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President Joe Bidens son Hunter landed a speaking gig at Tulane University where he will reportedly lecture to a class called Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts onfake news.

The 10-week course in the fall focuses on the current state of the media landscape in the United States and how media polarization, fake news and the economics of the new business impact public policymaking in Washington D.C.

Hunter, 51, is one of 10 guests scheduled to appear. The others include New Yorker columnist Susan Glasser, Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan, CNN correspondent Kylie Atwood, Fox News political analyst and The Five co-host Juan Williams, Margaret Brennan of CBS Face The Nation, andformer White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Deborah Birx.

The Federalists attempts to reach Tulane University to understand how Hunter Biden has expertise in media or public policy went unanswered.

Hunters memoir Beautiful Things was released April 6 and chronicles his struggles with addiction. The New York Post reported in October that the Biden son arranged a meeting between his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and a Ukrainian energy firm executive about a year prior to Joe pressuring the foreign government to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2016. With no energy experience, Hunter raked in as much as $50,000 a month on the Burisma board.

A laptop obtained by The New York Post, which Hunter reportedly dropped at a repair shop in Delaware, showed he also received millions of dollars from Chinese oil magnate Ye Jianming, who has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and a former Russian oligarch.

Hunter should be familiar with fake news, considering it was an unsubstantiated claim about him that Big Tech colluded on him to push after the Post broke the laptop story. Top Democrats, such as Rep. Adam Schiff of California and Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, claimed the Hunter Biden stories were Russian propaganda. John Ratcliffe, the former Director of Intelligence, swiftly shut down this fake news.

Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesnt believe that, because theres no intelligence that supports that, and we have shared no intelligence with Chairman [Adam] Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Bidens laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign its simply not true, Ratcliffe said.

Interestingly, the syllabus lists the occupations of all other scheduled speakers but does not provide a job title for Hunter. Perhaps Crony Capitalism Beneficiary would do.

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MSNBCs Joy Reid is living in a terrifying bubble, and she needs our prayers. Seriously.

On Tuesday, after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its recommendations to offer a green light for fully vaccinated individuals such as Reid to ditch the mask outside when exercising in non-crowded spaces, Reid bragged on-air about wearing the mask anyway.

I am among the fully vaccinated, Reid said, gleaming with excitement as she declared she got the two-shot Pfizer vaccine. The mask, however, or, two masks, she said despite her immunity status, wont be coming off anytime soon.

I did go jogging today, in the park. This is the mask I wore, with a doctors mask under it, Reid said, holding her masks on screen. There are people who are getting really upset about that.

Reid can do whatever she wants of course. Wearing not one mask, but two masks, however, while exercising outside has no basis in science or public health, and only serves as self-harm while she attempts to virtue signal. Worse, it may deter others from the vaccine by sending the message that individuals lives wont change post-vaccination. In fact, wearing a face mask during cardio exercise only inhibits airflow which hinders peak performance and presents risks of its own.

Reid has either dismissed any value in the science behind rigid restrictions to merely embrace opposite measures endorsed by her political opponents, or has become genuinely terrified of the coronavirus to the point of no return. Considering her own environment, echo chamber, and public polling on the issue, its likely the latter, if not a mixture.

After more than 12 months of sensational coronavirus pandemic coverage at her network, it would make sense Reids anxiety has reached the point of self-restriction beyond what even the lockdown-embracing CDC has recommended.

A survey of 35,000 people from Gallup and Franklin Templeton last month showed a vast majority of Americans on all sides of the political spectrum, but especially Democrats, grossly overestimated the personal risks presented by the novel Wuhan coronavirus.

While 51 percent of Republicans believed COVID-infected individuals were more than 20 percent likely to end up in the hospital, when the actual probability currently lies somewhere between 1 and 5 percent, 69 percent of Democrats said the same.

While the survey serves as an indictment of Reid and the rest of the establishment media feeding COVID frenzy fear, it also offers insight into Reids own anxiety. Shes become an obsessive consumer of around-the-clock doomsday news by the nature of her work, but also its producer. That, would leave anybody terrified.

So in her interest, and for the people who listen to her, pray for Reid.

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Seriously, Pray For Joy Reid And Everyone Who Double Masks On A Jog - The Federalist

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will determine at their next meeting in June whether President Joe Biden and other politicians who support abortion should be urged to stop receiving Communion, according to the Associated Press.

Biden is the second Catholic president ever the first being John F. Kennedy, who was not vocal about abortion and nominated pro-life Justice Byron White to the Supreme Court. Supporting abortion is a grave moral evil, said Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, the chair of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Because President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us, Naumann also told the AP.It can create confusion. How can he say hes a devout Catholic and hes doing these things that are contrary to the churchs teaching?

A document is set to be prepared for the upcoming U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The group leading the effort, the Committee on Doctrine, will reportedly clarify where the church stands on the Communion issue. The document would need to be approved by the bishops.

The bishops aim to send a clear message to Biden and change his mind on the abortion issue, but their actions would not prohibit the president from receiving Communion. Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware, and Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., have both said they will allow the president to receive Communion.

In November, USCCB president, Los Angeles Archbishop Jos Gomez, said Bidens support for abortion gives the church a difficult and complex situation. After making this statement, Gomez announced the creation of a group to study it. These policies pose a serious threat to the common good, Gomez said. When politicians who profess the Catholic faith support them it creates confusion among the faithful about what the church actually teaches on these questions.

San Fransisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone told the AP, Theres a growing sense of urgency in communicating to Biden he ought not to receive Communion. Abortion is not just one among many important issues. Its a direct attack on human life, Cordileone continued. [Politicians] need to understand the scandal that is caused when they say they are faithfully Catholic and yet oppose the church on such a basic concept.

Evangelicals for Biden released a statement in March urging the president to honor his commitment to the Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal taxpayer money from funding abortions. Other actions from the White House have dismayed Catholics. Biden lifted federal restrictions on human fetal tissue research funding this month and rolled back a policy put in place by the Trump administration prohibiting groups that refer women to abortions from receiving federal grants.

He doesnt have the authority to teach what it means to be Catholic thats our responsibility as bishops, Naumann expressed. Whether intentional or not, hes trying to usurp our authority.

In order for Naumann and others to get the outcome they seek, a two-thirds majority will be needed.

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In response to the rise of anti-Asian crimes, the U.S. Senate passed anAnti-Asian Hate Crime bill by a 94 to 1 vote. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, the bills lead sponsor, said passing the legislation sent a solid message of solidarity that the Senate will not be a bystander as anti-Asian violence surges in our country.Yet a close examination of the bill raises the uncomfortable question of whether the effort will do anything meaningful to prevent anti-Asian hate crimes, as promised.

Essentially, the bill creates a position at the Justice Department to facilitate the expedited review of hate crimes. The bill also requires the U.S. attorney general to issue guidance to state and local law-enforcement agencies on how to establish online reporting of hate crimes or incidents, collect data, and raise public awareness about hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

To its credit, the bill does address some known issues regarding anti-Asian hate crimes, such as historically poor data collection and the tendency among many Asian Americans not to report crimes to law enforcement due to a desire not to cause trouble with the authorities. Better data collection and reporting will give law enforcement a better understanding of the scale of the problem and provide them insights.

Still, data collection and reporting come after crimes have taken place. As Asian Americans currently face an increase in violent crimes, we need a solution now. Especially for the sake of our elders, we need to not have to worry about being pushed, kicked, robbed, or even murdered when walking out of a bank, strolling down the street, or sleeping at home at night. Unfortunately, the Senate bill does nothing to address the safety concerns Asian Americans have.

One of the bills most significant drawbacks is to define all recent crimes that target Asian Americans as COVID-19 related hate crimes. Although there is some evidence that verbal harassment and physical assaults against Asian Americans have happened due to COVID-19 fears, COVID-19-related hate doesnt explain all violent crimes against Asian Americans since last summer.

For example, COVID-19-related hate doesnt explain the rape and murder of Ee Leein Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the robbery and murderof 75-year old Pak Ho in Oakland, California; and the mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia that took the lives of eight people, including six Asian women. Since last year, the rise of violent crimes against Asian Americans has corresponded to the increase of violent crimes against Americans of all races nationwide.

The FBI crime data for 2020show murders surged 25 percent the most significant single-year increase since 1960. The Major Cities Chiefs Association reportsthat 63 of the 66 largest police jurisdictions saw increases in at least one category of violent crimes in 2020, which include homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. This worrisome trendcontinuesin 2021, as the number of violent crimes in major cities continues to rise, and a few police chiefs expect it would outpace last years numbers for some major cities.

Some leftists reluctantly admitted that Americas high crime rates are mainly due to the lack of policing. Since last summer, activists, leftist media, and leftist politicians have spread anti-police rhetoric and called to defund police. Subsequently, budget cuts and personnel reduction of some police departments have created a hostile environment for law enforcement, leaving many police forces demoralized. As a result, policing engagement fell.

Data shows violent crime rises as police retreat. For example, the New York Police Departmentreportedlymade 38 percent fewer arrests from June to December 2020, while the city saw its homicides increased 58 percent during the same period. Chicago saw a similar trend. As Chicagos police made 53 percent fewer arrests from June 2020 to February 2021, murdersrose 65 percentin the city during the same period.

The city of Milwaukee, where Lee was raped and murdered last year, saw a 98 percent increase in murders as the city laid off 120 police officers in 2020. After Portlands leftist Mayor Ted Wheeler defunded the citys police department by $12 million and slashed three police units, murders increased 255 percent, and shootings jumped 173 percent.

What will make all Americans, including Asian Americans, who live in major U.S. cities feel safe right now is an increase in preventative police engagement. Yet the Senate bill failed to address this obvious point.

Right after the bill passed, in New York City someone struck 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma and repeatedly stomped on his head. Ma is in critical condition and struggling for his life. This despicable incident shows the Senate bill does little to reduce actual violent crimes presently facing Asian Americans and their neighbors.

Another big flaw of the bill lies in the fact that its sponsor and her Democratic Party colleagues refuse to address the discrimination elite universities have perpetrated against Asian students. No other issue has caused Asian American parents and their children more anxiety than the fear of losing equal access to quality education. Such fear and anxiety are caused by critical race theorys divisive rhetoric and actions, which Democrats perpetuate instead of opposing.

Due to the relative overall success of Asian Americans, critical race theory treats Asian Americans as whites by adjacency, even though there is a wide wealth gap amongst Asian Americans. Critical race theory activists have argued that elite high schools and colleges are not diverse enough because Asians are overrepresented. In truth, the Asian American population is an incredibly diverse group of people linked to more than 19 different countries containing several dozens of languages.

Yet critical race theory activists have been pushing for lower admission standards and the removal of difficult entrance exams to top high schools. Instead, they seek to rely on race-based admissions in both elite high schools and colleges, all in the name of achieving an equitable outcome for other minority groups.

Many Asian Americans see such an attempt to limit their childrens access to quality education as an unjust exclusion of their childrens participation in the American Dream. Thats why the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York calledcritical race theory todays Chinese Exclusion Act and the real hate crime against Asians.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sought to address this real hate crime against Asians by proposing an amendment to the anti-Asian hate crime bill. His amendment called to prohibit Federal funding for any institution of higher education that discriminates against Asian Americans in recruitment, applicant review, or admissions. Ultimately, his amendment failed when the Democrat majority in the Senate voted no.

Its such an irony that an anti-Asian hate crime bill fails to address the real hate crime against Asians. In reality, the Democratic Partys selective outrage about crimes against Asian Americans is more about advancing a political agenda rather than addressing the genuine concerns and fears of Asian Americans.

The passing of this Anti-Asian Hate Crime legislation may make senators from both parties feel good about themselves. But for the majority of Asian Americans, this bill amounts to nothing but hot air. We dont feel any safer, and we are still anxious about our childrens future.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Young Americas Foundation spokeswoman Kara Zupkus joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the last year of government-mandated lockdowns and COVID-19 mitigation techniques have affected people in Generation Z.

I think theyre absolutely more addicted to social media now they literally live on social media because they couldnt go outside during quarantine, Zupkus said. Social interaction is definitely going to be something that we need to look for going back this coming fall. Seeing if students are willing to go to these student org events, go out to different events happening on campus.

Academics and critical thinking, Zupkus said, are also at risk due to the amount of time Gen Z spent on electronic devices since the pandemic began.

Its absolutely going to affect critical thinking, specifically, when students are writing papers, if they have to have an opinion on something, theyre like, I dont really know what my opinion is or what the right opinion is. Let me Google what other people have written about this and they have a whole plethora, a whole library of entires papers written on that topic their opinions arent their own opinions.

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Podcast: What Did COVID-19 Do To Generation Z? - The Federalist

A new poll suggests Americans maintain minimal confidence in the leadership capabilities of Vice President Kamala Harris, and view her as unqualified to take over the responsibilities of the president.

The Rasmussen poll released on Monday found 41 percent of respondents view Harris as not at all qualified to be president, and nine percent of respondents said Harris is not very qualified. 1,000 likely voters were polled.

Among Republicans, 74 percent polled said Harris is unqualified to be commander-in-chief. Independents also showed distrust in the vice presidents abilities to potentially step up to the plate, with 48 percent saying Harris is not at all qualified and 12 percent saying Harris is not very qualified. A slimmer number of Democrats said the same with 18 percent saying she is unqualified and 15 percent saying she is not at all qualified.

Harris scored high marks with three demographics: blacks, individuals under 40, and elites making $200,000 or more a year; 62 percent of blacks, 64 percent of those under 40, and 54 percent of the high-earners view Harris as favorable. On the flip-side, 55 percent of those 65 and older held an unfavorable view of Harris, in addition to 42 percent of white voters, and a majority of middle-income voters.

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Interestingly, a Rasmussen poll last August found that 59 percent of voters, as well as 49 percent of Democrats, did not think President Biden would serve a full four years if elected. Biden, 78, is the oldest president to assume office in U.S. history.

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Poll: Half Of American Voters Think Kamala Harris Is Unqualified To Assume The Presidency - The Federalist

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki walked back President Joe Bidens comments last week claiming the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border is a crisis. Psaki said, The president does not feel that children coming to our border seeking refuge from violence, economic hardships, and other dire circumstances is a crisis.

The Biden administration has continually refused to acknowledge that significantly higher numbers of migrants coming to the United States constitutes a threat or surge, but has swiftly characterized numerous other things as crises. For starters, there isan immigration crisis ensuing in America.

More than 172,000 migrants were encountered at the border in March alone, compared to a little more than 34,000 migrants encountered in March 2020. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas noted in March that the United States remains on track to encounter more illegals than in the last 20 years. Recent Customs and Border Patrol Protection data shared with Fox News showed the Del Rio Sector encountering 434 percent more migrants than in fiscal-year 2020, and Rio Grande Valley Sector encountering 313 percent more.

This month, a document obtained by the Washington Examiner showed the Biden administration is spending close to $352 a night to provide beds to an estimated 80,000 migrant families until September. The effort is part of an $87 million contract awarded to Family Endeavors, a San Antonio, Texas organization led by a former senior official on the Biden transition team, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait. Illegals need no documentation to be released into the United States after their three-night stay, which is complete with amenities.

Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting digitally with top Mexican officials and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador next month. The administrations response and messaging pales in comparison to the White Houses centralization of other issues of far less (or no) importance to the American people.

Psaki walked back Bidens prior claim about the border being a crisis by suggesting the president had been referring to Central America.

He does feel that the crisis in Central America, the dire circumstances that many are fleeing from, that that is a situation that we need to spend our time, our effort on and we need to address it if were going to prevent more of an influx of migrants from coming in years to come, she said.

In other words, Biden will not acknowledge that his policies (such as the elimination of Remain in Mexico) are directly contributing to the problems transpiring in Central America where drug cartels smuggle minors to the border and often rape them along the way. The White House is viewing the effect, while refusing to acknowledge the causation.

Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on day one of his presidency. The Heritage Foundation found U.S. participation in that agreement will cost the average American family of four $20,000 and the GDP $2.5 trillion by 2035. The coalition calls for eliminating pivotal natural resources, like natural gas and coal, that power 80 percent of the globe.

From the beginning, Biden used the term crisis about climate. His executive order signed in January was titled Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad and claimed the Climate Crises must be at the center of United States foreign policy and national security.

Regardless of the claim peddled by the supposed experts in a 2019 United Nations report, climate change is not a crisis, nor will lead to mass extinction of humans. As publisher of ClimateDepot.com Marc Morano notes in his new book Green Fraud, [g]lobal temperatures have been holding nearly steady for almost two decades, according to satellites from the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. In addition, studies have found the Medieval Warm Period and the Roman Warming Period were as warm or warmer than current temperatures.

Morano highlights the clear facts in his book, which are that data is far more than scanty on this supposed climate crisis, but worse that the Left has manufactured a crisis due to its interests in depopulation, globalism, and sticking to alarmism favoring security like in the implementation of COVID-19 lockdowns. The environment is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind in terms of crises. The border does, though.

Psaki told Yahoo News journalist Julia Munslow last week, Theres no question its a public health emergency, when referring to the supposed need for gun control policies.

Its a public health crisis You know, I think the reason that the president feels its so important to move forward with gun reform measures, with gun safety measures is because of the trauma that hes seeing, she said. Theres no reason anyone needs to have an assault weapon. Theres no reason that there shouldnt be universal background checks to ensure guns dont get in the hands of people who should not have those guns.

Once more, a Democrat administration ignores truth in light of anti-constitutionalist agendas. Many might remember a significant Department of Justice report in 2019 found 90 percent of firearms used in crime are obtained through illegal means. But this only further backed up the reality that people legally bearing arms is no crisis to a functioning republic. But a government seeking to illegitimately violate this right might constitute a crisis.

The White House is correct about the law and order issue. If Biden truly cared about public safety, though, he would condemn Black Lives Matter and Antifa who rioted, looted, murdered, and inflicted chaos on American cities for an entire year.

In April, the White House claimed there is a black maternal health crisis due to systemic racism.

The Biden-Harris Administration continues that commitment to reducing unacceptably high maternal mortality and morbidity rates and to tackling health disparities that are rooted in systemic racism, a press release said. Thats why today, the President issued the first-ever presidential proclamation calling on all Americans to recognize the importance of addressing the crisis of Black maternal mortality and morbidity in this country.

Indeed, there is a significant health crisis in the black community but it has nothing to do with systemic racism. 117,626 black children were killed due to abortion in one year, as the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. This comprised 33.6 percent of all abortions. The left remains mum on this crisis.

The irony is, we have four crises, Biden said in December prior to being sworn in, the third crisis is the inequity that exists, in the racial inequity that exists.

After the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, the president re-upped the systemic racism language. It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism the Vice President just referred to the systemic racism that is a stain on our nations soul, said Biden, the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans; the profound fear and trauma, the pain, the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single day.

Biden continues to peddle the notion that America is inherently racist and must be cured of its whiteness inadequately pointing to one government institution actively discriminating against black Americans while ignoring the greatest crisis facing our time. Its happening at the border.

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White House Declares Everything A 'Crisis' Except The One At The Border - The Federalist

Trumps shadow looms over Bidens presidency and a divided nation. So ran the headline of the latest piece of propaganda scribed by the Democrat mouthpiece publishing under the banner of the Washington Post. Line after line following that in last Thursdays purported analysis cements the sad reality that journalism dies in broad daylight.

In advance of this weeks State of the Union address, Washington Post staffers peppered the public with reasons for Joe Biden to blame former President Trump for the countrys divisionand Bidens inability to keep his promises.

Joe Biden won the White House by appealing for calm and unity. But he has inherited a fractured and volatile nation, the article began. Yes, Biden pushed unity as a campaign theme, but that appeal didnt win Biden the White House. It was a corrupt media. It is also the left and its complicit media that sow the division that is destroying our country.

The corrupt media sold the American public a fictional figurea healer, a moderate, a temperate manwhile burying Bidens bullying behavior and extreme positions. CNN got Trump out by pushing propaganda designed to hurt the 45th president.

In addition, a collusion of purpose drove the major news and social media outlets to banish The New York Posts blockbuster reporting on Joe Bidens pay-to-play scandal revealed by the trove of emails recovered from Hunter Bidens abandoned MacBook. The latter election-interference alone likely cost Trump a second term, with 4.6% of Biden voters [saying] they would not have selected him had they been aware of his sons China money affair.

Bidens unity theme is bunk. Soon after reading his inaugural address repeating that theme, as I noted previously, The president began to divide the nation with the flick of his pen, signing a flurry of executive orders that pitted Americans against each other. Bidens reversal of the Mexico City policy was a painful attack on pro-life Americans, forcing them to fund international abortion providers with their tax dollars. Halting the Keystone XL Pipeline promises to decimate many of this countrys blue-collar oil workers. And by discontinuing the border wall and instituting a 100-day freeze on deportations, Biden has pitted border states against the federal government, as southern states fight to safeguard American citizens and their fiscal health.

Yet the Washington Post, like most Trump critics, blames the former president for the countrys current divisions, and views Biden as the innocent who inherited the tinderbox. However, the divide between left and right long predated Trump. All Trump did was punch back. He did it as a street-fighter, never trained to aim above the belt like a lifetime politicians.

Democrats and their professional propogandists dont want a clean fight, either. They dont want debate and compromiseor better yet federalismto bridge the divide. They want unity by capitulation.

The Washington Posts analysis on the issues that divide so clearly proves this point. As Biden tries to keep his own promises, these are the volatile issues that confront him and continue to divide America, the article reads, suggesting if only Biden were able to fulfill his campaign pledges, America would be united.

Issue one dividing the country, according to the Post, is immigration. And why the schism? Its not because immigration has always been an intractable issue, with half (or more) of Americans supporting border security and limited legal immigration in a time of tight labor markets. No, its Trumps fault because he vilified immigrants like no president in modern times and his policies reduced the number of immigrant visas issued overseas and caused the annual growth of the immigrant population to plunge.

Ignored fully in last weeks P.R. release on behalf of Team Biden were the current presidents policies that caused a crisis on the southern border. Instead, the Post again presented the challenge as one Biden inherited, noting asylum seekers are still being turned away at ports of entry.

While acknowledging that a record number of unaccompanied teens and children are being held in detention centers, often for longer than legally allowed, Bidens complicity in that crisis merits no mention in the article. Rather, the Post again quickly pivots to Trump, writing in the next sentence that House GOP leader Keven McCarthy (Calif.) returned to Trumps messaging, spreading unfounded claims that terrorists were trying to enter the United States through Mexico.

Here we see the corrupt medias role as both a propaganda machine and as a divider. Under Trump, it was kids in cages, but now its detention centers. Yet it is the Post and not McCarthy spreading unfounded claims: U.S. Border Patrol confirmed just weeks ago that two Yemeni men who were both named on the FBIs terror watchlist and no-fly list illegally crossed the southern U.S. border before being arrested.

While the left remains blinded to the medias role in dividing America, the populace sees the propaganda aimed at denigrating those with wrong-think and resents the co-conspiratorial role leftist politicians and the press have forged.

No better example may exist than the transitional sentence the Posts staffer penned to take readers to the next volatile issue dividing America. Biden has promised to be a president for All Americans, the text ran before highlighting Bidens pledge[] to confront white supremacy and advance racial justice.

He was quick to condemn hate crimes against Asian Americans, the puffery continued, while ignoring that the Biden administration dropped the federal lawsuit filed against Yale University based on its admissions policies that discriminate against Asian Americans. Then came the attacks on Trump, with a link to a supposed in-depth look at how Trump policies and rhetoric exacerbated racial tensions.

Sadly, our country is experiencing a strain in race relations, but it is Biden, the left, and their complicit media torquing those tensions. Here are just a few examples: Biden regularlyrepeat[ed]the lie that then-President Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists very fine people, and the press perpetuated that lie. BidensmearedRepublican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas as Nazis. The president outrageously condemned Georgias voter-integrity law as a return Jim Crow, and encouraged Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game as punishment.

The Biden administration, backed by much of corporate media, continued this path of divisiveness with its reaction to the shooting death of MaKhia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. While video footage established the police officers quick reaction and sure shot saved another black girl from being stabbed by a charging Bryant, the press instead ran with the inciting and incomplete narrative that police had killed a black teen.

When asked about the incident, Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki took this tack as well, implying race was a factor in the shooting and that the officer acted unjustifiably: She was a child. Were thinking of her friends and family in the communities that are hurting and grieving her loss. We know that police violence disproportionately impacts black and Latino people in communities and that black women and girls, like black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence.

As the press secretary for the countrys top Democrat, Psakis comments also represented a shocking chutzpah, as last year Senate Democrats killed Sen. Tim Scotts police reform bill.

Today we lost, I lost, the vote on a piece of legislation that wouldve led to systemic change in the relationship between communities of color and the law enforcement community, Scott said when his bill died. We wouldve broken this concept in this nation that somehow, some way you have to either be for law enforcement or for communities of color. That is a binary choice. Its just not true, Scott said.

The corporate press virtually ignored the demise of Scotts legislative proposal, and for good-in-their-eyes reasons: Scott is a Republican and African-American. As if to prove their motive, the Washington Posts Glenn Kessler last week ran a hit piece on Scott under the auspices of fact-checking his heritage as the grandson of a grammar-school drop-out and cotton-picker.

Yet the same Washington Post that ran Kesslers embarrassing self-own touted Bidens warning, We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufacturer, as the answer to our countrys division. The great American divide can also be mended, the Post suggests, if Biden can move quickly to fill vacancies on federal courts. Rejoining the Paris climate agreement and reversing the rest of Trumps environmental impact, the Post claimed, will also heal the nation.

In other words, if everything Trump did can be undone, our country will be all kumbaya. Unity by capitulation, however, is not unity; it is totalitarianism. Democrats seek it and the corrupt media sells itand they do so in the open air.

But sunshine is a disinfectant that still holds the chance of destroying the symbiotic relationship between the press and leftist politicians, designed to put and keep the country in the lefts tight control. Perhaps democracy will die after all, but if so, lets make it do so in the light.

Margot Cleveland is a senior contributor to The Federalist. Cleveland served nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk to a federal appellate judge and is a former full-time faculty member and adjunct instructor at the college of business at the University of Notre Dame.The views expressed here are those of Cleveland in her private capacity.

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Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech railed against corporate wokeism that was allowed to foster for years as Republicans protected big business, confusing Wall Street interests with their own.

While they may share conservative impulses toward deregulation and low taxes, these big businesses also seek to employ the government to prevent competition and protect vested interests, Domenech said Thursday while hosting Fox News Primetime. Now these same institutions are weighing into the culture wars in an unprecedented degree.

Domenech continued, highlighting how the unchecked power of the nations private enterprises has compromised its free enterprise system and, in turn, has fed an American crisis of lockdowns and online restrictions on speech.

American companies are not interested in harmonious living. They are loudly taking sides against one political affiliation and in favor of another, Domenech said. Its no accident that we see the corporate donations to Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy disappear at the same point the small-dollar donations from individuals explode. Its because theyre listening to the people, not the corporations.

The growth of the contemporary corporate complex circumventing Republican governance to implement their own dystopia, Domenech said, exposed a fatal flaw in libertarian assumptions about corporate motives, my own included.

We assumed greed would be their primary motivation, and that was a good thing, Domenech said. Their new attitude is basically, Republicans buy sneakers too, but should they?

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Federalist Publisher and Fox News Contributor Ben Domenech sat down with Martin Kulldorff, PhD and Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD to discuss the erosion of institutional trust bred by the coronavirus lockdowns experimentally implemented.

We have made all these decisions in panic mode, almost for a full year, said Bhattacharya, emphasizing hes more interested in accountability for the systems that led to widespread draconian lockdowns than the individuals who endorsed them. Rather than sort of calmly following plans that weve, that have made sense, which wasnt a lockdown, weve instead decided that only the lockdown could only be the solution, without counting the costs at all.

Costs of the lockdowns meanwhile, Bhattacharya said, far exceed those of the virus itself beyond dollars and cents, where cancer screenings went missed, heart attacks untreated, and diabetes not managed as COVID-19 continued to spread despite the extreme restrictions. Institutions, however, from government, to media, to tech giants have eroded their credibility through aggressive conformity with monolithic groupthink to promote the lockdowns.

Open debate, on the other hand, is vital to restore trust in public health officials from a weary population now subject to the only information tech conglomerates profiting on the lockdowns determine is admissible.

They have really failed us, Kulldorf said of the Silicon Valley tech giants monopolizing the digital public square with a complicit corporate media. There are a lot of people, regular scientists or public health people, Kulldorf continued, who dont dare to say what they want because they are afraid they will close down their Twitter account, or their Facebook account, or so on.

That silencing, Kulldorf said, has created this erroneous belief that the scientists are all pro-lockdown.

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