Libertarians are starting to bolt from the party’s nominee for president, whom top Libertarian Jeremy Kauffman called a “gay race communist.” The Libertarians are often described as kooks, but nominating a communist is a complete realignment of the party values. Kauffman wants Libertarians to understand it’s not just about policy. Foolish autistic libertarians think politics […] The post Where Did Ron Paul Libertarians Go? To Communism? appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A conservative college professor was investigated by his school for alleged racism after he accused a black student of plagiarism. Claremont McKenna College professor William Ascher spent a year as the target of a racism investigation launched after a black student the professor accused of plagiarism filed a discrimination complaint. While the investigation took place between December 2022 and December 2023, the details only recently came to light in an article for The Claremont Independent, the school’s campus newspaper. Ascher was ultimately cleared of racism and asked by the school’s president and administration committee to write his own account of the case. Ascher said that on December 1, 2022, he submitted evidence showing that an unnamed black student had committed plagiarism on three short papers he wrote in two of Ascher’s courses. Ascher noted that this student missed one-third of the classes that semester. When Ascher read the papers, he determined they were of a “far superior” quality than two other short papers submitted by the same student, who received middling grades for those papers. Because of the difference in quality, Ascher ran the papers through a plagiarism-checking website and found plagiarism in all three papers. But Ascher didn’t hear back from the school about the plagiarism accusations, and when he inquired about the delay, he was told the case had been taken out of consideration by the school’s Academic Standards Committee (ASC). On January 18, 2023, Ascher said he asked why the case wasn’t being presented to the ASC. He said he was then informed that the accused student had filed a complaint of racism against him, along with several other black students who filed their claims after the accused student. On February 2, 2023, Ascher learned the nature of the allegations against him. The student accused of plagiarism claimed he had been singled out because he was black, but Ascher provided evidence that he had also accused a white student of plagiarism that same semester. Another black student said it was racist for Ascher to ask the student about the difference between natural forests and plantations in a natural resources course. A third black student complained because Ascher asked her to sit closer to him. Ascher said that he asked several students to sit closer so that he could hear them through their COVID masks in the large classroom in which he taught. A fourth black student claimed that Ascher asked her how old her mother was when she had given birth – an allegation Ascher flatly denied. A fifth black student complained that Ascher did not use the term “black people” when discussing the apartheid era in South Africa. Finally, a student born in Guatemala complained that Ascher spoke to him in Spanish when they were first introduced. This same student also claimed that Ascher was the reason the student wasn’t approved to study abroad. Ascher was on a committee that rejected the student’s request to study abroad because he had a low GPA. This student claimed in his complaint that he was so upset by not being able to study abroad that he dropped his International Relations (IR) major. Ascher noted that the student graduated as an IR major at the end of the school’s investigation, so the student never stopped pursuing that degree. Months later, on April 14, 2023, Ascher received a written notice of the complaints against him. The list no longer included the complaint accusing Ascher of racism for asking a black student about the differences between forests and plantations but included a new complaint from a student saying the professor called on them “too much.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “I was puzzled as to why so many students would come forward with contrived complaints, two of which are outright lies, and I learned from the investigator’s report that their formal complaints, coming a year after the alleged offenses, cam [sic] after the student accused of plagiarism filed his complaint,” Ascher wrote. “It seems likely that he violated the confidentiality requirement by soliciting more complaints. I cannot help concluding that this has been a concerted effort to prevent having the student charged with plagiarism, failing both courses, and facing a strong likelihood of being suspended (not only for the plagiarism, but also for lying about when papers were submitted).” In early May 2023, Ascher spoke to an outside investigator looking into the racism allegations. He said he sent her point-by-point rebuttals and provided evidence of the initial complainant’s plagiarism. Over the next few months, he continued to send requested evidence and immediately respond to requests from investigators. On October 19, Ascher received the investigator’s report, which cleared him of all allegations except the ones brought by the student accused of plagiarism. The report found that Ascher had discriminated against that student by submitting his suspicions of plagiarism, which Ascher said ignored the fact that faculty is obligated to report suspicions. On December 18, more than a year after Ascher submitted evidence of plagiarism, all the racism allegations against him were dropped. After this investigation concluded, the plagiarism case finally proceeded, the Claremont Independent reported, but the outcome is unclear. H/t The College Fix

The man behind the much-maligned Colony Ridge development in Texas was sentenced to 45 days in jail after pleading guilty to two drunk driving charges. William “Trey” Harris is one of the developers behind Colony Ridge, a sprawling land development outside of Houston, Texas that has allegedly used financial and marketing tactics to systematically attract illegal immigrants as its clientele. He’s been in the spotlight since a series of investigations into his development, which is now facing lawsuits from both state and federal officials regarding his operation. The first of the two driving while intoxicated charges came in November 2023, when Harris was charged with a Class A misdemeanor, the most severe misdemeanor charge. Harris’ blood alcohol levels were found to be twice the legal limit at over .15. The Colony Ridge developer was then charged with driving while intoxicated again in February. The Colony Ridge developer, who has been in jail since May 17, will now be required to serve a total of 45 days in the county jail and pay $12,000 in court fees. Harris is also barred from driving a car until late November. The Colony Ridge developer’s sentence comes with his development under siege by government investigations. The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced in December that the two federal agencies were launching a joint lawsuit against Colony Ridge, alleging that the development engaged in predatory financing and bait-and-switch sales while churning through borrowers “in a cycle of foreclosure.” Colony Ridge was hit by another lawsuit earlier this year, this one from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton told The Daily Wire that “literally every sale” made by Colony Ridge, which is estimated to have roughly 75,000 residents, could have been in violation of consumer financial protection law. “Typically under the deceptive trade practice, it’s $10,000 per violation,” Paxton explained in an interview. “I think they’re targeting Hispanics. They’re targeting people that they think they can sell this to and they might not understand because of the language barrier what they’re actually signing up for,” he went on to say. “Since many of them are illegal, they’re not used to knowing what the culture is here.” READ MORE: Inside Colony Ridge: The ‘Fastest Growing Development’ In The U.S. Is A Magnet For Illegal Immigrants

Former President Donald Trump blasted the “rigged” trial against him on Wednesday, speaking to members of the press after Judge Juan Merchan gave the jury instructions in his Manhattan hush-money case. Trump, who has pled “not guilty” to all of the charges against him, complained that the trial had been set up in such a way that even a saint could not expect to be acquitted. WATCH: ?BREAKING: Trump addresses the media as the jury begins to deliberate in the New York “hush money” trial: “Mother Theresa could not beat these charges…this whole thing is rigged. The Judge is so conflicted he can’t breathe.” “I took a big lead in the polls over the last few… pic.twitter.com/gVaU2ZBKJc — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 29, 2024 Reporters asked Trump as he exited the courtroom on Wednesday how he felt about the coming verdict, and he made it clear that he still believed the entire trial to be unfair. “I would say in listening to the charges from the judges, as, you know, very conflicted and corrupt because of the conflicting — very, very clearly, Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. These charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged,” the former president said. “The whole country is a mess between the borders and fake elections. And you have a trial like this where the judge is so conflicted he can’t breathe,” Trump continued. “He’s got to do his job. And it’s not for me, that I can tell you. It’s a disgrace. And I mean that Mother Theresa could not beat those charges. But we’ll see. We’ll see how we do.” Trump went on to point out that other prosecutors had passed on the case seven years earlier, after which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) waited until the run-up to a presidential election to move forward with the case. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Then they have a protest with Robert De Niro yesterday who is a fool, a broken down fool. He got MAGA’d yesterday. He got a big dose of it,” Trump concluded. “Remember, November 5, the most important day in the history of our country. In the meantime, this trial is rigged.” While he awaits the verdict, at least a one of the legal analysts on CNN believes that Trump has a fighting chance to beat the charges. Defense attorney Randy Zelin told anchor Kate Bolduan on Tuesday that the prosecution “fell way short” of meeting the burden of proof, saying that there was “reasonable doubt all over this case.”

If you struggle to feel good enough sometimes, then you need to listen to Ms. Rachel’s recent commencement speech at NYU. Her words on “impostor syndrome” will change your life! In case you didn’t already know, Ms. Rachel is just about one of the most popular children’s educators out there. She creates fun and entertaining YouTube videos to help toddlers grow with early learning techniques. This month, she accepted the 2024 Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award from NYU, where she received her master’s. Although many parents couldn’t imagine a world without Ms. Rachel’s videos for kids, there was a time when this educator would never have have thought she could accomplish something like this. “I used to wait for someone powerful to give me permission to use their power,” Ms. Rachel admitted in her speech. “Other people were the gatekeepers, the change makers. But the truth is, you don’t need to wait for anyone else. Find your role to play, and show up. You are the one.” @themessymanifestor we all ENOUGH, whole and woethy as we are. Blown away by @Ms Rachel’s message. This resonates so much with me as a #recoveringperfectionist & #coach who helps other high achieving strivers who never feel like theyre #enough drop their #perfectionism and embrace their mess to create the projects, #businesses or #relationships that light their souls on link in bio #msrachel #msrachelsongforlittes #commencement #inspirational #youareenough #empowerment #nyu #nyusteinhardt #youmatter #coaching #empowermentcoach #perfectionismcoach ♬ original sound – Rachel Metter Things began to change when Ms. Rachel had her son. She knew that he needed help with his speech delay, and she was hoping to find some kind of educational content online. Unfortunately, none of the available resources were like what she had in mind. “I kept thinking, ‘Someone should do a show with all the great speech development strategies and early intervention techniques we were learning,'” she recalled. That’s when she realized that she might just have to create this content herself! Ms. Rachel wasn’t expecting her show to take off, though. All she wanted was for “a real company” with more resources to see it, recognize that it was a good idea, and turn it into a higher quality production. Maybe she’d even get to help! What actually happened, though, was so much better. Ms. Rachel’s show became famous in its own right, and now she’s helping so many kids and parents with her videos! Screengrab from TikTok “Six billion views later, we’re the company we were waiting for to make the show,” she said, beaming. At the end of her speech, Ms. Rachel shared the moral of her inspiring story. Don’t let the fear that you’re not good enough hold you back from pursuing your dreams. You don’t have to wait for someone else’s approval in order to do something meaningful! “It’s the people who keep showing up and taking action that make a difference,” she said. We probably all needed to hear that! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Ms. Rachel Blows Away Crowd With Tear-Jerking NYU Commencement Speech appeared first on InspireMore.

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