Written by Michael Barone
The report of special counsel John Durham is, or ought to be, devastating for anyone who has put any credence in what has now been definitively revealed to be the Russia collusion hoax.
With a painstaking examination of the evidence (1,753 footnotes!), Durham establishes conclusively that there was no basis for the FBI to have begun its Crossfire Hurricane investigation of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in July 2016. The Bureau acted on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” and without checking with intelligence entities.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Brit Hume, Crossfire Hurricane, Donald Trump, Durham Report, FBI, FISA court, Hillary Clinton, Igor Danchenko, James Comey, Joe Biden, John Brennan, John Durham, Loretta Lynch, Russia Collusion, Steele dossier, Vladimir Putin
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Voter Integrity | David E. Smith | May 19, 2023 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The Russia Collusion Hoax
Written by David Harsanyi
How many voters know that the Democratic Party supports legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy on demand for virtually any reason? How many voters know this position aligns with only six other countries in the world — three of them, not incidentally, being North Korea, Vietnam and China?
How many voters know that Democrats want to pass a federal law banning states from stopping sex-selective abortions or the dismembering of the post-viable unborn or the requirement of parental and guardian notification for minors before getting abortions?… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Brian Kemp, conscience rights, Dan Kelly, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Donald Trump, Glenn Youngkin, human life, Hyde Amendment, J.D. Vance, Janet Protasiewicz, Mike DeWine, Parental notice of abortion, Roe v. Wade, Ron DeSantis, sex-selective abortions, Stacey Abrams, Taxpayer funded abortion, Terry McAuliffe, Tim Ryan, Washington Post, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | April 21, 2023 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Republicans Need To Stop Being Cowards on Abortion
Written by Tim Graham
National Public Radio left Twitter in a hilarious huff. In a statement, CEO John Lansing announced, “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence.”
This contains multiple layers of comedy. For starters, NPR is a platform that has demonstrated an incredibly aggressive interest in undermining the credibility of Fox News Channel and the public’s understanding of how it balances out NPR’s relentless liberal bias and censorship.… Continue Reading
Tags: Dana Milbank, David Folkenflik, Dominion Voting Systems, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Hunter Biden, Jeremy Peters, Joe Biden, Joe Scarborough, John Lansing, National Public Radio, New York Times, Robert Draper, Tim Miller, Tucker Carlson, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | April 17, 2023 7:30 AM | Comments Off on NPR Won’t Hide Their Hatred of Republicans and Fox News
Written by Gabriel Syme
Government officials go before U.S. Senate Committees all the time to testify about various things. When they do so, they are expected to answer the questions posed to them by our elected officials – that is the purpose of such inquiries. But lately, we have increasingly seen Democrats stonewall, obfuscate, and demonstrate an outright inability to answer basic questions about their respective jobs. A prime example of this is when U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently questioned the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, about the disaster that is the United States’ southern border.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
In the space of a week, we saw three children and three adults executed at a Christian school in Nashville, the indictment of former President Donald Trump, and the advent of the national “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
We also saw the current White House occupant awkwardly joking at length about his love of ice cream before addressing the Nashville massacre. The word “inappropriate” is wildly inadequate. Within moments, he segued into a gun control rant.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, Anthony Fauci, Antifa, Biden administrations, Biden crime family, Black Lives Matter, Border Crisis, border security, Clinton crime family, Department of Justice, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Federal Trade Commission, Homeland Security, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, Karine Jean-Pierre, Lina Khan, Matt Taibbi, Merrick Garland, Obama Administration, Roe v. Wade, school shooting, Transgender Day of Visibility, Twitter Files
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | April 4, 2023 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Intimidation 101: From Trump to Transgender Mania, Leftists’ War on America is Intensifying
Written by Peter Heck
In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, Northeastern University ran an analysis attempting to evaluate how much political endorsements actually matter in determining the outcome of a race. The consensus of their assembled experts and professors seemed to be that someone like former President Donald Trump‘s endorsement of a candidate during a midterm election might help at the periphery, but, “there are more fundamental variables affecting election outcomes than endorsements.”… Continue Reading
Written by Michael Barone
When the Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page lead story that the Department of Energy had concluded the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a leak from China’s Wuhan laboratory, you might have argued it was old news. The FBI had already, it turns out, come to the same conclusion and with a higher degree of confidence (moderate) than the Energy Department (low).
Those agencies’ conclusions, moreover, came as a result of a May 21 directive from President Joe Biden to multiple intelligence agencies to review two “equally plausible scenarios” for COVID’s origin, “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal” (the zoonotic theory) “or from a laboratory accident” (the lab leak theory).… Continue Reading
Tags: Alina Chen, Anthony Fauci, Apoorva Mandavilli, China virus, Cochrane Library, COVID–19, Department of Energy, Donald Trump, Fox News, Gabe Kaminsky, Joe Biden, Kristian Andersen, Matt Ridley, Michael Barone, Nate Silver, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Review, Nicholas Wade, Scripps Research Institute, The Lancet, The New York Times, Tom Cotton, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Wuhan Institute of Virology
COVID, Federal Issues | David E. Smith | March 4, 2023 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Lab Leak Story: How Elite Scientists Lied and Concealed the Truth
Written by Tim Graham
The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President Joe Biden — almost like they’re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is silly enough for them to forgo the urgent need to “check.” They’re perpetually poised to pounce!
PolitiFact gave us two examples on Feb. 10. Both were “Pants On Fire” warnings, but only one was about pants. The headline was “Joe Biden put his pants on backwards,” and their headline continued: “We know all about pants.… Continue Reading
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Ciara O'Rourke, Donald Trump, Facebook, Instagram, Jeff Cercone, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mindy Robinson, PolitiFact, QAnon, Snopes
Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 18, 2023 5:00 AM | Comments Off on When ‘Pants on Fire’ Fact Checks Are About Biden’s Pants
Written by Jorge Gomez
This week, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 100th federal judicial nominee, reaching that milestone faster than his two predecessors. At this point in their presidencies, Trump had 88 judges confirmed and Obama had 67.
Biden’s judicial confirmations include one U.S. Supreme Court justice, 30 circuit court and 69 district court judges. The wave of confirmations this week included:
- Cindy K. Chung to the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
…
Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bradley Garcia, Charnelle Bjelkengren, Chuck Schumer, Cindy K. Chung, Donald Trump, Gina R. Mendez-Miró, Joe Biden, John Kennedy, judicial nominee, Julie Rikelman, Lindsay C. Jenkins, Matthew L. Garcia, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Abudu, Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrisey-Berru, Rita Lin, Southern Poverty Law Center, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | February 17, 2023 7:15 AM | Comments Off on U.S. Senate Confirms Biden’s 100th Judicial Nominee
Written by Robert Knight
The constant trickle of lies coming out of Washington became a gusher this past week.
We’ll look below at President Biden’s State of the Union speech. But first, Big Tech took center stage at a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Former Twitter executives testified that Twitter has never hassled conservatives. Nor were they politically motivated to censor the New York Post’s coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop just before the 2020 presidential election.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrew McCabe, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Chinese Communist Party, Christopher Wray, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Equality Act, Facebook, FBI, Hunter Biden, Jim Baker, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Twitter, Vijaya Gadde, Wall Street Journal, Yoel Roth
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 13, 2023 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Lies From Big Tech and ‘Big Guy’ Biden