Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest-running and most popular weekly column. Well, it’s groundhog day, again – and heartlanders watching the news this week might find themselves feeling like they’ve seen this show before. A group of progressive climate zealots melted down and threw a tantrum during the Democratic National Committee’s attempt…
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When an American Airlines regional passenger plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided earlier this week at Reagan National Airport, it sent shockwaves throughout the country. The midair crash occurred at approximately 8:48 in the evening, a couple of hundred feet above the Potomac River. As investigators work to unravel how this could…
After a lax four years with open borders, the gangs now have to compete against each other for territory and money. Now that the cartels have been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), business along the US-Mexico border has taken a hit – at least for the syndicate. With the crackdown on illegal immigration and…
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Early squabbles dominate the discussion. The fractured and leaderless Democratic National Committee is meeting today, February 1, to pick a new chairperson to move the party forward after devastating losses the November elections. It should be a time of unity, to take the Democratic Party back to the saner middle ground – or even to…
The left has good reason to be very afraid of this quick-witted quartet. Once upon a time, Senate scrutiny of a president’s Cabinet appointments was essentially pro forma. The advice and consent of the upper chamber of Congress was necessary, but despite whether the incoming president was a Republican or Democrat, it was largely a…
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Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are arguably President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees. And they all faced the Senate on Thursday, January 30. Each in turn tried to walk back, put into context, or otherwise explain some of their most scandalous moments. Whether the often-heated back-and-forth of the confirmation hearings…
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It’s a rough road to confirmation for some of Trump’s best and brightest. Was it because Democrats consider Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a turncoat? Were they just trying to sabotage him because he’s an appointee of Donald Trump? Or are they horrified at the idea of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) being…
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As a business move, it makes no sense. Then again, not much about the Big Corporate embrace of the culturally leftist diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda ever did. On Jan. 24, shareholders of the wholesale club Costco overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to scuttle the corporation’s DEI programs. The pushback came at the strident behest…
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How will the youngest WH press secretary in history fare against the anti-Trump media? For the American media, Jan. 28 was something of an auspicious day – and a day of firsts. On Tuesday afternoon, the White House press corps gathered in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room to receive the first briefing since…
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When the Early Bird came to an end, so did objectivity. There was no funeral. There was no ceremony of any kind, really. Over 11 years ago, on Friday, November 1, 2013, a valuable source of information and current news was put to rest without fanfare or much of any mention. What had been, for…
Election interference has a long history in American politics. From distorted TV ads to foreign countries with their own agendas – and hardly just Russia – many corrupt politicians and bad actors have attempted to put their thumbs on the scale over the years in attempting to influence low-information voters. But you would be hard-pressed…
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It’s a matter of size and will. Columbia made a big show of refusing to accept flights from the United States returning illegal migrants. President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, January 26, made a series of public X posts in which he insisted the deportations were a non-starter until President Trump found a way to do…
