Gingrich tells crowd he’ll cut funding to eco-friendly UN program as president

Feeding into right-wing hysteria, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Ginigrich told a tea party audience in Orlando this month that if he were elected president, one of his very first executive orders would be cutting funding to the United Nations’ Agenda 21.

Agenda 21 is a 19-year-old initiative launched by the More…

How Agenda 21 hysteria seeped into mainstream Florida politics

Florida right-wing groups are up in arms over a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations in an effort to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world. The groups are convinced the U.S. is being held hostage in a secret plot by the U.N. to steal our sovereignty More…