FEDS SPENT $273 MILLION RESEARCHING ‘MISINFORMATION:’ Another way of describing what Open the Books found in their analysis of federal grants in which the word “misinformation” appears at least once would be “laying censorship groundwork.” It’s my latest PJMedia column.

HE ‘KILLED’ ZACHARIAH, THEN MET HIM 25 YEARS LATER: It’s usually not a good idea to give away the ending of something you are encouraging folks to watch, but this HillFaith post today is simply amazing.

MEET THE FORGOTTEN AUTHOR OF ‘WOKE:’ Richard Pollock is absolutely essential reading whenever he digs into the history of the New and Far-Left movements in this country since the 1960s. He knows this history because he was an insider participant in it for many years before recognizing the Right reality.

In his latest Substack column, Pollock reminds us of the crucial role of the Marxist Professor Herbert Marcuse in developing the theoretical background for what developed into the oppressive contemporary Wokeness.

“One of Marcuse’s most virulent and dangerous legacies was his ardent advocacy for censorship in America, which I describe in detail below. His dark sentiments regrettably influenced a whole generation of progressives who today largely lead our mainstream media, our movie studios, publishing houses, ad agencies and our educational institutions. We now can see Marcuse’s ugly theories and handiwork in real time in America,” Pollock explains in his latest Substack.

This Pollock contribution is longer than usual but then he has so much knowledge and insight to share on these topics because, as he informs us, he knows “a bit about Marcuse because I was a New Left activist and was exposed to Marxist ideas as the roommate with the late Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago 8 defendants.

“I became friends with such radicals as Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman. In the 1970’s, I also participated in a number Marxist-Leninist study groups in Washington, D.C. In fact, I once was in a Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse Tung study group. Yes, they existed!”

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WHO ‘ADJUSTED’ FBI MURDER DATA? Just Facts says the gap between the number of murders reported by the FBI annually and the total indicated by death certificates has been widening since 2003.

The reason is a change in how the FBI calculates the data, but that change has never been communicated or explained to the public. And the gaps between the FBI’s claimed annual total for homicides and the total from death certificates is huge. As Gomer Pyle would say, surprise! surprise! surprise!

THOSE ROBOT REPAIRMEN IN YOU: Bet you didn’t know every cell in your body (and boy, there is a bunch of them!)  is crowded with microscopic robots that fix things, move things, adjust things, etc. etc. And we think we are a big deal when we create a robot that delivers our pizza! Just a little perspective to start your week.

DEI, NOT PHARMA RFK JR’S BIGGEST HHS OBSTACLE: Yes, PHARMA and the public health establishment built by Fauci/NIH are already aiming fusillades at JFK Jr, but, once he’s confirmed and in the Secretary’s office at HHS, the still-growing DEI monster will be waiting for him. Check out my latest PJMedia column.

LITTLE VOTING DIFFERENCE AMONG GOP LEADER RIVALS: Only five points separate senators John Thune, John Cornyn and Rick Scott, according to CPAC ratings. So no matter which man is elected the new Senate Majority Leader today, he will have a solidly conservative voting record.

WILL VANCE JUST BE PRESIDING OFFICER? Or could there be some creative thinking going on behind the Trump transition scenes, sparked by Sen. Mike Lee’s pointing out that the Presiding Officer can also be the de facto Senate Majority Leader?

RICK SCOTT’S SURGE, VANCE’S WILD CARD: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is surging in his campaign to succeed Mitch McConnell as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference (and thus the Senate Majority Leader in the 119th Congress that opens January 3, 2025).

And there is a whiff of panic among backers of Scott’s rivals, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), as evidenced by a Politico story this morning that quotes unnamed Senate aides claiming a transparently questionable “vote count” as evidence that the Florida Republican has overplayed his hand.

2024 ELECTION BOTTOM-LINE: Yes, Donald Trump won, but you know who remains and who always will be in charge. It’s just a 30-second shortie, but it’s a VIP reminder in the midst of the celebratory relief.

SPEAKING OF HARRIS AND TRUMP: Richard Pollock has a bunch of evidence that Arab-American voters will indeed decide who carries Michigan and there’s a good chance it won’t be her. This is the kind of deep-dive, smart reporting that is seen too little in today’s MSM.

WEAPONIZATION OF FBI PROOF: That interim staff report issued October 30 by the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government got zero coverage. Maybe that’s understandable in view of the elections, maybe not.

What’s inarguable is the report establishes beyond all doubt that the FBI spent a year or more pre-bunking media coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop and the abundant evidence it provides of impeachable offenses by Joe Biden.

Thus my latest PJ Media column: Put the Weaponization Report beside the Church Committee report from 1976 and you have a mountain of evidence demonstrating that as far back as FDR the Intelligence Community and Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI) cannot be trusted to respect Americans’ constitutional rights.

But, as important as who the President is come January 20, 2025, what is vastly more significant is who Americans elect to represent them in Congress because only Congress has the ultimate constitutional weapons to identify the offenders, recommend their prosecution to DOJ and then withhold funding to whatever degree is necessary to force both those prosecutions and the fundamental reforms required to prevent recurrence of the abuses of the past 75 years.

WHY JEWS MUST VOTE FOR TRUMP: The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz leaves no doubt about how he thinks his fellow Jewish American voters should vote in the presidential contest.

NEW CHIEF AT OPEN THE BOOKS: John Hart is the new Chief Executive Officer at Open the Books, succeeding founder Adam Andrzejewski, who passed away unexpectedly in August. If you missed it, check out my tribute to Adam here.

My Epoch Times profile of John this morning points to a veteran “Transparency Revolutionary” who helped give birth to the biggest database of government spending at all levels ever assembled. And now he has a vision and opportunity for marrying transparency and technology in new ways to limit government.

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MOST VIP ELECTION EVER? Well, yes and no.

DOES BEZOS HAVE THE SAME COURAGE AS MUSK? The uproar in the Washington Post newsroom over owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to forego presidential endorsements in 2024 and thereafter shows he understands the indisputable reality that the vast majority of his journalist employees just don’t get.

But, as I explain in my latest PJ Media column, it’s one thing to give such folks an uncompromising introduction to the harsh reality facing the Mainstream Media, but the far more difficult step is doing what must be done to effect needed change. Musk did it, but will Bezos? How he responds likely will tell the story of the future of the Post, reconstruction and revival, or, in the Amazon man’s own words, “stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance.”

LEFT PLANNING ELECTION NIGHT/INAUGURAL VIOLENCE: Demonstration permits examined by former New Left radical trainer Richard Pollock show multiple far-Left and Pro-Palestinian groups moving ahead with plans to take to the streets of the nation’s capital to protest a Trump election victory and inaugural.

“The applicants claim about 15,000 protesters could descend on Washington, D.C. on election night and up to 200,000 anti-Trump protests could arrive leading up to and including Inauguration Day, when the next President is sworn in,” Pollock reports.

One of the organizers, a veteran of the 2017 inaugural disruptions, told a Leftist outlet that for the 2024 events “we want to undermine Trump’s presidency from the get-go. There has been a lot of talk of peaceful transition of power as being a core element in a democracy and we want to reject that entirely and really undermine the peaceful transition.”

What’s the maxim? Believe them when they tell you who they are and what they are planning.

THE FACTS ON ILLEGALS VOTING: James Agresti of Just Facts Daily lays out how elite media and others have been distorting a May 2024 analysis that found between 2-5 million illegal immigrants are registered to vote in the U.S. and that as many as 2.7 million are likely to cast ballots.

THIS MAN’S STORY IS REMARKABLE: There are lots of people who live amazing lives, and then there is Steventen Holland, who for decades wondered why his mother didn’t want him.

BIDEN-HARRIS RESURRECT COINTELPRO: Next time you hear a Harris supporter claim she will protect Americans’ civil liberties, while Donald Trump will be a fascist dictator, ask them why she and Joe Biden resurrected an infamous domestic spying program that Richard Nixon loved.

Richard Pollock, who has direct knowledge of the revived initiative — COINTELPRO — having been a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that held the program to be unconstitutional. Citing a receent Newsweek expose, Pollock observes in his latest Substack column:

“As Newsweek explained, ‘for the first time extremist groups worthy of surveillance and even infiltration could be so labeled because of their politics.’ The FBI’s main target: Trump MAGA activists.

“A review by its investigative reporters of previously unpublished FBI documents shows, ‘nearly two-thirds of the FBI’s current investigations are focused on Trump supporters and others suspected of violating what the FBI calls anti-riot” laws.’

“Although I’m not a MAGA activist, I personally abhor any government spying program against its citizens. In fact, I was a plaintiff in a 1970’s leftwing legal lawsuit against the COINTELPRO program. The United States Supreme Court ruled in the case, called Hobson vs. Wilson, that the federal government’s political surveillance program was unconstitutional.”

OBAMA/HARRIS OFFICIAL CUTS VIDEOS PRAISING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Wilson Osorio is a senior-level political appointee of the Biden-Harris administration at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He’s also a prolific TikTok voice praising and encouraging illegal immigration, according to Tom Jones and the American Accountability Foundation (AAF).

A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT HALLOWEEN: What would you say if somebody  asked why America has a wildly popular holiday devoted to blood, gore, ghosts and goblins? I mean, isn’t it horrifying enough to consider the looming prospect of four years of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the White House?

SOCIAL SECURITY CAN BE SAVED: But doing so will require a great deal more political courage than has been demonstrated in Congress and the White House for decades. And, as I report today for The Epoch Times, there are people in and out of Congress with some interesting ideas.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), for example, has a “Big Idea” along the lines of a Sovereign Wealth fund that could restore Social Security solvency, as does Heritage Fellow and former fast food entrepreneur Andy Pudzer. And on the Democratic side, Rep. John Larsen (D-Conn.) points to the $400,000 and more in taxable income as an untapped resource.

NOW IT’S GOING TO HIT THE FAN LIKE NEVER BEFORE: Tom Jones and the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) today posted the first entry of its instantly notorious “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Watchlist: America’s Most Subversive Immigration Bureaucrats.”

The Left went nuts when Jones first announced this project and now that it’s bearing actual results — shining the spotlight on left-wing immigration activists comfortably entrenched in the federal career civi service — but things are really going to get intense in coming weeks. Expect an avalanche of media hit pieces, legal harassment, claims of being subjected to Far-Right violence, and protests wherever Jones speaks,

The Left will go nuts in response to AAF no matter that groups on the Left have been doing similar ideological tracking of conservatives, such as this one looking at Right media outlets. And we haven’t even mentioned similar tracking of conservative activist groups and non-profits by he Southern Poverty Law Center, for which Osorio interned.

Here’s one example from the first 10 AAF posted earlier today: Wilson Osorio is DHS’s Associate Counsel in the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS), making $171,268 annually. He has posted multiple Spanish language TikTok and YouTube videos encouraging immigrants to enter the U.S., using promises of get-rich-quick jobs.

In addition, according to AAF, he “used an out of context image of a colleague in DHS in Border Patrol to promote the false narrative that Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian migrants. The narrative surrounding the ‘horse whipping’ incident was grossly mischaracterized, serving to unjustly malign Border Patrol personnel. As a senior DHS employee, Wilson Osorio should be held to a higher standard and not post images that suggest his DHS colleagues are violently abusing migrants.”

MEN, WOMEN SUFFER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AT ABOUT EQUAL RATES: That headline likely seems “off” because the standard media narrative for decades has put men in the position of virtually always being the guilty party in a domestic violence incident.

Well, time to re-think this one, according to a new study analyzed earlier this week by Wintery Knight, who explains three key points:

• Scholars typically ignore violence against men committed by women: “However, there has been a paucity of studies on the severity and risk factors of IPV against men by female partners.”
• Men and women commit domestic violence at roughly equal rates: “This study revealed that there is a symmetry in the experiences of physical violence between male and female victims.”
• Men are the victims of more severe violence than women: “This study also revealed that male victims experience more severe violence than female victims.”

And thus another media myth bites the dust.