July 11, 2019

Fighting for injured workers' rights

RENEWAMERICA STAFF — In Utah, unethical "insurance medical examiners" hired to deprive injured workers of guaranteed Workers Compensation medical and other benefits are protected by "state policy" from any liability for harm resulting from their fraudulent examinations.... (more)

July 11, 2019

BRYAN FISCHER — Once again, Chief Justice John Roberts has overstepped his bounds and arrogated to himself the imagined authority to be chief lawmaker for the United States of America.... (more)

July 11, 2019

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to demand citizenship details from all respondents in next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the information using existing databases. "It is essential that we have a clear breakdown of the number of citizens and non-citizens that make up the United States population," Trump said at a Rose Garden announcement. He insisted he was "not backing down."... (more)

July 11, 2019

Poll challenges Democrat 'undercount' argument

WORLDNETDAILY — The Trump administration's effort to restore the citizenship question on the national census has been regarded by critics as an "attack on immigrants," particularly Latinos. But a new poll finds a majority of Hispanic voters, along with two-thirds of voters overall, approve of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Washington Times reported.... (more)

July 11, 2019

NEWSMAX — Customs and Border Patrol statistics show there has been a 28.5% drop in the number of illegal immigrants at the southern border in June amid a crackdown by Mexico. The CBP figures released Wednesday show there were 104,344 people encountered in June, down from 144,278 the month before.... (more)

July 11, 2019

Accused Trump of 'inhumane treatment'

WORLDNETDAILY — In an effort to promote its hearing on President Trump's policies of "putting migrant kids in cages," House Democrats tweeted a photo of children at a detention center behind a chainlink fence. The problem was that the photograph, intended to scold Trump for "inhumane treatment at the border," was from the Obama era.... (more)

July 11, 2019

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — Prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of 55 families to overturn a new state law that bars parents from refusing to vaccinate their kids on religious grounds. Dozens of parents and kids packed a courtroom at the Albany County Supreme Court as Kennedy joined attorney Michael Sussman, who argued that the measure conflicts with state and federal law.... (more)

July 11, 2019

Social-media giant banned pro-life ads in Ireland referendum

WORLDNETDAILY — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to a speech to a like-minded audience that his company essentially meddled in the Irish referendum on legalizing abortion by refusing to run advertisements by pro-life groups.... (more)

July 11, 2019

Number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex has fallen, survey finds

THE GUARDIAN — Thirty years of increasingly liberal attitudes towards gay sex may be coming to an end after the number of people who said they considered it wrong rose for the first time since the Aids crisis. In 1987 when every household received sombre leaflets warning "don't die of ignorance", nine out of 10 people thought there was something wrong with sexual relations between two adults of the same sex.... (more)

July 11, 2019

FOX NEWS — Five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday but backed off after a British warship approached, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News.... (more)

July 10, 2019

President said his administration would refuse to work with him

NATIONAL REVIEW — The British ambassador to the U.S. stepped down Wednesday amid controversy over leaked cables in which he harshly criticized the Trump administration. Sir Kim Darroch became the object of heavy criticism from the president over the weekend after the leak of private messages to Parliament in which he calls the administration "unpredictable," "inept," and "uniquely dysfunctional," and the president himself "insecure." The messages also wondered whether the administration would fall in "disgrace" and mused on whether Trump may be indebted to "dodgy Russians."... (more)

July 10, 2019

NEWSMAX — A federal appeals court panel appeared sympathetic on Tuesday to Republican efforts to overturn Obamacare, expressing skepticism to Democratic calls to overturn the ruling of a Texas judge who found the landmark U.S. healthcare reform law unconstitutional.... (more)

July 10, 2019

NEWSMAX — Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, said President Donald Trump has endured the most "ferocious" media attacks of any president in history. Bozell made his comments during an interview on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's show, which aired on Newsmax TV on Monday night. Bozell is author of "Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump."... (more)

July 10, 2019

'It is up to each of us to decide whether or not we want to see it'

WORLDNETDAILY — The CEO of a large movie theater corporation in Canada is doubling down on his decision to screen the controversial "Unplanned" movie, declaring it's "up to each of us to decide whether or not we want to see it." Ellis Jacob, CEO of Cineplex, said in an open letter it's important to remember that Canadian law allows just that.... (more)

July 10, 2019

FOX NEWS — Podcast host Graham Allen called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for not speaking out about death threats levied against a child actor dubbed 'Mini-AOC.' The young girl, Ava Martinez, went viral for her videos impersonating the New York congresswoman. However, following blowback from photos Martinez posted last week, her family has announced that she will abandon her character of 'Mini-AOC.'... (more)

July 9, 2019

STUDYFINDS — No two people are exactly alike. Therefore, attempting to classify each unique individual's mental health issues into neat categories just doesn't work. That's the claim coming out of the United Kingdom that is sure to ruffle some psychologists' feathers.... (more)

July 9, 2019

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the Justice Department has a new legal strategy for adding a question about citizenship status onto the 2020 census, according to a new report.... (more)

July 9, 2019

'Severe, serious abuses' by U.S. agencies targeted future president

WORLDNETDAILY — A powerful House Republican says President Obama's FBI and CIA committed "severe, serious abuses" against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump that soon will be exposed. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told John Catsimatidis of New York City's AM 970 "The Answer" that the Obama administration had no legal basis to probe the Trump campaign, The Hill reported.... (more)

July 9, 2019

'The GOP will mock & sow confusion until it's their home swept away'

WORLDNETDAILY — A torrential rainstorm stuck the nation's capital Monday, creating a chaotic situation with numerous motorists forced to abandon their cars on flooded roads. That prompted U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to politicize the weather, as she promoted her climate-change agenda.... (more)

July 7, 2019

NEW YORK POST — Home Depot shoppers have been threatening to boycott the store after its co-founder, Bernie Marcus, revealed in a recent interview that he'd be donating to President Trump's re-election bid.... (more)

July 7, 2019

HUMAN EVENTS — President Trump's citizenship question on the upcoming U.S. census is, contrary to popular opinion, the norm for the decennial survey. Barack Obama was the first President to exclude a question on citizenship in the U.S. Census.... (more)

July 7, 2019

Snopes calls claim of candidate's father 'unproven'

WORLDNETDAILY — An old article by Sen. Kamala Harris' father stating his ancestors owned slaves has presented supporters of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate with an unpleasant choice. They either must accuse Harris' father of lying or admit that their candidate, who made racism a major issue in the first debate, lacks credibility.... (more)

July 7, 2019

DAILY MAIL — The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that sparked huge fires and caused multiple injuries in Southern California on Friday evening was 11 times stronger than the 6.4 tremor in the same region just 32 hours earlier, geologists say. Shockwaves from Friday's quake were felt in Las Vegas and downtown Los Angeles as a rolling motion that seemed to last at least a half-minute. Dr Lucy Jones, a seismologist for the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), said it was the most powerful to hit Southern California since another 7.1 temblor in the same area in 1999.... (more)

July 7, 2019

BREITBART — Police have been called in to investigate allegations of death threats made to cinema theater owners in Canada who had scheduled to screen the pro-life movie Unplanned. B.J. McKelvie, president of Cinedicon, the Canadian distributor of the film that tells the story of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood manager-turned pro-life activist, confirmed two Canadian independent cinema owners reported threats that caused them to be "fearful for their families," said LifeSiteNews.... (more)

July 7, 2019

NEWSMAX — U.S. authorities said on Friday they were seeking a court order requiring Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to forfeit $12.7 billion following his conviction for racketeering and drug trafficking crimes earlier this year.... (more)