The institutional Grift in US Politics is a Disgrace

These Four Democratic Firms Raked in $600 Million Running Ads for Kamala's Failed Campaign

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign directed nearly $600 million to just four media consulting firms with deep ties to the Democratic establishment, Federal Election Commission records show.— Harris campaign exceeded $880 million in total spending as of October 16, though that number is expected to balloon to $1.5 billion after the Harris campaign files its post-election FEC report on December 5. 

70% of the campaign's known total spending flowed through four firms: Media Buying & Analytics, Gambit Strategies, Bully Pulpit Interactive, and Dupont Circle Strategies.

Here's a rundown of these four professional grifting outlets…

#Hezbollah’s Tunnel Infrastructure is something else….

Andrew Fox, along with other journalists, were given a tour by the IDF of a part of Hezbollah's extensive tunnel network on the border with Israel. What he was shown will leave you breathless—and all this within the UNIFIL controlled area 900 meters up hill from Israel’s northern border…

You often hear “why don’t the IDF allow journalists into Gaza”. Here’s an interesting perspective.

About a month ago, the IDF offered the chance of a visit to a captured Hezbollah tunnel. Amongst those who accepted were me and a small pack of journalists from Israel, Greece, the… 

— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) November 26, 2024

Decline and fall: how university education became infantilised

A sad state of affairs at Cambridge University.
Seems standards and excellence are things of the past.

This from David Butterfield, (ex)professor of Latin at Cambridge 

Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it's precisely because I loved the job I was paid to do, and because I believe so firmly in preserving the excellence of higher education, in Britain and beyond, that I have left.

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For students, the risks have never been lower. Grade inflation is rampant in Cambridge, as elsewhere in the sector. A third-class performance, let alone a failure, is almost impossible in most subjects,