Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has repeatedly claimed that the SAVE America Act that makes voter ID mandatory is "Jim Crow 2.0." PolitiFact doesn't find that outrageous smear worth a "fact check," just as it failed to check when President Biden repeatedly asserted it. It should be blatantly obvious that the Republicans aren't trying to reinstall segregation and deny the vote to all black people. On Thursday, Louis Jacobson nitpicked a different mathematical claim by Schumer:  The SAVE America Act “would force Americans to register (to vote) only in person, something only 5% of Americans do today." That was rated "Half True,' because the SAVE Act does require registration in person, but in 2024, anywhere from 11 to 42 percent of voters registered in person, "depending on how many registrations stemmed from in-person visits to motor vehicle agencies, a data point that is not being collected." If they were checking a Republican, it would probably be tagged "Mostly False."  But the point here is the curious way PolitiFact chooses what to check, and who is checked. Schumer hasn't been found "Mostly False" or worse since 2021. Since then, including the new one, he has two "Half Trues" and four "Mostly Trues." Last month, I noted PolitiFact's Amy Sherman put together an article attacking Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), asking “Does the US have stricter ID rules for buying beer than voting?” This one didn't have a "Truth-O-Meter" rating, but Amy Sherman argued "Why the beer vs ballots comparison falls short," On Friday, PolitiFact awarded a True to Sen. Elizabeth Warren for her March 3 statement: “In the modern era, no American president has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.”  Ohio University student Zoe Weyand does appear to be correct on this: Trump has ordered strikes on ten different countries. They suggested the "modern era" started with George W. Bush. But why are we only locating the True statements? Like Schumer, Warren hasn't been rated on the False side for a long time -- since 2020. Since then, including the new one, Warren has two "Half Trues" and three "Trues." As of  March 20, which is 79 days into 2026, PolitiFact hasn't flagged Democrat politicians or officials with a single "Truth-O-Meter" rating on the False side -- "Mostly False," "False," or "Pants On Fire." There are eight rated items: one "True," four "Mostly Trues," and three "Half Trues." PS: Here's Schumer on Wednesday, boasting he's called this bill "Jim Crow 2.0" over and over again. Think of how many claims here could be "fact checked."  Schumer on Wednesday: "So I have called this [SAVE] Act, over and over again, JIM CROW 2.0 and they hate it. I've gotten 50 million right-wing attacks on my email 'cause I said it. And you know why they attack it? Cause they know it's the truth. It is JIM CROW 2.0, but it's… pic.twitter.com/uOzD29CNSC — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 20, 2026

Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell joined Fox Business Network’s  Jackie DeAngelis and Brian Brengberg, hosts of The Bottom Line, on Friday, to talk about his letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting a formal investigation into Apple. Bozell said Apple News isn’t just curating news, it may be misleading consumers and shutting out competition in the process. In a formal complaint to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Bozell laid out a pattern of deception surrounding Apple News. At the center of the controversy is control. Apple claims users can “tailor” their feeds, including blocking outlets. But MRC’s investigation found that’s simply not true. Bozell argued this isn’t a minor glitch, but a deliberate design choice that strips users of meaningful control over the information they consume. Then there’s the illusion of openness. Apple publicly suggests publishers can apply for inclusion, yet rejected MRC outlets like NewsBusters and Free Speech America after long delays — while continuing to advertise the platform as broadly accessible. Bozell said that contradiction raises serious questions about whether Apple is misleading publishers as well as users. MRC President @DavidBozell urges the FTC to investigate Apple News for its anticompetitive and deceptive trade practices. @FoxBusiness @BottomLineFBN pic.twitter.com/91oUpZshlr — Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 20, 2026 But the most explosive claim involves bias backed by data. MRC’s research found Apple News promoted thousands of left-leaning stories while virtually excluding right-leaning outlets, evidence Apple is “shaping, not reflecting, the news landscape.” The editor-in-chief at Apple News is the former editor of New York Times magazine. Apple News is handpicking leftist stories. @DavidBozell @BottomLineFBN @FoxBusiness pic.twitter.com/2xt84Herlt — Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 20, 2026 Bottom line: This isn’t just about bias, it’s about whether Big Tech is misleading the public while quietly controlling what Americans see,  and what they don’t. Read more at Fox News.   

Following the first round of layoffs back on September 29, CBS News’s parent company Paramount Skydance instituted its second set of rumored cuts Friday that, along with four notable correspondents being shown the door, CBS News Radio will be killed off entirely after a historic 99-year-old run that helped usher in news on a national scale and move the country to radio (and, later, television). All told, around six percent of the workforce will be laid off (between 60 to 70 people), down from the originally feared 15 percent. Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski told staff in a memo that “[i]t’s no secret that the news business is changing radically, and that we need to change along with it” and with “[n]ew audiences...burgeoning in new places...we are pressing forward with ambitious plans to grow and invest so that we can be there for them.” That said, they wrote, “some parts of our newsroom must get smaller to make room for the things we must build to remain competitive.” The two wrote a second company memo that specifically addressed the decision about CBS News Radio, explaining the “CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026.” They added the decision “not...easy” but “necessary.” They explained “[a] shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service” even though the platform “delivered original reporting to the nation—from Edward R. Murrow’s World War II reports in London to today’s daily White House updates” and “the longest-running newscast in the country,” “World News Roundup.” More broadly, Weiss said on the company’s 9:00 a.m. Eastern editorial call that CBS would be “saying goodbye to a number of our colleagues and friends today and that is hard” and “especially hard when we are living through such an intense news cycle where people are working their hearts out.” Along with a number of cuts for CBSNews.com in the Washington bureau, there were a number of TV correspondents let go, some with over a decade of time at the Tiffany network. Over at the Los Angeles Times, longtime media reporter Steve Battaglio compiled some of the CBS correspondents, which included general correspondent Dave Malkoff, environmental correspondent David Schechter, longtime general correspondent Elaine Quijano, and Texas-based correspondent Omar Villafranca. The New York Post’s great Alexandra Steigard had three more names in correspondent Andres Gutierrez (who had just reported on gas prices and the Kouri Richins verdict) and two whose work was primarily seen on the weekends or CBS News 24/7 in Nidia Cavazos and Karen Hua. Schechter joined CBS in 2022 and, even though his NewsBusters tag is short, he has a few humdingers, including one in which he teamed up with a climatologist in February to speculate what George Washington might think about climate change. Further proof that the Media Hall Monitors' breathless incantations of CBS News being "MAGA-aligned" is absolute nonsense: a Sunday Morning item linking George Washington's crossing of the Delaware with climate change pic.twitter.com/DpOYkNEcIl — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 15, 2026 Along with gushy profiles of Jane Fonda and the Biden regime’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act, Schechter actually stated just over a year ago (March 14, 2025) that humans have “less than 10 years” to save the planet. CBS environmental correspondent David Schechter rips @EPALeeZeldin: “I think the biggest risk is that we have a small window to deal with climate change, really. I mean, you know, it is getting smaller and smaller, less than 10 years to level out and reduce our emissions, and we… pic.twitter.com/nA7fDoVTRL — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 14, 2025 Quijano was the longest tenured person the TV side let go as she arrived at CBS in 2010. Along with frequently serving as a fill-in host, she had anchored CBS Weekend News in years past and even moderated the 2016 vice presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence. Ahead of the debate, Kaine was assisted in debate prep by longtime D.C. lawyer Bob Barnett, who was married to Rita Braver, a CBS colleague of Quijano. The New York Times also hilariously admitted Quijano tried to help Kaine along in dealing with Pence. Quijano more recently had stories we flagged at NewsBusters as fearing increased deportations could mean fewer illegal immigrants to serve as home health care nurses. Most infamously, she was behind the disgusting, pro-eugenics CBS documentary in 2017 that glorified Iceland having largely eliminated down syndrome from its population. How, you might ask? Abortions, of course. Finally, Villafranca had been with CBS since 2014 and, in recent years, unsurprisingly found himself covering stories at the U.S.-Mexico border (such as sob stories here, here, and here to name a few).

The iconic phrase “separation of Church and State” doesn’t mean what most people think it does, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) explained Thursday at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. “It’s particularly fitting, I think, on this year, that we reflect on the essential role that faith plays, and has always played, in our national life,” Johnson said, noting that 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. “It is from the very birth of our nation, that America has always been sustained by prayer,” Johnson said. The expression “separation of Church and State” is “often repeated, but very rarely understood,” Johnson said, noting that the phrase is not in the Constitution, but in a personal letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association. Those who mock faith are twisting the meaning of the phrase to suggest that churches should be protected from government, when it actually stresses the importance of protecting religion from government, Johnson said. "Jefferson clearly did not mean that law should keep religion from influencing our government," Johnson said, explaining that "the Founders wanted to protect the Church and the religious practice of citizens from an encroaching state." What’s more, the Founders “understood that a free society and a healthy republic depend upon religious and moral virtue,” because these things help prevent the abuse of power and “make it possible to preserve our central freedom," Speaker Johnson said. "My administration remains firmly committed to defending the right of every Catholic to worship God freely and without fear," President Donald Trump said in a message read at the prayer breakfast.

  Apple News’s bias against right-leaning media outlets has become more and more evident — and MRC studies suggest that this may be by design, prompting MRC President David Bozell to call for a federal investigation.  In a recent letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson Bozell urged an investigation of Apple for potential anti-competitive behavior, highlighting MRC’s troubling findings on Apple News's curation practices. Bozell noted in his letter that while left-leaning media dominate Apple News, rampant anti-conservative bias is only the beginning of the problem.  Despite what Apple claims, its app promotes a massive imbalance of content favoring the left, and it is exceedingly difficult for excluded right-leaning outlets to join the ranks of the app’s curated content, if they can join it at all. Apple also makes it virtually impossible for users to block perspectives they do not desire to see. Further still, Apple may have run afoul of federal competition law by giving its app preferential treatment. In light of these concerns, Bozell asked that the FTC investigate whether Apple made misleading representations and is engaging in potentially anti-competitive behavior: “This request is based on evidence suggesting that Apple has made materially misleading representations to both consumers and news publishers regarding key features and policies governing its news app, Apple News. These representations concern: (1) whether users are able to block specific media outlets from appearing in their Apple News feeds, (2) whether outside publishers may apply for inclusion in the Apple News application, (3) whether Apple creates confusion for consumers about the diversity of viewpoints reflected in the app and (4) whether Apple violated federal competition law, including potential tying or exclusionary practices, in preferencing Apple News on Apple devices.” Apple responded to MRC’s viral January study “asserting that users ‘can tailor the app to their interests by choosing to follow or block specific publications or topics,’” wrote Bozell. MRC’s investigation into Apple News, however, found this claim to be “inaccurate,” as stories from blocked outlets will still appear in a user’s feed “when selected by the Apple News editors.”  Bozell added, “Apple is not only aware that users cannot block outlets, but that this restriction is actually a design feature.” Bozell also called out how Apple News feigns neutrality by encouraging news organizations to apply to be disseminated by the app to “support a thriving news ecosystem.” But when MRC submitted applications for its NewsBusters and Free Speech America publications, Apple contradicted its own website and “informed MRC that it was ‘no longer accepting unsolicited applications.’” Together, these compound the impact of Apple’s overwhelming bias favoring leftist outlets, as MRC has repeatedly found.  Apple claimed in statements that its “news span[s] a wide range of topics from more than 3,000 publications,” including a seemingly balanced number of leftist, center and right-leaning outlets. But MRC’s research shows otherwise. MRC revealed that for 99 days—from Nov. 6 through Feb 12—Apple News published 1,369 stories from left-leaning outlets. However, it published zero stories from a right-leaning source during the same period, only breaking this streak on the 100th day. During the month of February, only two percent of the stories Apple News featured in its top 20 stories in the mornings came from right-leaning outlets (400 left-leaning vs. 8 right-leaning).  Apple’s bias also shows up when it presents the issues that really matter to Americans. For example, during the first two weeks of February, Apple News published 57 headlines about ICE, immigration and the threats that lead to not funding DHS. All 57 headlines came from center or left-leaning outlets. Not one was from a right-leaning source, despite the fact that the debate largely splits down partisan lines and diverse media would be essential to a balanced, neutral dissemination of news coverage. Bozell even asked the FTC to investigate whether “Apple has engaged in anticompetitive trade restraints to harm its competitors” due to the fact that it comes preinstalled on Apple phones.  “Because over 58% of smartphones used in America are manufactured by Apple and come preinstalled with its news app, Apple News often appears for users unprompted, and is always preferenced over competitor news apps,” he closed off. Find the full letter to FTC Chairman Ferguson below: