The Washington Examiner reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) didn’t mince words about his contempt against a speculated indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. “A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power. The DA should be put in jail,” Paul tweeted. Rumors that Trump may be indicted raged over the weekend when the …

The Texas Tribune reports: West Texas A&M President Walter Wendler is drawing ire for canceling a student drag show, arguing that such performances degrade women and are “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.” Wendler said drag shows “stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood” in a Monday letter. Wendler said the drag show was …

Media Matters has the transcript: Daniel Miller (President, Texas Nationalist Movement): Well, look, I’ve been advocating for the independence of Texas since 1996. It made sense then. It makes even more sense now. And it’s simply this. Texans are sick and tired of living under 180, 180,000 pages of federal laws, rules, and regulations administered by two and a half …

The Hill reports: A lawyer for former President Trump said on Monday that it will be “an all-out war” if Trump is indicted in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into a 2016 hush-money payment. “They can do what they want,” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina said of the possible indictment in an interview with former Trump adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle on Monday. …

Mediaite reports: Christina Bobb, the former OAN host who is one of the more visible faces of former President Donald Trump’s oddball legal team, went on an online show connected to the QAnon conspiracy theory and was asked if she thought President Joe Biden was a clone. Replied Bobb: “You know, I’ve heard that, and I’ve just gotta say, if …

Guitar.com has the transcript of Nugent’s podcast: If they wanna arrest President Trump, we need to not protest; we need to not put on rallies. Because Antifa, Black Lives Matter and these imported Chinese nationals and Somali nationals who are coming across our open border, as orchestrated by Biden Satan gang, they are ready to do battle. Do not go …

The Washington Post reports: “I think you know in your heart of hearts that this is just political,” McCarthy told reporters at a House Republican retreat in Orlando. “And I think that’s what the rest of the country thinks. And we’re kind of tired of that.” He later told reporters, “We’re not coming here to defend President Trump, we’re coming …

The Northern Virginia Daily reports: Strasburg police are accusing a local church leader of committing sex crimes against a child four years ago. Mark Newton Heatwole, 65, of Timberville, remains free on bond after his arrest last week on one count of taking indecent liberties with a child under the age of 15. Sgt. Chris Nixon, of the Strasburg Police …

The Insider reports: An online prayer session organized by a pro-trump Christian group ran into technical difficulties. Former President Donald Trump, who was the guest of honor on the call, immediately blamed it on the “radical left.” The “Pastors For Trump National Prayer Call,” held on Monday invited guests like Trump ally Roger Stone and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a …

The New York Times reports: Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, reflected on the pressure he often faced from constituents to investigate unhinged claims about President Biden and Democrats. “I say, ‘Let me see it,’ because I want to see where the source is,” Mr. Comer said. “They don’t know that it’s QAnon, but …

The Huffington Post reports: The leadership of the New York Young Republican Club, a far-right group, wants to be very clear: It’s actually a good thing that only a handful of Donald Trump supporters showed up to the pro-Trump rally held Monday outside the Manhattan district attorney’s office. “We purposefully kept it small,” the club’s president, Gavin Wax, told HuffPost. …

CNN Business reports: A Fox News producer on Monday filed a pair of explosive lawsuits against the right-wing talk channel, alleging that the network’s lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation case against the company. The lawsuits filed by Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo and most …

Politico reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is betting big on Trump victory in 2024. The conservative senator bet former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) $20 that former President Donald Trump will beat President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election Monday night during an interview on “The Daily Show.” “I look at the policies of Trump, and I like the policies …

The Insider reports: Former President Donald Trump asked his followers to sign a petition denouncing his potential arrest in New York. But signing this petition leads people straight to a page where they’re asked to give $3,300 or other suggested amounts of cash to his 2024 campaign. “They’re trying to intimidate YOU and cancel out YOUR vote!” Trump’s team wrote …

The New York Times reports: The Transportation Security Administration thought it had settled a dispute over peanut butter some time ago: unless it is 3.4 fluid ounces or less, it has to be checked. However, the question of what the T.S.A. considers a liquid continues to confuse passengers. It bubbled up again last week when a writer and podcaster tried …

NPR reports: The fungus Candida auris is becoming a more dangerous public health care threat, as the number of drug-resistant cases jumped in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. The national public health agency is calling C. auris an urgent threat because of its resistance to medications. It can cause serious illness and death in people …

Yahoo News reports: Hungary has blocked a joint statement by the European Union member states on the issuance of an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Due to Budapest’s veto, the EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, issued a statement on his own behalf, in which he “took note of the decision …

Bloomberg News reports: Ten days before Signature Bank collapsed, the House Republican overseeing an inquiry into the bank’s failure was inside its boardroom on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Patrick McHenry was there to raise thousands of dollars from bank executives. The mood inside the Signature boardroom at the March 2 fundraiser was calm, according to a person who was at …

Posted yesterday to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: We need to pray for our country and where it is headed. The left in Washington and across the country just can’t get their fill of attacking Donald Trump. They are so paranoid of him. The onslaught against him is continual. There’s no question, the media and the left manipulated the last election, …

Variety reports: Rupert Murdoch just can’t stay single. Less than a year after divorcing Jerry Hall, the 92-year-old Fox mogul is hearing wedding bells again. He’s engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old San Francisco police chaplain. Murdoch’s future wife was previously married to Chester Smith, a country-western singer, as well as a radio and TV executive who died in …