Commentary Culture Investigations

Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has embarked on a preemptive media campaign attacking his state’s flagship newspaper, the Baltimore Sun, for a forthcoming investigative series that will allegedly scrutinize Moore’s record.
“The Baltimore Sun used to be our paper of record,” Moore told former White House press secretary turned MS NOW host Jen Psaki, whose time as President Joe Biden’s top flack was marked by the cover-up of the president’s mental decline. “It’s now become the paper of the right wing.”
Moore, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential prospect, has taken a public beating in the wake of news reports from the Washington Free Beacon and other out-of-state outlets that exposed a litany of false statements about his family history, his upbringing, and his academic, athletic, and military achievements. Now, the Baltimore Sun, together with a local network collaboration known as Spotlight on Maryland, is getting in on the action with a series months in the making that will apparently examine whether Moore exaggerated his military and athletic accomplishments beyond what is already known.
Spotlight on Maryland managing editor Candy Woodall said Wednesday that Moore’s team “warned” her privately in January that it would work to tarnish the Sun’s reputation by sending “files to every media reporter” in the country if it continued its probe into Moore’s military records.
Moore’s team followed through on that threat this week, with Semafor on Sunday publishing a trove of documents provided by Moore’s office showing their communications with Sun reporters dating back to November. Though the documents shed light on the nature of the Sun’s pending reporting and show that the Sun reporters believe Moore’s team has stonewalled their inquiries for months, to Semafor, they also reveal that Moore and his team believe that the paper is being weaponized by its new owner, David Smith, a longtime Republican donor and executive chairman of the Sinclair television network.
Moore’s senior press secretary, Ammar Moussa, followed up with posts on X on Monday saying the Sun and Spotlight on Maryland are engaged in “faux-journalism” and don’t deserve to be treated like news outlets, mirroring the sort of rhetoric Moore’s aides used to describe the Free Beacon when responding to reporting scrutinizing the governor’s provably false claim to have been a “foremost expert” on radical Islam and to his assertion that his great-grandfather was chased out of the country by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
As for the nature of the pending joint investigation from the Sun and Spotlight on Maryland, the emails published by Semafor show it has been tugging on intriguing threads about Moore’s military service in Afghanistan in 2005, including allegations that the accomplishments credited to Moore in his Army Officer Evaluation Report were aggrandized as part of an effort “to help manufacture Moore into a candidate for future political office” in violation of Army Regulations and federal ethics rules.
That evaluation report, according to the emails, was approved by then Lt. Col. Michael Fenzel, a close personal friend of Moore who served as his supervisor in Afghanistan and, later, as a groomsman in his wedding.
Should the reporting materialize, it could prove damaging to Moore’s 2028 presidential aspirations, which may explain his decision to go on the offensive against the Sun even before its investigation hits the airwaves.
“The United States Army doesn’t question my integrity. The soldiers I served with don’t question my integrity,” Moore told Psaki on Tuesday. “But we are seeing how the right wing and these right-wing billionaires like David Smith is then using his wealth to be able to manipulate local media.”
“And they’re doing it to curry favor with Donald Trump,” he added.
The communications published by Semafor also indicate Moore’s office provided a heavily redacted version of the governor’s DD214 discharge paperwork to Sun reporters that created “unnecessary questions” surrounding his departure from the military. That document appears to be connected to an effort by Sun reporters to “seek definitive information establishing the legitimacy” of the Bronze Star award Moore received in late 2024.
Moore received his Bronze Star several months after the New York Times reported that he had falsely claimed to have received it in his 2006 application for a White House fellowship. Moore has Fenzel to thank for re-submitting his Bronze Star award application in 2024 during the final months of the Biden administration. “I’m so happy to be in a position to right a wrong,” Fenzel said during Moore’s private award ceremony.
The post Wes Moore Attacks Local Newspaper for Deigning To Report on His Record appeared first on .

Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) took credit for over $7.1 billion in business investments to the Old Dominion—investments that were actually secured by her Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin.
Spanberger’s Monday announcement listed four bipartisan bills she signed that detail the capital investments from Avio USA, Hitachi Energy, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca, which involve building new facilities and will bring more than 3,200 jobs building rocket motors, producing critical electrical grid infrastructure, and manufacturing pharmaceuticals. The legislation provides financial incentives for each company.
“From my very first day in office, I have been working to create a stable business environment so companies can hire, expand, and continue to invest in our Commonwealth,” Spanberger said in the announcement. “Attracting new businesses and jobs to Virginia is a core focus of my administration — and I’m proud of the hundreds of millions of dollars in investment we have already announced this year.”
All four companies, however, announced their forthcoming investments last year while Youngkin was governor, as reporter Nick Minock of 7News DC first noted in a Wednesday X post. All four companies also included quotes from Youngkin when announcing the investments in 2025. AstraZeneca’s CEO specifically thanked “Governor Youngkin and his team for their energy and vision,” saying the company “found in Virginia an amazing team that moves at incredible speed to build a better future for this Commonwealth and the American people.” Hitachi said its new Virginia facility came “with the support of Governor Youngkin” as well as “the Trump Administration’s White House AI Action Plan.” Hitachi, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca announced their investments before Spanberger won in November.
Youngkin spokesman Justin Discigil told the Washington Free Beacon that the former governor is grateful his state continues to reap the rewards of his tenure, even if he doesn’t get credit.
“The last three months have been nothing but horrible news for Virginians as Abigail Spanberger broke every single promise she made on the campaign trail,” Discigil said. “Governor Youngkin is happy that Virginians are being reminded of some good news, even if it means Gov. Spanberger taking credit for the economic deals he secured for the Commonwealth.”
Spanberger, who did not respond to a request for comment, touted the investments the same day a Washington Post-Schar School poll put her approval rating at 47 percent—13 percentage points below the average for Virginia governors in Post polling since the 1990s—with 46 percent disapproving. She also said Monday that she looks forward to “continuing to work with legislators, local communities, and business leaders as we make clear that Virginia is the top state in the nation to grow or start a business,” but voters apparently aren’t buying her messaging. A plurality—41 percent—also said her policies would make Virginia less affordable, according to the Post survey.
Spanberger campaigned on affordability and billed herself as a moderate during her gubernatorial bid, but quickly took a left turn after taking office. In early February, she ordered Virginia’s law enforcement agencies to dissolve any partnerships with federal immigration enforcement. The next day, she signed a salvo of bills proposing constitutional amendments on abortion, voting rights for felons, same-sex marriage, and partisan redistricting efforts. The map Spanberger approved—which will go before voters on April 21—would shift Democrats’ 6-5 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation to 10-1.
AstraZeneca didn’t provide a comment, but pointed the Free Beacon to its original October announcement detailing its $4.5 billion investment, which will include a new facility to manufacture medications, including cancer treatments.
Eli Lilly, Hitachi, and Avio did not respond to requests for comment. Those investments include, respectively, $2 billion and 450 jobs to manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients for cancer, autoimmune, and other therapies; $457 million and 825 jobs producing critical electrical grid infrastructure; and $537 million and 1,500 jobs building solid rocket motors for the defense, tactile propulsion, missile systems, and commercial space sectors.
The post Abigail Spanberger Takes Credit For $7.1 Billion in Business Investments Secured By GOP Predecessor Glenn Youngkin appeared first on .

What is it with American liberals and nuns who take care of dying people?

Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, was brutally height mogged by pro-terrorist influencer Hasan Piker during a campaign event this week, raising serious questions about the “pocket-sized” candidate’s fitness for federal office.
El-Sayed, a Rhodes Scholar who also sympathizes with terrorists, was listed at 5’9″ and 195 lbs during his undistinguished career on the University of Michigan’s club lacrosse team. In 2006, El-Sayed failed to register a single statistic despite appearing in 15 games. Lacrosse is widely regarded as a trashy sport that serves as a natural refuge for society’s most loathsome creatures.

Piker, by comparison, appeared almost comically large in photos from the campaign event, where he and El-Sayed answered questions about Israel’s nefarious influence and the anti-colonial resistance of Hamas. A glowing New York Times profile published in 2025 described the radical streamer as “6 feet 4 inches tall and built like a professional athlete.” Of course, this is the same publication that mistakenly referred to NATO as the “North American Treaty Organization” in a recent print edition.
An extensive Washington Free Beacon analysis found ample evidence to suggest that El-Sayed and Piker are lying about their actual size.
In September 2015, Piker was photographed alongside former NFL wide receiver Drew Carter, who was officially listed at 6’3″ throughout his career. A visual analysis determined that Piker was at least 1-2 inches shorter than Carter. However, because Piker’s feet were not visible in the photo, we were unable to rule out the possibility that he was wearing lifts or standing on a box.

In April 2025, Piker interviewed then-candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani in a New York City smoothie café. A USA Today report published earlier this year estimated Mamdani’s height at 5’9″. The estimate was based on a viral TikTok post of a woman who said she rejected Mamdani on a dating app because of his diminutive stature. “His height was listed as either 5’11 or 5’10 and younger me knew that meant he was most likely 5’9,” the post read.
Screenshots from the interview, in which both men were seated at a table, reveal that Mamdani is roughly an inch taller than Piker, which would make Piker approximately 5’8″—eight inches shorter than advertised.

A subsequent comparative analysis determined that Piker is about 10 inches taller than El-Sayed, which would make the U.S. Senate hopeful approximately 4’10″—a prohibitively diminutive stature for a male politician running for higher office. He is what Gen Z internet slang would call a “manlet.”

According to our analysis, El-Sayed is even shorter than Barbara Mikulski, the self-described “Lilliputian” Democrat who served as U.S. Senator from Maryland for three decades until 2017. Mikulski, who stood just 4’11” tall, is best known for leading the “pantsuit rebellion” of 1993.

Bottom line: Radical socialists can’t be trusted to tell the truth about anything involving numbers. Bernie Sanders, for example, claims to be six feet tall. The evidence suggests otherwise.

The post Too Short To Serve? Hasan Piker Brutally Height Mogs Pocket-Sized ‘Manlet’ Abdul El-Sayed appeared first on .

Thank God Israel is on our side – and that we, thank God, are on Israel’s.
The post How They Rescued Him appeared first on Frontpage Mag.

What’s a lot of sleazy and blood when power is on the line?
The post White House Dem Hopefuls Bow to Sharpton appeared first on Frontpage Mag.

They won’t pay – but it’s still a moral victory.
The post Palestinian Authority and PLO Ordered to Pay $655 Million to Terror Victims appeared first on Frontpage Mag.

It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand.
The post The Fall of Islam appeared first on Frontpage Mag.

Toxic empathy in action.
The post Newsom’s Wife: San Quentin Convicts’ Crimes Were ‘Probably Accidents’ appeared first on Frontpage Mag.

If this isn’t evil, what is?
The post The Underreporting of the Iranian Regime’s Crimes appeared first on Frontpage Mag.