Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren threw her weight behind a plan proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that includes taxpayer-funded welfare benefits for illegal aliens and increased government intervention in the economy, including nationwide rent control. Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is an outspoken member of the … Continue reading Warren backs Ocasio-Cortez’s plan for economic inequality and climate change

A Michigan state lawmaker’s newly introduced legislation to hold government agencies and private businesses liable for civil damages if anyone is injured during a shooting in a gun-free zone on their premises is a promising proposal, according to noted gun scholar John R. Lott … Continue reading Michigan lawmaker: hold gun-free zones liable for shooting injuries

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Sept. 30 Twitter should suspend President Donald Trump’s Twitter account for abusing his power by using it to criticize the so-called whistleblower whose complaint triggered an impeachment inquiry in Congress. San Francisco-based Twitter, which runs the popular micro-blogging website … Continue reading Kamala Harris: Twitter should suspend Donald Trump

In a weeklong sweep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took close to 1,300 illegal aliens into custody, many of whom were arrested in so-called sanctuary cities that harbor illegals and shield them from federal immigration enforcement efforts. Sanctuary jurisdictions defy … Continue reading ICE targets illegals in sanctuary city raids: Making headway in the fight against bastions of lawlessness

In a victory for religious freedom, a federal judge in Michigan ruled a Catholic adoption agency that contracts with the state will be allowed to refuse to handle adoption requests that would place children with LGBTQ couples. The judge pointedly noted that in … Continue reading Federal judge rules Catholic adoption agency can refuse LGBT parents

A treaty from 2000 between Ukraine and the United States requires the two countries to cooperate on law enforcement matters, a factor that may help to explain why President Donald Trump felt comfortable questioning the involvement of Joe Biden and … Continue reading Trump urging Ukrainian probe of Biden breaks no laws: A Clinton-era U.S.-Ukraine treaty requires the two countries to provide mutual legal assistance

For the second time this year, a federal judge in Alaska has blocked the Trump administration’s resource development plans in the far north, this time halting a move to make thousands of acres in America’s largest national forest available for … Continue reading Federal judge blocks logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

A Michigan election official has been charged by the state with six felony counts of voter fraud in connection with the November 2018 elections. Southfield City Clerk Sherikia Lavette Hawkins, 38, a Democrat first elected to the post in November … Continue reading Michigan election official charged with 6 felony counts of voter fraud

News Analysis The embattled far-left Southern Poverty Law Center flew past the half-billion-dollar mark in assets for the first time, ending the last tax year with $518.3 million in assets—after raking in $122.9 million that year, according to a newly disclosed IRS … Continue reading UPDATED: As fundraising shoots up, lawsuits threaten Southern Poverty Law Center

A day after Democrats vowed to open a formal impeachment inquiry, President Trump dropped a bombshell Sept. 25 by releasing the transcript of a conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Trump’s enemies insist is the smoking gun … Continue reading Democrats bet it all on Trump’s telephone call transcript: The president breaks no law – but facts elude Dems in full Trump Derangement meltdown

Bowing to pressure from student protesters, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University announced it is ending a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide emergency medical training to federal agents. ICE has been a target of open-borders activists who … Continue reading Johns Hopkins will no longer provide medical training to ICE

For the record, I am writer and researcher Matthew Vadum. I am the author of four published books. They are: *Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011) *Team Jihad: How … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 108 books (so far), 97 times on Google Scholar, 34900 times on Google

A woman diagnosed with gender dysphoria can sue a Catholic hospital for refusing to surgically remove her uterus as part of the sex-reassignment process, despite the hospital’s religious objection to performing the operation, an appeals court in California ruled. The … Continue reading Court rules that gender concerns override religious principles

Commentary The myth that black teen Trayvon Martin was a victim of racist violence set race relations back and was foisted on Americans by unscrupulous prosecutors in Florida who perpetrated “the most spectacular case of identity fraud in modern American judicial history” … Continue reading Film tells story of racial hoax surrounding Trayvon Martin’s death

News Analysis WASHINGTON—The Trump administration told the Supreme Court in a new filing that a rule that the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can only be fired by the president for cause is unconstitutional. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) … Continue reading President seeks power to fire head of consumer bureau at will

Facebook’s 2.4 billion monthly active users will soon be able to appeal takedown decisions to a new “oversight board” that its CEO once likened to a “Supreme Court” that will have the power to override the company’s own content-moderation decisions, … Continue reading Responding to critics, Facebook ‘Oversight Board’ to monitor content decisions

Unless he convinces Israeli lawmakers from outside his party to join him in a national unity government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-and-a-half-year run in office may soon end following inconclusive results in his country’s parliamentary elections this week that … Continue reading Bibi in Trouble? Netanyahu may have to master the art of the deal to stay in power

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Sept. 16 that the city of Phoenix can’t use a criminal law to compel two artists to produce custom wedding invitations for LGBT couples because that would force them to express messages that conflict with their personal … Continue reading Arizona court allows artists to refuse to express LGBT messages

A federal court dismissed a racketeering lawsuit brought by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) against leaders of the Southern Poverty Law Center for blacklisting it as a “hate group.” CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian told The Associated Press … Continue reading Court dismisses lawsuit over ‘hate group’ label