Many who are commenting on the missile strikes by U.S. and Israeli military have seized on the idea that in attacking Iran Trump is dragging America into yet another entanglement in the Middle East. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, host Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers explore that allegation and pick the winners and losers.
Words like “mind control” and “brainwashing” get tossed around, but it is a very real science and a very dangerous game that former CIA operative and now conservative talk show host Buck Sexton calls by its scientific name of “menticide,” the murder of the mind.
Did politics destroy journalism, or was it the other way around? Author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, host of The Drill Down, sees the case for both but believes journalism has done more damage to itself than politicians could manage to do to them.
Well, I’ve characterized immigration and mass migration as civilizational warfare. Is the latest weapon deployed in this war a Bad Bunny?
In the week since The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon debuted atop the bestseller lists, Mexico’s president and ambassador to the U.S. have tried to dismiss the book’s findings about Mexican consulates interfering in U.S. domestic politics, waving off multiple quotes from numerous Mexican politicians and consular officials themselves.
Peter Schweizer has come out strongly against “kimmeling.” That’s his new verb for shunning your own family members at the Thanksgiving table for their crime of voting for President Donald Trump.
Sen Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) office released records showing that prosecutor Jack Smith had subpoenaed the phone call data from 8 Republican senators while he pursued a case against President Trump in 2022. Smith’s case began at President Biden’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the codename “Arctic Frost.”
It’s harder than ever to buy a home, thanks to immigration, environmental regulations, and zoning restrictions. The word “crisis” gets used too often, but housing certainly qualifies.
During the government shutdown, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins has been reviewing data from 29 states administering the food stamp program. Rollins’s review has found EBT cards that have been carrying balances of more than $10,000. It found cards that haven’t been used in years. It found cards issued to people who never existed.
A new book warns that it will take decades to undo the damage that “social emotional learning,” a mind-altering system of control, has done to childhood education.
Voting security is always a hot topic around election time, but manipulation of our electoral system is a bigger problem that we have to worry about all the time.
Seamus Bruner, VP of Research for the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), is just back from a White House panel last week where independent journalists who have covered Antifa’s activities explained their findings for several Cabinet secretaries and President Donald Trump himself, a surprise attendee.
The federal government remains shut down and, depending on whom you believe, this is either because Democrats want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants, or Republicans want to jack up costs on ordinary Americans.
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has raised cries of “lawfare” from Democrats declaring that President Donald Trump’s administration is going after his political opponents.
“Evil is on the rise in America, and overseas,” says author and talk show host Bill O’Reilly. “Evil is very simple: It’s when one human being hurts another human being on purpose with no remorse.”
President Donald Trump threatened George Soros and his son, Alex, with prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act
Seeing Trump’s early success in tamping down crime in D.C., Peter Schweizer asks: “Why are these leaders not willing to take steps to address it and deal with it?”
Veteran stock market wizard Nancy Pelosi has come out in support of a bill that will ban members of Congress from trading in stocks or options.
“Liberty gives people who oppose liberty — evil people – the freedom to destroy it.” That’s radio and Fox News host Mark Levin’s take on why free societies are attacked by those who, like leftist New York City mayoral candidate
Experts are on a run of bad luck lately. Climate change predictions, Covid vaccine promises, jobs statistics, and economic analysis of the effect of the Trump administration’s tariffs have failed to improve experts’ credibility.
Was the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing really an FBI deep-cover operation that went wrong? That is the conclusion of a new book by an author who has studied the worst incident of domestic terrorism in America’s history for more than 20 years.
Wesley Hunt (R-TX) has some background with the purported files of the late Jeffrey Epstein and wants to see them released to the public, once the identities of his victims are protected.
Marking the first anniversary of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA, the U.S. Senate released two reports on failures by the Secret Service both during and prior to the shooting. The level of incompetence shown in the reports has caused some to wonder whether Secret Service was really even trying to prevent the incident.
Whatever the truth may be about Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide or “client list,” he was engaged in the business of human trafficking and that leaves a paper trail.
Prior to the 2024 election, a non-profit group called VOT-ER got 50,000 medical professionals to target patients in hospitals to register to vote. That’s among the bombshell findings in a new book by former House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz.
President Donald Trump just blew up Iran’s nuclear program. That was the easy part.
No Kings? No problem. The weekend protests called “No Kings” produced crowds of a few thousand in some reliably “blue” cities like Portland, Boston, Seattle, and others, but not much else.
As the riots raged this week in Los Angeles, four things became clear: L.A.’s leaders are feckless; foreign money is behind the rioters; protesters are expressing a soup of different grievances; and all this may happen elsewhere.
Deficit hawk and Texas Rep. Chip Roy believes the budget battle for President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a moment of truth for the nation and demands spending cuts that “meet the moment.”
Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), is cleaning out the politicized division with a focus on ending the DOJ’s George Floyd-era agreements with police departments that have turned several cities
While recent news of former President Joe Biden’s dire cancer diagnosis certainly inspired sympathy, it also has raised suspicions about the timing and motivation of the disclosure. As Peter Schweizer notes on the most recent episode of The Drill Down,
“From Qatar to QVAR, we cover it all!” says host Peter Schweizer on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.
On the ten year anniversary of Peter Schweizer’s “Clinton Cash,” the book which former President Bill Clinton believes was instrumental in tanking his wife’s 2016 presidential campaign, Schweizer and Eric Eggers interview Steve Bannon about the book’s historic impact.
Even for non-Catholics, the pope is a figure of world significance who can affect politics in every nation around the globe, as Francis, the first pope from Latin America, clearly did.
The Trump administration’s fight with elite universities might be its toughest yet because it’s about money — federal research funds that have been given to major universities for decades. On the most recent podcast of The Drill Down, host Peter
No one likes tax time, but one fresh character might offer at least some entertainment.
President Donald Trump unveiled a full slate of eye-popping tariffs on countries large and small last Friday, and the reactions over the weekend have been intense.
What do Big Pharma ads on TV and Diet Coke have in common? Both are targets of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new head of the Health and Human Services department.
The new administration of President Donald Trump has been a whirlwind of activity in its first one hundred days but is running into resistance from men in black – activist federal judges.
As DOGE’s efforts shift to eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in social welfare programs including SNAP, Social Security, and Medicaid, The Drill Down podcast welcomes a nationally recognized expert in spotting how those programs are rife with fraud.
