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The nation’s most self-impressed journalists, the ones who strangely self-identify as “mainstream,” could not bring themselves to treat the Hunter Biden trial as comparable in any way to Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan. Treating Hunter as a significant “news” subject gives them the creeps, like they’ve been drafted into Rupert Murdoch’s army. So it’s a little shocking the Hunter trial gained about half as much coverage as Trump’s—at least through the first eight days of coverage. On the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning, evening, and Sunday interview shows, Trump’s trial drew more than 174 minutes, while Hunter’s trial drew 85 minutes. (By the Trump trial’s end, they filled the air with 640 minutes.) It’s less shocking to notice the difference in tone. Trump’s trial was a “criminal” trial about “hush money.” On April 25, fill-in CBS anchor Margaret Brennan announced, “The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents related to a so-called hush money payment to a porn star.” Other stories fussed that Trump was bullying and threatening witnesses and court staff. Hunter Biden stories were loaded with empathy. On June 3, ABC’s Terry Moran relayed: “President [Joe] Biden released a statement standing by his only surviving son, saying in part ‘I have boundless love for my son.’” CBS reporter Norah O’Donnell echoed him that night on “the president’s only surviving son.” On June 10, NBC fill-in anchor Tom Llamas began: “For the first time, the child of a sitting president facing a potential criminal conviction. Right now, a jury deliberating the fate of Hunter Biden, the sole surviving son of the president.” Hunter Biden is 54 and network anchors refer to him as a “child.” The contrast in tone tells you that the media elites loathe Trump but treat the Biden family like they’re close friends who they want to surround and protect. There was a sense of glee when Democrats began crowing about Trump the “convicted felon.” Then came the sorrow that they only had 11 days to celebrate before the president’s son drew the same label. Then came the stubborn facts. Conservative outlets like the New York Post were more interested in how prosecutors based their case on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the court verified it as evidence. CBS never mentioned this. ABC gave 10 seconds, and NBC offered 30 seconds acknowledging the laptop’s use in court. None of them revisited their 2020 performance, when they all robotically regurgitated the Biden campaign spin that the laptop was “garbage” carrying the “earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Prosecutors not only mined the laptop but used Hunter’s addiction memoir “Beautiful Things” against him. That was quite a backfire, after the pro-Biden networks (and their affiliated comedians like Jimmy Kimmel) gushed over Hunter’s memoir as “catharsis” for the 50-something child. Back in 2021, CBS donated 25 minutes of airtime to syrupy interview segments with the addict. Maybe “donated” is the wrong word since CBS-affiliated Simon & Schuster published the book. These guilty verdicts will not affect the pro-Biden media’s incessant efforts to tout the Biden family as a selling point for the Democrats. They couldn’t stop talking after the verdict about how the first lady was in the courtroom almost every day, and how the president scores points with voters when he talks about how much he loves his “only surviving son.” They will keep spinning in desperation that Hunter Biden‘s epic crack-and-hookers binges somehow make the Bidens more sympathetic to Americans with addicts in their family. Journalists were given cocaine-powdered lemons, and the lemonade they are making is a heady brew. But not everyone wants to drink it. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Hunter Verdicts Won’t Stop the Desperate Pro-Biden Spin appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Last week, 27 European nations voted for their representatives in the European Parliament. If you were aware of this, did you happen to notice that there were no allegations of cheating in any European country? If you are on the Left, you might respond that there were no such allegations because the Right did better than the Left, and it’s the Right that makes these allegations. But that response has little merit. For one thing, there were no such allegations, let alone demonstrations, during all the years left-wing parties won European Parliamentary elections or national elections. For another, in America, it is not only the Right that has charged election fraud: Hillary Clinton, for example, still claims the 2016 election was stolen from her. The fact is that, among democracies, America is essentially alone in having nearly half its population mistrust election results. So, either America is cursed with a paranoid population, or there are valid reasons for Americans to mistrust their elections’ results. There is no question it is the latter. America is unique among democracies in having half its people mistrust election results because America is unique among democracies in the way it conducts its elections. America is almost alone among democracies in not demanding that voters provide any identification when they vote. For some reason, the American Left vehemently opposes voter ID. It claims voter ID is racist and that those who favor it are engaged in “voter suppression.” This is prima facie absurd: Are airports racist for demanding passenger identification? Does passenger ID result in “passenger suppression”? The most plausible reason the Left opposes voter ID is to enable some degree of voter fraud. If that is not the reason, isn’t it enormously irresponsible to cultivate doubts about election integrity among half its country’s citizens—for no valid reason? Moreover, in no other country does its Left oppose voter ID. America is almost alone among democratic countries in not requiring paper ballots. As of 2023, only Brazil counts all its ballots in national elections through electronic voting. According to Pew Research Center, votes are cast by manually marking paper ballots in 209 of the 227 countries. In France, as reported by the Associated Press, voters “use the same system that’s been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand.” In 2009, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that voting machines could no longer be used. In 2017, the Dutch government announced that all ballots in the 2017 general election would be counted by hand. Moreover, among those countries that use electronic voting, only in America are the source codes of the voting machines kept secret. Three companies—Dominion, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic—control about 90% of the U.S. voting technology market. Each is privately held, and each is committed to keeping its source code from becoming fully public. Wherever else in the world electronic voting is allowed, the source codes are available to all political parties. America is almost alone among democratic countries in not confining voting to one day. All through American history, Americans voted on Election Day (unless they had previously requested an absentee ballot). The Left has obliterated Election Day; we now have Election Month. Various American states are alone among democratic countries in mailing ballots to all their citizens—that is, even to those who never requested a ballot be sent to them. America is almost alone among democratic countries in the length of time it takes to learn election results. In other countries, people continue to learn the results within hours. Throughout American history, Americans knew the outcome of virtually every election the night of Election Day. No longer. All too often, tragically, there are valid reasons for Americans to mistrust election results. Add elections to the long list of institutions the Left has ruined. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why Americans Mistrust Election Results More Than the Citizens of Any Other Democracy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the chemical abortion drug. In 2022, a group of concerned healthcare professionals sued the FDA for its negligence in establishing safeguards prior to its approval of the drug. On Thursday, however, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the suit. The FDA will continue its approval of the dangerous abortion drug, and women and babies will remain in harm's way. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys represented the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, three other medical associations and individual doctors in a lawsuit against the FDA after insisting that the FDA is endangering women and girls. The doctors cited side effects of the drug including; ectopic pregnancies, severe bleeding, and life-threatening infections and noted. They also cited concerns over the fact that the FDA does not require these dangerous drugs to be taken at a doctors office. Women can take them alone at home or in their dorm room. Thirdly, the doctors noted that physicians should be required to report all serious complications from these drugs. As it stands now, they do not have to. A few months later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the FDA did in fact act unlawfully with its removal of the necessary and important safety standards, and the case got moved up to the Supreme Court for review. This step was promising and the pro-life movement seemed hopeful on March 26, when oral arguments were held. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that they would not reinstate any of the safeguards for the abortion pill. Due to this, the abortion pill will remain widely acceptable and will continue putting innocent babies and women at risk.  In response to the decision, pro-life individuals and groups were heartbroken and terrified for women and babies. “While we’re disappointed the Court did not reach the merits of the FDA’s unlawful actions, nothing in today’s decision changes this fact: women and girls are being harmed by the FDA’s recklessness. We will continue to advocate for women’s health and expose the careless actions of the FDA and the harms of abortion drugs,” ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley said in a statement. The Heritage Foundation’s Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow, and Melanie Israel, a visiting fellow, said the following about SCOTUS’ decision: Today's decision is not the final judgment on the safety or effectiveness of mifepristone, which we know is unsafe for women and causes up to 1 in 22 women to end up in the emergency room.   While legal technicalities might allow Biden’s FDA to continue manipulating its safety rules to push a pro-abortion agenda at the expense of health and common sense, women and girls taking these chemical abortion drugs are still in danger and largely left to fend for themselves.   Policymakers should be on the side of women’s safety by, at a minimum, demanding that the FDA follow its own original safety guidelines, not give abortion drugs a pass because of radical abortion ideology. March for Life President Jeanne Mancini felt similarly. She noted her disappointment in the decision and said, “The agency’s reckless removal of nearly all safeguards surrounding the drug — like the care of a medical provider and the requirement for prescribers to report medical emergencies — is unacceptable, and the FDA’s own label on mifepristone shows that roughly 1 in 25 women are forced to go to in the emergency room because of horrific complications.” “The abortion pill crisis will continue, as almost 2,000 children are killed by this method every single day. The Supreme Court cannot ignore this forever,” Lila Rose, president of Live Action wrote on her X account. What this shows is that even though SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade back in 2022, the fight for life and safety for women and girls is far from over.

Republicans can denounce Donald Trump, but it's never enough for MSNBC folks until you endorse the president.  On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough wasn't satisfied with former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's remarks on Fox News and lambasted Trump, calling him, among other things, an "authoritarian narcissist" who is  "unfit for office." That's not enough. Despite praising Ryan as a "wonderful man" and expressing gratitude for Ryan saying that he wouldn't vote for Trump, Scarborough was peeved that Ryan said that he doesn't support Joe Biden either, that his policies are "terrible," and that he would be casting a write-in vote for a Republican. Scarborough was confounded that Ryan wouldn't vote for Biden, wasting his vote on some Republican loser when he could be voting for Biden to block Trump's re-election. I'm grateful that Republicans like Paul Ryan are not voting for Donald Trump. Actually proving they actually believe what they've been saying their whole life. And that will be enough to defeat Donald Trump. I just remain -- I just wonder how you can say he's an authoritarian, he's a threat to American democracy, he doesn't have the character to be president, but I'm not going to vote against the one guy, I'm not going to vote for the one guy that can keep him out of office. Maybe it means Ryan doesn't really think he's a "threat to democracy," but that he thinks Trump expects everyone in his party to bow to all his wishes and echo all of his boasting that he is the greatest president. Speaking of who's the greatest president, Scarborough had to turn the show once again into Morning Advertisement.  if you feel like democracy's on the line, if you feel there is an authoritarian in waiting, what is so offensive about voting for a man who's presided over the strongest economy in the world, an economy that the World Bank yesterday said is fueling the world's economy. The Dow's at over 40,000. We've never been stronger economically relative to the rest of the world since probably, since 1945. Our military's, relative to the rest of the world, never been stronger than it is today, either. He's still narrowcasting into the White House residence. This is the same guy who proclaimed in March: "F-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden -- intellectually, analytically -- is the best Biden ever!" Note: Panelist Donny Deutsch won the award as the biggest virtue-signaling suckup o' the day. Donny said that women, along with people over 65,  are "the two smartest groups in this country," and that "women are wiser than men." There's your Morning Sexism. Here's the transcript. MSNBC Morning Joe 6/13/24 7:02 am EDT MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So, former Republican House Speaker and board member of the Fox Corporation, Paul Ryan, appeared on Fox News earlier this week. And, drum roll please, criticized Donald Trump, and calling him unfit for office. PAUL RYAN: [Speaking with Neil Cavuto] It's going to be a very, very close race. I think there're terrible choices we're being presented with. And that's just the fate of -- that's what the primary voters selected, and I regret the fact that that's where we are. NEIL CAVUTO: All right. Now I know a lot of these folks who also shared your same concerns about Donald Trump, that sort of said all right, we're rallying around Donald Trump. You had said, though, that would not be the case with you. You had said he's a populist and an authoritarian narcissist. That character is too important to me, and it's a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn't have. That's pretty strong. RYAN: Yeah, that's the way I feel. I agree with that. I don't support Biden either. I think his policies are terrible. I hate the fact that I feel like I gotta write in a Republican like I did the last time in 2020. I voted for him in 2016, hoping that there was going to be a different kind of person in office. And I do think character is a really important issue. If you put yourself above the Constitution, as he has done -- CAVUTO: But what happened? What turned you on him?   RYAN: I don't think he is fit for office. CAVUTO: Was it the January 6th thing? RYAN: That's a part of it. I think it's a contribution [sic] of factors. But I think it really is his character at the end of the day. And the fact that if you're willing to put yourself above the Constitution, an oath you swear when you take office, federal office, whether it is President or Member of Congress, you swear an oath to the Constitution, and if you're willing to suborn it yourself, I think that makes you unfit for office. . . .  JOE SCARBOROUGH: Willie, I've known Paul for a very long time. He actually, he worked for a group of us when I first got to Washington. And I love the guy. I really do. I mean, he's just a wonderful guy, a wonderful man. And I'm so glad he's speaking out. I think he's on the Fox board or the News Corp board or one of the boards. So he's in a position of authority over there. And that's not something a lot of people would do. You know, to speak out like that. So I appreciate that. I will say, the thing I don't understand is, understanding that this guy's an authoritarian, understanding the dangers that he presents, and then saying, well, I can't stand Joe Biden either.  And I'm going to vote for -- I hate his policies. I'm going to just write in a vote. Well, if you feel like democracy's on the line, if you feel there is an authoritarian in waiting, what is so offensive about voting for a man who's presided over the strongest economy in the world, an economy that the World Bank yesterday said is fueling the world's economy. The Dow's at over 40,000. We've never been stronger economically relative to the rest of the world since probably, since 1945. Our military's, relative to the rest of the world, never been stronger than it is today either. So, I just -- I'm grateful that Republicans like Paul Ryan are not voting for Donald Trump. Actually proving they actually believe what they've been saying their whole life. And that will be enough to defeat Donald Trump. I just remain -- I just wonder how you can say he's an authoritarian, he's a threat to American democracy, he doesn't have the character to be president, but I'm not going to vote against the one guy, I'm not going to vote for the one guy that can keep him out of office. . . .  SCARBOROUGH: When I was running for Congress -- I wish we had the bell here. We could hit the bell. MIKA: Ring! Where's our bell? SCARBOROUGH: I would, I would go into churches and I would talk and say, don't vote for me because I'm the best Christian. I'm not. Vote for me because you believe in the same things that I believe in. MIKA: Right. SCARBOROUGH: And I won at a young age. And then, a couple years later, I would see other Republicans going and quoting Bible scriptures, like 2 Corinthians, and things they didn't know. And I'd pull them aside, and I'd go, dude, you're not a preacher. You're a politician. Just tell what you believe politically, and they'll do the rest.