Tag: Policies & Impacts

Biden Administration Aims to Make AI Technology Woke, Warns Watchdog

The Biden administration is pushing to transform artificial intelligence (AI) to promote a woke agenda led by left-wing activists and censor conservatives, warned a conservative watchdog group. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) reviewed the White House’s plans for AI and posted a warning on Twitter that top government officials are seeking to infuse “dangerous ideologies”…


BlackRock CEO Appears to Be Backpedaling on ESG

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink appeared to be backpedaling on his support for the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement, saying he would no longer use the term. This was at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 25. We speak to Epoch Times reporter and producer of “The Shadow State” Kevin Stocklin about what this means…


Rep. Nancy Mace Wants to Know Why Pentagon Quietly Cancelled Contract to Develop New Travel System

House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) wants to know why Department of Defense (DOD) officials suddenly and without public explanation cancelled its replacement for an old travel reservations system that generated nearly $1 billion in improper payments from 2016 to 2018. In a June 30 letter to Under-Secretary of Defense for…


IN-DEPTH: Attendees at Moms for Liberty Event Rank 5 Republican Presidential Candidates

Republican and Democratic presidential candidates were all invited to speak at the Moms for Liberty national summit in Philadelphia, organizers say, and five Republicans said yes. The summit took place June 29 through July 2 at the Museum of the American Revolution, and the candidates who spoke were, in order of appearance, Florida Gov. Ron…


Pence Says Trump Would Have Kept US Troops in Afghanistan, Rejects Blame for Chaotic Withdrawal

Former President Donald Trump would have kept at least a couple thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan despite his 2020 peace agreement with the Taliban, according to former Vice President Mike Pence. In February 2020, the Trump Administration reached a deal (pdf) with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan within 14 months, so…


Most Americans Agree With Supreme Court Rulings on Race-Based Admissions, Debt Cancellation: Poll

A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found most Americans agreed with the Supreme Court’s recent rulings in three high-profile cases. The majority of Americans, 52 percent, approved of the decision against race-based admissions in higher education, while 32 percent disapproved. The court’s ban on affirmative action-based admissions was the result of its hearing two cases—originally filed in 2014—that…


Supreme Court Won’t Disturb Ruling Recognizing Gender Dysphoria Under Disability Law

Over the objections of two conservative justices, the Supreme Court decided last week not to take up a case about whether individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The June 30 decision to deny the petition for certiorari, or review, in Kincaid v. Williams (court file 22-633), is…


State Senate Republicans Try to Force Vote on Election Chief’s Appointment

While Democrats were still celebrating the success of their parliamentary move to keep embattled Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Administrator Meagan Wolfe on the job, the GOP-controlled Senate did some maneuvering of its own to get rid of her. The had WEC called a special meeting for June 27 for the sole purpose of reappointing Wolfe…


SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling Shows Americans Should Be Treated Based on Character and Personal Responsibility, Not Race: Advocates

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling to strike down race-based admissions policies at U.S. colleges—also referred to as affirmative action policies—shows that Americans should be treated based on their character and their personal responsibility, not their race, according to two advocates who praised the decision. “I’m elated. There’s no other way of saying it, it’s a big…


‘Pushing a False Racist Narrative’: Extremist Educators Not Teaching but Indoctrinating

Radical leftist ideologies have permeated deep into American campuses, and affected the nation’s educational standards as well as perverted decision-making at the highest levels of academia, said Kenny Xu. President of Color Us United—an advocacy group standing against racist policies propagated in the name of equity—and author of the upcoming “School of Woke,” Xu spoke…