FPI / April 17, 2020 Amid the coronavirus crisis, elected officials are assuming “dictatorial powers” to “interfere with our personal choices,” former judge Andrew Napolitano noted. “Let’s say you are at a big-box store looking for groceries and other items. The government cannot constitutionally limit your choices to food and paper towels if you prefer […]
Read MoreFPI / April 17, 2020 Among the Democrats pushing for a nationwide vote-by-mail system amid the coronavirus outbreak are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and former President Barack Obama. Leftist billionaire George Soros is funding lawsuits and activism pushing for mail-in voting. The Democrats’ desire for mail-in-voting would […]
Read MoreFPI / April 17, 2020 Did we ever actually need to “flatten the curve” on the coronavirus? That was the “purported rationale for the shutdowns that have crushed our economy and devastated the lives of tens of millions of Americans,” John Hinderaker wrote for the Powerline Blog on April 14. “The theory behind curve-flattening is […]
Read MoreFPI / April 17, 2020 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is one of the few who have resisted ordering a lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. “The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety,” Noem, a Republican, said. “They are the ones that are entrusted with expansive freedoms.” But when 300 workers at a South […]
Read MoreFPI / April 17, 2020 The U.S. State Department in 2018 specifically warned about “safety issues” at a virology lab in Wuhan, China, a report said. Two cables from the State Department warned there were too few trained technicians and safety measures in place for the type of research that was being done at the […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 A Wuhan doctor who tried to sound the alarm on the coronavirus “triggered” the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “authoritarian control on information,” a retired U.S. general noted. “Discussion of the illness was prohibited, and the doctor – who tried to warn colleagues through social media – was detained. The results […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 So intense is the Left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome that “it has divided the nation into two alien camps until there is hardly any longer a national conversation or a united front in the face of the deadly contagion,” David Horowitz wrote for Breitbart on April 13. “Will the nation be […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 In Philadelphia, cops dragged a passenger off a bus for not wearing a face mask. In Brighton, Colorado, cops handcuffed a father in front of his family for playing T-ball with his daughter in an empty park. Three Massachusetts men were arrested, and face the possibility of 90 days in […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 By Judicial Watch Judicial Watch announced that it served a subpoena, authorized by a D.C. federal court, on Google to produce all emails from a Google account believed to contain former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails. Platte River Networks’ IT specialist Paul Combetta reportedly used the Google account to […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 The sexual assault allegation against presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a “legitimate” topic for conversation, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said. “I think it’s legitimate to talk about these things,” the New York Democrat said regarding the accusation made against Biden by former aide Tara Reade, who said the […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 Taiwan’s government emailed a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December warning of a breakout of “atypical pneumonia” in China in which infected persons had been isolated for treatment. Taiwanese officials say the letter is evidence that the WHO had reason to believe early on that the Wuhan […]
Read MoreFPI / April 16, 2020 By John J. Metzler It’s easy to point fingers during a deadly pandemic, and let’s do so. WHO first sounded the alarm? WHO downplayed real medical risks? WHO calmed or stoked irrational fears? WHO in this case, is the global medical monitor providing us with real time warnings and assessments. […]
Read MoreFPI / April 15, 2020 Commentary by Christopher W. Holton, Center for Security Policy By all accounts, Iran is having a very tough time with the Wuhan virus. There are reports that the Iranian regime has mishandled the virus and concealed information about its spread in Iran. There are also accounts that some mullahs have […]
Read MoreFPI / April 15, 2020 In an article published on Monday, socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The New York Times that Joe Biden’s campaign has not yet reached out to her after Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign. Sanders officially endorsed Biden on Monday. “We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president, and we need […]
Read MoreFPI / April 15, 2020 By Judicial Watch The U.S. government has ordered Americans to avoid international travel due to the coronavirus pandemic and the State Department has specifically “restricted” transit between the U.S. and Mexico, yet southern border crossings are hotbeds of traffic that are jeopardizing the health of federal agents charged with screening […]
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