Lars Maischak, the Fresno State history professor suspended earlier this year for his threatening tweet about Donald Trump, defended his actions in a <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/24/cal-state-lecturer-tweets-trump-must-hang-215620">Politico</a> interview published on Sunday.
In early February, Maischak tweeted, &#8220;To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better. #TheResistance #DeathToFascism.&#8221;
The tweet did not make national headlines, however, until conservative news outlets, including the Daily Caller, exposed it in early April.
In the Politico interview, Maischak defended himself, saying he &#8220;regrets nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;He told me that he regrets nothing, insisting that his comments were taken out of context by a right-wing media intent on creating a scandal,&#8221; the reporter wrote.
Although Maischak believes that Trump is a fascist, he contended that his tweets were not demands for Trump&#8217;s execution. Rather, he was simply pointing out the fact that fascists from the past, such as Mussolini and Tojo, have been executed by their political adversaries.
While the supposed evidence is thin, Maischak believes that conservative donors such as Michael Der Manouel, also a Fresno State alumnus and local talk radio contributor, pressured the school to suspend him.
The historian maintains that his suspension is an attack on academic freedom.
&#8220;It is my job to offend, not out of habit or attitude, but because I need to describe things as accurately as possible, especially when it comes to people in power,&#8221; Maischak said, apparently believing his assertion that Trump must be executed is &#8220;accurate.&#8221;
After news of his tweet broke, a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fresno-professor-trump-tweet-20170413-story.html">petition</a> circulated that called for Maischak&#8217;s removal. &#8220;While Maischak is certainly entitled to his opinion, he should not be in a position of power and authority over impressionable young minds while inciting violence against the president and those who support him,&#8221; the petition said.
The administration has currently moved Maischak to a non-teaching role this fall and his contract ends after the spring of 2018. Whether it will be renewed or not remains unknown for now. Maischak stated, however, that if it is not renewed, that he will consider suing the university.

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On <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/350436-mccarthy-blasts-gutierrez-over-attack-on-kelly">Wednesday</a>, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called on Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) to issue an apology for his &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; comments made toward White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly last week.
&#8220;General Kelly has served his country in the Marines and he is serving his country again in this administration. He is truly an American patriot,&#8221; McCarthy said.
&#8220;What is disgraceful is to attack the character of such an honorable man who has dedicated his life to serving this country and whose family gave the ultimate sacrifice,&#8221; he continued.
In 2010, General Kelly&#8217;s son, First Lieutenant Robert Kelly, was killed in action in Afghanistan. He is the highest-ranking military officer to lose a child in battle.
Gutierrez has been exchanging words with Kelly this week over Trump&#8217;s decision to wind down President Obama&#8217;s executive order DACA, which deferred deportation for almost 800,000 people brought to the United States illegally as children.
A <a href="https://gutierrez.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/guti-rrez-daca-announcement-implications-approps-fights">press release</a> sent out by Gutierrez&#8217;s office last week described General Kelly as &#8220;a hypocrite who is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear. He has no honor and should be drummed out of the White House along with the white supremacists and those enabling the President&#8217;s actions by &#8216;just following orders.'&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s a politician, okay, not a general. I don&#8217;t see a uniform. He&#8217;s a politician who works for Donald Trump,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/12/luis-gutierrez-doubles-down-calls-john-kelly-mean-for-supporting-dacas-demise/?utm_term=.35ad11d909c3">Gutierrez</a> said at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute event on Tuesday.
Kelly responded in an <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20905/wh-chief-staff-gen-john-kelly-hits-back-after-frank-camp">email</a> with Fox News: &#8220;As far as the congressman and other irresponsible members of congress are concerned, they have the luxury of saying what they want as they do nothing and have almost no responsibility.&#8221;
In the email, Kelly explained his efforts as Chief of Staff and formerly as Secretary of Homeland Security in getting Congress to find a legislative solution for DACA since the beginning of the Trump administration.
&#8220;I begged and pleaded with them. They did exactly nothing,&#8221; he said.
Kelly added that the blame for DACA&#8217;s end should rest on the illegality of Obama&#8217;s executive order rather than singularly on Trump&#8217;s decision.
&#8220;Every DOJ and DHS lawyer says DACA is unconstitutional. Every other legal scholar &#8212; right and left &#8212; says the same thing. Trump didn&#8217;t end DACA, the law did. That said, I worked and succeeded to give the Congress another six months to do something,&#8221; Kelly said.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended Kelly, saying that Gutierrez should &#8220;sit down with a Republican in the House and try to find a solution instead of slandering General Kelly.&#8221;

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On the day the country mourned the anniversary of 9/11, a banner condemning the War on Terror was draped over Valentine Hall at <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9740">Amherst College</a> in Massachusetts. The banner includes a quote by radical historian Howard Zinn: &#8220;There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.&#8221;
Below the Zinn quote is the statement: &#8220;In honor of those killed and displaced by America&#8217;s so-called &#8216;war on terror.'&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11">@charliekirk11</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/campusreform">@campusreform</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyDillon">@KassyDillon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NeilWMcCabe">@NeilWMcCabe</a> This was hanging above dining hall at leftist <a href="https://twitter.com/AmherstCollege">@AmherstCollege</a> today. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/911Anniversary?src=hash">#911Anniversary</a> <a href="https://t.co/BKoNnPa8rj">pic.twitter.com/BKoNnPa8rj</a>
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The identities of those who draped it are unknown but it since has been removed.
The Amherst College Republicans in response displayed the American flag along with a sign that read &#8220;Never Forget&#8221; in the same hall.
This occurred just a week after the Amherst College Republicans held their first meeting of the year, at which their windows were greeted with flyers declaring, &#8220;THIS IS OUR CAMPUS, NOT THE KLAN&#8217;S.&#8221;
In a lengthy message regarding the incident on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmherstRepublicans/posts/1795970953776598">Facebook page</a>, the group replied, &#8220;ACR condemns white supremacy, the KKK &amp; related groups, etc. and we hope the Amherst community at large will not fall into making broad &amp; grave generalizations about those who fall on the right of the political spectrum.&#8221;
A rope appearing to have been tied into a noose was also found on campus. The incident is currently under investigation.
Republican students are not unaccustomed to receiving race-baiting and racist backlash from their leftist peers. Most recently, after the College Republicans at San Diego State University <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sdsucollegerepublicans/posts/1809954775983565">called</a> for the campus Muslim Student Association to disavow the attacks in Barcelona last month, and after the MSA refused, the College Republicans were accused of bigotry. On their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TASO.SDSU/posts/1108808892552344">Facebook page</a>, the Transfronterizo Alliance Student Organization, which describes themselves as working towards an &#8220;inclusive campus environment for SDSU students who live a transborder lifestyle,&#8221; wrote:
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We demand a safe and inclusive campus environment for all San Diego State University students and will not tolerate further racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic letters by the San Diego State College Republicans toward any other student group or campus community.
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Leftist students will continue to conflate conservatism with racism. They will also routinely ignore whenever conservative students publicly <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/head-of-uva-college-republicans-condemns-nazis-kkk_us_5991d4bfe4b063e2ae0581a0">speak out</a> against the very same malevolence of which that they are unfairly accused.
H/T <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9740">Campus Reform</a>

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The always insufferable Michael Moore returns once more. After hospital and body camera <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20519/watch-crazy-police-manhandle-arrest-utah-nurse-ben-shapiro">footage</a> surfaced Friday of the arrest of Alex Wubbels, a University of Utah nurse who refused Detective Jeff Payne&#8217;s demands to draw blood from an unconscious patient, Moore took to Twitter to illuminate the country once again.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s what it looks like now in Trump&#8217;s America,&#8221; Moore tweeted, predictably. &#8220;The authoritarian police state he so loves is now everywhere. Please watch this video.&#8221;
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Here&#8217;s what it looks like now in Trump&#8217;s America. The authoritarian police state he so loves is now everywhere. Please watch this video. <a href="https://t.co/9VJWKDFaMV">https://t.co/9VJWKDFaMV</a>
&#8212; Michael Moore (@MMFlint) <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/903682430988681216">September 1, 2017</a></blockquote>
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In the video, Wubbels explains to the detective hospital protocols for collecting blood samples and at one instance even has her supervisor on speaker phone.
&#8220;You&#8217;re making a huge mistake because you&#8217;re threatening a nurse,&#8221; the supervisor says.
Payne then grabs ahold of Wubbels, pushes her against a wall and cuffs her.
&#8220;Help! Help me! Stop! You&#8217;re assaulting me! Stop! I&#8217;ve done nothing wrong!&#8221; she screams.
The Salt Lake City Police Department has placed Payne and another employee on administrative leave while a criminal investigation is underway. In a <a href="http://www.slcmayor.com/pressreleases/2017/9/1/statements-from-mayor-jackie-biskupski-and-salt-lake-city-police-department-chief-mike-brown-on-incident-at-university-of-utah-medical-center">joint statement</a> released last Friday with Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake City Police Department Chief Mike Brown said &#8220;I was alarmed by what I saw in the video with our officer and Ms. (Wubbels). I am sad at the rift this has caused between law enforcement and the nurses we work so closely with.&#8221;
Mayor Biskupski added, &#8220;No medical professional in Salt Lake City should be hindered from performing their duties, and certainly not be fearful of the police officers they so often partner with to save lives.&#8221;
In other words, law and order won the day. For some mysterious reason, however, Moore failed to issue a tweet citing that as a defining feature of &#8220;Trump&#8217;s America.&#8221;
In the same week, Moore told <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40459122/michael-moore-says-trump-is-on-track-to-win-again-in-2020">Fast Company</a> that he predicts Trump will be elected in 2020, and earlier last month, he joined other <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19798/watch-olivia-wilde-michael-moore-mark-ruffalo-lead-amanda-prestigiacomo">Hollywood</a> sages including Olivia Wilde, Zoe Kazan, and Mark Ruffalo in New York City to clamor together about white supremacy shortly after the attacks in Charlottesville. A month after Trump&#8217;s victory, Moore <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/11988/michael-moore-lays-out-his-5-step-resistance-plan-ben-shapiro">outlined</a> his five steps of &#8220;resistance&#8221; on Facebook.
The filmmaker has also taken his indignation to the stage with his one-man show, &#8220;The Terms of My Surrender,&#8221; which you can read all about in a beautifully scathing review by none other than The New York Times right <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/theater/review-michael-moore-bragging-on-broadway-in-the-terms-of-my-surrender.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;_r=0">here</a>.

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On Wednesday night, Daily Show host Trevor Noah proposed a solution to the Confederate statues dilemma. Instead of removing the statues altogether, he said, the U.S should add a statue of LeBron James dunking on the heads of Confederate soldiers.
After showing a montage of clips, from a man referring to Martin Luther King Jr. as &#8220;Martin Luther Coon,&#8221; to a CNN interview with Stonewall Jackson descendent Warren Christian, Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. said that arguing to keep the statues in order to remember the past is &#8220;like if a woman got out of an abusive relationship and then she had to keep pictures of her ex up in her house to remember the time.&#8221;
&#8220;Like no, I don&#8217;t need pictures to remember pain,&#8221; he said.
Trevor replied, &#8220;People say we want to remember the Civil War. I always think that there is an easier way to remember what happened in the Civil War. Just walk around in the South and if you see free black people, then you know what happened in the Civil War.&#8221;
Noah and Wood Jr. then attempted to deflate arguments that removing Confederate statues will lead to removing statues of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson (which is already being proposed) to which Wood Jr. answered, &#8220;It&#8217;s not the same, man. First of all, Washington and Jefferson are known for a lot of reasons, you only know Robert E. Lee because he fought to keep slavery.&#8221;
Wood Jr. said that removing the statues are unnecessary to fix the problem and instead the country should just follow the lead of Charlottesville and throw a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/us/charlottesville-monument-cover-fabric-trnd/index.html">black tarp</a> over them.
Noah disagreed. &#8220;Instead of hiding statues or tearing them down, maybe we should add something to them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Like a representation of black people&#8217;s contribution to history.&#8221;
Before Noah gave his LeBron idea, Wood Jr. said that a statue of Frederick Douglass piggybacking Robert E. Lee should be added.
&#8220;Just to remind them who lost the war,&#8221; Noah said.
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Previously, in an interview on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDQFTb1CWqM">ABC&#8217;s</a> The View, Noah made the case that &#8220;racism should be treated like a disease.&#8221; In a CBS This Morning interview, Noah said that the voters who supported Trump put whiteness and sexism &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daily-show-trevor-noah-on-donald-trump-victory-2016-election-born-a-crime/">above everything else</a>.&#8221;
Since Charlottesville, cities all over the country have called for the removal of Confederate statues. Over <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html?mcubz=3&amp;_r=0">20 cities</a> have already done so. Most recently, statues of <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/348576-statue-of-christopher-columbus-found-beheaded-in-new-york">Christopher Columbus </a>and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/17/abraham-lincoln-monument-torched-in-chicago-an-abs/">Abraham Lincoln</a> have been vandalized. Figures on the Left, including Al Sharpton, have even called for the removal of any statue of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4XKIX1bs4">Thomas Jefferson</a>. Political commentator <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhVkMS9Owo">Angela Rye</a> has also called for the removal of Jefferson and Washington statues.
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