6-25-19 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. James Davidson: Was There Valid Predication to Investigate the Trump Campaign?
2. Karen Kataline: You’re Attacking Free Speech if You Use it to Attack the Media?
3. Sally Pipes: Democrats Don't Understand 'Medicare-for-all'
4. James Hirsen: The First Dem Debates
5. Lowell Ponte: Little-Known Oddities of the Dem Candidates
6. Crista Huff: The Next Housing Crash is Closer than You Think
7. Daniel Greenfield: One of Obama’s 10,000 Syrian Refugees Tried to Bomb a Black Church in Pittsburgh

Was There Valid Predication to Investigate the Trump Campaign?

By James Davidson, Former FBI Agent & President of ProtectTheFBI.org

Much has been surmised about the validity of the FBI's predication for the FISA warrant to intercept Carter Page as well as its predication to investigate the possibility of Trump-Russia campaign collusion. Conservative and liberal pundits are gearing up for the Inspector General's (IG) forthcoming report examining exactly this. Both sides are prepping to spin the results according to their political penchants. While I see no problem with an IG review of whether the FBI lived up to legal standards as to how it handled whatever intelligence comprised predication, the IG must refrain from determining whether the right call was made, even if it opines that certain information was insufficiently vetted or omitted. To do otherwise would send a chill through the agency and adversely affect its ability (and willingness) to safeguard the country. [more...]

You’re Attacking Free Speech if You Use it to Attack the Media?

By Karen Kataline

It’s tough to overestimate the arrogance of today’s media. While behaving like fragile victims, they keep telling us they are too important to be criticized. The “legacy media” has long ago dispensed with any pretense that they are fair, unbiased or even truthful and they’ve gotten into a tizzy because President Trump is attacking them again. He accused the New York Times of committing a “virtual act of treason” for reporting that the United States is substantially increasing cyber attacks on Russia. He says that isn’t true and is concerned about the ramifications of such reporting. Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger responded in a Wall Street Journal op-ed saying that Trump’s attack “crossed a dangerous line” for criticizing the press. What I believe is much more dangerous is that they take themselves so seriously. [more...]

Democrats Don't Understand 'Medicare-for-all'

By Sally Pipes, President & CEO of the Pacific Research Institute

This week, 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls will gather in Miami for their first debate. One issue is sure to dominate the discussion – "Medicare-for-all." The promise of free, government-run health care has become quite popular among Democrats since Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made it a major plank of his 2016 presidential campaign. Four of his rivals for the Democratic nomination have co-sponsored his "Medicare-for-all" legislation. Several others have expressed support for something like it. Democrats may say they want "Medicare-for-all," but multiple recent polls show they have no idea what "Medicare-for-all" would mean for them – or for the country. [more...]

The First Dem Debates

By James Hirsen

Democratic candidates who are vying to win the top spot as their Party’s 2020 presidential nominee are set to take the debate stage on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The rhetoric of many who are chasing the Democratic primary plum has been both confusing and unappealing to a sizable segment of the voting population. Candidates that fall within this category have, for the most part, been speaking to their far-left constituents, especially those who tend to be clustered in East and West Coast urban enclaves. [more...]

Democrat "Dembates"

By Lowell Ponte

This week begins the Democratic presidential candidate debates. The highlight of this beauty contest, however, may be former beauty contest owner and now-President Donald Trump, who will be doing a live running commentary, minute by minute, candidate by candidate, of each debate. This week’s debate requires a successful 'Hail Marx' pass, do or die. Each candidate desperately needs some incantation that will win over both rich contributors and radical supporters. The most interesting candidate is millionaire entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who perhaps in anticipation of ending the Electoral College, says he may campaign via 'hologram' in some states too unimportant to visit in person. I doubt that any of the 23 Democrats running for president "know what they're doing." I can discuss the little-known oddities of many of these candidates and what they are likely to do in this week's "debates." [more...]

The Next Housing Crash is Closer than You Think

By Crista Huff

A Profound Long-Term Housing Forecast (Baby Boomers: Take note!)

Early this month, I read a 68-page report by Wall Street analysts on population demographics, lifestyle trends and spending habits that’s projected out several decades. What I read about real estate was so significant – and in line with broad assumptions I’d been making about the next housing crash – that I would be remiss if I did not share it with you. [more...]

One of Obama’s 10,000 Syrian Refugees Tried to Bomb a Black Church in Pittsburgh

By Daniel Greenfield

“The best news is when you call get ready for jihad,” Mustafa Mousab Alowemer wrote in a public housing project in Pittsburgh. “I will spill my blood for the victory of my religion.” Northview Heights, the low-income housing project, is 90% African-American. Or at least it was. Then a flood of Syrian Muslim refugees showed up. Obama had promised to admit 10,000 Syrian migrants in 2016. The terrorist who plotted a massacre at a black church was one of them. [more...]

6-18-19 Great Guests for Your Show

1. James Davidson: Organizational Hubris at the FBI
2. James Hirsen: Hollywood's Human Rights Duplicity
3. Lowell Ponte: Facebook Value Goes Crypto
4. David Horowitz: Tyranny Masquerading as Tolerance
5. Karen Kataline: What is George Will Rooting For?
6. Brent Bozell: Never-Trumpers Killed CNN

Organizational Hubris at the FBI

By James Davidson, Former FBI Agent & President of ProtectTheFBI.org

Several journalists recently made the case that an FBI culture characterized by hubris precipitated the FBI's improperly predicated investigation into the Trump campaign. They also argued that this hubris extends well beyond the 7th floor of the J. Edgar Hoover building and permeates the entire organization. We prefer to wait for the Inspector General's soon-to-be-released report before concluding whether the investigation was properly predicated. Protect the FBI also believes journalists often exaggerate the nature and extent of the FBI's cultural hubris. [more...]

Hollywood's Human Rights Duplicity

By James Hirsen

After a law was passed in Georgia to save the lives of pre-born babies with detectable heartbeats, many in Hollywood grabbed their leftist playbooks and began clamoring for a boycott of the state. Netflix, Disney, and a smattering of Left Coast companies threatened to pull production away from Georgia if the implementation of the law began to take effect. Despite the high degree of virtue signaling that has taken place regarding the issue, Hollywood continues to conduct business with foreign governments that hold abysmal human rights records. [more...]

Facebook Value Goes Crypto

By Lowell Ponte

18 months ago, social network giant Facebook announced that it was banning all ads for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as "frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices." But this week, Facebook will issue formal notice of its own cryptocurrency called Libra, to be launched early next year. Facebook has more than a dozen partners in this new money, including Visa and MasterCard, two companies Libra could undercut with lower prices for transactions. Libra is a "stablecoin," not a speculative gamble whose value shoots up and down like Bitcoin. Its value will be "pegged" to a "basket of currencies," to conservative stocks, and perhaps even to a fraction of gold. Mark Zuckerberg is already distrusted for violating the privacy of customers, and for censoring conservatives for their views. How will we like Zuckerberg when he also becomes head of one of the world's largest central banks - which, with 2.4 billion Facebook customers, is what the Libra consortium will be? It could become a threat to the future of the U.S. Dollar. [more...]

Tyranny Masquerading as Tolerance

By David Horowitz

Through a perverse but also inevitable twist to Identity Politics, the most aggressively bigoted and hate-filled censors seeking to suppress and marginalize individuals whom they regard as “other” are the very movements organized as advocates for “victim” minorities. The haters include white supremacist fringe movements who think that through attacks on Jews and Blacks they are actually defending whites (who are indeed targeted by so-called social justice warriors. But the most prominent and far more numerous hate groups are the social justice warriors themselves - Black Lives Matter, the misnamed Human Rights Campaign and the equally misnamed Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an organization that is well-practiced in the art of defamation against what it refers to as “oppressor” groups. [more...]

What is George Will Rooting For?

By Karen Kataline

Yesterday, Washington Post columnist George Will predicted the eventual presidential nominee of the Democratic Party would beat President Trump in 2020. George Will detests the President so much that in his recent op-ed, “To beat Trump, Dems must practice a politics of modesty,” he refers to him as “today’s incumbent.” One wonders if he referred to President Trump’s predecessor the same way. Will tells Democrats they can beat “today’s incumbent” by employing the “politics of “modesty.” Here’s a question for George: How is it modest to disguise one’s immense hubris as humility just so you can win? [more...]

Never-Trumpers Killed CNN

Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, outlines a very specific message in his new book, Unmasked: Big Media’s War Against Trump: The media’s anti-Trump mindset is putting them out of business. “Can they regain their credibility? I think the answer’s no,” Bozell explained. “You’ve got to have other voices.” Can CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the legacy media ever gain back the public’s trust? [more...]

6-13-19 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Dawn Perlmutter: Cop Watch Database Endangers Police
2. Jeff Ferry: Inflation Undershoots Again in May - Tariff Effect Nowhere to Be Seen
3. David Horowitz: The Dems' Muslim Brotherhood Romance
4. Sally Pipes: Medicare-for-all on Mark Levin
5. Crista Huff: Target Stock vs. Walmart Stock - Which is the Better Buy?

Cop Watch Database Endangers Police

By Dawn Perlmutter

Welcome to The Plain View Project - an anti-police information operation

The Plain View Project (PVP), a cop watch group disguised as a reputable research organization, analyzed the Facebook accounts of thousands of police officers across eight U.S. cities, including Philadelphia, Dallas, St. Louis, Phoenix, York, PA, Twin Falls, ID, Dennison, TX and Lake County, FL. On June 1, 2019 the Plain View Project study was published online as a database. This resulted in immediate internal affairs investigations, officers placed on desk duty and mandatory sensitivity training. The media enthusiastically reported that thousands of officers endorsed violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants. The ACLU is outraged, CAIR is making demands and an assortment of social justice protesters started marching. Everyone is calling for police to be fired. At first glance, the results of the so-called systemic look at officers on social media seems indefensible. However, a closer look reveals an extreme left-wing biased, major flaws in the research and a calculated manipulation of data to skew the results. [more...]

Inflation Undershoots Again in May - Tariff Effect Nowhere to Be Seen

By Jeff Ferry

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published the May consumer price index, and once again inflation has undershot Wall Street expectations. Headline inflation came in at 1.8% for May 2019 (compared to May 2018). The core rate of inflation (i.e., removing volatile food and energy prices) was slightly higher, at 2.0 percent, but still undershot what analysts were expecting. One team of bank economists reacted to yesterday morning’s undershoot with a published note saying: “Feeding the frenzy - Softer U.S. consumer price inflation data will only fuel the market clamor for interest rate cuts.” The note went on to speculate that Fed chairman Jerome Powell might signal a bias toward easing interest rates as soon as next week. [more...]

The Dems' Muslim Brotherhood Romance

By David Horowitz

In his recent appearance on Glenn Beck's show, David Horowitz discusses The Democrats’ Muslim Brotherhood Romance, the Left's anti-Semitic and anti-American agenda, and much more. [more...]

Medicare-for-all on Mark Levin

By Sally Pipes, President & CEO of the Pacific Research Institute

Watch PRI President/CEO Sally C. Pipes discuss all things health care with Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News Channel. They discuss Obamacare, the push for Medicare-for-All/single-payer health care in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail, prescription drugs, and President Trump’s health care plans. [more...]

Leftist Comedy is Literally Hitler

By Daniel Greenfield

Leftists have never been as humorless, unfunny and touchy as they are now. And they've never poured as much time and money into late night comedy, Netflix comedy specials and assorted people angrily shouting things about Trump and their confused sexual identities into a microphone, as they are now. Comedy, as supported by billion-dollar media corporations based in blue states that would legalize killing babies and heroin before they would permit gun ownership, has returned to its roots in Greek political life. Except the ancient Greeks thought that people insulting each other's politics was funny and the modern Proggies think that the insults should be one-sided and delivered in an echo chamber. [more...]

Target Stock vs. Walmart Stock - Which is the Better Buy?

By Crista Huff

May was a poor month for U.S. stocks. While most retail stocks suffered greatly, Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) exhibited bullish price charts. I’m not adding either Target stock or Walmart stock to my Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor portfolio just yet, because their fundamentals are not strong enough. However, these are the go-to stocks for institutional investors who want to assess the discount store landscape in search of potential portfolio stocks. Let’s review their outlooks in this breakdown of Target stock vs. Walmart stock. [more...]

The 'Central Park 5' Were Murderous Thugs

Despite the Left’s attempt to make them martyrs
By John Perazzo

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series, When They See Us, is being billed as an important exposé of the American criminal justice system's racist underbelly. As a review explains, it is the “riveting” story of how that system coerced and intimidated five innocent “teenage boys of color” into confessing to the highly publicized “rape and vicious assault of Trisha Meili, a white investment banker,” in New York's Central Park on April 19, 1989.

We are told that the boys - Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, and Raymond Santana - tragically had “their youth snatched from them” by the false convictions and the subsequent prison sentences that they served. In a similar vein, another review lauds DuVernay for her success in “humanizing” these same “innocent young black and brown” victims of institutionalized “abuse, mistreatment and manipulation.” A New York Times headline depicts DuVernay's series as “The True Story of How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five.”

It's a story we've all heard many times before. And it is a damnable, disgusting lie.

Ava DuVernay’s racist propaganda film targeting whites, characterizes them as “disgusting” expressions of anti-black racism. DuVernay's interpretation of Trump's words, along with her whitewashing of the Central Park Five’s horrific crimes, demonstrate just how morally sick the modern Left has become.

John Perazzo is the managing editor of DiscoverTheNetworks.org and the author of Betrayal: The Democratic Party's Destruction of America's Cities.

6-11-19 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Karen Kataline: Why They Hate Trump
2. Jeff Ferry: Why Economic Forecasts of the Effects of Trade Action Are Consistently Wrong
3. Lowell Ponte: Will 'Turncoat' Joe Biden Save His Soul
4. James Hirsen: The Clintons Partner Up with Hollywood
5. Crista Huff: Target Stock vs. Walmart Stock - Which is the Better Buy?

Why They Hate Trump

By Karen Kataline

Among the political classes, the opposition to Trump began well before his inauguration by “trumping up” hatred for him regardless of any facts.  They have actually been willing to frame and defame him with the ultimate goal of removing him from office by any means necessary, including fraud. Are we to believe that all of this is because their delicate sensibilities have been offended by Trump’s style, civility, or the lack thereof? They don’t hate Trump.  They hate what he stands for. It’s hard to get your brain around but if that’s true, it’s the biggest crisis of all. [more...]

Why Economic Forecasts of the Effects of Trade Action Are Consistently Wrong

By Jeff Ferry

For more than a quarter century, every major action the U.S. government has taken on trade policy has been accompanied by economic forecasts of their impact on the U.S. economy. And in every case, that forecast has been wrong. Sometimes the actual result has been in the opposite direction from that predicted in the forecast.  These forecasts, based on economic models, are influential. Indeed, U.S. trade law requires that an economic forecast be carried out by the International Trade Commission (ITC) for every free trade agreement the executive branch proposes to Congress. There are good reasons these forecasts are habitually wrong and they go deeper than a simple bias towards free trade on the part of the economists or civil servants. [more...]

Will 'Turncoat' Joe Biden Save His Soul

By Lowell Ponte

Last week Joe Biden declared his firm support for the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of taxpayer money to pay for abortions. The next day Biden flip-flopped, saying he would join other left-liberal presidential candidates in promising to ban the Hyde Amendment. Yes, he has shown himself to be a modern Democrat - a politician defined not by his principles, but by his willingness to instantly do whatever the leftist mob demands. Biden has a strong pro-abortion record in politics. He even voted to let your 14-year-old pregnant daughter get a secret abortion without notifying you or getting your approval. But Joe Biden might save his soul - if he uses this opportunity to tell voters not to support the Democratic Party until the leftist demons who have hijacked it are exorcised. [more...]

The Clintons Partner Up with Hollywood

By James Hirsen

Hillary may have finally found the hobby that she had been looking for: Shaking down Hollywood execs in order to finance female-centric projects. Because Hollywood decision makers abandoned business principles a long time ago, she is likely to be able to obtain financing for some agenda-laden products that few, if any, will want to see. As an added benefit from all of this, we are able to get a sneak preview of what Joe Biden will be able to do with himself after he loses. [more...]

Target Stock vs. Walmart Stock - Which is the Better Buy?

By Crista Huff

May was a poor month for U.S. stocks. While most retail stocks suffered greatly, Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) exhibited bullish price charts. I’m not adding either Target stock or Walmart stock to my Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor portfolio just yet, because their fundamentals are not strong enough. However, these are the go-to stocks for institutional investors who want to assess the discount store landscape in search of potential portfolio stocks. Let’s review their outlooks in this breakdown of Target stock vs. Walmart stock. [more...]

6-4-19 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Michael Stumo: Treasury Overlooks the True Culprit Behind U.S. Dollar Strength
2. David Horowitz: Why Trump's Style is Not the Problem
3. Lowell Ponte: Are Left-Loving Millennials the Generation that Will Extinguish Our Freedom?
4. James Hirsen: Woke Disney is Risky Business
5. Joseph Duggan: Terror Attacks on Saudi Oil Reveal Moralism Folly

Treasury Overlooks the True Culprit Behind U.S. Dollar Strength

By Michael Stumo

After a long delay, the Treasury Department just released its latest semi-annual report on global currency exchange policies. The congressionally mandated report provides an assessment of whether foreign countries are undervaluing their currencies to gain a trade advantage. The major takeaway from the report is that Treasury has expanded the list of countries it is monitoring for exchange rate abuses. However, the department repeated its longstanding practice - and once again found no currency “manipulation” by America’s trade competitors. In other words, Treasury believes that foreign central banks are not acting to push the U.S. dollar’s value up to noncompetitive levels. [more...]

Why Trump's Style is Not the Problem

By David Horowitz

Right from the start, President Trump has had to fight off a seditious political party and media, while attempting to secure our borders, stop the fleecing of American taxpayers through unfair trade policies, defend Israel in a way that no previous president Republican or Democrat has been willing to do. I do wish Trump would forgo some of his decisions to get down and dirty with his political opponents who are distorting almost everything he says and does, beginning with his border policies which are neither anti-immigrant nor racist nor anti-Muslim. But amazed as I am that he has been able to withstand these attacks and steer our country in a positive direction, I am loathe to criticize him harshly when he attempts to defend himself. I sympathize wholly with Americans' concerns, I just don’t see an easy way out while the Democrats are pursuing impeachment of the president for obstruction of justice in the case of a crime (collusion) that never took place. [more...]

Are Left-Loving Millennials the Generation that Will Extinguish Our Freedom?

By Lowell Ponte

Millennials do not want to become responsible parents because THEY want to remain pampered children who need never grow up. They favor socialism because it would let them live as infantile, selfish children with government replacing their parents as the suppliers of food, shelter, and clothing so the kids need never work. Millennials apparently like dependency on government. Meanwhile, the younger generation's I.Q. has measurably fallen here and in Europe by 3-6 points, and their sperm count has plunged by 60 percent. Millennials may love the Left because they "are incapable of mature love and have lost the human will to live." [more...]

Woke Disney is Risky Business

By James Hirsen

Entertainment behemoth Walt Disney Company, which as a business startup had a focus on child-oriented product, now has a CEO who has taken an anti-child stance on a significant societal issue. In a Reuters interview that took place prior to the dedication of Disneyland’s newest land, “Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge,” Disney head Bob Iger was asked whether or not the company would continue to use the state of Georgia as a location for the filming of its projects. The reason the question was posed to Iger is because Georgia recently passed a state law that bans abortion procedures after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (approximately six weeks of gestation). Iger was letting the world know which side Disney is on in the culture war that continues to surround abortion. [more...]

Terror Attacks on Saudi Oil Reveal Moralism Folly

By Joseph P. Duggan

Tanker ships and the strategic pipeline of Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, suffered terrorist attacks recently. Aramco has the monopoly on all Saudi Arabian oil production and is wholly owned by the Saudi government, the United States’ most powerful ally in the Middle East. The attacks at sea and in the heart of Saudi Arabia coincide with the upcoming public release of President Trump’s Arab-Israeli peace plan, for which Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates already are signaling support. Iran or its allies are suspected of responsibility for the attacks. As the crisis intensifies, the U.S. Senate’s Dynamic Duo of bellicosity, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), are calling for harsh new economic sanctions. Are they to be imposed against Iran? No, it would seem that the U.S. already has maxed out on sanctions against Iran. [more...]