One hundred and fifty-nine years ago this Sunday, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger. The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine agonizing hours, expiring the next morning in a cramped room rented… Continue reading How Lincoln’s Assassination Changed American History
Category: Intel
U.S. Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run a Fog Machine of War
By Lee Fang, RealClearInvestigations and LeeFang.comApril 11, 2024 Ukraine’s American-backed fight against Russia is being waged not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call the cognitive battlefield – to win hearts and minds. Tucker Carlson: No Kremlin stooge, but portrayed as one in Ukraine media. AP… Continue reading U.S. Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run a Fog Machine of War
How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election
By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsApril 10, 2024 Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. Mike Howell: “There is not a ‘shadow’ campaign. There is an overt assault on President Trump and those who wish to vote for him.”… Continue reading How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election
Is Trump Really Leading in Battleground Pennsylvania?
Several national pollsters have concluded that Donald Trump is leading in Pennsylvania over Joe Biden. The RealClearPolitics polling average as of April 3 shows Trump with a 0.6% edge in the Keystone State. Some pollsters even show Trump at 52% support. Susquehanna Polling and Research takes issue with some of these polls and questions their… Continue reading Is Trump Really Leading in Battleground Pennsylvania?
Aileen Cannon: Portrait of a Judge in the Fractured Double Reality of American Justice
Above, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the Trump classified documents trial in Florida and taking partisan heat for it. By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigationsApril 3, 2024 The residents of Fort Pierce, Florida, are not accustomed to seeing dark SUVs and flashing motorcycles speed down the town’s main thoroughfare bordering the shore… Continue reading Aileen Cannon: Portrait of a Judge in the Fractured Double Reality of American Justice
The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries
When President Biden’s supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an “illegal,” they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics. Laken Riley: High-profile victim. Wikipedia The progressive push to describe border crossers as undocumented or unauthorized can also serve to downplay… Continue reading The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries
The Modern Public Nuisance Movement Is a Growing Threat
The Left is running a full-scale effort to reshape consumers’ lives using every tool at their disposal, be that through regulations, product bans, or ideological lawsuits. A key part of this campaign is public nuisance lawsuits that seek to impose billions of dollars in liability on disfavored industries for “causing” amorphous, nationwide (or worldwide) problems… Continue reading The Modern Public Nuisance Movement Is a Growing Threat
Give Me an Engaged Electorate
On March 23rd in 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, to urge his countrymen to arm themselves for the Revolutionary War. Four weeks before the battle of Lexington and Concord, Henry saw the future: “The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of… Continue reading Give Me an Engaged Electorate
Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel
Above, President Cyril Ramaphosa next to a statue of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town in 2020. His new genocide case against Israel in international court looks to some like South Africa’s latest example of honoring the human rights icon’s legacy in the breach. By Toby Dershowitz and Max Friedman, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 18, 2024 Shortly before South… Continue reading Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel
The Silence of U.S. Senate Hopeful Adam Schiff on China: ‘Blood Money’ Book Excerpt
In “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” investigative journalist Peter Schweizer continues his groundbreaking scrutiny of what he portrays as the wide and deliberately subversive influence of China on American politics and society. His reporting — ranging from the deadly fentanyl trade to America’s social justice movement to… Continue reading The Silence of U.S. Senate Hopeful Adam Schiff on China: ‘Blood Money’ Book Excerpt