Tag: Defending America

Has Wokeness Peaked? That’s Debatable

News Analysis As headlines declare that “peak woke” has passed, one researcher thinks it’s possible that wokeness is actually just “mutating.” “The jury is still out in terms of whether the Great Awokening is winding down,” wrote Associate Professor David Rozado in a Feb. 24 Twitter post. Rozado’s research in computational social science at the New Zealand Institute…


TikTok Whistleblower Says US Data Can Easily Be Accessed From China: Sen. Hawley

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is pressing the Treasury Department to conduct a thorough review of new whistleblower allegations regarding the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok that were recently brought to his attention. Writing to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen on March 8, Hawley said that a TikTok whistleblower has come to him with direct…


White House Reverses Course, Gives Congress Green Light to Pass Bill Banning TikTok

WASHINGTON—The White House has reversed direction this week, saying it would support a Senate bill that would outlaw TikTok in the United States. The Biden administration had been at a standstill for two years over how to deal with the threat to national security posed by the Chinese-owned mobile app. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake…


Senators Mull Past Failures, Possible Solutions on Big Tech

Members of a Senate antitrust subcommittee on March 7 voiced frustration over the failed attempts by Democrats and Republicans alike to regulate tech giants like Google and Apple, as expert witnesses and lawmakers debated legislation that didn’t get a full vote last Congress. “Neither the judiciary nor the executive branch can solve these problems alone—Congress…


Vivek Ramaswamy Vows to Shut Down FBI If Elected President

Vivek Ramaswamy added another agency to the list of federal entities he says he’d shut down if elected president in 2024: the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “We are done with the J. Edgar Hoover legacy,” the 2024 presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 3. Ramaswamy, a biotech…


Nebraska Governor Issues Order to Ban State Use of CCP Technology

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Thursday announced he issued an executive order to ban the state government and its contractors from using equipment and services produced by a list of companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pillen, a Republican, said in a statement the executive order will keep the CCP from “using technology…


Virginia Moves to Ban China From Buying Farmland

Virginia will ban foreign adversaries, including China, from buying agricultural land in the commonwealth, effective Jan. 1, after legislators in the House of Delegates and Senate recently approved versions of the proposal, and sent the measure to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin for his expected signature. Prohibiting China from buying farmland in Virginia tops Youngkin’s legislative agenda this year….


Virginia to Ban China From Buying Farmland

Virginia will ban foreign adversaries, including China, from buying agricultural land in the Commonwealth, effective Jan. 1, 2023. The House bill passed both chambers of the General Assembly on Friday. With the Senate version passing two weeks ago, the bill is poised to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin soon. Prohibiting China from…


CIA Director: Russia Understands ‘Seriousness’ and Consequences of Using Nuclear Weapons

As nuclear rhetoric from Russia escalates tensions with the West, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Burns said Russian spy chief, Sergey Naryshkin, understands there will be “serious consequences” for Russia if U.S. warnings against nuclear arms use in Ukraine are ignored. During a Feb. 26 interview with the CBS talk show “Face The Nation,” Burns…


Former Black Panther Discovers One of Her White Ancestors Arrived on the Mayflower

A radical social justice Marxist and former member of the Black Panthers discovered that one of her ancestors arrived in the New World from England on the 1620 Mayflower expedition. On Tuesday’s PBS episode of “Finding your Roots,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. interviewed Angela Davis, whom he said came to the show to have the mystery…