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Our Congressman, Eric Swalwell, seems determined to pander to the mainstream media and give them special treatment. He introduced a genuinely silly bill that would make attacks on news reporters a federal crime. Doing so, he decried the atmosphere that President Trump has created with his attacks on “fake news.” As one who has observed […]

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