The Adult in the Room

Mike McCormick served as part of the While House Stenographers Office for over 20 years, serving as part of the team tasked with preserving for posterity the official remarks of the President & Vice President under six different administrations. Now an author and independent journalist with a unique perspective on the Oval Office, Mike has taken on a new project: sorting through the sordid material on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop and matching it with official records and Joe Biden's own statements to establish a timeline that suggests corruption and backroom dealings during his time as Vice President that may have directly impacted Russia's decision to invade Ukraine, and may have even led to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the deaths of millions worldwide. Mike McCormick on Substack: "Midnight in the Laptop of Good & Evil" ••••• TOP STORIES West Coast, Messed Coast™: The Left's Unconstitutional Assault on Guns The Fault Line in Biden's Bank Failures Runs Through Washington's Greed Russia Goes Kinetic With U.S. in Skies Over the Black Sea, and the USAF Response Is Unbelievable J6 Proud Boys Find Out That Federal Court Is Where Civil Rights Go to Die Gavin Newsom Has Some Explaining to Do About Personal Ties to Failed Silicon Valley Bank BLM Shakedown Raked In Billions; This Group Tracked the $$$ Gavin Newsom's 'Shady Ties' With Failed Silicon Valley Bank Reveals His Other 'Corruption' ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Author, journalist and former Texas Department of Public Safety analyst Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies has a great deal of experience observing and analyzing the unique and sometimes harrowing world that exists along our southern border. In his newest book, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, he takes readers through the what, why, and how of the growing tensions at the US-Mexico border that have resulted in a humanitarian, environmental, and national security disaster that threatens the safety and political future of every US citizen, regardless of party or ideology. In this episode of The Adult in the Room, he talks about his own experiences at the border and exactly why current US policy is making the situation worse by the moment. Buy Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History on Amazon ***** TOP STORIES An Unexpected Lesson From the Alex Murdaugh Trial West Coast, Messed Coast™: Welcome to the Dumb Idea Factory! Tucker Carlson's January 6 Exposé Starts Tonight, and He's Already Uncovered Some Big Lies SHOCK VIDEO: Tucker Carlson Outs the Lies About January 6 ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

The riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 will forever be a controversial, embarrassing, and disturbing mark on American politics and a sign of the disintegration of civility between both sides of the aisle. But are the right people being held responsible for the mayhem that day? Darren Beattie of Revolver.News joins the program to discuss Ray Epps, an individual many believe to be directly responsible for helping whip the agitated crowd into a frenzy that day, instigating one of the most infamous days of civil unrest in modern history. Why has Epps not faced charges for his prominent role in the fiasco, and could he be getting protection from someone high on the government food chain? ***** TOP STORIES California's Councilman's Massive Mail-in Ballot Vote Scam Is Revealed West Coast, Messed Coast™ Report: Too Much Snow, Too Few Workers Washington State Dems Want 'Minority Report' Commission to Destroy Conservative Wrong-Think White House Panics After Wuhan Lab Leak Story ID'd as 'Most Likely' Theory for COVID Where Does Comedian Jon Stewart Go to Get His Lefty Credentials Back After COVID Report Vindicates Him? First the Kids, Now the Dog: Spain's Socialists Show Who the Left's Perverts Are Coming for Next Why I Don't Trust Sneering FBI Director Chris Wray on Admitting COVID Lab Leak ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Author and journalist Stella Morabito's new book, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer examines the various ways governments, corporations, peer groups and educational institutions use our natural fear of separation and isolation from others to enforce conformity and submission to authority. She joins this episode to talk about the concept, the historical science behind groupthink and mob psychology, and how fearless free speech can combat it. ***** TOP STORIES West Coast, Messed Coast™: Nancy and Paul's Latest Exquisitely Timed Stock Move Inspires the PELOSI Act ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

This past December, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology -- a STEAM-centric magnet high school in Fairfax County, Virginia -- made waves after it was revealed that students who had been recognized by the National Merit Scholar program as Commended Students and Semifinalists had not been notified of the awards, costing them precious opportunities for early college admission, scholarships and more. Two parents of affected students, Shawnna Yashar and Asra Q. Nomani, decided to dig deeper and discovered TJ was ground zero for a systemic failure that has its roots in the so-called "equity" movement. Now it's been found that eighteen schools in four northern Virginia counties have similarly failed to notify students. Is it incompetence, or something more sinister? ***** TOP STORIES One Person Inspired an Insurrection, the Other Is Brandon Straka Nancy Pelosi's Exorcism Gavin Newsom's 'Suicide Pact' With the Truth Washington, D.C.'s Vote-Stealing Law Is Treason Another Wave of Joe Biden J-O-B-S Losses ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

In the first segment of this episode of The Adult in the Room, the Article III Project's Mike Davis joins for a brief update on the classified documents found inside Joe Biden's various properties, why they differ from the similar situation with former President Trump. Then, in our second segment, J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and the US Commission on Civil Rights joins the show to talk about a developing story out of the state of Colorado, in which "motor voter" laws resulted in a substantial number of registrations going out to non-citizens and other ineligible voters, loopholes in the system make voter fraud a worrying possibility, and why Colorado may be covering it up. ***** TOP STORIES Should Someone This Dumb Be the Special Counsel Investigating Biden's Stolen Classified Documents Scandal? Meet 'Lyin' Clyde' Shavers, the Democrat 'George Santos' West Coast, Messed Coast™ Update: 'First They Came for the Shower Heads...' Try Not to Laugh at DOJ's Excuse for Not Sending FBI to Raid Biden's Homes for Classified Docs California's Disastrous Universal Mail-in Election Lost 10 MILLION Ballots in 2022! 'Worst of the Worst' Sex Predators Are Being Released From Washington State's Pedophile Island West Coast, Messed Coast™ Report: Drama Queens Over Here Left Explodes, But Is Trump the Only One Who Remembers Violence From the Dobbs Leak? ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Twitter majority owner and CEO Elon Musk, working with some of the web's most respected independent journalists, has released a flood of new information with regards to the company's internal content moderation policies, revealing for the first time the true extent of employee efforts to suppress speech it deemed inappropriate to the platform. Special guests John D. Trudel & retired Major General Paul E. Vallely join the program to talk about the first series of releases and how Twitter's manipulation of the info stream -- from so-called "shadow banning" to outright deletion of tweets & accounts -- influenced the 2020 election cycle, violated the rights of end-users, and restricted major media outlets from being able to connect with their audience. LINKS TO THE TWITTER FILES: Part 1 via Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Part 2 via Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 Part 3 via Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Part 4 via Michael Shellenberger: https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1601720455005511680 Part 5 via Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny  returns as winter settles over eastern Europe. Russia's strike on Ukraine, which they predicted would last weeks at the most, has now dragged on for over 10 months. Thousands of lives have been lost or irrevocably changed on both sides of the line and Russia is allegedly so desperate for troops that they are press-ganging random civilians. Questions have arisen in the wake of FTX's collapse about the financial aid being sent to Ukraine, with many wondering whether the Ukrainian leaders are really any better than the Russian oligarchs who started the conflict. And in the middle are people like Pastor Anatoly and his flock, who struggle with electricity shortages, lack of food and medical supplies, and severed access to gas and heating oil as the coldest part of the year approaches. Hear in his own words how Kiev is coping with the struggle, and how they are maintaining morale and spiritual strength in the face of a winter at war. TOP STORIES New Job Stats Show That This Economy Is Going to Be a Bumpy Ride Twitter's Elon Musk Is Now Gavin Newsom's Main 'Target' Why Is the Left So Obsessed With Harming Children? Gavin Newsom Finally Answers the Question About 2024 Trump's Disastrous Dinner With Ye and Friends Designed to 'Troll the Master Troller' Death of a City: Portland's 'Unrelenting, Criminal Behavior' Forces Out Another Business San Francisco Mulls the Use of Armed Robot Cops West Coast, Messed Coast™ Law and Disorder Edition Iconic Business Declares Portland 'Unsafe' City and Accidentally Outs Biden's Open-Border Insanity ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

The state of Oregon has passed one of the most onerous, convoluted & infringing collections of anti-gun laws of this generation, and nearly everyone -- from libertarians to socialists and every possible coordinate of reason in-between -- is furious. Kevin Starrett of the Oregon Firearms Federation and Bill Kirk from Washington Gun Law join the program today to talk about just how bad this hodgepodge of bad legislation really is, and what can possibly be done about it. ***** TOP STORIES West Coast, Messed Coast™ 2022 Midterm Election Edition: California Does the Unthinkable FBI Had 8 Spies Inside Proud Boys Before January 6 and It Raises Big Questions 'We Have to Save Our Country': Trump Puts Democrats on Notice Portland's Antifa 'Justice' Strikes Again It's Time to Convene a Real January 6 Committee, and We've Got Questions It's Free Lunch Time for Transfranciscans in San Francisco ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Chris Queen & J. Christian Adams join Victoria for a special look at the aftermath of the 2022 midterms, in which the anticipated "red tsunami" failed to materialize. But not all is lost for Republicans, as the midterms also served as the coming-out party for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose obliteration of former Governor Charlie Crist and the dominance of his endorsed candidates have drawn both excitement from conservative voters and the ire of former President Donald Trump. Plus, discussion about the much smoother election count -- except for Maricopa County, Arizona -- and Brian Kemp's success in Georgia even as football legend Herschel Walker struggles ahead of a December runoff. ***** TOP STORIES Big Layoffs at Facebook Expected as Big Tech's Big Pucker Continues, Thanks to Democrats This Guy Was on the Ballot in Tuesday's Election. He Lost. ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media