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[Note: This piece contains heavy video content.] So, CNN admits that the New York Post’s stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop were 100% accurate, then? – Sure seems like it, anyway. You all remember the New York Post having its original reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop and the contents thereon, correct? Remember how the story was spiked by every major corrupt media outlet in the country? Remember how users at Twitter and all of the other big social media platforms were denied the ability to share it? Remember how the Post’s accounts on Twitter and Facebook were shut down for weeks...

Let's be honest. The .44 Magnum is a fraud, being a .429 in true caliber, while the .41 Magnum is the real McCoy. With comparable loads, the .41 Magnum can do anything the .44 Magnum can do, and it is a real survivor. The popularity of the .41-caliber Magnum seems to ebb and flow, but those who have stuck with it make it as versatile a choice as its siblings. I've carried the .41 Magnum for personal protection, killed a couple of deer with it, shot long-range targets (it's a favorite among silhouette shooters) and had it in the back...

WASHINGTON - Many of America's inner cities continue to hemorrhage jobs despite years of federal programs designed to improve their economies. Nearly half of the country's 82 largest municipalities lost jobs from 1995 to 2003, according to a new Harvard University study. By comparison, only one of the surrounding metropolitan areas lost jobs during the same period. A separate analysis by The Associated Press found that most inner cities targeted by the federal government's primary urban economic programs lost jobs as well. In fact, the best-performing cities were not part of the federal empowerment zone and renewal community programs, which...

The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago, is investigating a leak and has said he intends to seek the reporters' records from their phone companies. Mr. Fitzgerald contends that one or more government officials alerted the reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, to an imminent search of the offices of an Islamic charity. That disclosure, he has written to lawyers for The Times, was probably criminal... In a letter in August to Mr. Comey, two lawyers for The Times, Floyd Abrams and Kenneth W. Starr, wrote that the records the government seeks, for some 20 days...

Hypocrisy quotient is running high for Huffington By Joanne Jacobs Like many Californians, Arianna Huffington is running for governor. But her campaign against tax-dodging fat cats has hit a petite paradox: Huffington paid almost no taxes on her $183,000 income in 2002. Despite her success as a writer and speaker, the socialite populist paid only $771 in federal taxes during the last two years, reports the Los Angeles Times. She paid no state income taxes. As a writer myself, I wonder: How come she earned $183,000, in what she says was a bad year, and I didn't? Also: If I...