The anti-malaria medicine hydroxycholorquine is being studied as a possible treatment for and prevention of coronavirus. How did this medicine that was held out as having so much promise for Covid-19, based on early studies and treating physicians' experience, become so controversial? What started the media drumbeat to say the medicine is dangerous... even quackery? […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses "stay at home" orders
The following is an excerpt from a report in Independent. Order is ‘unlawful, invalid and unenforceable’ Wisconsin's Supreme Court has struck down Governor Tony Evers’s stay-at-home order, the first statewide measure in the US to be dismissed by the courts, throwing out his quarantine effort amid a coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 10,000 people […]
Justice Dept. personnel changes during Campaign 2016, Russia probe, Clinton probe
See who was moving in or being moved out of the Justice Department and FBI during Campaign 2016, the Russia probe and the Clinton probe.
Feds seize phone of Sen. Burr in stock sales probe (Reports)
The FBI has reportedly confiscated the cell phone of Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in an investigation into his stock sales. Burr reported sold stock on Feb. 13 just ahead of the coronavirus fall. He and the Intelligence Committee had been given daily briefings on the approaching pandemic. Several members […]
POLL: Most respondents plan to vote for President Trump
Trump supporters showed up strong in the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of respondents say they plan to vote for President Trump. Only 1% said they plan to vote for Joe Biden. A significant minority, 8%, said they plan to vote for neither Biden nor Trump. For President, I plan to vote […]
READ: The list of names who requested to "unmask" Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
The identities of innocent U.S. citizens who are incidentally picked up in wiretaps or surveillance of foreigners, suspected terrorists, or spies are supposed to be strictly hidden, even within the intelligence agencies, to protect the constitutional rights of the citizens. “Unmasking” of these names is supposed to be extremely rare and carefully controlled with authority […]
Mismanagement blamed for fatal attack on ICE agents in Mexico in 2011
The following is from Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the story. New findings of government mismanagement nine years after Mexican cartel thugs ambushed two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The federal Office of Special Counsel says ICE management sent the agents on a mission, […]
Facebook's evidence-free "fact checking"
The following is an excerpt from an article by Kalev Leetaru in RealClearPolitics. As social media platforms rely ever more heavily on outside parties to arbitrate what is “true,” one prominent journalist’s recent experience with Facebook’s COVID-19 fact-checking efforts reminds us just how questionable -- and unaccountable -- the fact-checking landscape can be. Last month, […]
