American History

Ekaterina Bolovtsova/pexels U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor didn’t hold back in his criticism of the ATF in his decision yesterday in Mock v. Garland: “The Court VACATES the Final Rule on the grounds that violated the APA’s (Administrative Procedures Act) procedural requirements in promulgating it” and “because it was arbitrary and capricious….”  The fractious rule was birthed when Joe...

vkyryl/iStock/Getty Images Plus First we had Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg talking about “racist roads.” Then we had the city of Oakland, California, remove traffic lights because public officials were unwilling to stop thieves from stealing copper from them. Now there’s yet another indication of what many consider our descent into idiocracy and social decay:Los Angeles has removed “homophobic” “no...

AP Images Jon Tester Three-term Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) just tipped his hand, revealing to all Montanans his anti-gun agenda. The revelation could end his 18-year run as Montana’s only elected Democrat in the state.In 2016, Tester voted against a Democrat-sponsored proposal that would have required background checks for gun purchases at gun snows and online.He revealed his true colors...

AP Images Jared Polis Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis signed a bill into law last week — SB 24-084 — that requires the Colorado attorney general to coordinate with the Colorado Department of Education to censor “factually inaccurate data,” as well as collaborate with organizations and community leaders to “facilitate productive and honest conversations.”Senate Bill 24-084 states: CONCERNING A REQUIREMENT...

Ilana Mercer The individual’s natural right to life antedates the state apparatus.… Let us not commit the Sin of Abstraction — the sin of escaping into theory, and in so doing, avoiding reality — the reality of Israel’s real sins, real crimes, the crime of all crimes. When Americans reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they habitually extol the virtue...

AP Images Nancy Pelosi There is mob rule — and then there is glorified mob rule. The former is obvious, such as when an uncontrolled group of men summarily hangs a person without trial or due process. Glorified mob rule is subtler, possessing a thin veneer of propriety and legality, such as a “democratic” determination or action contrary to the...

A lot! A casual check through the Old and New Testaments will reveal that nearly every major biblical figure, whether prophet, king, or apostle of God—and including Jesus Himself—was involved in either criticizing or counseling one or more political rulers. So, why do so many churches shy away from bringing up political or social issues, whether in the pulpit or...

skynesher/iStock/Getty Images Plus Last week, the Utah Education Association (UEA), in concert with a teacher and two parents, filed a lawsuit seeking to block the state’s new school-choice program. The plaintiffs argue that the new Utah Fits All Scholarship program fails to meet constitutional muster in the Beehive State and takes money that would otherwise be used in the public-school...

terry2024.com Former U.S. Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas has endorsed Randall Terry in his bid for U.S. president. The Constitution Party chose Terry in April as its presidential nominee for the 2024 election. Pastor Stephen Broden of Dallas is Terry’s running mate and a long-time member of the John Birch Society.“The ‘3-D’ battle plan of the Terry/Broden...

Bill Melugin/X Laken Riley and Jose Ibarra The Biden “migrant” accused of the brutal murder of nursing student Laken Riley pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in a Georgia courtroom today.Jose Ibarra, the 26-year-old illegal alien released by President Joe Biden’s immigration authorities at the border in 2022, appeared in Athens-Clarke County Superior Courthouse to claim he didn’t murder the...

D. Lentz/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a rare unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that an anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment, anti-NRA New York State official overstepped her lawful bounds.Maria Vullo, while acting as the superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in 2018, threatened insurance companies under her jurisdiction with sanctions and fines unless they terminated their business...

AP Images The jury in former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial has announced guilty verdicts on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump is expected to appeal the conviction.Constitutional law scholar for The John Birch Society, Joe A. Wolverton, II, J.D., stated the verdict erodes public trust in the U.S. legal system: I unequivocally condemn the recent guilty...

Yann Forget/Wikimedia Commons WHO headquarters The governors of 24 Republican-led states have sent President Joe Biden a letter announcing their opposition to the proposed World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic agreement, part of the International Health Regulations (IHR). The governors argue that such an agreement threatens national sovereignty and jeopardizes Americans’ constitutional freedoms.Proponents of the treaty argue that such an agreement...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus “My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri in March, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” This comment virally raised eyebrows, and for good reason: The Constitution’s whole purpose when crafted was, and still is, to hamstring government. After all,...

AP Images Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, N.J. Two New Jersey gym owners have been cleared of more than 80 charges stemming from their defiance of Democratic Governor Phil Murphy’s Covid-19 orders.Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti, co-owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, refused to close their establishment in the face of Murphy’s order shuttering all “nonessential” businesses.“Telling people that liquor stores...

natasaadzic/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a recent Convention of States® (COS) blog post, an attempt was apparently made to smear The John Birch Society. The attempt was abortive, at best, given the lack of merit of the claims and the lack of skill in the making of them. To put it simply, the arguments made by COS in the post were...

fizkes/iStock/Getty Images Plus Climate-change zealots claim that human emissions will eventually lead to melting polar ice caps, more extreme weather events, and the poverty and displacement of billions of souls. Now, researchers at University College London (UCL) believe that climate change will aggravate the effects of certain brain conditions such as stroke, migraine, Alzheimer’s, meningitis, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.This conclusion...

f11photo/iStock/Getty Images Plus U.S. House Democrats took up the fight again this week for the “people we care about most”: illegal aliens.A strong majority of 143 voted against a successful Republican measure to overturn Washington, D.C.’s law that allows noncitizens to vote.To their credit, not all the Democrats voted to let noncitizens have a say in the city’s elected officials...

Politics To Fix the FBI, Abolish It A new study of the national security apparatus finds the existing Bureau incompatible with republican government. Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, by J. Michael Waller, Regnery, 256 pages Your perspective on the FBI depends a lot on when you grew up. If...

AP Images Ted Cruz Yet another of President Joe Biden’s leftist judicial nominees is a science denier.This time, it’s federal Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, whom Ice Cream Joe nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.Like Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, Netburn is unclear on the difference between a man and woman. And because...