For years, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) leaders have given contractors titles that grant access to a computer system that holds valuable information, former patent office employees say. Unlike USPTO personnel, it’s not clear whether federal contractors go through the same background checks that federal employees go through, according to inventor David Hoyle,…
US Patent Office Improperly Assigned Supervisory Status to Contractors for Years
EXCLUSIVE: US Patent Office Improperly Assigned Supervisory Status to Contractors for Years
For years, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) leaders have given contractors titles that grant access to a computer system that holds valuable information, former patent office employees say. Unlike USPTO personnel, it’s not clear whether federal contractors go through the same background checks that federal employees go through, according to inventor David Hoyle,…
Earmarks Include Big-Ticket Spending on Environment and Climate
With the return of earmarks after a decade-long moratorium, Democrats and Republicans alike have dedicated significant discretionary spending to projects advertised as protecting the environment. The Epoch Times examined a Bipartisan Policy Center spreadsheet on earmarks, also referred to as Congressionally directed spending, from the March omnibus bill. The largest single environmental earmark is also…
Chicago Residents Fight to Reclaim Streets from Illicit Drug Dealings
Over the last four years, Patricia Carrillo and her husband Hugo Limon have done everything they could to steer drug sellers away from their block. They took pictures of illicit drug dealings and shared them with police, they mustered the guts to meet with drug crew bosses, and they went to court to plead with…
OKC Bombing Anniversary: Ex Neo-Nazi With Plot Knowledge Sits in Female Prison
On the 27th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest domestic terror attack in U.S. history, an inmate believed to have knowledge about potential co-conspirators in that bombing languishes in a Texas prison awaiting a sex change. Prison staff are in the process of retaining surgeons to perform the operation for the inmate, who now…
Researchers: Garland Should Reopen OKC Bombing Case He Helped Prosecute
During the tenure of Attorney General Merrick Garland the Department of Justice launched an effort targeting parents at school board meetings, pushed for severe sentences against Jan. 6 defendants, and created a new domestic counterterrorism office within the Department of Justice (DOJ)—all with the stated aim of combatting white supremacy and domestic extremism. But if…
EXCLUSIVE: House Freedom Caucus Members Got Earmarks Despite Caucus’s Past Opposition
Data from the Bipartisan Policy Center reveal that congressmen in the House Freedom Caucus requested earmarks in last month’s omnibus bill—a move at odds with the conservative caucus’s critical previous statements on earmarks, but possibly in line with private discussions among its members. “Earmarks are the currency of corruption. The @freedomcaucus opposes earmarks, whether in…
Dog Fight: Activists Battle Over America’s Shelter Pit Bulls
EAST RIDGE, Tenn.-Merry, a brown pit bull at the East Ridge Animal Services shelter, is blissfully unaware of the nationwide political battles that rage around her existence. A beautifully muscular dog, she dashes around the shelter’s visitor enclosure. Occasionally, she leaps to grab a treat from Caroline Smith, an East Ridge, Tennessee, animal control officer….
The ‘Nudge’
“Our most sacred rights were interfered with,” Laura Dodsworth says of the COVID-19 lockdowns. In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek speaks with writer and filmmaker Laura Dodsworth about the ways governments in the UK and beyond have used subliminal methods to secretly manipulate the public, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic….
State Government Can Remove Child From Parents Based on Presumption: Idaho State Representative
Medical kidnapping, when children are taken away from their parents by a government agency due to medical reasons, has been becoming a problem in Idaho, according to Idaho state Rep. Tammy Nichols. Many children are taken away with the involvement of the government agency Child Protective Services (CPS), Nichols, a Republican, told EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program,…
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