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House Democrats are trying to prove that President Trump engaged in salacious activities with prostitutes in the swanky Moscow Ritz-Carlton in 2013. He repeatedly has denied any such encounter. Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which is investigating Russian interference in the presidential election last year and any Trump campaign collusion, first tried in March to validate the prostitute portion of the unverified Trump-Russia dossier. The attempts were made during questioning of then-FBI director James B. Comey and Navy Adm. Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency. More recently, Democrats insisted on calling as a witness...

Former CIA director and SecDef Leon Panetta has been all over television the last couple of days, from the Today show to The O’Reilly Factor, flogging his new book Worthy Fights. He has been saying a lot of bad things about Obama and his administration — the weakness vis-a-vis ISIS and Islamic terrorism in general, the absurd pretense that al-Qaeda (and consequently Islamic extremism) had been defeated, the prevarications (polite term) about Benghazi, etc. — that many of us, to say the least, rather strongly suspected. He has appeared extremely worried about the future of our country and the world,...

Published Wednesday, July 28, 2004, in Investors Business Daily, p. A14 Dems Won’t Permit Facts to Get In Way of ’00 Election Myth  By John R. Lott, Jr. and Brian Blase. You know that the political debate has been poisoned when 85 percent of African-Americans feel President Bush stole the 2000 election. At least that is what a CBS poll released last Friday finds.   Possibly this just reflects the same 85 percent of African-Americans who disapprove of the job that Bush is doing.  But if no body really believes the election was stolen and it is all window...