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Vice President Kamala Harris’ deputy campaign manager admitted there is zero value in Democrats talking to outlets like The New York Times (NYT) and The Washington Post (WaPo) because those outlets are already in the tank for the party.

Rob Flaherty told Semafor’s Max Tani that the Harris campaign decided to skip interviews with major corporate press outlets because data showed readers of outlets like the NYT and WaPo already supported Harris.

One simple variable, more than anything, determines when you think the nation peaked.

The plucky poll slingers at YouGov, who are consistently willing to use their elite-tier survey skills in service of measuring the unmeasurable, asked 2,000 adults which decade had the best and worst music, movies, economy and so forth, across 20 measures. But when we charted them, no consistent pattern emerged.

Pete Hegseth, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, will revamp military education to be “patriotic,” blares a terrified Dec. 15 Politico article by Juan Perez Jr.

“Pete Hegseth has pushed for years to steep American education in patriotic principles and Christian theology — and he could implement that vision for thousands of military families,” the article opens.

Democrats, the media, and even some Republicans counsel against pardoning J6ers. They’re wrong.

Since Donald Trump’s decisive victory in last month’s presidential elections, the Democrats and their corporate media partners have insisted that it would be a grave mistake for him to pardon the J6 “insurrectionists.” To do so, they tell us, would be an unprecedented abuse of the clemency powers granted to presidents under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Inevitably, various “news” outlets have commissioned polls purporting to show how unpopular these pardons would be with the public. Recently, for example, Newsweek reported on a Monmouth poll allegedly confirming the proposition that a majority of Americans do not support pardons for the J6 prisoners.

A prolific historian eschews subtlety assessing Lindbergh and mollycoddles the hypercautious Roosevelt.

Franklin Roosevelt’s battle with the famous aviator and anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh is often presented as a morality play showing Roosevelt to be the long-sighted hero in the war on fascism. Since then, Democrats have lobbed charges of fascism against Republicans, the latest being Donald Trump.

So, one wonders at the timing of two books this year. On September 24, came the latest of thirty books by history professor H.W. Brands, America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, which followed the June 4, release of Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh — and the Battle to Save Democracy by former director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Paul M. Sparrow.