Valerie Richardson
Articles by Valerie Richardson
John Hickenlooper campaign for Senate stumbles after series of gaffes, missteps
Once viewed as a can't-miss candidate, former Gov. John Hickenlooper enters Tuesday's Senate primary as damaged goods after a series of gaffes and missteps that have forced national Democrats to spend big to prop up his teetering campaign. Published June 29, 2020
Mark Lee Dickson ‘Sanctuary city for the unborn’ expands in Texas
Mark Lee Dickson, with his backward baseball cap and teddy bears, is easily the most recognizable pro-life activist in East Texas, a pastor who has helped persuade one small town after another to declare itself a "sanctuary city for the unborn." Published June 29, 2020
Black Lives Matter leader: Black politicians ‘bought off by Democratic establishment’
Despite holding sway in major cities for decades, Black Democrats have become too co-opted by the Democratic Party to make a difference, a Black Lives Matter leader said Sunday. Published June 29, 2020
Senate Democrats accused of ‘presidential politics’ in blocking crime bill
Democrats' wait-until-November approach to police legislation is suddenly under attack from both the right and the left as evidence of a new crime wave emerges. Published June 28, 2020
Mike Pence blasts Black Lives Matter for ‘radical left agenda’
Vice President Mike Pence declined Sunday to repeat the phrase "black lives matter," citing concerns about the Black Lives Matter movement's "radical left agenda." Published June 28, 2020
Mike Pence backs Greg Abbott as coronavirus slams Texas
Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday told Texas it will get whatever it needs to expand testing and combat a coronavirus surge that's forced Gov. Greg Abbott to close bars and scramble for hospital beds after a nation-leading push to lift lockdown rules. Published June 28, 2020
Donald Trump removes ‘white power’ video retweet
President Trump removed Sunday his retweet of a protest video that showed a supporter yelling "white power," a comment that the White House said he never heard. Published June 28, 2020
Nancy Pelosi: Donald Trump denial of Russia bounty report ‘totally outrageous’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unloaded Sunday on President Trump over his insistence that he had never heard of Russia offering Afghanistan bounties on U.S. soldiers, calling it "totally outrageous." Published June 28, 2020
Nancy Pelosi: U.S. face mask mandate ‘long overdue’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that the country is "long overdue" for a national mask-wearing mandate to combat the novel coronavirus. Published June 28, 2020
Tim Scott: Donald Trump should remove ‘white power’ video
Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, said Sunday President Trump should remove a video in which a supporter yells "white power" at a protest clash, adding that the entire profanity-laced confrontation was "offensive." Published June 28, 2020
Man yells ‘white power’ in video retweeted by Donald Trump
A video of clashing protesters retweeted Sunday by President Trump includes a man who yells "white power." Published June 28, 2020
Minneapolis City Council members who voted to gut police get taxpayer-funded private security
Three members of the Minneapolis city council are being protected by taxpayer-funded private security even as they support a proposal to abolish the police department. Published June 28, 2020
George Kirby? Floyd Taylor? Democrat leaders Pelosi, Schumer botch George Floyd’s name
Democratic House and Senate leaders want to honor the memory of George Floyd with sweeping criminal-justice legislation, even if they can't always remember his name. Published June 27, 2020
Portland anti-cop protesters blasted by Black leaders: ‘Get your knee off our neck’
Black community leaders decried Friday the protesters who wreaked havoc on a predominantly minority Portland neighborhood in an attempt to set up a Seattle-style autonomous zone, telling the rioters to "get your knee off our neck." Published June 26, 2020
Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder, featured in GOP ad: ‘We are trained Marxists’
A 2015 video in which Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors describes herself and co-founder Alicia Garza as "trained Marxists" is making an appearance in a GOP campaign ad. Published June 25, 2020
Senior citizens post biggest U.S. population gains in last decade, Census Bureau reports
The young are becoming less numerous and less White. For the first time, non-Whites and Hispanics made up a majority of the under-16 population in 2019, fueled by falling White fertility rates and the rapid growth in the Asian and Hispanic communities. Published June 25, 2020
Keith Ellison, Minnesota AG, sues ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, API for ‘climate deception’
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing ExxonMobil and other oil-and-gas entities of deceiving consumers about climate change, six months after New York suffered a major defeat with its climate-fraud litigation. Published June 24, 2020
Congressman calls for Wisconsin Gov. Evers to resign after mob allegedly beats up legislator
After a mob descended Tuesday on the Wisconsin State Capitol, breaking windows, pulling down two historic statues, and allegedly beating up a state legislator, Rep. Tom Tiffany declared he's had enough, calling on the state's Democratic governor to resign due to his failure to curb the violence. Published June 24, 2020
Project Veritas Facebook sting: Moderators brag about deleting pro-Trump posts
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long insisted that the company is politically neutral, but the same apparently can't be said for all of its content moderators. Published June 23, 2020
Black Lives Matter leverages George Floyd death in cultural purge
For its most radical devotees, Black Lives Matter is a revolution, and no revolution would be complete without a cultural purge. Published June 17, 2020
