What I missed While I was in Hawaii

Having spent the past week in Maui, I was not able to report on the goings-on in the country and the world. While you may have already heard of these stories that occurred last week, I thought I would collect some together in one posting in case the mainstream media somehow failed to report them.

New York University, a campus plagued recently by various expression of anti-semitism, has responded to the problem by giving the so-called President's Service Award to none other than Students for Justice in Palestine.If you want to make a statement about anti-semitism, what better way to do it than honoring one of the main perpetrators?

Not to be outdone, Maxine Waters (D-CA), who is now head of the House Financial Service Committee was lambasting bank CEOs on Capitol Hill over the issue of student loan defaults. She asked what they were doing to fix the problem. That's when they politely informed her that the government had taken over the student loan program several years ago.

While Waters', who President Trump refers to as "low-IQ", may be excused for her ignorance, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), just plain made it up. In she told JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon that one of her constituents in Irvine, a woman named Patricia, was a  bank clerk on one of Dimon's banks. Quoting Patricia's (starting) salary, Porter rattled off all of her monthly expenses and asked how Patricia could afford to live as a single mom on such a salary. The CEO had no idea how to answer, except that it turns out there was no Patricia. Porter had made it all up. That didn't keep CNN from lauding Porter, bringing her on air, and putting the best possible spin on it. There were "thousands" of Patricias out there.

"So there is no Patricia out there," Porter said, adding, "but in the other way, there are thousands and thousands, and tens of thousands of Patricias out there."
(or none)

Must have been a trick Porter picked up while teaching at UC Irvine Law School.

Meanwhile, the Democrats in the New York State legislature, which they control, after approving $27 million in aid for student Dreamers, rejected an expansion of tuition aid for family members of servicemen/women killed in the line of duty.

And on the international front, the foreign secretary of the nation formerly known as the UK, Jeremy Hunt, recommended withholding aid to countries that persecute Christians. That sounds good to me except that the UK is the same country that refused to give asylum to Asia Bibi in Pakistan for fear that UK Muslims would riot (which they surely would). Jihad Watch has the report.

That should catch you up on what you might have missed. Final question: How many of these stories are you reading for the first time?