Kevin Spacey is facing new sexual assault allegations from nearly a dozen men in an upcoming U.K. documentary and has hit back, claiming he’s “being attacked” to boost ratings. Channel 4’s “Spacey Unmasked” two-part documentary highlights accusations from a variety of men who accused the “House of Cards” star of sexual misconduct over the span of five decades, ranging from his teenage years to his time as a star in Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes accusations from his time as an artistic director at London’s Old Vic theater from 2004-2015. “I felt like I was staring at a soulless monster,” Daniel, an actor, said in the documentary produced by RoastBeef productions. Another actor named Scott alleged, “If you don’t pay the toll in sexual favors, you’ll have a decent career, but you won’t see your name in lights.” None of the men featured in the documentary were involved in Spacey’s sexual assault trial in London last year that resulted in the 64-year-old actor being acquitted. And all but one have never spoken out to accuse Spacey of various sexual misconduct, the outlet noted. Kevin Spacey is firing back against an upcoming documentary series about him. “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings. There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not… pic.twitter.com/NuvQ510p8C — Variety (@Variety) May 2, 2024 Following news of the upcoming documentary, Spacey took to X and wrote, “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings.” “There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4,” Spacey said. “Each time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated.” “Over the last week, I have repeatedly requested that Channel4 afford me more than 7 days to respond to allegations made against me dating back 48 years and provide me with sufficient details to investigate these matters,” he added. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Channel 4 has refused on the basis that they feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a ‘fair opportunity’ for me to refute any allegations made against me,” Spacey continued. “Channel 4 and RoastBeef TV may find themselves ‘speechless,’ but I no longer will be.” Channel 4 released a statement to THR that read, “Kevin Spacey has been given sufficient opportunity to respond.” In July 2023, the “Superman Returns” star was acquitted on all nine of the sexual assault charges against him in the U.K., The Hollywood Reporter noted. Spacey previously pleaded not guilty to the nine allegations that he had sexually assaulted four men between 2004 and 2013 in London, Reuters noted. The allegations ranged from unwanted touching to aggressive fondling — and, in one case, performing oral sex on an unconscious actor. Spacey was one of the most prominent figures accused of sexual misconduct during the start of the #MeToo era. The documentary is set to premiere in the U.K. on May 6 and 7, with its U.S. air dates on Max and Investigation Discovery to be announced soon, the outlet noted.

Former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), now the president of the University of Florida, slammed pro-Hamas demonstrators this week who have created chaos on college campuses across the U.S. and the weak leadership at the universities that has allowed the behavior to happen. Sasse’s remarks come after the school released a statement early in the week revealing that numerous arrests were made on campus because the school would not tolerate disorderly conduct that was in violation of the school’s policies. “Higher education has for years faced a slow-burning crisis of public trust,” he wrote in an op-ed at The Wall Street Journal. “Mob rule at some of America’s most prestigious universities in recent weeks has thrown gasoline on the fire. Pro-Hamas agitators have fought police, barricaded themselves in university buildings, shut down classes, forced commencement cancellations, and physically impeded Jewish students from attending lectures.” Sasse said that parents were right to be angered over the “asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators.” He said that at the University of Florida, the message that the school sends to parents and the future employers of college students is that “the adults are still in charge.” “To cherish the First Amendment rights of speech and assembly, we draw a hard line at unlawful action,” he said. “Speech isn’t violence. Silence isn’t violence. Violence is violence. Just as we have an obligation to protect speech, we have an obligation to keep our students safe. Throwing fists, storming buildings, vandalizing property, spitting on cops and hijacking a university aren’t speech.” He said that school’s making empty threats to quell bad behavior is not effective and only serves to embolden those who are violating policies. “Appeasing mobs emboldens agitators elsewhere,” he said. “Moving classes online is a retreat that penalizes students and rewards protesters. Participating in live-streamed struggle sessions doesn’t promote honest, good-faith discussion. Universities need to be strong defenders of the entire community, including students in the library on the eve of an exam, and stewards of our fundamental educational mission.” He said that the school made the rules clear to the protesters who were on campus, and many of them decided that the consequences were worth it and have since been arrested and thrown off campus. “We said it. We meant it. We enforced it,” he said. “We wish we didn’t have to, but the students weighed the costs, made their decisions, and will own the consequences as adults. We’re a university, not a daycare. We don’t coddle emotions, we wrestle with ideas.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP He said that schools needed to “recommit themselves to real education” instead of focusing on identity politics and other woke nonsense. He continued: Rather than engage a wide range of ideas with curiosity and intellectual humility, many academic disciplines have capitulated to a dogmatic view of identity politics. Students are taught to divide the world into immutable categories of oppressors and oppressed, and to make sweeping judgements accordingly. With little regard for historical complexity, personal agency or individual dignity, much of what passes for sophisticated thought is quasireligious fanaticism. The results are now on full display. Students steeped in this dogma chant violent slogans like “by any means necessary.” Any? Paraglider memes have replaced Che Guevara T-shirts. But which paragliders—the savages who raped teenage girls at a concert? “From the river to the sea.” Which river? Which sea? Young men and women with little grasp of geography or history—even recent events like the Palestinians’ rejection of President Clinton’s offer of a two-state solution—wade into geopolitics with bumper-sticker slogans they don’t understand. For a lonely subset of the anxious generation, these protest camps can become a place to find a rare taste of community. This is their stage to role-play revolution. Posting about your “allergen-free” tent on the quad is a lot easier than doing real work to uplift the downtrodden. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis set the tone in the state regarding what behavior would not be tolerated on college campuses in the aftermath of the October 7 terrorist attack. Just a couple of weeks after the attack, DeSantis ordered the state to crack down on collegiate student groups that showed support for Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood terrorist attack. The governor directed Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, to send notices to the University of Florida and the University of South Florida notifying them that they must deactivate their chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) because they allegedly broke Florida laws about terrorism. “During a holy Jewish holiday, the recognized terrorist organization, Hamas, launched an unprovoked attack on Israel – among those killed were babies, women, and elderly,” Rodrigues said in a letter to the presidents of Florida’s public universities. “To date, approximately 1,400 Israelis have been killed, including 31 American citizens. Governor DeSantis, our State University System and the Florida College System have condemned these attacks.” In response to the Palestinian Islamic terrorist attack, “National Students for Justice in Palestine (National SJP) released a ‘toolkit’ which refers to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as ‘the resistance’ and unequivocally states: ‘Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement,’” the letter said. The letter noted that under Florida law, it is a felony to “knowingly provide material support . . . to a designated foreign terrorist organization. . .” Hamas is designated by the Untied States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. “Here, National SJP has affirmatively identified it is part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a terrorist led attack,” the letter continued, later adding: “Based on the National SJP’s support of terrorism, in consultation with Governor DeSantis, the student chapters must be deactivated.” The letter concluded by saying that Florida will continue to monitor events on college campuses and will be “using all tools at our disposal to crack down on campus demonstrations that delve beyond protected First Amendment speech into harmful support for terrorist groups.”

In the late 90’s, a veteran and father of three named Norman Browning took a job as a volunteer coach at Woodlawn High School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Browning had been educated by Baton Rouge’s public schools and he wanted to give back to the community. But very quickly, he realized that Woodlawn was very different from the school it used to be. For one thing, there wasn’t much discipline. Teachers didn’t have close relationships with parents, and didn’t seem particularly interested in doing their jobs. Test scores were abysmal. Additionally, demographics had shifted dramatically. Students were poorer than they used to be. And there wasn’t much of the fabled “diversity” that we’re told is so important. More than half of the student body was black. Meanwhile, Baton Rouge and its schools were becoming increasingly violent. (Currently it’s one of the ten most dangerous cities in the country). Here’s just one recent example of a common sight in Baton Rouge schools: So there’s a brawl in the school, and then the parents show up and they get involved in the brawl too. And then a gun turns up, and the cops aren’t remotely surprised by any of this. This kind of thing has been happening consistently in Baton Rouge for the past decade. As the Daily Mail reports, on a single day in 2013, Browning observed “as many as six separate fights between unruly students.” Instead of shaking his head and moving on — which he very easily could have done — Browning decided on a different course of action. As the Daily Mail reports, Browning decided to help lead a breakaway movement to effectively secede from East Baton Rouge parish and incorporate a new city called St. George. This new city would have schools that admit students who actually want to learn, and teachers who want to teach. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show The idea was a longshot. Other movements to incorporate new cities and secede, most notably the effort by Buckhead to secede from Atlanta in Georgia, have fallen short. That’s mainly because local politicians — including conservatives — have stood in the way.  But — after a campaign that took the better part of a decade — in 2019, voters finally approved a ballot initiative to create St. George. What followed were years of legal battles that ended last week, when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that St. George can indeed incorporate. St. George will be a 60-square mile area, with a population of more than 85,000 residents. (For comparison, Baton Rouge is 76 square miles, with a population of more than 200,000).  That’ll make St. George one of the largest cities in the state. They’ll have their own mayor, public services, and city council. Watch: A key part of the Louisiana Supreme Court’s ruling is that, contrary to what Baton Rouge claimed, St. George has the financial means to be self-sustaining. And that’s not surprising. Taxpayers in the area that’s now known as St. George pay roughly two-thirds of the total tax revenue of the government of East Baton Rouge. But they receive only about one-third of the government’s expenses in return. And, despite paying all these taxes, St. George residents haven’t been represented in the mayor’s office in Baton Rouge in modern history. In other words, St. George is vital for East Baton Rouge’s economy. And in return for all the tax revenue St. George has generated, Baton Rouge has done basically nothing for St. George. They made their neighborhood more dangerous and their schools even worse. And on top of that, the people of St. George have no real representation in local government. So now East Baton Rouge isn’t going to get that tax revenue anymore, or at least not anywhere near the same amount. In fact, St. George residents are currently seeking tens of millions of dollars in back taxes that they’ve paid to the East Baton Rouge parish government since 2019. You have to wonder why this isn’t happening more often. Governments that don’t provide basic services or representation for their citizens don’t deserve tax money from their citizens. That’s a pretty intuitive principle. And there’s no rule that says you can’t make your own city if you want to. Quite the opposite. The right of free association is a fundamental part of the constitution. So why isn’t this more commonplace? One reason might be that anyone who attempts to incorporate a sane, high-functioning city will immediately be defamed as a racist. Predictably, that’s been the main reaction from the Left to the incorporation of St. George. There has been no reckoning about the failures of Baton Rouge’s leadership whatsoever. Here for example is a former president of the NAACP in Baton Rouge, reacting to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court: The NAACP guy starts off by saying that some of the people leading the secession movement are on the school board, so they’re responsible for the failing schools. Apparently these school board members should have used their vast influence in order to prevent brawls from constantly breaking out. They also should have forced the students to be smarter, the teachers to care more about their jobs, and parents to actually parent their children. Then his argument devolves into accusing everyone in St. George of racism. They didn’t stay and try to fix East Baton Rouge’s broken school system, so they must be bigots who just want to get away from black people. This is one of the stock responses you’ll hear on the Left in response to the secession of St. George. For example, on Twitter, a “black activist” named Samuel Sinyangwe wrote: “They’re ‘seceding’ from a majority-Black city to create a whites-only enclave in Louisiana.” Just as a factual matter, what this activist is saying about the new city isn’t true. It’s not a “whites-only enclave” because there are black people living in it. Specifically, 12% of the population is black, which is roughly the same percentage of black people you’ll find in Barack Obama’s preferred island, Martha’s Vineyard. It also mirrors the overall percentage of black people in the United States at large, which stands at around 14%. In other words, these activists calling St. George a “whites-only enclave” are also, in effect, calling the entire country a “whites-only enclave.” Additionally, Woodlawn High School, which I mentioned earlier, is within the limits of the new city of St. George. This school, with a lot of black students attending, is not being abandoned by this new city. The point is to improve its leadership so that there’s more learning and less fighting. Of course, if you let these activists talk a little more, it becomes very clear what they’re really upset about. They’re not upset about racism or whatever. They know that East Baton Rouge, like so many other cities in this country, is dysfunctional — and no sane person would want to continue funding it with their tax dollars. What bothers these activists is that their source of funding is about to go to zero. Their cash cow is abandoning them. They will have to be productive for once and solve their own problems, without taking other people’s money and wasting it. That NAACP president in Baton Rouge eventually gets around to admitting this. Listen: “It’s pulling a lot of the resources and the tax bases from Baton Rouge. Stuff that is used to keep our city stable. … This is going to be paid for on the backs of poor black folks.” There’s finally some honesty there. It’s true that, without St. George, Baton Rouge will probably have a lot of financial problems to deal with. But the people responsible for those problems are not living in St. George. They’re running Baton Rouge, which is losing population by the day. As the Louisiana Supreme Court said in its decision: “Baton Rouge has arguably experienced a windfall by collecting taxes in St. George without returning proportionate money and services. Incorporation will allow the money paid by St. George citizens to stay in St. George … The record establishes the population of St. George is increasing. Conversely, the population of Baton Rouge is declining.” As St. George creates its new school system and builds out its infrastructure, it’s very likely that Baton Rouge’s population will continue to decline. That’s why, already, there’s an effort by Baton Rouge activists to get the Louisiana Supreme Court to reconsider its decision. But that will probably fail, as it should. For one thing, some of the economic success of St. George will almost certainly benefit Baton Rouge in a variety of ways. St. George will keep many more people in the area, and the residents there will still pay for some services provided by the government of East Baton Rouge. But more importantly, if St. George continues to thrive, it will send a very clear signal to dysfunctional governments all over the country. And that signal is: Stop wasting our tax dollars, or we’ll leave — and we’ll take our tax dollars with us. That’s how our system was always supposed to work. Our country was founded on the principle that governments cannot lawfully tax people without representing them or working for their benefit. And with the secession of St. George from the capital city of Louisiana, for the first time in recent memory, that principle is back. Hopefully there’s much more to come.

Kevin Spacey is facing new sexual assault allegations from nearly a dozen men in an upcoming U.K. documentary and has hit back, claiming he’s “being attacked” to boost ratings. Channel 4’s “Spacey Unmasked” two-part documentary highlights accusations from a variety of men who accused the “House of Cards” star of sexual misconduct over the span of five decades, ranging from his teenage years to his time as a star in Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes accusations from his time as an artistic director at London’s Old Vic theater from 2004-2015. “I felt like I was staring at a soulless monster,” Daniel, an actor, said in the documentary produced by RoastBeef productions. Another actor named Scott alleged, “If you don’t pay the toll in sexual favors, you’ll have a decent career, but you won’t see your name in lights.” None of the men featured in the documentary were involved in Spacey’s sexual assault trial in London last year that resulted in the 64-year-old actor being acquitted. And all but one have never spoken out to accuse Spacey of various sexual misconduct, the outlet noted. Kevin Spacey is firing back against an upcoming documentary series about him. “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings. There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not… pic.twitter.com/NuvQ510p8C — Variety (@Variety) May 2, 2024 Following news of the upcoming documentary, Spacey took to X and wrote, “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings.” “There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4,” Spacey said. “Each time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated.” “Over the last week, I have repeatedly requested that Channel4 afford me more than 7 days to respond to allegations made against me dating back 48 years and provide me with sufficient details to investigate these matters,” he added. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Channel 4 has refused on the basis that they feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a ‘fair opportunity’ for me to refute any allegations made against me,” Spacey continued. “Channel 4 and RoastBeef TV may find themselves ‘speechless,’ but I no longer will be.” Channel 4 released a statement to THR that read, “Kevin Spacey has been given sufficient opportunity to respond.” In July 2023, the “Superman Returns” star was acquitted on all nine of the sexual assault charges against him in the U.K., The Hollywood Reporter noted. Spacey previously pleaded not guilty to the nine allegations that he had sexually assaulted four men between 2004 and 2013 in London, Reuters noted. The allegations ranged from unwanted touching to aggressive fondling — and, in one case, performing oral sex on an unconscious actor. Spacey was one of the most prominent figures accused of sexual misconduct during the start of the #MeToo era. The documentary is set to premiere in the U.K. on May 6 and 7, with its U.S. air dates on Max and Investigation Discovery to be announced soon, the outlet noted.

On Friday, the latest iteration of patriotic students standing up for America and confronting the pro-Hamas, anti-American activists on college campuses occurred at Louisiana State University. The counter-protesters chanted “USA” to drown out the anti-American, pro-Hamas activists. Counter protesters outnumber the commies at LSU @OldRowLSU pic.twitter.com/vK7jUgdR9A — Old Row (@OldRowOfficial) May 3, 2024   The trend of patriotic students confronting the activists has burgeoned at universities in Southern states. On Thursday, a group of students at the University of Mississippi belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” drowning out the chanting and shouting of pro-Hamas protesters on their campus. In a video posted to X on Tuesday, a number of students could be heard singing the national anthem at the top of their lungs while the shouts of nearby protesters — several of whom carried large Palestinian flags — were completely overpowered. Ole Miss students sing the Star Spangled Banner🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Kj1PCXB48w — RedCupOleMiss (@RedCupOleMiss) May 2, 2024 On Wednesday, students chanted “USA” at the University of Alabama to drown out the pro-Hamas, anti-American activists. “USA” chants drown out Pro-Palestine chants at University of Alabama pic.twitter.com/HU9rxl0j6t — gray williams (@graywilliamss) May 1, 2024 On North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus, a group of fraternity boys fought back when anti-Israel protesters attempted to replace an American flag with a Palestinian flag. They stepped in and kept the American flag from touching the ground, even as the protesters surrounded them and hurled insults, water, and other objects their way. A GoFundMe was set up to fund a “rager” for the UNC fraternity brothers who helped defend the American flag on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. Pi Kappa Phi member Guillermo Estrada explained, “My fraternity brother and others ran over to hold it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.” Virginia Kruta contributed to this article. Related: Ole Miss Students Drown Out Anti-Israel Protesters By Belting Out ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

In the late 90’s, a veteran and father of three named Norman Browning took a job as a volunteer coach at Woodlawn High School in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Browning had been educated by Baton Rouge’s public schools and he wanted to give back to the community. But very quickly, he realized that Woodlawn was very different from the school it used to be. For one thing, there wasn’t much discipline. Teachers didn’t have close relationships with parents, and didn’t seem particularly interested in doing their jobs. Test scores were abysmal. Additionally, demographics had shifted dramatically. Students were poorer than they used to be. And there wasn’t much of the fabled “diversity” that we’re told is so important. More than half of the student body was black. Meanwhile, Baton Rouge and its schools were becoming increasingly violent. (Currently it’s one of the ten most dangerous cities in the country). Here’s just one recent example of a common sight in Baton Rouge schools: So there’s a brawl in the school, and then the parents show up and they get involved in the brawl too. And then a gun turns up, and the cops aren’t remotely surprised by any of this. This kind of thing has been happening consistently in Baton Rouge for the past decade. As the Daily Mail reports, on a single day in 2013, Browning observed “as many as six separate fights between unruly students.” Instead of shaking his head and moving on — which he very easily could have done — Browning decided on a different course of action. As the Daily Mail reports, Browning decided to help lead a breakaway movement to effectively secede from East Baton Rouge parish and incorporate a new city called St. George. This new city would have schools that admit students who actually want to learn, and teachers who want to teach. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show The idea was a longshot. Other movements to incorporate new cities and secede, most notably the effort by Buckhead to secede from Atlanta in Georgia, have fallen short. That’s mainly because local politicians — including conservatives — have stood in the way.  But — after a campaign that took the better part of a decade — in 2019, voters finally approved a ballot initiative to create St. George. What followed were years of legal battles that ended last week, when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that St. George can indeed incorporate. St. George will be a 60-square mile area, with a population of more than 85,000 residents. (For comparison, Baton Rouge is 76 square miles, with a population of more than 200,000).  That’ll make St. George one of the largest cities in the state. They’ll have their own mayor, public services, and city council. Watch: A key part of the Louisiana Supreme Court’s ruling is that, contrary to what Baton Rouge claimed, St. George has the financial means to be self-sustaining. And that’s not surprising. Taxpayers in the area that’s now known as St. George pay roughly two-thirds of the total tax revenue of the government of East Baton Rouge. But they receive only about one-third of the government’s expenses in return. And, despite paying all these taxes, St. George residents haven’t been represented in the mayor’s office in Baton Rouge in modern history. In other words, St. George is vital for East Baton Rouge’s economy. And in return for all the tax revenue St. George has generated, Baton Rouge has done basically nothing for St. George. They made their neighborhood more dangerous and their schools even worse. And on top of that, the people of St. George have no real representation in local government. So now East Baton Rouge isn’t going to get that tax revenue anymore, or at least not anywhere near the same amount. In fact, St. George residents are currently seeking tens of millions of dollars in back taxes that they’ve paid to the East Baton Rouge parish government since 2019. You have to wonder why this isn’t happening more often. Governments that don’t provide basic services or representation for their citizens don’t deserve tax money from their citizens. That’s a pretty intuitive principle. And there’s no rule that says you can’t make your own city if you want to. Quite the opposite. The right of free association is a fundamental part of the constitution. So why isn’t this more commonplace? One reason might be that anyone who attempts to incorporate a sane, high-functioning city will immediately be defamed as a racist. Predictably, that’s been the main reaction from the Left to the incorporation of St. George. There has been no reckoning about the failures of Baton Rouge’s leadership whatsoever. Here for example is a former president of the NAACP in Baton Rouge, reacting to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court: The NAACP guy starts off by saying that some of the people leading the secession movement are on the school board, so they’re responsible for the failing schools. Apparently these school board members should have used their vast influence in order to prevent brawls from constantly breaking out. They also should have forced the students to be smarter, the teachers to care more about their jobs, and parents to actually parent their children. Then his argument devolves into accusing everyone in St. George of racism. They didn’t stay and try to fix East Baton Rouge’s broken school system, so they must be bigots who just want to get away from black people. This is one of the stock responses you’ll hear on the Left in response to the secession of St. George. For example, on Twitter, a “black activist” named Samuel Sinyangwe wrote: “They’re ‘seceding’ from a majority-Black city to create a whites-only enclave in Louisiana.” Just as a factual matter, what this activist is saying about the new city isn’t true. It’s not a “whites-only enclave” because there are black people living in it. Specifically, 12% of the population is black, which is roughly the same percentage of black people you’ll find in Barack Obama’s preferred island, Martha’s Vineyard. It also mirrors the overall percentage of black people in the United States at large, which stands at around 14%. In other words, these activists calling St. George a “whites-only enclave” are also, in effect, calling the entire country a “whites-only enclave.” Additionally, Woodlawn High School, which I mentioned earlier, is within the limits of the new city of St. George. This school, with a lot of black students attending, is not being abandoned by this new city. The point is to improve its leadership so that there’s more learning and less fighting. Of course, if you let these activists talk a little more, it becomes very clear what they’re really upset about. They’re not upset about racism or whatever. They know that East Baton Rouge, like so many other cities in this country, is dysfunctional — and no sane person would want to continue funding it with their tax dollars. What bothers these activists is that their source of funding is about to go to zero. Their cash cow is abandoning them. They will have to be productive for once and solve their own problems, without taking other people’s money and wasting it. That NAACP president in Baton Rouge eventually gets around to admitting this. Listen: “It’s pulling a lot of the resources and the tax bases from Baton Rouge. Stuff that is used to keep our city stable. … This is going to be paid for on the backs of poor black folks.” There’s finally some honesty there. It’s true that, without St. George, Baton Rouge will probably have a lot of financial problems to deal with. But the people responsible for those problems are not living in St. George. They’re running Baton Rouge, which is losing population by the day. As the Louisiana Supreme Court said in its decision: “Baton Rouge has arguably experienced a windfall by collecting taxes in St. George without returning proportionate money and services. Incorporation will allow the money paid by St. George citizens to stay in St. George … The record establishes the population of St. George is increasing. Conversely, the population of Baton Rouge is declining.” As St. George creates its new school system and builds out its infrastructure, it’s very likely that Baton Rouge’s population will continue to decline. That’s why, already, there’s an effort by Baton Rouge activists to get the Louisiana Supreme Court to reconsider its decision. But that will probably fail, as it should. For one thing, some of the economic success of St. George will almost certainly benefit Baton Rouge in a variety of ways. St. George will keep many more people in the area, and the residents there will still pay for some services provided by the government of East Baton Rouge. But more importantly, if St. George continues to thrive, it will send a very clear signal to dysfunctional governments all over the country. And that signal is: Stop wasting our tax dollars, or we’ll leave — and we’ll take our tax dollars with us. That’s how our system was always supposed to work. Our country was founded on the principle that governments cannot lawfully tax people without representing them or working for their benefit. And with the secession of St. George from the capital city of Louisiana, for the first time in recent memory, that principle is back. Hopefully there’s much more to come.

Universities that selected presidents with academic track records that consist largely of political screeds about oppression are now melting down because of students who say they’re oppressed, a review of academic papers shows. At UCLA, Provost Darnell Hunt donned a mask and sat on the ground with protesters, who told him that police are on the side of “Zionists,” and that police are going to commit “brutality” against them. After he said he had “to go,” they screamed “shame” at him. MUST WATCH FOOTAGE: This is UCLA's Provost, Darnell Hunt, trying to negotiate with the UCLA Encampment Activists. They effectively lecture him and when he tries to briefly clarify something, they get mad at him, so he decides to leave. The Encampment Occupiers laugh at this… pic.twitter.com/fKJRcXHykQ — Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024 Hunt made his career opining on police brutality and racism in the aftermath of riots triggered by purported brutality against Rodney King, writing a book called “Screening the Los Angeles ‘Riots’: Race, Seeing, and Resistance.” The titles of his academic papers, below, give an idea of his area of expertise: Reclaiming UCLA (lamenting that “a county that is 9.8% African American — now has a lower percentage of black freshman than either crosstown rival USC or UC Berkeley”) Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America Birth of a Nation’hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case And at Sacramento State, President Luke Wood went back on a threat to remove an anti-Israel encampment, instead allowing them to remain “indefinitely.” Wood has made his career writing about student activism and the oppression of blacks, authoring the book “The Sources of American Student Activism” and papers such as: Political Consciousness and Student Activism Racelighting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Education Treat Them Like Human Beings: Black Children’s Experiences With Racial Microaggressions in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19 I Love My Hair: The Weaponizing of Black Girls Hair by Educators in Early Childhood Education Black Men in Higher Education The review suggests that the unrest on college campuses is not the result of a small subversive faction, but rather one in line with the ideology of those at the highest ranks of the institutions. The papers, focused heavily on social sciences, also raise questions about the real-world utility of the work of those at even the highest levels of academia. At Rutgers University, an anti-Semitic protester told a Jewish student that “Hitler would have loved you.” Rutgers leadership went on to give in to many of the protesters’ demands, such as agreeing “to develop a plan for the creation of an Arab Cultural Center with designated physical space and a hiring plan for administrators and staff,” and to “develop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators and staff.” Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway — a former professor of African American Studies at Yale — has contributed to the academic world through papers such as: Race, slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War The Black Body As Archive of Memory (which “considers the film Shaft and how it was, from beginning to end, one extended middle finger to white America”) How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age Rutgers – Watch as a campus protestor tells a Jewish student “Free Palestine, Hitler would have loved you.” Just another example of what this is all about – Jew hatred. Plain and simple Jewish hatred. pic.twitter.com/syUOz7tY4z — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 2, 2024 At Portland State University, occupiers seized the campus’ main library, fighting with janitors and police, destroying rare books and smashing a historic sculpture based on the Torah. Today: Portland news station KGW captured the moment the Antifa "guards" for the @Portland_State library occupation pushed someone down the stairs. Far-left extremists have seized the entire Millar Library "for Gaza" and are destroying it inside. pic.twitter.com/PoeeNyhYJJ — Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2024 The university’s president, Ann Cudd, made her career off of lamenting oppression, publishing papers such as one simply titled “Oppression,” which cites Karl Marx, and another titled “Sporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of Capitalism,” which explains that “whole subcultures live among us that avoid sports or capitalism, such as academics.” Her other papers include: Analyzing Oppression How to Explain Oppression Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions Psychological Harms of Oppression Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression “Merit” In University Admissions Feminist Philosophy’s Dependence on the Facts Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to ResistanceAgainst Capitalism As Theory And As Reality Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics Missionary Positions Harassment, Bias, and the Evolving Politics of Free Speech on Campus At Northwestern University, the President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate disbanded after members quit over President Michael Schill giving in to anti-Israel protesters’ demands without consulting them. The concessions included full-ride scholarships to “five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern” and that the school would “provide and renovate a house for MENA/Muslim students.” President Schill is the author of papers like: Black, Brown, Poor & Poisoned: Minority Grassroots Environmentalism and the Quest for Eco-Justice Race, the Underclass, and Public Policy The Special Bias of Federal Housing Law and Policy: Concentrated Poverty in Urban America Polarization, Public Housing and Racial Minorities in US Cities At Columbia, radicals took over a campus building and covered it in communist symbols, with a female PhD student demanding the delivery of food as “humanitarian aid.” Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'." pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1 — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 30, 2024 At Barnard College, Columbia’s women’s college, president Laura Rosenbury is the author of papers like: Marital Status and Privilege Friends with Benefits Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory: A Contingent, Contextual Accountability

On Friday, the latest iteration of patriotic students standing up for America and confronting the pro-Hamas, anti-American activists on college campuses occurred at Louisiana State University. The counter-protesters chanted “USA” to drown out the anti-American, pro-Hamas activists. Counter protesters outnumber the commies at LSU @OldRowLSU pic.twitter.com/vK7jUgdR9A — Old Row (@OldRowOfficial) May 3, 2024   The trend of patriotic students confronting the activists has burgeoned at universities in Southern states. On Thursday, a group of students at the University of Mississippi belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” drowning out the chanting and shouting of pro-Hamas protesters on their campus. In a video posted to X on Tuesday, a number of students could be heard singing the national anthem at the top of their lungs while the shouts of nearby protesters — several of whom carried large Palestinian flags — were completely overpowered. Ole Miss students sing the Star Spangled Banner🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Kj1PCXB48w — RedCupOleMiss (@RedCupOleMiss) May 2, 2024 On Wednesday, students chanted “USA” at the University of Alabama to drown out the pro-Hamas, anti-American activists. “USA” chants drown out Pro-Palestine chants at University of Alabama pic.twitter.com/HU9rxl0j6t — gray williams (@graywilliamss) May 1, 2024 On North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus, a group of fraternity boys fought back when anti-Israel protesters attempted to replace an American flag with a Palestinian flag. They stepped in and kept the American flag from touching the ground, even as the protesters surrounded them and hurled insults, water, and other objects their way. A GoFundMe was set up to fund a “rager” for the UNC fraternity brothers who helped defend the American flag on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. Pi Kappa Phi member Guillermo Estrada explained, “My fraternity brother and others ran over to hold it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.” Virginia Kruta contributed to this article. Related: Ole Miss Students Drown Out Anti-Israel Protesters By Belting Out ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

When it comes to the college protesters roiling America’s campuses and roiling America more generally, it’s time for Americans, and particularly their political class, to pick a side. There are only two sides to this particular argument. One side despises America and the West, and the other side really likes America and the West. That binary decision is not particularly tough. It is happening on college campuses all over America. You get to pick which side you think the American president ought to stand on and which side you think the American people ought to stand on. The first side includes a UCLA protest spokesperson saying, “I think, given the fact that the University of California is founded on colonialism, it’s inherently a violent institution. There needs to be an addressment (sic) of U.S. imperialism and its ties to the UC system, and how it perpetuates war and violence abroad. Not only abroad, but also here locally.” The case they are making is that the United States is bad. When they say the University of California is founded on colonialism, what they really mean is that the United States is founded on colonialism, imperialism, exploitation, and rape of the native peoples — and all the rest of this garbage. That’s what they mean. They mean the United States is bad when they say that what’s happening in Gaza is connected to this. What they really mean is there is a coalition of people who are pseudo-oppressed, who are losers in life, who have now decided that the American system, the Western system, and meritocracy, are bad. Anybody who is successful in the system has designed the system for their own benefit. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show This is the intersectional conspiracy theory taken to the extreme. And what it really means is these people — who are the most privileged people in human history, sitting on a beautiful campus at the University of California at the most beautiful time of the year, outdoors, enjoying their lives on the public dime because tuition is subsidized at UCLA by the state — believe they are the victims of American society or standing in solidarity with the victims of American society.  The complaint is not about Israel. You don’t even hear the word Israel once in that statement. The complaint is about the United States. That’s one side. They hate America. They burn the flag. They take it down. They put up the Palestinian flag because the Palestinian flag has become the rallying point and tip of the spear in favor of this perverse view of the universe. This has happened because revolutionary movements need to show skin in the game. The way they show skin in the game is by picking the worst victims, people who are least sympathetic, and declare they have sympathy for those victims. That’s why the Black Lives Matter movement was founded originally around the death of Michael Brown, who tried to shoot a police officer before he was killed by a police officer. If you could declare your fealty to a false narrative about Michael Brown, suggesting that he died at the hands of American white supremacy, then you could sell those people anything. The same thing is true with regard to the Palestinian cause. The Palestinians are a perfect example of a group of people who have elected terrorists, who are sympathetic to terrorists, who support terrorism, who hate Jews, who hate America, and who have made their own bed. They’ve been offered everything and they’ve taken nothing. They’ve decided they’re not going to take any deal over and over. Every dollar that has gone into Gaza has been used to build up a terror epicenter. And these people declare solidarity with Palestinians because if you can declare solidarity with people who are obviously not victims and declare they are the victims of Western imperialism, you can declare virtually anything. That is why the keffiyeh and the Palestinian flag are substitutes for the American flag. That’s side A. You can pick side A, but those people don’t love America. Then, there’s side B. The second side includes the frat boys at the University of Mississippi who showed up to sing the Star-Spangled Banner in front of people who hate the United States. This side includes the frat boys at the University of North Carolina who actually tried to prevent the American flag from being brought down. It includes people like my friend Ami Horowitz, who went to a protest at City University of New York with an American flag and got beaten up for the privilege. You can either side with the statue of George Washington or with the people who deface the statue of George Washington. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP But you do have to pick a side. And if you pick the side that hates America, you should be held accountable, politically and otherwise. It turns out you should, in fact, love this country. It is an amazing country. It is the greatest country in the history of mankind. If you don’t, then there should, in fact, be some public opprobrium for you. It doesn’t mean you don’t have a right to say these things. You do have the absolute right to say whatever dumbass thing you want to say. It’s the United States of America. That does not mean people have to look at you as though you are anything but a moral idiot. And these people are moral idiots.

Universities that selected presidents with academic track records that consist largely of political screeds about oppression are now melting down because of students who say they’re oppressed, a review of academic papers shows. At UCLA, Provost Darnell Hunt donned a mask and sat on the ground with protesters, who told him that police are on the side of “Zionists,” and that police are going to commit “brutality” against them. After he said he had “to go,” they screamed “shame” at him. MUST WATCH FOOTAGE: This is UCLA's Provost, Darnell Hunt, trying to negotiate with the UCLA Encampment Activists. They effectively lecture him and when he tries to briefly clarify something, they get mad at him, so he decides to leave. The Encampment Occupiers laugh at this… pic.twitter.com/fKJRcXHykQ — Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024 Hunt made his career opining on police brutality and racism in the aftermath of riots triggered by purported brutality against Rodney King, writing a book called “Screening the Los Angeles ‘Riots’: Race, Seeing, and Resistance.” The titles of his academic papers, below, give an idea of his area of expertise: Reclaiming UCLA (lamenting that “a county that is 9.8% African American — now has a lower percentage of black freshman than either crosstown rival USC or UC Berkeley”) Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America Birth of a Nation’hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case And at Sacramento State, President Luke Wood went back on a threat to remove an anti-Israel encampment, instead allowing them to remain “indefinitely.” Wood has made his career writing about student activism and the oppression of blacks, authoring the book “The Sources of American Student Activism” and papers such as: Political Consciousness and Student Activism Racelighting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Education Treat Them Like Human Beings: Black Children’s Experiences With Racial Microaggressions in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19 I Love My Hair: The Weaponizing of Black Girls Hair by Educators in Early Childhood Education Black Men in Higher Education The review suggests that the unrest on college campuses is not the result of a small subversive faction, but rather one in line with the ideology of those at the highest ranks of the institutions. The papers, focused heavily on social sciences, also raise questions about the real-world utility of the work of those at even the highest levels of academia. At Rutgers University, an anti-Semitic protester told a Jewish student that “Hitler would have loved you.” Rutgers leadership went on to give in to many of the protesters’ demands, such as agreeing “to develop a plan for the creation of an Arab Cultural Center with designated physical space and a hiring plan for administrators and staff,” and to “develop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators and staff.” Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway — a former professor of African American Studies at Yale — has contributed to the academic world through papers such as: Race, slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War The Black Body As Archive of Memory (which “considers the film Shaft and how it was, from beginning to end, one extended middle finger to white America”) How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age Rutgers – Watch as a campus protestor tells a Jewish student “Free Palestine, Hitler would have loved you.” Just another example of what this is all about – Jew hatred. Plain and simple Jewish hatred. pic.twitter.com/syUOz7tY4z — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 2, 2024 At Portland State University, occupiers seized the campus’ main library, fighting with janitors and police, destroying rare books and smashing a historic sculpture based on the Torah. Today: Portland news station KGW captured the moment the Antifa "guards" for the @Portland_State library occupation pushed someone down the stairs. Far-left extremists have seized the entire Millar Library "for Gaza" and are destroying it inside. pic.twitter.com/PoeeNyhYJJ — Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2024 The university’s president, Ann Cudd, made her career off of lamenting oppression, publishing papers such as one simply titled “Oppression,” which cites Karl Marx, and another titled “Sporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of Capitalism,” which explains that “whole subcultures live among us that avoid sports or capitalism, such as academics.” Her other papers include: Analyzing Oppression How to Explain Oppression Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions Psychological Harms of Oppression Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression “Merit” In University Admissions Feminist Philosophy’s Dependence on the Facts Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to ResistanceAgainst Capitalism As Theory And As Reality Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics Missionary Positions Harassment, Bias, and the Evolving Politics of Free Speech on Campus At Northwestern University, the President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate disbanded after members quit over President Michael Schill giving in to anti-Israel protesters’ demands without consulting them. The concessions included full-ride scholarships to “five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern” and that the school would “provide and renovate a house for MENA/Muslim students.” President Schill is the author of papers like: Black, Brown, Poor & Poisoned: Minority Grassroots Environmentalism and the Quest for Eco-Justice Race, the Underclass, and Public Policy The Special Bias of Federal Housing Law and Policy: Concentrated Poverty in Urban America Polarization, Public Housing and Racial Minorities in US Cities At Columbia, radicals took over a campus building and covered it in communist symbols, with a female PhD student demanding the delivery of food as “humanitarian aid.” Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'." pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1 — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 30, 2024 At Barnard College, Columbia’s women’s college, president Laura Rosenbury is the author of papers like: Marital Status and Privilege Friends with Benefits Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory: A Contingent, Contextual Accountability