4 Keys to Understanding the Investigation of a Loan Helping Bernie Sanders’ Wife

Feb. 12, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers' attention is turning to rehabbing the nation's infrastructure. Let's start with facts, Michael Sargent suggests: Most of our highways aren't "crumbling." A conservative legal group hopes to expose the motives of FBI and Justice officials who targeted the president, Kevin Mooney writes. What's with the federal probe related to Bernie Sanders' better half? Fred Lucas rounds up known facts. Plus: Amy Swearer on an unneeded security blanket for journalists, Ryan T. Anderson on glaring contradictions in transgenderism, and Nolan Peterson on how a Russian invasion changed one man's life.
News 4 Keys to Understanding the Investigation of a Loan Helping Bernie Sanders' Wife "If Jane Sanders had been Jane Doe, she never would have gotten the loan [for the college]," says lawyer Brady Toensing, a Republican activist. "But I now want the justice system to treat her like Jane Doe by conducting a fair, impartial, and thorough investigation." Read More
Feature 'Not a Short Story': Russia's Invasion of Crimea Spurred This Young Man to Leave His Homeland in Search of Freedom The young Crimean Tatar man found himself living in an Orwellian police state, where those who spoke out against the new Russian regime were silenced. Sometimes, people simply disappeared. Read More
Commentary Transgender Ideology Is Riddled With Contradictions. Here Are the Big Ones. While activists claim that the possibilities for gender identity are rather expansive—man, woman, both, neither—they also insist that gender identity is innate, or established at a very young age, and thereafter immutable. Read More
Commentary Our Roads and Bridges Are Not Actually Crumbling A full 93 percent of the miles driven on the National Highway System is on pavement that is in fair or better condition. Read More
Commentary New Bill to 'Protect' Journalists Is Unnecessary Political Pandering Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and several other Democrats introduced a bill they say is necessary to protect journalists from violent attacks caused by the Trump administration's "toxic culture." Read More
News Watchdog Seeks Details on 2 FBI Officials Who Reviled Trump in Texts Judicial Watch is pressing the Justice Department in court for documents that could allow Americans to decide for themselves whether politically motivated FBI officials compromised the bureau's investigations of Hillary Clinton's email habits and Russian election meddling. Read More
Commentary We Hear You: The State of the Union, the FBI, the Nunes Memo, and Faith at the Super Bowl "I thought President Trump did a great job in his speech. I was disappointed he didn't call for the repeal of Obamacare this year," writes Tonie Lesia Dalton. Read More
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