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Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble

April 13, 2024 media, Trouble, RightWing0 comment

As you may have heard, mainstream news organizations are facing a financial crisis. Many liberal publications have taken an even more severe beating. But the most dramatic declines over the past few years belong to conservative and right-wing sites. The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry; it’s utterly collapsing. This past February, readership of the 10 largest conservative websites was down 40 percent compared with the same month in 2020, according to The Righting, a newsletter…

As Fentanyl Streams Over Wide-Open Border, Students Lead Effort to Combat Campus Overdoses

April 13, 2024 Overdoses, Over, Combat, lead, Students, border, effort, Campus, fentanyl, Streams, WideOpen0 comment

Ten years ago, I had never heard the word “fentanyl.” Now, every sorority and fraternity on my college campus is equipped with Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, a lifesaving medication used to treat opioid overdoses. The fentanyl crisis is acutely felt on college campuses. Oftentimes, college students will take a pill that they thought was Xanax or Ritalin and end up dead. According to federal data, the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45 is fentanyl overdose. In the last three years alone, examples…

ROUNDUP: Kennedy Presidential Campaign in Shambles

April 13, 2024 Campaign, Presidential, Kennedy, Roundup, Shambles0 comment

Unstrategic Third-Party Bid Can’t Win, Will Only Hurt Biden WASHINGTON, D.C. – In only the last few days, the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign has faced a slew of challenges underscoring their deeply unstrategic and reckless third-party spoiler bid. From campaign officials admitting their primary goal is to reelect Trump to Kennedy’s vice presidential pick Nicole Shanahan failing to attend any public events, it’s clear that this disastrous campaign has no chance to win and could only serve as a spoiler. Here is a roundup of the latest chaos facing…

Steak, cherry blossoms and Paul Simon will be featured at the White House state dinner for Japan

April 9, 2024 Simon, Dinner, steak, cherry, blossoms, state, Paul, House, White, Featured, Japan0 comment

Dry-aged rib eye steak, cherry blossoms and the music of Paul Simon are on tap for more than 200 guests who are expected to attend a swanky White House state dinner on Wednesday to celebrate the relationship between the United States and Japan. The Washington Times stories: White House

Passing 2025 defense spending bill will be ‘particularly difficult’

April 9, 2024 passing, 2025, Particularly, Defense, spending, Bill, 'difficult0 comment

While passing the 2024 defense budget was arduous as lawmakers struggled to agree on government funding plans for nearly six months into the fiscal year, negotiating the 2025 defense spending is shaping up to be “particularly difficult.” The Pentagon proposed a fiscal 2025 budget of $ 849.8 billion, about 1% higher than this year’s budget request. The top line figure aligns with the Fiscal Responsibility Act passed last year, which sets limits on defense and non-defense discretionary spending. Defense officials said the 1% increase would not be enough to cover…

Trump’s Shoot-the-Moon Legal Strategy

April 9, 2024 Strategy, legal, trumps, ShoottheMoon0 comment

Updated at 4:12 p.m. ET on April 9, 2024 With less than a week to go before the start of his trial in New York on falsifying records, former President Donald Trump has sued Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the case. The suit is sealed, but it is reportedly related to a gag order Merchan recently placed on Trump. The suit seems highly unlikely to succeed, and it’s only the latest in a series of Trump broadsides against the judge. He accused Merchan of bias because the judge’s daughter…