The violence may be a memory, but there is now a welcome reminder of the consequences. Last Thursday, December 8, a St. Louis County, Mo. jury found a young black male, Jeffrey Williams, guilty on six criminal counts related to the malicious gun wounding of two unnamed police officers in the St. Louis suburb of […]
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Conservatives Should Say NO to Google Job Offer
Reacting to reports that Google is seeking to hire a “liaison to conservative, libertarian and free market groups,” NLPC President Peter Flaherty urged potential applicants to forget about the job. According to Flaherty: “Google will pay very well and the benefits will be wonderful, but any conservative who takes this job will have to sell […]
Ethics Group Warns Trump About Silicon Valley Influence, Cronyism
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), today sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump responding to Silicon Valley’s recent suggestions that President-elect Trump “engage” Silicon Valley’s tech elite for key government posts, while preserving many of the digital initiatives started by the Obama Administration. Trump is holding a meeting with tech leaders next week. With […]
Prosecuting Clintons Should Be Law Enforcement Decision, Not Trump’s
The Daily Signal included this reaction to President-elect Trump’s hints yesterday that he is backing away from further legal pursuit of the Clintons: “It was a premature decision [not to continue investigating Clinton] because we don’t know what evidence on the email server or Clinton Foundation will emerge,” said Peter Flaherty, president of the National […]
Election Prompts More Aggressive Twitter Censorship
Donald Trump won the presidential election, but the complaints about social media companies’ bias against conservatives that marked the 2016 campaign have not abated. The latest charge is the purge by Twitter of accounts managed by members of the so-called “alt-right,” which the company justified because of alleged hate speech, abuse and harassment in the […]
Unions Step Up Attack on Right to Work Legislation
For decades, unions in America have asserted what they see as their right to extract dues from non-joining workers. Lately, they’ve gotten creative in challenging state Right to Work laws that protect such workers. Earlier this month they lost a ballot initiative in South Dakota to overturn that state’s longstanding law. In Wisconsin the story […]
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi Should Resign For ‘Inane and Inflammatory’ Election Comments
Asked about the presidential election result, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi claimed: “I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees. They were all in mourning. Our employees were all crying. The question that they are asking, especially those who are not white ‘Are we safe?’, women are asking ‘Are we […]
Probe Recommends Charges against Top Teamsters Official
Hillary Clinton isn’t the only person these days accused of hiding emails to conceal crimes. In a 42-page letter dated October 31, court-approved investigator Joseph diGenova appealed to International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa (r) to take action against IBT General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall (l). According to diGenova, Hall hid over 17,000 […]
What Happened to $20 Million in Clinton Haiti Fund?
Isabel Vincent reports today in the New York Post that the Clinton Foundation set up a for-profit entity called the Haiti Development Fund that took in $20 million from “investors” Carlos Slim and Frank Giustra but that it is a mystery what happened to most of the money. The Fund was supposed to provide capital […]
Hillary Did Not Disclose ‘Expensive Gifts’ in Violation of Ethics in Government Act
In a 2011 memo published by Wikileaks, Clinton underling Doug Band described how he secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in free travel and gifts for Bill Clinton and his family. While Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton did not disclose any gifts or free travel, as required. The gifts were first reported by Alana Goodman […]