Tag: Social Issues

Body Language Experts Share Advice on How to Tell When Politicians Lie

With midterm elections looming, some voters are still undecided about candidate choices. And when campaign claims conflict, some wonder, who’s being honest? That doesn’t have to be a mystery anymore, body language experts told The Epoch Times. But first, voters seeking to root out the truth must forget everything they’ve been told about how to…


Inflation, Stock Market Meltdown Force More Retirees to ‘Unretire’

The Great Resignation or the Great Unretirement? A growing number of older Americans are “unretiring” as a cost-of-living crisis, a bear market on Wall Street, and rising interest rates send more people back to the labor market under the stress of diminished living standards. During the COVID-19 public health crisis, the U.S. economy witnessed a…


Yeshiva University Suspends Club Activities After Supreme Court Says It Must Recognize LGBT Group

Yeshiva University announced it will suspend all campus club activities in its latest attempt to resist a Sept. 14 Supreme Court ruling that lifted an order that allowed the university to refuse to accept an LGBT group based on the school’s religious beliefs. The temporary freeze came ahead of the Jewish High Holidays that start…


Hearing Voices of the Young at Conservative Conference

With the mid-term elections less than two months away, elected officials and candidates descended upon a Houston, Texas, church over the weekend to educate teens attending the 4th Annual Texas Youth Summit. “They are important because I’m a mom and my kids are ages 19, 22 and 24,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). “I…


ESG Is Simply a Socialist Plot by a Group of ‘Corporate Elites,’ Disguised as Free Market: Andy Puzder

Many leftist progressive groups are pushing forward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards on companies and investments, claiming that such standards will benefit society. Andy Puzder, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of “The Capitalist Comeback,” warns that ESG is simply socialist ideologies being falsely presented as the free market. In an…


Port Jervis Family Keeps Volunteer Firefighting Going

Four years ago, when 16-year-old Briana Moore became a junior volunteer firefighter, her decision shocked her father, David Moore Jr. Moore Jr. had followed in his grandfather and father’s footsteps to become a volunteer firefighter at 16. His then-14-year-old teenage son, David Moore, was well on track to follow in Moore Jr.’s footsteps in due…


Study: Americans own more than 415 million firearms

Americans now own more than 415 million firearms, according to Georgetown professor William English. This was a key finding of the National Firearms Survey that was conducted last year by Denver-based research firm Centiment, at the request of English, a professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. English is a political economist…


COVID Quarantine Bus Crashes in China, Killing at Least 27

BEIJING—The victims of a bus crash which killed 27 people and injured a further 20 in southwest China’s Guizhou province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for COVID reasons, local media reported on Sunday. The accident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning on a highway in Sandu…


COVID-19 Quarantine Bus Crashes in China, Killing at Least 27

BEIJING—The victims of a bus crash that killed 27 people and injured 20 more in China’s Guizhou Province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for COVID-related reasons, local media outlets reported on Sept. 18. The crash occurred in the early hours of Sept. 18 on a highway in Sandu county,…


Bus for COVID-19 Quarantine in China Crashes, Killing 27

BEIJING—The victims of a bus crash which killed 27 people and injured a further 20 in southwest China’s Guizhou province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for COVID reasons, local media reported on Sunday. The accident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning on a highway in Sandu…