• Israel resumes its war with Hamas: The ceasefire in Gaza was awful while it lasted, and now it’s over. Israel Defense Forces resumed their airstrikes overnight against Hamas amid the rubble of Gaza, as a roughly two-month ceasefire collapsed due to Hamas’s unwillingness to release hostages and, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “its rejection of all of the proposals it has received from US special envoy to the Mideast Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators.” According to the Gaza Health Ministry’s Hamas propagandists, at least 404 Palestinians were killed and 562 wounded. Not surprisingly, Hamas issued a statement blaming Israel for overturning the ceasefire agreement and exposing the hostages “to an unknown fate.”

• A reckoning for Columbia’s anti-Semitism: Columbia University seemed helpless to do anything about the Jew-hatred sweeping across its campus — at least until the Trump administration canceled $400 million in federal grants. Suddenly, Columbia is capable of decisive action to eradicate this despicable ideology. A statement issued on March 13 said, “Today, the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students ranging from multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring.” Hamilton Hall is apparently a perennial takeover target during campus riots. During the most recent occupation, two janitors were assaulted. Without Trump’s stand against anti-Semitism, these events would go unpunished.

• Is Putin driving an unacceptable bargain? Ukraine will not mobilize soldiers, train soldiers, or receive foreign aid, including arms shipments. Ahead of a high-stakes phone call today with Donald Trump, this is apparently what Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding in exchange for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. As former Trump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster suggested on Fox News, Putin is trying to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Ukraine — and between Ukraine and Europe — by making unacceptable demands. McMaster thinks Russia is more eager for a way out than it might appear, having sustained around 40% of its casualties in the past year. “In many ways,” he says, “Putin is in the same position in 2025 that Iran was in a decade ago. … And what Iran got Barack Obama to do [with that awful nuke deal] is pull them up off the mat.”

• Trump declares Biden pardons void: Yesterday, President Donald Trump declared Joe Biden’s barrage of last-minute pardons — including those for members of the rigged House J6 Committee and the Biden Crime Family — to be “void, vacant, and of no further force or effect” due to them having been signed by a mechanical autopen. “In other words,” said Trump, “Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” As for the legality and legitimacy of the pardons, a couple of NYU law professors suggest that there’s nothing unconstitutional about an autopen signature, while an appeals court found last year that the writing component isn’t even necessary.

• Reforming the USPS: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that the USPS has signed an agreement with DOGE and the General Services Administration to improve its efficiency beyond the current 10-year plan that the USPS had previously embarked upon. “Last night,” wrote DeJoy in a letter to Congress, “I signed an agreement with the [GAO and DOGE] to assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies. This is an effort aligned with our efforts, as while we have accomplished a great deal, there is much more to be done.” As part of the new plan, the USPS says it will reduce its workforce by around 10,000 staff within the next 30 days via a voluntary early retirement program.

• VOA gutted: Another relic of the Cold War has been mothballed by Donald Trump, as the overseas radio broadcast Voice of America went silent over the weekend. On Friday, the president signed an executive order directing the elimination of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Trump’s rationale for the order is that the VOA, like NPR, has become an outfit promoting leftist ideology rather than American values. While some have bemoaned the decision, the fact of the matter is that VOA is now obsolete.

• No more Secret Service for Hunter and Ashley Biden: On Monday, after Hunter Biden returned from a vacation to South Africa, Donald Trump revoked the Secret Service details for both him and his sister, Ashley. “Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer,” Trump wrote on social media. “There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous!” Remember that if it weren’t for Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter would be sitting in a prison cell rather than jetting off to South Africa for lavish vacations with Secret Service in tow.

• Brown U prof deported over Hezbollah photos: Returning from a trip to Lebanon, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese kidney doctor and professor at Brown University, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after she arrived at Boston’s Logan Airport. She was then denied entry and sent back to Lebanon. Alawieh, who had been teaching at Brown under an H-1B visa, was deported after CPB discovered images of Hezbollah leaders on her phone. Indeed, her reason for traveling to Lebanon in the first place was to attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a brutal terrorist that Alawieh openly admitted to supporting. The Department of Homeland Security explained, “A visa is a privilege not a right — glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security.”

• A CA law contributes to high egg prices: Back in 2018, California voters passed Proposition 12, a measure drafted by the Humane Society that banned the caging of most farm animals, including chickens. The law applied to all farm products sold in California, thereby impacting farms across the rest of the nation that do business with the Golden State. To comply, chicken farmers began embracing free-range practices, allowing the birds to roam and intermingle with each other on a large scale. This has had two consequences: fewer eggs laid during the winter months due to darkness from shorter days, and the faster spread of avian flu. Thanks to California’s animal rights activists, all Americans are forced to pay more for eggs.

• HHS declares Maine in violation of Title IX: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights is taking the fight to Maine Governor Janet Mills thanks to a now well-known interaction with President Trump. An HHS memo notes: “The Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School are each in violation of Title IX.” Greely High School is at the center of this controversy due to a “transgender” (male) pole vaulter who brought the girls’ team to victory in the state championship. HHS says his competition with the girls violates Trump’s Title IX executive order that “requires immediate action … against schools and athletic associations comprised of schools that deny women single-sex sports.” From here, legal action and court cases are sure to follow.

• Murfreesboro, TN, takes a stand against child propaganda: Parents in Tennessee showed up to a Rutherford County Library Board meeting, and because they did, their children were protected. The library had previously carried books like Me & My Dysphoria Monster, which teaches kids all about gender ideology. In schools and libraries across the country, books of this kind are put on shelves. But in Murfreesboro, over 100 community members showed up, made their voices heard, and got this and other books removed. When faced with indoctrination, parents must remain vigilant at every level to protect their children.

• Domestic adoptions rise as geopolitics devolves: One of the many effects of the COVID-driven shutdown of society was a sharp decline in adoptions in 2020. In 2019, the rate of domestic adoption was 6.6 per 1,000 live births, but that quickly dropped to 5.8/1,000 in 2020. By 2023, however, it was back up to 7/1,000. The rise in domestic adoption is a counterweight to the decline in international adoption, which has a lot to do with the worsening situations in Ukraine and China, the two primary sources of foreign adoption. The Russian invasion caused Ukrainian adoptions to nosedive, from 298 adoptions in 2019 to just 10 in 2023. Meanwhile, China has all but ended foreign adoptions — there were 819 in 2019 but just 16 in 2023. Whether or not it comes as a response to geopolitics, the increasing number of American babies being placed in loving homes is worthy of celebration.

Headlines

• Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act could end up costing taxpayers nearly $5 trillion (Just the News)

• Trump says he’s releasing 80,000 JFK assassination files today (NY Post)

• Fani Willis must pay $54,000 for intentionally violating Georgia’s open records rules (Washington Examiner)

• Houston midwife arrested for providing illegal abortions (Dallas Morning News)

• Illinois school staff watched to ensure girls changed in front of boy (Daily Wire)

• Humor: 51 former intelligence officials insist Biden never once used an autopen (Babylon Bee)

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