Tag: US Features

Banished for Their Belief: A Daring Appeal in the Heart of Red China

Carrying a large backpack, and clutching a travel guide in one hand, Canadian Joel Chipkar looked the part of a typical tourist. The brown-haired 33-year-old real estate broker, wearing a black jacket and khaki pants, walked briskly to Tiananmen Square, the heart of China’s capital that just over a decade ago had been reddened by…


The 36 Who Dared: Fighting for Freedom in the Heart of Red China

Carrying a large backpack, and clutching a travel guide in one hand, Canadian Joel Chipkar looked the part of a typical tourist. The brown-haired 33-year-old real estate broker, wearing a black jacket and khaki pants, walked briskly to Tiananmen Square, the heart of China’s capital that just over a decade ago had been reddened by…


Witness Warns of Parallels Between China’s Cultural Revolution and the US Today

American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekielek spoke with Xi Van Fleet, a Virginia mom from China who made headlines after she compared the rise of critical race theory (CRT) to China’s Cultural Revolution at a Loudoun County School Board meeting. Jan Jekielek: When you went up to the mic at Virginia’s Loudoun County School Board, you had some…


First Responders Fight Chicago Vaccine Mandate

CHICAGO—Government control over people’s lives has spread like fire since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Scott Troogstad, a fire captain from Chicago. Small-business owners were deprived of their livelihoods, students couldn’t go to schools, people of faith were forbidden to pray at their churches. Yet it wasn’t his fight, not at the time….


DEA Battling ‘Unprecedented Levels’ of Fentanyl, Meth at Southern Border: Official

As overdose deaths in the United States soar to new highs, authorities are seizing “unprecedented levels” of methamphetamine and fentanyl at the country’s southern border, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official. Richard Sanchez, assistant special agent in charge of the DEA in MacAllen, Texas, told The Epoch Times that seizures in his area…


Florida Sheriff Deters Crime with Cutting Edge Technology

If you want to commit a crime it is best to stay out of Lee County, Florida, because chances are “you will be caught” by the ever-vigilant Real Time Intelligence Center (RTIC), warns Sheriff Carmine Marceno. Marceno told The Epoch Times the center allows his Lee County Sheriff’s Department to be “always watching.” The center is…


Overparenting and the Crippling of the Next Generation

Neurotic parenting is preventing children from developing emotionally and becoming independent, says Lenore Skenazy, founder of the Free-Range Kids movement and president of the nonprofit Let Grow. Once dubbed “America’s Worst Mom” after letting her 9-year-old son take the New York subway alone, she’s featured in the new documentary “Chasing Childhood.” Here’s an excerpt of…


The Lion and The Mule: Volunteering During Lockdown

FULLERTON, Calif.—Inside Wings Café, an American aviation diner at the Fullerton Airport filled with vintage World War II décor, Matt Hunyadi, 81, recalls stories his parents and older siblings told him about their escape from Germany in 1945. Before the war ended, he and his family, forced by the Nazis, rode in the Holocaust trains…


The Lion and The Mule: Volunteering During Pandemic

FULLERTON, Calif.—Inside Wings Café, an American aviation diner at the Fullerton Airport filled with vintage World War II décor, Matt Hunyadi, 81, recalls stories his parents and older siblings told him about their escape from Germany in 1945. Before the war ended, he and his family, forced by the Nazis, rode in the Holocaust trains…


The Lion and The Mule: Volunteering During the Pandemic

FULLERTON, Calif.—Inside Wings Café, an American aviation diner at the Fullerton Airport filled with vintage World War II décor, Matt Hunyadi, 81, recalls stories his parents and older siblings told him about their escape from Germany in 1945. Before the war ended, he and his family, forced by the Nazis, rode in the Holocaust trains…