Author: Patriots4Truth

Attorney General William Barr told Congress on Tuesday that he doesn’t believe police departments are systemically racist, pushing back against Democrats’ overarching justification for implementing sweeping police reforms after high-profile, police-involved deaths of Black Americans. His comments came during a House Judiciary Committee hearing where Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, pressed Barr on the administration’s efforts to counter systemic racism. “I don’t agree there’s systemic racism in the police department, generally, in this country,” Barr said. In his opening statement, Barr said it was “understandable” that African Americans harbored distrust towards the…

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Police in Australia arrested a pregnant 28-year-old woman in front of her partner and two children Wednesday for allegedly planning a coronavirus lockdown protest and promoting it on Facebook. Police in the state of Victoria took the woman, Zoe Buhler, into custody at her home after she created a “freedom day” event on Facebook calling for people to peacefully gather against the government’s lockdown measures. “As some of you may have seen the government has gone to extreme measures and are using scare tactics through the media to prevent the…

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Round about a month ago, I took a closer look at Joe Biden’s retirement-related policy proposals, or, more specifically, those of the “Unity Task Force,” which had just released its final document. One of the items in that document and on the Biden campaign website is a promise to “equalize the network of retirement saving tax breaks” — a proposal that generally translates to eliminating the tax advantages currently enjoyed by retirement savings accounts and replacing them with a “credit” or “match.” The idea is that the tax advantages, or…

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Climate change is intangible and complicated, which makes it an easy target for our era of fake news. Why it matters: Addressing climate change, whether through government or private action, requires acknowledging a problem exists. Misinformation about the science, including inaccurate statements and articles, makes that harder. Concern about climate change has dropped over the past year among Republicans and independents, according to Gallup polling released in March. Fake news and inaccurate climate information have been around for a long time, long before Donald Trump became president. But Trump’s election…

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The U.S. on Wednesday announced it blacklisted Chinese officials and business executives involved in the military buildup of the disputed South China Sea, further ratcheting up tensions in the region ahead of the November election — the same day that Beijing reportedly fired missiles including an “aircraft-carrier killer” into the sea as a “warning” to the U.S. China had claimed a U-2 spy plane entered a no-fly zone without permission during a naval drill in the Bohai Sea, a military source told the South China Morning Post. The Pentagon has given few details,…

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Liberty University’s board of trustees declined to take action to either fire or reinstate Jerry Falwell Jr. as its president on Friday, instead saying after a meeting that for the time being, Falwell will remain on a paid leave of absence from the university. The announcement came two weeks after Falwell was placed on leave from the prominent Christian university and nearly three weeks after Falwell posted a photo of himself on a yacht with his pants unzipped and his arm around his wife’s assistant. The photo was publicly criticized…

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It’s only illegal if Republicans do it. The Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from participating in partisan politics while on the job or on federal property, is one of those earnest efforts from the past to reform the government. The idea was to make a clear dividing line between government and politics. Except that’s impossible. Government is political. It has always been so and always will be. That’s not to say an effort shouldn’t be made to separate the two. But when the State Department drags its feet in…

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Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely rare, the disease is still around today, with California reporting its first case in five years this week, a New Mexico man in his 20s dying of the disease earlier this month, and cases cropping up in China this year. It’s transmitted by fleas that live on rodents and symptoms, which usually appear within one to seven days…

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Malta lies at the very heart of the Mediterranean and it has many historic ruins and sites attesting to that fact. Now another feature has been added to the list. While working on a restoration project at a famous temple complex at Tas-Silġ, archaeologists made an amazing discovery. They unearthed the foundations of a very important Roman temple, concealed beneath a farmhouse, and this is helping experts to better understand a site that played a major role in religious life in the ancient world. Tas-Silġ is on the south coast…

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(FoxNews) – Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Tuesday she would be open to returning to the Trump administration if the president is reelected but said it’s “too soon to tell” if she’ll choose to run for the nation’s highest office in 2024. Haley told FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria” she has not spoken with the president about taking another post in his administration. “Right now, we want to see the president and Vice President Pence get over the finish line in November,” Haley said. “I think that’s what’s most…

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