Entertainment television repeatedly distorts the reality of mass public shootings — both who commits them and how they occur. Show after show depicts shooters wielding machine guns, even though that never happens. Another falsehood it pushes is the idea that white supremacists frequently carry out such attacks. Outlets such as the Anti-Defamation League keep claiming that […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – China’s capacity to hack the U.S. is growing, former NSA head says, targeting not just the U.S. military and industries, but also every individual American. China’s hacking of utilities became clear in a place no one would have imagined: Littleton, Massachusetts. It’s a small town with around 10,000 residents, 30 miles northwest […]
A Pennsylvania man accused of setting fire to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) residence earlier this year pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a string of charges — including attempted murder and terrorism — after admitting he targeted the governor over his stance on the Israel–Hamas conflict. Cody Balmer, 36, appeared at the Dauphin County Courthouse in […]
Ian Watkins, the disgraced former frontman of the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, was killed over the weekend in a stabbing at HMP Wakefield, a high-security prison in northern England. According to local media reports, Watkins, 46, was attacked and fatally wounded by another inmate either Friday or Saturday. Prison officials confirmed he died at the […]
Donald Trump Jr. pulled no punches in a Monday appearance on The Chris Salcedo Show on Newsmax, blasting Fox News as “ridiculous” and revealing he was effectively banned from the network for over two years due to his outspoken conservative views and strong support for his father, President Donald Trump. “Honestly, I don’t watch it anymore because […]
A State Department employee is accused of allegedly removing classified documents from secure locations and meeting with Chinese officials dating back to 2023. Fox News reports the Justice Department said Ashley Tellis is also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of War and is considered a subject matter expert on […]
Yikes… CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologized after claiming that Israeli hostages freed from Hamas captivity after two years were “treated better” than Gazans. The veteran international correspondent retracted her statement on air just hours after Hamas released the final 20 living hostages under a cease-fire agreement brokered by the United States and Egypt. “That was insensitive, and […]
The critics were almost unanimous. When President Trump bypassed the State Department to entrust Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff with negotiating an end to the Gaza war, Washington gasped. Here were two men with no formal diplomatic training, no foreign service pedigree, and no graduate degrees in international relations. In a city that prizes credentials, […]
In her first public appearance since being indicted on federal bank fraud charges, New York Attorney General Letitia James struck a defiant tone Monday, proclaiming, “I will not capitulate” to what she described as a politically motivated attack on her office and reputation. James, a Democrat and longtime adversary of President Donald Trump, appeared on stage to […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from Alex Jones, effectively letting stand a $1.4 billion defamation judgment against the radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist over his false claims about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The justices rejected Jones’ petition without comment, leaving in place lower […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Trump’s proposed missile defense initiative could revolutionize homeland defense. But it has a big blind spot — the “underlayer.” U.S. missile defense has long been structured around protecting from intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) reentering the atmosphere from space. But today’s adversaries are innovating entirely different technologies. The most immediate threats […]
Fake News, Real Problem: American Trust In Mainstream Media Plunges To Record Low
One of America’s most-trusted polling firms finds Americans’ trust in the mainstream media has plunged to its lowest point in over 50 years. “Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a ‘great deal’ or ‘fair amount’ of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report […]