Craig Bannister
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Craig Bannister | March 18, 2024
The FBI had the Wall Street Journal write a puff piece on then-FBI Director Christopher Wray in order to do damage control after the unprecedented and controversial raid on former Pres. Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, newly-obtained documents reveal. It took a lawsuit by Bloomberg and its Senior Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold, but the FBI has now responded to the Freedom of…
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Craig Bannister | March 15, 2024
"I think the result is utterly dishonest," Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said Friday after Fulton County Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled that, even though she committed several offenses, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can proceed with her election interference prosecution of Donald Trump. "We all know there was an actual conflict of interest here," Dershowitz…
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Craig Bannister | March 15, 2024
Public officials who censor critics on social media can – under some conditions – be held liable for violating their critics’ First Amendment rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday. The ruling settled one question, but raised others, because it requires courts, in future cases, to make subjective, nuanced, interpretive decisions about the nature of the specific post by the public official…
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Craig Bannister | March 14, 2024
Financial officials from 16 states are calling on State Street Global Advisors, one of the largest asset management firms, to stop deceptively pushing on shareholders only proposals that advance the ideological Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda, at the expense of their clients’ best financial interests. In a letter to State Street CEO Ronald O’Hanley, sent Thursday and obtained…
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Craig Bannister | March 14, 2024
“Texas has transported over 105,000 migrants to sanctuary cities,” Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced Tuesday, promising that “Until [President] Biden does his job to secure the border, Texas will continue to hold the line.” The illegal aliens, or “newcomers,” as Biden now calls them, were transported under Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a program designed to secure Texas’ border from…
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Craig Bannister | March 13, 2024
Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving. Gas prices: While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February…
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Craig Bannister | March 13, 2024
In coverage of Thursday’s Republican response to Pres. Biden’s State of the Union Address by Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), CNN mischaracterized Sen. Britt’s comments about Biden’s border policies in order to claim Britt “got many of her facts wrong.” At issue are the following comments by Sen. Britt in her rebuttal: “We know that President Biden did not just create this border crisis. He invited…
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Craig Bannister | March 12, 2024
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent in February – the largest monthly rise since September 2023 – on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.3 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Tuesday. The 12-month increase in prices also intensified in February. Compared to the same month in 2023, the all-items index rose 3.2…
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Craig Bannister | March 11, 2024
Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s helping those who do things “by the book,” by cracking down on those who do them illegally – at least when it comes to undocumented cannabis retailers. If only she felt the same way about illegal immigration as she does about undocumented pot shops. On Tuesday, Gov. Hochul posted a comment on social media that seems highly ironic, given her state’s…
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Craig Bannister | March 8, 2024
After the Republican National Committee (RNC) elected a new chair on Friday, it went on to elect a co-chair with a familiar last name: Trump. Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the Republican Party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee, Donald Trump, was elected RNC co-chair during the committee’s Spring meeting in Houston, Texas, following the election of RNC General Counsel Michael Whatley…