Rebel Republicans demand overhaul or demise. A group of House Republicans stalled the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act yesterday, April 10. Nineteen GOP members joined Democrats in shutting down the passage of FISA Section 702 that enables US intelligence agencies to spy on foreigners abroad. The sticking point for the conservatives appears to…
The Biden administration has launched an aggressive regulatory mission to rescue Americans from toxic Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water. Also known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment and accumulate in the human body, PFAS are certainly toxic and have been discharged into American water supplies since the 1940s….
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Does the Big Apple’s mayor have an inappropriate relationship with the Turkish? New York City Mayor Eric Adams is the subject of another FBI investigation as part of a broader corruption inquiry that already has federal authorities looking into his political actions. This time, the Democrat lawmaker’s Turkish flight upgrades have come into question. Adams…
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They believe that only a complete teardown can cleanse the nation of its sins. It used to be that, for all their disagreements, Republicans and Democrats at least shared a common belief about sustaining the constitutional republic they were gifted by founders who sacrificed their lives, honor, and considerable fortunes for the sake of liberty….
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Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest running and most popular weekly column. Talk of the solar eclipse dominated most conversations across America, though somehow the talk of Monday’s event became more political than scientific. Can you imagine? But a darkened daytime sky isn’t the only phenomena occurring this election year: Former President Trump…
There’s a good chance it won’t even go to trial. Congress will be back from vacation this coming week: Monday for the Senate and Tuesday for the House. Shortly thereafter, the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be presented to the upper chamber for consideration – but don’t expect much in the way of…
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The struggle is real in the Golden State. In February, the unemployment rate was 5.3%, the highest in the nation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. California — the third biggest state after Alaska and Texas — has beaches, mountains, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. So why is it suffering financially? The reasons are many…
President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry, provocatively challenging well-established constitutional protections of life, liberty, and private property. This disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat….
The nanny state reigns supreme. On Thursday, April 4, the Food and Drug Administration took a crucial step forward in the war on menthol cigarettes by announcing a new ban on sales in the US. It is a battle that has been waged against flavored smokes since 2009, when the FDA stopped the sales of…
The political cost of crude is too high for the White House. Tap into America’s oil reserves in case of emergency. This was the idea behind the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) when the program was crafted in the 1970s under then-President Gerald Ford. However, under the current administration, the SPR has morphed into a political…
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Cui bono from the vice-presidential options? Presidents and presidential candidates are — usually – powerhouse personalities that attract allegiance and demand attention. But the candidates themselves often need a helping hand with an elusive slice of the electorate. Whether it is a state they want to sew up or a demographic that is wavering, vice…
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In the full year since he first emerged onto the national stage as the biggest political wildcard since Ross Perot, it was first assumed that Robert F Kennedy Jr. was likely to draw votes away from Joe Biden in the Democratic primary and weaken the incumbent for the fall campaign. But after RFK Jr. switched…
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