💥NEW: James Carville: “I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word: ‘Schism’ ... there's just some sh*t that I can't be in the same tent with ... I'm done ... I don't want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist.”
Dear @RegentHubbard,
As a lifelong supporter, and alumni of the University of Michigan, I believe it is time for the Board of Regents to consider new leadership for the Athletic Department.
Under Warde Manuel’s tenure, Michigan has achieved success on the field and court, but his administration has also been marked by repeated public embarrassment, poor communication, and a troubling lack of urgency in retaining elite coaches. Michigan should be a destination program, not a place where successful coaches repeatedly become flight risks because leadership waits too long to act.
This pattern has become impossible to ignore. Jim Harbaugh delivered a national championship and still left for the NFL. Erik Bakich rebuilt Michigan baseball into a College World Series program and left for Clemson. Now, with Dusty May, Michigan again is facing the consequences of not being proactive enough in securing a coach who quickly elevated the program. At some point, these are not isolated incidents. They reflect a leadership problem.
The Athletic Director’s job is not simply to react once problems become public. It is to anticipate them, protect the university’s interests, and make Michigan feel like the clear best place for elite coaches to stay. Too often, Manuel’s department has appeared slow, disorganized, and caught off guard.
The University of Michigan deserves athletic leadership that inspires confidence, communicates clearly, and acts with urgency equal to the standard of the Block M. While Warde Manuel has overseen successful moments, the repeated instability and embarrassment have become too costly. It is time for a change.
Respectfully,
Alumni and Fans.
Michigan really went 15-0 and won a National Championship in Football and then 2 years later went 37-3 and won a National Championship in Basketball.
There is no debate that Michigan is the premier athletic program in America.
democrats legit need to ditch the anti-white racism, it's not quirky, it's not funny, it's not tongue-in-cheek, it's one of the major drivers of moderates/normies away from their camp
you can dislike that, you can think they're too thin skinned or whatever, but it is what it is.
The “Israel has a right to exist” argument has always bothered me because it accepts a weak premise.
Nations do not have some abstract, inherent, metaphysical “right to exist.” Not Israel, America, France, Pakistan, you name the country. States exist because they establish sovereignty, build institutions, control their territory, defend their borders, gain recognition, and survive.
That is the realist and only true, logical argument.
When someone says “Israel has no right to exist,” the strongest response is not to beg them to recognize Israel’s “right.” This is weak and defensive. That already puts Israel on trial in a way no other country is. The stronger response is to say simply: Israel DOES exist. It achieved sovereignty, built a state, and defended itself through repeated wars. It has borders, institutions, a military, a legal system, international recognition, and a people who are not going anywhere.
There is definitely a double standard, though. People do not demand France, Pakistan, Jordan, Turkey, or Egypt justify their “right to exist.” That standard is almost always applied uniquely to Israel, and yes, a lot of the time it is rooted in antisemitism or anti-Jewish hostility.
That is exactly why Israel’s defenders should stop making the weakest version of the argument.
Israel does not need to defend its existence as if its sovereignty depends on the moral permission of people who hate it. Israel’s case is much stronger than that.
Israel DOES exist because the Jewish people returned to political sovereignty in their historic homeland, built functioning institutions, accepted partition, declared independence, survived invasion, defended itself, absorbed refugees, developed a modern state, and maintained that sovereignty for over 75 years.
Stop playing into the emotional arguments and get real.
One of the defining hallmarks of our modern age is that people in charge of good things are willing to make them incrementally worse for a chance to make more money, knowing most people are powerless to stop it.
I don’t think the NCAA Tournament needs to expand. The biggest thing the NCAA should be focusing on is making the tournament more competitive for a team like Michigan, which basically sleptwalked its way to a title with an average margin of victory of 19 points per tourney game.
Michigan men's basketball currently has the nation's
- No. 2 high school recruiting class, per 247Sports
- No. 8 transfer portal recruiting class, per 247Sports
- No. 1 overall recruiting class, per 247Sports
The fact that the majority of Americans preferred republicans on the economy for so long has got to be one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in modern history because every time a republican gets in office they ruin the economy and everybody is worse off.
Why is it that when the West strikes Arab states, it radicalizes people and turns them into monstrous terrorists (so it's our fault), but when Arab states attack Israel and the West for decades on end, we are supposed to NOT be radicalized?
The truth is we’ve always held Donald Trump to a pathetically low standard - the lowest standard any politician has ever been held to. Trump gets away with behavior no other politician would ever get away with. He’s treated like a child who doesn’t know any better.
Shameful.
James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today."
George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."
Why does the left have such little issue with Islam? It literally rejects everything they claim to stand for. Everything. Anti gay, anti democratic, anti inclusive. Controls women’s bodies. Male dominated—the list goes on.
@W_Asherah This is a story as old as time, powerful 'Old Money' families have assets and prestige, but very little liquidity.
Successful middle class social climbers would buy their way into the upper classes by trading liquid assets for access to through marriage