The much-discussed infrastructure plan slated to cost over $3 trillion that President Joe Biden aims to pass this summer fails to deliver on traditional funding and amounts to a massive federal power grab, according to experts. While the details are still being hashed out, including whether the plan will cost closer to $3 trillion or…
Infrastructure Plan a ‘Huge Power Grab, ‘Tremendous Waste’ Experts Say
Pentagon ‘Not Able to Answer’ If Workplace BLM Advocacy Is Partisan
Defense Department press secretary John Kirby said Monday that he was unable to answer whether it is considered politically partisan for service members to advocate for Black Lives Matter (BLM) while at work. Asked at a press briefing whether workplace BLM talk was “considered partisan,” Kirby said he was “not able to answer that question”…
Hollywood’s Leftist Political Agenda Can Destroy Creative Spirit: Filmmakers
The leftist political agenda that prevails in Hollywood not only damages artists’ values and spirituality but also stifles their creativity, filmmakers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman said. People tend to believe that Hollywood is ruled by money but in fact “political correctness and leftism is what rules Hollywood,” Konzelman told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads.” The…
Appeals Court Rules for Professor in Transgender Pronoun Case
A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a lower court decision, ruling that an Ohio professor’s First Amendment rights may have been violated when his university tried forcing him to refer to a biological male student using female pronouns. A panel on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether “has plausibly…
Conservative Heritage Foundation Turns Down Six-Figure Donations From Google, Facebook
Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has declined donations from Google and Facebook because of the companies’ censoring of persons and groups with conservative points of view. Outgoing foundation president Kay C. James sent letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai explaining that the Heritage Foundation could “not in good conscience accept money” from companies…
Democrats Push For More Censorship at Facebook, Google, Twitter Hearing
Democrats urged Big Tech to step up online censorship or face government regulation during a March 25 congressional hearing with chief executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The lawmakers portrayed the platforms as rife with “disinformation and extremism” that the platforms are unwilling to purge. “Our nation is drowning in disinformation driven by social media,”…
Environmental Policies Are to Remake Economy and Justify Control Over People: Expert
People should be concerned about the Green New Deal because it includes the most radical policies that can transform the economy into a socialist one and allow the government to tighten control over society, according to Hayden Ludwig, Senior Investigative Researcher at the Capital Research Center. “The Green New Deal, I would say, has nothing…
Sen. Tim Scott: Death Threats Against Democrat Senator Example of ‘Woke Folk’ on Rampage
In yet another rebuke of what he called “woke supremacy,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) denounced “the ‘tolerant’ left’s intolerance of dissent” by highlighting an example of a Democrat senator who voted against a federal minimum wake hike and, allegedly, subsequently received death threats. “That is woke supremacy. It is the ‘tolerant’ left’s intolerance for dissent….
‘Absolute Socialism’ Just Around the Corner With Infrastructure Package: Rep. Norman
“Absolute socialism” is just around the corner in the United States if the proposed infrastructure bill passed Congress, according to Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). The Democrat-led Senate is working on a major infrastructure bill that Democratic lawmakers hope will be signed by President Joe Biden by the end of September. Biden first floated the $2…
Bernie Sanders Not ‘Comfortable’ With Trump’s Twitter Ban
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed reservations about the Twitter ban of former President Donald Trump, saying he doesn’t like the idea of a “handful of high-tech people” wielding too much power. Sanders made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, in which Sanders was asked about Twitter banning Trump from its platform….
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