Good morning. It's Tuesday, Dec. 12, and we're covering Harvard plagiarism, SNL alum drops out of sketch, distorted marketplaces, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here. | | American Fact of the Day! | Did you know that the GPS is operated and maintained by the U.S. Air Force? The Global Positioning System is a utility that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. The system consists of three segments: the space segment, the control segment, and the user segment. |
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| | Breaking Updates | | Scholars Find Dozens More Examples of Plagiarism by Harvard President Claudine Gay | It's been a rough week for Harvard University President Claudine Gay. First, she was roundly criticized for her disastrous Dec. 5 congressional testimony where she and the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania claimed that calls for genocide against Jews on their campuses needed to be placed into "context."
Donors promptly yanked hundreds of millions of dollars in future gifts from UPenn, and president Liz Magill was forced to resign Saturday as a result of the raging controversy. The news got even worse Monday for Gay as a new report alleges that scholars reviewing her work found dozens more examples of plagiarism in her past.
In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors—including two of her colleagues in Harvard University's department of government—without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay's dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo and Karlstack's Chris Brunet.
Alexander Riley, a sociologist at Bucknell University, doesn't see how she can continue at the Ivy League school: "The question here is whether the president of an elite institution such as Harvard can feasibly have an academic record this marred by obvious plagiarism," he said. "I do not see how Harvard could possibly justify keeping her in that position in light of this evidence."
Her testimony showed she's terrible at being a leader, and her rampant plagiarism shows she's not a qualified academic either. | Read more updates here |
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| | SNL Alum Dropped Out of Awful Antisemitism Sketch Minutes Before Airtime, Was 'Uncomfortable' | Saturday Night Live reached a new low with their cold opening over the weekend, where they ruthlessly mocked Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for questioning three university presidents during Dec. 5 congressional hearings about antisemitic activity on their campuses.
Instead of lampooning the university presidents, who disturbingly claimed that the calls for genocide by their students and professors needed to be taken "in context," they portrayed Stefanik, who asked some very important questions, as a raving lunatic with anti-Jewish feelings.
Turns out one of their own alum -- eleven-year SNL veteran Cecily Strong -- wasn't down with the antisemitic skit either and backed out "last minute" -- just before the show was due to go live. She was "uncomfortable" with the skit, according to a backstage account.
Newcomer Chloe Troast was thrust into the limelight, and while I understand that it's a tough job being assigned a part right before airtime, she was still spectacularly bad and unfunny. | In an exclusive statement, Alex DeGrasse, Stefanik's Senior Advisor, told The Post: "Elise did not watch it. However, her office was flooded with messages from thousands of Americans across the political spectrum — Democrats and Republicans — who were appalled and disgusted by the antisemitic trash spewed by unfunny, morally bankrupt 'comedians.'
"SNL made history with the worst cold open ever because everyone knows there is absolutely no humor in the vile answers from the university presidents regarding their failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people." | Read more updates here |
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| | American Sports & Culture
|  | As NFL team owners head to Dallas for winter meetings, the league needs to address its officiating meltdown | How can the NFL fix its officiating problem as mistakes continue to pile up in high-leverage situations and important games? |
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|  | Shohei Ohtani becomes world's highest-paid athlete after signing lucrative contract with Dodgers | Ohtani is now one of the richest athletes in the entire world |
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|  | Milwaukee Bucks announce deal with Fubo for rest of 2023-24 season | The decision comes during a season in which Bally Sports has taken heat from fans for streaming outages during sporting events. |
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| | American Business & Markets
|  | 'Incredible distortions in our marketplace': 45% of US real estate agents say they're struggling to pay rent | Realtors are leaving the industry by the tens of thousands amid sluggish home sales. |
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|  | 5 Universal Principles To Unlock Real Estate Success | Indeed.com recently listed the average salary for a real estate agent in the U.S. at about $95,000, but many agents make much more. |
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|  | Economists forecasting a housing market turnaround in 2024 | Realtor.com economists predict that mortgage rates, which have declined over the past five weeks, will continue to slide into the 6% territory in 2024. |
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| | American Politics | |  | 1 in 5 open to voting for RFK Jr.: Survey | A new poll shows 1 in 5 registered voters are open to supporting third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his White House bid in 2024. The Monmouth University poll released Monday does not ma… |
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|  | Why the First Amendment protects social media content moderation | A coalition led by RCFP is urging the Supreme Court to reject social media content regulation laws in Florida and Texas as unconstitutional. |
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|  | Liberty Justice Center Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Rule in Favor of the First Amendment in Online Free Speech Cases - Liberty Justice Center | On December 6, the Liberty Justice Center filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the combined cases Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton. |
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|  | Tesla CEO Elon Musk pushes to eliminate 'funding secured' consequences | Tesla CEO Elon Musk is continuing to push to eliminate sanctions the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) placed on him. |
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