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…
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‘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…
James Talarico’s Girlfriend Ranted About ‘Genocide of Black People’ by Police During BLM Riots, Petitioned to Free Convicted Cop-Killer
Left-wing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s girlfriend suggested that police officers were committing “genocide” against black Americans and petitioned to free a member of the Black Liberation Army militant group who was convicted of killing cops, a Washington Free Beacon review of her since-deleted online posts found. Brianna…
An Elite St. Paul Private School Displayed an Antisemitic Poster to Middle Schoolers—Latest in a Series of Controversies to Roil School With ‘Best Academic Curriculum in Minnesota’
One of the most elite private schools in Minnesota is under fire after its head of school gave a tepid public response—and failed to hold his faculty to account—after a virulently antisemitic cartoon was approved by a teacher and displayed as part of an 8th grader’s social studies…