what he was supposed to do. The GOP had set the bar at corpse, and therefore, he looked fantastic.” (Naturally, Swisher gave Katie Britt ” Less than zero. It was as if someone put into ChatGPT Stepford wife meets weird kitchen meets someone who failed at getting the lead in a high school play.”)
Sarah Longwell: “So on style, I’m going to go with nine as well, but again, it’s because of the low expectations.”
Former NPR news anchor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, now at The New York Times: “I would do a solid eight for style. I thought he seemed forceful. He seemed energized.”
McCormack broke the mold: “I’d only give him a five on style because I wasn’t that impressed that he spoke quickly and loudly. I think someone pointed out that there were zero exclamation points in last year’s address. There were 80 in this year’s address….Actual script had 80 exclamation points this year. And on substance, as a conservative, I’d give them a three.”
This MSNBC Anchor Wants To Be Like Biden When She’s His Age!
We’ve been ready to crown Joe Scarborough the King of Biden Sycophants on MSNBC.
But not so fast! Looks like Alicia Menendez is determined to give Scarborough some serious competition for that dubious title.
On Saturday’s The Weekend, the MSNBC show she co-anchors, Menendez actually expressed the hope to be like Biden when she’s his age! Although, as you’ll see, she cut a decade off Biden’s age.
After the show aired a clip of a Biden campaign ad in which he bragged about his supposed accomplishments [though nothing about the two issues Americans care most about: immigration and crime], Menendez said:
“So as someone who experiences a ton of existential dread, I hope that I am this prolific in my 70s and getting this much done. It gives me some sense of calm.”
Wanting to be like Biden when she’s his age? That is some serious sycophancy! Scarborough will have to up his game if he wants to secure his standing as the network’s premiere Biden bootlicker!
Menendez’s statement was also personally revealing. She “experiences a ton of existential dread?” And seeing Biden in action gives her “some sense of calm?” Could the legal travails of her father, Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ], be the source of some of Alicia’s anxiety?
Sarah Longwell, publisher of the Never Trump website The Bulwark, was a guest on the show. And whereas Longwell is devoted to depriving Trump of another presidential term, she did speak a truth uncomfortable to the all-liberal panel when asked to compare Trump and Biden on the issues of age and mental acuity. She moderates focus groups of voters:
“Look, whether it is fair or not, voters don’t question Trump’s mental acuity. They question his sanity. They question whether or not he’s fit to be Commander-in-Chief from a moral and ethical standpoint. But Trump, because he has sort of big, lunatic energy, he just doesn’t come off the same way that Biden does. And so, the concerns for voters around age really do rest with Joe Biden . . . It is not because the media talks about his age that voters think that Joe Biden is old. They think it because when they see Joe Biden, they think he seems old. ”
Longwell offered what’s become the standard advice Biden supporters are giving: don’t run from the age issue–embrace it! With age comes wisdom!
And remember: Biden is smart–very smart! After all, he graduated in the top half of his law school class, and has three undergraduate degrees! Oh, wait.
Here’s the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
3/9/24
8:07 am ET
ALICIA MENENDEZ: So, to your point, about the president going on offense, showing he’s a fighter, there is a brand new ad out from the Biden campaign this morning. And in part what it goes after is this idea that the president’s age is a liability and not and asset. Take a look. Listen.
JOE BIDEN: Look, I’m not a young guy. That’s no secret. But here’s the deal. I understand how to get things done for the American people. I led the country through the Covid crisis. Today, we have the strongest economy in the world. I passed the law that lowers prescription drug prices. Caps insulin at $35 a month for seniors. For four years, Donald Trump tried to pass an infrastructure law, and he failed. I got it done. Now we’re rebuilding America. I passed the biggest law in history to combat climate change, because our future depends on it. Donald Trump took away the freedom of women to choose. I’m determined to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again.
MENENDEZ: So as someone who experiences a ton of existential dread, Eugene, Sarah, I hope that I am this prolific in my 70s and getting this much done. It gives me some sense of calm.
And there are two things, to me, that the Biden campaign is doing though. One, they’re saying, we’re not going run away from his age. You want to talk about his age, let’s talk about the number of things that he’s been able to accomplish. And secondarily, the comparison to Trump, right?
And I wonder, Sarah, in your focus groups, how those two issues or bearing out, both the question of the acuity of both of these candidates, and the comparison points between the two them.
SARAH LONGWELL: Well look, whether it is fair or not, voters don’t question Trump’s mental acuity. They question his sanity. They question whether or not he’s fit to be Commander-in-Chief from a moral and ethical standpoint.
But Trump, because he has sort of big lunatic energy, he just doesn’t come off the same way that Biden does. And so, the concerns for voters around age really do rest with Joe Biden.
But this is super smart of the Biden campaign. And something, if you do listen to my podcast, we’ve sort of been begging them to do for a while, which is to not run away from the age thing. It is not because the media talks about his age that voters think that Joe Biden is old. They think it because when they see Joe Biden, they think he seems old.
And so, the opportunity is, you have to just hang a lantern on it. You have to say, yeah, this is experience. You have to say, I am Yoda. I am the wise protector. He is — whoever the old other bad guy is in the Star Wars movies. You have to make it a moral contrast.
MICHAEL STEELE: That would be Darth Vader.
LONGWELL: [As panelists laugh and talk over each other] I think it’s not Darth Vader, there ‘s like an old — but anyway, the contrast has to be, it has to be good old, and then there’s bad old, right? And so, I think that Joe Biden going on offense, you know, going out and saying, yeah, I’m old, and that brings wisdom and that helps me understand what the country needs, and I want to leave this country in a better place because I love it. That is the right way to handle this age question, not to ignore it.
SYMONE SANDERS-TOWNSEND: Apologies to all of the Star Wars fans out there who are watching. We will get it right.
‘Fox News Sunday’ on March 10, 2024
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Britt Busted For Misleading Sex-Trafficking Story In Bizarre SOTU Response
Britt Busted For Misleading Sex-Trafficking Story In Bizarre SOTU Response
Already the subject of bipartisan ridicule for the jaw-droppingly strange persona she displayed in her Republican response to the State of the Union address, Alabama Sen. Katie Britt is now taking more serious fire — for having deceptively framed a 16-year-old anecdote about sex trafficking to mislead the audience about when and where the crime happened and how she learned about it.
Observers of all political stripes winced as soon as first-termer Britt started speaking, sounding every bit like she was delivering an absurdly melodramatic audition for a B-movie part. This video nicely captures the difference between Normal Britt and Thursday night’s godawful Middle-School-Theater Britt:
Listen to the difference between Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s natural voice and her speech voice. Britt delivered the Republican Party response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last night. pic.twitter.com/uUN89QX774
— AL.com (@aldotcom) March 8, 2024
Katie Britt if there was an award for the fakest voice pic.twitter.com/MtZr7MNKRE
— Harvey Updyke (@Harveyrolltide) March 8, 2024
As she proceeded through her bizarre delivery, Britt eventually came to the subject of border security. Within that passage, she shared an anecdote about a victim of sex trafficking, and did so in a way that misled the audience in three dimensions, making it sound like:
- Britt happened to encounter a woman who shared her story in a one-on-one conversation
- The sex trafficking happened recently — and during Biden’s term
- The sex trafficking occurred in the United States
None of that is true.
Here’s what Britt said:
When I took office [in 2023], I took a different approach. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas. That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped.The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoebox of a room, and they sent men through that door over and over again for hours and hours on end.
We wouldn’t be ok with this happening in a third world country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.
On Friday, independent journalist Jonathan Katz posted a video in which he revealed that the unnamed woman Britt described is a Mexican citizen and prominent public advocate against human trafficking named Karla Jacinto Romero who testified before Congress in 2015.
Britt’s framing — “I spoke to a woman” in the Del Rio sector “who shared her story with me” — made it sound like she came across a little-known person, living in America, who decided to open up to Britt in an intimate conversation. In fact, Britt heard Romero’s account when Britt, Romero, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn participated in a public, roundtable discussion.
At the event, 31-year-old Romero gave her frequently-shared and reported account of having been sex-trafficked between the ages of 12 and 16 — in other words, way back during the George W. Bush administration.
Beyond serving as an indicator of how long ago Romero’s abuse occurred, the question of who was US president at the time is utterly irrelevant, because Romero wasn’t even trafficked in the United States or anywhere near it. It all took place inside Mexico and, from reporting on her story, it appears most or all of her forced-prostitution happened in the vicinity of Mexico City — nearly 1,000 miles from the American border.
In her speech, Britt melodramatically proclaimed, “We wouldn’t be ok with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America.” And now we find the whole thing did happen in a Third World country.
Romero doesn’t even live in the United States, making Britt’s emphasis on having spoken with her near Del Rio, Texas all the more misleading. Interviewed from Mexico by the New York Times, Romero said when she learned about Britt using her story in the speech, “I thought it was very strange.”
There are enough real horror stories associated with America’s open border to make the case for better security. Britt’s decision to mislead her audience with an anecdote about sex trafficking that happened some 16 years ago far outside America is as baffling as her choice of persona for her first big moment in the spotlight.
“I was horrified by her performance.” Megyn Kelly totally destroys Katie Britt, and it’s brutal. (Video: SiriusXM) pic.twitter.com/ojL2rkcuJG
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 9, 2024
Tyler Durden
Sun, 03/10/2024 – 14:35
Caitlin Clark recovers after rough first half, leads Iowa to Big Ten championship in thrilling OT win over Nebraska
It would not inspire sonnets. It would not be framed in the Louvre. But Caitlin Clark completed one of her greatest days at Iowa.