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FPI / February 22, 2019 U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard has voiced concern over Hizbullah’s increasing power in Lebanese parliament and in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. In a meeting with Hariri on Feb. 19, the U.S. ambassador said she was “very frank with the prime minister about U.S. concern over […]

FPI / February 22, 2019 The U.S. will maintain a “small peacekeeping group” of 200 troops in Syria following the withdrawal of most its forces from the country, the White House said on Feb. 21. U.S.-backed forces on Feb. 22 began to evacuate civilians from Baghouz, the last enclave of the Islamic State (ISIS) in […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said of Obamacare that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Democrats don’t even have to read the final report of special counsel Robert Mueller – they intend to proceed pumping taxpayers’ money into myriad investigations […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 The Napa County Sheriff Department on Feb. 20 released body camera footage of the fatal shooting of an armed suspect by one the department’s deputies. The body-cam footage is from a Feb. 17 incident in which Deputy Riley Jarecki checked on a parked car in the southern part of the […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 Former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan named media leftists who she said were likely to target her after she slammed the media as “mostly liberal.” During a recent Breitbart podcast with host and retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan said: “The media everywhere is mostly liberal. But in this […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 Reports say that CNN has hired a former spokesperson for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sarah Isgur Flores has been added to the team that will direct the network’s coverage of the 2020 election. The response was prompt. Melanie R. Newman, Justice Department spokeswoman under Loretta Lynch during the Obama […]

FPI  / February 21, 2019 U.S. national security adviser John Bolton is reportedly headed to Seoul ahead of next week’s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Citing two Trump administration officials, CNN reported on Feb. 21 that Bolton will travel to South Korea this week for “a round of consultations.” […]

Commentary by FPI  / February 21, 2019 In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” the young Karl Marx proclaimed, “[P]hilosophers have only hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it” (emphasis in original). The mission statements of several preeminent colleges and universities in the United States follow suit, an analyst noted. “Consider […]

FPI / February 20, 2019 The first “coup” in U.S. history in which government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president has failed, a columnist noted. “Not thugs in sunglasses and epaulettes, not oligarchs in private jets, not shaggy would-be Marxists, but sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats in suits and ties […]

FPI  / February 20, 2019 The Green New Deal proposed by Democrats calls for the entire United States to be powered by clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources within 10 years. Cities and states which actually have turned to reliance on renewables, tried to institute carbon taxes, or envisioned massive high-speed rail networks often find […]

FPI / February 20, 2019 California Gov. Gavin Newsom charged that President Trump was carrying out “political retribution” after the Trump administration announced it was canceling a federal grant allocating nearly $1 billion to California for high-speed rail. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Feb. 19 said it sent a letter […]

FPI / February 20, 2019 John Wayne was born in 1907 and died in 1979. The phrase “John Wayne” was trending on Twitter over the weekend after a viral tweet circulated featured excerpts from the legendary actor’s 1971 interview with Playboy. The tweet highlighted portions of the interview where Wayne said that films portraying homosexuality […]

FPI / February 20, 2019 During last week’s Warsaw conference on Middle East security, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said that Iran poses the “greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East” and explicitly called out the Islamic Republic for plotting a “new Holocaust.” Writing for the Jerusalem Post on Feb. 18, Shmuley […]

FPI / February 19, 2019 It appears that Jussie Smollett will join the long list of liberals who have manufactured hate crimes in the Trump era. Smollett claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by two men shouting “This is MAGA country” near his Chicago apartment on Jan. 29. Suspicion that […]

FPI / February 19, 2019 Alec Baldwin seems to cherish the freedom he has under the U.S. Constitution to trash President Donald Trump. But the actor, who also has been known to punch people over parking spaces, is outraged and terrified when Trump uses his own rights under the First Amendment to lambaste Baldwin. After […]