By, RealClearInvestigationsAP Photo/Charlie RiedelXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, Senator-elect Josh Hawley is applauded in 2018 by wife Erin, a key pro-life lawyer behind the scenes in last month's historic defeat of the federal role in abortion.Erin Hawley didn’t know that she would help make history when she took a job in February with the conservative legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom. Two months later, the former law professor was on a plane to Mississippi to serve as co-counsel with the state’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, and its solicitor general, Scott Stewart, to...…By, RealClearInvestigationsAP Photo/Charlie RiedelXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, Senator-elect Josh Hawley is applauded in 2018 by wife Erin, a key pro-life lawyer behind the scenes in last month's historic defeat of the federal role in abortion.Erin Hawley didn’t know that she would help make history when she took a job in February with the conservative legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom. Two months later, the former law professor was on a plane to Mississippi to serve as co-counsel with the state’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, and its solicitor general, Scott Stewart, to...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesThe epicenter of the political earthquakes rattling San Francisco’s progressive establishment is a 30-square-block neighborhood in the center of downtown known as the Tenderloin. Adjacent to some of the city’s most famous attractions, including the high-end shopping district Union Square, the old money redoubt of Nob Hill, historic Chinatown, and the city’s gold-capped City Hall, it is home to a giant, open-air drug bazaar. Tents fill the sidewalks. Addicts sit on curbs and lean against walls, nodding off to their fentanyl and...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesThe epicenter of the political earthquakes rattling San Francisco’s progressive establishment is a 30-square-block neighborhood in the center of downtown known as the Tenderloin. Adjacent to some of the city’s most famous attractions, including the high-end shopping district Union Square, the old money redoubt of Nob Hill, historic Chinatown, and the city’s gold-capped City Hall, it is home to a giant, open-air drug bazaar. Tents fill the sidewalks. Addicts sit on curbs and lean against walls, nodding off to their fentanyl and...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesDo electric cars pollute? They do if state power grids stay mostly "dirty" by failing to solve renewable-energy transmission problems. California is a prime case in point.CALIFORNIA CITY -- California's precariously out-of-date hybrid power grid can't handle the state's growing amounts of solar and wind energy coming online, with system managers already forcing repeated cutbacks in renewables and a continued reliance on conventional energy to keep the grid stable, according to state data.No place to go: Image from the Energy...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesDo electric cars pollute? They do if state power grids stay mostly "dirty" by failing to solve renewable-energy transmission problems. California is a prime case in point.CALIFORNIA CITY -- California's precariously out-of-date hybrid power grid can't handle the state's growing amounts of solar and wind energy coming online, with system managers already forcing repeated cutbacks in renewables and a continued reliance on conventional energy to keep the grid stable, according to state data.No place to go: Image from the Energy...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesCrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry: "We just don’t have the evidence ..."Crowdstrike.comCrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath,  in a...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesCrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry: "We just don’t have the evidence ..."Crowdstrike.comCrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath,  in a...WW…

|Posted ByOn Date May 14, 2020From Fox News: Documents show Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony of Burisma meetings and letters. On "The Ingraham Angle," perspectives from Fox News contributor John Solomon and Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Related Topics: ,CommentVideo ArchivesSign up for RC newsletters©2020 RealClearInvestigations |…|Posted ByOn Date May 14, 2020From Fox News: Documents show Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony of Burisma meetings and letters. On "The Ingraham Angle," perspectives from Fox News contributor John Solomon and Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Related Topics: ,CommentVideo ArchivesSign up for RC newsletters©2020 RealClearInvestigations |WW…

ByXStory Streamrecent articlesUpdate, May 4, 2020: Nikole Hannah-Jones was for her lead work on the disputed "1619 Project" discussed in this essay.The New York Times is widely admired for owning up to its errors. In addition to the corrections it runs each day, it has a tradition of publishing extensive Editor’s Notes and even full-length investigations when it has determined that flawed reporting misled readers and botched the rough first draft of history. Since 2000, these have included lengthy reassessments of its reporting on whether a Chinese American scientist, , had...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesUpdate, May 4, 2020: Nikole Hannah-Jones was for her lead work on the disputed "1619 Project" discussed in this essay.The New York Times is widely admired for owning up to its errors. In addition to the corrections it runs each day, it has a tradition of publishing extensive Editor’s Notes and even full-length investigations when it has determined that flawed reporting misled readers and botched the rough first draft of history. Since 2000, these have included lengthy reassessments of its reporting on whether a Chinese American scientist, , had...WW…

ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, from "The Crystal Ball" (1904) by John William Waterhouse. Predictions are a fraught enterprise. With computer models too.COVID-19 has proved to be a crisis not only for public health but for public policy. As credentialed experts, media commentators, and elected officials have insisted that ordinary men and women heed “the science,” the statistical models cited by scientists to predict the spread of contagion and justify the lockdown of the national economy have proven to be far off-base.Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York complained this week about the...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, from "The Crystal Ball" (1904) by John William Waterhouse. Predictions are a fraught enterprise. With computer models too.COVID-19 has proved to be a crisis not only for public health but for public policy. As credentialed experts, media commentators, and elected officials have insisted that ordinary men and women heed “the science,” the statistical models cited by scientists to predict the spread of contagion and justify the lockdown of the national economy have proven to be far off-base.Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York complained this week about the...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, President Biden with his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, linked to the Alfa Bank hoax.Several individuals connected to a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to cast Donald Trump as a covert Kremlin collaborator are working in high-level jobs within the Biden administration – including at least two senior Biden appointees cited by Special Counsel John Durham in his “active (and) ongoing" criminal investigation of the scheme, according to recently filed court documents.John Durham: The Special Counsel...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, President Biden with his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, linked to the Alfa Bank hoax.Several individuals connected to a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to cast Donald Trump as a covert Kremlin collaborator are working in high-level jobs within the Biden administration – including at least two senior Biden appointees cited by Special Counsel John Durham in his “active (and) ongoing" criminal investigation of the scheme, according to recently filed court documents.John Durham: The Special Counsel...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, a New Orleans building housing luxury shops also has one of the nation's immigration courts, where public business typically knocks off about 11 a.m., reflecting an apparent lack of urgency.NEW ORLEANS—The courtrooms handling illegal immigration cases here are tucked into the fifth floor of a white skyscraper on the bank of the Mississippi River. A few floors below is a Saks Fifth Avenue, reputed to be one of the tony department store’s most profitable locations, and a few floors above is a U.S. passport office so busy...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, a New Orleans building housing luxury shops also has one of the nation's immigration courts, where public business typically knocks off about 11 a.m., reflecting an apparent lack of urgency.NEW ORLEANS—The courtrooms handling illegal immigration cases here are tucked into the fifth floor of a white skyscraper on the bank of the Mississippi River. A few floors below is a Saks Fifth Avenue, reputed to be one of the tony department store’s most profitable locations, and a few floors above is a U.S. passport office so busy...WW…

ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, the FBI's Peter Strzok, one of two agents at Flynn's interview.The Justice Department’s closing of its criminal case against President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday came as new red flags emerged from recently released documents revealing the FBI’s handling of the matter.Michael Flynn: New documents reveal irregular handling and editing of his FBI interview form.AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaFormer FBI agents and federal prosecutors tell RealClearInvestigations that the documents show suspiciously irregular handling and...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, the FBI's Peter Strzok, one of two agents at Flynn's interview.The Justice Department’s closing of its criminal case against President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday came as new red flags emerged from recently released documents revealing the FBI’s handling of the matter.Michael Flynn: New documents reveal irregular handling and editing of his FBI interview form.AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaFormer FBI agents and federal prosecutors tell RealClearInvestigations that the documents show suspiciously irregular handling and...WW…