“There is not a single substantive piece of information in the [Steele] dossier that has ever been corroborated”
John Durham on the document bought and paid for by Hillary and the DNC: "...
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John Durham on the document bought and paid for by Hillary and the DNC: "...
My appearance on the Wilkow! Show: "what I think has people very upset is not so much that Hunter Biden's getting the wrong deal from the government, it's just that that is not a deal that would've been available to any of the political opponents...
We haven't heard the tape or seen the entire transcript, but Trump's claims seem contrary to the partial transcript where he clearly seems to be talking about a specific document "done by the military."...
Court comes close to adopting the "words are violence" campus mantra, finding the words on the t-shirt put other students at risk. And you can't even mock the ban by putting "Censored" over the censored words. That is banned too. Hopefully this absurd ruling will...
After challenge by Equal Protection Project, MSU says "[o]n an ongoing basis, such programs ...
In the fourth installment of his Twitter video monologues, Tucker Carlson methodically went through the telltale signs of a Wannabe Dictator, and how Joe Biden seemed to check the boxes....
My takes on the Trump indictment: "They knew there would be fury from Team Trump, from Trump himself, from Trump supporters. So they felt they needed to put more in there, but I'm not sure they've put enough in there to actually prove their case...
“It’s very disturbing that a SUNY school created a racially segregated program and promoted it for years, yet refuses to acknowledge its responsibility by asserting that it does not ‘administer’ the program."...
Seeming uniformity of support on liberal campuses and HR departments does not reflect reality: "Americans are more than twice as likely to say that the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions makes the overall admissions process less fair (49%) rather than more fair...
"What was his tone of voice when he said it? These are things we don't know. Did the conversation go any further? And there are a number of statements, snippets really, of statements attributed to Donald Trump that we don't know the context of them."...
A "short" clip from my appearance on Fox Businesss to discuss the challenge by our Equal Protection Project to a Missouri State U business bootcamp which excluded white males....
In response to a challenge from the Equal Protection Project, Missouri State stopped excluding white males from its business boot camp, but its President asserts that "I still don’t think we did anything wrong," so we are continuing to pursue this until MSU acknowledges its...
38 Counts against Trump and his assistant....
My interview on the Tony Katz Show about two things that can be true at the same time: The 7-year prosecutorial hunt to prosecute Trump is despicable, corrupt, and dangerous, while at the same time Trump may have handed the hunters just what they were...
Trump on Truth Social: "The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted...
Last March I cautioned that the Alvin Bragg case was a sideshow, and the Mar-a-Lago case was Trump’s biggest risk...
In response to prior challenge by Equal Protection Project, Missouri State U promised to open its business boot camp to all, but its president also was quoted as saying "Frankly, I still don’t think we did anything wrong." So EPP now has filed a Civil...
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