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On Friday, supporters of the Green New Deal released details that one conservative analyst says is proof that the "green agenda" is not about the climate at all but rather a major push for a bigger and more powerful government. "There's some real tells in here. It's not about the climate. There's no assertion (about) what the temperature would be or that the temperature would be any lower. " "It's...

Last week, the world took great note of reports that Israeli cancer researchers believe they are just one year away from developing a cure for cancer and that the treatment would be quick with very limited side effects. So what is different about the way Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies is approaching the fight against cancer and is all the excitement warranted? What other hurdles need to be...

The governor of New Mexico is ordering National Guard troops away from her state's border with Mexico. Radio America's Christian Whittle reports.

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli III says he is surprised that the Ralph Northam he knows would put a racist photo in a medical school yearbook, but he thinks Northam needs to resign.  But he says revived allegations of sexual assault against the man who would replace Northam make things even more complicated. On Friday, Big League Politics broke the story of the photo showing one m...

President Trump is trying to make good on a campaign promise to ease the financial burden Americans face when paying for prescription drugs, but a leading policy expert says one Trump strategy is right on target while another could lead to disaster. Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs by a wide margin, and American Commitment President Phil Kerpen says it's because...

Lawmakers in New York recently enacted legislation allowing abortion at any point in a pregnancy if the abortion provider determines a risk to the mother's health.   Virginia Democrats pushed a very similar bill this week, even allowing abortion during labor or allowing parents to let a baby die if it is delivered alive following a failed abortion.  That bill was defeated in subcommittee by a Repu...

Most Americans know that property taxes pay for the public schools, police and fire departments, and services like trash pickup and road repairs, but why are those things funded through what one economics expert considers a relic of the colonial era. The issue arose in connection with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's call for a wealth tax on assets above $50 million.  During an interview with...

Texas officials say they found 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote and believe as many as 58,000 cast ballots in the state.  More investigating needs to be done to determine how many of those people became citizens after registering, but one election law experts believes this is simply the tip of the iceberg. "I think what they're going to find is that a large percentage of these individuals we...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing a wealth tax as one of the early economic priorities of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, but the head of the nation's largest grassroots taxpayer organization says the wealth tax would never have the economic impact that Warren promises. The tax on accumulated assets would levy a two percent rate on all wealth above $50 million.  It would ri...

Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone was arrested Friday and hit with a seven-count indictment, but former Justice Department official Victoria Toensing is aghast at how Mueller arrested the longtime political operative and says even if the Trump campaign was trying to get information from Wikileaks about Hillary Clinton's hacked emails, that it is not a crime. Before dawn Friday, a large presence...

Pro-life activists are aghast at New York's new abortion law, which allows abortions at anytime in the mother's pregnancy if the abortion provider deems there is any risk to the patient's health. On Tuesday's anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion at any time during a woman's pregnancy, the New York State Senate approved the Reproductive Health Act.  Cheered lust...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is assembling a new plan to pursue the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, but this effort is likely doomed as well since no consensus exists to honor the Brexit wishes of the voters. May's most recent Brexit plan was crushed in the House of Commons, largely because her own Conservative Party cannot agree on a strategy and opposing parties don't want t...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his Democratic allies in the legislature are fuming after Republicans killed a gun control bill before it ever reached a final vote, and second amendment advocates say the contents of the bill would have instantly turned many law-abiding gun owners into criminals. "I wish Ralph Northam had run on the issue of gun control.  I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be the governor...

December manufacturing growth nearly quadrupled expectations as the sector enjoys a much-need revitalization, but what driving the growth and why might it start shrinking. Experts predicted manufacturing to grow 0.3 percent in December.  Instead, it rose 1.1 percent.  Manufacturing growth stood at 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter and followed 3.7 percent growth in the third quarter. "The manufact...

Buzzfeed sparked a furor Thursday night with a report alleging Special Counsel Robert Mueller has detailed evidence showing President Trump directed former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. Cohen has already pleaded guilty to perjury charges related to his congressional testimony. According to the report, Trump specifically told Cohen to tell lawmakers that the Trump Organization scrapped...

The 46th annual March for Life unfolded Friday in Washington, with tens of thousands of pro-life activists demanding an end to legalized abortion in the United States and the pro-life movement examining the political landscape with a Congress that is once again divided.   On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled there was a constitutional right to an abortion.  Each year since, pro-life demo...

Communist North Korea is once against the world's worst persecutor of Christians, but Islamic oppression is by far the greatest threat to believers around the globe according to the 2019 World Watch List from Open Doors USA. The list of 50 nations also shows persecution sharply on the rise in prominent places like India, China, and Russia. While persecution is on the rise in many parts of the worl...

From Vietnam to the Iraq War, conventional wisdom suggests Democrats are the anti-war party while Republicans are more eager to embrace foreign intervention, but the reaction to President Trump's plans for a withdrawal from Syria is revealing something different Liberty Nation economics correspondent Andrew Moran says a closer look shows Democrats are more than willing to begin and continue milita...

Democrats in Virginia are mounting an aggressive campaign to roll back right to work laws that have been on the books for more than 70 years, but a leading right to work activist says doing so would damage Virginia's economy, limit personal freedom, and pit rank and file employees against organized labor. "First of all, it's an issue of freedom: individual freedom and choice and liberty in the wor...

Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says Republicans and Democrats in Washington will never make the hard choices to rein in runaway spending and debt, so a constitutionally prescribed Convention of the States is the only possible remedy. Coburn is a physician who was elected to three terms in the House of Representatives and two-terms in the U.S. Senate.  He developed a reputation for attacking waste...

Progressives like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are embracing a "Green New Deal," aimed at saving the planet from the effects of climate change, but what does the plan really call for, is it realistic, and what would be the impact on the U.S. if we pursue it? To begin, the Green New Deal calls for and to fossil fuels and cars that use them by 2030. ...

Just days into 2019, Democrats are already making a their push for much more government involvement in health care. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio says his city will spend $100 million to cover the medical costs of 600,000 uninsured residents to primary care physicians and specialists. De Blasio says his program is not insurance, so what is it? How much will it really cost, since even Demo...

The partial government shutdown is ratcheting up political tensions in Washington and cranking up the financial tensions for federal workers going without a paycheck, but one personal finance expert says an important lesson from this impasse is to be financially prepared in case the income suddenly stops. An increasing number of media stories highlight government employees struggling to make ends...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is excited because the recent federal tax reforms mean an extra $1.2 billion is headed to the commonwealth's coffers, but Republicans say the apparent windfall is nothing more than a de facto tax increase that must be addressed. At issue is the federal law reducing deductions taxpayers can take on state and local taxes.  Critics of the law frequently pointed to high-tax...

For more than 18 years, American forces have beaten back the enemy in Afghanistan, but leaving behind a stable, reliable country is proving far more challenging.  However, terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares says there is a way to a lasting victory there if only U.S. officials are willing to listen. Phares says U.S. policy seems to embrace two options when dealing with enemies overseas.  He praises...