Former House Speaker John Boehner is one of politicians who cash in after leaving office. In Boehner’s case, he opposed all efforts to legalize cannabis while he was in Congress, then promptly went into business as a pro-marijuana lobbyist, earning millions pushing for legalized pot around the country. So, fresh off spending the holidays watching sports and all the commercial tie-ins for legalized sports betting, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers open the first episode of The Drill Down for 2024 by asking, “Who is the ‘John Boehner’ of legalized sports betting?”Turns out it’s . . . John Boehner.
Commentary Culture Investigations
Caribbean Vacations and Election Fraud
Election fraud – even the suspicion of it – is poisonous to democracy. That is the stated reason why Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is bringing a case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia under the anti-racketeering statute known as RICO that was written to go after criminal gangs.
Fighting Against Indoctrination and Reshaping A University
Young people at our nation’s colleges and universities are not as radical and left-wing as the media would have you believe, but it’s not for a want of trying by woke administrators and radical faculty members.That’s the take of New College of Florida president Richard Corcoran and former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. They joined Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers who guest-hosted Sean Hannity’s radio show this week. In the battle for free speech on campus, both Walker and Corcoran want to go on offense.
Exposing the hidden horrors on Myanmar’s battlefields I Al Jazeera Investigations
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
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Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis.
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Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That.
The post Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That. appeared first on ProPublica.
Does JD Vance Think Trump Is an Agent of Foreign Influence?
When it comes to Iran, the policies Vance advocated do not reflect those of the administration in which he serves.
No, We Should Not Give Up on the Goal of a 2 Percent Inflation Rate
If the White House or anyone else in government thinks a 3 percent inflation rate is good enough, they ought to level with the public and say so.
Big Intel – How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains with Michael Waller
The cultural Marxism that wrecked so many of our universities claimed another victim: America’s spies.That is the premise for a powerful new book on the CIA and the FBI that takes on the question: how they went from being Cold War heroes to deep state villains?Author Michael Waller, himself a longtime veteran of the intelligence world, has just published a book called Big Intel, He joins Peter and Eric on the DrillDown to discuss his time in El Salvador with the CIA in the 1980s, and the state of America’s spooks today.