American History

RonBailey/iStock/Getty Images Plus U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston, nominated to his position by then-President Donald Trump in 2020, ruled on Friday that Illinois’ ban on citizens carrying a concealed firearm for personal protection on either of Chicago’s two mass transit systems violated the Second Amendment. The bad news is that his ruling only applies to the four individual plaintiffs who...

In broad daylight, the first-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers was shot in the chest Saturday afternoon by a teenage thief, and the star’s first words were “Am I gonna die?” Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall had been walking alone on a sidewalk near Union Square when a 17-year-old with a gun tried to steal his Rolex watch. Once...

Child Protection League has been exposing and opposing Minnesota’s new Marxist teacher licensing standards for over two years. Our battle exploded onto the national scene last week when Joy Pullman, executive editor of The Federalist, published her article ‘Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, and Jews From Teaching In Public Schools.’  With Governor Walz now campaigning as the Vice-Presidential candidate beside...

DustyPixel/iStock/Getty Images Plus In yet another sign that Democrats want to flood the country with illegal aliens in the hope they’ll become Democratic voters, the California Senate approved a measure to bribe them — brazenly.Yesterday, the Senate passed a bill that would permit illegals to apply for a program that would hand them $150,000, no strings attached, to buy a...

John Whitehead Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has finally admitted what we knew all along: Facebook conspired with the government to censor individuals expressing “disapproved” views about the COVID-19 pandemic.Zuckerberg’s confession comes in the wake of a series of court rulings that turn a blind eye to the government’s technofascism.In a 2-1 decision in Children’s Health Defense v. Meta, the...

Syldavia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Republican vice-presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said that Donald Trump, if elected president, would not support a national abortion ban and would veto such legislation if it reached his desk. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press on Saturday, Vance stated that he can “absolutely commit” that Trump would not impose such a ban, adding that the...

Evgenia Gordienko/iStock/Getty Images Plus John W. Broomes, a Trump-nominated judge of the U.S. District Court in Kansas, opened the door (just a crack) to the first real potential challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). He ruled on Wednesday that charges against a defendant for possessing two machine guns be dismissed. At issue is the law 18 U.S.C....

John Whitehead What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations...

inhauscreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus The “Left hates the Constitution and constitutionalism,” I wrote in 2018. And there’s a simple reason for this: “The Constitution is a conservative document.” Contrary to what most think, “conservative” above only means that the document serves to maintain a status quo. It limits the change the government can effect, and the Constitution itself is difficult to...

P_Wei/iStock/Getty Images Plus A new group called “Keep 9 Amendment” has been formed in an effort to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban left-wing attempts to increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Disenchantment among the Left over some recent rulings from the Supreme Court, such as the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade,...

AP Images Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign today and endorsed former President Donald Trump. The former Democrat supports Trump because the Democratic Party has betrayed its ideals, Kennedy said, while Trump opposes neoconservative foreign adventurism, vowed to stop the war in Ukraine, and agreed with Kennedy on important public-health matters. ...

MCCAIG/iStock/Getty Images Plus “If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.” This quotation, generally attributed to Abe Lincoln, alludes to a simple truth: Everyone is a sinner — no one is perfect. A corollary of this is that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate (not literally speaking, anyway). Despite this, some people behave...

Faced with ongoing attacks against charter schools from lawmakers and teachers’ unions, “school choice” proponents in Colorado are pursuing a ballot initiative to enshrine a constitutional “right” to “equal opportunity to access a quality education.” Critics on both sides of the issue, though, are concerned it may be a trojan horse. “The people of Colorado cannot afford to wait for...

zimmytws/iStock/Getty Images Plus Is the title of this article “misinformation”? Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) certainly would say so. Many observers say the opposite, though, with Walz having stated in a recently unearthed interview that there’s “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” His defenders would aver here, however, “That’s taken out of context!” That’s the rub, too,...

sleddogtwo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Gun Owners of America (GOA) just filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate a Florida law from the 19th century prohibiting the open carrying of firearms. It is using the recent decision in Bruen to overturn the law.The old law, according to the complaint, makes it “unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or...

AP Images Jamie Raskin In video from February that has now gone viral, election denier Jamie Raskin, the radical leftist congressman from Maryland, said civil war could erupt if former President Donald Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.Raskin, who falsely claimed Trump didn’t win the presidential election in 2016, delivered the irresponsible incendiary remarks at a bookstore...

John Whitehead Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?” A: “When his lips are moving.” The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech.It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials. Any hope of holding government officials accountable for their lies...

Bill Hahn As President Biden mentioned in his campaign-quit speech, he wasted no time calling for Supreme Court reform after the court repeatedly stepped in during his term to reverse longstanding constitutional abuses, many that were advantageous to the political left. We’ll look at some historical parallels to previous court attacks and what entity can actually bring about the right...

SolidMaks/iStock/Getty Images Plus On the surface, New Jersey District Judge Peter Sheridan (appointed to the bench in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush and who assumed “senior status” five years ago at age 68), got it right: New Jersey’s ban on the AR-15 semi-automatic firearm is unconstitutional.But he didn’t like doing so: It is hard to accept the Supreme Court’s...

AP Images Merrick Garland The Biden Justice Department has weaponized the law to attack pro-lifers who demonstrated outside abortion clinics. And it’s using an obscure law meant to protect the rights of newly enfranchised former American slaves to lengthen prison sentences.One weapon is the pro-abortion Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a Clinton-era law that punishes pro-lifers for supposedly...