Politics

On Monday morning President Trump ordered the FBI to raid the CDC headquarters in Atlanta over claims that the agency were covering-up a link between vaccines and autism. Just hours after Trump’s positive meeting with FBI Director James Comey, agents performed a 3am raid at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building, accompanied by Doctor William Thompson – a government whistleblower who rose to fame after exposing the CDC’s systematic cover-up of the link between vaccinations and autism.

President Trump’s newly appointed head of the FCC looks set to abolish the net neutrality rules, meaning that the federal government will no longer regulate the Internet. Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of the net neutrality rules, was selected by Trump to chair the Federal Communications Commission.

Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

In Part One of this article I explored Thomas Paine’s critical role in the creation of our nation. His Common Sense pamphlets inspired the common people to uncommon acts of courage and heroic feats of valor; leading to the great experiment we call the United States of America. Paine, Franklin and the other Founding Fathers produced a republic, if we could keep it.

Submitted by Robert Gore via StraightLineLogic.com,

Billions of people around the globe would like Americans to put America first.

Just a day after President Trump visited Langley, 53-year-old Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo has been confirmed by the Senate as CIA Director amidst its most contentious relationship with the White House in decades. As voting continued, there were 67 "yes" votes, more than enough to confirm Pompeo, and 30 voted against. Almost all the opposition was from Democrats, but perhaps most notably Rand Paul voted against him.