FPI / January 23, 2020 The Democrats’ lead impeachment manager has become a unifying force — for Republicans. “The more we hear from Adam Schiff, the more the GOP is getting unified against this partisan charade!” Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, tweeted on Wednesday. Paul, who has been a staunch defender of President Donald Trump, […]
Read MoreFPI / January 23, 2020 The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is demanding detailed information on payments the Pentagon’s secretive Office of Net Assessment (ONA) made to an FBI informant who spied on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sen. Chuck Grassley, in a Jan. 22 letter the ONA Director James Baker, requested information on […]
Read MoreFPI / January 23, 2020 Analysis by Tim Donner, LibertyNation.com Success in politics has always required vision beyond the latest crisis and thinking beyond one’s own most extreme instincts. For Democrats and the left, a striking inability to accomplish either fundamental task has headed them inexorably toward a ditch. Impeachment has become the emblem of […]
Read MoreFPI / January 22, 2020 The freshly minted Phase 1 of the U.S.-China trade deal will not stop the U.S. government from pursuing criminal cases against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, officials say. Huawei is the subject of criminal cases in New York and Washington state. “The Huawei prosecution in New York, it’s a sanctions and […]
Read MoreFPI / January 22, 2020 The most read columnist for the Denver Post no longer has a job at the newspaper after he wrote that there are only two sexes. Jon Caldara said he was fired after he criticized an Associated Press directive saying that sex and gender are not binary and, later, a Colorado […]
Read MoreFPI / January 22, 2020 If he were elected president, Joe Biden says he would not deport illegal immigrants who are arrested for drunk driving. Immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony,” Biden told […]
Read MoreFPI / January 22, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Still reeling from the loss of terror kingpin Qasem Soleimani, Iran suffered another major humiliation when its so-called elite aerospace forces mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane. The twin setbacks, from which the Islamic Republic may never fully recover, could be seen in the nation’s media. Soon after […]
Read MoreFPI / January 22, 2020 Analysis by Joe Schaeffer, LibertyNation.com In a party struggling to define itself nationally as it seeks a standard-bearer for its 2020 challenge to an incumbent President Donald Trump, the last thing Democrats need is more Hillary Clinton. Yet that is exactly what they will be getting. Displaying the breathtaking selfishness […]
Read MoreFPI / January 21, 2020 A group of Antifa leftists, all of them white, harassed a group of black conservatives who were marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Denver on Monday, a report said. The Antifa thugs eventually drew a police escort as they followed the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives (RMBC) during […]
Read MoreFPI / January 21, 2020 Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam suggested that it was his emergency declaration that prevented violence from erupting at Monday’s Second Amendment rally in Richmond. Northam tweeted: “We are all thankful that today passed without incident. The teams successfully de-escalated what could have been a volatile situation.” But there was never anything […]
Read MoreFPI / January 21, 2020 A Russian-born British scholar who was caught up in the Trump-Russia hoax is suing FBI informant Stefan Halper and several media outlets who she said spread malicious lies about her. Svetlana Lokhova told investigative journalist Sara Carter that she was used as a target of opportunity by the FBI in […]
Read MoreFPI / January 21, 2020 The catastrophic bushfires in Australia have claimed at least 28 lives, destroyed more than 2,600 homes and scorched more than 25.7 million acres. Leftists blame human-caused climate change for the fires, with conservative Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison being a favorite target of progressive anger. “The PM has faced mounting […]
Read MoreFPI / January 21, 2020 Analysis by Kelli Ballard, LibertyNation.com As the impeachment trial for President Donald J. Trump begins in earnest, one likely wonders how much damage has been done to the nation. Have we lost faith in the system? What does it mean when politicians change parties, such as freshman Representative Jefferson Van […]
Read MoreFPI / January 20, 2020 The latest major media “bombshell” in the Trump-Ukraine saga involves reports that a European “Trump backer” was involved in a scheme to surveil former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Democrat impeachment star witness Marie Yovanovitch. Media reports on Friday said that Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate, named Anthony de […]
Read MoreFPI / January 20, 2020 A resolution being drafted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would allow President Donald Trump’s legal team to immediately dismiss the impeachment charges. The impeachment trial is expected to begin on Tuesday. Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, told Axios in a phone interview: “My understanding is that the resolution will […]
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