2nd Amendment Rights

The goals of the Ukrainian army’s offensive in the summer of 2023 and the size of combat groups formed to carry it out are to a certain extent comparable with what the German military fielded for its Operation Citadel in 1943. This gives us the grounds for calling Kiev’s offensive in the summer of 2023 Operation Citadel 2.0. Considering its...

anaimd/iStock/Getty Images Plus About a quarter century ago, there was a feel-good story about Colorado schoolchildren who’d raised approximately $35,000 to “buy the freedom” of 601 Sudanese slaves. The intentions were surely good. Yet even if those slaves actually were freed, what was to stop the African slavers from seizing more slaves to replenish their stock, seeing the market that...

Bytmonas/iStock/Getty Images Plus “GOP extremism is marring the soul of the American people,” wrote Representative Katherine Clark of Massachusetts in a Wednesday tweet. Clark, Congress’ Democratic whip, was announcing that she’d visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this year and had just shared “thoughts” at Newsweek about how nothing has changed since the 2018 Parkland massacre: There’s still death...

AP Images Yesterday in Burnsville, Minnesota, two police officers — Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge — and a firefighter — Adam Finseth — were killed when responding to a domestic-abuse incident. Alpha News has identified the suspect as Shannon Cortez Gooden. When officers arrived at the scene, Gooden barricaded himself and was armed with multiple firearms. After exchanging gunfire with...

New York Post/X John Floyd and Fani Willis Fani Willis’ father, John Floyd, testified on her behalf today at the hearing that will determine whether she can continue the political prosecution of Donald Trump. But more interesting than what Floyd said is who Floyd is and with whom he spent his time in the 1960s.  He was a top cat...

Kelly Liu/iStock/Getty Images Plus Chicago will no longer use the high-tech ShotSpotter system that enables police to respond more quickly to gunfire in the city, whose residents live in constant fear of dying in a hail of bullets. Almost 550 people died in shootings last year. The reason: The system isn’t perfect. And it’s “racially biased.” In a city where holiday...

AP Images J.D. Vance The Democrats have buried an impeachment booby trap inside the $95 billion supplemental foreign aid bill that will waste another $61 billion on Ukraine’s unwinnable war with Russia. Worse still, Republicans gleefully helped.  GOP Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio says the bill contains a provision that, should Donald Trump unseat President Joe Biden, invites a third...

AP Images Matt Rosendale Representative Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) announced today that he is entering the race for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Jon Tester. Rosendale looks to flip the seat held by Tester, a Democrat, and stated he would defeat his GOP primary opponent Tim Sheehy, who he says was hand-picked by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Mitch...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a remarkable reinterpretation of the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii ruled on Wednesday that an individual exercising rights guaranteed under that Amendment was guilty of violating the state’s laws supporting that right. If that seems counter-intuitive to you, you’re not alone. In its ruling the Supreme Court of the State...

AP Images Chris Smith On Monday, Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.) hosted a press conference dedicated to the Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) proposed and currently negotiated by the World Health Organization (WHO). The documents were dubbed “the greatest single threat to the sovereignty of our constitutional republic.” The main concerns voiced by the lawmakers and...

John Whitehead Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Barely ten seconds later, someone or an army of someones has...

AP Images Cori Bush The Department of Justice is investigating one of the ballyhooed members of The Squad — four leftist women members of Congress — for misspending campaign funds. DOJ is investigating Missouri Democrat Cori Bush, apparently because has spent almost $750,000 on private security since 2020 even as she advocates “defunding the police.” Six sources told Punchbowl News,...

RichLegg/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Biden administration announced new federal actions on Thursday to help promote the safe storage of firearms in households, adding to an executive order signed by President Biden last March in response to increasing gun violence.  The administration claimed they are taking comprehensive action to prevent gun violence because it is now “the leading cause of death of children in...

John Whitehead In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.—Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel...

Luis Miguel American politics is in a unique condition, embroiled in the kind of political landscape that has generally been rare for the United States: In America today, much of the discourse and debate revolves around one single man: Donald J. Trump. While there are many hot-button issues and Trump engages with the majority of them, Trump himself has essentially...

peterspiro/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ruling against the United States Postal Service (USPS) by U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle last Friday appeared, on the surface, to be just another win for the Second Amendment following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen last year: The Supreme Court has been clear: the government must point to historical principles that would permit...

The US and “Israel” have been recently carrying out political assassinations in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. ISIS carried out a massive bombing in Iran during the same period, and there is a connection between ISIS and the US. On December 25, 2023, Razi Mousavi, a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike in...

AP Images The U.S. House Judiciary and Oversight committees held Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress today for refusing to testify weeks ago after receiving a subpoena. The Judiciary party-line vote was 23-14; Oversight’s was 25-11. The votes send the motion to the full House. Neither was a surprise.  🚨 #NEWS: The House Judiciary Committee approved the resolution to hold...

AP Images Hunter Biden Two U.S. House committees will vote on January 10 on a resolution to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. In December, Biden refused to appear at a closed-door hearing and answer questions pertinent to the House’s impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. Yesterday, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and House Judiciary Committee released their...

AP Images Wayne LaPierre The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced in a press release today that CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre is resigning effective January 31. LaPierre announced his decision to step down during a Board of Directors meeting in Irving, Texas, where NRA President Charles Cotton accepted the resignation. The NRA press release stated LaPierre cited health...