Retired Army General Mark Milley — who most recently served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — has accepted teaching positions at two prestigious universities.
According to a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/13/retired-mark-milley-georgetown-princeton-faculties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Axios, Milley will be instructing students at both Princeton University — his own alma mater — and Georgetown University in subjects relating to national security.
Milley attended Princeton, where he graduated in 1980 and received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. His return to the school will see him acting as a Charles and Marie Robertson visiting professor through the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).
According to a statement from Princeton University, Milley &#8220;will serve as a guest lecturer, meet with students, engage with alumni and faculty, and provide input on the School&#8217;s Security Studies Ph.D. program.&#8221;
Dean Amaney Jamal praised the decision, saying that Milley&#8217;s &#8220;experience in the nation&#8217;s capital as well as abroad in conflict zones&#8221; would provide excellent context for his students in the coming year. His appointment at Princeton is set to expire in June of 2025.
Milley&#8217;s tenure as Joint Chiefs Chair was marked by a number of high-profile clashes with former President Donald Trump, his involvement in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disastrous withdrawal</a> from Afghanistan in 2021, and several contentious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Hill hearings</a> regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the military.
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&#8220;I’ve read Mao Tse-Tung; I’ve read Karl Marx; I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?&#8221; Milley said during a 2021 hearing.
&#8220;And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers, of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there.&#8221;

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Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, commonly known as Dr. Phil, slammed woke elite universities for not standing up to extremist student organizations that celebrated Hamas&#8217; terrorist attacks on Israel two weeks ago.
McGraw published a video on X speaking out about the October 7 attacks, which was the bloodiest day for Israel over 75 years.
&#8220;The Hamas invaders were not soldiers. They were assassins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Hamas charter calls for the ultimate annihilation of all Israeli Jews, followed by the annihilation of Jews around the world. Sound familiar? Sadly, some people, including some right here in America actually celebrated the slaughter and blame those being murdered, raped and kidnapped.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of America&#8217;s most respected elite universities are not only indulging but actually endorsing sanctioned student organizations holding celebrations for the murders,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, UCLA, and Stanford are high profile examples that should raise concern if not outrage.&#8221;
McGraw said that the reactions of the student groups revealed a &#8220;disturbing degree of ivy-covered intellectual rot&#8221; at America&#8217;s alleged top schools.
&#8220;Americans nationwide have been appalled and shocked,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The leadership of these supposedly highly sophisticated schools are so busy virtue signaling and coddling students who think that words are violence, but violence, horrific, inhumane violence is social justice, that they have forgotten it is their job to teach their students to think and to test reality. Instead of training tomorrow&#8217;s leaders, they are profoundly demagnetizing our culture&#8217;s moral compass among the college population.&#8221;
McGraw that while he was no expert in geopolitics, it only takes basic common sense to recognize Hamas&#8217; attacks as &#8220;utterly sick, twisted, disgusting, and inexcusable.&#8221;
&#8220;You cannot negotiate with people whose only acceptable outcome is to murder you and your entire race,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Seriously, have some of these people gotten together and collectively lost their minds? We know right from wrong, and we must stand up for what we believe and know is right. We must call out these institutions. How is any of this acceptable to anyone? How is it not recognized as incredibly racist? How do elite educators not recognize this is a huge teachable moment in the student&#8217;s journey?&#8221;
&#8220;The heads of the schools need to simply say on this campus, we don&#8217;t celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, baby killing, and murdering,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;What they are doing instead is distancing themselves in hopes it blows over. Israel is our friend and ally. They don&#8217;t need us to just be their friend in good times. They need us to be their friend in bad times, to be their friend when it is easier not to be. Good friends are the ones coming in the door when everyone else is going out. This is a really great time to show Israel and the world who we are.&#8221;
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Daily Wire Host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> appeared at Georgetown University in the opening lecture of a new college tour sponsored by YAF on Tuesday night.
During his lecture, Knowles posed the question: “Is Biden More Evil Than Putin Or Xi?”
Knowles drew parallels between the state-controlled media in Russia and China and the Biden administration’s unprecedented censorship of Americans, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the throttling of the Hunter Biden laptop story</a>, which was falsely flagged as likely disinformation by senior intelligence officials sympathetic to the Democratic Party.
Knowles also highlighted the atrocities committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, which has been described as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-committed-genocide-against-uyghur-muslims-independent-british-tribunal-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genocide</a>, and includes forced sterilization and abortions. While decrying those actions as morally indefensible, Knowles noted that Biden and the Democratic Party have tirelessly promoted abortion in the United States – roughly <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/11/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/">1 million</a> abortions take place in the U.S. each year. 
The Biden administration has also championed experimental procedures for trans-identifying children, including exposure to cross-sex hormones and various body modification surgeries. Knowles argued that minors and their parents can’t truly consent to the lifetime of sterility early medical intervention causes in gender-confused children – children are too young, parents are often cajoled with threats that their child will commit suicide if they don’t &#8220;support their transition,&#8221; and the desire to remove healthy tissue and artificially modify the body in and of itself calls the mental competence of the patient to make medical decisions into question.
While Knowles argues that the United States is unquestionably a better country than China or Russia, the moral stature of its leadership rests on far shakier ground.
Despite that assessment, and recent polling that suggests Biden is historically unpopular and highly vulnerable politically, Knowles does not believe that the president is going to be removed from the Democratic ticket.
“I know this is countercultural now,” Knowles said, “But I would still put a little bit of money on Biden being on the ticket.&#8221;
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Knowles said that despite widespread, and, in his view, well-founded, concerns about the president’s age and mental acuity, Biden is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. Because he has no clear successor, removing him at this stage of the race would result in chaotic infighting.
“It would be an admission that things aren’t going well,” Knowles said. &#8220;For Joe Biden not to run for re-election would be an admission that the lights are on, but nobody’s home – and we all know that, but thus far, the Democrats have kept a fairly united front in saying that he’s really running the show.”
Knowles also noted that Joe Biden “has wanted to be president since he was in the womb” and is unlikely to give up his position without a fight.
Knowles argued that the polls were still worth watching, since they demonstrated that Trump could credibly oust Biden in 2024 – Republican critics of Trump have often argued that he’s polarizing and unelectable, citing his narrow defeat in 2020.
“I think the whole talking point is kind of silly,” Knowles said. “We know that Trump can win a general [election], he already did it … he’s won at least one.”

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Here Are The COVID Authoritarians Who Will Soon Walk The Halls Of America’s Elite Universities

Here Are The COVID Authoritarians Who Will Soon Walk The Halls Of America's Elite Universities

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Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> will move on from advising those in the highest levels of the U.S. government to training the next generation of doctors. 
Georgetown University announced Monday that Fauci will join the school&#8217;s Department of Medicine as a “Distinguished University Professor,” the school’s highest professional honor. Beginning on July 1, the 82-year-old doctor will be a part of the Division of Infectious Diseases, which provides clinical care, conducts research, and trains future physicians in infectious diseases,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/1673376504225611776/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a Georgetown press release. 
“We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a dedicated public servant, humanitarian and visionary global health leader, to Georgetown,” <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/news/dr-anthony-fauci-to-join-georgetown-faculty-as-distinguished-university-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Georgetown President John J. DeGioia. “Dr. Fauci has embodied the Jesuit value of being in service to others throughout his career, and we are grateful to have his expertise, strong leadership and commitment to guiding the next generation of leaders to meet the pressing issues of our time.”
Along with the honor of being named a university professor, Fauci was also appointed to Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, which offers public policy master&#8217;s degrees. 
In December, Fauci stepped down after working for nearly four decades as the director of the NIAID, which falls under the National Institute of Health (NIH). Fauci worked in the federal government for 54 years after joining the NIH in 1968 during the Lyndon Johnson administration. Fauci went on to advise seven presidents, influencing public policy decisions for decades. 
Fauci became the face of the U.S. response to the COVID pandemic after he was tapped by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 to serve on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. The doctor was criticized for his advice during the course of the pandemic, initially telling Americans not to wear masks before changing his recommendation later, leading states and local governments to enact strict mask requirements for months during the pandemic. President Joe Biden named Fauci as the chief medical advisor to the president after taking office in 2021. 
Fauci faced intense backlash after he said under oath before Congress that NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research” at the Chinese lab where many speculate COVID likely leaked from. Documents obtained by <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Intercept</a> appear to show that the NIH did fund gain-of-function research at the lab, contrary to Fauci’s testimony. 
Fauci’s retirement from the NIAID came into question last week when Sen. Rand Paul, who famously <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz7OGxb9X6E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clashed</a> with Fauci during COVID Senate hearings, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-or-not-sen-rand-paul-demands-dr-faucis-employment-status-from-biden-administration">demanded</a> to know if Fauci was still receiving taxpayer dollars based on ambiguous statements made by the doctor before his retirement. 
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&#8220;While many interpreted these statements to mean Dr. Fauci would be ending his employment with the federal government in December 2022, it is not clear if that is in fact the case,&#8221; Paul wrote.
&#8220;This raises questions about Dr. Fauci’s current employment status and whether he is still receiving certain taxpayer-funded benefits associated with active public service, such as legal counsel and protective services,&#8221; the senator added.
Georgetown’s announcement indicates that Fauci is officially moving on from his work in the federal government as he confirmed that he is looking forward to joining the university. 
“I am delighted to join the Georgetown family, an institution steeped in clinical and academic excellence with an emphasis on the Jesuit tradition of public service,” Fauci said. “This is a natural extension of my scientific, clinical and public health career, which was initially grounded from my high school and college days where I was exposed to intellectual rigor, integrity and service-mindedness of Jesuit institutions.”

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Fauci Joins Georgetown As 'Distinguished University Professor'

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The Lincoln Memorial closed briefly on Saturday after a graduation party from a local university left the grounds of the site strewn with litter.
The National Mall branch of the National Park Service made the announcement early Saturday morning. &#8220;The Lincoln Memorial is closed this morning following a local university graduation celebration that left litter, broken bottles and spilled wine and champagne covering the steps,&#8221; the National Mall NPS tweeted around 9 a.m. Saturday morning. &#8220;We will reopen as soon as the area has been cleaned and made safe.&#8221; The tweet included a picture of the site cordoned off with barriers and caution tape, as well as a park worker sweeping up litter from the steps of the site.
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The Lincoln Memorial is closed this morning following a local university graduation celebration that left litter, broken bottles and spilled wine and champagne covering the steps. We will reopen as soon as the area has been cleaned and made safe. <a href="https://t.co/AVuOeoof0y">pic.twitter.com/AVuOeoof0y</a>
— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) <a href="https://twitter.com/NationalMallNPS/status/1528002214819667968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
The Memorial was opened <a href="https://twitter.com/NationalMallNPS/status/1528035154647732224">later</a> in the morning. &#8220;Thanks to our facilities staff for the quick clean up this morning,&#8221; NPS tweeted. &#8220;The Lincoln Memorial is open. We appreciate your patience.&#8221;
A spokesman for the NPS declined to publicly state which school or schools the graduates came from, but Georgetown University released a statement, via <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/lincoln-memorial-closed-after-grads-leave-broken-bottles-spilled-alcohol-officials/3057836/">NBC 4 Washington</a>, saying it was monitoring &#8220;the concerning and disappointing activity at the Lincoln Memorial.&#8221; Georgetown&#8217;s campus is within walking distance of the Lincoln Memorial, about two miles away from the National Mall.
&#8220;While Georgetown is one of several institutions celebrating graduation ceremonies this weekend, we have had no University-sponsored events at or around the Lincoln Memorial,&#8221; the University added. &#8220;We expect all members of our community to be responsible citizens of our campus and our city and be respectful of the history and institutions of Washington, D.C.&#8221;
Consuming alcohol is illegal on the National Mall — though the NPS spokesman said no arrests had been made.
Twitter users lamented the mess left on the steps. Many users connected the dots and called out Georgetown students as the obvious suspects:
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1528077749730025474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528077749730025474%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fderekwillis2Fstatus2F1528077749730025474widget%3DTweet">Derek Willis</a>, data journalism professor: “‘local university’”</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/status/1528033864106508292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528033864106508292%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FReignOfApril2Fstatus2F1528033864106508292widget%3DTweet">April Reign</a>, activist: “‘Local university&#8217; =@Georgetown. The participants should be cleaning up their mess, and/or the school should be billed for the (government?) resources used to clean up.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1528056792143601667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528056792143601667%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fmcbyrne2Fstatus2F1528056792143601667widget%3DTweet">Melissa Byrne</a>, former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign surrogate: &#8220;@Georgetown this you?&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1528020431059443715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528020431059443715%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FLucasFoxNews2Fstatus2F1528020431059443715widget%3DTweet">Lucas Tomlinson</a>, Fox News Pentagon Reporter: &#8220;Georgetown University students blamed for mess at Lincoln Memorial, sources say.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/AjitPai/status/1528085911451447296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528085911451447296%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FAjitPai2Fstatus2F1528085911451447296widget%3DTweet">Ajit Pai</a>, former FCC Chairman: “In 2010, Georgetown University ‘committed to three campus-wide [environmental] principles,’ the first being ‘[d]emonstrating respect for nature and society.’ The university president said these commitments were made ‘to minimize our environmental impact.’”</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaKNews/status/1528059906208808960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528059906208808960%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FKatrinaKNews2Fstatus2F1528059906208808960widget%3DTweet">Katrina Kincade</a>, reporter, WBZ Boston: &#8220;Bruh. This is so disappointing. As someone who went to school in DC, none of this &#8216;celebration&#8217; was necessary for your grad pics.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/LindsayAWatts/status/1528027617424728065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528027617424728065%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FLindsayAWatts2Fstatus2F1528027617424728065widget%3DTweet">Lindsay Watts</a>, journalist, Fox 5 DC: &#8220;Terrible that workers have to be out cleaning up in this heat because of stupid behavior!&#8221;</li>
</ul>
The incident also comes on the heels of the Lincoln Memorial&#8217;s Centennial celebration, which is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. According to the Lincoln Memorial&#8217;s official <a href="https://www.nps.gov/linc/planyourvisit/lincevents.htm">website</a>, the celebration, entitled &#8220;Building on Lincoln’s Vision of Unity and Equality&#8221; and hosted by the Lincoln Group of DC in conjunction with the National Park Service, will &#8220;highlight the full range of meaning behind the Lincoln Memorial, from its original meaning as a memorial to Lincoln’s life and contribution as savior of the Union to becoming a symbol of civil rights.&#8221;

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Lincoln Memorial Closes After ‘Local University’ Grad Party Leaves Litter, Broken Bottles Behind

Lincoln Memorial Closes After 'Local University' Grad Party Leaves Litter, Broken Bottles Behind

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If you didn&#8217;t know better, you might think that racism and anti-Catholicism are alive and well among several groups purportedly dedicated to rooting out just that sort of prejudice.
In an eyebrow-raising move, lawyers at Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, teamed up with the NAACP, the civil rights group defending black Americans, against a Catholic diocese and a group of Catholic and historically black colleges in South Carolina.
The groups took up this awkward position after <a href="https://www.scicu.org/about-scicu/">21 independent</a> colleges and universities joined the Catholic diocese of Charleston in filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against part of the state constitution, which they say wrongly deprived them of essential COVID relief last year. The diocese runs 33 Catholic K-12 schools.
The NAACP&#8217;s South Carolina arm, <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-work/protecting-young-people-and-vulnerable-groups/bishop-of-charleston-v-adams/">represented</a> by Georgetown lawyers, filed a <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2021/06/2021.06.16-Motion-to-Intervene-41.pdf">motion</a> to intervene in the case in June, arguing that public schools should be prioritized for relief funds. A federal judge, however, threw out the NAACP&#8217;s bid to insert itself and become a party in the case.
The <a href="https://ljc-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/07/2021-06-25-Plaintiff-Opposition-to-Motion-to-Intervene-Bishop-v-Adams.pdf">case</a> centers around two pots of COVID relief money that the diocese and a group of private <a href="https://www.scicu.org/about-scicu/">colleges</a>, South Carolina’s Independent Colleges and Universities (SCICU), say they missed out on.
The first pot is South Carolina&#8217;s $25 million program that <a href="https://accelerate.sc.gov/sites/default/files/Documents/Final%2010.13.20%20Nonprofit%20Relief%20Grant%20Program%20Design.pdf">provided</a> grants between $2,500 and $50,000 to nonprofits for pandemic-related costs. The other chunk of COVID aid is $32 million in CARES Act funding that Republican Gov. Henry McMaster allocated for one-time, needs-based tuition vouchers of up to $6,500. Those grants would allow parents to send their kids to Catholic or other private schools if they desired. 
As part of the relief, the governor had also <a href="https://governor.sc.gov/news/2020-07/gov-henry-mcmaster-invests-24-million-historically-black-colleges-and-universities">planned</a> to give $2.4 million to historically black colleges for pandemic-related costs like updating their technology for remote classes. He ended up <a href="https://apnews.com/article/henry-mcmaster-lawsuits-south-carolina-courts-virus-outbreak-3d346ec64f6f6db6dadac0bf4f85867a">withholding</a> the money once legal challenges were launched.
The lawsuit from the schools comes after the state Supreme Court <a href="https://www.live5news.com/2020/10/07/sc-supreme-court-strikes-down-gov-mcmasters-safe-grants-program/">struck down</a> the governor&#8217;s tuition voucher program last year. The suit that led to that decision was brought by a coalition that included the South Carolina Education Association, an affiliate of the largest public school teachers&#8217; union in the country.
Deepening the irony of the NAACP and its Georgetown legal team&#8217;s attempt to get involved, they cited and defended the state&#8217;s archaic Blaine Amendment, which has a history steeped in anti-Catholicism and racism. The amendment prohibits the state from giving &#8220;direct aid&#8221; to religious or other private schools.
&#8220;No money shall be paid from public funds nor shall the credit of the State or any of its political subdivisions be used for the direct benefit of any religious or other private educational institution,&#8221; the South Carolina state constitution <a href="https://www.scstatehouse.gov/scconstitution/SCConstitution.pdf">reads</a>.
The diocese and colleges countered in court <a href="https://ljc-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/04/2021-04-14-Bishop-of-Charleston-v-Adams-Complaint.pdf">documents</a> that the Blaine Amendment &#8220;was born in bigotry and prejudice based on race and religion&#8221; and &#8220;violates the equal protection and free exercise clauses of the U.S. Constitution.&#8221;
The history of Blaine Amendments in the U.S. is long and ugly. They rose in the late nineteenth century across the country and were adopted in 38 state constitutions, part of a wave of anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic sentiment that gained momentum as more immigrants arrived in the U.S. from Catholic countries like Ireland, Poland, and Italy. As Catholic schools began to multiply in the country, a movement grew to prevent public funding being siphoned away from public schools to Catholic schools.
The origin of South Carolina&#8217;s Blaine Amendment has another layer of bigotry. It was added to the state’s constitution after the Civil War to choke off funds going to the Catholic schools that were educating newly freed slaves. The South Carolina Constitution of 1895 was infamous among southern Reconstruction era constitutions for introducing a literacy test for voting. A literacy test, however, would not stop former slaves from voting as long as Catholic missionaries were teaching them how to read. Over a century later, the amendment is still on the books in South Carolina, albeit in a slightly modified form.
“We are here to stand up for children and families across South Carolina and to face head on the anti-Catholic and the racist history in our state’s constitution,” Charleston Bishop Robert Guglielmone <a href="https://www.live5news.com/2021/04/14/catholic-diocese-charleston-files-lawsuit-against-state/">said</a>.
Blaine Amendments have been challenged in recent years, including in a high-profile Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf">case</a> last year that scrutinized Montana&#8217;s version of the amendment. In his concurring opinion, Justice Samuel Alito detailed the bigoted history of Blaine amendments, saying they were &#8220;prompted by virulent prejudice against immigrants, particularly Catholic immigrants.&#8221;
&#8220;So you&#8217;ve got Georgetown – Catholic Jesuit institution – spending money to fight Catholic schools. And you&#8217;ve got NAACP filing a lawsuit to stop money from going to historically black colleges. That is how much these people hate school choice,&#8221; Liberty Justice Center attorney Daniel Suhr, who represents the private colleges, told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Both the NAACP and Georgetown have to minimize prejudice against their own communities historically in order to make their argument in favor of stopping school choice,&#8221; added Suhr, who is a Georgetown law graduate himself. &#8220;It&#8217;s just disappointing and sad. It&#8217;s this really cynical use of this provision that&#8217;s been on the books for a century because it&#8217;s convenient to advance their political agenda.&#8221;

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These Catholic And Historically Black Colleges Were Denied COVID Relief. The NAACP And Its Georgetown Legal Team Fought To Make That Happen.

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A Georgetown University student kickstarted a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/mayor-of-arlington-rename-ronald-reagan-airport-to-jojo-siwa-washington-national-airport">Change.org</a> petition to rename the Ronald Reagan airport in Washington, D.C., after the “Dance Moms” cast member and LGBT icon JoJo Siwa. 
Nearly 5,500 people have signed a petition calling for the Ronald Reagan Airport to be renamed “JoJo Siwa Washington National Airport.” The petition was started by Georgetown student Dylan Long. Under the “description” category of the petition, Long wrote, “Why on earth is there an airport named after this war criminal[?]&#8221;
The petition seeks an additional 2,000 signatures to reach its goal of 7,500 people. 
In an interview with the Georgetown student-run publication <a href="https://thehoya.com/georgetown-student-starts-petition-to-rename-national-airport-after-jojo-siwa/">The Hoya</a>, Long said that he wanted to pick an LGBT figure to replace Reagan because of how the former president handled the AIDS epidemic. 
“I really did not put too much thought into who it was, but my reasoning for picking JoJo Siwa was related to the fact that Reagan in his presidency did a lot of really terrible things with regard to the LGBTQ communities, specifically with the HIV and AIDS pandemic,” Long said. “I decided to pick JoJo Siwa because she’s been this recent rise as a new LGBT figure.” 
Because Reagan airport is owned by the federal government, it has no authority over its name and any name change must be approved by Congress.
In the comment section of the petition, people expressed their disdain for Reagan and approval of renaming the airport after anyone else. One individual expressed that they would rather have an airport named after Ted Bundy. 
“Ronald Reagan was not good for America and I’d be glad to have a positive role model’s name on this airport,” one comment read. 
“I’d support renaming this airport after anyone who isn’t Ronald Reagan, and [who] was never the second-worst president in this country’s history,” another comment read. “Even Ted Bundy National Airport sounds better.” 
“Ronald Reagan was a war criminal who hated all minorities but especially gay people. I think it is only fitting that he is replaced by American icon JoJo Siwa,” a commenter wrote. 
Siwa made headlines in January after she announced that she identifies as a member of the LGBTQ community, though she refused to classify herself in it. The dancer made the announcement via TikTok when she came out lip-syncing to Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” and followed up by posting a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt that read: “Best. Gay. Cousin. Ever.” 
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jojo-siwa-comes-out-as-lgbtq-identifies-as-neither-gay-nor-straight">reported</a>: 
<blockquote>Later, during an Instagram Live video, Siwa said that she does not identify as straight, stopping short of putting any sexual identity label on herself. 
“I always believe that my person was just going to be my person,” she said. “And if that person happened to be a boy, great, and if that person happened to be a girl, great!” 
Since Siwa has never fallen in love with someone, she avoided a specific label. She also thanked people for the love and support they have shown. </blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jojo-siwa-tells-fans-you-can-be-in-love-with-whoever-you-want">JoJo Siwa Tells Fans: ‘You Can Be In Love With Whoever You Want’</a>

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Georgetown Students Want Ronald Reagan Airport Named After LGBT Icon JoJo Siwa

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Students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., were asked about specific measures regarding voting integrity. They agreed with the measures &#8212; until they learned they were from the new Georgia voting law.
Campus Reform <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17203">traveled</a> to the university with a camera to read students the component of Georgia’s new law, finding that “Most students were widely supportive of the bill, applauding its voter expansion.”
One student, who is white, early in the video said she was from Georgia and that there was “a lot of voter suppression” in Georgia, adding that she believed there needed to be a lot more “freedom and accessibility” for voters, such as “extending hours.”
Campus Reform’s video reporter Addison Smith then explained to the students some measures of “new legislation going around,” which would require weekend early voting for two Saturdays instead of just one, giving counties the option to expand early voting for two Sundays, clarify voting hours, ban electioneering within 150 feet of a polling location, and require identification to ensure people can’t cast multiple ballots.
The students agreed with those measures.
“Making sure people aren’t casting more than one vote sounds kinda commonsense to me,” said one student.
“I think that allowing voters more time to vote is never a bad thing,” said another, who also appeared to be in favor of voter identification to prevent illegal voting.
“The ability to vote on the weekend, specifically, makes a lot of sense,” said yet another student.
The student who claimed there was “a lot of voter suppression” in Georgia also agreed on the measures relating to early voting and electioneering, but fell back on the left-wing talking point that “not everyone has access to an ID or the ability to get one,” adding that “not everyone has a static location where they live.”
Smith then asked the students if the bill he described would be a good substitute for the Georgia law. The student from Georgia said “yeah, anything’s better than that.” When informed that he actually described the Georgia bill, the student barely reacted, claiming the bill also included “less locations” to vote. She then claimed it was “classist” to require an ID to vote and that three years wasn&#8217;t enough time for people to get an ID. When Smith told her that more than 70% of black voters support showing an ID at the polls, she said “Okay, I don’t.”
Other students were surprised to learn what was actually in the Georgia bill, admitting they hadn’t actually read it. One student tried to claim people weren’t deliberately misrepresenting the bill, but when asked if the measures Smith described amounted to “Jim Crow on steroids,” she changed her tune.
As The Daily Wire’s Ian Haworth previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgias-election-integrity-act-everything-you-need-to-know">reported</a>, there is a disconnect between what Democrats and their media supporters have said about the bill and what it actually does. The Georgia law expands early voting and requires voter IDs. It does not prohibit people from getting food or drink while waiting in line, they just can’t receive it from candidates or staff (poll workers can hand it out and people can order or bring it themselves).
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Students At Georgetown University Support Voting Reforms, Then Find Out They’re From Georgia’s New Law

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The entire men&#8217;s basketball team at Georgetown University took a knee with their coach before the national anthem ahead of their NCAA tournament game against Colorado on Saturday.
Sports Illustrated reporter Pat Forde posted a picture on Twitter depicting all of the players and coach Patrick Ewing demonstrating on the court with their arms linked. The Hoyas later lost to Colorado 96-73, failing to move on to the next round.
Earlier this year, the Georgetown men&#8217;s basketball team took a knee for the anthem in Indianapolis before their game against Butler, which took place shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Members of other NCAA teams have also taken a knee during March Madness. As The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/544076-ncaa-players-take-a-knee-during-national-anthem" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote><a href="https://apnews.com/article/sports-basketball-virginia-tech-hokies-mens-basketball-florida-gators-mens-basketball-march-madness-deba725602fe2b462f077e51fc166084">The Associated Press</a> reported that most players for No. 16 seed Drexel knelt during the playing of the national anthem before they played Illinois at Indiana Farmers Coliseum.
Illinois later in the afternoon Friday beat out Drexel to advance to the second round.
Several Colgate players also took a knee before their game against No. 3 seed Arkansas at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Arkansas eventually won the match-up.
The AP noted that several players also took a knee at the Florida-Virginia Tech at Hinkle Fieldhouse, at which Florida came out victorious.</blockquote>
Kneeling during &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; was first popularized by former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick in 2016. He began performing the act to protest what he described as widespread oppression of black people in the United States.
&#8220;I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,&#8221; Kaepernick <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000691077/article/colin-kaepernick-explains-protest-of-national-anthem" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> at the time. &#8220;To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgetown-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Georgetown University</a> has repeatedly made headlines recently for exhibiting woke policies. Earlier this month, the Jesuit school gave a sizable sum to a fund dedicated to racial reparations. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgetown-donates-1-million-to-racial-reparations-org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Georgetown University contributed $1 million in funding to a Catholic order that pledged to raise money for racial reparations.
On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/us/jesuits-georgetown-reparations-slavery.html">The New York Times</a> announced that a Catholic order pledged to raise $100 million for the descendants of slaves once owned by Georgetown University via a new foundation. In an email obtained by The Daily Wire, Georgetown’s president announced that the school contributed $1 million to “support the planning and assistance necessary to create the framework and structure for the Foundation.”
The school said it is looking “forward to supporting and partnering with the Foundation moving forward.”
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The GU272 Descendants Association is a non-profit that supports the “goals, objectives, and aspirations” of the 272 enslaved people who were owned and sold to keep Georgetown College — now Georgetown University — open in 1838.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgetown-law-professor-fired-for-comments-about-black-students-in-viral-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Georgetown Law Professor Fired For Comments About Black Students In Viral Video</a>

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Georgetown University contributed $1 million in funding to a Catholic order that pledged to raise money for racial reparations. 
On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/us/jesuits-georgetown-reparations-slavery.html">The New York Times</a> announced that a Catholic order pledged to raise $100 million for the descendants of slaves once owned by Georgetown University via a new foundation. In an email obtained by The Daily Wire, Georgetown’s president announced that the school contributed $1 million to “support the planning and assistance necessary to create the framework and structure for the Foundation.” 
The school said it is looking “forward to supporting and partnering with the Foundation moving forward.” 
The Daily Wire’s Tim Pearce <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jesuits-pledge-100-million-for-slavery-reparations">reported</a>: 
<blockquote>The Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order commonly known as the Jesuits, in partnership with the GU272 Descendants Association, has launched the Descendants Truth &amp; Reconciliation Foundation to raise money in part for reparations for the descendants of slaves of the order once bought and sold. </blockquote>
The GU272 Descendants Association is a non-profit that supports the “goals, objectives, and aspirations” of the 272 enslaved people who were owned and sold to keep Georgetown College — now Georgetown University — open in 1838. 
In an email to students, university president John J. DeGioia said that the million-dollar donation was just the beginning of the school’s work to atone for its role in the slave trade. 
“We now have the conditions in place for us to accelerate Georgetown’s work on a related effort which will further our community’s engagement with Descendants,” DeGioia said. 
In October 2019, Georgetown’s student body passed a referendum committing the school to contribute $400,000 a year to support “community-based projects” that benefit the “Descendant community.” According to Georgetown’s <a href="https://thehoya.com/students-endorse-reconciliation-fee-gu272-referendum/">student newspaper</a>, students voted overwhelmingly to pass a semesterly fee of $27.20 per student that goes directly to GU272. 
Georgetown is the first university in the nation to establish a collegiate reconciliation fund. 
The university has undergone changes to scrub the school of its slave-owning past. In 2015, the school decided to rename buildings that bore the names of two men that played significant roles in the school’s slave trade. A hall named after Thomas Mulledy was renamed “Freedom Hall” and a hall named after William McSherry was renamed “Remembrance Hall.”
In 2017, two other buildings were rededicated. One to “Isaac,” the first enslaved person listed in the school’s 1838 sale document, and another to Anne Marie Becraft, a black woman who established a school in Georgetown for black girls.
Student organizations at Georgetown have taken it upon themselves to rectify the school’s past injustices as well. Following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement resurgence, Georgetown University’s campus speaker fund <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/georgetown-students-push-racial-quota-for-campus-speakers/">announced</a> that 50 percent of its annual budget would go exclusively to “amplify Black voices.” 
The university’s Lecture Fund, a student group that allocates money to host guest speakers for students, announced that it will give a “meager” $42,500 of its $85,000 budget to help rid Georgetown’s campus of white supremacy.

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A Georgetown University law professor was having a Zoom discussion with another professor about the “angst” she felt each semester after learning black students ended up with lower grades. The conversation was posted online, prompting outcry from members of the community.
The professor, Sandra Sellers, was fired this week after her comments were made public, The Daily Wire’s Charlotte Pence Bond <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgetown-law-professor-fired-for-comments-about-black-students-in-viral-video">reported</a>. But attorney Hans Bader argued that Sellers’ comments are likely protected by her contract with the university, which claims to support “academic freedom.”
The video that led to the firing showed Sellers telling another professor, David Baston, that she ended “up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks, happens almost every semester.&#8221; Baston awkwardly said “uh-uh” in response without any follow-up.
The conversation was posted to Panopto, an online database that students can access. The Black Law Student Association circulated a petition calling for Sellers to be fired and gathered more than 1,000 signatures before the school announced she had been terminated.
“We learned earlier this week that two members of our faculty engaged in a conversation that included reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students,” Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor said Wednesday in a letter.
On Thursday, Treanor announced that he “informed Professor Sellers that I was terminating her relationship with Georgetown Law effective immediately.&#8221;
Treanor also said earlier in the week that Georgetown’s diversity and equity office was investigating the incident and that Batson “has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action, the results of which will inform our next steps.&#8221;
Sellers <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgetown-law-fires-professor-reprehensible-statements-black-students-viral-vide0">gave Fox News</a> a copy of her resignation letter, which included an apology for her comments, saying she was “deeply sorry for my hurtful and misdirected remarks.”
“While the video of this incident is an excerpt from a longer discussion about class participation patterns, not overall grades, it doesn’t diminish the insensitivity of I have demonstrated,” she added. “I would never do anything to intentionally hurt my students or Georgetown Law and wish I could take back my words.”
Law school grading is blind and anonymous, so it is unlikely that Sellers is purposefully grading black students lower than others, as she only learns the identities after she had submitted the grades. Attorney Ted Frank <a href="https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1370039606163476487">said</a> on Twitter that the “only thing reprehensible here is the statement of the Dean throwing his faculty member under the bus instead of telling students unpleasant truths.”
Bader <a href="https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/03/11/georgetown-law-professor-investigated-for-telling-the-truth/">wrote</a> Sellers’ firing &#8212; and the investigation and punishment of Baston for not contradicting her &#8212; violates academic freedom:
<blockquote>Such academic freedom has been contractually interpreted to protect speech even when it offends minority students. For example, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a professor opposed to same-sex marriage <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17466099994602684190&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr">could not be punished</a> for his speech by a private college, even though it allegedly led to members of the public expressing hostility to a lesbian graduate student. (See McAdams v. Marquette University (2018)).
Similarly, a judge <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi3o6Hi7qjvAhUFhOAKHeIgCbkQFjABegQIARAD&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Flaw.justia.com%2Fcases%2Ffederal%2Fdistrict-courts%2FFSupp%2F888%2F293%2F1644470%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw37PocMcCVMV-RogCPJnBTT">ruled</a> that an AAUP collective bargaining agreement guaranteeing academic freedom barred punishing a professor for two classroom sexual analogies that offended campus feminists. (See Silva v. University of New Hampshire (1994)).
Far worse speech has been held to be protected by the First Amendment under the rubric of academic freedom. For example, a federal appeals court <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15382983665921123828&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr">ruled</a> that a professor’s derogatory writings about black people were protected by the First Amendment. (See Levin v. Harleston, 966 F.2d 85 (2d Cir. 1992)). <a href="https://openjurist.org/900/f2d/587/dube-v-state-university-of-new-york-r-a">It also ruled </a>that a professor had a First Amendment right to teach that Zionism is racism, even though that caused a “furor” on his campus. (See Dube v. State University of New York (1990)).</blockquote>

Fired Georgetown Law Professor’s Comments Likely Protected Speech, Attorney Argues

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