From the Bench

kenlh/iStock/Getty Images Plus Biden-appointed Judge Adrienne Nelson of the U.S. District Court in Oregon found a way to keep the state’s onerous and unconstitutional ban on ghost guns in place. She ruled that although “bearable,” they are not “bearable for lawful purposes.” The language of the Second Amendment is clear: A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a...

inarik/iStock/Getty Images Plus This week, the Arizona Supreme Court said that the term “unborn human being” did not violate a state law that requires nonpartisan language on pamphlets explaining ballot initiatives in the state. The Court’s ruling reverses a lower court’s decision that said the pamphlet explaining Arizona’s Abortion Access Act was biased for referring to the “products of conception”...

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...

We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved (documented in...

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...

simpson33/iStock/Getty Images Plus That Vice President Kamala Harris is a far-left extremist, notably on immigration, is hardly news. But just how far left might be, and the Sacramento Bee offered an idea yesterday.Harris was behind the effort to push the legal authorities in California to permit an illegal alien to practice law. Indeed, the Bee’s sources say that Harris might...

AP Images The vaunted prisoner exchange between Russia, the United States, and other nations, which culminated in the delivery of two Americans at Joint Base Andrews yesterday, turned into something of an embarrassment for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.Harris served up another big bowl of word salad. Biden, as he did during the G-7 meeting in Italy,...

Selwyn Duke “‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking GlassAs humans, who cannot communicate telepathically, we as a rule will use our common language with its widely agreed-upon terms; we also won’t engage in...

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...

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Former President Donald Trump spoke to a large group of Christians at Turning Point USA’s Believers’ Summit Friday evening at the West Palm Beach Convention Center. The president’s speech has been misquoted and mangled by mainstream media and social media alike, falsely claiming that Trump stated, “I’m not a Christian,” while drumming up a comment...

AP Images WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Former President Donald Trump spoke to a large group of Christians at Turning Point USA’s Believers’ Summit Friday evening at the West Palm Beach Convention Center. The president’s speech has been misquoted and mangled by mainstream media and social media alike, falsely claiming that Trump stated, “I’m not a Christian,” while drumming up...

BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus An Oregon high-school track coach is suing his former employer after the school fired him for expressing the opinion that transgender athletes should compete against each other rather than against biological females.Represented by the Chicago-based Liberty Justice Center (LJC), John Parks filed a federal lawsuit against the Lake Oswego School District (LOSD) Wednesday. The veteran coach, who...

AP Images Though far-left Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris is justly famous for the streams of word salad and nonsense she regularly emits, at times she clearly explains her ideology — and delivers bald-faced lies to advance it.Now, some of those remarks and comments are going viral, as did her fountains of gibberish earlier this week.Upshot: A...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration “exceeded its statutory authority” by reclassifying certain types of rapid-firing triggers as machine guns, thereby making them illegal.U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “unlawful” classification of forced-reset triggers (FRTs) as machine guns and...

Team Trump/X If Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic nominee for president at the party’s convention next month, the Trump campaign has a ready set of campaign advertisements in her many public statements.X is exploding with the numerous times that Harris went on at length and said, precisely, nothing.Indeed, Harris often makes Joe Biden sound like a silver-tongued genius....

AP Images President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for president today after weeks of pressure from Democrats who were worried he would lose badly to GOP foe Donald Trump.The decision ends Biden’s long and mostly destructive career in politics that saw him go from a relatively moderate Democrat and friend of “segregationists” to a woke leftist obsessed with...