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NationPlease consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) Watchdog chastises Pulitzer winners for Trump-Russia tales ![]() An 18-month investigation by the liberal media watchdog Columbia Journalism Review has delivered a major black eye to The New York Times and other Pulitzer Prize winners for their stories about the Trump-Russia saga, finding “serious flaws” in their coverage and no acknowledgment that the accusations of collusion with Moscow were never substantiated. Journalist Jeff Gerth, a former New York Times reporter, said his investigation found that news organizations didn’t follow their own rules for using anonymous sources and refused to be transparent about their work in attempting to prove links between the Trump campaign in 2016 and Russia. CJR Editor-in-Chief Kyle Pope said of the episode, “No narrative did more to shape Trump’s relations with the press than Russiagate. The story, which included the Steele dossier and the Mueller report among other totemic moments, resulted in Pulitzer Prizes and embarrassing retractions and damaged careers.” FBI searching Biden home in Rehoboth, Delaware, in classified documents probe FBI agents on Wednesday are searching the Rehoboth, Delaware, beach home of President Joe Biden as part of an investigation into the previous discovery of classified documents at other locations connected to the president, his personal lawyer said. The planned, consensual visit is the first publicly known time that the FBI conducted a search of the Rehoboth residence. Agents did not obtain a warrant for the search. The Department of Justice is investigating the discovery of classified documents at a private office in a Washington, D.C., think tank that Biden had used while a private citizen, and at his residence in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden's personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, previously has said that the president's lawyers searched the Rehoboth home and the Wilmington residence on Jan. 11. Classified records were found in Wilmington by those attorneys, but not in Rehoboth, according to Bauer. Justice Department searches Biden’s home Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Biden Lawyer: DOJ Searches President's Beach House in Documents Probe White House didn't disclose FBI's November search of Biden's Pennsylvania think tank: report Hunter Biden’s allies weigh legal-defense fund for president’s son Hunter Biden’s allies have held initial discussions about creating a legal-defense fund to pay for a growing team of attorneys that is helping him confront both a years-long federal tax investigation and a host of new congressional inquiries, according to people familiar with the matter. The effort has been triggered by Hunter Biden’s struggles to pay his mounting legal bills amid increasingly stretched resources and his pursuit of a new, aggressive legal strategy, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject. A constellation of lawyers have worked for Biden over the years, and he continues to add new ones as he prepares to confront the investigations that House Republicans are starting to pursue. It’s unclear exactly how much the president’s son owes in legal fees, in part because some of the bills were expected to be discounted or treated as pro bono work. But three people familiar with his situation estimate his current legal debt at well into the millions of dollars, and the figure is likely to grow as he faces additional congressional investigations. Tom Brady announces retirement — again; quarterback says it’s ‘for good’ this time ![]() Tom Brady is retiring. Again. The future Hall of Fame quarterback said that he is hanging up his cleats, one year exactly after he previously announced his retirement. Though the 45-year-old ended up playing in 2022, Brady insisted that this time it would be permanent. “I’m retiring,” Brady said in a 39-second video. “For good.” Brady retires as one of the greatest — if not the best — players of all time. He won seven Super Bowls, six with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But Brady is stepping away after a 2022 that was challenging in both a professional and personal aspect. Pentagon: Proposed Chinese plant near N. Dakota base ‘threat to national security’ The Defense Department says a proposed Chinese corn milling plant in North Dakota poses a potential danger to national security because it would be located near an Air Force base that oversees reconnaissance operations. On Tuesday, Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, both North Dakota Republicans, released a letter from the Air Force that raises concern about the Fufeng Group’s proposal to build the plant about 12 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base. The base is the “center of military activities related to both air and space operations,” Andrew P. Hunter, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, told the senators in a letter dated Jan. 27. The host unit at Grand Forks Air Force Base is the 319th Reconnaissance Wing. It operates the Northrup Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft, which delivers surveillance and reconnaissance to combatant commands. Long trail of falsehoods, fabrications and lies follows Schiff into California Senate race Rep. Adam B. Schiff promoted himself as a fighter against lies and corruption that can bring down democracy when he announced his bid to become the next U.S. senator from California. “I’ve always believed that right matters, that the truth matters,” Mr. Schiff said in a video launching his campaign. Yet Mr. Schiff brings into the race his own trail of distortion and outright lies that critics say undercut the democratic process. He has refused to acknowledge most of the mistruths, even when faced with overwhelming evidence. Mr. Schiff announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate, pitting him against six-term incumbent and fellow Democrat Dianne Feinstein. Afterward, critics didn’t attack just his liberal House voting record. They also tore into Mr. Schiff’s claims over the past seven years that were central to his effort to bring down President Trump and other Republicans who tried to defend him. Antifa fears spike after arrests in Jane’s Revenge attacks on pro-life facilities Dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers have been terrorized for months by a radical pro-choice outfit calling itself Jane’s Revenge, but now it looks as if the previously unknown group is entwined with a more significant threat: Antifa. Antifa trackers and conservative media outlets linked two Miami residents charged with conspiracy in attacks on crisis pregnancy centers in Florida to the shadowy anarchist movement after the Justice Department unsealed the federal indictment last week. One of the suspects, 23-year-old Amber Smith-Stewart, has made no secret of her Antifa sympathies. She has identified herself as “Antifa, anti-capitalist” on her Facebook page, which includes images of pro-Antifa posters and flags from a screenshot posted on the AntifaWatch website. Biden Demands Details on Budget Cuts From McCarthy President Biden will ask Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, on Wednesday for details on what budget cuts his party is demanding in order to raise the federal debt limit and for assurances that Mr. McCarthy will not accept an economically debilitating government default, White House officials said. The demands, outlined in a memo that the White House released on Tuesday, are an attempt by Mr. Biden to force Republicans to engage in a debate over taxes, spending and debt on terms that are more favorable to the president than to newly empowered conservatives on Capitol Hill. Mr. Biden is seeking to force Mr. McCarthy to specify which programs he would cut — a list that most likely includes some spending that is popular with the public — and to calculate how much Republicans would add to the debt with additional tax cuts. Drones and water slides: How cities spent Uncle Sam’s pandemic money When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, someone in the Mississippi government thought of drones. One problem: Mississippi’s state auditor said the money didn’t fit the parameters for pandemic spending. Another problem: The state bought Chinese drones that the federal government has banned its agencies from purchasing, the auditor said. Other pandemic purchases on the watch of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security included $61,800 for a virtual reality simulator, $1.1 million for a “robot intelligent manufacturing system” and $313,800 for two spindle lathes for students who had internships canceled. Most of the focus on pandemic misspending has been on fraudsters who stole potentially hundreds of billions of dollars from special unemployment or small-business loan programs. College Board Revises AP Black History Course After DeSantis' Criticism Little more than a week after Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said his state blocked a new Advanced Placement (AP) high school course on African American studies because it was based on a "political agenda," the College Board has revised the course by removing much of the content questioned. The board on Wednesday released an official curriculum for its new AP course, which now does not include Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the names of many Black writers and scholars "associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism," The New York Times reported. Also, "Black conservatism" now is offered as an idea for a research project, the Times said. The reparations debate, "gay life and expression in Black communities," and BLM only are included in a list of examples of topics that students can pick for research projects, CNN reported. GOP wins showdown with Mayorkas as DHS allows agents to testify Homeland Security will allow senior Border Patrol agents to testify to Congress, after Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas backed down from his earlier refusal, House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer said Tuesday. The agents are the top Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande area of Texas and the Tucson region of Arizona. Mr. Comer had invited four sector chiefs to testify, but he said last week that Mr. Mayorkas had refused, citing department policy that he gets to pick the witnesses who testify to Congress. Mr. Comer, Kentucky Republican, said that position would effectively neuter congressional oversight. He had threatened to subpoena the officials, and said Tuesday that Mr. Mayorkas caved after that threat. Youngkin is right: Virginians support protections when unborn children can feel pain 47 out of 50 European nations limit elective abortion at 15 weeks or earlier Democrats in the Virginia statehouse pay plenty of lip service to democracy. Yet it was the majority-Democrat Senate Education and Health Committee that ignored the consensus of Virginians when they blocked legislation to protect unborn children and their mothers from the brutality of abortion at 15 weeks – a point when science shows children in the womb can feel pain. Governor Glenn Youngkin called out opponents of the bill, saying, “I believe they’re way out of touch, and there’s still a path forward in the House. I sure hope they start listening to the folks that elected them to come represent them.” Mr. Youngkin is right. Virginians have every reason to be appalled, especially by the behavior of Democrat lawmakers who celebrated with photos of themselves symbolically stuffing this compassionate legislation in the trash. Wherever you stand, this subject is serious. Recent polling confirms that Virginians strongly favor protections for the unborn at 15 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother. That includes 64% of Independents, 55% of rank-and-file Democrats, and 56% of women. Even 60% of likely pro-choice voters agree. San Francisco reparations plan likely violates Constitution’s equal protection clause Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides in part: “No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 in the wake of the Civil War, and Section 1 was specifically designed to ensure that states would not be able to discriminate against Black people, many of whom were recently freed slaves. Its final clause — “nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (the equal protection clause) — essentially prohibits the states from treating any citizen differently from any other citizen. So it is a bit ironic that San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee recently proposed that the city pay $5 million each to virtually all Black San Francisco residents over the age of 18, pay off educational and other debts, provide an annual payment, and pay reparations to Black people all over the country with drug convictions. Such reparations are probably contrary to the equal protection clause because they — obviously — prefer one group of citizens over another. The cash would not be available to non-Black people under any set of circumstances. Asians, Hispanics and White people — even those fortunate enough to have drug convictions — would receive no money.
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