"Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized numerous academics over the course of her academic career, at times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as her own work, according to reviews by several scholars.

"In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors -- including two of her colleagues in Harvard University's department of government -- without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay's dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo and Karlstack's Chris Brunet.

"The Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism. Most of them said that Gay had violated a core principle of academic integrity as well as Harvard's own anti-plagiarism policies, which state that 'it's not enough to change a few words here and there.'"

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"Now that Liz Magill is about to become the former president of the University of Pennsylvania, the only sensible reaction is to hope she is the first of many college leaders to hit the road.

"Magill's forced resignation, following her sickening tolerance of antisemitism on Penn's campus and her smug, disastrous congressional testimony, is reason to hope America's educational rot has reached peak madness. The test is whether her comeuppance represents a sacrificial one-off or the start of a wholesale house cleaning of administrators who sold their souls to the woke mob.

"That's the moral clarity the nation needs and the moment demands.

"Make no mistake: the outbreak of antisemitism on campuses across America is the virulent result of decades of radical professors whose far-left politics have turned elite institutions into anti-American indoctrination factories."

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"Joe Biden made cracking down on tax-cheating millionaires a centerpiece of his presidency, even securing the funds to hire new IRS agents and auditors. On Thursday, his Justice Department branded first son Hunter Biden as a quintessential tax cheat who chose to underwrite an 'extravagant lifestyle' with millions in foreign monies rather than pay his debts to Uncle Sam.

"In a sweeping grand jury indictment that levied three felony and six misdemeanor charges that carry 17 years in prison, Special Counsel David Weiss markedly increased the legal peril for Hunter Biden while also placing a dark cloud over the president's own political fortunes just weeks before the start of the presidential primary elections."

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"If they made nothing else clear, elite university presidents testifying Tuesday certainly showed they're not serious about dealing with antisemitism.

"The Harvard, MIT and University of Pennsylvania chiefs all admitted that antisemitism is a problem, but dodged and weaved about confronting the hate.

"All quickly retreated to a 'free speech' defense, claiming their hands are tied by their duty to allow unfettered dialogue.

"Funny: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranked Harvard the worst school for free speech in 2023, with an 'abysmal' record, and Penn as the second-worst. (MIT is just middling.)"

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"It is tempting to dismiss COP28 as the Super Bowl of virtue signaling. But that would be to ignore the massive damage being done to our country by the unrealistic and costly climate policies of the Biden White House. The administration's wrong-headed 'leadership' on phasing out fossil fuels, which currently provide nearly 80% of U.S. energy, is a highlight of COP28; their policies are making Americans poorer and less secure.

"To wit: since Joe Biden took office, electricity prices have soared 24%; during President Trump's four years in office, average electricity prices actually declined.

"COP 28, the annual climate talkathon, has had its light moments. Some 80,000 attendees are participating, a large number of whom are traveling by emissions-spewing private jets. Over the weekend, some of those planes were frozen to icy runways in Munich as global warming was trumped by unseasonal cold and blizzards which blanketed much of Europe."

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"The best-case scenario for one of the most common COVID-19 interventions may be that it has no measurable effect on infection, recent studies suggest.

"A systematic review of studies of mask mandates for children, published Saturday in the British Medical Journal's Archives of Disease in Childhood, found "no association" with infection or transmission in 16 of the 22 observational studies and 'critical' or 'serious' risk of bias in the six countervailing studies. It got the attention of Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly Twitter.

"Self-reported SARS-CoV-2 infection was higher the more often people said they wore masks, according to a Norwegian study accepted for publication Nov. 13 in the Cambridge University Press journal Epidemiology and Infection.

"The findings cast further doubt on the practice of not only public health authorities but scientists themselves in demonizing science-based skepticism of the effectiveness of COVID interventions, particularly in relation to their potential medical, mental and social harms."

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"It's just shoplifting, what's the big deal? Everything is insured. The stores just write it off, right?

"But anyone who has ever stood in front of a locked case of toothpaste, waiting for someone to free the Colgate, knows it's far more than that.

"Worse, anyone who has lived in an area that shops are abandoning en masse due to the shoplifting problem knows what is lost.

"The impulse to dismiss shoplifting as no big deal is wrong. A mass shoplifting problem is evidence of societal decline and degradation."

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"Hunter Biden's offer to testify before the House Oversight Committee is a clever evasion, nothing more. The president's son says he will testify only if the hearing is publicly televised. Nice try. Subpoenaed witnesses don't get to set the terms. The committee does.

"Why make an offer that is bound to be rejected? For two reasons. The PR goal is for Hunter to appear willing to testify, when he actually wants desperately to avoid it. The legal goal is to prevent, or at least delay, the committee from enforcing its subpoena. Hunter and his hardball attorney, Abbe Lowell, probably figure the Biden administration's Department of Justice won't go to court and demand compliance. That's not a bad bet. If the DOJ does refuse, the House will go to court itself, but that will take time and may not succeed.

"This kerfuffle over testimony is only the latest twist in the investigation of Biden family influence peddling. The complexity of that family operation makes it easy to lose sight of what we know, what we don't, and how deeply the president himself is involved.

"It is useful to unpack the whole operation because it has lots of moving parts, law enforcement has covered it up, and the legacy media has remained deaf, dumb, and blind."

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"The Biden administration has outpaced other recent presidents in issuing significant regulations that place a financial burden on taxpayers, according to a report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

"Under President Joe Biden, the federal government completed 89 economically significant rules in 2022, defined as those with at least a $100 million economic impact, which is higher than any point in the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations when deregulation is accounted for, according to CEI's 'Ten Thousand Commandments Report.' Regulations as a whole resulted in $1.939 trillion in added costs for the average American in 2022, exceeding every form of tax except income tax, which it rivals at $2.263 trillion."

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"As lawmakers race to strike a deal before the end of the year that could unlock billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, they are struggling to find consensus on U.S. border and immigration policies, a critical piece of the bill in order to gain Republican support in both chambers.

"Senate Republicans want to see a crackdown on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in exchange for their support for President Joe Biden's request for $106 billion that includes the emergency funding for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan as well as funding to strengthen the U.S.'s immigration system. The White House's supplemental request also includes $14 billion for border security."

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