American History

The Biden administration may soon finalize regulations on gas-powered home furnaces, restricting consumers’ ability to purchase units found to be outside of the administration’s greenhouse gas emissions goals within the next few months. The regulations proposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) in June 2022 would likely limit consumer choice, increase prices, and have a minimal effect on greenhouse gas...

Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus Colorado’s ban on free speech near abortion clinics dates back to 1993, and Wendy Faustin has been fighting against those restrictions for just as long. Now, with the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) last year overturning Roe v. Wade, Faustin thinks she has a fair chance of throwing out that...

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government holds a hearing on Government Litigation and the Need for Reform at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 6 to “examine and expose how different aspects of government litigation require reform due to rampant and far-reaching misuse.” Witnesses include Kirby West, attorney, Institute for Justice; Andrew Grossman, partner, Baker Hostetler; John...

Commentary In May, with the support of the opposition and the left-wing Greens, the Queensland state Parliament adopted the Path to Treaty Act 2023. Although media outlets and opinion pages have been saturated with stories about “The Voice” and Indigenous claims to sovereignty, there has been little discussion of this potentially divisive Queensland legislation. Unsurprisingly, the long-serving Labor premier, Annastacia...

Commentary At American Greatness on May 25, there was an article by Joshua Mitchell that should be read by anyone perplexed and frustrated by the very strange current political condition of the United States. It bears a surprising title: “The Formidable Candidacy of Joe Biden.” Mitchell argues that conservatives and Republicans who take delight in the president’s many weaknesses and...

Former FBI Director James Comey said he wouldn’t support anyone but Presiden Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential race. “It has to be Joe Biden,” Comey told Biden’s former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on her MSBNC show aired on June 4, when asked whether he intends to vote for Biden again or Republican candidates other than former President...

franckreporter/iStock/Getty Images Plus France is saving Mother Earth by banning domestic short-haul flights. The country’s Minister of Transportation, Clement Beaune, says this will help combat climate change by cutting carbon emissions.  The initiative came into force on May 23 and affects any flights that can be substituted with a journey by train of less than two-and-a-half hours.  Agenda 2030 Reports...

Commentary The corporate campaign backing a change to Australia’s Constitution is the latest installment in large business bludgeoning not just customers, but everyone, over woke causes. It’s a form of crony capitalism verging on fascism. It’s bad for the country, and it is bad for the government. Large companies are primed for it by the ideas of “stakeholder” capitalism. This...

Presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that he supports Second Amendment and would not seek a gun confiscation program if elected. Asked about his stance on gun rights by The Epoch Times, Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, replied, “I support the Constitution that includes the Second Amendment.” “I’m not going to take anybody’s guns away,” he...

AP Images Lori Lightfoot On Thursday, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that she would be taking a teaching role at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities. Lightfoot will become the Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at Harvard, and will teach a course tentatively titled “Health Policy and Leadership.” Other former mayors, such as New...

Commentary In Part I, I said China should not wake a sleeping elephant, that democracies are slow to react, but once aroused, their citizens united, those who attack them, Germany and Japan during WW II, soon wish they hadn’t. To this day the Persians wish they hadn’t attacked the Greeks at the plain of Marathon in 490 BC. Fearful of losing what they had...

Three members of a left-wing activist organization protesting the building of a police complex in Atlanta, Georgia, were granted bond on Friday after their arrest for money laundering and charity fraud. A spokesperson for Attorney General Chris Carr’s office told The Epoch Times that the state discussed evidence in a hearing on Friday alleging that the suspects conducted “unlawful activity...

mscornelius/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1868 is widely regarded as a momentous event in American history. However, many noted constitutional scholars and historians have highlighted persistent and perplexing issues about the legality of its ratification. In this article, I will explore the arguments that challenge the legitimacy of the Fourteenth...

On May 21, the Group of Seven summit concluded in Hiroshima, Japan. Taking advantage of its position as host country, Japan directly, or indirectly, pointed to China on a number of issues at the meeting, showing no regard for basic facts and coordinating with the United States to smear China. The joint statement, issued after the conference and strongly promoted...

The 18-year prison sentence handed down to Stewart Rhodes for storming the Capitol is a victory for democracy. But it is also fodder for an election campaign. Stewart Rhodes must go to prison for 18 long years. The founder of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia whose name refers to keeping an oath to the U.S. Constitution — only according...

Bytmonas/iStock/Getty Images Plus As it stands today, federal “law” prohibits nine groups of people from receiving (including purchasing) and possessing firearms. Another way to say that is that the government of the United States has denied to nine groups of people their right to keep and bear arms as given by nature and protected by the Second Amendment to the...

Central bank digital currency will enable the banks and governments to CONTROL every aspect of our lives, warns “ReAwaken America” founder and entrepreneur extraordinaire Clay Clark in this episode of Sentinel Report with Alex Newman. Clark also offers some tips on how to protect yourself from the coming storm. Alex’s next guest is Courtenay Turner, host of The Courtenay Turner...

Published in La Jornada (Mexico) on 28 May 2023 Translated from Spanish by Patricia Simoni. Edited by Michelle Bisson. Posted on May 31, 2023. Yesterday Henry Kissinger, the most important strategist and ideologue of U.S. imperialism since World War II, celebrated his 100th birthday. If the world were governed by justice, the multiple crimes against humanity perpetrated under his orders...

“Let me tell you: You Take on the Intelligence community—They have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” Senate Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. On May 18, 2023, suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, suspended FBI Agent Steve Friend, and suspended FBI Agent Marcus Allen testified before the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the...

CLIVE, Iowa—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said May 30 in the first formal stump speech of his 2024 presidential campaign in Iowa that former President Donald Trump has “moved left” on federal spending, abortion, and crime, gives only lip service to the “America First” policies that he failed to implement when in office, and cannot win a general election. “There are...