[BehindTheBlack] Back in August 2021, I reported the horrible blacklisting of Tara Gustilo, a biracial physician from the Philippines, who had been demoted and experienced a $150K cut in salary at the Hennepin Healthcare system in Minnesota simply because she had posted criticisms of the racist Black Lives Matter movement as well as the critical race theory policies, now known as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), that Hennepin was pushing.
In addition to filing a discrimination complaint with the federal government, Gustilo sued, represented by the Minnesota-based Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC). You can read her lawsuit here [pdf].
That lawsuit however had been dismissed by a lower court. Last week however the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out that decision, reinstating the lawsuit.
The court’s decision can be read here. The court specifically noted that Gustilo’s right to free speech appeared to have been violated, and that fact must be considered by a jury.
The facts of the case seem to me pretty clear. Before she expressed her opinions about BLM and critical race theory, Gustilo had routinely gotten positive job reviews. Moreover, because she was biracial, she had been celebrated as an example of Hennepin’s dedication to promoting diversity. Once she spoke out, however, the company immediately moved to take away her position as chair of one department while cutting her pay, explicitly telling her that it did so because of her opinions. That action was further prompted by a wave of anger and madness among some fellow employees, whom during this time of panic had somehow lost the ability to tolerate other opinions.
What made the action even more personally galling was that the person chosen to replace her at the department asked her for advice on how to run the department, specifically because of her “continued high performance and patient satisfaction.”
[NYPOST] The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases.
While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it's obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential blunder by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as well as a stunning defeat for its allies both in the Middle East and Washington.
Oct. 7 transformed the Middle East in ways that seemed impossible only a few years ago.
Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... , perhaps the most immediate threat to both Jewish and Arab lives in the region, is largely eradicated. Hezbollah, the theocratic militia that's kept Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... in a state of turmoil and war for decades, is reeling.
Indeed, it was Israel’s success against the latter that helped send Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , a real-world genocidal dictator, into Russian exile.
Most of all, events have left Iran, which spent decades building its proxies throughout the Middle East, impotent.
It’s no surprise that on their way out, Barack Obama How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then... ’s cronies in the Biden administration approved another $10 billion in sanctions relief for the mullahs by waiving restricted payment transfers from the Iraqi government.
These are the same people who had attempted to lift Hamas and propped up its benefactors in Iran with planeloads of treasure.
And the same people who did everything possible to handcuff Israel in its war against Hamas and Hezbollah.
Not only had the White House threatened to withhold aid if the Israeli military went into Rafah to eliminate Hamas battalions cowering behind women and kiddies, when Israel pulled off its ingenious pager operation, wounding and killing hundreds of Hezbollah operatives, our uncannily misguided Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... warned that "all parties" should "avoid escalating conflict," treating our close allies and Islamists — in this case a group that once murdered 220 Marines in Beirut — as equals.
Fortunately, Israel ignored President Biden and eliminated His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , who was involved in those murders, and decimated much of Hezbollah’s capacity to wage war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, far more risk-averse and far less hawkish than his critics maintain, was compelled by the popular will to settle all family business after Oct. 7.
The conventional wisdom has been that Israel, a small nation, is impelled to finish wars quickly or risk an economic crash. That was surely the case in the conventional wars of the past.
The Jewish state proved it could engage in a prolonged conflict, striking one decisive victory after the next.
Conventional wisdom also said that Israel would be unable to effectively strike deep within Iran.
Yet after the Islamic regime launched 500 ballistic missiles and drones in its direction, Israel slipped 100 jets into the Iranian territory and calmly engaged in precision strikes — a warning that it could mete out far more devastation if it felt like it. And perhaps it will in the future.
On Oct. 8, Israelis woke up to a gruesome massacre and perhaps the most devastating security failure in their country’s history — behind only the Yom Kippur War.
This month they woke up to the news that Israel was annihilating the Syrian air force, its armaments and perhaps its chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... storehouses, ensuring that no advanced weaponry falls into the hands of jihadis.
Power and strength, rather than capitulation and mollification, work in the Middle East. And the world is a better place today because of Israel’s victories.
It’s not outlandish to believe that Iranians might now be more open to making a genuine deal with President-elect Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , rather than risking implosion.
What would be best for the world, of course, is if the US exerted its economic pressure and precipitated the fall of the mullahs in Iran, a country that has no real geopolitical reason to be at war with Israel or the West.
Though there’s a chance for peace in the region, we should not be pollyannaish.
The Ottoman Turkish government would like to set up its own proxy state in Syria, though the Arabs tend to detest the Turks.
And the Turks, of course, detest the Kurds, who are being ethnically cleansed as we speak. (No college campus protests for a Kurdish state, alas.)
And, of course, the Christians and Alawites are now in danger from Islamists.
Or, in other words, the Middle East is still the Middle East.
Whatever happens, though, the Middle East has been forever transformed by Oct. 7.
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...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
