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By Michael Ruiz Convicted Idaho student murderer Bryan Kohberger will return to court on Oct. 15 for a hearing on his motion to remove Judge Steven Hippler from his case as he seeks to undo his guilty plea through a process known as post-conviction relief. Kohberger, 31, filed a handwritten petition in July, telling the court he had ineffective counsel, that his guilty plea was "not knowingly or voluntarily entered because it was induced by unkept promises" and that it was "not voluntarily entered because of threats asserted by petitioner's (Kohberger's) legal counsel." The court appointed attorney Greg Rauch, of Moscow, Idaho, and private defense lawyer Jason Goldman, of New York, later joined Kohberger's new legal team. Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. Kohberger pleaded guilty in exchange for being spared the death penalty for the stabbing of four Univers...

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh By James K. Galbraith In his remarks to this year’s gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh called for the Fed to “receive the full range of ideas” on monetary policy in order to “construct more reliable models.” Apparently, and to his credit, he recognises that the current models, rooted in mainstream economics, are not very good. He also rightly acknowledged the Fed’s dual goals, set by law, of full employment and price stability, though he erred in describing the 2-percent inflation target as part of “our mandate.” (In fact, it is only an internal goal.) Warsh’s hard line on inflation runs up against a key weakness in his models. His remarks treat AI as “a new factor of production” that introduces the “potential for substantially higher growth” and a “sustained rise in productivity.” This description reflects the standard textbook “production function”—which trac...

By Hans A. Von Spakovsky A shocking, newly released legal documentary, Coyote vs. ACME , about the efforts of an Albuquerque billboard tort lawyer to obtain relief for his long-suffering client, Wile E. Coyote, demonstrates the importance of having effective product liability laws and a fair legal system. The fact that the ACME Corporation could manufacture without consequence such defective products as malfunctioning rocket-propelled roller skates and giant catapults that throw boulders the wrong way is a scandalous indictment of the flaws in our justice system as well as the incompetence of government regulators. As is the fact that the loud and obnoxious billionaire head of ACME, Foghorn Leghorn, could get away with selling such defective products to an innocent, unsuspecting public, such as Mr. Coyote, for so long to feed Leghorn’s greed.  In fact, according to the Forbes annual “World’s Billionaires List - the Richest in 2026,” Leghorn is the world’s richest chicken, far s...

By Chris Nesi Lindsay Clancy’s outspoken lawyer, Kevin Reddington , directly appealed to President Trump early Tuesday to pardon the killer mom. “Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady – the type of person she is and what she’s been through – and consider a pardon,” he told “Good Morning America” when asked what was next for Clancy after her high-profile case ended in a mistrial Friday. The veteran 75-year-old lawyer made no mention of how he expected Trump to get involved, given that Clancy is only facing state charges, which presidents have no power to pardon. He also did not say if he hoped such unprecedented intervention would stop a second trial or save the killer if she were convicted. Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, spoke with George Stephanopoulos on ‘Good Morning America’ Tuesday. GMA Reddington only said that he hoped Trump would weigh in given that he had “felt compelled to speak out about this case...

By BLAZETV STAFF For years, Dr. Debra Soh viewed pornography as little more than harmless entertainment for consenting adults. Today, the neuroscientist and sex researcher sees it very differently. “I used to write for a very well-known men’s magazine that features nude women. I was a regular columnist for that magazine,” Soh tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey , noting that her views have changed “a lot” since then. “Millennials, we grew up with internet porn. I don’t think we were as negatively affected as Gen Z, say, but I do think there are some effects there,” she says. Soh explains that literature shows that “early exposure to pornography” can lead to “negative outcomes like hypersexuality [and] greater propensity for risky sex.” “So that means having sex with many people, having unprotected sex, being under the influence of drugs and alcohol when having sex,” she says, noting that it also changes the way men and women view th...

By Matt Margolis You may have heard about the alleged assassination attempt against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the weekend. "While attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people. Dr. Acton and Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured. This kind of violence has no place in Ohio. Dr. Acton will always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another," said Addie Bullock, communications director for the Acton campaign. pic.twitter.com/0nV3g4XJdL — Dr. Amy Acton (@amyactonoh) September 6, 2026 There's just one problem. This story is a complete lie. That statement is carefully worded to make you think Acton was standing in a gunman's crosshairs. She wasn't. Acton was never touched, never injured, and never threatened. An armed man pushed through a crowd at the Canfield Fair on Sunday, kno...

By Hannah Nightingale A Missouri foster mother has escaped being sentenced to prison after she allegedly traded a child under her care for a monkey. The judge also revoked her foster care license during the hearing, criticizing the state for allowing her to keep it as long as she did. During the Thursday hearing, Lincoln County Judge Thomas Frawley sentenced 70-year-old Brenda Deutsch to a suspended seven-year prison sentence for child endangerment. If she stays out of trouble for her three years of probation, she will not go to prison, per Fox 2. Brina Johnson, Deutsch’s biological daughter, and a former foster child of Deutsch both spoke out in the hearing. A minor was present in the courtroom, which Johnson said was the one traded for the monkey. She said of her mother, “That’s what she did; she had at least seven monkeys. That’s just her thing. But she wasn’t any nicer to those monkeys than she was to a child.” Deutsch was arrested in April after authorities investigated alle...

By Brooke Brandtjen Thank You For Sharing exposes how the mental health industry thrives off of telling people that their worst behaviors can be excused because of ‘illness.’ Our culture has an unhealthy obsession with mental illness, and the Lindsay Clancy trial is just the latest reminder. Children and adults alike build their entire personalities around their perceived illnesses, whether by going to therapy five days a week or identifying as transgender. Thank You For Sharing, the newest film from director Sonia Zawitkowski, argues that this alleged crisis is predominantly artificial. The documentary tracks how we invented and gradually expanded the concept of mental health. It exposes how the modern field of medicine, originally centered around soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, has spiralled into an industry that encourages children to take wrong-sex hormones, get hooked on SSRIs, and rebuild their identities around their perceived illness.  For decad...

By Victor Davis Hanson The primaries are over, and the November general election looms. Suddenly, the Islamo-socialist podcaster Hasan Piker—who is now infamous for blaming America for 9/11 and warning Jews that “someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews”—is persona non grata on the Democratic stump. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in the Michigan Senate race, once enlisted Piker to jump-start his lethargic candidacy. Now that he is locked in a close general-election race against a strong Republican, El-Sayed dismisses the antisemite, who has suddenly outlived his usefulness, as a mere “social media person in California.” Clinton-era Democratic politicos like Rahm Emanuel and James Carville insist that Democrats have divorced themselves from the hard-left Democratic Socialists. Really? If that divorce were real, why would so many Democrats be cheering a potential Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential ...