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By Mark Hemingway for RealClearWire Without much fanfare, earlier this week, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter Jeff Garth dropped a thorough and scathing four-part article dissecting the media’s obsessive reporting on Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia. More surprisingly, Garth’s report, “Press vs. President,” appeared in the internal organ of America’s most prestigious … Read more

The former vice chairman of the D.C. police union was arrested over the weekend “on charges of defrauding the D.C. government.” Medgar Webster, who previously served as vice chairman of the D.C. Police Union, was arrested for fraud after allegedly holding a second job at Whole Foods while in charge of the D.C. Metropolitan Police … Read more

within this week The Because the round tableEditors Matt Welch, Catherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown examine recent proposals from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis intended to combat various cultural grievances and an audience’s questions about the private power grid. 0:22: Governor Ron DeSantis and state power 27:02: President Joe Biden’s upcoming … Read more

Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller denounced Nancy Pelosi as an ‘incoherent’ and ‘screaming’ mess during the January 6 riots, and belittled the crowd that overran the Capitol as “a raucous band of MAGA supporters taking selfies”. Miller, who led the Pentagon from just days after the 2020 election through President Biden’s Inauguration Day, made … Read more

On Monday, a massive fire completely destroyed a manufacturing facility and warehouse in Chicago, a year after announcing a major expansion at the site. Multiple fire departments responded to the extra-alarm fire at the Morgan Lee warehouse at 1101 Washington Ave. in Chicago Heights, according to city spokesman David Ormsby. According to reports, the fire … Read more

from Ranch v. City of MoscowAs decided last week by Judge Morrison England (D. Idaho): Plaintiffs Gabriel Wrench, Shawn Bohnet and Rachel Bohnet … commenced this action against defendants in Moscow …, a political subdivision of the State of Idaho. [and Moscow officials] … the alleged constitutional injury was sustained when the plaintiffs participated in … Read more

By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) U.S. Border Patrol chiefs will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Tuesday after they first barricaded Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ department. Last month, committee chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, sent a letter to the mayor saying the committee would “investigate the Biden administration’s creation … Read more

Democrats claim walls don’t work and are racist, when they think they need them. Ahead of Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, the fence returned to the Capitol building. The same fence Democrats put up after J6. What is the topic of discussion? Who are they trying to keep out? Fox News reports: … Read more

This episode of the Cyberroll podcast is dominated by stories of potential cybersecurity controls. David Chris first directed us an article By Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA) Leaders Abroad. Jane Easterly and Eric Goldstein seem to take a hard line on “why companies need to build security into tech products.” But for all difficult … Read more

The ‘women’s rights’ group must think very little of women, since they seem to be replacing women’s fixed roles with men pretending to be women. point case; The Rev. Donnie Anderson, a 75-year-old man who tells people he’s a woman, was elected unopposed to be the face and chair of the Rhode Island Democratic Women’s … Read more