“Abigail Spanberger isn’t going to ban America’s rifles under our watch,” NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) Executive Director John Commerford promised after the Democrat Virginia governor signed a bill banning so-called “assault” weapons and high capacity magazines. “We’re not going to stand idly by and let this new governor ban America’s rifles in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Commerford said in a statement announcing that NRA-ILA immediately filed two lawsuits, one federal and one state, challenging Spanberger’s assault of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “Our teams of world-class appellate attorneys are ready to win in federal and state court and protect your rights across the Commonwealth. “Abigail Spanberger isn’t going to ban America’s rifles under our watch.” The lawsuit, filed in union with other prominent pro-Second Amendment organizations, is just one of many to come, as Just The News reports: “Other lawsuits are coming. Gun Owners of America and the Virginia Citizens Defense League are planning to file lawsuits on Friday. The Trump administration has also warned it was planning to take legal action if the bill was signed into law.” Virginia’s bill allows people who already own the banned firearms them to keep them, enabling them to continue to enjoy their Second Amendment rights. But, anyone new is subject to a Class 1 misdemeanor conviction, Virginia’s CBS 6 News reports: “The law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to import, sell, manufacture, purchase, or transfer an assault firearm. Anyone convicted of that violation is prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting any firearm for three years from the date of conviction.”  

Rather than endure more mandatory anti-White, anti-police, anti-male indoctrination, first-year law school student David Blackman withdrew from Penn State University after just one semester – and audio from one of its required “Race” classes shows why a complaint has been filed with the U.S. Department of Education. In Penn State’s "Race and the Equal Protection of the Laws," a required course for all first-year law students, Blackman was subjected to a transgender faculty member’s activism explaining why the class “is not optional.” According audio from the class obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Penn State’s Emily Spottswood claimed victim status: “I am a trans-woman, right. And this year there is a lot happening against people from our community and having a focus from the outset on combating oppression and injustice is meaningful to me in a way I cannot describe.” In an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Blackman reported that the course vilified white people and law enforcement and that professors assigned texts by critical race theorists without presenting an alternative perspective: “Over the course of three 150-minute lectures, speakers described all white people as ‘privileged,’ called to ‘eradicate patriarchy,’ and asserted that the justice system is ‘about keeping black people in their place.’ “One assignment said students should ‘consider’ framing their essays around ‘the reality of systemic racism,’ implying that doing otherwise could affect a student's grade.” Audio from the session obtained by Free Beacon reveals the extent to which speakers sought to coercively conscript young law students into their divisive, far-left ideology. Associate Dean Jeffrey Dodge went so far as to declare that all the students in the class had become members of a “coalition”: “Today that you all officially become part of this broader coalition and effort towards building against a more anti-racist, equal-under-the-law approach to our law and legal systems. “This is the part of the coalition that I’m really excited about is we are taking action to disrupt and dismantle systems that racialize, subordinate and oppress.” “Racism, subordination and oppression exists and it has existed,” Dodge said, adding that “We start with that as the foundation for this course.” “I think that our criminal legal system is not about keeping families and communities safe. – it’s about keeping Black people in their place,” Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler told the first-year law students: “What the problem is, according to the movement, is white supremacy. The problem is patriarchy.” “And, unless we abolish white supremacy, unless we eradicate patriarchy, we’re still going to have problems. I’m most persuaded by the theory articulated by the movement for Black Lives,” Butler preached. On April 1, the American First Policy Institute (AFPI) notified Penn State Dickinson Law Dean Danielle Conway that it had submitting a formal complaint referring the university to the U.S. Department of Education, requesting an investigation into the American Bar Association’s accreditation standards and their potential role in fostering a racially hostile educational environment in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Penn State’s “Course materials repeatedly emphasize race-based frameworks that categorize individuals according to identity and systemic positioning, including themes portraying individuals as ‘oppressors’ or ‘oppressed’ based on skin color, and presenting American legal institutions as fundamentally structured by racial hierarchy,” the letter notes.

On Wednesday, Josh Christenson at the New York Post (as well as conservative cable networks) reported on a hearing organized by Sen. Rand Paul featuring a CIA whistleblower: A CIA whistleblower appeared publicly for the first time Wednesday to testify to a Senate panel that Dr. Anthony Fauci improperly “influenced” intelligence analyses about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic —  to downplay findings that it most likely resulted from a laboratory accident in China. Special operations officer James Erdman III delivered his testimony about the wide-ranging “cover-up” after being subpoenaed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee — and against his own agency’s wishes. Fox's Jesse Watters proclaimed "Anthony Fauci is in big trouble. The little man in a lab coat got a lot wrong and never fessed up to any of it!" But there has been no story on this Senate hearing on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, or NPR. Not only that, you can’t find it on the websites of The New York Times or The Washington Post. This underlines that they don’t want to revisit any angle of the Covid response that challenges the established St. Anthony Fauci narrative. PBS News Hour gushed over Fauci in a two-part interview in 2024, not to mention he starred in a fawning PBS American Masters documentary in 2023. There was a minute and a half on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, where the host threw a bone to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), as "Facts First" CNN labored to underline the lab-leak theory is still just one theory. MS NOW wouldn't be caught dead mentioning this news.  CNN's Jake Tapper indulged Sen. Ron Johnson for a minute Wednesday on Rand Paul's anti-Fauci whistleblower hearing, and "Facts First" CNN labored to underline the lab-leak theory is still just one theory. But at least it surfaced. (MS NOW wouldn't be caught dead mentioning this.) pic.twitter.com/XKTgHP9XLW — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 15, 2026 TAPPER: Let's turn to another subject I know you want to talk about. During a Senate hearing earlier today, you heard from a CIA whistleblower who accused intelligence officials and specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci of downplaying the possibility that the origins of COVID came from a Chinese lab. Dr. Fauci declined to comment when we reached out to him to respond to the hearing you held. But I think it's fair to say that the most objective assessment of the situation is that there continue to be highly respected evolutionary biologists reporting in respected peer reviewed journals who suggest, though nothing is proven, that they continue to think it was a natural spillover from an animal reservoir. Now, I might disagree. You might disagree, but it seems like there's still lots of opinions but no definitive proof one way or the other. A CIA spokesperson called this hearing nothing more than dishonest political theater, and that the CIA had already assessed COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak. Efforts to undermine the conclusion are disingenuous. So this is Trump's CIA saying this. What was your reaction to that? JOHNSON: Well, first of all, what we learned, we already knew or certainly suspected, but it just confirmed what we knew or suspected. You go back to the end of January, early February, when you see Fauci assembling this group of people who are probably still saying, well, this might have sprung from nature. They're all people he'd given millions and millions of dollars of grants to. And those are the same people he assembled in the center of the CIA. NewsNation’s Marni Hughes offered a story on Thursday morning, also featuring the negative tweets from the CIA spokeswoman on the "dishonest political theater" allegation. Both sides are represented. Why can't the liberal broadcast networks do this much? Or the newspapers?  NewsNation’s Marni Hughes offered a story on anti-Fauci whistleblower hearing on Thursday morning, also featuring the negative tweets from the CIA spokeswoman. Both sides represented. Why can't the liberal broadcast networks do this much? pic.twitter.com/cCid9XLnC7 — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 15, 2026

While Fox News has long been an almost singular focus of the so-called media reporting class, conservative stalker and Status founder Oliver Darcy seems to have decided in recent months to shift his weight to throwing daily Mean Girls hissy fits over CBS News and the existence of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and Tony Dokoupil as CBS Evening News anchor. That was yet again on display Thursday night as he pilloried them over Dokoupil having to cover the U.S.-China summit in Beijing from Tapei, Taiwan after failing to received a visa. Darcy called Dokoupil’s week “an embarrassing series of events for the Bari Weiss-led network,” which feels like the umpteenth time he’s written something emblematic of what Stephen L. Miller told us Thursday on the NewsBusters Podcast about Darcy and his crowd embodying the grade school-esque “cool kids table” mentality. As usual, Darcy never offered anything in terms of substance — think rhetoric or story election — to criticize Dokoupil and boss Weiss. Rather, it’s entirely personality-based and vague claims they’re somehow hard right. Darcy relitigated the visa situation before gloating this “logistical blunder has become an embarrassment for the Bari Weiss-led network, leaving CBS as the only major broadcast news network without an anchor on the ground in the Chinese capital.” Never mind that CBS still has a full-time correspondent in China with Hong Kong-based Anna Coren. He then shared his latest death-by-a-thousand-cuts leak about what CBS’s hotel thought of Wednesday’s show: [E]agle-eyed viewers may have noticed that when Dokoupil anchored Thursday’s broadcast, he was in a very different location than the night before. While he anchored his program from a Taipei hotel balcony on Wednesday, Dokoupil was stationed in Liberty Square on Thursday. The change in location was no small matter and the result of a behind-the-scenes drama. According to people familiar with the matter, the hotel from which Dokoupil had initially been broadcasting was far from pleased with the network using its grounds to anchor the newscast. In the words of one source, after seeing the aggressive way in which Dokoupil presented the geopolitical situation between China and Taiwan on his show, hotel management “was appalled,” not wanting to be member to regional politics. I’m told that displeasure was made clear to CBS News. First of all, who cares?! Second, doesn’t that say more about the hotel than it does Dokoupil that, presuming it’s a global hotel chain of some sort, didn’t have the stones to allow freedom of speech about a country looking to level the ground they stand on?! “As a result, CBS News on Thursday was forced to scramble to secure a new location for Dokoupil to broadcast from, ultimately deciding on Liberty Square. Put another way, not only was Dokoupil unable to broadcast from Beijing during Trump’s trip, but he was also booted from his backup location—a logistical fiasco compounded by another mortifying logistical fiasco,” Darcy added, painting some grim scenario as though Dokoupil’s life was in danger even though Liberty Square was arguably a better backdrop for the point he was trying to make. Darcy even made a point Miller also called out on our show Thursday: It’s yet another reminder to Weiss, who took over the network with virtually no television experience, that producing television news is not as simple as it might seem. And while Weiss might blame her deputies for the mistakes, she is ultimately responsible for what happens at her network. Gee, considering the network’s liberal bent and third-place ratings for a lifetime, one would not normally look to tacitly endorse the multiple CBS regimes prior to Weiss and Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison. Darcy shoe-horned this into a more traditional ratings piece, declaring the “embarrassing episode” be seen through the lens of “a brutal first five months for Dokoupil, who has struggled immensely in the ‘CBS Evening News’ chair” and new Nielsen data that the newscast has been under four million total viewers for “five consecutive weeks...with the week beginning May 4 averaging just 3.7 million viewers.” He closed by repeating himself about Weiss supposedly Captain Queeg-levels of competence: But the “Evening News” disaster is an indictment of Weiss’ short tenure atop CBS News. Under her leadership, Dokoupil’s ratings continue to slide, likely because viewers have been alienated by management’s sudden rightward editorial lurch. And even on the logistics front, basic unforced errors continue to pile up, creating real embarrassment for both the show and the network. Yes, the “rightward editorial lurch” is more like two ticks to the center covering a wider variety of stories, such as hospice fraud in California or, like this past week, telling the truth about China’s current picture. For a dictatorial tattletale like Darcy, only viciously partisan and inflammatory hot takes about conservatives existing in polite society are the only way the news media should operate.

Whoopi Goldberg is no stranger to saying outrageous things on The View, in fact, in just the last 3 weeks she has claimed that white people are shooting and sicking dogs on black people at the polls, America has run out of gasoline and is running out of food, and that President Trump will be instituting a military draft. So while it may not have been too shocking to learn that on Wednesday Goldberg proclaimed that America has been "de-balled", it got attention on Thursday's edition of Fox's The Five, and caused a minor stir. Fill- in Panelist Gillian Turner played a clip of Goldberg's insanity,  GOLDBERG CLIP: I don't believe in anybody who is running this country right now. We have been, de-balled, as a nation, I feel.... I thought my description was clear.... But the idea that no one is in charge freaks me out. Turner then asked Emily Compagno, "Have we been de-balled? Am I allowed to say that? I don't know." COMPAGNO: I think it is so laughable that the same talking head that helped cover up for Biden's ineptitude, that's when the United States was de-balled, that was during the Biden administration. So I put together a little list for her knowledge and for everyone's review of what exactly it looked like to be de-balled.... So just as of today, President Trump has hosted 87 meetings with foreign leaders, and in President Biden's entire office he listed 36. Remember he took hundreds of days that he napped in Rehoboth Beach while 18,000 terrorists flooded across the southern border and we lost 360,000 minor children. Jill Biden ran meetings, you recall, they closed every day at like 1:00 P.M., calling lids. And then you you contrast that with President Trump, he has direct, and as he should, like responsibility for things like, credit for multiple tariffs, border security, NATO spending, hostage release, Middle East ceasefire deals, and he is the one that has been in direct involvement in talks with Mexico and Canada and China and NATO allies....It is so laughable to me and unfortunately emblematic of the mainstream media that no matter what they will continue to cover for the President that was absolutely missing, the one that was derelict in duty, that abdicated his duty, every day, that signed with an autopen, and we have a President who is out there with reporters, with the crowds, with the foreign heads of state.  Strangely, after Compagno finished, Turner, who, as previously mentioned, is not  a regular on the show, led the discussion away from Goldberg and to Trump's China trip. But when it was Greg Gutfeld's turn, he rebuked her question, and seemingly Turner as well. GUTFELD: I want to talk about Whoopi. TURNER:  That's taken already. GUTFELD: No, that's not how it works. Wow, definite tension, as evidenced by Gutfeld's response and the look on Turner's face. But Gutfeld won out, and he didn't disappoint. GUTFELD: Whoopi accuses Trump of castrating America. Sorry, Whoopi. Guys stopped getting erections around you years before Trump got into office. Do not blame him for your dateless weekends.... Who is she comparing Trump to? Emily went over all of his achievements. But you have to look at how world leaders react to him. You think no one is in charge of the United States? Trump is in charge of the U.S. And it looks like whenever he is around world leaders he's in charge of them, too, they treat him like a rock star. The only people being de-balled in this country are the children of liberals who trans them for virtue points at the wine club.... Four or five years ago, fentanyl overdoses racking up 70,000-100,000 deaths a year. These are people who aren't just junkies and you go well, they are seeking their own death. These are one-and-doners, people that get a valium or they get something but it's off the street and they die. Biden didn't lift a finger. So what outrageous, nonsensical, twisted observation will Whoopi Goldberg come up with next? It shouldn't take too long to find out, and no matter what she says, you can bet she'll have a seat on The View set, for as long as she wants one.