Posts on Friday, December 5, 2025
Harvard Law School visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea—who told authorities he fired a pellet rifle outside a synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur "to hunt rats"—agreed to self-deport after ICE arrested him Wednesday. Gouvea—who founded a Brazilian think tank that "led the largest anti-violence campaign in the country, resulting in the enactment of the federal Gun Control Act of 2003," according to Harvard—was first arrested on Oct. 2 by the Brookline Police Department immediately following the shooting. Harvard placed Gouvea on administrative leave days later, and on Nov. 13 he pleaded guilty to illegally using the air rifle.
FBI Director Kash Patel shut down numerous accusations that have been made by podcast host Candace Owens involving the murder of the late co-founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk. During his appearance on Friday on the Sirius XM The Megyn Kelly Show podcast, Kelly started out by asking Patel if they believe they have the "proper suspect in custody" — if Tyler Robinson is "in fact, the man who killed Kirk." Patel didn't hesitate in the slightest and answered, "Yes." The host then brought up one of the wild accusations that have been made by Owens, which includes claiming that Kirk's own friends and his organization
Another day, another Democrat corruption scandal.
Paul Campo, a longtime Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) employee appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations under the Obama administration, was indicted on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for a terrorist cartel, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).This cartel is among those that the Trump administration designated as a foreign terrorist organization, which makes Campo’s money laundering on its behalf even more egregious.
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton detailed the charges in a Dec. 5 press release. “As alleged, Paul Campo and Robert Sensi conspired to assist
Catholics beware: Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger apparently doesn’t consider it disqualifying for someone to endorse an activist group that considers the official teaching of your faith “hateful.”
Stanley Meador, formerly the special agent in charge at the Richmond FBI office, approved the notorious memo targeting “radical-traditional Catholics” and citing as a reliable source a far-left activist group that characterizes part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as hateful enough to merit inclusion on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
Spanberger, who presents herself as a moderate and uniter, nominated Meador the commonwealth’s next secretary of public safety and homeland security.
Paxton Sues East Plano Islamic Center:
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit on Friday against the East Plano Islamic Center, a related development company, and several leaders, accusing them of securities fraud in fundraising for a proposed 400-acre Muslim community in Collin and Hunt counties.
The civil action alleges that Community Capital Partners, created by the center to buy and develop the land, sold securities without verifying that more than 10% of buyers were accredited investors as required by law and diverted substantial funds for personal use despite promises otherwise.
The job post for LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, and inclusivity," began innocently enough.
The $60-per-hour role would be based in Santa Clara, Calif., focus on "technical support," and entail a 3–10 p.m. shift. Posted on Nvoids, an IT jobs aggregator, the ad described LanceSoft as an equal opportunity employer and said that the firm, one of the largest staffing agencies in the country, strives "to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with." "We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation," the Nov. 25 post read.
This particular job, however, would not be open to
The Trump administration scored a solid win on Friday with an appellate court ruling in Harris v. Bessent and Wilcox v. Trump (combined on appeal).
Among the multitude of cases filed against President Trump and/or his administration since he returned to the Oval Office are a handful of matters challenging his authority to remove independent agency leaders from their various positions. We've seen multiple of these cases wend their way up the chain, with several landing before the Supreme Court, including both Harris and Wilcox, although Friday's ruling comes not from the high court, but from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Left-led UK government follows up attacking Magna Carta and frequent social media arrests by announcing it is yet again postponing elections and moving to introduce a nationwide facial camera recognition system.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage eviscerated the left-wing British government for piling depredations upon depredations on the British people, as they announced yet another postponement of local elections without good reason, on the same day they moved to roll out China-style facial recognition cameras. Speaking at a Reform Party press conference, Mr Farage said of these “monstrous” changes:
…today’s the day we learn that there will be surveillance cameras not just in our big cities, but literally in every single village.
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — “This thing looked like ‘Breaking Bad’ on steroids.”
That’s how the sheriff in Brevard County, Florida, described a massive bust of drugs and military-grade weapons in Florida. According to the sheriff, Maxwell Horvath, 26, is in custody. In addition to 92,000 pounds of illegal substances, Horvath had five improvised explosive devices, 12 rifles, 17 pistols, three shotguns, two fully automatic submachine guns, a short-barreled rifle and revolver, three suppressors, thousands of rounds of ammunition, grenade simulators and 50 pounds of precursor chemicals to make explosives, the sheriff said. “We’re talking about explosive devices, things that the military are utilizing and other countries are utilizing all over the world,
The Left has come to the defense of the Minnesota Somali community because, despite the crime and massive fraud of taxpayer dollars, Democrats insist Somalis are part of the "fabric" of the state. It's another example in a long line of Leftists going to bat for some of the worst actors out there, instead of their victims. Not only have Somalis been busted for raping multiple women and girls, but the Medicare fraud also led to the death of at least one innocent Minnesota man.
But that doesn't matter to Democrats. They want Somalis here and don't care about the consequences.
The Trump administration is drastically reducing the length of time for foreigners’ work permits within the USA. Now it’s time to end the H-1B visa program.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted a Wall Street Journal article on Friday, announcing the change to work permit duration. This is the latest in a string of immigration reforms enacted by the Trump administration following the shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. just before Thanksgiving by an Afghan illegal.
USCIS Director Joe Edlow said that the purpose of the reduction is to ensure the federal government can re-vet and reassess foreign workers more often.
The January 6 pipe bomber case was finally solved on Thursday, and the media reacted to it in the most predictable way possible. The suspect has been identified as 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia.
The Daily Wire reported Thursday evening that Cole comes from a family deeply entrenched in left-wing activism. (Snip) But on Friday morning, the mainstream media started pushing the narrative that Cole is a Trump supporter who “believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.”
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the case over President Donald Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as excluding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and tourists, CBS News reported.
Trump imposed the order as a means of combating the practice of birth tourism and the creation of "anchor babies", intended to present an obstacle to deportations.
Thus far, the Department of Justice has struggled to defend the order in the lower courts and it remains unclear whether the conservative friendly justices will be more receptive to their arguments.
My eleventh-great grandfather Thomas Rogers arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower. He signed the Mayflower Compact, which affirmed the right of free men to establish a government they would all be subject to.
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My tenth great-grandfather Richard Lyman arrived on the Lyon in 1631. Five years later, he and roughly 100 other settlers — including more of my ancestors — would make a trek that would result in the founding of Hartford, Connecticut. (snip)But on Thursday, Indian-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., informed me that it wasn’t ancestors like mine who built this nation. No, it was Somalians, Indians, and immigrants from Latin America and Africa.
The Hollow Man
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People are at once the greatest treasure and the greatest bane. Who hasn’t watched the movie where sadistic convicts take the guards hostage with makeshift knives and threaten to kill them one by one unless their demands are met? Or the scenario where a cab driver refuses to drive all the way into a high crime area and drops his passenger off in a dimly lit street, leaving him to walk the rest of the way past a group of youths hanging menacingly out in an alleyway? Or perhaps we’ve heard of the pizza delivery employee hesitating to take a food order to a neighborhood that even the police avoid,
Core Inflation Rate Watched By Fed hit
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A key inflation measure was lower than expected in September, the Commerce Department said Friday, in a report delayed by the government shutdown that gives a further green light for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. The core personal consumption price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, indicated a .0.2% monthly rise while the annual rate was 2.8% . . . The core annual rate edged down from 2.9% in August.
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) Earlier in the week, I was writing down some ruminations about last year's presidential election for something I'm working on. I was recalling that, despite the optimism of my conservative friends and colleagues in the days leading up to the election, I couldn't shake my sense of dread that the Democrats were going to do something nefarious and ruin the whole thing. Stephen Green and I did a "Five O'Clock Somewhere" election special the day before, which featured a lot of our Townhall Media colleagues as guests. Everyone except me was already in a party mood.
This week a Washington Post puff piece leaped to the defense of the progressive district attorneys propelled into office by the campaign cash of billionaire George Soros, portraying these prosecutors as well-meaning reformers besieged by racist Republicans.
But while Soros’ left-wing fans thrill to the way his funding has fundamentally transformed criminal justice across America, here’s what they won’t acknowledge: The results have been disastrous.
Through both direct and indirect donations, Soros has poured money into a staggering number of DA races across the country.
By 2023, progressive prosecutors had jurisdiction over at least 20% of the US population,
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida wildlife officials are preparing for the first regulated black bear hunt in a decade, a move they say is aimed at keeping the species’ population in balance with available habitat.
The season, approved after months of debate, will run in December and apply only to designated management zones. What we know:
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has reestablished a regulated black bear hunting season for 2025, running from Dec. 6–28 in certain Bear Harvest Zones outside the wildlife management area system.
Officials say the decision is driven by population trends: Florida’s black bear numbers have climbed from just a few hundred in the 1970s
The global warming crisis blob is eager to bullhorn any scrap of “science” to scare the industrial West into surrendering to its agenda. But it turns out that when a much-touted report was slain by error, then the metaphorical crickets, not the ones the elites want us to eat to save the environment, are all that can be heard.
A paper published in the science journal Nature in April 2024 was retracted this week by its authors because “the results were found to be sensitive to the removal of one country, Uzbekistan, where inaccuracies were noted in the underlying economic data for the period 1995–1999.”
A criminal cartel has taken over my country, and its reach now extends into the United States.
Anyone who believes this is “just another authoritarian regime” is dangerously mistaken. This is organized crime in power, armed and bankrolled by America’s enemies.
Across the hemisphere, narco-terrorist groups and the dictators who shield them are clawing for more control.
They don’t just threaten their own nations. They weaken democracies, poison our societies and target the United States directly.
Nowhere is this clearer than in Venezuela.
TOKYO, Dec 5 - American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated "Slave Play", was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country, local authorities said late on Thursday.
Harris, 36, was stopped on November 16 at Naha Airport on Okinawa island after a customs officer discovered 0.78 grams of crystal containing the synthetic narcotic MDMA in his tote bag, an Okinawa Regional Customs spokesperson said. He was immediately arrested on suspicion of violating Japan's Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act. Local customs officials filed a criminal accusation with the regional prosecutor's office on Thursday to
Taliban makes 13-year-old boy execute
convicted murderer in stadium spectacle
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convicted murderer in stadium spectacle
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Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family.
An estimated 80,000 people gathered at a sports stadium in the southeastern province of Khost to witness the horrific spectacle, condemned by the UN as “inhuman and cruel”.
The convicted murderer, called Mangal, and two others had been found guilty of killing 13 members of the teenager’s family, including several children and women.
The killer was sentenced to ‘Qisas’ - a retaliation punishment under Sharia law similar to the Biblical principle of ‘an eye for an eye’. The Supreme Court said
For over a decade at this shingle, we've reported on the industrial-scale gang-rape afflicting almost every town up and down the spine of England, most recently on a special edition of The Mark Steyn Show. The stories are all different, and yet in their most salient aspect all the same: In every town the girls are doubly violated - sodomised by their Pakistani Muslim clan-rapists, and then further assaulted by a whitey-white officialdom [snip] "This would never happen in America, Steyn", augmented by a few random observations on Euro-pussies more generally.
Well, it turns out it is happening in America, or at least in Minnesota:
With the reversal of Roe, abortion legislation is now back in the hands of the states, but any success for the pro-life movement was unacceptable for New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin. Thus, he decided to target pro-life centers in New Jersey in a way that stood to intimidate the center’s donors, and possibly threaten its services:
Platkin, a Democrat appointed by Gov. Phil Murphy, began scrutinizing pregnancy counseling centers in July 2022 by launching a ‘strike force’ to promote abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision. Platkin said such facilities presented consumer fraud concerns because they misled donors and clients about the services they offered.
LA Times writer feigns shock that Democrat
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A writer at the LA Times clearly has his head in the sand, as evidenced by his latest piece, where he pretends that “things have changed” because Democrats with seriously scandalous pasts are still elected to office, or surging toward election.
He cites three examples: gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter in California who berated her staff; Graham Platner in Maine who had a Nazi tattoo and berated blacks and the police, and now-AG of Virginia who wished for the shooting death of his opponent and his children.
(These three individuals are all still supported by most of the media and their fellow Democrats.)
Brian Cole, Jr. worked for a bail bonds company run by his father that worked to free illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and sued the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security.Weeks before 30-year-old Cole Jr. allegedly planted pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Democrat and Republican parties on January 5, 2021, a court ruled against the company in its lawsuit attacking the Trump administration on immigration issues, The Daily Wire has learned. An FBI affidavit in the case notes that the suspect works for a bail bond company and lives with his mother.
Afghan Watchdog Concludes Billions In
Weapons U.S. Left Behind Form "Core" Of
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The inspector general responsible for scrutinizing U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan has detailed the billions of dollars wasted by the U.S. government during the 20-year war in the country and concluded that the arsenal of U.S.-provided weaponry that was left behind now forms the "core" of the Taliban's own military machine. . . . The report said the Pentagon has concluded that the U.S. left behind weaponry worth at least $7.1 billion -- weapons now in the hands of the Taliban -- and that the U.S. government also continued to send $3.47 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.
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Asked this past Sunday on Meet the Press whether he accepted responsibility for the massive Feeding Our Future fraud that took place under the auspices of his administration, Governor Walz said he accepted resonsibility for “putting people in jail.” Walz, however, has put no one in jail. Federal agents and the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota investigated, exposed, and prosecuted the Feeding Our Future fraudsters while Walz slept. In the video below a local reporter has the temerity to challenge Walz on this point. As John noted here, Walz does not take it well. (Snip) Once upon a time Walz blamed Judge John Guthmann for tying
A former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), who has been accused of being a covert Chinese agent, boasted in text messages that her boss was "much more obedient" than her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
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The comments, part of the evidence presented at Linda Sun's corruption trial, were made during a discussion aimed at convincing Cuomo, the governor at the time, to film a speech commemorating the Lunar New Year.
Sun indicated to a Chinese official that she could get the then-Lt. Gov. to do it instead.
For years, Republicans have pledged to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a suitable alternative. Now there is an idea on the table that can complete that promise. The idea will use market forces to bring down the cost of healthcare for all. Obamacare is a problem. The law has imposed billions in costs on taxpayers through increased premiums. There is a way to bring premiums down without flooding the market with more taxpayer dollars. Without true healthcare reform legislation, taxpayer-subsidized spending to health insurance companies will get exponentially higher.
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For Democrats, the January 6, 2021, demonstration at the Capitol was the defining event of the 21st century, so far. They persist in calling it an “insurrection,” even though no one, at the time, had the slightest idea of overthrowing the government and installing the guy with the horns as president. Still, in pursuit of their vendetta, the Democrats have turned the country upside down to identify grandmothers who wandered into (or past?) the Capitol on that day.
Meanwhile, there was at least one serious crime attempted in D.C. that day, or the evening before–the planting of pipe bombs outside both the Republican and Democratic Party
It was another terrible, no good, very bad day for New York Attorney General Letitia James earlier this week. Her campaign against pro-life pregnancy groups suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court blocked her from taking legal action to silence them.
The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) and two other pro-life pregnancy groups were likely to succeed on their claim that the AG’s threats to sanction their statements about abortion pill reversal (“APR”) violated their right to free speech, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
With Hezbollah refusing to demilitarize southern Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli military on Thursday struck the terrorist group’s weapons depots.
With Hezbollah continuing to hoard weapons in civilian areas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gave a prior evacuation warning before hitting southern Lebanon neighbourhoods.The IDF struck multiple Hezbollah weapons depots in southern Lebanon. The presence of these facilities is a direct violation of the ceasefire agreement.The IDF says it has completed a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah weapon depots in southern Lebanon,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday afternoon.
The DC pipe bomber has been revealed to be a race-baiter who worked hard to ensure violent illegal aliens suffered no consequences before carrying out the bombings.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the FBI arrested a man named Brian Cole in connection with the January 6 pipe bombs on Thursday morning. Cole is 30 years old and from Woodbridge, Virginia.
Cole allegedly planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol protest. The FBI previously released footage of him planting the bomb next to a park bench at the DNC.
CNN host Jake Tapper misidentified Washington, DC, pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. as a “30-year-old white man” just before airing photos revealing him to be a black man.
“Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the D.C. suburbs, is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of explosion,” Tapper said on his show The Lead.
Several minutes later, Tapper’s own program aired photos of Brian Cole Jr., a black man.
Navy Adm. Frank Bradley, the commander who oversaw the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, denied that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered his subordinates to “kill everybody” aboard the vessel during briefings to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The denial follows a report from The Washington Post last week that the Pentagon chief gave a spoken directive to “kill everybody” ahead of the U.S. military’s Sept. 2 attack against an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean, an operation where 11 “narco-terrorists” were killed.
A Dozen Republican Lawmakers Sign Letter
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in Support of Extending Affordable Care
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A dozen Republican lawmakers signed a letter in conjunction with Democrats supporting the extension of subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).Signed by both Republicans and Democrats while addressed to bipartisan leadership in both chambers of Congress, the letter, titled the “CommonGround 2025: A Bipartisan Health Care Framework,” proposes extensions on health insurance premium savings for Americans.Dear Majority Leader Thune, Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Minority Leader Jeffries: Please find attached ‘CommonGround 2025: A Bipartisan Health Care Framework,’ our proposal outlining an extension of health insurance premium savings for American families,” the letter begins.
Demand for electric cars has slumped as Rachel Reeves prepares to hit them with a new pay-per-mile tax. The Telegraph has more.
Electric vehicle (EV) sales grew at their slowest rate in two years in November, at just 3.6%, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Mike Hawes, the Chief Executive of the SMMT, tied the slowdown to the Budget and its long build-up.
He said: “Even in a fragile market, zero-emission vehicle uptake continues to rise, which is exactly what we need. But the weakest growth for almost two years – ahead of the Government announcing a new tax on EVs –
On Tuesday, Marco Rubio sat down for an interview with Sean Hannity. As you can imagine, Venezuela was a hot topic. Hannity asked if we're on the verge of conflict. Rubio responded by saying, "No… what the President has authorized is a counter-drug mission in the region." He then went on to explain that Nicolás Maduro's regime is not a legitimate government, but a narco-terrorist organization. Oh, and it's providing terrorist organizations from the Middle East with a safe space here in our own backyard as well.
He added, "In addition to that, the Venezuelan regime is a source of instability in the entire region.
Zohran Mamdani to stop all homeless encampment
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani vowed Thursday to stop clearing homeless encampments throughout the Big Apple — ending a signature initiative pushed by the Adams administration since taking office.
The Democratic Socialist flatly told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Manhattan that he would stop all sweeps of makeshift settlements come the new year when he is sworn in as mayor.
“If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem anything you’re doing to be a success,” Mamdani said of the Adams policy, which has faced criticism for not getting those homeless people into permanent homes after the sweeps.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit aimed at expanding defense and trade ties, as the United States presses New Delhi to revise its decades-old partnership with Moscow.
The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment as the United States pushes for a Ukraine peace deal while seeking global cooperation. It will test New Delhi’s efforts to balance relations with Moscow and Washington as the nearly four-year war in Ukraine grinds on.
Putin was received by Modi at an airport in New Delhi on Thursday,
A former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), who has been accused of being a covert Chinese agent, boasted in text messages that her boss was "much more obedient" than her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
The comments, part of the evidence presented at Linda Sun's corruption trial, were made during a discussion aimed at convincing Cuomo, the governor at the time, to film a speech commemorating the Lunar New Year.
Sun indicated to a Chinese official that she could get the then-Lt. Gov. to do it instead.
“She (Hochul) is much more obedient
The arrest of Brian Cole Jr. on Thursday in connection with the J6 pipe bombing incident is a huge story. But make no mistake, this story is about to be memory-holed by the mainstream media… and fast.
Federal authorities arrested 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia for allegedly planting pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on the night of January 5, 2021. For four years, Biden’s FBI failed to break the case while the pipe bombs were used as political ammunition against Trump supporters.
As PJ Media previously reported, Cole’s arrest did not result from new tips or a brave new witness suddenly emerging from the shadows; it was because
Hell has frozen over, and take cover; pigs are flying. The New York Times has told the truth, and in so doing, defended Donald Trump and SecWar Pete Hegesth. The stakes are high:
Polls show trust in the media at an all-time low with less than 20 percent of citizens trusting television or print media. Yet, reporters and academics continue to destroy the core principles that sustain journalism and ultimately the role of a free press in our society. Notably, writers who have been repeatedly charged with false or misleading columns are some of the greatest advocates for dropping objectivity in journalism.
The Times’ sudden embrace
A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on a new indictment related to allegations that she committed mortgage fraud.The decision comes after a federal judge dismissed the initial case against James last month, ruling that the federal prosecutor who brought the case was not lawfully appointed. The prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, was appointed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.[snip]. The second attempt to indict James was presented to the grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, by different prosecutors.
Democrats and the media have been trying to whip up a story about the Trump administration taking out drug boats. They thought they had something with a story from the Washington Post that claimed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a drug boat when there were survivors in the water. [snip] Instead, when Bradley testified on Thursday, he told the truth. "The admiral confirmed that there had not been a kill them all order and that there was not an order to grant no quarter," Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told reporters after a briefing with the admiral.