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[ad_1] A video shows a worker going up to the facade of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, which now also bears the name of President Donald J. Trump. The worker removes the “J.”  Onlookers below cheer and applaud. Then, the rest of Trump’s name comes down. That May 31 video gained more than 725,000 views on X, and it was shared on other social media platforms. “Trump’s name permanently ripped off the Kennedy Center – is the ultimate humiliation of @realDonaldTrump,” the X caption read. The video does not show a real event; it was…

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[ad_1] Plans for a National Mall concert series celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary fell apart, leaving behind canceled performances and scathing Truth Social posts. On May 27, Freedom 250 — a public-private partnership tasked with celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary — announced a lineup of nine musical acts that would perform June 25 to July 3 in the nation’s capital.  But in the days that followed, the majority of the named performers bowed out, with most saying they feared the event had become politicized. The controversy quickly overtook social media, including inspiring a new version of a popular Secretary of…

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[ad_1] Most Americans knew the late Scott Adams for Dilbert, his beloved comic strip about an office worker and his dimwitted colleagues. Later in life, Adams became known as a kind of right-wing shock jockey. But the cartoonist caught the FBI’s attention for something a little bit different: the sex crimes investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R–Fl.) and a bizarre blackmail scheme that grew out of it. The FBI released its files on Adams last week, five months after his death, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Reason. The records include the heavily redacted…

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[ad_1] On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with author Andrew G. Bostom about the rise of Sharia law in the U.S. and the EU and challenges it poses to those western laws, customs and society. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Judge Eleanor Ross, who serves on the federal bench in Atlanta, engaged in multiple acts of misconduct. She carried on a secret affair with an Atlanta police department officer for nearly two years, repeatedly had loud sex in her chambers, lied about her trysts, and obstructed the investigation. Each of these actions warranted a public reprimand and an impeachment inquiry. But one of the more stunning allegations has flown under the radar: Judge Ross routinely signs judicial orders her law clerks prepare without even reading them. Indeed, it seems she never even talks about these cases with her clerks,…

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