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Politico and Bloomberg Opinion have just been exposed engaging in grotesque journalistic malfeasance just to suck up to the Biden-Harris White House. The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) unveiled another trove of documents of damning communications from 2022 through open records requests, giving MRC Business exclusive access. The documents reveal the extent to which the Biden-Harris Treasury Department had editorial influence over Politico and Bloomberg Opinion. A Politico reporter forwarded his pay-walled Politico Pro piece slapping down worries of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hiring 87,000 new employees to a Biden-Harris Treasury official who then edited some of the language used...

NEW: Axios is laying off 50 people across the company. CEO @JimVandeHei just sent out this note — which says the layoffs are because of “changes in the media business”

Mimicking a policy that the west once condemned Communist China for pursuing, authoritarians are now calling for X to be shut down completely in the UK to stop civil unrest. After the country was rocked by a series of riots over the past week in response to a 17-year-old son of Rwandan immigrants killing three little girls in Southport, the media and the political class blamed the anger on “misinformation” shared on X. In reality, the UK has been a boiling pot of resentment and rage over mass migration for years, with huge numbers continuing to arrive, putting massive strain...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ newly minted running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “failed to act” during May 2020 riots in Minneapolis that burned over 1,000 businesses and a police station to the ground, a scathing state Senate report showed. The 60-year-old Democratic governor was accused by the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate’s Joint Transportation and Judiciary and Public Safety Committee of delaying the deployment of the National Guard, failing to coordinate with local police, downplaying the possibility of riots and allowing his adult daughter to access confidential information about law enforcement movements that put first responders at risk during the four days...

Longtime CNN host Chris Cillizza has broken from his media counterparts, calling attention to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ “basement strategy” following her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Cillizza noted that Harris’ goal to bolster the Democrat ticket has come amid concerns about her apparent reluctance to engage directly with the media.

The wife of a Tory councillor has been arrested for racial hatred after saying rioters should set fire to all the migrant hotels. Lucie Connolly, who works as a childminder in Northamptonshire, concluded her vile tweet with the phrase: 'if that makes me racist, so be it.' She has since deleted her post and blamed it on 'a moment of extreme outrage and emotion' when she was acting on 'false and malicious' information. Her husband Raymond, who is vice chair of the committee on adult social care at West Northamptonshire Council, responded to the BBC by saying his wife is...

Vladimir Putin has declared that Ukraine carried out a 'large-scale provocation' following a daring surprise assault on Russia's the border region of Kursk. Russian authorities have already evacuated several thousand civilians and cancelled all mass gatherings due to fighting in the cross-border incursion, officials said. -snip- Moscow also said it had sent reserves to help repel hundreds of Ukrainian fighters backed by tanks, in a ground incursion that is shaping up to be one the largest into Russian territory during the war. -snip- There were a flurry of warnings today that Ukraine's intention behind the unprecedented thrust into Russian territory...

With Tim Walz, Harris placates party anti-Semites - and doubles down on radicalism. Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate, a choice that left many pundits puzzled. For the real deal on Walz, consider Powerline’s John Hinderaker, a Minnesotan quite familiar with Kamala’s VP choice:“I think it was a process of elimination,” writes Hinderaker, “Mark Kelly seemed like a strong candidate, until it came out that he invested in a spy satellite company with the Chinese.” Harris wanted Josh Shapiro, “but at the eleventh hour, helped by an essay Shapiro wrote when he was in...

Kamala Harris has selected Tim Walz as her running mate for the upcoming election. This decision raises serious concerns about national security and the integrity of American values, given Walz’s radical policies and extensive ties to Communist China. Senior reporter Paul Sperry from RealClear Investigations recently uncovered a disturbing pattern in Walz’s relationship with China. According to investigative journalist Paul Sperry on X, Walz traveled to China annually from 1996 until at least 2003. His travels were not merely for tourism; he was granted a special work visa by the Chinese government, which raises questions about his loyalties and motivations....

Infiltration into the Deepest and Highest Layers of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has intensified discussions about the infiltration of intelligence agents and spies into the highest layers of the security and military apparatus in Iran. The regime is hiding details about the recent arrests after Haniyeh’s assassination, but it’s clear that Khamenei’s intelligence and security systems have many flaws and weaknesses. On July 24, 2024, Esmail Khatib, Iran’s Minister of Intelligence, announced that they had dismantled the Mossad network in Iran. He said this was a significant achievement for the Ministry of Intelligence...

Biden was initially interested in Gretchen Whitmer - until the death of George Floyd. A handful of Republicans have referred to Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, as a “DEI hire.” They were essentially saying that President Joe Biden picked Harris to be his running mate in 2020 because she was a person of color. Democrats have, of course, pushed back, calling the phrase “extremely offensive and dehumanizing,” in the words of former U.N. Ambassador and Obama and Biden White House insider Susan Rice. Some Republicans, like former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, pushed back, too,...

PURPLE HEART DAY Purple Heart Day on August 7 commemorates the creation of the oldest American military decoration for military merit. The Purple Heart honors the men and women who are of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. During the American Revolutionary War, the Badge for Military Merit decorated six known soldiers. #PurpleHeartDay General George Washington created the Badge of Merit in 1782. Washington intended the honor to be presented to soldiers for "any singularly meritorious action." Its design included a purple, heart-shaped piece of silk bound with a thin edge of silver. Across the face, the word Merit...

Choosing a running mate is the first and most important test of any presidential candidate. And Kamala Harris aced it. In a sense, Harris could do no wrong, because she had such an outstanding bench to choose from, including several governors. Any one of them would bring more executive or legislative experience to the table than JD Vance (R-Ohio), who never ran for office before being elected to the Senate in 2022 and has nothing to show for his time spent there. But, in the end, Harris made the perfect choice. Even in a field of such strong candidates, Gov....

A week after the killing of a top Hamas leader in Tehran and a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut, Lebanon, the Middle East is on edge. Fears of a broader regional war have been mounting amid vows of revenge from Iranian leaders that have left Israel in a state of deep uncertainty. Why is an Iranian attack expected? Iran has vowed to avenge the death of Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader who was killed in Tehran after he and other leaders of Iranian-backed militant groups attended the inauguration of the new Iranian president. Israeli leaders would not confirm or...

Following President Biden’s dramatic exit from the presidential race, Kamala Harris has not only seized the presidential baton but taken command of the 2024 campaign. Beginning with her first appearance at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., headquarters, Harris went on the attack. Recapping her career, the vice president described prosecuting “predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.” With a rhetorical flourish, Harris added this sharp retort: “So, hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.” After Trump reneged on a scheduled ABC News debate in September, Harris deadpanned that...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) vowed revenge on a top pro-Israel PAC after she lost the primary in her reelection campaign on Tuesday. The group boosted her opponent in a tightly contested race, knocking off a second member of the progressive “squad.” The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super PAC, United Democracy Project, was a top funder of her opponent, St. Louis County District Attorney Wesley Bell. Bush was harshly criticized for her outspoken criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza. Bush said in a fiery speech after her loss that leaving Congress will only “takes some strings off.” “Because now...

During an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) responded to a question on the immigration positions of 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz by saying he’ll “take on these criticisms, but do it always with facts and with a smile on his face.” Later, she added that “I wish we had the days where people would welcome people to the ticket for at least one day.” After Klobuchar defended Walz’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and riots in the state, stating that he opposed defunding the police and increased funding for police, and...

MSNBC election analyst Steve Kornacki provided somewhat sobering election data following Kamala Harris's selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her 2024 presidential running mate.

The real cause of the unrest is mass immigration imposed on Britain against the wishes of the native population.The rioting breaking out all across Britain right now is what happens when a country’s political class tries to depoliticize mass immigration — smearing anyone who objects to it as “far-right” — and then impose a policy of mass immigration by force. At some point, the people revolt.Britain’s liberal elites have latched onto “online misinformation” and racism as an explanation for the riots, but the real explanation is that Britain’s leaders have sold their countrymen out for decades, importing an unassimilated foreign...

MADISON, Wis. -- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz beat out Democratic governors and senators from across the East and West coast to be named the Vice Presidential nominee running alongside Kamala Harris. But what do Wisconsin voters think of our Midwestern neighbor getting on the ticket? "I think Walz is more consequential for Wisconsin than the other possible candidates were," Barry Burden, Political Science Professor and Director of UW-Madison's Elections Research Center said. And some Wisconsin voters seemed to agree Tuesday, like Rod Rotar after watching Walz's acceptance speech in Pennsylvania. He spoke to News 3 Now after grocery shopping on...