FPI / September 2, 2020 Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s coronavirus lockdown order includes a ban on indoor dining in the city’s restaurants. So, while his constituents and the city’s restaurants were relegated to outdoor dining, Kenney slipped out of town and dined — indoors — in Maryland. Kenney was slammed after a photo posted on […]
Read MoreFPI / September 2, 2020 Commentary by Lawrence A. Hunter, Ph.D. Conventional wisdom has it that without a body of the crime – corpus delicti – prosecutors cannot prove murder – no body; no crime. Well, close but not quite. A number of court decisions have established that absence of a body may not necessarily […]
Read MoreFPI / September 1, 2020 Saying their party has moved so far to the Left that they “no longer recognize it,” six Democrat mayors in Minnesota have endorsed President Donald Trump’s re-election bid. “Today, we write to formally endorse President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for four more years,” said the letter […]
Read MoreFPI / September 1, 2020 Rep. Jim Banks has filed legislation which would prohibit those convicted of rioting from receiving federal unemployment benefits. The Indiana Republican said U.S. taxpayers should not be paying to provide unemployment benefits to “Antifa thugs” and those associated with Black Lives Matter who are rioting in cities across the country […]
Read MoreFPI / September 1, 2020 The residents of New Jersey have been subjected to some of the most restrictive coronavirus emergency orders in the nation. Now, Gov. Phil Murphy is forcing the taxpaying citizens of the state to pay for the lockdown he decreed. “Not content with driving out its wealthiest with yet another tax […]
Read MoreFPI / September 1, 2020 Amid the rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted that Americans are “shocked” that “17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” Carlson was referring to Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been charged in shootings in Kenosha which left two dead and […]
Read MoreFPI / September 1, 2020 The violence in the streets of American cities is “becoming a problem for election-year Democrats,” a columnist noted. “Democrats may have hoped that the national reckoning on race would be a favorable issue for 2020. But the street violence has overwhelmed their reform message,” James S. Robbins wrote for USA […]
Read MoreFPI / September 1, 2020 (Remarks by David R. Stilwell, State Department’s Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to the Heritage Foundation on Aug. 31.) I am very pleased to have the opportunity to talk about Taiwan, one of America’s most reliable partners in the Indo-Pacific, and indeed the world. It says […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 Data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Aug. 26, which was widely ignored by the major media, show that coronavirus was listed as the sole cause in only 6 percent of all recorded virus deaths in the U.S. The CDC said that, of the 153,504 deaths recorded […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 A Democratic operative says he knows that voter fraud with mail-in ballots is real. He knows, because he’s been doing it “on a grand scale” for years, a report said. The operative, a Bernie Sanders supporter with no horse in the presidential race, told the New York Post that he […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 The formation of an independent oversight board with authority to allow or remove content from Facebook and Instagram was recently announced by Facebook. While the top officials on the board touted its ideological diversity, an investigation by journalist Sharyl Attkisson found 18 of the 20 members of the oversight board […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 Communist China, which has a long track record of violating laws of the sea, now has a seat on a tribunal which settles international disputes on the sea. Duan Jielong was selected by the United Nations to serve a nine-year term as a judge to the International Tribunal for the […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Aug. 24 directs federal agencies to move their offices to Opportunity Zones to spur investment in some of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, a report said. There are more than 8,800 low-income communities that have been designated Opportunity Zones by Trump’s Tax […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 Stefan Halper, inserted by the FBI to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign, offered a sympathetic ear to Carter Page in the hopes the Trump campaign associate would incriminate himself in the Russia collusion investigation, Page says in his new book. “Portraying himself as a kind and sympathetic supporter who […]
Read MoreFPI / August 31, 2020 Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer The Anti-Defamation League, a prominent “hate watch” group that is rapidly seeing its reputation plummet to levels approaching that of the thoroughly discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, has turned its still-potent guns squarely on the QAnon movement. Apparently it is beyond the pale of acceptable […]
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