• Anti-Semitic murder in DC: Anyone who thinks that the anti-Semitism at our nation’s elite universities is simply a matter of free speech should consider what happened in Washington, DC, last night. Two Israeli embassy staff members, both Jewish, were shot and killed Wednesday evening as they were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. The two, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were a young couple days away from becoming engaged. Their murderer, a 31-year-old man, yelled “Free, free Palestine!” after being apprehended by museum security. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called the murder “horrific,” stating, “We will not tolerate any acts of terrorism. We will not tolerate anti-Semitism.” The sad irony is that this event at the museum hosted by the American Jewish Committee was focused on finding humanitarian solutions for Gaza.

• Pentagon takes Qatari 747: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,” stated Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on Wednesday. “The Department of Defense will work to ensure proper security measures and functional-mission requirements are considered for an aircraft used to transport the President of the United States.” Estimates for how long it will take to retrofit the Boeing 747-8 jet into Air Force One vary, with the earliest being the end of the year. Donald Trump’s accepting this $400 million gift from Qatar has some on both sides of the political aisle raising objections. Most of it depends on whether the gift is to the U.S. government or to Trump himself.

• Trump accuses Biden autopen handlers of treason: Reacting to continued reporting on Biden’s mental decline and cancer diagnosis, Donald Trump pointed out that Biden was never, before his time as president, in favor of open borders. “It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border,” Trump said, going on to suggest that Biden’s handlers, likely more progressive than Biden, took the opportunity and the control of the autopen to steal the presidency and initiate the border invasion. As Trump says, if proven, this would amount to treason. In a surprising move, Trump defended Biden, saying that the man America knew from decades of public “service” would never let these criminals in unvetted.

• Cuomo criminal probe: The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over allegations that he lied to Congress regarding his actions as governor in response to the COVID pandemic, specifically regarding sending positive-tested patients back to their nursing homes. Cuomo, who is running for mayor of New York City, is calling this politically motivated lawfare. His spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, stated, “Governor Cuomo testified truthfully to the best of his recollection about events from four years earlier, and he offered to address any follow-up questions from the Subcommittee — but from the beginning this was all transparently political.” Given the fact that Trump’s DOJ dropped a corruption case against current Mayor Eric Adams, who is now running for reelection as an independent after leaving the Democrat Party, it’s hard to shake the appearance of political motivations.

• District judge again orders Trump to return criminals to U.S. soil: U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts has ruled that the Trump administration did not give a plane full of murderers, kidnappers, and child abusers enough time to complain about which country they were being deported to. In yet another instance of one of the nation’s 670 district judges trying to dictate U.S. foreign policy, Murphy ruled that the lawfully deported people didn’t have adequate time to argue their fear of torture in South Sudan, where they were sent. The Department of Homeland Security claims that since the home countries of these heinous criminals will not accept them back, the U.S. was lucky that South Sudan was willing to allow the plane to land at all. Judge Murphy has given the administration another option: conduct full hearings with U.S.-provided defense attorneys in South Sudan.

• ICE cracks down in Denver, homicides drop 58%: An interesting thing has happened in Denver since the Trump administration began its crackdown on criminal illegal aliens. The homicide rate in the city has dropped by 58% from the prior year. Furthermore, the eastern suburb city of Aurora has seen a 36% decline in homicides over this time last year. The precipitous drop in homicides just happens to coincide with ICE’s actions against the criminal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Isn’t it interesting that when law enforcement targets criminals, crime goes down? Go figure. Now explain to us how illegal aliens have no discernible impact on the crime rate in American communities.

• The CBO’s steep partisan slant: Remember, whenever you hear the media throwing around the term “nonpartisan,” take it with a grain of salt. The Congressional Budget Office’s Health Analysis Division (HAD) should be “nonpartisan,” right? It’s part of the CBO, which is “nonpartisan” — you can tell because it says “nonpartisan analysis for the U.S. Congress” right at the top of the website. Like most nonpartisan claims, however, this one is poppycock. Of the 32 HAD members, 26 have clearly verified liberal biases. That’s 84% of them. These biases were analyzed by the conservative nonprofit American Accountability Foundation (AAF), which points out that HAD and the CBO use the guise of nonpartisanship to influence perception of bills passing through Congress, presenting itself as a neutral scorekeeper when it is anything but.

• Veterans group pushes Congress to end “wounded veterans tax”: The Major Richard Star Act, named for a former Army combat engineer who succumbed at 51 to service-related lung cancer, has 271 cosponsors in the House and 71 in the Senate but still has not been passed. The bipartisan support for this bill is due to the sensibility of its effect, ending the “wounded veterans tax” that reduces the retirement benefits of medically retired veterans. Current law has a dollar-for-dollar offset, where every dollar of disability compensation for those with less than a 50% disability rating and less than 20 years of service is taken from the retirement pay for that veteran. With how much money the U.S. throws at problems worldwide, stiffing wounded veterans an average of $1,200 monthly for not serving after they lost a limb seems nothing short of a betrayal.

• Women’s college gives honorary degree to a dude: A once-prominent women’s college has now slapped all women in the face by bestowing an honorary degree on Richard (a.k.a. “Rachel”) Levine, the infamous former assistant secretary for health. Smith College, an all-women’s school founded in 1871, is an elite learning institution whose entire existence is to celebrate women, but it doesn’t know what a woman is. The irony is not lost on us. Women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines called the school out on X: “Smith college, a private women’s college in Massachusetts, awarded Rachel (Richard) Levine an honorary degree today,” she said. “He then delivered the commencement address. Ladies, congratulations — your graduation was led by the very thing feminism was allegedly fighting.” Sadly, science has been substituted at our “higher education” institutions for far-left ideology, and truth has been traded in for lies.

Headlines

• Supreme Court blocks religious charter school in Oklahoma (Forbes)

• Woman shot by security guards after failing to stop at CIA headquarters gate (Daily Wire)

• Senate panel concludes health officials downplayed COVID vax risks despite early warnings (Just the News)

• Anti-Israel protesters spark chaos outside Columbia University graduation with diploma-burning, aggressive chants (NY Post)

• Treasury sounds death knell for penny production (WSJ)

• Humor: “No Tax on Tips” passes Senate unanimously after clarification that bribes can count as tips (Babylon Bee)

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