Four left-leaning environmentalist groups have filed federal lawsuits against the Trump administration, in hopes of blocking the president’s national emergency declaration that seeks to redirect $6.7 billion in already allocated funds to build a wall on the nation’s largely undefended … Continue reading Legal actions to stop national emergency declaration begin
On “Presidents Day,” it’s a good idea to repost my former colleague Steven J. Allen’s debunking of Presidents Day. Here it is: special commentary by Steven J. Allen, Ph.D., senior editor, Capital Research Center (posted at CapitalResearch.org, Feb. 17, … Continue reading It’s not Presidents Day. It’s George Washington’s birthday (observed)
The Supreme Court has ordered an expedited review of a Manhattan judge’s ruling blocking the Trump administration’s decision to ask individuals responding to the 2020 census whether they are U.S. citizens. Census results are important because they are used to … Continue reading Supreme Court to decide whether Census can ask about citizenship
A defiant President Trump promised yesterday to declare a national emergency to get the wall he promised to build constructed on America’s porous southern border, as Congress gave him funding –with plenty of strings attached– to build 55 miles of … Continue reading Trump to formally declare border emergency: The battle over America’s security heats up
Student leaders from a group of taxpayer-funded Kentucky universities are urging state lawmakers to approve legislation to protect free speech on campus from administrators who inhibit free expression of ideas. The students say state law needs to protect students from … Continue reading Kentucky students lobby for protection of free speech
News Analysis Conservative leaders say the rapidly expanding constellation of congressional investigations of President Donald Trump, his campaign, his transition team, and his associates, is a power play by Democrats who aim to discredit the president and defeat him in … Continue reading Investigations of Trump are power play, conservatives say
An activist now charged with assaulting two U.S. Marines as part of an Antifa mob has ties to Heather Booth, a senior Democrat and chief DNC trainer who founded a training academy devoted to the teachings of the late pro-violence … Continue reading Antifa thug worked for chief DNC trainer: from Democrat insider to likely jailbird, Joseph Alcoff has come a long way
A sweeping executive order recently issued by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aims to remove the “vestiges” of the politically unpopular Common Core standards that remain in the state’s taxpayer-funded school system. Past polling suggests Americans nationwide are skeptical—and, in many … Continue reading Florida governor plans rollback of Common Core
A federal judge has rejected an activist group’s request to prevent the Trump administration from asking 2020 Census respondents if they are U.S. citizens. In recent decades, Democrats and Republicans have fought bitterly over how the decennial, constitutionally mandated head … Continue reading Citizenship question stays on Census, federal judge rules
Merck Urges Supreme Court to Toss Osteoporosis Drug Lawsuit BY MATTHEW VADUM January 7, 2019 Updated: January 7, 2019 Drugmaker Merck and Co. told the Supreme Court that a class-action lawsuit against it over top-selling osteoporosis drug Fosamax should be … Continue reading Matthew Vadum articles in The Epoch Times, January 2019
A far-reaching bill introduced in the Illinois General Assembly would force state residents applying for gun permits to allow police to inspect their social media accounts as part of the license-approval process. The state-level measure is part of an avalanche … Continue reading Illinois gun bill would open permit applicants’ social media accounts
Capital Research Center President Terrence M. Scanlon (photo above; credit: Gage Skidmore) showed up for work on January 28, 2016, having no idea it was his retirement day. That day Scanlon was suddenly summoned to a meeting with representatives of CRC’s … Continue reading Exclusive photos: The day Capital Research Center fired President Terry Scanlon
After a tumultuous weekend in which high-profile Democrats demanded that Virginia governor Ralph Northam step down after old photos of him in blackface surfaced, it is difficult to imagine the politician surviving the same vile race-baiting gotcha culture he and … Continue reading Racist lynch mob-leading Virginia governor getting his just deserts
President Trump is growing impatient over the lack of progress bipartisan negotiators in Congress have been making in talks over funding a desperately needed wall on the nation’s porous multi-state border with Mexico – and this continuing failure makes another … Continue reading Trump: “The wall is getting done one way or the other!”: President sends a warning to obstructionist Democrats.
Concerned parents in Santa Barbara, California, have filed a federal lawsuit against a radical activist group and their local school board over taxpayer-funded “inclusivity” instruction. They characterize these sessions as public-school indoctrination that falsely portrays America, depicting the nation as … Continue reading California parents sue to block ‘inclusivity’ instruction in school
Unsavory facts have emerged about the obnoxious Indian activist Nathan Phillips who accosted Catholic high schooler Nick Sandmann at the Lincoln Memorial for being a white male Trump supporter. To recap, Sandmann, is a student from Covington Catholic High School … Continue reading Nathan Phillips, liar: fake Vietnam vet’s backstory falls apart
A video posted online over the weekend showing a teenaged Trump supporter’s awkward reaction to having his personal space aggressively invaded by a loud left-wing agitator sparked a leftist-led social media meltdown that will not soon be forgotten. Nick Sandmann, … Continue reading The Left’s smirking MAGA kid hoax: Progressives, lies and videotape
It takes a special kind of stupid for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that bills itself as conservative to keep pumping out anti-Trump propaganda but that is exactly what Capital Research Center (CRC) in Washington, D.C., does, more or less every day. … Continue reading Why does “conservative” nonprofit Capital Research Center hate Donald Trump?
Supreme Court Considers Who Bears Responsibility for Security Fraud BY MATTHEW VADUM December 3, 2018 Updated: December 3, 2018 An investment banker who sent deceptive emails dramatically overstating the financial health of a failing clean energy company shouldn’t be held … Continue reading Matthew Vadum articles in The Epoch Times, December 2018
The huge array of legal proceedings and investigations now being undertaken against President Donald Trump, his campaign, his transition team, and associates is a carefully orchestrated effort to drive him from office, according to conservatives interviewed by The Epoch Times. … Continue reading ‘Lawfare’ used to tie down and punish President Trump, conservatives say