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President Trump’s fear of Joe Biden seems well-founded, especially since Biden is now favored to move into the White House in 2021, by some estimates. “With Trump facing an unlikely reelection, this means it is most likely at this point Joe Biden will win the general election in November,” Washington, DC research firm Sandhill Strategies predicted in a March 16 analysis. The coronavirus outbreak has triggered a bear market in stocks and a likely recession, which is a death sentence for presidential reelection hopes. “No U.S. President has won reelection in recent history after a period of economic downturn,” Sandhill...

Those "hacked" released CRU files...By now just about everyone following climate will be aware that CRU has suffered what is, at the very least, data theft. The content of some of the personal communications released has been authenticated although this does not mean all the product is genuine and everyone must be mindful of the possibility there has been some editing to alter the intent or context of documents. There are also ethical considerations involved in release of what are essentially stolen goods.That said the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there is massive public interest...

Notice to cancel the deal to air the Michelle Obama tape was send yesterday the 3rd of November to Fox News Network’s Senior Counsel Cassidy. API expected a reaction from Fox N.N but got none and that opens the way for API to look for other means to have the tape aired. Now that API has got no reaction from Fox News network, it is to be assumed that they are not ready to act tonight. API Counsel is now in the final stages in his arrangements to try and have Michelle Obama tape aired one way or another as...

Rather Defends Memos...But By Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/12/2004 11:00:00 PM Dan Rather tol B&C Friday he believes documents used in a controversial 60 Minutes story were “authentic,” but did open the door to the possibility he’d been duped. The memos allege a young George W. Bush received preferential treatment when he was in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. Rather, who was the correspondent, says, “Document analysis isn’t a pure science. It’s not fingerprints or DNA. It’s a very crude art. You have one expert testifying one thing and one another.” But neither Rather nor CBS News...

A handwriting expert says the two signatures on purported Texas National Guard memos aired by CBS News this week are not those of President Bush's squadron commander, as asserted by "60 Minutes."     Until now, press scrutiny of the memos supposedly written by the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian focused on the finding that the documents were, in the opinion of experts, produced by computers not yet in use in the early 1970s.     Eugene P. Hussey, a certified forensic document examiner in Washington state, said yesterday there is another flaw in the CBS memos. Mr. Hussey studied the known signatures...