February 2018 • Volume 47, Number 2 • Joseph E. diGenova Joseph E. diGenova Former U.S. Attorney Joseph E. diGenova is a founding partner of diGenova & Toensing, LLP. He received his B.A. from the University of Cincinnati and his J.D. from Georgetown University. He has served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Independent Counsel of the United States, Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (the Church Committee). The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January
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Sharyl Attkisson Explains the Origins of the 2016 ‘Fake News’ Narrative in TedX Talk BY DEBRA HEINE FEBRUARY 14, 2018 In a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed the origins of the “fake news” narrative that was aggressively pushed by the liberal media and Democrat politicians during the 2016 election, and how it was later flipped by President Donald Trump. Attkisson pointed out that “fake news” in the form of tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always been around under different names. But she noticed that in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted
Read more ... →Tom Del Beccaro: All Corrupt DOJ and FBI Roads Lead to Obama 30105 AP by ROBERT KRAYCHIK9 Feb 20185,881 Holistic analysis of the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI’s interconnected and ostensible investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump amount to “the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections,” according to Tom Del Beccaro. Del Beccaro, an attorney and contributor to Forbes, joined Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak to discuss his recently published – and continually updated – timeline of events, entitled “Biased FBI and DOJ Officials Broke the Law and Tried to Decide
Read more ... →By Charles Krauthammer I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA). OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed
Read more ... →A Feb. 22, 2018 transcript from the Rush Limbaug radio show discusssing Democrate involvement in the Government shut-down. It is edited and condensed by the Phantom. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– RADICALIZED DEMOCRATES ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING AMERICA as FOUNDED RUSH: Still trying to figure out exactly what happened to cause the vote. It was 81-18 in the Senate. —————————————— This is not about the government shutdowns per se, and it’s more than the Democrats just executing a page from their playbook. You know, “Shut down the government! Shore up support from the middle class, the lower middle class. The little guy
Read more ... →Andrew Klavan January 12, 2018 Politics and law Nothing scandalizes a leftist like the truth. Point out that women and men are different, that black Americans commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime, that most terrorist acts are committed by Muslims, and the Left leaps to its collective feet in openmouthed shock, like Margaret Dumont after a Groucho Marx wisecrack. This is racism! This is sexism! This is some sort of phobia! I’m shocked, shocked to find facts being spoken in polite company! No one is really shocked, of course. This is simply a form of bullying. The Left has co-opted
Read more ... →Todd Wood L. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is “Currency.” Todd is a contributor to Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, the National Review, Zero Hedge and others For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com. By L. Todd Wood – – Tuesday, September 26, 2017 ANALYSIS/OPINION: I know of no white
Read more ... →by Paul Bedard | Dec 21, 2017, 1:04 PM Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email this article Share on LinkedIn Print this art With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House.And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba
Read more ... →Peter Macdiarmid/Getty by JAMES DELINGPOLE19 Sep 2017 This is the inescapable conclusion of a landmark paper, published in Nature Geoscience, which finally admits that the computer models have overstated the impact of carbon dioxide on climate and that the planet is warming more slowly than predicted. The paper – titled Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C – concedes that it is now almost impossible that the doomsday predictions made in the last IPCC Assessment Report of 1.5 degrees C warming above pre-industrial levels by 2022 will come true. In order for that to happen, temperatures would have to rise by a massive
Read more ... →The Bolshevik Revolution Reveals Six Phases From Freedom To Communist Misery A hundred years on from the Bolshevik Revolution, we’d do well to study the stages and trends that put free societies on the path to totalitarianism. By Stella Morabito NOVEMBER 6, 2017 Scarcity, terror, and the mass murder of more than 100 million victims are communism’s main contributions to human history. As we mark the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia on November 7, we should never forget that legacy. Communism is a fount of human misery and death. Few today really understand what that system of so-called
Read more ... →Investor’s Business Daily 5:43 PM ET Global Hot Air: Here’s a United Nations climate report that environmentalists probably don’t want anybody to read. It says that even if every country abides by the grand promises they made last year in Paris to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet would still be “doomed.” Autoplay: On | OffWhen President Obama hitched America to the Paris accords in 2016, he declared that it was “the moment that we finally decided to save our planet.” And when Trump pulled out of the deal this year, he was berated by legions of environmentalists for killing it.But it turns out that the
Read more ... →Shelby Foote’s Civil War History Defends America Againts Insatiable Haters Like Ta-Nehisi Coats Enough with the trendy historical revisionism. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was right: the Civil War came about because compromise failed. By John Daniel Davidson NOVEMBER 2, 2017 White House chief of staff John Kelly’s interview Monday night with Laura Ingraham, in which he expressed the mundane and historically straightforward view that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War,” has produced a spasm of simple-minded and myopic commentary. Our intellectual class, unable to think about the war between North and
Read more ... →Walter E. Williams | Posted: Oct 25, 2017 12:01 AM Our nation’s leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to promote — limited government. Leftists have had their greatest successes in undermining American values on the nation’s college campuses. Derelict and dishonest college administrators, professors and boards of trustees have given them carte blanche. Let’s look at some of
Read more ... →Walter Williams – October 18, 2017 Politicians exploit public ignorance. Few areas of public ignorance provide as many opportunities for political demagoguery as taxation. Today some politicians argue that the rich must pay their fair share and label the proposed changes in tax law as tax cuts for the rich. Let’s look at who pays what, with an eye toward attempting to answer this question: Are the rich paying their fair share? According to the latest IRS data, the payment of income taxes is as follows. The top 1 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted annual gross income
Read more ... →Thoughts from an Anonymous Expert on Psychopathic Killers Oct 2, 2017 RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have received the thoughts of a professional who asks to remain anonymous, a professional in analyzing the personalities, mind-set and so forth of people like our shooter here in Las Vegas. And I just want to share with you his thoughts. He’s requested anonymity, and I’m happy to offer it and provide it. You might have heard of him. He’s a writer. But he has researched this for his work. And basically he thinks that an element of this, not the explanation total
Read more ... →by DINESH D’SOUZA July 18, 2016 4:00 AM @DINESHDSOUZA It filtered money through Haiti and back to itself. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article is excerpted from Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. In January 2015 a group of Haitians surrounded the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation. They chanted slogans, accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of having robbed them of “billions of dollars.” Two months later, the Haitians were at it again, accusing the Clintons of duplicity, malfeasance, and theft. And in May 2015, they were back, this time outside New York’s Cipriani,
Read more ... →Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, when he said America will not come back. He wrote: ** “The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012. The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind. ** A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members,
Read more ... →Walter E. Williams | Posted: Sep 20, 2017 12:01 AM That the problems of today’s black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought to be self-evident and beyond question. This is what academics and the civil rights establishment have taught. But as with so much of what’s claimed by leftists, there is little evidence to support it. The No. 1 problem among blacks is the effects stemming from a very weak family structure. Children from fatherless homes are likelier to drop out of high school, die by suicide,
Read more ... →by Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella | September 12, 2017 7:51 AM EDT The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration. Since Inauguration Day (January 20), Media Research Center analysts have reviewed every mention of President Trump and top administration officials on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, including weekends. As of August 31, coverage of the administration has totaled nearly 74 hours (4,418 minutes) of airtime, or about 39 percent of all evening news coverage. For comparison
Read more ... →The Associated Press by JOHN NOLTE5 Sep 20172,399 Whenever a Republican wants to move forward — you know, pass some legislation or even enforce the law as already written, they always, always, ALWAYS have to run through a mainstream media propaganda gauntlet dedicated to the status quo, loyal only to the Democrat cause and by extension opposed to anything resembling progress. Obamacare is an objective disaster; nonetheless, the media fights tooth and nail to save it. Our tax code is a backwards, prosperity-stifling haven for corporatist special interests; nonetheless, the media will do everything in its power to ensure not a
Read more ... →by George Roof, Chief Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired) Interesting Google Search on His Namehttp://www.truthorfiction.com /george-roof-presidents-ive- known/ Because I am a “lifer” in the military, I’ve seen the impact of a president more than many of you can imagine. I enlisted with LBJ and saw just what a Democrat clusterflock was all about. I went to Vietnam and saw how we were constantly and incessantly bombarded with micromanagement from Washington that got thousands of military people killed. I sometimes wonder if I’ll get to heaven, but if I go to hell, I’m sure I’ll still be a few hundred floors above that
Read more ... →The Associated Press by JOHN NOLTE28 Aug 20173,444 Biases up front. I’m no fan of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The publicity-seeking, the grandstanding — that’s never a good look for a lawman. And the following might result in the revocation of my Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Platinum Card, but I did not approve of his treatment of prisoners. The tent cities. The pink underwear. The piping in of classical and patriotic music. I am all in favor of locking up constitutionally convicted bad guys, most especially violent bad guys. But once we got someone, it is our responsibility to be as humane
Read more ... →Aug 18, 2017, Rush Limbaugh transcript. RUSH: America is under attack from within. Our culture, our history, our founding are under the most direct assault I have seen in my life. And I’m sure it’s the same with you. We haven’t seen anything like this. You might even get away with saying that we are on the cusp of a second civil war. Some of you might say that we are already into it, that it has already begun. However you characterize it, though, we are under attack from within. And it’s being bought and paid for by people from
Read more ... →Phantom says: this information has not been verified. It is extremely important that Americans (especially young Americans) learn about George Soros and his “Open Society Foundations,“ that claim to “work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose government are accountable to their citizens.” [Click Here] for a link to a short video sales pitch for their foundations. [Click Here] to examine their web site. Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous Human Events | Saturday Apr 2, 2011 3:01 A Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently votedbillionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top
Read more ... →Was the apoplectic media watching the same press conference? By SCOTT MCCONNELL • August 17, 2017 The allegation that the mainstream media disseminates “fake news” about the Trump administration often can seem overwrought, even a kind of caricature. Yet the nearly universal media response to President Trump’s news conference at which he addressed the Charlottesville violence can only reinforce it. One day this response may make a rich subject for future historians analyzing it as earlier historians probed witch-burnings, pogroms, and other outbreaks of mass hysteria. They likely will focus on the spectacle of sophisticated, experienced, well credentialed people—Chuck Todd,
Read more ... →By Allen West10:11pm August 13, 2017 This past weekend I was honored to be in a most picturesque place with some great and hospitable folks in Prescott (Yavapai County) Arizona. I was there to address the Republican Women of Prescott, the nation’s largest Republican women’s club, on their 75th anniversary. The scenery there was just breathtaking and there was just a sense of solemnness that we all need experience from time to time. How great a contrast it was from what was happening across the country in Charlottesville, Virginia. Let me begin by saying, I deplore any form of supremacist view
Read more ... →Jim Hoft Aug 6th, 2017 3:20 pm There are eleven counties in California with more registered voters than voting age adults in the county. Ten of the Eleven counties voted for Hillary Clinton. The counties include San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization, has sent a letter to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla on behalf of the Election Integrity Project, noting that there are 11 counties in the state with more registered voters, and alleging that the state may be out of compliance with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The letter reads, in
Read more ... →By Malcolm Berko August 9, 2017 Dear Mr. Berko: In 2008, you referred me to a congressman who solved a problem I had with a stupid bureaucrat at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. It took several phone calls and letters, but two months later, it was fixed. I felt obligated to make annual contributions to his political action committee. We have become friendly and have lunch occasionally. At our most recent lunch, I asked why Congress can’t put a health care bill together. His surprising answer was: “Ask Berko!” — CS, no state Dear CS: All members of Congress and their
Read more ... →Dinesh D’Souza on ‘The Big Lie’: ‘Fascism Has Crept Deeply into the Bowels of the Left’ NEW ORLEANS, LA – MAY 31: Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza speaks during the final day of the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference on May 31, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. by JOHN HAYWARD4 Aug 20171 Author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza talked about his new book, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily. “There’s a deep fascist streak in politics now. Ironically, the fascism of today marches under the banner
Read more ... →The Lawyers’ Party, By Bruce WalkerThe Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer.Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer.John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.The Republican Party is different.President Bush is a businessman.Vice President Cheney is a businessman.The leaders of the
Read more ... →Tuesday, June 13, 2017 The coup attempt against The Donald Who’s the tallest? A friend in Washington tells me that’s what’s going on, and it’s hard to not think so. James Comey, contrary to law and probity, leaked official documents with the aim of getting a special prosecutor appointed to investigated The Donald. We know that because he said so. A guy named Rod Rosenstein, who found himself in the deputy attorney general’s chair, took it upon himself to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as the special prosector. Comey and Mueller are longtime friends. Byron York: Should a
Read more ... →JULY 2, 2017 BY KYLE OLSON TweetReddit+1 While most Americans are gathering with family and community this weekend to celebrate the most exceptional country in the history of the world, Mr. Hope and Change is halfway around the world talking doom and gloom — and criticizing his successor. Barack Obama visited Indonesia this weekend, and in a series of appearances, attacked love of country and the policies of Donald Trump. The Guardian reports: The former US president said some countries had adopted “an aggressive kind of nationalism” and “increased resentment of minority groups”, in a speech in Indonesia on
Read more ... →US A protester cheers during the Trump Free Speech Rally in Portland, Oregon, U.S. June 4, 2017. REUTERS/David Ryder DAVE BROOKS AND BENJAMIN DECATUR 12:54 AM 06/16/2017 4672 2680 A wave of liberal rage has marked the last 11 months since the rise and subsequent election of President Donald Trump. Antifa protestors clad in black masks shut down college campuses, destroy property and indiscriminately attack those they disagree with, whether women or the elderly. Meanwhile, CNN fires Kathy Griffin for taking photos with a bloody replica of the president’s decapitated head. Amid this backdrop, The Huffington Post publishes an article calling
Read more ... →The Civil War Has Begun by DAVID BOSSIE6 Feb 20131045 When a person amasses too much power, they often believe they are indestructible. What Karl Rove and company did last week in the New York Times, claiming that their new “Conservative Victory Project” would cure the ills of a disappointing campaign cycle, is laughable. The so-called “Conservative Victory Project” is nothing more than an attempt by establishment Republicans to cull the conservative movement. Why does Rove think he has a monopoly on wanting to win? At least Karl Rove and company are finally out front with their disdain for the conservative movement, and
Read more ... →13897 28 Getty by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.5 Jun 20172,097 SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Despite recent attempts to paint the United States as a major global polluter, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. is among the cleanest nations on the planet. In the most recent WHO report on air pollution, the United States was listed as one of the countries with the cleanest air in the world, significantly cleaner in fact than the air in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK, Japan, Austria and France. While France and other G7 countries lamented the U.S. exit from the Paris climate accord, America’s
Read more ... →Voter-ID laws continue to get a lot of attention, and proponents of the law are being drowned out by opponents claiming the laws discriminate against certain voters. Rather than getting IDs to the people who are supposedly disenfranchised, opponents spend their efforts trying to end the laws, even though polls consistently show overwhelming majorities of voters approve of the laws. Below are just some of the examples of things you need to prove your identity for: 1. Alcohol 2. Cigarettes 3. Open a bank account 4. Apply for food stamps 5. Apply for welfare 6. Apply for
Read more ... →US” by Paul Genova (Mr. Paul Genova has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Wireless Telecom Group Inc. since June 30, 2016. I haven’t said too much about this election since the start…but this is how I feel…. I’m noticing that a lot of people aren’t graciously accepting the fact that their candidate lost. In fact you seem to be posting even more hateful things about those who voted for Trump. Some are apparently “triggered” because they are posting how “sick” you feel about the results. How did this happen you ask? Well here is how
Read more ... →The most daunting thing facing the liberal media about Trump, which seems to stump their agenda at every turn, is the truth. By Ron Hart | Syndicated Columnist Not a bad week for “fake news.” There were only two major fake news stories that made the rounds last week, and one that started this week. First, the mainstream media reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to quit over the James Comey firing. The story, unsubstantiated, of course, ran in the major media. When asked a few days later, Rosenstein said he never threatened to resign. Another manufactured media
Read more ... →6131 27 AP/Mark Lennihan by JOEL B. POLLAK19 May 20179,232NEWSLETTER The common element in nearly all the major New York Timesand Washington Poststories about President Donald Trump this week is that they are based on source documents the outlets cannot authenticate, do not possess, admit are partial, and refuse to share. Friday’s supposed “bombshell” stories follow the same pattern. The Times reports that Trump told the visiting Russians that former FBI director James Comey was a “nut job,” and that firing him had eased “pressure” in his ability to conduct foreign policy — though the Times takes Trump to mean the legal pressure of the investigation. (That spin makes no sense: firing
Read more ... →EXPRESSING YOUR ANGER AT A THIRD PARTY ‘MAKES YOU FEEL LESS GUILTY ABOUT INJUSTICES IN THE WORLD’ Voicing your moral outrage may seem like selflessness but it’s really self-serving Experts say expressing anger is trying to reinforce that you’re a ‘good person’ Those who state their outrage feel less personal guilt than those who don’t We may think getting mad about injustices in the world shows how selfless we are. But a new study claims it’s just the opposite – it showcases our self-serving nature.Psychologists say that professing concern – what social scientists refer to as ‘moral outrage’ –
Read more ... →Apr 20, 2017 RUSH: I have to tell you, I sometimes have to dial myself back. You know, I’m aware of everything — it’s my job — I keep up to speed, and I have a blessed memory. The brain chemistry I have is such that my memory is wonderful. And sometimes it’s helpful, and other times it ends up being frustrating, such as this whole situation with Bill O’Reilly and Fox News. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever wondered why not a single left-wing media figure is ever the target of advertiser boycotts? Have you ever
Read more ... →We must not fall into the trap of thinking speech that offends is speech that must be forbidden. A healthy culture demands that much of us. By Ben Domenech APRIL 25, 2017 Yesterday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes went off on the idea that American conservatives are paying an outsized degree of attention to academia and speech issues on campus because conservatism is based on a politics of victimhood and grievance. I am not exaggerating. If you haven’t been paying attention to right wing media recently, it’s *amazing* how much attention current campus controversies have gotten. The reason, I think, is that the right
Read more ... →Phantom says: the LA Times describes and explains the mass hysteria and un-hinged thinking of the left. It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.” Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster,
Read more ... →CNN: Blame Bill Clinton for North Korea Mess! (VIDEO) Former disgraced President Bill Clinton is a big reason why North Korea has nuclear weapons. Lifezette reported: Bruce Klingner, a former CIA deputy division chief for Korea, told Fox News the rogue regime in Pyongyang is closer than people realize to adding operational ICBM missiles to its arsenal — large-range weapons capable of carrying a nuclear payload that could cross the ocean and strike America… …At least one foreign-policy expert said he traces North Korea’s current saber-rattling to a nuclear deal made two decades ago by President Bill Clinton. On Oct.
Read more ... →8:23 AM, FEB 23, 2017 | By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON In passing Obamacare, its supporters promised the moon. Obamacare was allegedly going to cost $938 billion over ten years, result in 23 million people getting insurance through its exchanges as of 2017, reduce the typical family’s premiums by $2,500 a year, and make sure that if you liked your health plan and doctor, you could keep your health plan and doctor. Seven years later, Obamacare is projected to cost $1.938 trillion over ten years (exactly $1 trillion more), only 9 million people have insurance through its exchanges as of
Read more ... →Up to 98% of coverage had negative tone in first 100 days Steve Watson | Infowars.com – MAY 19, 2017 366 Comments 2.7K 0 0 A new Harvard university study shows that what the President refers to as the ‘fake media’ is overwhelmingly bias against him in its coverage. The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based out of Harvard, collated statistics from media coverage ranging across 10 mainstream television news networks, as well as print newspapers. The results, they discovered, were startling The study found that some of those media organisations broached stories about Trump with a negative tone
Read more ... →6540 12 AP/Andrew Harnik by ADAM SHAW19 May 2017844 SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER A Harvard study has documented the mainstream media’s blatant anti-Trump bias and found that while the President dominated news coverage in his first 100 days, that coverage was almost entirely negative — with 93 percent of CNN and NBC’s Trump coverage critical of the new president. The study, by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, released Thursday concludes that Trump’s coverage “set a new standard for negativity.” Looking at the coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days from 10 major American and European outlets, the study found that Trump
Read more ... →The political left might consider itself more open-minded than the right. But research shows that liberals are just as prejudiced against conservatives as conservatives are against liberals. By MATTHEW HUTSON May 09, 2017 In March, students at Middlebury College disrupted a lecture by the conservative political scientist Charles Murray because they disagreed with some of his writings. Last month, the University of California, Berkeley, canceled a lecture by the conservative commentator Ann Coulter due to concerns for her safety—just two months after uninviting the conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos due to violent protests. Media outlets on the right have played up
Read more ... →Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela is one place where Friedrich Hayek’s most dire warnings remain relevant. Marian Tupy | April 4, 2017 • Manaure Quintero/NurPhoto/Sipa U/NewscomOn March 29, the Supreme Court of Venezuela dissolved the country’s elected legislature, allowing Venezuela’s top court to write future laws. The court is filled with allies of Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, while the legislature is dominated by Maduro’s opponents, and the court’s ruling was seen as the latest step on Venezuela’s descent into a full-fledged dictatorship. But following international outcry—as well as the appearance of cracks within Maduro’s own party—the court reversed itself just a
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