February 3, 2021
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On this day in 1959, rising rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with “That’ll Be the Day.”
We have a fake news alert out for so-called fact-checker Politifact. Robert Romano exposes their latest fumble. And we sit down with the head of a group seeking to protect the Electoral College from a Democrat scheme to destroy it. Plus, is the FBI rotten to its core? Writer Thomas Swift Justice looks at that. And in our ALG Minute, we see shades of Lois Lerner. Remember her?
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