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*** Retraction Watch reports: After months of investigation that identified networks of reviewers and editors manipulating the peer review process, Hindawi plans to retract 511 papers across 16 journals, Retraction Watch has learned. The retractions, which the publisher and its parent company, Wiley, will announce tomorrow in a blog post, will be issued in the next month, and more may come as its investigation continues. They are not yet making the list available.***My own view as someone who left academia after becoming a Harvard professor is that corruption has infiltrated the academy along with careerism and politicization. Correcting the situation...

Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, waging an "outsider" campaign for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, is adding some help from a well-known national political consultant. Rick Wiley, a former Republican National Committee political director and the campaign manager of Scott Walker’s 2016 presidential bid, is signing on with Bolduc as a senior advisor. The move is a significant development for the general’s campaign as other Republicans begin to enter the primary field to take on incumbent U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan. In a campaign memo shared with WMUR, Wiley says the political environment of this election year favors a candidate like...

As a mayoral candidate, Maya Wiley famously said she’s “been black all my life” — but that’s cold comfort to her failed campaign’s unpaid vendors, who are owed nearly $1 million, including a black-owned business that now has to lay off employees. “This could break my business,” the vendor told The Post, speaking this week on condition of anonymity because he signed a contract with the campaign that bars him from speaking to the media. “That was revenue I was waiting for to be able to pay my staff. It means I have to make some cutting decisions when it...

“In Wiley’s rendering, Judith is depicted as a black woman and Holofernes as a white woman.” “Fans of the Obama portrait will recognize Wiley’s photo-realistic human figures, distinct colors and prominent use of floral backgrounds.” “Wiley translates this image of a courageous, powerful woman into a contemporary version that resonates with fury and righteousness.”

Former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey gave an interview to the Examiner which was published Sunday. In the interview Willey says the sexual harassment accusations by women like herself also involve Hillary because she has been defending Bill: “This no longer about Bill Clinton’s transgressions or his infidelities or girlfriends or sex … it’s not about that anymore,” Willey told theWashington Examiner. “What it’s about is the actions that his wife has taken against the women that he has raped and assaulted.”… Willey said she has bristled at Hillary Clinton’s attempts to convince voters of her commitment to protecting women....

Politico reports that Wiley got fired after clashing with Karen Giorno, who ran Florida for Trump ahead of his big win there on March 15. “For weeks, Wiley made appointments and had discussions with Florida Republicans and appeared to be building a new campaign from scratch,” Ken Vogel and Marc Caputo report. “Sources say he refused, at times, to return Giorno’s calls or take them. Giorno then began calling other Trump campaign officials to ask them whether Wiley had it out for her or for everyone. On Thursday, word leaked back to Trump. He phoned Giorno, concerned.… ‘Tell me what’s...

Rick Wiley was hired on a short-term basis as a consultant until the campaign was running full steam. It is now doing better than ever, we are leading in the polls, and we have many exciting events ready to go, far ahead of schedule, while Hillary continues her long, boring quest against Bernie. We would like to thank Rick for helping us during this transition period.

As Donald Trump descended his podium at a rally in Arkansas last week, a familiar scene of screaming fans met him with requests for autographs and selfies. Everything was gaudy in a typically Trumpian way but for the presence of one person in particular: Paula Jones. "Go ahead honey, go," Trump told Jones as she turns around for a selfie with the Republican frontrunner. When her husband introduced himself, Trump leaned over the railing and said "you got lucky man, look how beautiful," before moving along down the line.(snip) Jones, who did not return multiple requests for comment by The...

Longtime Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his top assistant were arrested Friday morning by the FBI on federal bribery conspiracy charges. An indictment filed Wednesday and unsealed Friday morning lists the following charges against Price, who was taken into custody about 8 a.m.: Conspiracy to Commit Bribery Concerning a Local Government Receiving Federal Benefits Deprivation of Honest Services by Mail Fraud and Aiding and Abetting Conspiracy to Defraud the Internal Revenue Service Subscribing to a False and Fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Return "The indictment unsealed today alleges that for more than a decade, in a shocking betrayal...

When he steps into the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena on Monday, he'll ask a panel of three judges for a chance to show evidence that the president of the United States isn't eligible for the job. He'll argue that Barack Obama wasn't born in this country and that the plaintiffs in his case—members of the American Independent Party—didn't get a fair shake in the 2008 presidential election.

Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly? Just another crazy conspiracy theory? But, amid claims he wrote tell-all book that vanished after his death, it's one that refuses to go away By Sue Reid Last updated at 11:40 AM on 16th July 2009 The day Dr David Kelly took a short walk to his death in the Oxfordshire countryside, an unopened letter lay on the desk of his book-lined study. Sent from the heart of the British Government, the pages were marked 'personal' and threatened the world-renowned microbiologist with the sack if he ever publicly opened his mouth again. The letter...

Conservative Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Statesman Mike Wiley, who is the only Republican Candidate to have ever run in a US Senate Race before and the only candidate to have ever led a major rally to defeat gun control has jumped to 11% in a recent Nevada Policy Research Institute poll after just two months of campaigning.

Listen to Candidates Bucking For United States Senator Harry Reid Seat in 2010 Part 2 We have had candidates that have been campaigning for US Nevada Senator Harry Reid Seat in 2010. Two Conservative Republicans Danny Tarkanian and Mike Wiley. On September 19, 2009 we have had Danny Tarkanian Republican Candidate for US Senate on the Veterans In Politics Talk Show on All Talk Radio. On September 26, 2009 we have had Mike Wiley Republican Candidate for US Senate on the Veterans In Politics Talk Show on All Talk Radio. Listen to what they have to say and do your...

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Mike Wiley and David Rivers LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net Our Listeners for the month of August are 109,859 thousand: Thank You: September 26: Mike Wiley Republican Candidate for US Senate Representing Nevada: David Rivers former Judicial candidate for District Court Department 10 and Attorney: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and co-hosted by Ronda Baldwin Kennedy on www.alltalkradio.net. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and...

Today 9/30, 4.06pm Central Time -- Streamed live on http://www.wyll.com - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL Hear James Simpson interviewed by Sandy Rios. James Simpson is the former White House economist who has just published "Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis" on AmericanThinker.com. Simpson lays out the positioning of Barack Obama relative to the neo-Marxist tactics of Saul Alinsky, plus Obama's implied relationship to the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" of generating national, financial crises, in order to turn the nation toward ever stricter socialism. He also connects the dots of what this has to do with the "community organizers" of ACORN...

Dear Sen. Obama: Today I saw an e-mail sent out to your donors in which your wife states, "What we didn't expect, at least not from our fellow Democrats, are the win-at-all cost tactics we've seen recently. We didn't expect misleading accusations that willfully distort Barack's record." Don't be naïve: When those "fellow Democrats" include Hillary Clinton, be ready to expect anything. I know. As detailed in my recent book "Target," I've been the recipient of just about every dirty trick Hillary has in her arsenal. And if you actually think that Hillary's coming at you hard now, well, just...

So, I'm hanging out with a lot of happy midwesterners at the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells. Everything is just lovely until I page through the funnies and run into this gem from Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller: Now, let me tell you something. There's ugly and there's stupid. And there's ugly and stupid. This comic by Wiley Miller hits on both cylinders. First, a constitutional originalist has nothing against amendments to the constitution since they are provided for in the text itself. Second, the hatefulness of presenting Clarence Thomas as a self-destructive slave wannabe and Scalia as a hopeful...

Kathleen Wiley and Juanita Broaddrick are touring the Clinton Library on Wednesday 10/26.  They have their explanation for the tour on Front Page Magazine: Like far too many women in this country, all three of us have experienced the crime of sexual assault and the violation of sexual harassment by men in powerful positions. Each of us has battled with the shame, humiliation, and fear of coming forward to report the assault. Each of us has worried about how this sexual harassment and assault will affect our careers. Two of us, however, suffered this kind of experience at the hands...

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If you are looking for justice, you can find it in the Kobe Case. You just can't find it depending on trial by jury. Trial by jury is perhaps the No. 1 example of defeating justice that we know of. How else can you explain a scenario where O.J. Simpson walks on his beef, and Kobe Bryant might do time on his? Real justice comes from somewhere beyond trial by jury; justice comes from a higher authority -- God, if you will, who some lost wag said claimed it for Himself back when. "Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord." And...