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The billionaire, who called global warming a hoax, warns of its dire effects in his company's application to build a sea wall.

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Twitter was abuzz today over this video   Dalia for Congress – Official Website   Omar’s district is overwhelmingly Democrat – Ilhan won in 2018 with 80% of the vote. &n…

A fourth county in Georgia discovered a memory card with uncounted votes during a hand audit, officials said late Wednesday.

On the weekend edition of The Mark Steyn Show we discussed the jihad's first murder of a sitting member of the British Parliament and the first Islamic murder in an English church. The slaughter of David Amess has already faded into the usual woozy

As the Biden administration continues to ignore their responsibilities of keeping the southern border secure, Republican governors are taking the issue into their own hands and sending the illegal migrants

Obama calls for a “moral” revolution to match the scientific revolutions that created these weapons.

The Left Tried To Torch This Possible SCOTUS Nominee And Got Clotheslined With The Facts - Matt Vespa: Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a potential nominee .07/04/2018 8:58:42AM EST.

A Duval County judge denied a bond reduction this week for a Jacksonville woman accused of shooting a police officer while SWAT served a warrant in September.

CNN reporter Chris Cillizza used former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s recent death to condemn the Republican Party.

Nancy Davis wasn't forced to travel to New York for an abortion. Abortion advocates are exploiting her heartbreaking situation to push abortion-on-demand.

Eighteen women have said they were sexual assaulted at a music festival in Germany. Three men from Pakistan aged between 28 and 31 have been arrested and police are still searching for three men who may also have been involved. 

Insurgent candidates are running on bold stances, but there's been less focus when it comes to preventing the potential end of human civilization.

A firm employing Joe Biden's brother James received more than $1.5 billion in government-backed contracts during the Obama administration.

Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes said Saturday that a sudden stop in mail-in ballots counting on election night was "incredibly suspicious" - particularly since it was followed by a "deluge" of votes for Joe Biden in key battleground states.

The closely watched gubernatorial race in Virginia between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin is all tied up, according to a new poll.

In these days of news cycles measured in minutes, if not seconds, the Katie Couric scandal may seem almost as stale as Katie Couric herself. But bear with me. It’s a big deal, and not just because she lied. But let’s begin with the lie. #ad#Serving as host and executive producer for an anti-gun “news” documentary, Under the Gun, Couric held a focus group with members of a gun-rights group called the Virginia Citizens Defense League. She asked the attendees, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?” In reality the group had any number of immediate and thoughtful responses (whether you agree with them or not). But what ended up in the final video was something very different. For eight very long seconds, Couric’s question hung in the air as the members of the focus group were depicted as dumbstruck, some with their heads hanging low, as if this question was not only unanswerable, but exposed something shameful. Couric and her team achieved this through simple video editing. By taking footage from elsewhere in the session and splicing it after the question, they made it seem like the group was struck mute by the brilliance and moral power of the question. The problem is that the camera and the microphone are very often less objective than the pen or the keyboard. The simplest way to illustrate the nature of this lie is to imagine if a print reporter had been there instead of a camera. Let’s say I’m that reporter, watching the focus group in real time from a corner of the room. Now imagine that in my account of the meeting, instead of reporting that the group answered immediately and energetically, I reported: “When Couric asked her question about background checks, a long and shamefaced collective silence fell over the whole group. Not one of these purported gun-rights activists knew how to respond.” There is simply no way a reasonable person can deny that would be a lie. This incident is being cited by many on the right as a perfect example of media bias — and it is. Couric is a partisan hypocrite. She criticized the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives talking about selling baby parts as deceptively edited, even though their editing was tame compared to Couric’s (and the Center for Medical Progress had released the raw video of their interviews as well). But there’s something else worth noting here: TV itself is a biased medium. In the early days of television — and before that, radio — the hope was that technology could take out the middleman-journalist and provide “objective” reporting. Just place a microphone or a camera at the heart of the action, and the audience will get that You Are There feeling. The problem is that the camera and the microphone are very often less objective than the pen or the keyboard. Worse, electronic journalists often hide behind the facade of technology and the sensory immersion of the audience, as a way to fake immediacy and intimacy. Writing requires reflection; the writer must balance competing and often contradictory facts and opinions. It demands of the reader active judgment as well. Lord knows it’s not perfect, but in many respects it’s more honest than journalism that pretends to let you see and hear the truth with your own eyes and ears. You Are There, by the way, was a radio and then TV series (which was hosted by Walter Cronkite) put out by CBS News from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. It was dedicated to re-enacting important moments in American history, as if they had been covered by TV journalists. But one thing the audience knew: It was a re-enactment. Today, all of reality TV is at least as fake as You Are There — arguably more so, since at least You Are There tried to stick to established historical facts. Reality TV, on the other hand, makes up facts and pretends they are real. In this it is perhaps the medium’s most authentic form: It’s just “real-ish” enough to make the fakery more emotionally compelling. This is the more lasting lesson of the Couric scandal: Reality TV has conquered all. As a society, we want to be entertained far more than we want to be informed, which is why these scandals vanish the instant they become boring. It’s also why Katie Couric is more a reality-TV star than a real journalist. — Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review​. You can write to him by e-mail at [email protected], or via Twitter @JonahNRO. © 2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boreing give the Daily Wire an update on the seemingly endless World Cup.

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The comments came during Poulos's sworn testimony before the House Administration Committee on January 9th, 2020.

Youngkin said without citing evidence that George Soros allies "have been inserting political operatives into our school system disguised as school boards."

A group of House Republicans is pushing a bill that would scrap the IRS funding contained in the dubiously titled "Inflation Reduction Act" and instead allocate those funds to hire new U.S. Customs and Border Protection workers to secure America's southern border."The unobligated balances of amounts...

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A new study out this week shows that Americans’ views of President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine are largely varied based on the media outlets they listen to or read to get their news.