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Students at Stanford Law School staged a protest against Dean Jenny Martinez on Monday after she apologized for the disruption of an event featuring federal appellate court Judge Kyle Duncan last week.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – March 14, 2023 Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the Bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of standing in the line of such literary giants as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be…

Prices rose by 0.4 percent in February and core inflation was up 0.5 percent, the third consecutive month that it has increased.

The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors.

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – March 12, 2023 International Women’s Day, replete with ceremonies and demonstrations, has come and gone. In the United States, demonstrators could have celebrated the unprecedented freedom, prosperity and achievements attained by the fair sex in America. Instead, they mostly whined that because of the Dobbs ruling, it’s getting less convenient to kill unborn babies….

The question now is what punishments Stanford should impose. I think that it’s clear that DEI dean Tirien Steinbach should be fired. As for the student protestors, Stanford’s written policy on campus disruptions—a policy that Steinbach herself linked to in her email to students before the event—provides valuable guidance.

t has long been obvious that the Democrats harbor a deep aversion to free expression and that they are perfectly willing to silence voices that fail to parrot the pungent orthodoxies of the left.

Trading was intermittently halted on at least 20 regional banks as the velocity of money forced regulators to intervene on Wall Street.

By The Editorial Board –  wsj.com – March 13, 2023 Perhaps investors don’t believe the Administration’s Sunday interventions solve the problems. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it couldn’t find a private buyer for SVB, though a source tells us Treasury and the Federal Reserve favored one. FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg nixed it owing to hostility to bank mergers. Instead the…

The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, and FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg: Today we are taking decisive actions to protect the U.S. economy by strengthening public confidence in our banking system.

By: Madeline Leesman – townhall.com –  March 10, 2023 This week, USA Powerlifting made headlines for losing a discrimination lawsuit against a transgender athlete. Now, male-bodied athletes who claim to identify as women must be allowed to compete against females. Polls in recent months have shown that the majority of Americans oppose allowing biological males who identify as “transgender” to compete…