Category: Conservative

CPAC Leader Charlie Gerow: Conservative Values Must Guide Next Pennsylvania Governor

Fresh on the heels of last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, Charlie Gerow, vice chairman of the American Conservative Union which hosts CPAC, talked with The Epoch Times about values, policies, and his campaign for Pennsylvanian Governor. Conservative values, Gerow says, include the fundamental belief in individual liberty. “That matters now as never…


Patriot Barbie, Lindsey Graham, Defies Illegal Government Lockdowns

Imagine reopening your business to provide for your family and your governor threatens you and orders child protective services to barge into your home. That’s exactly what happened to conservative political activist and freedom fighter Lindsey Graham. This event was a catalyst in her life to fight the government’s tyrannical mask mandates, social distancing, closing…


Former Harper Chief of Staff to Head Conservative Leadership Race Rules Committee

OTTAWA—The Conservative party is turning to a one-time chief of staff to former prime minister Stephen Harper to head the committee setting the rules for the party’s leadership race. Ian Brodie, now an associate professor at the University of Calgary, will chair the leadership election organizing committee that includes 20 other members. The party’s constitution…


Sen. Denise Batters Returned to National Conservative Caucus After O’Toole Ousted Her

OTTAWA—Conservative Sen. Denise Batters is back in the party’s national caucus one week after the leader who kicked her out was himself dumped. Batters appeared alongside MPs who gathered today in Ottawa for the first time since they voted to replace Erin O’Toole as the party’s leader. She was shown the door last November after…


Ocean Geoengineering ‘Not Rocket Science’: Russ George

In a Feb. 3 webinar with the conservative environmental group ConservAmerica, entrepreneur Russ George pitched the idea of using iron fertilization to spur plankton growth far from shore. George said the procedure removed carbon from the atmosphere while restoring fish populations—an approach he made famous in 2012 through the experimental release of iron sulfate into…


Conservative MPs Await Results of Election Review—But Don’t Expect to See It All

OTTAWA—Conservative MPs meeting for a two-day retreat say they don’t expect to be shown the entire review into the party’s election loss. Former Alberta MP James Cumming is set to present the findings from his review to caucus members and national council Thursday. A party spokesman says caucus will be briefed on the contents of…


Conservative MP Questions Delay in Suicide Hotline as COVID 19 Crisis Calls Continue

OTTAWA—A Conservative member of Parliament is questioning why a national suicide-prevention hotline approved by the House of Commons last year still does not exist. MPs from all parties voted in December 2020 for “immediate action” to set up a suicide hotline that people in crisis could call for help by dialing 988. Conservative MP Todd…


Turning Point USA AmericaFest Part 2: Not All Blacks Are Democrat

At Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest summit in Phoenix, I interviewed a number of black attendees who are redefining a racial narrative and speaking from the heart. Officer Brandon Tatum, New Jersey congressional candidate Billy Prempeh, and Steven Davis, aka MAGA Hulk, spoke with me about what they are doing to bring forth conservative principles. Hosted…


The Republican Party’s Multiethnic, Working-Class Coalition Is Taking Shape

Commentary In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from David Goodhart’s 2017 book, “The Road to Somewhere,” and the party’s bicoastal “Anywhere” rulers. The…


Is the Rift Between the Public and the C-Suites Permanent?

Commentary HANNIBAL, Missouri—During a visit here in 1882, Mark Twain wrote to his wife Olivia of the rush of sentiments he experienced returning to the town of his childhood. “I have spent three delightful days in Hannibal, loitering around all day long, examining the old localities and talking with the grey-heads who were boys and…