Sen. Grassley: FBI Director’s ‘Orwellian Conduct’ Has ‘Shattered My Confidence’

In a scathing letter to the FBI chief, the Iowa senator says it's time for Wray and his deputy to 'move on to the next chapter.'

How To Make Legislatures Stop Working For Special Interests And Start Working For The People

Decentralizing power in the legislature is necessary if the people are to take back control of government from lobbyists and bureaucrats.

'She Should Have Known': How Angela Alsobrooks Dodged a $4,000 Tax Bill With One Curious Paperwork Maneuver

Something strange happened the day Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, obtained the Washington, D.C., home at the center of an ongoing property tax scandal. As Alsobrooks tells it, she received the home from her grandmother in November 2003, when the senior became too old to live alone. Alsobrooks, who now serves as county executive of Prince George's County, Md., never lived in the property and instead rented it out until she sold it in 2018. Throughout all those years, the Senate candidate improperly claimed tax exemptions on the property meant only for seniors and primary residents of the district—costly errors that landed Alsobrooks a $47,500 bill for back taxes and interest earlier in October. But Washington, D.C., property records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show there's more to the story. Those records indicate Alsobrooks took greater lengths to avoid paying her fair share of taxes beyond claiming tax exemptions for which she was ineligible. And when Alsobrooks took out a $130,000 mortgage on the property after she secured it in her name, she appears to have failed to follow through on a requirement to use it as her primary residence.

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Leading 'Youth Gender Dysphoria' Doctor Stalls Publication of Study on Puberty Blockers, Voicing Concerns Opponents Will 'Weaponize' Results

A top “youth gender dysphoria” doctor is delaying publishing the results of a multi-year study that examined the impact of puberty blockers on children’s mental health, worrying those who oppose such treatments will “weaponize” the results for political gains.

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GA Supreme Court Won’t Hear GOP Appeal To Reinstate Election Integrity Rules Until After Election

'It is supremely disappointing to observe yet another failure of our judicial system to expeditiously resolve critical questions about our elections process.'

Amish Shah Is Using a Rented Condo To Vote From the Congressional District He's Running To Represent. His Actual Home Is Located One District Over, Records Show.

Democratic Arizona congressional candidate Amish Shah's home is not located in the district he is running to represent but rather in Arizona's nearby third district. Shah is saving money on property taxes by declaring the home as his primary residence, according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. At the same time, he is voting from a rented condominium in the first district he is running to represent, those records show. Shah changed his voter registration last year to reflect the condo address, according to his voter file, allowing him to cast a ballot for himself in the crowded July primary.

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'She Said Yes!' Ruben Gallego Announced His Engagement in 2020. But Senate Hopeful Had Already Secretly Remarried, Two Years After Strange Split From Pregnant First Wife.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) declared himself "the happiest man in the world" in February 2020 after his then-girlfriend, real estate lobbyist Sydney Barron, accepted his marriage proposal. "She said yes!! Thank you Sydney for being my forever!" Gallego wrote on social media on Feb. 15, 2020. 

Days later, Politico Playbook printed the news, announcing in its Feb. 18, 2020, edition that Gallego had popped the question in Ireland "at a small restaurant in the historic city of Limerick."

In reality, though, records show that the two were already married. A Washington, D.C. marriage license indicates that Gallego and Barron tied the knot in December 2019 at the swanky National Gallery of Art, with a Democratic Senatorial Communications Committee official, Leigh Parker Pross, serving as the officiant.

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Kamala Harris Stonewalls Congressional Probe Into NatSec Adviser's Ties to Iran Influence Network

Vice President Kamala Harris is stonewalling a congressional inquiry into her national security adviser's ties to an Iranian government influence network, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

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John Avlon Says He's Been Living on Long Island for Years. Public Records Raise Questions.

After years of commenting on politics, CNN weekend anchor John Avlon, a self-proclaimed "centrist," decided to, in his words, "step up and get off the sidelines." In February, the former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter announced that he was running as a Democrat to unseat Republican representative Nick LaLota in New York's First Congressional District, located in eastern Long Island.

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California Democrat in Tight House Race Says He 'Personally Prosecuted' Jan. 6 Rioters and 'Held Accountable the Insurrectionists.' Evidence Is Scant.

Democratic congressional candidate Will Rollins (Calif.) repeatedly claims that he "personally prosecuted" participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, but an exhaustive Washington Free Beacon search only found one case connected to the former assistant U.S. attorney—and it's still pending.

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