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Federal lockups come in minimum, low, medium and high-security flavors. Ghislaine Maxwell is suddenly going from total monitoring during her trial to low security. Convicted madam Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved 1,000 miles to a soft, low-security prison in Florida — one where inmates enjoy movies, a running track and even yoga in the yard. The disgraced…

Long before the George Floyd drug overdose, Marilyn Mosby tried to lynch a bunch of Baltimore cops over a criminal’s accidental death. It didn’t go her way. Nothing did. And now she’s history. Eight years and more than 2,500 homicides later, the city’s Democratic voters ousted Marilyn Mosby as Baltimore state’s attorney, choosing defense attorney Ivan Bates in Tuesday’s…

GM CEO Mary Barra’s ties to Obama aren’t news. But even while financial regulators are pressured into punishing companies for not complying with environmentalist agendas, it’s GM’s environmentalist obsession under Barra that is hurting the company’s shareholders. GM, in typical Obama fashion, is implementing a doomed environmentalist agenda that is failing investors, employees and consumers.…

I liked it better when the Iraqi Information Minister wasn’t on our team. “This is not an economy that is in recession,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told moderator Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”  “You don’t see any of the signs. Now, a recession is a broad-based contraction that affects many sectors of the economy. We just don’t have…

Say what you will about Jesse Jackson, but even during his shakedown days, he wasn’t trying to shake down puppets. Standards are lower now and every fake viral video racism controversy becomes a shakedown or a race riot. Or both. And so bad times have come to Sesame Street. This particular stupid story began with…

A guy who lost a presidential election but made a fortune has some thoughts on the political system. Gore, in an interview with Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that will air Sunday, said that public sentiment is changing in regards to climate change but that “democracy is broken,” The only people who think “democracy is broken”…

We had to burn the trees to save the trees… from us. On Monday, Dutch reforestation company Land Life started what has become a 35,000 acre forest fire in Spain.  These things happen. And happen. This is the second forest fire started by Land Life in a month. I’m starting to think that environmentalists and…

Of all the fact-checkers out there, no one cares about Newsguard.  Steven Brill is raising $6 million to launch News Guard. This new service will rate news sites on their trustworthiness from green to red. Forget politically unbiased algorithms. The ratings will be conducted by “qualified, accountable human beings” from teams of “40 to 60 journalists.” Once upon a…