American History

BAlvarius/Wikimedia Commons Gray Mountain, Arizona The White House has claimed control over more than 900,000 acres of land in Arizona. President Biden insists that the land grab was necessary to “tell a more complete story of our nation” and to “strengthen climate resilience across America’s National Parks system,” but the real reason is likely a little less noble. As reported...

olegda88/iStock/Getty Images Plus According to results of a Ukrainian public-opinion survey about attitudes toward the current crisis with Russia, most Ukrainian respondents harbored misgivings toward the military bloc NATO and the European Union (EU). The survey, which was conducted by phone from July 25 to 27 in all of Ukraine presently unoccupied by Russian forces and provided exclusively to The...

Stakon/iStock/Getty Images Plus Hawaii’s ban of butterfly knives has been declared unconstitutional by a federal court. In Hawaii, it is a misdemeanor knowingly to manufacture, sell, transfer, transport, or possess a butterfly knife — no exceptions. The judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that “Hawaii has not demonstrated that its ban on butterfly knives is consistent with...

Robert J. Oppenheimer (AP Images) Was J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos during World War II, a Soviet agent? And why does it matter? “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” So, supposedly, said Napoleon Bonaparte. Well, the liars have certainly gotten the upper hand since Napoleon’s day. Our “history industry” has been...

Anderson Piza/iStock/Getty Images Plus The city of Beverly Hills, California, has ordered an Orthodox Jewish rabbi to stop holding small religious gatherings at his home, evidence of which it gathered via police stakeouts and drone surveillance, the rabbi’s attorneys allege. On June 12, Rabbi Levi Illulian received a “Notice of Violations” letter from the city ordering him to “terminate all...

PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Catholic couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for denying their application to become foster, and potentially adoptive, parents because of their views on sexuality and gender. Represented by the nonprofit public-interest legal firm Becket, Mike and Kitty Burke of Southampton filed a lawsuit in federal district court Tuesday alleging that the Massachusetts Department of Children...

Yes, the indictment of Donald Trump is important. However, he and his supporters worldwide have long since succeeded in undermining state institutions. It is the third indictment filed against former President Donald Trump — and the most significant. Not only because a conviction on conspiracy charges would come with a heavier sentence than conviction of concealing hush money payments, charges...

SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of two doctors and the nonprofit Do No Harm, challenging California’s mandatory “implicit bias” training for physicians, which requires them to accept leftist political and racial indoctrination to continue practicing medicine.  The California Legislature enacted Assembly Bill 241 with the full support of Governor Gavin...

Judge Aileen Cannon Mainstream media outlets are pointing out errors made in a prior case by the federal judge who is presiding in Donald Trump’s classified documents case — errors that they argue may have invalidated that earlier case. But is the media’s concern for the judge’s past performance sincere, or is there an agenda behind it? The judge in...

mphillips007/iStock/Getty Images Plus “It’s been half a century since Congress last proposed a successful amendment. Could an Article V convention similarly usher in a new era of progressive reform?” asks John F. Kowal, the author of a recent Newsweek opinion piece. “A growing number of progressive scholars and reformers are asking whether it’s wise to take the convention option off...

izusek/iStock/Getty Images Plus Teachers and staff at a Tennessee government-school district were taught that Christians, heterosexuals, men, “cisgender” people, and descendants of Europeans have “privilege” while women, pagans, “people of color,” “polyamorous” people, and homosexuals are supposedly oppressed. The scandalous Marxist-style training is causing outrage across Tennessee and nationwide. According to a copy of the “cultural competence” training presentation first...

scottlitt/iStock/Getty Images Plus In its ruling to suspend enforcement of ATF’s pistol brace rule for 60 days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday required the lower court to look more carefully at all the facts and then issue a decision on the matter. The appeals court strongly suggested that, based on the information it had,...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Members of the Massachusetts General Court are seeking to enact what would be the most restrictive and tyrannical gun-control law in the United States. House Docket No. 4420 (H.D. 4420) is euphemistically titled “An Act modernizing firearm laws.” However, if enacted, it would severely and unconstitutionally restrict citizens’ God-given right to self-defense. H.D. 4420 is 142 pages...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that taking race into consideration in the college admissions process is unconstitutional, breaking with 45 years of legal precedent. Inevitably, there are concerns about whether diversity will suffer and deepen social division. Affirmative action, which involved taking proactive, corrective measures to support the social advancement of racial minorities such as Black, Latino (from Central...

xavierarnau/iStock/Getty Images Plus It took a strong letter using strong language giving the Greenfield (Massachusetts) School Committee a “drop-dead date or we sue all of its members” ultimatum to force it to do what it should have done in the first place: approve the curriculum of a newly formed private school in Greenfield, Massachusetts. At issue was the curriculum that...

flickr.com Wayne Allen Root We have this never-ending debate in America and especially in Washington, D.C., about what works: Left or Right, liberalism or conservatism, capitalism or socialism. Well, there’s no need to debate anymore. The answer is in. We won! Yes, the debate is over. All the stats are in from a hundred directions. “The Great American Divorce” I’ve...

AP Images Vivek Ramaswamy Businessman and 2024 GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy is the “number one opponent” of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its Great Reset agenda in the United States, the candidate said in an interview with The New American magazine. He also argued that there were “good reasons to exit” the United Nations. Speaking with this writer...

AP Images Adam Schiff “Stirred to fury and swayed by passion in all their counsels … the government will change its name to the finest sounding of all: free democracy; but will change its nature to the worst thing of all: mob-rule.” — Polybius, Histories, Book VIII Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has reintroduced the “Protecting Our Democracy Act,” an initiative...

AP Images Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) once again has raised the very serious question of whether the Biden administration worked with Facebook to identify and censor Americans who used the social-media platform to express their opposition to Joe Biden. “Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and...

LeoPatrizi/iStock/Getty Images Plus As Congress continues to consider whether to re-authorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), there are several critical parts of that provision that deserve to be brought to the attention of the American people whose lives are directly impacted by the surveillance programs that section has been used to create. As a reminder, Section...