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Who doesn’t want to get into a staring contest with Joe Biden? China’s Xi is happy to do it. The latest pretext is Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan. China, smelling a weak old horse, has been aggressively amping up the rhetoric and the threats. And Biden has been pushing Pelosi to cancel the trip, which…

Yes, a decade later this case is still stuck in our legal system. But at least there’s some progress on the justice front. A U.S. appeals court decided Tuesday that a Libyan man’s 22-year sentence for his role in the 2012 Benghazi attack wasn’t enough. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, 51, was originally convicted in 2018 on…

Have the monkeys complained? The head of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to rename monkeypox to prevent the “potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects” that the virus’s name could bring about. Maybe “stigmatizing effects” would be a net plus for a disease brought on…

In last’s week article, Biden Gave TikTok a Pass. American Kids Died, I noted the devastating consequences of Biden’s appeasement of China.  In the summer of 2020, President Trump imposed sanctions on TikTok, and in the next summer, Biden lifted them in his own executive order. While the Biden administration claimed that it would scrutinize the…

We often think of institutions as inherently corrupt. And some are. But within the FBI it’s very much a case of political agendas being played out by certain figures.  “Highly credible” whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information about President…

Interesting trend. A new generation of j schoolers had begun to organize newsrooms, create pressure groups, oust colleagues and organize to get editors fired. This was what lefties had been doing successfully in academia and they swiftly made inroads. Two data points make a line, not a trend, but they’re striking nonetheless.  The Washington Post…