Month: September 2021

Florida Judge Halts City’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

A judge in Florida on Wednesday blocked a city’s COVID-19 mandate from taking effect. Circuit Judge Monica Brasington, a Sen. Rick Scott appointee, granted a request for an emergency injunction. That means the mandate, which was slated to take effect on Oct. 1, is blocked for now. “The city did not put on any evidence,…


Angelo Codevilla: Resetting the Educational Reset

Commentary America lost a great patriot and one of its foremost public intellectuals yesterday with the untimely death of Angelo Codevilla at the age of 78.  Professor Codevilla, whose career spanned the Navy, the foreign service, the intelligence community, academe, think tanks, the blogosphere, and the literary world, was one of the sharpest and shrewdest…


China’s Crackdown Reminds Big Tech Who’s in Charge

Commentary China’s political leaders fear the power of their ultra-wealthy Big Tech CEOs and react to the threat with political persecution. But in the United States? Not so much. The old adage, “Money is power,” is proving to be much less reliable these days than it used to be, particularly in communist China. Just ask…


Quad Leaders to Meet Amid Mounting CCP Aggression

The leaders of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States will meet at the White House on Sep. 24 for the first-ever in-person leaders’ summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, colloquially known as “the Quad.” They will discuss issues ranging from emergent technologies and global supply chain security to climate change and the future of…


Three Charged in $30 Million Cable Television Scheme After FBI and IRS Probe

Three men have been charged by indictment with crimes arising out of a lucrative copyright infringement scheme, according to a press release from acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. in Philadelphia. Bill Omar Carrasquillo, 35, of Swedesboro, New Jersey; Jesse Gonzales, 42, of Pico Rivera, California; and…


Students Meet and Pray at ‘See You at the Pole’ Rallies Across America

Students, parents, and community members across the United States on Wednesday resume the “See You At The Pole” tradition, uniting in prayer around the flag poles at their schools. The event, according to the See You at the Pole (SYATP) organization, is held on the fourth Wednesday of September each year. This year marks the…


North Carolina Food Truck Operator Fights Protectionism

A barbeque food truck operator in North Carolina is suing a local government after it enacted protectionist regulations that boosted food truck permitting fees by close to 8,000 percent. The lawsuit, Shirley v. Town of Farmville, was filed Sept. 21, in state court in Pitt County, North Carolina, on behalf of plaintiff Mark Shirley by…


Sen. Paul: We Should Not Use FISA Warrants to Surveil Americans

The U.S. government should not use FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrants to surveil Americans but should obey the Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment, to properly conduct searches and seizures, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday. Paul made the remarks during the Senate Committee on Homeland Security’s counterterrorism hearing. “The problem is the system can…


No Clear Plan for Bringing Haitian Migrants to Pennsylvania

Despite hints that some may be moved to Pennsylvania, no clear plan has been publicly defined for the fate of thousands of Haitian migrants gathered under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. City of Harrisburg spokeswoman Syeda Tayyeba told The Epoch Times she was aware of one national media report that some migrants would be…


COVID-19 Sends Northern Chinese City Into Semi-Shutdown

The Chinese regime has tightened travel restrictions and increased orders for mass testing in its northeastern city of Harbin since Sept. 21 amid a fresh surge in COVID-19 cases. An estimated 10 million residents in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, have received a new stay-at-home order. Authorities told them to avoid all non-essential travel….