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FPI / July 18, 2019 What kind of housing does $100,000 a year get you in the tech hubs of Silicon Valley and San Francisco? As motivational speaker Matt Foley would say — “jack squat.” Foley, a Saturday Night Live character played by Chris Farley, was known for the line “I live in a van […]

FPI / July 18, 2019 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on July 14 seized a foreign tanker with 12 crew members on board in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported. “With a capacity of 2 million barrels and 12 foreign crew on board, the vessel was en route to deliver contraband fuel […]

FPI /July 18, 2019 Analysis by Joe Schaeffer, LibertyNation.com As the 50th anniversary of Chappaquiddick rolls around, nothing sums up the sheer viciousness of the Kennedy Mafia like the following quote from Melody Miller, one of Ted Kennedy’s longest-serving aides throughout his time in the US Senate representing Massachusetts. Speaking at the Edward M. Kennedy […]

FPI / July 18, 2019 In a 1998 address to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Matt Drudge spoke of a future in which “every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.” Townhall columnist Timothy Meads noted that, “In short, Drudge accurately predicted that the Internet would not kill […]

FPI / July 17, 2019 A raucous session of Congress on July 16 saw House Speaker Nancy Pelosi castigated for breaking the chamber’s rules for labeling President Donald Trump a “racist” and soon after saw all Democrats (and four Republicans) vote to officially label the president as such. The session was also marked by behavior […]

FPI / July 17, 2019 Saying they have suffered “trauma” and need counseling and medical care for enduring being separated from their families, several illegal immigrant families are suing the Trump administration. Each claimant seeks $3 million, a report said. “The legal claims are the latest effort by immigrant-rights groups to punish the administration for […]

FPI / July 17, 2019 The number of American voters who think President Donald Trump is a racist is decreasing, while an increased number think Democrats’ and the corporate media’s constant beating of the “racism” drum is just political posturing, a new poll found. A new Rasmussen survey found that 49 percent do not believe […]

FPI / July 17, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com Hizbullah’s precision missile operations in Lebanon are under the command of an Iranian engineer, an Israeli news outlet reported. I24 News identified the commander as Majed Naveed, an engineer with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Lebanon’s leadership, meanwhile, makes no secret of the fact that the partnership between […]

FPI /July 17, 2019 Analysis by Kelli Ballard, LibertyNation.com The past 100 years have seen a significant change in women’s rights and roles in society. From gaining permission to vote to running Fortune 500 companies, women have definitely forged their place in the world. Has true equality yet been reached? Or have we gone too […]

FPI / July 16, 2019 In 1965, country singer Ernest Tubb recorded the song, It’s America (Love It or Leave It). “The song may be even more appropriate today,” a columnist noted. President Donald Trump “has simply grown tired” of the “constant attacks on America” coming from the so-called “squad” of Democrats — Rep. Alexandria […]

FPI / By John J. Metzler Bondville, VT — For those of us of a certain age, we vividly remember where we were on July 20, 1969 the date of America’s successful Lunar landing. On a cool July southern Vermont evening my parents and I visited friends to watch what was expected to be a […]

FPI / July 16, 2019 Due in large part to U.S. trade pressure, China’s economic growth in the second quarter of 2019 slowed to its weakest pace in some three decades. President Donald Trump tweeted: “The United States Tariffs are having a major effect on companies wanting to leave China for non-tariffed countries. These Tariffs […]

FPI /July 16, 2019 Analysis by Tim Donner, LibertyNation.com Tim Donner: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team wins the World Cup and uses the opportunity to step on the flag, launch a political agenda that might turn captain Megan Rapinoe into the next America-hating Colin Kaepernick, and denounce President Trump. Rapinoe dropped the F-bomb about visiting […]

FPI / July 16, 2019 By Judicial Watch Judicial Watch announced on July 15 that in June Kentucky mailed address confirmation notices to 250,000 voters who are believed to have moved, thanks to a consent judgment agreed to by the Commonwealth. These registrations are probably outdated and will be cancelled if the voters fail to […]

FPI / July 15, 2019 Peter Thiel, perhaps the lone major Silicon Valley ally of President Donald Trump, said a federal investigation of Google is warranted for its ties to the Chinese military. Thiel, a billionaire investor and Facebook board member, in an address to the National Conservatism Conference on July 14 suggested that Google’s […]