Police agencies coast to coast report having difficulties hiring and keeping good recruits. That’s the findings in my six month long Full Measure investigation. I asked 30 law enforcement agencies in America’s biggest cities about their recruiting trends. Many say the bad publicity over high profile incidents where suspects die in police custody have driven […]
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Who in U.S. has passed away, and where, from coronavirus?
Obviously, the coronavirus story changes by the moment. But here is a snapshot in time of coronavirus deaths, as reported by CDC and in news reports. The majority of U.S. deaths to date (31 of 40) have occurred among the elderly, sick in Washington State nursing homes or long term care facilities. A majority of […]
WATCH: Prescription drugs and gender-bending chemicals in our drinking water
Scientists have discovered a hard reality when it comes to our everyday drinking water: it’s now loaded with a frightening array of contaminants from pesticides to prescription medicine — that are not filtered out and can pose all kinds of health risks. We spoke to Seth Siegel, author of Troubled Water, about how this could […]
Tomboy says she was convinced to have sex change surgery; now regrets it
A “tomboy” who had sex change surgery as a teenager has a warning for others about rushing into gender changing surgery. After transitioning to male, Keira Bell now says she accepts herself as a female and has stopped taking male hormones. Read the entire BBC story and watch the BBC interview at the link below. […]
6 questions we should be asking about coronavirus
The following is an excerpt from my latest article in The Hill. One death is too many — and with careful management and a lot of luck, the coronavirus sweeping the globe will be curbed, in terms of illness and loss of life. But in the heat of the moment, difficult questions have been raised […]
WATCH: Dysfunction at the FEC
The following is a transcript of my cover story on Full Measure News. Click on the link at the end of the transcript to watch the video report. We begin with the Federal Election Commission or FEC. It’s a federal agency that’s costing you more than $70 million this year. So you might be shocked […]
WATCH (BFTP*): Lt. Gen. Flynn was personally fired by DNI Clapper in 2014
The following updates a Blast From The Past (BFTP). Lt. General Michael Flynn is now seeking to withdraw his guilty plea for “lying” in a case that stemmed from the Trump-Russia probe, but that did not involve Russia. Flynn was Donald Trump’s national security adviser, and was targeted by Obama officials once Trump got elected. […]
WATCH: Bad math, bad journalism–or both?
If nothing else this news clip will make you feel less bad about your substandard math skills. On Thursday evening, March 5, 2020, MSNBC newsman Brian Williams and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay referred to a tweet they read on Twitter. It claimed that former Democrat candidate for president Michael Bloomberg could […]
