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By Brad Slager It is time for a new round of nominations of nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and the deserved media mockery, we nominate these efforts in a variety of categories for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the legacy of muckraking reporting and shoe-leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards.   Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty word-smith devices. We compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of our un-distinguished trophy, The Remmys.  Here is the latest batch of nominees for consideration, gathered for the end of the calendar when we will be handing out trophies to the most un-impressive acts of journalism throughout the past year!  Distinguished Explanatory Reporting Lawrence O’Donnell -  MS NOW Following the dra...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell   The Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) faction of the Los Angeles City Council is offering up another middle finger to the citizenry of  Los Angeles , led by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez (CD-13), who is proposing a plan to let illegal aliens vote in city elections. This is our shocked face. And so it begins… LA City Councilmen Hugo Soto Martinez & Ysabel Jurado have unveiled a plan to let "noncitizens" VOTE in LA elections There are 1.5 million noncitizens in LA 15% of their entire population pic.twitter.com/LddRPRpiXh — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 30, 2026 City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who represents an Echo Park-to-Hollywood district, released a proposal Wednesday to ask voters in the Nov. 3 election to give the council the power to let noncitizens vote in city elections, including those for mayor and City Council, as well as for Los Angeles Board of Education seats. The proposal faces multiple hurdles that coul...

By John R. Lott Jr. If policymakers and advocates are serious about reducing such incidents, the focus needs to shift toward measures that directly address the factors involved. As is so typical, just hours after the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Democrats were already calling for more gun control. But they made the same mistake they continually make — they called for gun control laws that were irrelevant for stopping the attack they are discussing. The attacker had a 12-gauge Mossberg Maverick 88 pump-action  shotgun  and an Armscor Precision .38 semi-automatic pistol. The guns  were obtained  from two different gun stores in California. That is an important fact that gun control advocates need to appreciate because gun control groups rate California as the  state with the “best” gun control laws . Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.,  appeared  on CNN’s  State of the Union  the morning after the incident and sug...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell Democrat Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51) is a dim bulb at best, a disingenuous hack at her worst. Like Democrat Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), she is used because she's youthful, plays to the camera, and will spout whatever hyperbolic nonsense she's fed.  At Wednesday's House Armed Services Committee hearing, this is how Jacobs wasted her time when given the opportunity to question Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Jacobs began, "Do you believe that the president is mentally stable enough to be Commander-in-Chief?" Seriously ?! There are consequential questions concerning Operation Epic Fury, the DOW staff that have been removed, or anything relevant to SecWar's role. Instead of actually engaging her brain and asking questions that her constituents in a defense area like San Diego would be interested in hearing the answer to, Jacobs doubled down on TDS. Totally on brand. Hegseth didn't even bother to address her TDS-riddled ques...

By Ward Clark This is what some esteemed people refer to as "doubling down on stupid." We recently brought you the story of one Kirk Bangstad, the owner of a Minnesota business called the Minocqua Brewing Company. After the latest (and the third) assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Mr. Bangstad took to X to express regret that he wasn't able to celebrate the assassination of the President of the United States by giving away free beer. Yeah, this is a sick guy . The owner of this brewery is running for office as a Democrat. pic.twitter.com/NNlEegCVUy — Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 26, 2026 That was his first dumb move. Now, on Friday, we see that Mr. Bangstad has done a cannonball into the deep end of the dumb moves pool. How? Well, his initial remarks drew, as we might expect, the attention of the  Secret Service and the FBI .  The FBI and Secret Service are meeting with Kirk Bangstad of the Minocqua Brewing C...

By Becky Noble Since President Donald Trump's mass deportations of illegal immigrants began, blue states have done everything possible to impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other law enforcement officials from doing what the American people voted for in November of 2024. They have also all but encouraged crazed leftist, anti-ICE protesters to harm agents and their families, all because they are doing their jobs. However, the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has had it with one state, and is pushing back hard. Justice Department sues NJ over limits on federal agents https://t.co/GzHiJD3Tfd — Gothamist (@Gothamist) April 30, 2026 On Wednesday, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against New Jersey Gov. Rebecca Michelle "Mikie" Sherrill (D) and Attorney General Jennifer Davenport (D)  over a state law t he DOJ says hinders law enforcement. The DOJ calls the "Law Enforcement Protection Act" unconstitutional; it prohibits the wearing of masks by l...

By Ben Smith Tim Walz declared Elon Musk a Nazi sympathizer based on a gesture at a rally. No evidence. No qualifier. Just moral certainty and a demand that everyone accept it. Now he's heading to Maine to campaign for Graham Platner, a Democratic Senate hopeful who had the Totenkopf, the SS skull and crossbones the ADL links directly to Nazi iconography, tattooed on his chest for nearly 20 years. He only  covered  it up when reporters came asking.  Tim Walz was in meltdown mode likening Elon to a Nazi. Guy with an actual Nazi death camp tattoo? No problem. Campaigning with him tomorrow. https://t.co/tfqJU5ciro pic.twitter.com/AQwJOXCaLO — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 1, 2026 "We knew that the implication and they're throwing so much at us that we're fatigued, you know, we spent three days, you know, debating, having them trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute. Of course he did." That's Walz on MSNBC, dismissing any debate over...

By Rusty Weiss The Trump Justice Department appears to be moving quickly to shut down the practice of racial gerrymandering once and for all, ensuring the Supreme Court’s  latest ruling  is enforced nationwide. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made that  crystal clear  Thursday when she responded to Senator Eric Schmitt's (R-MO) specific request on the matter with a straightforward "we are on it!” Dhillon went on to stress that the DOJ under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is committed to equal protection for  all  Americans. Which shouldn't be a novel idea in today's world, but clearly is for our friends on the left. Schmitt had pressed the department in a previous thread on X, urging officials to use their full authority to enforce the Supreme Court’s recent decision nationwide. He pointed out that the feds clearly have the power to step in and stop states from continuing these Democrat-led, race-based map-drawing schemes. Senator — we ...