Tag: US Features

Lights, Camera, COVID-19 Safety: How the Virus Has Changed Hollywood

At the onset of COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, all Hollywood productions shut down overnight in March 2020. By mid-summer of that year, a handful of productions ramped up again, emerging with a brand-new production budget line item: COVID-19 safety. Nick Greco was one of the first COVID-19 safety…


Mass Walkouts and Protests Against Vaccine Mandates Spread Across US

Thousands of people across the U.S. took the day off from work on Nov. 3 to kick off worldwide walkouts in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The events, sponsored by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and other organizations, featured speakers and protesters chanting slogans and carrying signs in support of medical freedom. “No government in history…


Mass Walkouts, Protests Against Vaccine Mandates Spread Across US

Thousands of people across the United States took the day off from work on Nov. 3 to participate in walkouts and demonstrations in protest of CCP virus vaccine mandates. In Phoenix, more than 200 people gathered in protest outside at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza. Many carried homemade signs and wore patriotic clothing in support of their…


Citizen Journalism Rises Among Parents Who Question Health Policies

As more people question whether their local health policies are engaging in government overreach, parents are becoming citizen investigative journalists who form constitutional rights groups to hold policymakers accountable. For Kelly Wiggen in Rutherford County, North Carolina, it began when she said the mask mandates in her child’s school weren’t adding up. From there, the…


Vaccine Mandates Create Tough Choices, Hardship for Workers

Like many American workers whose lives have been turned upside down by employer vaccine mandates, Texan Shawn Gordon faces a stark dilemma—violate his principles, or forfeit his job. The mental and emotional strain for Gordon and others like him has been painful. About a dozen workers from various walks of life, but all facing a…


Skeptical Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Texas Abortion Law

There was skepticism on both sides as the nine justices of the Supreme Court heard the arguments of opposing counsel this week in a challenge to Texas’ unique new fetal-heartbeat abortion law that relies on citizen participation for enforcement. The high-profile case moved at lightning speed, by Supreme Court standards, finding its way to oral…


Cartels Using Narco Slaves to Grow Illegal Marijuana on Industrial Scale in Oregon

Seven years after Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, the market for cannabis is booming. But rather than propagate a legal agricultural sector that grows the state’s economy as intended, the industry has taken a dark turn in Southern Oregon. Today, it is cultivating an ecosystem of international organized crime, human trafficking, and environmental degradation. Oregon voters…


Manhood Lost and Found: Groups Growing Men From Boys

When he was 11, Terrell Blue’s mom was in prison, his 3-year-old brother had just died, and his dad “was in and out of jail.” Knowing he needed a role model, Blue’s aunt enrolled him in Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, one of the oldest and largest mentoring programs in the nation. That was…


Communist Tyranny and the ‘Suicide of Western Civilization’

On American Thought Leaders, Jan Jekielek spoke with North Korean defector Yeonmi Park, author of “In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom.” They discussed the North Korean regime’s tactics of oppression, the parallels between her experiences in North Korea and what she now sees in the United States, and the “suicide of Western…


Facing the Threat of the Chinese Communist Party

Nearly 20 years after China was admitted to the World Trade Organization, China hasn’t become more democratic or free. And Western capital has ultimately only strengthened China’s communist regime. “We were fooling ourselves,” says Clyde Prestowitz. Prestowitz was a leader in the first U.S. trade mission to China in 1982, and he’s served as an adviser to four…