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Howard University professor’s wild take: Austin Metcalf’s dad is the real villain

The Blaze
3 weeks ago


In a delusional Substack post, a Howard University journalism professor blamed Austin Metcalf’s father for the teen athlete’s murder — conducting what she called her own “postmortem” on the horrific murder.

Dr. Stacey Patton criticized Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff Metcalf, and broke down his courtroom address to killer Karmelo Anthony.

“Yesterday evening, Jeff Metcalf, the father of Austin Metcalf, used his victim-impact statement to address Karmelo Anthony directly, after he was sentenced to 35 years after the court treated his act of survival as murder,” Patton wrote.

“He insisted this case was ‘never about race.’ He said, ‘We all bleed the same color.’ And he described his grief not as sadness, but as ‘rage’ – ‘pure unfiltered rage.’ And then he turned that rage on the black 19-year-old sitting before him,” she continued.


“‘You failed your parents, you failed yourself, and you failed society. You don’t belong in this community.’ He also reportedly told him, ‘You’re going to prison, and, ‘You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f**king son in the heart.’ And right there, in his own words Jeff Metcalf told on himself,” she added.

“She decides that the best thing she can do with her time is attack the still-grieving father of a murdered child in the face of all this,” BlazeTV host John Doyle comments, disturbed.

“But what’s also telling here is that she does not actually care that Jeff Metcalf is deliberately and painstakingly trying to say specifically that the case is not about race ... Stacey Patton is absolutely making it about race,” he continues.

“But not only that, but that blacks are actually the real victims here in a case which again, is about the deliberate murder of a white man,” he adds.

Patton went on to criticize the way Metcalf taught his son “about the cultural socialization that helped his son meet his fate under that track meet tent in April 2025.”

“This is your method of attack, to attack fatherhood in white America,” Doyle comments.

“So yeah, she’s going to blame Jeff Metcalf here for the murder of his own son and literally just justify Karmelo Anthony’s killing of the son here,” he continues. “She’s going to go on and list a bunch of incidents which all of these people have memorized to just like throw out there, justify all their bad behavior.”

Patton went on to say, “Since this country loves to examine black parents when black children die, let us examine you. Since America loves to ask what black mothers and fathers failed to teach, let us ask what you failed to teach your son. Since dead black boys are never allowed to remain innocent, let us stop pretending dead white boys are beyond scrutiny. Let us refuse the sentimental immunity given to dead white boys and grieving white fathers.”

She adds, “Let’s go postmortem up in here.”

“This line in particular is like no different than the people who want to make AI edits of themselves pissing on his grave,” Doyle says, adding, “She is in essence doing the same thing.”

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Vance: Israelis 'Going to Be Bought In' on Iran Deal 'Once We Get a Little Further'

Breitbart
3 weeks ago

During an interview with NBC News on Monday, Vice President JD Vance said that there has been some “misinformation” about the agreement with Iran in Israeli media, “We believe, quite firmly, that, when the Israeli people understand what’s in this

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Ian Hanchett

France: 7 in 10 Want Referendum on Reinstating Death Penalty for Crimes Against Children

Breitbart
3 weeks ago

In the wake of the murder of an 11-year-old girl that shocked the nation, seven in ten people in France believe that there should be a national referendum to decide whether or not the country should reinstate the death penalty for crimes against children.

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Kurt Zindulka

Trump’s next bill needs tax relief with teeth

The Blaze
3 weeks ago


A third reconciliation bill is becoming a central question in Republican economic policy. President Trump has called for one. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) supports it. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is trying to assemble the votes. Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) is open to it if the numbers work.

Senate Republicans sound far less certain. Former Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been blunt: “I think it’s safe to conclude there will not be another reconciliation bill.”

The question congressional Republicans should ask is not merely what they can pass — it’s what they are willing to fight for.

Someone will win that argument. If House Republicans prevail, the real test will be what goes into the bill. Trump is right that defense readiness and election integrity are priorities. But neither is an economic growth agenda. Growth comes from removing barriers to work, saving, investment, and capital formation.

Supply-siders know what they want: lower corporate rates, zero capital gains, full repeal of the death tax, and a complete rewrite of how the tax code treats savings and investment.

Reconciliation in 2026 is not the vehicle for all of that. But it can still do real work.

Index capital gains to inflation

Investors now pay taxes on nominal gains from selling an asset. A family that bought a home in 2010 for $600,000 and sells it today for $1.2 million has not doubled its real wealth. Much of that increase reflects the dollar’s declining purchasing power. Taxing inflation on top of inflation is double taxation by another name. Congress should index all capital gains to inflation.

A practical fallback already has bipartisan support. Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) have reintroduced the More Homes on the Market Act, which has 123 co-sponsors. The bill would raise the primary-residence exclusion from $250,000 to $500,000 for single filers and from $500,000 to $1 million for joint filers. Those thresholds were set in 1997 and have never been adjusted for inflation.

The 2026 Economic Report of the President identifies supply constraints as a major driver of housing costs. Either reform would reduce the tax penalty that discourages homeowners from selling, moving, or downsizing.

Tax tax-exempt wealth hoards

Universities and hospitals have spent decades accumulating vast tax-exempt wealth while pricing out the people they claim to serve. Harvard’s endowment exceeds $56 billion. Most of its investment earnings remain largely exempt from federal taxation. Economist Richard Vedder has called university tax subsidies one of the most regressive policies in the tax code.

Congress raised the endowment tax as high as 8% in the last reconciliation bill. A 15% excise tax on endowments above $100 million would send a clearer signal that tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a birthright.

The same logic applies to commercial activities at universities and hospitals. When a university runs a hotel, a patent-licensing operation, or a hospital system, it is engaging in commerce. Tax it accordingly.

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Cap Medicaid fraud

Every dollar lost to Medicaid fraud is a dollar extracted from taxpayers and lost to the private economy. Capping federal Medicaid allocations to states with demonstrated high fraud rates is both fiscally sound and pro-growth. It belongs in any serious reconciliation package.

Redirect health care subsidies

The current system funnels public money through insurance intermediaries that extract rents at every step. The 2026 Economic Report of the President documents how lack of competition in physician markets drives up costs. Redirecting health care subsidies directly to individuals would restore price signals to a sector long insulated from them.

Republicans have a narrow window and a thin majority. The votes may not be there. But the question congressional Republicans should ask is not merely what they can pass — it’s what they are willing to fight for.

Every item here removes a barrier to capital formation or productive investment. That is not four different ideas. It is one growth agenda, applied four ways.

James Carter

RIP Sh*t-Lib Industrial Complex? Karmelo Anthony Protests Already Flamed Out

Breitbart
3 weeks ago

Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Emma-Jo Morris talked about protests. Morris said, “The sh*tlib industrial complex has just been gutted, bankrupted, or laid off over the last few years.” The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts

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