https://pjmedia.com/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holder%E2%80%99s-voting-section/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 16 Sep 2026 22:31:50 -0400<![CDATA[On this very special episode of Faith All Over the Place, my friend, colleague, and partner in podcasting excellence, Stephen Kruiser, and I engaged in a live counseling session with our monthly guest, Ashley McCully. Okay, not really, but sort of.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:06:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/09/16/faith-all-over-the-place-episode-40-navigating-faith-crises-with-ashley-mccully-n4957319<![CDATA[Washington finally found something Republicans and Democrats could agree on.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/09/16/congress-finally-finds-something-unanimous-leon-black-needs-to-answer-n4957320<![CDATA[A candidate for city manager in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., has criticized federal immigration enforcement and pandered to illegal aliens, but apparently the city commission is still worried he is not Guatemalan enough for a position in an American town.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:57:48 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/16/beach-city-commission-objects-to-candidate-for-not-being-guatemalan-enough-n4957315<![CDATA[The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) laundered more than $75 million for charlatans, cheaters, and thieves, at least one of whom used more than $1 million of the more than $110 million in homeless funds he received to open a nightclub.And it's no wonder that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who's running for reelection, smelled trouble and quit her membership in and control over LAHSA before the feds announced indictments on Wednesday.Karen Bass suddenly stepped down from LAHSA a few days ago. Today, HUD Secretary Turner just revealed that $75M of fraud was laundered through LAHSA.Probably nothing! pic.twitter.com/u3TfwvVfpl&nbsp; https://t.co/13SsIa94XT&nbsp;— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 16, 2026&nbsp;Nearly a year ago, the guy who should be the U.S. attorney in the Central District of California but isn't thanks to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) announced indictments against some major players in a massive fraud against taxpayers who have funded the dysfunctional homeless industrial complex in the city of Los Angeles.Here's what Bill Essayli said at the time at a presser announcing the indictments&nbsp; of two people who worked with Los Angeles-approved homeless nongovernmental organizations (NGOs):[W]e will be seeking charges against anyone who steals this money or misrepresents how it's being used. This also includes public officials who may have enriched themselves at taxpayers expenses contributing to the fraud that we're seeing. We're looking at everyone. If you steal money or allow it to be stolen, we will find you and we will prosecute you [emphasis added].Well, folks, it looks like it's getting a little hot in here at the old Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), which coordinates housing and social services for the homeless in Los Angeles County. Though LAHSA is a countywide agency, Karen Bass has nearly full control over its board and appoints its chair.Allow me to amend and extend my remarks.Karen Bass used to have nearly full control over the members and chairman. Karen quit the other day when she undoubtedly caught wind of another set of indictments dropping like a dumb bomb on her buddies in the Los Angeles homeless industrial complex.You'll recall the failed mayor, who has the audacity to run for reelection, helped Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) load $24 billion into a wind machine and point it in the general direction of the state's favored homeless NGOs. It was liar's poker time, and nobody at the city and county apparently ever called the cheaters to make them show their hands. Now people are indicted and likely are going to federal prison.On Wednesday, the aforementioned Essayli; the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) chief lawman in charge of fighting fraud, Colin McDonald; representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and DOJ; and local District Attorney Nathan Hochman gathered in L.A. to announce the names of the latest three people who've been caught stealing other people's money. One dude had the gonads to use more than $1 million of homeless funds to open a nightclub ... and a bingo hall.Yes, well, we know there's no accounting going on over at the L.A. homeless industrial complex, and there's no accounting for taste, either.However, what you should know is that the three people indicted on Wednesday stole more than $118 million between them, and LAHSA laundered $75 million of it.Every felon needs a banker.Honestly, it's a jump ball as to who should be punished harder: the woman who allegedly took bribes and kickbacks from another arrestee, who appears to have dropped a dime on the rest of them, while working for an organization allegedly vetting these charlatans, or the dude who opened the club.We'll go with the guy who is alleged to have bilked the taxpayers of $110 million to go toward homeless housing and opened the Six Seven Five Lounge, where every week the taxpayers provide a place to have Soul Food Sunday and Noche Latina Thursdays. Aren't we generous?]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:06:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/09/16/indictments-may-explain-why-la-mayor-karen-bass-just-quit-disastrous-government-homeless-authority-n4957304<![CDATA[Mark Schmitz stood in a federal courtroom Wednesday and faced the man prosecutors tied to the terrorist network that killed his 20-year-old son at Abbey Gate.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:49:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/09/16/for-abbey-gate-families-20-years-was-the-most-the-judge-could-give-n4957316<![CDATA[In veteran political reporter Mark Halperin's July rankings of potential 2028 Democratic presidential nominees, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was rising, while Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) was losing momentum. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates had just achieved huge victories in New York and Colorado primaries the previous month, and Halperin declared that the toughest thing to do in Democratic politics was to stop a socialist from becoming the presidential nominee.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:45:19 -0400<![CDATA[Aaron Hanscom]]>https://pjmedia.com/aaron-hanscom/2026/09/16/gavin-newsom-is-back-on-top-of-one-2028-list-does-it-mean-anything-n4957305<![CDATA[The New York Times is upset with Israel — which tells you that today is a day ending with a y. This time, however, it’s not a fictional genocide or an equally fictional occupation that has the Paper of Record in a snit; instead, the Times is upset because the Israelis still think of themselves as the victims of the Oct. 7 jihad attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis. If the Israelis were thinking the way the Times wants them to think, you see, they’d realize that the Palestinian Arabs who attacked them were the real victims.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]>https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/09/16/new-york-times-shocked-that-israelis-still-think-oct-7-was-like-a-bad-thing-n4957314<![CDATA[For weeks, Republicans have accused Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D-50th District) of faking a rightward shift on transgender issues to win a statewide race. Now the public doesn’t have to take our word for it.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/16/james-talaricos-lesbian-minister-just-outed-him-n4957312<![CDATA[Last week, I tried to show why the polls are not telling the whole story of the midterm election. In essence, it comes down to the difference between "data-driven," or quantitative, polls and qualitative polls that measure a broader range of voter information.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:12:26 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/09/16/senate-polls-come-with-an-asterisk-n4957307<![CDATA[A damning undercover video from Townhall shows Sky McAdams, the organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, explaining how Texas Democrats have devised a method for paying voters to cast ballots in favor of Dems. Even he called it “shady as f**k.”]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:38:53 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/16/watch-texas-dem-admits-to-scheme-of-paying-for-votes-n4957299On this full episode of LARRY with Larry O'Connor, we discuss the BREAKING EXCLUSIVE NEWS that the James Talarico’s Texas Majority PAC was caught on hidden camera describing the ‘shady’ plan to pay for votes, FBI Director Kash Patel going SCORCHED EARTH on senate Democrats, the Lindsay Clancy holdout juror’s identity, Democrats releasing criminals back onto the streets,, and MUCH, much more! Raise your hand as a Social Security voter: https://AARP.org/SocialSecurityVoter Join the Angel Guild today by visiting https://angel.com/LO to unlock exclusive access to the series now streaming on Angel. Visit https://besthotgrill.com!Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:29:05 -0400<![CDATA[PJ Media Video]]>https://pjmedia.com/videos/2026/09/16/hidden-camera-footage-catches-talarico-superpac-paying-for-votes-n4957309<![CDATA[As we travel through these 10 Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it is not just each of us as individuals who are reviewing and writing in our own Books of Life; it is also the world. Our Sages teach that during this time the entire world hangs in balance as to who will even survive, and that we are to understand that even one small act of kindness could tip the scales for good.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rabbi Michael Barclay]]>https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/09/16/war-may-be-on-the-horizon-in-this-new-year-n4957294<![CDATA[There's an election coming up in November, in case you haven't heard, and Democrats have been flailing around trying to find something to run on besides transing your kids, cheerleading a triple-murdering mom, complaining about California-level gas prices when that's what they wanted, and bellyaching about Donald Trump trying to save us from despotic Maoists draped in Iranian thobes who routinely kill Americans.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:31:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/09/16/heres-the-big-reason-why-data-center-derangement-syndrome-has-just-taken-center-stage-for-democrats-n4957291<![CDATA[Donald Trump ripped into the Supreme Court this week after the court ruled that Trump’s common-sense mail-in ballot restrictions can’t be implemented so close to the midterm elections.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/16/scott-jennings-torched-david-axelrods-hypocritical-attack-on-trump-n4957302<![CDATA[If you’re confused by the latest tidal wave of stories about the need to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), just know that it’s all by design, and it will get worse. The left is following a familiar playbook, creating confusion and chaos that eventually gets so out of control that you will predictably have people throwing their hands up in the air and turning to the government to fix things — just as planned.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:43:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/09/16/ai-regulation-if-bill-gates-is-for-it-im-against-it-but-its-not-that-simple-n4957298<![CDATA[When TMZ DC asked Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) about Lindsay Clancy's murder case this week, she was blunt. In fact, I think she said exactly what a lot of people have been thinking but are generally too polite to say out loud.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:16:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/16/nancy-mace-says-what-many-are-too-polite-to-say-about-lindsay-clancy-n4957295<![CDATA[Okay, it might sound weird talking about Advent calendars in mid-September, but hear me out. I’ve always enjoyed a good Advent calendar. I’ve gotten some good ones at Aldi in recent years, including a cheese Advent calendar and an Irish cream Advent calendar.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/09/16/whiskey-wednesday-its-never-too-early-for-a-bourbon-advent-calendar-n4957267<![CDATA[We know that major Secret Service security failures contributed to the near-assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in 2024. Charlie Kirk‘s family is accusing the state of Utah and the university where he died of failing to live up to basic security promises, arguing that they helped lead to the young activist’s assassination.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:59:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/16/kirk-family-sues-utah-and-university-where-assassination-occurred-for-failures-n4957293<![CDATA[On Sept. 16, 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, was visiting Tehran with her parents. She was walking down the street when members of the hated religious police (Basij) jumped out of a car and shoved Mahsa into the passenger seat. They took her to the police station, where she was interrogated and beaten into a coma.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:17:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/09/16/iranian-security-forces-prepare-for-anniversary-of-anti-hijab-protests-n4957292<![CDATA[Poor Ed Sheeran — well, not literally poor; the British pop star has a net worth of over $400 million — is the latest generation of Englishmen to remember why the American colonists fought a war against the Crown: we don't want people telling us what we can and can't say. More specifically, we are quite capable of thinking for ourselves, thank you very much.]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ashley McCully]]>https://pjmedia.com/ashleymccully/2026/09/16/liberal-millionaires-wait-what-is-free-speech-again-n4957290