Sadia Khan Got EXPOSED

 

Students could graduate faster without curriculum ‘bloat,’ expert says

 Students haven’t been completing college in four years—that’s a bad thing. And since we can’t rely on Congress to make meaningful fixes—like when the House’s attempt to raise Pell Grant eligibility from 12 to 15 credits per semester fell by the wayside—reformers need to look elsewhere. That elsewhere is making cuts to the bloated core curriculum. Not all of it, of course—sadly, colleges still have to remediate what K–12 fails to teach—but much of the excess could and should be cut.

Few issues in higher ed get less attention than the growing time it takes students to earn a degree. The average time to complete a bachelor’s degree in the U.S. is now five to six years. That’s insane. The longer students stay in school, the more it costs taxpayers, delays workforce entry, and increases reliance on aid. As Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz of the New York Fed note, the clearest cost is tuition—about $6,500 a year after aid—but the bigger loss is time. These students could be working. Instead, they’re stuck in class.

One reason for the delay? Degree requirements are bloated. A standard bachelor’s degree requires about 120 credit hours, but at least 25 percent of those are unrelated to the degree itself, and probably 10 percent are completely useless.

At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, for example, students must complete 11 general education courses—nearly as many as some majors require. A core curriculum is supposed to enrich culture, cultivate character, and expose students to a broad base of knowledge. But categories like “Social & Cultural Diversity” often translate to semesters spent in courses unmoored from academic rigor and laden with ideological messaging, which not only keeps students in college longer but also delays maturity. Glenn Ricketts, a political science professor at Raritan Valley Community College and Public Affairs Director at the National Association of Scholars, says his students “often behave like middle schoolers—who endlessly defer making adult decisions about their lives.”

Some core classes offer real value. But requiring every liberal arts student to take multiple math and science courses—or STEM majors to slog through multiple English courses and diversity studies—is a waste. They don’t retain the material anyway. I had to take a geology class to meet my core requirements, and I can’t tell you a damn thing about a rock.

Students could graduate faster without curriculum ‘bloat,’ expert says | The College Fix

How Progressives Chinese Communists Infiltrate and Operate

 On Monday August 25, 2025 The New York Times published a lengthy piece entitled,“How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City” with the subtitle: “The Chinese consulate in Manhattan has mobilized community groups to defeat candidates who don’t fall in line with the authoritarian state.”

Though it’s ostensibly a story just on New York City, the reporting is not confined to matters there.  Both a Democrat U.S. congresswoman on a sensitive committee and New York’s Democrat Governor get a looking-at.  And while Governor Hochul may not be your governor or mine, she clearly has a seat of national influence, and at least according to the piece, has some very troubling associations with Chairman Xi’s agents of influence, so we’ll review what they had to say about her.

You will be unsurprised to learn that the Chinese communists seem to be cut from the same cloth as progressive Democrats.  As you read, it will all sound so familiar: the non-profits, the infiltration into our government offices (remember Dianne Feinstein’s chauffeur?), the dirty money.  It’s like a really bad movie we’ve all seen before, but here it’s the kind where the words don’t match the lips, everything’s off, and nothing is what it seems.

We’ve got that sketchy Democrat U.S. congresswoman on a sensitive committee to look at, but let’s start with New York’s Democrat Governor Hochul, she of the most brutal resting b*tch face in the lower 48.  (I can say that because I am a woman and equally comfortable saying Bernie Sanders has a resting b*tch face too.)

Last year, a federal indictment accused a former aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul of conspiring with the heads of two Chinese associations, saying their political activities ‘were supervised, directed, and controlled’ by Chinese officials [emphasis added].

As if that weren’t enough, girlfriend brought her face, presumably with a smile forced onto it, to a fundraiser.  But not just any fundraiser.  One Xi would heartily approve of.  The Times observes that our tax money, which can fund these “associations,” flows freely: “sometimes politicians steer government funding back to the groups that supported them.”

In December 2021, the Asian American Community Empowerment nonprofit co-hosted a fund-raiser for New York’s governor, Ms. Hochul. The event took place at a restaurant owned by the group’s leader, John Chan, a businessman aligned with the Chinese government who was once convicted of trafficking heroin and smuggling Chinese citizens into the United States.  Two months later, Ms. Hochul announced that $10 million in pandemic aid would be distributed to dozens of Asian groups. Mr. Chan’s nonprofit received $45,000.

Anthony Hogrebe, a spokesman for Ms. Hochul, said that campaign donations “have no impact on policy decisions.” [Emphasis added]

Uh-huh.

So what is the purpose of these associations, exactly?

China is determined to quash dissent in its diaspora before it spreads back home, said Audrye Wong, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies Chinese influence.  Beijing is also making a longer bet, she said: ‘You never know which politician might eventually run for Congress at the national level, or become a presidential candidate.’ [Emphasis added.]

How many are there, just in New York?

More than 50 organizations with ties to Beijing have mobilized members to fund-raise or endorse political candidates over the past five years, The Times found. Many were nonprofit charities, which are prohibited by law from electioneering.

[snip]

Among the 53 groups, The Times found at least 19 registered charities that had ignored the ban on election activities. Under federal tax law, these nonprofits — which do not pay most taxes — can take positions on policy issues but cannot endorse candidates for office. And yet, in case after case, the hometown groups made endorsements or hosted fund-raisers despite answering ‘no’ to questions from the Internal Revenue Service about political involvement.

‘That’s totally out of bounds,’ said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a professor at Notre Dame who studies nonprofit law. ‘That’s a clear violation of the limits that Congress has put on their tax-exempt status.’

The I.R.S. declined to comment. A spokesman for New York’s tax agency, which is responsible for enforcing a similar state law, said it did not have the resources to look for such violations. [Emphasis added.]

How nice for them.

Now what about this sketchy congresswoman, Representative Grace Meng (D-NY)?  She too attended a meeting that would make Xi proud:

Representatives of the Chinese consulate, Yin Minjun and Xing Yulin, presided over a ceremony in which the association’s old president passed the official seal to the new one.

Reading from pink pieces of paper, group leaders pledged to uphold core Chinese policies, including ‘reunification’ with Taiwan.

Holding a Chinese flag, the group sang ‘My Chinese Heart,’ a popular patriotic ballad in China.

Later, Representative Grace Meng, a congresswoman from New York, made a short and unremarkable speech…

The American Fujian Houyu Association did not respond to requests for comment.

A spokesman for Ms. Meng said the congresswoman had gone to events for many ethnic groups in her constituency, often with consulate members in attendance. As for Chinese events, ‘she has nothing to do with the guest list and does not control the program,’ said Jordan Goldes, the spokesman. ‘But ideally, those administering the oaths should be from our country.’ [Emphasis added]

How Progressives Chinese Communists Infiltrate and Operate - American Thinker 

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Maybe the girl with the axe should run Scotland

 It’s come to this: A fourteen-year-old Scottish girl has more courage to fight evil pedophiles invading her country than all the governments and police forces of Europe combined.  By now you’ve seen video of Mayah Sommers, the heroine brandishing a long knife and axe while defending her twelve-year-old sister from two Muslim men making sexual advances.

So sure that they could prey on Scottish youth without suffering any legal consequences, the stalkers actually filmed the event, mocking Sommers in Arabic and providing video evidence for the Scottish police to charge the young girl for possession of a bladed weapon.  That’s right!  The contemptible, dishonorable, castrated “authorities” charged the girl who defended her sister and herself from likely rapists — not the grown “men” who deserve a spectacular beating and prompt airdrop in the middle of the North Sea.

Outraged citizens are rightly furious and have given Miss Sommers a new title: Queen of the Scots.  She deserves it.  In a land where government eunuchs protect Islamic rapists and throw native citizens in prison for exercising free speech, there must be a reckoning.  Monarchs, members of parliament, and police officers who take sides with foreign invaders over their own countrymen do not merit retaining such positions.  When those who are entrusted with the sacred duty of safeguarding young women instead serve those women up on a platter for despicable beasts, they forfeit any right to titles of authority.

Why stop with “Queen of the Scots,” though?  Mayah Sommers has shown more grit and gumption than the whole bureaucratic ruling class of Europe.  As poorly as the European Union and its neutered vassal states have performed their obligations to protect the continent from foreign invasion, ordinary Europeans would be better off if they deposed European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and anointed the young Scot “Protector of Europe.”  

Every young woman in Europe should be carrying an axe these days.  Better yet, Europeans should learn from their American cousins’ example and defend themselves with actual firearms.  Regardless of the nation from which they hail, all humans have a natural right to protect their own lives.  The Second Amendment in the United States recognizes this freedom in constitutional form, but no parchment is needed to create what already exists — an inalienable right to use what weapons are necessary to safeguard one’s life and liberty.

Citizens of Ukraine learned this lesson the hard way.  Because ordinary people had to jump through hoops to obtain the government’s permission to own a firearm, spontaneous civilian resistance to Russian military advances was impossible.  The Russians arrived with rifles; Ukrainians had spoons.  

For three years, European governments have been warning their people that Vladimir Putin plans to invade the Baltic States and eventually reclaim European countries once trapped behind the Iron Curtain.  If they truly believed that Russia intends to conquer Europe, responsible governments would be arming their citizens.  Why wait to replicate the Ukrainian model of armless resistance when European citizens could be learning how to handle firearms responsibly right now?

Maybe the girl with the axe should run Scotland - American Thinker

Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winner Set To Appear at Detroit Conference Alongside Terrorists

 Palestinian "poet" and writer Mosab Abu Toha, the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, is scheduled to appear at an upcoming anti-Israel conference alongside several radical speakers with ties to terror groups.

Abu Toha, who defended the atrocities of Oct. 7 and disparaged Israelis kidnapped by Hamas, will address the People’s Conference for Palestine, held in Detroit from Aug. 29–31.

Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winner Set To Appear at Detroit Conference Alongside Terrorists

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