James Fite

3 weeks ago | libertynation.com | James Fite

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Robert Francis Prevost – now Leo XIV – is the 267th pope, but he’s the first from the United States (also the first Augustinian) and only the second from the Western Hemisphere. That fact alone makes his selection a historic first and indicates at least some level of change in the Church. But how far will that change extend? What can the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics expect from their new pontiff?

4 weeks ago | libertynation.com | James Fite

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... She built a career on targeting Trump – and now New York Attorney General Letitia James is embroiled in a criminal investigation of her own. But the real irony lies in what she allegedly did: misrepresenting the nature of real estate holdings. Sound familiar? The Case Against Letitia JamesThe Department of Justice has officially opened a criminal investigation into Letitia James this week.

4 weeks ago | libertynation.com | James Fite

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... One big beautiful bill or two smaller but more manageable ones? That’s the question congressional Republicans asked when President Donald Trump laid out his plan for government funding, tax breaks, and the rest of the commander-in-chief’s admittedly ambitious legislative agenda. The one-bill faction seemed to win the debate, and a framework was eventually agreed upon.

1 month ago | libertynation.com | James Fite

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Another wave of buyouts and firings has hit the federal workforce. The alphabet soup agencies told to let workers go this time include the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and even the ever-mysterious Central Intelligence Agency. USDA Out to PastureA spokesperson for the USDA told The Hill that, as of May 1, 15,182 employees had taken advantage of the Deferred Retirement Program, or DRP.

1 month ago | libertynation.com | James Fite

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In 1972, both chambers of Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and sent it to the states for ratification. It fell short. End of story, right? Wrong. Every so often, this most famous of unratified amendments flops out of the dustbin of history and is declared a valid and legal part of the Constitution by many – though notably, the Archivist of the United States has never been among them.