ASU Spent $500,000 to Host Clinton Conference Other Universities Hosted for Free By Julia Porterfield

Since 2008, the Clinton Global Initiative University, an entity of the Clinton Foundation, has hosted an annual conference at one lucky college or university in the United States. Several of the host schools in recent years have held the conference without spending a dime, but the host of CGI University’s 2014 conference, Arizona State University, wasn’t quite so lucky — the college shelled out a costly $500,000 in “marketing expenses” for the event.

According to The College Fix, the price tag for the University hosting the annual conference has varied in the past. In 2009, the University of Texas at Austin hosted CGI University, and paid production costs up front before the student government requested and received reimbursement from the organization for the full $28,851.15 UT had spent.

Man Decapitated in Islamist Attack in France

Beheading And Blast Reported At French Factory Attackers reportedly carrying Islamist flags are said to have rammed a car into the building, setting off an explosion.

A man has been decapitated by attackers brandishing Islamist flags at a French factory near Grenoble, according to officials.

The severed head had Arabic writing scrawled across it and was found on a fence next to two jihadi banners, a French official said.

Several other people are reported to have been hurt in explosions at the factory.

Politicians Call for Machete Control After New York City Machete Attack By Daniel Greenfield

Back when we were still sensible about crime, before even Republicans started spouting nonsense about banning the death penalty, legalizing drug dealing and freeing all the criminals, Frederick Young would have been considered scum that should have been locked away with the key thrown away. He’s the walking case for three strikes laws.

These days though the narrative is dominated by professional social justice warriors screeching about the prison pipeline and the City Council speaker wants the taxpayers to put up bail for indigent criminals.

And so this is just another blip on the big radar screen of the city as it descends back to the terrible 70s. For all the millenials who weren’t around then. Here’s what it was like. Try not to get macheted [2]. If you do, check your privilege.

Sook Yeong Im, who is visiting from South Korea, had just finished a yoga class on the lawn and was looking for a place to sit around 11:30 a.m. when career criminal Frederick Young, 43, followed her with the blade in a plastic bag.

Young — who has at least two dozen prior arrests, including a 2010 machete attack — hacked at the victim’s arm several times as she screamed.

Charleston & Har Nof: A Lesson in Contrasting Societies By Ari Lieberman

While Americans grieve the murder of nine in a church, Palestinians cheer the slaughter of five in a synagogue.

Most Americans, at least the sane ones, recoiled in horror upon hearing the news of the Emanuel AME church shooting in Charleston that claimed the lives of nine including six women. Some prayed while others were glued to their screens in an effort to glean whatever information they could about the innocent victims and the deranged gunman.

The victims were simply attending bible study and sitting among them, for at least 45 minutes, was the gunman who gave his victims no hint of his pernicious agenda. No one knows precisely why he sat there so patiently among those he would soon be murdering, and quite frankly, it makes no difference.

Dylann Roof was a racist. He cold-bloodedly murdered nine people whose sole “crime” was the color of their skin. It made no difference that they were God-fearing people with families. To Roof, they were people who possessed a different skin color than his and that constituted sufficient justification.

SCOTUS Rewrites ObamaCare to Save It By Arnold Ahlert

One might think a 2700-page [2], largely unread [3] healthcare bill passed solely [4] by Democrats that remains as unpopular as ever [5] might chasten the president who championed it. Especially when that effort was based on a litany of lies [6], one of which earned Obama Politifact’s 2013 Lie of the Year [7] award. Yet as FactCheck.org [8] has documented [7], the president remains determined to double down on his continuing effort to deceive the American public. And sad to say, yesterday morning the Supreme Court rewarded the administration for its mendacity. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS upheld [9] the Obama administration’s unilateral decision to provide insurance subsidies on healthcare exchanges in every state, despite wording in the original bill limiting such subsidies to exchanges “established by the state.”

Gina McCarthy and Obama’s Totalitarians By Jamie Glazov

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov disappeared from public view in early May, 1984 after he had begun a hunger strike to get permission for his wife, Yelena Bonner, to travel to the U.S. for heart surgery. In the Soviet paradise, wanting one’s anti-Soviet wife to live, and, worse still, to be saved by evil capitalist surgeons and not by the holy surgeons of the Soviet utopia, was, clearly, an exercise in abnormal psychology.

Sakharov was undoubtedly “mentally ill.” No wonder, therefore, that Soviet authorities forcibly confined him in a closed ward of the Semashko Hospital in Gorky, where he was force-fed and given drugs to alter his state of mind. This is how Soviet authorities believed they would get the Soviet dissident to not only stop caring about his wife, but to also make a public recantation about his abnormal anti-Soviet views – a gambit in which they ultimately failed.

Barack Obama’s Unholy Alliance: A Romance With Islamism By Daniel Greenfield

Toward the end of September 2012, Barack Obama finally came to New York City after skipping it during the 9/11 anniversary. He had made it out to the city the previous week for a celebrity fundraiser and an appearance on Letterman[1] [3] and then back again for a taping of The View while turning down a meeting with Netanyahu who did not have a talk show or an envelope filled with money.[2] [4]

The next day, while at least one of the Americans killed in Benghazi had yet to be buried,[3] [5] he declared at the UN General Assembly, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”[4] [6]

That statement also encompassed the agenda of the Benghazi killers, the terrorists who would attack Charlie Hebdo and the “Draw the Prophet” contest in Texas along with all the murderous censors of Mohammed determined that the future should not belong to those who slander their holy warlord.

It was Obama’s only mention of “Islam” in a speech addressing the brutal murder of four Americans by Islamic terrorists in a terror campaign targeting American diplomatic facilities on the anniversary of the original 9/11 attacks in Benghazi. The 9/11 attacks, like so many others, had begun with a cry of “Allahu Akbar.”[5] [7]

Number of Islamic Terror-Related Arrests in 2015 Surpasses Previous Two Years Combined By Patrick Poole

Last month I reported here exclusively at PJ Media on the rapidly escalating number of Islamic terror-related arrests this year, noting that we were on pace to surpass the number of arrests for 2013 and 2014 combined (48) before the halfway point of the current year next week.

In fact, that is exactly what has happened. At present 53 suspects have been arrested or involved in Islamic terror-related incidents with law enforcement since the beginning of the year.

This is top among reasons why Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said just a few days ago that this is “the highest threat level we have ever faced in this country.”

Here are the additional cases since I reported last month, beginning with the most recent:

King v. Burwell and the Triumph of the Administrative State By John D. Davidson

Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in King v. Burwell on Thursday, President Obama made a statement that began, “Five years ago, after nearly a century of talk, decades of trying, a year of bipartisan debate — we finally declared that in America, health care is not a privilege for a few, but a right for all.”

That phrase, “we finally declared,” is perhaps more telling than the president meant it to be — a tacit admission that what congressional Democrats did by passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was something less than create new law. They expressed a desire, declared their desire to be law, and told the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service to make it so.

Thus, when 34 states declined to set up a health-insurance exchange in accordance with the ACA, and HHS was obliged at the last minute to cobble something together in all those states, the IRS simply declared that an exchange “established by the state” could also refer to something quite different: an exchange established by HHS. It was a convenient and seemingly painless way to solve a problem that had cropped up. If subsidies were allowed only on exchanges created by states (as the ACA rather plainly stated) and not on those set up by HHS, then millions of people would not be able to afford very expensive ACA-compliant health coverage. You need subsidies to afford those plans, after all. Something had to be done. So the IRS took care of it and the Supreme Court said, okay.

Scalia Slams Roberts as Biased In Obamacare Cases By Joel Gehrke —

I​ n a blistering dissent from the majority in King v. Burwell this morning, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement should be called “SCOTUScare” rather than Obamacare, in light of how many times Chief Justice John Roberts has intervened to protect the law from a crippling legal defeat.

Scalia argued that Roberts rewrote the law twice in 2012, and has now done so a third time in his King decision, which allows the IRS to continue providing subsidies to people who purchase insurance in the federal government’s health-care exchange.

“The somersaults of statutory interpretation they have performed (‘penalty’ means tax, ‘further [Medicaid] payments to the State’ means only incremental Medicaid payments to the State, ‘established by the State’ means not established by the State) will be cited by litigants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence,” Scalia wrote in his dissent. “And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites.”