Recently axed 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was cooperating with the virulently anti-Israel United Nations official Francesca Albanese—who’s been accused by the United States of “malignant anti-Semitism”—on a profile for the flagship news program, and was preparing to fly to Tunis to interview her on camera, when Vega…
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James Talarico Worked As ‘Equitable Education’ Consultant at Left-Wing Firm Developing DEI Plans for Texas School Districts
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D.) earned tens of thousands of dollars working as an “equitable education” consultant for a firm that develops DEI plans for public schools in Texas. The firm, MAYA Consulting, described its work as “rooted in our diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy” and donated…
‘I’m Gonna … Poison Her A— Slowly’: University of Michigan Students and Graduates Charged by Feds With Violent, Anti-Israel Plot To Terrorize University, Jews
The Justice Department on Wednesday indicted eight young anti-Israel activists, most of whom studied or worked at the University of Michigan, for orchestrating a criminal plot “to terrorize government officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation” of Detroit. The defendants, many of them known campus agitators, targeted the homes…
‘Bullshit Glory Story’: Graham Platner Accused ‘Lone Survivor’ Author of ‘Lying’ and Promoting ‘War Porn’: Democrat Says Navy SEAL Used a Ghostwriter Who Made Things Up
Maine Democrat Graham Platner accused former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell of “lying” in his popular war memoir Lone Survivor about his combat experience in Afghanistan, in part by using a British ghostwriter who, Platner says, ripped off another SEAL’s book to create a work of fiction. It’s the…
Platner’s Top Strategist Morris Katz Once Denounced a Democrat for Sexual Misconduct, Defended His Client Who Endorsed a Republican: Why Is He Still Backing Sex-Pest Platner?
It’s a Katz-22 The boy-wonder political strategist behind embattled sex-pest Graham Platner once proclaimed that similar sexual misconduct by a Democratic candidate would justify endorsing his Republican opponent. Morris Katz, whose Fight Agency helped make Platner the presumptive Democratic nominee for Maine’s toss-up Senate seat, made the pronouncement…
Pennsylvania Mayor Running for House on Record of ‘Cutting Waste’ Spent $75K on ‘Equity Plan’ That Called To Put DEI at ‘Core of Every Decision’
Pennsylvania Democrat Paige Cognetti is running for Congress on her record of “cutting waste” as mayor of Scranton, Pa. Omitted from her pitch to voters is a $75,000 “equity” plan she commissioned that called to place DEI “at the core of every decision” in city government. One year…
New Jersey Taxpayers Funded Anti-ICE Group Fomenting Chaos at Local Detention Facility, Records Show
An anti-police group involved in the unrest outside of an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars stemming from Garden State taxpayers, a Washington Free Beacon review has found. For nearly two weeks, protesters have gathered outside Delaney Hall demanding…
New York Times Stirs Baseless Panic Over Trump, Vaccines, and Childhood Diseases
Good news about pertussis, also known as whooping cough: despite fears that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unconventional views about childhood vaccines would lead to a resurgence of the disease, reported cases have actually declined from a recent high during the Biden-Harris administration. The…
Fallen Hero: CBS Fires Scott Pelley After Decorated Career ‘In Combat’
CBS News fired a senior employee on Tuesday for violating the sacred journalistic principles of “trust and mutual respect.” Scott Pelley, 68, got the axe after a preening confrontation with 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton in which Pelley disparaged his supervisor with “remarkable incivility and contempt.” Pelley,…
‘What a Cool Pic’: Totenkopf-Tattooed Graham Platner Admired ‘German Helmets’ in WW2 Photo of Nazi-Allied Troops, Deleted Post Shows
Maine’s embattled Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, praised a “cool pic” of Nazi-aligned troops aiming a rifle during World War II, zeroing in on their “German helmets” and weapon, in a now-deleted social media post, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal. It’s not the first time Platner has…