FBI Agent Richard TraskThe arrest of an FBI agent would always be newsworthy. Richard Trask of Kalamazoo has gone from making cases to being a case for prosecution. He faces up to ten years for allegedly assaulting his wife with intent to do great bodily harm....
Jonathan Turley
The Shadow State: Embracing Corporations As Surrogates For Government Action
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column on the expanding role of corporations as surrogates for the federal government. The White House is openly calling for greater corporate action to address censorship, health care, and other issues. That call is being supported by a growing list of...
Fear Free Speech: Biden Denounces Big Tech as ‘Killing People’ By Not Censoring Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden slammed Big Tech companies this week for “killing people” by failing to engage in even greater censorship of free speech on issues related to the pandemic. It was a surprising condemnation of companies who have been loyal allies of Biden, including...
New Emails Raise New Allegations of Influence Peddling By Hunter Biden And Direct Knowledge Of President Biden
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed the concerted and often embarrassing blackout in the media on stories involving Hunter Biden’s influence peddling during his father’s tenure as Vice President. That includes the burying of the laptop story and the growing contradictions...
Report: United States Ranks Last In Media Trust
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
For years, we have been discussing the decline of journalism values with the rise of open bias in the media. Now, a newly released report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford has found something that would have been unthinkable just a few...
No, The Second Amendment Was Not Primarily About Suppressing African Americans
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
The media has given highly favorable coverage to a new book by Dr. Carol Anderson, chair of Emory University’s Black Studies Department, that argues that “[the Second Amendment] was designed and has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and...
Debunking The Photo Op Myth: Inspector General Investigation Refutes Media Account On The Clearing Of Lafayette Park
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
For over a year, there has been one fact that has been repeated in literally thousands of news stories: former Attorney General Bill Barr ordered the clearing of Lafayette Park on June 1, 2020 to allow former President Donald Trump to hold his controversial photo op...
‘Unloading A Revolver Into The Head Of Any White Person’: Yale Features Violent, Racist Diatribe By Psychiatrist
by Jonathan Turley | Jun 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
We previously discussed the ongoing controversies over former Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee, who made highly unprofessional and sensational remarks throughout the Trump presidency. The school eventually got rid of Lee but seems to have found another even more...
Hunter Biden Is Back In The News. . . So The Media Goes Again For The Scoop
by Jonathan Turley | May 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
It seems like whenever Hunter Biden is in the news, the Biden staff screams, the media screams, “we all scream for ice cream.” On October 19, 2020, the Biden campaign and its protective cocoon of media faced the discovery of Hunter’s presumed laptop with details of...
Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law
by Jonathan Turley | May 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Journalist Abby MartinWe have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a...
Ohio’s Vaccine Lottery: How DeWine Converted Federal Funds Into A State Giveaway
by Jonathan Turley | May 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in USA Today on the announcement that Ohio will be using federal relief funds for a lottery giveaway to lure people to take the vaccine. In the meantime, New York City announced it would give out an array of free items, including a seven-day free...
Portland Mayor Condemns Anarchists But Stops Short Of Condemning Antifa
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
Last year, I testified in the Senate on Antifa and the growing anti-free speech movement in the United States. I specifically disagreed with the statement of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler that Antifa (and its involvement in violent protests) is a...
Norfolk Police Officer Fired For Making Anonymous Donation To Kyle Rittenhouse
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sgt. William Kelly, the second highest-ranking official in the Norfolk Police Department’s internal affairs division, has been fired for making an anonymous donation to the defense fund for Kyle Rittenhouse. The donation (revealed after a security breach of the...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Finds Wisconsin Governor Acted Unlawfully On Mask Mandate
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Wisconsin Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Tony Evers from issuing any new public health emergency orders to mandate face masks. In a 4-3 decision that broke along ideological lines, the conservative majority found that Evers lacked authority for his order....
Behold Your Afghan Air Fleet: How U.S. Paid $549 Million For Defective Cargo Planes and Then Sold Them For $40,257 Of Scrap Metal
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
If you want to know why waste and conflicts of interests are so prevalent in the United States, you need to look no further than the recent report of he Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) on the so-called G222 program. I wrote about this...
Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Professor Quits Covid Research Due To Harassment
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have been discussing erosion of free speech and academic freedom protections at colleges and universities around the United States. Most faculty have been conspicuously silent as their colleagues are attacked, suspended, or even fired for taking opposing views on...
New Comey Email Raises Additional Questions About His Use and Defense of The Steele Dossier
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a new and intriguing document related to the Russian investigation out this week. Justthenews has released a previously undisclosed email from former FBI Director James Comey that raises additional questions about his role in using the now discredited Steele...
A Return To Rage: Schumer and Pelosi Attack Members Who Voted To Acquit As Political Cowards and Shills
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
There was a palpable sense of relief in Washington as the Trump trial came to a chaotic but final end. The verdict is in so now the vilification can begin. Both Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately weaponized the verdict and demonized...
Did The Democrats ‘Tank’ The Second Trump Trial?
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in USA Today on the lack of a strategy by the House to secure conviction in the trial of former President Donald Trump. As I have previously noted, the House managers did an excellent job in their presentations and many of the videotapes rekindled...
Reckless Rhetoric Is A Reckless Standard For An Impeachment Trial
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill on how the second Trump impeachment could become a trial over reckless rhetoric in America. The House managers may be playing into that very danger by selecting some managers who have been criticized in the past for their own over-heated...
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