Tag: US Features

Parents, Officials Pushing Back Against Diversity Courses in Ohio Schools

As state school officials and parents see a number of Ohio schools contracting with more diversity-related organizations that provide critical race theory and transgender courses for teachers—and pay for them with taxpayer funds—those who disagree with it want others to know they are fighting back. Some see it as so bad that they have pulled…


How an Attorney and a Holocaust Survivor Stopped Vaccine Passports in Orange County, California

California and New York were the first areas in the country to take steps toward vaccine passports last year. New York City implemented it, but Orange County didn’t, thanks to the efforts of human rights Attorney Leigh Dundas and holocaust survivor Vera Sharav. Dundas is leading some of the nation’s most notable efforts to counter the vaccine…


Texas Republicans Urge Court to Reconsider Decision That Stripped AG of Power to Prosecute Election Fraud

At least 100 Texas Republican lawmakers and party leaders are urging the state’s highest criminal court to revisit a decision that dealt a major blow to the state’s ability to prosecute election fraud and jeopardized election integrity laws. A friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday by 14 Republican Texas senators called on the state’s all-GOP Court of…


Biden Energy Officials Grilled on Proposed Pipeline Regulation, Rumored Natural Gas Export Ban

In a Jan. 19 hearing of the House Energy Subcommittee, representatives questioned two Biden administration appointees on U.S. pipeline infrastructure, energy prices, and a rumored ban on exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The hearing was occasioned by Subcommittee Chair Bobby Rush’s (D-Ill.) proposed legislation, H.R. 6084, the “Energy Product Reliability Act.” That measure would…


Helping Kids Become More Resilient Through Music Mentorship

In Southern California music pastor Duff Rowden was riding a bike trail when he came upon an orange orchard loaded with fruit. “They were beautiful, large, ripe, and ready to eat. I thought I might take a couple, but they weren’t mine so I rode away.” Two weeks later he came by the orchard again….


Marxist Revolution in the Making in America, Expert Warns

There is a phenomenon being observed in America today, “an attempt at changing reality” to foster a new Marxist revolution, said Mike Gonzalez, an author of two books on this topic. According to Marxist thought, “reality is just put together by our conceptual framework,“ Gonzalez told EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program. “So what we see with Black…


EXCLUSIVE: Wife Stands Off With Hospital to Keep Her Husband Alive, and Wins

Sentiments expressed in random phone calls for Anne Quiner as her husband Scott lay in a hospital bed breathing through a ventilator ranged from “I hope your husband dies a vegetable” followed by a litter of profanity, to “he should have taken the vaccine; I hope he dies,” before hanging up. While not the traditional…


Wife Stands Off With Hospital to Keep Her Husband Alive, and Wins

Sentiments expressed in random phone calls for Anne Quiner as her husband Scott lay in a hospital bed breathing through a ventilator ranged from “I hope your husband dies a vegetable” followed by a litter of profanity, to “he should have taken the vaccine; I hope he dies,” before hanging up. While not the traditional…


US Coal Stockpiles Near Historic Lows

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) reveals that coal inventories in the electric power sector reached 93.7 million short tons as of December 2021—an increase since September when stockpiles hit a historic low not seen since the Carter administration. Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American…


Campaign Strategists Sound Cautionary Note on Gallup Data Showing Big GOP Mid-Term Lead

Veteran congressional campaign strategists in both major political parties are sounding cautionary notes about the latest Gallup Survey showing dramatic increases in Republican identification levels among voters heading into the 2022 midterm election. “On average, Americans’ political party preferences in 2021 looked similar to prior years, with slightly more U.S. adults identifying as Democrats or…