Joel B. Pollak

Former Vice President Joe Biden remarked in an interview released Thursday that “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community.” Biden was addressing the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Joint Virtual Convention. Portions of the […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blasted house parties on Wednesday, saying that he would instruct city officials to cut off water and power to properties where “flagrant violations” of social distancing rules have taken place in recent days. Garcetti was reacting to reports of large parties in the hills earlier […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blasted house parties on Wednesday, saying that he would instruct city officials to cut off water and power to properties where “flagrant violations” of social distancing rules have taken place in recent days. Garcetti was reacting to reports of large parties in the hills earlier […]

The New York City Board of Elections disqualified 84,208 vote-by-mail ballots — 26% of the total cast — in the June 23 Democratic presidential primary, according to a report cited Wednesday evening by the New York Post. The Post reported: The city BOE received 403,213 mail-in ballots for the June 23 Democratic presidential […]

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) walked out of a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution on Tuesday and refused to condemn Antifa — as did the other seven Senate Democrats who had spoken. The hearing focused on the issue of freedom of speech, and the violence surrounding recent […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom sounded an optimistic note Monday as he noted that coronavirus cases in the state have begun to fall again, after a spike that followed the George Floyd protests and early efforts at reopening the economy. The Associated Press reported: The average weekly number of positive tests […]

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. told a federal court Monday that his office was pursuing a broad inquiry into possible fraud by President Donald Trump and his private businesses, based on reports that had appeared in the media. The New York Times reported: The Manhattan district attorney’s office suggested on […]

The UK Daily Mail has published leaked footage of the Memorial Day encounter between George Floyd and the four Minneapolis, Minnesota, police offers who were implicated in his death, triggering nationwide unrest and controversy. The footage, apparently filmed while the body cam footage was being shown in court, appears on the Daily […]

This week, Breitbart News revealed that Google, is trying to intervene in the 2020 elections by censoring conservative news and preventing voters from receiving information they need to make an informed decision in November. Google has killed search traffic to Breitbart. Moreover, Twitter suspended Breitbart News’ account after the website […]

The San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing a spike in coronavirus cases despite doing everything “by the book,” according to the policies that experts say they would like to impose nationwide. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that while the Bay Area kept cases low initially, and adhered to “social distancing,” mask-wearing, […]

Violence continued in Portland, Oregon, this weekend even after federal law enforcement pulled back to allow state and local police to take over. Yet the media, including the Wall Street Journal, described the Portland violence as “mostly peaceful.” On Thursday night, the first night after the Department of Homeland Security struck […]

Conservative pundit and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino declared Sunday morning that former Vice President Joe Biden is suffering a rapid “cognitive decline” — and he suggested that his sources were “close to the situation.” Biden’s mental acuity has been a frequent theme of discussion, primarily among conservatives — […]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti backed violent demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, referring to mobs that have attacked a federal courthouse as “the best of our democratic ideals” and slamming federal law enforcement’s response. In a tweet, Garcetti said: Demonstrators for racial justice represent the best of our democratic […]

CLAIM: President Barack Obama could have sent federal help to Chicago to stop violent crime, but he did not. VERDICT: TRUE. President Obama ignored the pleas of local residents; he proposed gun control instead. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was expanding Operation Legend to send additional federal law […]

If former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrats win in November, there will be more riots. Some Americans may be tempted to hope otherwise — that since President Donald Trump is the real target of the unrest, the left will calm down once Trump is gone. The opposite is […]

Chicago Police Department officers showed footage Tuesday of last weekend’s attack on a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city, in which rioters armed with projectiles used “peaceful” protests as a cover for attacks on police. The footage of the attack, revealed to the media by Superintendent David Brown, showed […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden released a plan Tuesday to tax “real estate investors” to pay for a new federal benefit that, he says, will cover the costs of elder care and child care so working-age adults can focus on their own jobs. Called “The Biden Plan for Mobilizing American […]

CLAIM: President Donald Trump ordered a “Muslim ban” — one that Joe Biden will repeal if he is elected president. VERDICT: FALSE. There is no such “Muslim ban,” and there never was. Trump’s travel ban is legal and constitutional. Former Vice President Joe Biden promised Muslim voters at an event […]

Major League Baseball came out in defense of players who knelt during the national anthem on Monday evening, taking on critics and tweeting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. As Breitbart News reported, several members of the San Francisco Giants took a knee during the playing of the Star-Spangled […]

A group of “progressives” representing a large proportion of delegates won by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-CA) in California has signed a letter to presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden urging that he pick a running mate from a short list of candidates that does to include local Sen. Kamala […]

Michael Goodwin of the New York Post published an extensive investigative article on Sunday claiming that ancestral members of the family that owns the New York Times likely included slaveowners. Moreover, Goodwin recounted, the extended family also included members who fought for the Confederacy; contributed to Confederate memorials after the Civil War; and […]

The late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is being remembered by President Donald Trump the way he ought to be remembered — namely, for his heroic leadership in the civil rights movement. As head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he helped lead the iconic non-violent protests of the era. […]

CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to abolish or defund the police; he just wants to redirect police funding to other uses. VERDICT: Mostly false. Even many activists say defunding the police and redirecting police funding mean the same thing. Fox News’ Chris Wallace generated buzz on Friday afternoon with the […]

We know how Democrats see the world. They — and the media — have been telling us, for the past four years, that Donald Trump is the second coming of Hitler. To them, anything Trump does is proof he is a racist, or a dictator, or at least — with […]