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Documents Show Trump Did Not Reimburse Michael Cohen for Hush Money Payment
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Disaster strikes AG Bragg’s case. Daily Mail: Michael Cohen claimed he was not reimbursed by Donald Trump or his organization for hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in a 2018 letter to federal authorities, contradicting his recent grand jury testimony. The bombshell document could throw a wrench in the works of prosecutors pursuing criminal charges against Trump over the payments. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and the star witness in the case over which Trump reportedly faces imminent arrest, claims that Trump got him to pay $130,000 to Daniels to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with the real estate mogul, just days before the 2016 presidential election ( Daily Mail). Proud Elephant: Bombshell new document from 2018 shows that Michael Cohen used his own personal funds to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000, not Trump or any other member of the Trump Team. This is going to destroy Alvin Bragg’s whole case ( Twitter). Donald Trump Jr.: Seems relevant! In a Feb 2018 document just uncovered, Michael Cohen’s own attorney, in a letter to the Federal Election Commission, says that “the payment in question does NOT constitute a campaign contribution” ( Twitter).
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LAUSD Strike Continues to Day Two Abandoning 400,000 Students for a Pay Raise
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CBS: Los Angeles Unified School District campuses remained closed Wednesday morning as a district-wide strike continued, with school employees and teachers walking picket lines. Los Angeles Unified School District employees with Service Employees International Union Local 99 began walking picket lines Tuesday morning after ongoing negotiations with district administrators failed. Teachers with United Teachers Los Angeles joined the support staff strike in solidarity. More than 1,000 LAUSD campuses were closed Tuesday and Wednesday, affecting about 400,000 students in the nation’s second largest school district ( CBS). Larry Elder: Los Angeles K-12 government schools dramatically underperform. Covid virtual teaching resulted in substantial student learning loss. Enrollment has dropped in favor of private schools and homeschooling. So, what do LAUSD teachers do? Why, strike for more money, of course ( Twitter).
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Fed Increases Interest Rate by 25 Points Making Rate Highest Since 2007
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CNBC: As expected, the Federal Reserve announced another 25 basis point interest rate hike on Wednesday, making the benchmark rate the highest it’s been since 2007. The ninth consecutive rate hike is meant to discourage inflation by increasing the cost of borrowing, which can slow the economy and possibly trigger a recession. In turn, it increases the growing cost of credit cards, auto financing and loans. With the move, the central bank has increased the federal funds rate from nearly zero in March 2022 to a range of 4.75% to 5% ( CNBC). Reuters: The policy statement made no presumption that the battle with inflation has been won. The new statement dropped language saying that inflation “has eased” and replaced it with the declaration that inflation “remains elevated” ( Reuters).
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Stanford’s DEI Administrator Placed on Leave Following Aiding Students Berate Guest Speaker
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National Review: Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez released a detailed letter Wednesday criticizing the students who heckled federal judge Kyle Duncan and announcing that DEI administrator Tirien Steinbach, who interrupted his lecture, is now on leave. Martinez declined to submit to calls that she retract her letter of apology to Duncan and emphasized that Stanford’s speaker disruption policy was violated by both students and administrators. At an event hosted by Stanford’s Federalist Society earlier this month, Duncan, who sits on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, was expecting to give a wide-ranging lecture on recent decisions that Court had handed down. However, audio and video of the event revealed that the judge was immediately heckled upon beginning his talk, with students shouting obscenities at him. When Duncan asked an administrator to intervene, he was subject to Steinbach explaining to him that he was tearing the fabric of the Stanford community ( National Review).
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DEA Warns of New Variation of Fentanyl Laced with Flesh Eating Sedative
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Townhall: The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a new warning about about the “widespread threat” of fentanyl mixed with a flesh-eating drug that has been seized in a majority of U.S. states. Authorities caution that there’s been a “sharp increase” in the trafficking of fentanyl mixed with xylazine, which is only approved for veterinary use. Also known as “Tranq,” xylazine “is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” Administrator Anne Milgram said in a statement ( Townhall). CNN: As the Fentanyl crisis continues to wreck communities across the country, Philadelphia is now grappling with a powerful animal sedative called Xylazine — known as “Tranq”— that has quickly found its way into the vast majority of the city’s drug supply ( Twitter).
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Denver High School Student Shoots Two Staff Members, Flees Scene
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CNN: A male student shot and wounded two faculty members at a Denver high school on Wednesday and then fled the scene, spurring a citywide search for his whereabouts. The shooting at East High School was reported at about 9:50 a.m., and police and medical responders arrived on the scene “very quickly” to find two adult men with gunshot wounds. One faculty member is in stable condition, and the other is in critical condition, he said. The student suspected in the shooting, who is under 18, was under a school safety plan in which he was patted down each day. During Wednesday’s search, a handgun was retrieved and several shots were fired in an office area in the front of the school, away from other students and staff ( CNN). CBS: Paramedics were able to “immediately” tend to the wounded men because they were already at the school to treat a student’s allergic reaction, Hancock said. Students were being released early and the school wouldn’t be open for the rest of the week, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero said ( CBS).
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Last Few Pulitzer Prizes Recipients Represent Skewed Political Narrative
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Federalist: A spin through the last five years of Pulitzer recipients reveals some interesting choices that add up to a clear pattern. In 2018, a Pulitzer for national reporting was given to The New York Times and Washington Post for reporting on the Donald Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. A 2019 Pulitzer for “Explanatory Reporting” was given to The New York Times for reporting on Trump’s taxes. The 2020 Pulitzer for commentary was given to Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times for the 1619 Project. In 2021, a public service Pulitzer was given to The New York Times for its coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic “that exposed racial and economic inequities, government failures in the U.S. and beyond.” In 2022, the Washington Post won a public service Pulitzer for its coverage of January 6. Every one of these major stories was badly handled by the media writ large, served activist political narratives, frequently involved credulously regurgitating actual misinformation, or some combination thereof ( Federalist). Washington Examiner: The Pulitzer Prizes are a singularly corrupt institution, administered by Columbia University and the management of the New York Times largely for the benefit of the New York Times and a limited number of favored publications and personalities. Any citizen who thinks that the annual distribution of awards has something to do with quality probably believes that the Oscar for Best Picture goes to the most distinguished film of the year ( Washington Examiner).
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Biden, DOJ Worked Together to Brand Parents as Terrorists
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Katie Pavlich: A new report published by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and House Judiciary Committee shows extensive collusion between the Biden administration and the National School Board Association. The partnership came as the group drafted a letter calling on the Department of Justice to classify parents as domestic terrorists. The letter also asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the Patriot Act, implemented after 9/11, to go after parents expressing criticism over school lockdowns, critical race theory and inappropriate sexual content in the classroom ( Townhall). Ed Morrissey: The Biden administration has largely refused to cooperate in this exercise of congressional oversight and has not produced requested documentation ( HotAir).
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Trans Cyclist Wins Female Cycling Event in NYC
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Katv: A transgender female won a women’s cycling event in New York City over the weekend, becoming the latest transgender female athlete to face pushback over athletic achievements. In a social media post from NYC Cycling News, Tiffany Thomas can be seen standing atop the winners podium last weekend at the Randall’s Island Crit, a cycling series held in New York City. Thomas, a member of the L.A.-based women’s cycling group L.A. Sweat, stood alongside two other women, who came in second and third place ( Katv). National Review: Thomas’s victory in New York City was not an anomaly. The cyclist has placed in various competitions in recent years, costing women titles. While Thomas’s teammates are all between the ages of 24 and 32, Thomas is 46 years old, and only started cycling at 40 years old. Female athletes in sports ranging from skateboarding to power lifting to swimming are increasingly dealing with male intrusion ( National Review).
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GM to Discontinue Camaro Line Next Year
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Associated Press: The Chevrolet Camaro, for decades the dream car of many teenage American males, is going out of production. General Motors, which sells the brawny muscle car, said Wednesday it will stop making the current generation early next year. The future of the car is a bit murky. GM says another generation may be in the works ( Associated Press). Washington Post: General Motors is phasing out gas-powered vehicles. It pledged to do so by 2035, an endeavor backed by a planned $35 billion investment and upgrades to manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan. The transition to electric vehicles has left an uncertain future for longtime fans of the company’s gas-powered autos. The muscle car, in particular, is known for the signature roar of its engines. Dodge, whose Challenger and Charger muscle cars are being phased out this year, opted for an all-electric release with the Charger SRT, which repackages the engine’s roar into an all-electric format ( Washington Post).
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Dennis Prager looks back at the inception of the self-esteem movement and laments its inevitable outcome
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Dennis Prager: For a very long time, I have been aware of the danger of over praising your child or of you having been overpraised. Compared to the past and probably all of the human past, this young generation and the previous generation are the two most praised generations in the history of the...
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Julie Hartman discusses the tragic practice of child mutilation, otherwise known as gender-affirming care
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Julie Hartman: You know, it is no secret that people have spoken very much recently about the “ugly stains” on our history. And of course, like any country, we have them. Slavery, Jim Crow, internment camps. There are many things in this country that have gone wrong.
But I think in the fullness...
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Charlie Kirk evaluates the Trump indictment as a political attack not just on Trump but on the spirit and sovereignty of the American people
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Charlie Kirk: How is this not election interference? How is it not direct and complete election interference of Donald Trump running for the presidency? They don’t care because the rules don’t apply to them.
It is bold, though. It’s a risk. Because it is a fiction of a legal theory. If Donald...
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Hugh Hewitt talks with Justice Daniel Kelly, candidate for one of the most watched — and definitely the most expensive — Supreme Court contests in U.S. history
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Hugh Hewitt: Welcome back, America. In January, the New York Times sent up a flare to all the leftists in America that they had to get involved in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, and they are supporting George Soros and all of them. This left-wing trial judge in Milwaukee, whose last name I...
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Mike Gallagher ponders the motives and strategy — or just plain stupidity — of the Trump arrest rumored to be coming down this week
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Mike Gallagher: There’s no way they’re this stupid. There is no way they’re going to indict him this week on some bogus misdemeanor charge that they’re trying to trump up and make it into a felony. There’s no way. I know they’re not bright. I know they’re completely oblivious to how...
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Eric Metaxas consults with Kevin McCullough, aka Votestradamus, about gain of function research and the CCP’s gain of power over America
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Eric Metaxas: Welcome back. Talking to Votestradamus. Some of you know him as Kevin McCullough. His family knows him as Kevin McCullough. But the rest of us say, all hail Votestradamus, knows all, tells all, political prognosticator.
What do you have to say about, oh, I don’t know, gain of...
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Sebastian Gorka talks with financial expert and Salem colleague Trish Regan about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and what to do next
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Are we on the brink of an economic collapse? Is a new Biden depression around the corner? No monologue to open the show. Don’t cry. I’ll give you one later. We’re going to check in instead with my former Fox colleague who is now my new Salem colleague. She’s the host of...
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Dinesh D’Souza exposes the little-known executive order that is inching the U.S. ever closer to the surveille-and-control mechanism of digital currency
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Dinesh D’Souza: Technology, we know, can be a force for liberation, but it can also be a force for repression. Now, for many years there has been circulating in the United States anxiety that technology will produce a kind of comprehensive regime of repression. And one of the ways to achieve this...
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Brandon Tatum takes issue with Colin Kaepernick accusing his white adoptive parents of perpetuating racism
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Officer Tatum: I want to start the show off by talking about Colin Kaepernick. I know that he’s in a dying sport, no pun intended. But Colin Kaepernick had come out in this very bizarre — well, the interview wasn’t bizarre. The concept of his comic book is bizarre, leading to him doing a...
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