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I wrote in April about the initial Indictment in U.S. v. Southern Poverty Law Center (M.D. Ala.). As I wrote, the indictment opens, The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (“SPLC”) stated mission included the dismantling of white supremacy and confronting hate across the country. However, unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. The SPLC’s paid informants (“field sources”) engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the…

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New York Post columnist Miranda Devine joins Tom Bevan, Richard Porter, and Andrew Walworth, Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, to discuss with President Donald Trump and give her reaction to Trump nominating Todd Blanche to be the permanent attorney general and Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence.Listen live weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly Channel 111, or on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or other platforms.00:00 — Opening: Miranda Devine on Her Latest Trump Interview”Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine, also a NY Post writer, joins the show to break down her exclusive interview yesterday with President…

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The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council may have thought Judge Eleanor Ross’s apology was sufficient to keep the reprimand private, but those not wearing a robe continue to see a problem. Representative Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee is starting to discuss an investigation. The House Judiciary Committee’s top Republican said his staff is looking at possible congressional action after a Georgia federal judge had an affair in her chambers, in earshot of clerks, and lied to judiciary officials about it. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Wednesday that his staff has “already put together a memo” on the facts involved in the misconduct…

If I told you that a federal agency had dismissed voluntary conservation on the grounds that environmental protection should be done only by government planners and regulators, you’d be forgiven for thinking I was referring to a previous administration. But the Biden administration actually endorsed conservation leasing, a free market approach to reduce conflict and litigation over federal land. In rescinding those policies, the Trump administration’s Department of the Interior is embracing its inner statism. In 2024, the Bureau of Land Management adopted the Public Lands Rule, which allowed conservation groups to lease public land for conservation, just as ranchers,…

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial has found that 200 milligrams of caffeine improves short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI), a measure of how the brain integrates sensory input with motor output, according to a report published in a peer-reviewed journal. The study involved 20 healthy adults and used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to assess SAI before and after caffeine or placebo administration, the report stated. Study Design and Methodology Researchers recruited 20 participants for the trial. Each received either 200 mg of caffeine or a placebo via chewing gum to ensure rapid absorption, according to the study. The crossover design allowed…

I often describe Chief Justice Roberts’s decisions as “blue plate specials.” If you read the bottom line, it seems like the liberal side win, but the mechanics of the decision helps the conservatives in the long run. In other words, the right might lose the battle, but they win the war. After more than two decades, the Chief Justice has made this balanced approach to jurisprudence into an art form. Today’s decision in FCC v. AT&T is the latest example. The FCC alleged that AT&T and Verizon violated federal law, and assessed a forfeiture order of $57 million and $47 million, respectively.…

Some tweets live in infamy. Six years ago this week, NPR shared a link on X (Twitter at the time) to an article by correspondent Bill Chappell: “Protesting Racism Versus Risking COVID-19.” This was June 2, 2020, in the grips of the pandemic. By that time, Americans had been forced to confront the reality that “two weeks to slow the spread” was a lie. The two weeks had come and gone at the end of March, yet government health advisors had continued to pressure authorities at the federal, state, and local levels to maintain lockdowns, mask mandates, and prohibitions on…