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The Fall of Minneapolis – Can one be assured an impartial jury?

By Steve McGough | November 17, 2023 | Comments Off on The Fall of Minneapolis – Can one be assured an impartial jury?

The 6th Amendment provides those accused the right to a trial by an impartial jury. Are prosecutors ignoring this to help win cases?

Google de-listing conservative website content – including RVO

By Steve McGough | July 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Google de-listing conservative website content – including RVO

Did Google test their ability to de-list conservative sites from search results yesterday? We confirmed one RVO article was removed from Google results.

Special Olympics DOE funding – Political grandstanding targets DeVos

By Steve McGough | March 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Special Olympics DOE funding – Political grandstanding targets DeVos

Politicians love to grandstand. Instead of hyperbole, let’s look at the IRS Form 990s for the Special Olympics and see it’s best funded with private and business donations instead of the federal government.

Trump budget increases Medicare funding $4 trillion in next decade

By Steve McGough | May 28, 2017 |

Trump’s proposed budget increases many social program budgets. The media and liberals keep telling you about “cuts.” Take a moment to learn about baseline budgeting.

CNN to DNC: Hey, we need questions for GOP candidate interviews

By Steve McGough | November 7, 2016 |

I don’t think my headline is stretching it all that much at all. Especially since the DNC’s Donna Brazile was fired by CNN for getting caught forwarding debate questions to the Hillary Clinton campaign. On April 28, 2016, Lauren Dillon, the research director for the DNC, sent an email out to colleagues. Subject: Cruz on CNN CNN…

Clinton has wanted to hide communications for years

By Steve McGough | November 6, 2016 | Comments Off on Clinton has wanted to hide communications for years

If you think Secretary Clinton’s kerfuffle with emails started when she became Secretary of State in 2008, you’d be incorrect.

Stop visiting conspiracy websites

By Steve McGough | July 18, 2016 |

As a follow up to my You’re getting your news wrong piece a couple of weeks ago, let’s now review the “conservative” and “libertarian” conspiracy websites you should simply avoid. You’ll have to excuse my language in this post. Similar to fake news websites, conspiracy websites make their living off click-bait headlines that are totally over-the-top. Here…

You’re getting your news wrong, all wrong

By Steve McGough | July 2, 2016 |

Bring on the comet! I’m not certain if I’m embarrassed for my fellow man, or ticked off at the ignorance many display when they find – and then share – the “news” read in a Facebook post, Instagram meme or other “news” websites. Take a step back from the keyboard and say this out-loud any time you’re about to comment,…

Recent grand jury leaks match original police reports in Ferguson

By Steve McGough | October 22, 2014 |

Multiple leaks have seemingly come from insiders directly familiar with the Darren Wilson grand jury proceedings in Missouri during the last week. The grand jury is considering if Wilson, a police officer in Ferguson, was justified in killing Michael Brown on Aug. 4.

NY Times takes 13 days to correct lie about Bush’s Iraq war coalition

By Steve McGough | September 23, 2014 |

Yeah, only two weeks to fix. I read this when the story came out and forgot to write about it. I’m pretty certain some other bloggers pointed it out immediately after it was published, but just today the New York Times published their correction.