Next Thursday, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory B. Jaczko will meet with Penn State faculty and students when he tours the Breazeale nuclear reactor.
Jaczko, a former science policy advisor for Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev), was appointed to the position
The university release described the purpose of the visit as follows:
The chairman and his fellow NRC commissioners periodically visit power and research reactors to help better inform their decision-making regarding such facilities.
Check out some video footage from the reactor after the jump.
I asked Young Americans for Freedom President Sam Settle for his thoughts on Emerson Begolly's arrest this morning. This is what he had to say:
I think non-Muslims get involved in jihadism for the same basic reasons that people join any supremacist ideology--it provides a sense of purpose, a feeling of superiority, and a license to act in horrendous ways. Begolly was clearly attracted to supremacist beliefs (for example, he seems to have flirted with neo-Nazism). The step from Nazism to jihadism isn't difficult; both ideologies are vehemently anti-semitic and anti-Zionst.
In fact, there have been a lot of connections between jihadists and Nazis over the years: there's at least some indication that early modern jihadist leaders were inspired by Nazism, several prominent neo-Nazis have converted to Islam, at least one major American neo-Nazi has proposed an alliance with al-Qaeda, and Mein Kampf is widely circulated in the Islamic world.
Former Penn State World Campus student Emerson Begolly was arrested by the FBI last week when two agents confronted him in a parking lot near New Bethlehem, PA. The meeting was arranged in advance with help by his mother.
FBI agents Brad Orsini and Edward Daer had Mr. Begolly's mother, Joan Kowalski, pick him up on a pretense that his grandmother was sick. While stopped at a Burger King, agents identified themselves and opened the doors.
The agents, who did not have a warrant for his arrest at the time, sought to question him about web postings he had made in support of Islamic extremists. When Begolly reached for his jacket, the agents struggled to restrain him. They found a fully loaded 9-mm handgun with the safety off and a bullet the chamber in his jacket.
Check out the full story after the jump.
Tickets for the third annual Hope Gala are now available through the New York City chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association. The THON benefit will be held Friday January 21, 2011 at 7:30 pm in Capitale, a restaurant on the Lower East Side.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that Tom Bradley is likely the new head coach of the University of Pittsburgh's football team:
If offered the job, Bradley, who has not met with Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg, would quickly accept it, according to numerous sources as it is the job he has wanted for quite some time.
A University of Pittsburgh spokesperson has denied the rumors longtime Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Bradley has taken the head coach position at the University of Pittsburgh.