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50 years of fraudulent political journalismWith Richard Nixon’s resignation, the Washington Post learned that journalism had the power to make or break a president — and that it could deceive the public to serve a partisan agenda.On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced his resignation as our president, the only such event in American history. While the Watergate scandal is widely recognized as journalistically impelled, few realize that the sensational reporting was not only partisan but also fraudulent. After the arrest of five burglars on the morning of June 17, 1972, the Washington Post quickly learned the true target of...

Wacky Walz: The 10 most radical acts of Kamala’s running mateYou could not possibly conjure up a more radical ticket than Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.The election is a choice between San Francisco and Minneapolis anarcho-tyranny and Middle American ordered liberty. That must be the message every day from the Trump campaign now that Harris has tethered her San Francisco poop and drug fest to the infernos of Tim Walz’s Minneapolis riots. Minnesota’s governor embodies anarcho-tyranny like no one before him. Democrats now contradict the social compact outlined in the preamble of the Constitution — “to establish Justice, insure domestic...

America Criminalizes Too Much and Punishes Too MuchWhen those on parole or probation are included, one out of every 47 adults is under “some form of correctional supervision.”Not only have we adopted more criminal laws at an astonishing clip, but the punishments our criminal laws carry have also grown markedly. Beginning in earnest in the second half of the 20th century, legislatures began to adopt laws that had, as Judge Jed Rakoff has noted, "two common characteristics: they imposed higher penalties, and they removed much of judicial dis-cretion in sentencing." Notable among these laws were statutes imposing mandatory minimum terms...

Biden and the Media’s ‘Anti-Disinformation Campaign"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." ― George Orwell, 1984For years the media, “fact-checkers,” and “anti-disinformation” initiatives told the public there was nothing wrong with Joe Biden. A few weeks ago, in the space of five minutes, they flipped. Rapid-onset dementia had struck the President and it was time for change.The people who claim they can sort truth from fiction spent years lying despite the crippling obvious. What is more baffling is why so many people went along with it for...

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The one thing Trump barely mentioned says it allIt’s been decades since the contrast between the parties has been so great.Milwaukee, Wis. — Former President Donald Trump only named his campaign opponent a single time during his Thursday-night nomination acceptance speech. In fact, President Joe Biden barely appeared at all in any of the dozen-plus speeches given on the final night of the Republican National Convention. The decision makes sense on the surface. Trump might not even be running against Biden in November. In the hours before Trump spoke, rumors swirled about the president’s imminent withdrawal as the Biden and...

Trump’s Triumph At The RNC Suggests Something Bigger Than Politics Is Unfolding In AmericaOn a convention night infused with an air of divine providence, Trump gave a speech for the history books.It’s difficult to describe historical moments as they’re unfolding, but let me hazard a few initial observations about former President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night.Watching a presidential candidate (and former president) describe his near-assassination less than a week after a bullet came within millimeters of ending his life is quite simply the most captivating, awe-inspiring thing that has ever happened at a political...

Eff Bee WhyOur premier federal law enforcement agency can’t be trusted to investigate major crimes.The nation remains on edge, awaiting more information regarding the motive of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, 20-year-old Pennsylvania man Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks, who opened fire from an unsecured rooftop, very nearly killed the former president during a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was wounded in the right ear and escaped death by millimeters. One audience member was killed and another wounded.Many serious questions have emerged. How was Crooks able to penetrate the security bubble surrounding a former president who is also the leading candidate?...

Why Does The Biden Admin Have ‘100 Percent Confidence’ In Secret Service After Assassination Attempt?For Democrats, every failure is actually a success, which means there is never accountability.No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants won’t try to spin it into some kind of success. Because no Democrat will ever admit failure, there’s never any accountability when things go unimaginably bad.Witness the spectacle of Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday defending U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing a growing chorus of calls to resign,...

Over the course of only seven years, corporate media hate campaigns against prominent Republicans have incited and provoked three assassination attempts, two of which drew blood.STEVE SCALISEIn June of 2017, a supporter of far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) opened fire on a group of Republicans, including lawmakers, as they practiced for an annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. Along with four others, then-U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was severely wounded and nearly died.Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News at the time:I was there at the ballfield when Steven Scalise almost died from a very, very angry, violent...

There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial ComplexYou can’t incessantly use rhetoric designed to incite violence and then call for calm when violence inevitably erupts.The blood on former President Donald Trump’s face was barely dry before calls to “take down the temperature” and “unite” began rolling in from Democrats and their courtesans in the press.President Biden issued a statement after the assassination attempt Saturday evening calling for unity, as did Vice President Kamala Harris and scores of other Democrats. Even the clueless and cowardly Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson got in on the unity wave,...

How the media coordinated the failed assassination of Donald TrumpIt takes a particular kind of soulless degenerate to get on cable news the day after Trump is shot and treat the billionaire and his supporters as the real threat, but apparently MSNBC and CNN are well stocked with such people.Two months ago, I predicted that the media were laying the groundwork for justifying the assassination of Donald Trump after the New Republic published an entire issue depicting the former president as Adolf Hitler. I wish I could claim some supernatural gift of foresight, but it was not the first time...

The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist CoupWe’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023, but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the US, abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional law. It is right there in plain sight for anyone curious enough to dig. There is nothing in it that you haven’t already experienced with lockdowns. What makes it interesting are the participants in the forging of the plan, which is pretty much the whole of corporate America as it stood in 2007. It...

In Calling For Biden To Cancel His Campaign, Democrats And Co. Show Their Moral BankruptcyIt is not Trump who represents a threat to our country but those who seek to supplant the choice of the people and the Constitution.Since Joe Biden’s disastrous debate two weeks ago, the country has witnessed a crazed spectacle as the Biden administration, the left, and the press scrambled to control the narrative. For the first time in at least a decade, however, there was no agreed-upon solution to the problem of Biden. There was nonetheless one unified message: Donald Trump is an existential threat to...

GOP Congressman Loudermilk says Jan. 6 panel's final report so 'tainted' should be invalidated"We do need to take some type of action because this report should never be used as a historical fact," Loudermilk said.GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk says the House panel of which is chairman has found the final report of the chamber's Democrat-led Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol Attack is so flawed that it could be invalidated. "We're still investigating, but at the same time, we have uncovered enough to where it really invalidates the select committee's report," Loudermilk, chairman of the House Admission Subcommittee on...

If You Were Duped On Biden’s Cognitive Decline, You’re Too Dumb To Be A JournalistAnd if you knew, you were in on it.By the time we saw Joe Biden’s debate debacle, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Biden’s fragile mental state was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats.The goal remains the same.The Wall Street Journal reports this week that Biden’s senior advisers “aggressively stage-managed” the president’s “schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age...

You might be surprised to find it there, but I put a long section in my new book on the Second Amendment dealing with Darwinism. Was I being undisciplined, maybe? Was my editor out to lunch, allowing me to rant about anything and everything, both on topic and off?Not really. I lay out in the book how the decline of the Christian worldview degrades our picture of man. Instead of the image of God arrayed with intrinsic value, moral accountability, and an eternal destiny, we’ve learned to see ourselves as slightly brainier apes — featherless bipeds of no particular cosmic...

They Lied to YouNever forgive, and never forget, what these lying miscreants have done to us—and to the republic.Lying is certainly nothing new in politics. It is said that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, but politics is assuredly the dirtiest—filthier even than garbageman, mortician or, well, the world’s oldest profession itself.Former President Bill Clinton (while we’re on the topic of sexual promiscuity) perjured himself, leading to his impeachment. Former President Barack Obama, in what PolitiFact called its 2013 “Lie of the Year,” promised that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” And on and on,...

Everyone knew the Biden presidency was a scamThe debate fiasco should make it clear that the elected president does not run the executive branch. Now the truth is too obvious to ignore.After a disastrous debate performance, the news media, which had been shamelessly gaslighting the public over Joe Biden’s cognitive capacity for years, seemed to turn on the president in unison. Biden stuttered, stumbled, and bumbled his way through a grueling 90 minutes during which he alternated between slurring his confused answers and staring into nowhere with his mouth agape. Examples of the president’s cognitive decline have become so prevalent...

Cautionary Tales Abound as Kansas Sues Pfizer Over COVID-19 VaccinePfizer ignored the harms its COVID-19 vaccine posed to pregnant women, lied about the safety and efficacy of its product, and colluded with Big Tech to censor its critics, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed this week by the attorney general of Kansas.“Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was safe even though it knew its COVID-19 vaccine was connected to serious adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies, and deaths,” alleges the suit, filed last week by Kansas AG Kris Kobach. “Pfizer concealed this critical safety information from the public.”“Pfizer said...