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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 […]

FPI / February 19, 2019 Democrats are pushing hard for tougher gun control laws – except, apparently, when illegal immigrants are involved. Last week, H.R. 8, named the The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, passed the House Judiciary Committee on a 23-15 party-line vote. The legislation requires background checks for essentially all sales and […]

Analysis by FPI  / February 19, 2019 In its mission statement, the powerful political action committee EMILY’s List said its focus “is on putting the right pro-choice Democratic women into office who will balance the face of the government, and make decisions that really improve societies across the country.” And what is a leftist PAC […]

FPI /February 17, 2019 By John T. McNabb If you read this title and wonder what I am talking about, then respectfully, you aren’t paying attention to what is going on in America. If you think Ocasio-Cortez’ rants are mindless and silly, of course they are. But she has an approximate 90 percent approval with […]

FPI / February 18, 2019 By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The ongoing scandal, in which the governor of South Gyeongsang Province, Kim Kyung-Soo — a top ally of President Moon Jae-In, was involved in a computer program that automatically generated millions of “likes” or “dislikes” for polls and postings on individuals and vital topics, may […]

FPI / February 18, 2019 In another sign that U.S. colleges have no interest in intellectual diversity and are “intent on indoctrinating the rising generation in the ways of the Left,” Ivy League schools are offering several courses which not only “malign conservatives” but are flat out anti-Trump, a report said. “Many of the courses […]

FPI / February 18, 2019 The law which gives the Trump administration the authority to build a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border was signed into law by President Barack Obama on Dec. 23, 2016. In November 2016, not long after Donald Trump was elected president, Congress passed 10 U.S.C § 284. The statute authorizes the […]

FPI / February 18, 2019 A British teen mother who as a 15-year-old traveled to Syria to become an ISIS bride is seeking to return to the UK and said “a lot of people should have sympathy” for her. Shamima Begum, 19, who recently gave birth to a baby boy in a Syrian refugee camp, […]

FPI / February 18, 2019 An 11-year-old middle school student in Florida was arrested for disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence following a confrontation with school officials and a law enforcement officer which began when the student refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, local reports say. The sixth grader at […]

FPI  / February 18, 2019 The FBI sent 29 armed agents, 17 vehicles, a helicopter and two amphibious units to carry out a pre-dawn raid on Roger Stone’s home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to Stone’s wife, Nydia. “Every agent was carrying an AK-47 as well as a sidearm. This is a much larger force […]

FPI / February 17, 2019 When pursued by Republicans to answer questions on whether he had planned to wear a wire to gather alleged evidence that could have led to President Donald Trump being removed from office, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein consistently said that he was “too busy” to respond. But the departing Rosenstein […]