Articles by Fred Lucas

PoliticsNews

4 Things to Know About Biden’s New Voting Czar

Fred Lucas | April 22, 2021

As Democrats push to expand the federal government’s purview over elections, President Joe Biden has named a former Justice Department official to be a White… Read More

SocietyNews

EXCLUSIVE: California Warns BLM Co-Founder’s Nonprofit Over Late Financial Filings

Fred Lucas | April 20, 2021

California officials have issued three warnings to a nonprofit group started by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors that it has failed to file required… Read More

PoliticsNews

6 Key Points From Senate Democrats’ Hearing on ‘Jim Crow 2021’

Fred Lucas | April 20, 2021

Liberal star Stacey Abrams said she supports voter ID, two senators debated the history of the Jim Crow era, and a Democrat secretary of state… Read More

LawNews

EXCLUSIVE: 21 Black Leaders Denounce the Left’s Lies About Georgia Election Law

Fred Lucas | April 20, 2021

Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons… Read More

SecurityNews

Biden’s Border Security Pick Backs Amnesty, Opposes Wall

Fred Lucas | April 15, 2021

President Joe Biden’s pick to run border security has tweeted or spoken regularly against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, supported a pathway to citizenship for… Read More

InternationalNews

Pompeo Urges Biden Not to Rejoin Nuke Deal With ‘Evil’ Iran Regime

Fred Lucas | April 15, 2021

As the Biden administration moves to reenter the Iran nuclear deal at a conference in Vienna, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Wednesday against… Read More

PoliticsNews

Rand Paul Calls Out Democrats’ Jim Crow Legacy at Election Forum

Fred Lucas | April 14, 2021

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., recalls an early and disappointing political experience in 1976, when he was 13 and his father lost a U.S. House seat… Read More

PoliticsNews

Biden ‘Environmental Justice’ Appointees Equate Energy Production, Fossil Fuels With Racism

Fred Lucas | April 10, 2021

In February, Beverly Wright linked the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era with energy development. In March, President Joe Biden appointed Wright to… Read More

PoliticsNews

How Georgia’s Voting Law Compares to 7 Blue, Purple States’ Laws

Fred Lucas | April 08, 2021

Democrats have repeatedly denounced the new Georgia election integrity law that requires IDs for absentee ballots, but seldom criticize blue states that have comparable laws… Read More

LawNews

Pennsylvania Agrees to Exhume Dead From Its Voter Rolls

Fred Lucas | April 08, 2021

Pennsylvania, one of the top battlegrounds of the 2020 election, has agreed to remove the names of about 21,000 dead people from voter registration rolls… Read More

SecurityNews

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Promotes Radical Resources to Kill ‘Extremism in Ranks’

Fred Lucas | April 06, 2021

The Defense Department is promoting reading resources on opposing “systemic racism” that include radical authors as part of a program to combat extremism within the… Read More

PoliticsNews

Conservatives Call Foul on Baseball’s Hypocrisy Over Georgia Election Law

Fred Lucas | April 05, 2021

Republican lawmakers are pushing back against Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta because of Georgia’s new election law based on… Read More

PoliticsNews

GOP Probes $35 Million in Tax Dollars to ‘Team Biden’ Firm in California

Fred Lucas | April 01, 2021

House Republicans say they still want to know why $35 million in taxpayer dollars went to a Democrat-aligned consulting firm to boost voting last year… Read More

SecurityNews

How Hunter Biden’s Interests ‘Overlapped’ With Banned Ukrainian Oligarch

Fred Lucas | March 31, 2021

The Ukrainian oligarch whom the Biden administration banned from the United States this month previously had overlapping financial interests with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter,… Read More

LawNews

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Explains His State’s New Election Law: What’s in It, What Isn’t

Fred Lucas | March 31, 2021

The state of Georgia enacted election reform legislation, signed into law last week, that has drawn harsh criticism from the left. President Joe Biden and… Read More

LawAnalysis

Fact-Checking 6 of Opponents’ Claims About Georgia’s Election Law

Fred Lucas | March 30, 2021

President Joe Biden and other Democrats, without offering evidence, equate Georgia’s new election law with the Jim Crow era, while many media outlets obligingly repeat Democratic… Read More

SecurityNews

Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Scraps Advisory Council During Border Crisis

Fred Lucas | March 26, 2021

In the midst of the crisis at the southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas dismantled a longstanding, nonpartisan advisory body, announcing “a new model”… Read More

PoliticsNews

6 Takeaways From Biden’s First Press Conference

Fred Lucas | March 25, 2021

President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke of going to the Senate “120 years ago,” claimed nothing has changed on the border regarding illegal immigration, and… Read More

LawNews

9 Highlights From Senate Hearing on Federal Takeover of Elections

Fred Lucas | March 24, 2021

Lawmakers listened to ominous references to the South’s Jim Crow era and Maoist China as the Senate held its first hearing on Democrats’ legislation to… Read More

PoliticsNews

Election ‘Safety’ Grants May Have Swung Arizona to Biden, Report Finds

Fred Lucas | March 23, 2021

Money from the founder of Facebook touted as being for safe elections during the pandemic may have affected the outcome of the presidential race in… Read More

PoliticsNews

House Democrats Ignore GOP Calls to Investigate Cuomo Nursing Home Scandal

Fred Lucas | March 17, 2021

Some House Democrats have called for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign over allegations of sexual harassment, but aren’t willing to investigate his role… Read More

SecurityNews

House Duo Target 3 Books of ‘Poison’ on Navy’s Reading List for Sailors

Fred Lucas | March 16, 2021

Two members of Congress are asking the Navy to pull three books promoting identity politics and wokeness from its official reading list.  The books teach… Read More

SecurityNews

Ted Cruz Calls Out Pentagon for ‘Inappropriate’ Attacks on Fox Host

Fred Lucas | March 15, 2021

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wants to know how the military became politicized in recent days, after top brass targeted Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson… Read More

PoliticsNews

Reporters Cool Heels for Biden Press Conference, More White House Access

Fred Lucas | March 12, 2021

After giving his first prime-time address Thursday night, President Joe Biden walked away, ignoring a question called out by a reporter.  In one sense, turning… Read More

PoliticsNews

2 New States Required for Democrats to Keep Power, Data Expert Says

Fred Lucas | March 12, 2021

To remain in power in 2022 and beyond, Democrats must change the electoral system, redraw congressional maps, and “add as many states as we can,”… Read More

PoliticsNews

7 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Supreme Court and Dark Money

Fred Lucas | March 11, 2021

Senators and a witness at a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon called out three left-leaning dark money groups for decrying the existence of conservative dark money… Read More

Health CareNews

Which States Do Better, Worse at Giving COVID-19 Shots

Fred Lucas | March 04, 2021

North Dakota and New Mexico have outperformed most other states in getting needles into arms, using about 96% of their allotments of COVID-19 vaccines for residents,… Read More

LawNews

House Democrats Vote to Nullify, Nationalize State Election Laws

Fred Lucas | March 04, 2021

Voter ID laws and most other election integrity measures in the states would be nearly wiped out under a sweeping bill passed late Wednesday night by… Read More

LawNews

7 Highlights From Oversight Hearing on FBI and Capitol Riot

Fred Lucas | March 02, 2021

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was a planned act of domestic terrorism, but didn’t have definitive… Read More

LawNews

‘People’s Alternative to Impeachment’: 4 Things to Know About Recalling Governors

Fred Lucas | March 01, 2021

Angry Californians, fed up with some of the governor’s policies, started a petition to recall him, knowing that the incumbent had two more years in… Read More