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FPI / April 19, 2020 Commentary by Brad Johnson At this week’s virtual NATO Atlantic Council event, Turkey repeated its offer to the United States to form a technical working group, including NATO, to resolve a dispute over Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles. But, before the U.S. considers this offer, another diplomatic conflict with […]

FPI / April 19, 2020 By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The phrase has a certain drama, overtones of life-or-death struggle: “The last plane out of” a city under attack, under siege, on the brink of surrender. In my case, it was “the last plane out of Washington,” or, to be precise, the last non-stop flight […]

FPI / April 17, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo As America watched Democratic presidential primary candidates drop like flies in March, many wondered what was behind their quick departure and the sudden surge of Joe Biden’s previously slumping campaign. Some speculated it was former President Barack Obama pulling the strings. And now it has become […]

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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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 […]

FPI / 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. […]