Talking Across The Divide

The Decline Of Higher Education Continues Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, During my second career teaching high school English, I noticed several darkly funny but disturbing trends in “higher” education.  They were fueled by three primary drivers: abandoning merit, the federal government taking over the student loan industry, and DEI hysteria. It was Barack Obama who federalized the student loan industry, pushing the idea that everyone should go to college. To make that idea a reality, it was necessary for the government to guarantee student loans. That had plenty of unfortunate and foreseeable...

Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt Underway As Military-Aged Migrants Mass Near Spanish Enclave Summary:  Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt By Sub-Saharan Africans Ilegals  Public Health Disaster Unfolds In Ceuta After First Invasion, Weeks Ago Hybrid Warfare Fears Mount As Migrant Flows Weaponized  Italy's Schengen suspension with Spain will remain until security risks disappear Weaponized Migrant Flows: Spain's Ceuta Border Under Attack (Again)  Multiple open-source reports indicate that thousands of illegal aliens are massing near Spain's Ceuta border, raising the prospect of coordinated attempts to breach the enclave for the second time. If verified, the invasion attempt comes just weeks after...

Ireland Convicts 78-Year-Old Preacher For Preaching Near Abortion Clinic Authored by Jonathan Turley, Ireland is finally safe. Clive Johnston has been convicted and can no longer menace the public. Johnson, 78, is a retired pastor who committed the heinous offense of preaching near the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine. That was considered within the “safe access zone” under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act. The Act prohibits “influencing,” “preventing or impeding access,” or “causing harassment, alarm or distress” to a protected person within 100 meters (about 328 feet) of facilities where abortions are performed. So...