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The case of Kyle Kashuv illustrates Harvard’s intellectual rot (Washington Examiner)
Something is rotten in the state of Massachusetts.
In the once-hallowed halls of Harvard University, there is now supplication to authoritarian China, adulation for leaders unwilling to defend the international order, and capricious disregard for equal justice.
I refer, in that last point, to Harvard’s decision to withdraw its offer of a place in its 2023 class to Kyle Kashuv. A survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, Kashuv is well known for his Second Amendment advocacy. But as Kashuv noted on Twitter on Monday, Harvard’s Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons recently withdrew the university’s offer on the basis of messages he sent at the age of 16, before undergoing the trauma of the Parkland shooting. Dean Fitzsimmons says that the messages show an absence of “maturity and moral character.” Asked to explain these comments, Kashuv wrote an eloquent apology letter, but it wasn’t enough. [Read More]
O.J. Simpson creates Twitter account, says he has “a little gettin’ even to do” (CBS News)
O.J. Simpson has already racked up 650,000 Twitter followers after setting up his account last week. His first post came just one day after the world marked the 25th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In the early hours of June 13, 1994, Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend were found stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home, and Simpson was about to become embroiled in one of the most talked-about murder cases in history. All these years later, he’s still being talked about. [Read More]
Tom Homan says he initially declined border czar role, wasn’t ‘structured right’ (FOX News)
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tom Homan indicated on Saturday that President Trump’s Friday announcement was “kind of premature” and that while he was open to working with President Trump’s administration, he initially declined to take the “border czar” role because it wasn’t “structured” properly.
“I think yesterday’s announcement — I think the White House has made it clear that it was kind of premature,’ he said while appearing on “Cavuto Live” on Saturday. [Read More]
Supreme Court avoids lesbian wedding cake dispute, sending case to lower court (CBS News)
The Supreme Court is throwing out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The justices’ action Monday keeps the high-profile case off the court’s election-year calendar and orders state judges to take a new look at the dispute between the lesbian couple and the owners of a now-closed bakery in the Portland area. [Read More]
Pete Buttigieg says it’s “almost certain” we’ve had gay presidents (Axios)
Pete Buttigieg told “Axios on HBO” that “we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones.”
Why it matters: Buttigieg, who is rising in polls and would be the first openly gay nominee of either party, talks easily about his sexual orientation when asked. This comment is a new window into his thinking. [Read More]
