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  • Danesh Faces Digital Exile

    Danesh Faces Digital Exile

    Danesh Noshirvan built his brand by accusing others before millions. Now a Colombian appellate court has examined his methods, rejected his opinion defense, and ordered Meta and Substack to remove criminal accusations against Joseph “Joey” Camp. The ruling does not automatically bind American courts or erase Danesh from the internet. It does something more dangerous:…

  • Litigation by Exhaustion Returns

    Litigation by Exhaustion Returns

    Jeremy Hales and attorney Randall “Randy” Shochet have dragged their litigation circus into the Lynette Preston bankruptcy case, targeting nonparty journalist Lisa Lee with a sprawling subpoena for private communications, financial records, editorial materials, metadata, and viewer identities. Lee joined Robbie Keszey and Richard Luthmann on “Two Lees in a Pod” to expose what she…

  • The Great American Shrink: Demographics, Debt, and Destiny

    The Great American Shrink: Demographics, Debt, and Destiny

    America is racing toward a collision between two forces Washington prefers to discuss separately: a shrinking future population and an expanding national debt. Birthrates remain far below replacement level, leaving fewer future workers, taxpayers, homeowners and entrepreneurs to support a rapidly aging country. At the same time, the federal government continues making promises that younger…

  • The Imam of Hate: A Slip of the Mask

    The Imam of Hate: A Slip of the Mask

    Omar Suleiman spent years selling Washington a polished product: peace, compassion, tolerance and interfaith harmony wrapped in soft language and congressional applause. Then Sen. Lindsey Graham died, and the mask cracked clean in half. “Bye Lindsey,” Suleiman wrote, before wishing the dead senator “an eternity in ruins.” That was not grief, analysis, or principled opposition…

  • The Empty Robe

    The Empty Robe

    Senior U.S. District Judge John E. Steele is dead at 77, leaving behind far more than legal opinions and courthouse memories. He leaves an unfinished federal docket filled with motions, hearings, trials, deadlines and litigants waiting for justice. Steele helped build the modern Fort Myers Division and remained an active judicial force even after assuming…

  • Two Lees One GERM and the Pocket Rocket Paper Mill

    Two Lees One GERM and the Pocket Rocket Paper Mill

    Richard Luthmann came onto Two Lees in a Pod with Lisa Lee and Robbie Keszey and turned the Halesverse inside out. The targets were Jeremy “GERM” Hales, Randy “Pocket Rocket” Shochet, Doreen Turner-Inkeles, and the legal-media machine Luthmann says turns court filings into content, harassment into “commentary,” and trademark law into a censorship weapon. From…

  • The Socialist Surge

    The Socialist Surge

    The socialist takeover of the Democrat Party is no longer a warning about some distant political future. It is happening now. Melat Kiros’ stunning Colorado primary victory over 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette joins a growing list of socialist breakthroughs from New York to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. These candidates are not merely demanding larger…

  • Luthmann Is Coming For GERM’s Favorite Toy

    Luthmann Is Coming For GERM’s Favorite Toy

    Jeremy Hales, known to critics as GERM, is fighting Richard Luthmann in Gainesville federal court, ducking Trial by Combat, and now trying to wrap his own name in trademark paper like it is Valyrian steel. It is not. The pending JEREMY HALES trademark application is not a royal decree, a gag order, or a magic…

  • Two Birthdays Apart: Red, White And Divided

    Two Birthdays Apart: Red, White And Divided

    America does not suffer from a shortage of flags. It suffers from a shortage of common purpose. Greg Maresca’s Fourth of July reflection cuts through the bunting and fireworks to expose the hard truth of America at 250: we are not indifferent, but we are badly divided. In 1976, Americans could argue over Watergate, Vietnam,…

  • That Bonded Minute

    That Bonded Minute

    Before America became a superpower, a culture war, a cable-news cage match, or a social-media shouting pit, it was a story — one day at a time. Greg Maresca remembers when CBS understood that. The old Bicentennial Minute gave Americans sixty seconds of shared civic memory every night, reminding viewers that the Revolution was not…

Danesh Faces Digital Exile
Danesh Noshirvan built his brand by accusing others before millions. Now a …
Litigation by Exhaustion Returns
Jeremy Hales and attorney Randall “Randy” Shochet have dragged their litigation circus …
The Great American Shrink: Demographics, Debt, and Destiny
America is racing toward a collision between two forces Washington prefers to …
The Imam of Hate: A Slip of the Mask
Omar Suleiman spent years selling Washington a polished product: peace, compassion, tolerance …
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