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Analysis by FPI / February 7, 2019 The three top Democrats in the commonwealth of Virginia seem engaged in a remarkable game of one-upmanship – or is it one-downmanship? Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Attorney General Mark Herring are all facing calls to step down amid a trio of scandals. For those […]

FPI  / February 8, 2019 Planned Parenthood’s assertion that most late-term abortions are performed due to “grave danger to a woman’s life and fetal demise” is false, a pro-life media outlet reported, citing several medical professionals who perform such abortions. Amid a firestorm of criticism over late-term abortion legislation passed in New York and proposed […]

FPI / February 8, 2019 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who this week announced the committee will launch a wide-ranging investigation into President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign, met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in July 2018, a report said. In a scene reminiscent of the infamous Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting […]

FPI / February 8, 2019 U.S. envoy Steve Biegun led an American delegation that arrived in Pyongyang on Feb. 6 for denuclearization talks with North Korean counterpart Kim Hyok-Chol. The U.S. delegation’s arrival in North Korea was one of a flurry of region-wide diplomatic moves ahead of a second summit between President Donald Trump and […]

Analysis by FPI / February 8, 2019 Some are saying it was a high school student’s environmental science paper. Others contend it was translated from its original version which was written in crayon. Or that it was a joke penned by the GOP. So, what exactly is the Green New Deal? After a huge build-up […]

FPI / February 7, 2019 On Jan. 9, Virginia state Rep. Kathy Tran introduced a bill that would allow late-term abortion up until the moment of birth. While championing legislation to legalize full-term abortion, Tran has also argued that more immigration, legal and illegal, is necessary because there aren’t enough native-born Americans to fill the […]

FPI  / February 6, 2019 The FBI official who was overseeing the agency’s Clinton email and Trump campaign investigations told Congress that he was often excluded from key meetings and decisions in the investigations. During closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in June 2018, Bill Priestap, former head of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, said […]

FPI / February 6, 2019 Legislation aimed at amending Egypt’s constitution which would allow President Abdul Fatah Sisi to significantly extend his time in office has been approved by a parliamentary committee. The amendment would lengthen presidential terms from four to six years and would allow Sisi to run for another two terms. Currently, Sisi’s […]

FPI / February 6, 2019 Those who engage in active religious practice are more likely to describe themselves as “very happy” compared to those who are less religious, a new Pew Research Center poll said. In the poll, religiously active respondents in 19 of the 26 nations surveyed said they were “very happy” people. The […]

FPI / February 5, 2019 Even after Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s comments on the acceptability of infanticide, and after he admitted that he at least on one occasion wore blackface, half of Democrats in Virginia still support the governor. According to a Morning Consult poll taken after Northam was hit with the two scandals, his support with […]

FPI / February 5, 2019 Hugo Chavez, the leader of Venezuela’s socialist revolution, once said that “to be rich is bad.” Last summer, the stepsons of current socialist leader Nicolas Maduro dropped $45,000 on an 18-night stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris. “These rich Chavista kids have also been spotted in the best restaurants […]

FPI / February 5, 2019 The state Senate in Colorado has passed legislation that would give the state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The legislation, SB-19, aimed at ditching the Electoral College passed Colorado’s Senate on Jan. 29 by a vote of 19-16, with all Democrats voting in favor and […]

FPI  / February 5, 2019 The left-wing activist who confronted then-Sen. Jeff Flake in a Capitol Hill elevator during the confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh was to be a guest of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb 5. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, tweeted: “Y’all aren’t ready […]

FPI / February 4, 2019 By Norman Bailey The downfall of all the great civilizations has often been credited to external forces, such as the barbarian tribes that overran the western half of the Roman Empire in the fifth century CE. In fact, such external forces are always facilitated and preceded by internal social, political […]

FPI / February 4, 2019 In Disney’s Mary Poppins, character Bert/Mr. Dawes Sr. says: “Winds in the east, there’s a mist coming in, like something is brewing, about to begin.” What’s brewing, according to Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a professor of English/Gender Studies/Shakespeare at Linfield College in Oregon, is that Mary Poppins, played by Dame Julie Andrews, is […]