Jurors weren’t buying David DePape’s rambling defense. A federal jury found the violent conspiracy theorist guilty of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer after breaking into the couple’s San Francisco home. ABC News reports: The jury began deliberating Wednesday afternoon before reaching a verdict late Thursday morning, […]
The former senior editor of a prestigious political news website pleaded not guilty this week to possession and distribution of child pornography. Slade Sohmer, 44, pleaded not guilty to what Massachusetts prosecutor Marianne Shelvey called “one of the most egregious cases” she’d ever seen. Sohmer was editor-in-chief of The Recount, rising to prominence in certain […]
A competitive House seat has just opened in Michigan. On Thursday, House Ways and Means Committee member Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) announced he will not run for reelection in 2024. Kildee, 65, said a cancer diagnosis this year sparked a need to reassess his career plans. “For most of this year, I saw myself continuing to serve and was actively planning […]
ANALYSIS – The aftershocks from radical leftist movements, and the corresponding soft-on-crime approach of prosecutors across the country, is largely to blame for the current wave of lawlessness in many American cities. Sadly, it appears that most of the crime is being committed by mobs of teenagers in disadvantaged communities. I have recently written about […]
Is Joe Manchin ready to call it quits? After announcing he would not pursue another term in the U.S. Senate, Manchin (D-W.V.) refused to rule out a presidential campaign in the near future. (RELATED: Joe Manchin Not Running For Reelection) In a Tuesday interview, Manchin would neither confirm nor deny he was considering this option. […]
Republican Rep. George Santos of New York has announced he will not seek reelection following a House Ethics Committee report finding “substantial evidence” he broke multiple laws. The Republican-led panel found that Santos “blatantly stole from his campaign” and “sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit.” […]
A blistering report from the House Ethics Committee has found “substantial evidence” Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) broke a laundry list of laws. The bipartisan House panel released the findings of its monthslong investigation Thursday morning. It comes as Santos faces nearly two dozen felony charges. Recently, the freshman Republican’s campaign fundraiser pleaded guilty following charges […]
“Mostly peaceful” protesters descended on the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters last night demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. While video footage played on cable news of police officers desperately shielding the entryways from the unruly mob, journalist Yashar Ali highlighted a disturbing social media trend infecting TikTok and other sites. In the last day or so, […]
It has been a few years since I have had to be in the field monitoring a poll, but on November 7th it was an all hands on deck moment in order to win the Massachusetts State Senate special election. Even our Republican National Committeeman Ron Kaufman was part of the effort. After a long […]
ANALYSIS – Cops and robbers. The far-left D.C. swamp is getting so dangerous that federal officers are getting carjacked, police SUVs are getting stolen and Secret Service vehicles are being broken into, even in the ritzy Georgetown neighborhood of the city. I recently wrote about the sky-high violent crime rate in D.C., including murders and carjackings. The […]
Whatever boost the Nov. 7 election results may have given Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has faded as rapidly as the autumn sunshine. The blows came from different angles, but all landed solidly. Among them: polling data from the Financial Times and the University of Michigan’s business school at a paltry 14 percent of respondents think […]
Supreme Court’s New Code Of Conduct Is A Necessary Addition
In a bow to pressure from Congress and the general public and an admission that it had a genuine ethics problem on its hands, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted an official code of conduct. While such a code should have been in place long ago, it’s better to have one now than not at all. […]