Harvard Has No Entitlement to Federal Billions, Federal Lawyer Tells Appeals CourtBOSTON—A federal judge overstepped her authority when she ordered the federal government to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants to Harvard that the Trump administration had terminated, a government lawyer told a panel of appellate judges Monday. "There’s no First Amendment right to money," the Justice Department lawyer, Michael…Washington Free Beacon12h agoWhole story →GovernmentEducationharvard research grants lawsuit
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in High-Stakes Colorado Climate Case Seeking To Hold Oil Companies Financially Liable for Global Warming: ‘Egregiously Exceeds Constitutional Limits’WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday morning in a high-stakes case that asks if state and local governments can sue energy companies over hotly contested climate issues. At stake is whether a volley of lawsuits against oil companies from Democrat-run cities, counties, and states can move forward. The post Supreme Court Hears…Washington Free Beacon13h agoWhole story →GovernmentPlanetcolorado climate case hearing
EXCLUSIVE: Video Shows Abdul El-Sayed Stating He Has ‘Dual Citizenship’ in Egypt and USMichigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told a Detroit audience in 2016 that he has "dual citizenship" in the United States and Egypt, according to previously unreported video. It's the second time he's been documented making the claim, even though his campaign now claims he was never a dual citizen. The post EXCLUSIVE: Video Shows Abdul El-Sayed…Washington Free Beacon14h agoWhole story →Governmentmichigan senate election
‘Independent’ Nebraska Senate Hopeful Dan Osborn Left Kellogg’s Picket Line To Address Fringe Young Democrats Conference That Backed a Prostitutes’ UnionDan Osborn, the Independent Nebraska Senate candidate endorsed by Democrats, ducked out of a picket line in 2021 to address a far-left convention of young Democrats that featured a land acknowledgement, calls for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and a resolution to let prostitutes form a labor union. The post ‘Independent’ Nebraska Senate Hopeful Dan…Washington Free Beacon1d agoWhole story →EconomyJustice
Democratic Prosecutors Subpoena Oil Industry for Decades of Private Communications With Industry and Conservative Groups: Dark Money Fuels New War on OilDemocratic prosecutors in Hawaii filed an unexpected subpoena over the summer against the American Petroleum Institute (API), the nation's largest oil industry trade group, demanding a trove of climate change-related documents and correspondence with 225 entities, including media outlets, academic institutions, conservative advocacy groups, business…Washington Free Beacon1d agoWhole story →CultureTechnology
‘UK Democracy Has an Upper Hand’: Abdul El-Sayed Praised British Government as Superior to United StatesMichigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed praised the British democratic system as superior to America's in a 2010 op-ed, arguing that the British system is better because it allows ethnic minority groups to concentrate more electoral power. The post ‘UK Democracy Has an Upper Hand’: Abdul El-Sayed Praised British Government as Superior to…Washington Free Beacon1d agoWhole story →Government
Justice Alito’s Practical Guide to OriginalismAlmost 40 years ago, when he was still a new member of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech, later published as an essay, on how judges should interpret the Constitution. In "Originalism: The Lesser Evil," Scalia argued that judges should interpret the Constitution's words in accordance with how those words were interpreted by the…Washington Free Beacon2d agoWhole story →Justice
Charting a Course CorrectionBefore the Trump administration's sweeping demands for reform in the Ivy League, before "it depends on the context," before the tentifada, before the occupation of Hamilton Hall, before Yale administrators tried to railroad a law student over a "trap house" party, before students screamed at Erika Christakis for imaginary racial insensitivity, before the…Washington Free Beacon2d agoWhole story →BuildEducation
REVIEW: ‘Manhunter’When Manhunter was released in 1986, it was panned as a "hokey," "chic, well-cast wasteland," whose plot fell apart "like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crime" by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, respectively. The mainstream media, as usual, were wrong. While the film was a box-office flop, making just…Washington Free Beacon2d agoWhole story →JusticeCulture
