To Stop Radicalizing America’s Youth, Yale Needs To Change A Lot More Than Its Mission Statement
Elite universities should demonstrate a genuine commitment to reforming the environment that has helped radicalize a generation.Elite universities should demonstrate a genuine commitment to reforming the environment that has helped radicalize a generation.Jimmy Kimmel doubles down on Melania ‘widow’ jab — will this be the nail in his coffin?
On April 23, just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel released a skit parodying the event, during which he joked that Melania Trump had "a glow like an expectant widow.”
Of course, at the actual WHCD, President Trump and others in the administration were victims of yet another assassination attempt.
But instead of apologizing for his comment, which Melania called “hateful and violent rhetoric” and cause for his firing, Kimmel doubled down.
“[It] obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am,” the late-night host said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t buying Kimmel’s excuses. This time, she argues, he may have pushed his luck too far.
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“Jimmy Kimmel: His time might finally be up,” says Sara, pointing to Kimmel’s history of making deliberately inflammatory comments.
In September 2025, immediately following the murder of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel made a comment many viewed as insensitive or politicizing the killing, sparking massive backlash, threats from the FCC chairman, affiliate stations pulling his show, and ABC temporarily suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“After everything had happened and after all of the blowback that he had had, has he learned anything?” asks Sara. “The answer is no. They never do.”
She highlights the left’s glaring double standard when it comes to humor.
“They are outraged any time President Trump ever tells [a joke]. ... In fact, nobody on the right can ever tell a joke without them being just horrified, without them clutching their pearls,” she rails.
Sara also makes fun of the left’s obsession with cancel culture, only to turn around and whine about it when it affects one of their own.
“The left has never engaged in cancel culture and called for people to be fired. They only created the damn game,” she scoffs, pointing to recent headlines from CBS News, People, and Poynter defending Kimmel against calls from President Trump and Melania for his firing.
But despite mainstream media coming to his rescue, Sara is hopeful that Kimmel will actually be canned this time.
“There is a new sheriff in town at Disney,” she says, referring to Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger as CEO of Disney in March this year.
D’Amaro, she says, may do things differently to avoid the scandals that pushed Iger out the door.
“This is going to be his first test of going head-to-head with President Trump, and the same sort of drama took down a former Disney CEO, so … you would imagine he’s going to want to stay on President Trump’s good side,” she speculates.
But on top of playing nice with Trump, there’s also the issue of Kimmel’s unpopularity.
“I mean, when you look at his ratings, he doesn't seem to be worth saving,” says Sara, displaying a chart of Kimmel’s cataclysmic fall from peak popularity in 2015 to all-time lows in 2026.
“I'm just trying to will [Kimmel’s firing] into existence. … Can you blame me?” she asks. “I just want these people to … have a taste of their own medicine.”
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Comedian defends Jimmy Kimmel from cancel culture: ‘It’s still a joke’
Jimmy Kimmel’s “widow” joke about first lady Melania Trump has sparked sharp criticism from the Trump administration — with President Donald Trump and Melania Trump going so far as to call for ABC to fire the comedian.
“Our first lady, Melania, is here. ... So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in his monologue.
Not only did the president and the first lady not find the joke funny, but the timing made its reception even worse.
“As the first lady of the United States pointed out this morning, just two days prior to the shooting, ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called first lady Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow,’” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said after the most recent attempt on President Trump’s life.
“Who in their right mind says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?” Leavitt continued.
“And having experienced what I did with the first lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that. This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady, and his supporters is completely deranged,” she added.
While members of the Trump administration have made it clear they’re not happy with Kimmel, BlazeTV host and comedian Dave Landau has a controversial take.
“I’m going to go ahead and say that’s a funny joke,” he tells co-host Stu Burguiere.
“You like the joke,” Stu comments, surprised.
“It’s fine. You keep trying to kill him, so they’re saying you have a good look for an expectant widow. I understand that people don’t like the guy who’s saying it, but there’s logic and reason to the joke, and it’s a still a joke,” Landau says.
“You don’t have to like it, but I will never be on the side of throw somebody off of TV or cancel them based on something that was a joke,” he continues.
“We agree on that,” Burguiere says, adding, “I’m totally with you.”
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Blum quotes precisely one fan from the stadium, who says, actual quote, “I think it’s a good thing." See all the CONTROVERSY!?!?!?!?NBA Doubles Down On Woke By Punishing Jaden Ivey For His Christianity
The NBA's players should defend Ivey and demand that all franchise owners keep out of politics and let their players prove themselves on the court.‘Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted’: Christian Pro Athletes Stand Behind Jaden Ivey
NBA guard Jaden Ivey was cut from the Chicago Bulls on Monday after he expressed the basic Christian belief that sexual immorality and pride are “unrighteousness.” In response, multiple professional athletes have come to Ivey’s defense by similarly standing firm on God’s word. “They proclaim Pride Month. And the NBA, they proclaim it. They show […]Scott Adams made Trump plausible before anyone else would
On the timeline of making America great again, two dates in 2015 stand out for anyone who backed Donald Trump before it was safe to do so.
On June 16, 2015, Trump came down the escalator in New York City and announced his run for president. The political class laughed. Conservative pundits mocked him. Commentators treated the whole thing as a stunt. A lifelong Democrat running as a Republican? A celebrity billionaire developer? Please. What a “clown.”
Scott understood something most people never learn: Bad reviews from bad people are good reviews. He also understood how to grieve with honor instead of self-pity.
Then came August 13, 2015.
That day, Scott Adams — the creator of “Dilbert” and a best-selling personal development author — published a blog post that reframed the entire race in a single phrase:
Usual frame:
Donald Trump is a clown.
Reframe:
Donald Trump is a clown genius.
That was Adams’ title: “Clown Genius.” And his point was simple: Trump wasn’t improvising. He was persuading. Adams wrote that Trump’s “value proposition” was to “Make America Great,” which meant selling the world on America again — what Adams called “good brand management.”
It sounds obvious now. It didn’t sound obvious then.
Adams became one of the first major nonpolitical public figures to say out loud what millions of Americans were starting to suspect: Trump wasn’t a joke. The joke was the people pretending they couldn’t see what was happening.
That post didn’t just defend Trump. It gave people permission. It gave tens of millions of everyday Americans cover to voice support for the one candidate the establishment of both parties hated more than anyone they had seen in decades. Adams called it before the polls did, and he kept calling it.
And, in the process, he helped change the course of human history.
He later packaged Trump’s persuasion methods into a book-length case study, “Win Bigly.” And famously, he assigned Trump a 98% chance of winning in 2016 — at a time when most of the media treated the idea as laughable.
Adams paid for that courage.
When he backed Trump in 2015, he didn’t just lose polite invitations. He lit his career on fire. He traded lavish speaking fees, safe corporate fame, and establishment approval for permanent exile from respectable opinion.
In October 2025, Adams described the price in stark terms:
When I decided ... to back Trump … I sacrificed everything. I sacrificed my social life. I sacrificed my career. I sacrificed my reputation. I may have sacrificed my health. And I did that because I believed it was worth it. … I’m really happy I lived long enough to see it. It was worth it. … It was worth it to be right.
Independent journalist and filmmaker Mike Cernovich made the point even more bluntly. Adams could have kept quiet, kept the corporate speaking gigs, and died richer. Instead, he chose the lonely road and earned something bigger than money. He became a legend.
For millions, Scott Adams was more than a cartoonist or a commentator. Worldwide, listeners of Scott’s daily show, “Coffee with Scott Adams,”knew him as our “internet dad.” If Trump is the father of MAGA, Scott is its honorary stepfather.
People didn’t just read him. They listened to him. They learned from him. They built confidence from his willingness to say what others wouldn’t.
President Trump made America great again. Scott Adams made Candidate Trump plausible in the first place.
After a long, public battle with prostate cancer, Scott Adams died on Tuesday, January 13. He was 68.
President Trump responded with a tribute that said more than many will admit.
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“Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease. My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners. He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!”
I’m one of those listeners and friends. More than that, I was Scott’s editor, and I remain the publisher of the Scott Adams library. He brought me on as a contributing editor for “Reframe Your Brain,” a book that has helped thousands of readers apply his signature “reframes” to work, money, relationships, and even faith.
As of this writing, “Reframe Your Brain” is the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon.
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Near the end of his life, Scott also made a quiet but meaningful choice. He accepted Pascal’s Wager — the simple risk-reward logic that faith in Jesus Christ is worth the bet. He pinned that profession to the top of his X.com profile in his final statement.
Scott was a father figure to me in the most practical sense. I asked his advice the way a son asks his dad. He was happy to oblige. That’s who he was: sharp, funny, and eager to be useful.
Now critics will rush in to re-litigate his controversies, including the 2023 livestream that helped get “Dilbert” pulled from newspapers. I wrote the truth for Newsweek at the time, after his remarks triggered an organized effort to kill his book deal and erase him from public life.
I worked with an author on a not-quite-banned book recently. Dilbert creator and bestselling author Scott Adams had his long-running comic strip ended by multiple newspapers and his forthcoming book contract canceled over some hyperbolic remarks on race that were intended to stir up discussion. Scott Adams’ books were twice banned, but Amazon reversed the decision. … Adams then went to his audience and let them know that there were people who didn’t want his book published, and they responded by buying it, en masse. Sales shot up.
Scott understood something most people never learn: Bad reviews from bad people are good reviews.
He also understood how to grieve with honor instead of self-pity. As he wrote in “Reframe Your Brain”:
When you experience the death of a loved one, your instincts push you into feeling tragedy, loss, and pain. Once you have had enough of that, and when you are ready, start tossing these five words around to release some of the pain: Gratitude. Respect. Honor. Privilege. Service.
Scott Adams lived those words. And now he belongs to the ages.
Scott won bigly.
Thank you, Scott.
Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025
The fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone in 2025. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs across multiple fronts — and most succeeded.
Let’s start with the raw numbers. In 2025, FIRE’s Scholars Under Fire, Students Under Fire, and Campus Deplatforming databases collectively tracked:
- 525 attempts to sanction scholars for their speech, more than one a day, with 460 of them resulting in punishment.
- 273 attempts to punish students for expression, more than five a week, with 176 of these attempts succeeding.
- 160 attempts to deplatform speakers, about three each week, with 99 of them succeeding.
That’s 958 censorship attempts in total, nearly three per day on campuses across the country. For comparison, FIRE’s next-highest total was 477 two years ago.
The 525 scholar sanction attempts are the highest ever recorded in FIRE’s database, which spans 2000 to the present. Even when a large-scale incident at the U.S. Naval Academy is treated as just a single entry, the 2025 total still breaks records.
The common denominator across these censorship campaigns is not ideology — it’s intolerance.
Twenty-nine scholars were fired, including 18 who were terminated since September for social media comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Student sanction attempts also hit a new high, and deplatforming efforts — our records date back to 1998 — rank third all-time, behind 2023 and 2024.
The problem is actually worse because FIRE’s data undercounts the true scale of campus censorship. Why? The data relies on publicly available information, and an unknown number of incidents, especially those that may involve quiet administrative pressure, never make the public record.
Then there’s the chilling effect.
Scholars are self-censoring. Students are staying silent. Speakers are being disinvited or shouted down. And administrators, eager to appease the loudest voices, are launching investigations and handing out suspensions and dismissals with questionable regard for academic freedom, due process, or free speech.
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Some critics argue that the total number of incidents is small compared to the roughly 4,000 colleges in the country. But this argument collapses under scrutiny.
While there are technically thousands of institutions labeled as “colleges” or “universities,” roughly 600 of them educate about 80% of undergraduates enrolled at not-for-profit four-year schools. Many of the rest of these “colleges” and “universities” are highly specialized or vocational programs. This includes a number of beauty academies, truck-driving schools, and similar institutions — in other words, campuses that aren’t at the heart of the free-speech debate.
These censorship campaigns aren’t coming from only one side of the political spectrum. FIRE’s data shows, for instance, that liberal students are punished for pro-Palestinian activism, conservative faculty are targeted for controversial opinions on gender or race, and speaking events featuring all points of view are targeted for cancellation.
The two most targeted student groups on campus? Students for Justice in Palestine and Turning Point USA. If that doesn’t make this point clear, nothing will.
The common denominator across these censorship campaigns is not ideology — it’s intolerance.
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So where do we go from here?
We need courage: from faculty, from students, and especially from administrators. It’s easy to defend speech when it’s popular. It’s harder when the ideas are offensive or inconvenient. But that’s when it matters most.
Even more urgently, higher education needs a cultural reset. Universities must recommit to the idea that exposure to ideas and speech that one dislikes or finds offensive is not “violence.” That principle is essential for democracy, not just for universities.
This year’s record number of campus censorship attempts should be a wake-up call for campus administrators. For decades, many allowed a culture of censorship to fester, dismissing concerns as overblown, isolated, or a politically motivated myth. Now, with governors, state legislatures, members of Congress, and even the White House moving aggressively to police campus expression, some administrators are finally pushing back. But this pushback from administrators doesn’t seem principled. Instead, it seems more like an attempt to shield their institutions from outside political interference.
That’s not leadership. It’s damage control. And it’s what got higher education into this mess in the first place.
If university leaders want to reclaim their role as stewards of free inquiry, they cannot act just when governmental pressure threatens their autonomy. They also need to be steadfast when internal intolerance threatens their mission. A true commitment to academic freedom means defending expression even when it is unpopular or offensive. That is the price of intellectual integrity in a free society.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
'We're still on the air, Tim': Hockey announcer's hot mic sexual remarks result in suspension
Philadelphia Flyers radio play-by-play announcer Tim Saunders may have some explaining to do to his superiors.
Saunders has been suspended for two games by the Flyers, and now the organization is apologizing for comments he made on Thursday night.
'We take this matter very seriously.'
During a commercial break in the third period of the Flyers and Buffalo Sabres game, Saunders went to a commercial break before he was heard making some non-hockey-related remarks.
"Now, they're going to take the TV time-out. We'll take it as well. Seven [minutes] gone in the third [period]. It's 3-2 Buffalo on the Philadelphia Flyers Broadcast Network," Saunders said, thinking he would then be off the air.
After a few seconds, the announcer is heard humming a tune to himself before more dead air, as muffled audio of in-arena promotions are heard in the background.
It was nearly 20 seconds after the start of a would-be commercial break when Saunders said, "While you're down there, would you mind blowing me?"
Following a few more seconds of silence, broadcast partner and former NHL player Todd Fedoruk inserted, "I think we're still on the air, Tim."
Saunders then seemingly has a good chuckle before stopping to seriously ask, "No, we're not, are we?"
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As reported by Crossing Broad, Saunders took another long pause before laughing again and asking, "Are we? Do you have us? Mikey, talk to me."
On Friday morning, the Flyers issued an official statement on their social media saying they were "aware of the inappropriate comment" made during the TV time-out.
"These remarks do not reflect the standards of conduct or values we expect from anyone associated with our organization," the team wrote.
The Flyers then announced that, effective immediately, a two-game suspension had been issued while they "address this matter with all parties involved."
"We take this matter very seriously, and sincerely apologize to our listeners, fans and all those affected by these comments," the statement concluded.
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The majority of Flyers fans on X reacted negatively to the announcement, with one Philly sports fan calling it an "incredible overreaction."
"A suspension??? World gone soft," a fan named Ryan said.
Jeff added, "Give him a raise."
The Flyers would go on to lose the game 5-3.
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Trump personally requested the revival of an iconic movie franchise — and now it's happening
Just days after it was reported that President Donald Trump was pushing for the revival of classic 1980s and 1990s movies, Paramount is now making the president's dream a reality.
Trump ally Larry Ellison's control over Paramount — and its giant film library that includes "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan" — is the key connection.
'Cancel culture stopped them dead in their tracks.'
According to Semafor, Trump has been pushing to bring back what were described as the "raucous comedies" and action movies of decades past, and has shown passion for titles like Jean-Claude Van Damme's generational martial arts movie, 1988's "Bloodsport."
That isn't the first title to be resuscitated by Paramount, however. Rather, the president has reportedly personally asked Paramount to revive the buddy cop film "Rush Hour," from director Brett Ratner, starring comedian Chris Tucker and action star Jackie Chan.
As of Tuesday, it seems Paramount is ready to get the ball rolling on "Rush Hour 4" nearly two decades since the last release.
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The studio is now in the works to distribute the sequel, according to Variety, which also reported that Trump requested the franchise's return. Paramount will release the movie theatrically but will not be marketing or financing it, while Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema will get a percentage of box office revenue; they backed the original production and sequels.
Variety also reported that director Ratner and the "Rush Hour" producers shopped the new film around to different studios, but cancel culture stopped them dead in their tracks, with other Hollywood execs not wanting to be attached to Ratner's name.
Ratner, who recently directed a documentary on Melania Trump, hasn't done a feature film since 2014's "Hercules" starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson.
Ratner was accused of a whole slew of sex crimes in October 2017 as part of the Me Too movement that saw at least six women launch accusations at him.
This resulted in Warner Bros. severing ties with the "X-Men: The Last Stand" director.
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The three "Rush Hour" films, released in 1998, 2001, and 2007, vaulted both Chan and Tucker from their specific genres into the mainstream and grossed over $500 million against a combined budget of around $263 million. Internationally, the films grossed almost another $400 million.
Throughout the 1990s, Tucker had been a successful stand-up comedian and starred in movies like "Friday" and "The Fifth Element" before landing the iconic role.
Chan had already starred in dozens of action films, but his popularity was on the rise in the United States in 1990s, with "Supercop" and "Rumble in the Bronx" gaining cult status, before "Rush Hour" took him to new heights.
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