Tag: Analysis

Woke Sports? Consider the Big Leagues’ Longstanding Great Awakening

Commentary When the University of Oklahoma softball team showed up for the College World Series last week, reporters expected to hear pride and camaraderie from a squad on the way to winning its third consecutive national championship. But several star Sooners players startled the press and went viral online by declaring that their joy in Christianity trumped their…


Blinken Arrives in Beijing Amid Strained US–China Relations

News Analysis U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing in the early morning of June 18 to begin his trip to China. At a time when the Chinese communist regime has repeatedly provoked the United States and U.S.–China relations have hit rock bottom, Blinken is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit…


ANALYSIS: Comparing CNN’s 2024 Town Halls: Trump, Haley, Pence

News Analysis Over the span of five weeks, CNN conducted three town halls with GOP presidential candidates, including former President Donald Trump, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and former Vice President Mike Pence—showcasing how the network might treat the candidates this election cycle and how the candidates conduct themselves in response…


Key Player in Biden Documents Removal Was Caught Up in Bill Clinton-Era Chinagate Scandal

News Analysis The custodian of Joe Biden’s vice presidential records, a key witness in his classified documents probe, was caught up in another documents scandal while working at the Commerce Department during the Clinton administration, court records reveal. Longtime Biden aide and gatekeeper Kathy S. Chung, who has been interviewed by federal prosecutors and congressional…


Russiagate Prober Durham Neglected DNC Hack Claim, Despite Evidence It Too Was a Democrat Sham

News Analysis Special Counsel John Durham’s final report faults the FBI for opening the Trump-Russia collusion investigation on baseless grounds and relying on Hillary Clinton-funded material to pursue it, all while ignoring a warning that Clinton was plotting to frame Trump as a Russian asset. Yet Durham does not address the Clinton campaign’s equally central…


Space Command’s Move to Alabama in Jeopardy After Biden Visit to Colorado

News Analysis President Joe Biden appears increasingly likely to overrule the military’s decision to move U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, a Republican, shared details of his private meeting Thursday with Biden before the president spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony just north of the Colorado city….


How the FBI Lost, Found, and Rewarded the Alleged Russian Spy Pivotal to Surveilling Trump

News Analysis Twelve years ago, FBI agents in Baltimore sought to wiretap former Brookings Institution analyst Igor Danchenko on suspicions he was spying for Russia. But the counterintelligence analyst they were assigned to work with Brian Auten told them he could not find their target and assumed the Russian national had fled back to Moscow….


Biden White House Uses Fuzzy Math to Tout ‘Nearly 20 Percent’ Federal Union Growth

News Analysis President Biden has vowed to be the “most pro-union president in history.” And one sector over which he has a lot of control is said to be bucking the decades-long trend of union decline in a big way: The ranks of unionized federal government employees swelled by nearly 80,000 to about 497,000 dues-paying…


ANALYSIS: Scope of FBI’s Use of 702 Section Data on Americans Revealed for 1st Time

News Analysis The FBI’s use of warrantless “backdoor searches” of a vast amount of information known as the Section 702 database—which is intended for targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States—to spy on Americans is far more widespread than previously thought, according to a new report from the Office of the Director of National…


They Censored at the Behest of the White House: More Reporting From Tracy Beanz

Here we continue with a lightly edited version of reporter Tracy Beanz coverage of the case and our activities in court last week. Parts one and two provide the background. *   *   * Social media companies acted in direct response to the White House calling out the so-called “Disinformation Dozen.” Evidence in the case proves that they acted to…