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The Point hasn’t covered the Jan 6 committee circus much because there isn’t anything to cover.  Convening a committee, getting some airtime and then sending out fundraising emails is what congress members do in lieu of actually doing anything. Most conservatives have gotten wise to the scam, at least after a whole lot of committees…

An interesting question with troubling implications. The Justice Department is increasingly seeking and receiving permission to secretly reach into Americans’ computers to delete malware — a shift officials say reflects a growing embrace of aggressive and creative tactics for combating a surge in cyberattacks. Botnets — armies of hacked computers used to power everything from…

A reminder that the crush on Sen. Manchin, like on most Democrats, liberals, and lefties who take the right position on some things is a one-sided proposition. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday defended the bipartisan Senate agreement on gun reform reached over the weekend in the wake of the latest spate of mass shootings, saying none…

This is what happens when celebrities have no self-awareness. But to be a celebrity is to have no self-awareness. Jumping on trendy causes because they’re trendy is the thing to do while assuming that no one will notice the obvious. Judd Apatow, Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Kimmel, Damon Lindelof, Adam McKay, Julianne Moore, Shonda Rhimes, Eli Roth, Mark Ruffalo, Amy Schumer, and…

The Left isn’t stopping at insisting that men are women, and anyone can be any gender. The next frontier is ‘speciesism’. Happy the Elephant is not a person, the New York state’s Court of Appeals ruled in a 5-2 decision Tuesday, meaning the Asian elephant will continue to reside at the Bronx Zoo, her home…

This is not an accident. This is “criminal justice reform“. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday rejected renewed calls to give judges new powers to keep pre-trial suspects behind bars, delivering a potential setback to a key part of Mayor Eric Adams’ new plan to tackle gun violence. “I will absolutely stand behind the fundamental premise on why…

Middle-Class Joe. President Joe Biden cautioned that U.S. inflation could last “for a while” after data on Friday showed that politically sensitive price pressures unexpectedly accelerated in recent weeks. “We’re gonna live with this inflation for a while,” Biden said at a Democratic fundraising event in Beverly Hills. “It’s gonna come down gradually, but we’re…