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The left is salivating over reports of Paul Manafort’s phone calls (with Russians!) being recorded by the government. They’ll be very disappointed when it proves there was no collusion. U.S. government officials intercepted conversations between Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign manager, and Russian individuals about the campaign.It was revealed Monday that Manafort, who has been entangled in an FBI investigation, had been wiretapped by the U.S. government during and after the 2016 campaign.The recordings retrieved from the wiretapping have been handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is heading up the federal investigation into Russia interference in the...

Amateur gunsmiths can be an addiction for some, but man some have gone overboard. These amateur gunsmithing fails will certainly break your heart. Need to port your beautiful revolver? Grab a hacksaw, a Dremel and let the metal fly…Need a scope mount for your Ruger Mini-14 rifle? Well, this guy can hook you up…This Mosin Nagant rifle gives a new meaning to bolt action…These used to be Mosin Nagant rifles. This gunsmith was thinking more for concealed carry. See the rest of the 7 amateur gunsmith fails here.

In response to President Donald Trump’s (I never get tired of typing that) soaring speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Venezuelan Envoy Jorge Arreaza said “For a moment, we didn’t know if we were listening to President Reagan in 1982 or President Trump in 2017.” Well, yes, that is exactly why Mr. Trump is President of the United States today. Mr. Arreaza, of course, thought his statement was an insult to the current U.S. President, as did every fake reporter in the fake news media, many of whom were no doubt getting major cases of the vapors as...

The Democratic Coalition filed a complaint with the Office of Government Ethics alleging that Presidential Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' suggestion that ESPN host Jemele Hill's tweet labeling the President "a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists" might be a "fireable offense," broke the law. Democratic Coalition chairman Jon Cooper insisted that "we cannot ignore the sinister implications of what the Trump Administration has done here. Mrs. Sanders contends she is entitled to express her opinion about the outrageous comments of Ms. Hill, but clearly her statement was intended to intimidate ESPN into firing one...

So, Hillary just might question Trump’s legitimacy after all: Hillary Clinton won't rule out questioning Trump's legitimacy, pending Russia probe. Just ponder on that as you await President Trump’s UN  address. Hillary, still wondering how she lost to “that man”And  I note that Jedediah Bila left The View “of her own accord” after the hen group went full Kim Jong-un on her after she dared ask Hillary a real question on the show last week. Because, you know, no tough questions for the smartest woman in the world.It’s almost as if Rabbit Hole Wednesday starts earlier every week. Posted from:...

That uncomfortable moment when a Democrat politician reaps what she has sown… – San Fran Nan Pelosi just can’t make herself stop being embarrassed in public. Fresh off of two public speaking appearances in which she sounded like nothing less than a lush stumbling out of a bar at midnight, the House Minority Leader stumbled into an appearance in San Francisco at an event that was designed to show support for her efforts to memorialize Barack Obama’s unconstitutional DACA executive order into statute. With the room being filled with illegal aliens who have been staying in the U.S. under the...

The war between die-hard fans of both the 9mm and .45 ACP cartridges rages on. Good news is, all the squabbling has given us the best gun-related memes ever. A test of manliness is in orderThis serious cat is after your soul with its .45 ACP, obviously.More knockdown power. True story.Duuude… you just resolved an age-old battle. Read the rest of the 9mm vs .45acp memes here.

Now that the influx of Muslim refugees into the country has catapulted Sweden to the top of the international heap when it comes to the crime of rape, government officials have determined it is time to take action. That action is the publication of a "sex guidebook" intended to convey a message to immigrants from Muslim countries that rape is wrong. Youth and Civil Affairs Authority Director General Lena Nyberg explained that "the issue seems to be one of culture shock for young Muslim males entering Swedish society. These refugees were raised in a culture that explicitly designates females as...

Here’s a list of things I don’t  feel like talking about today: the Emmys, Kim Jong-un, St. Louis riots/protests, terrorist attacks anywhere.Usually when I don’t want to be annoyed food is a safe bet, no?  No. I see that the cognoscenti of New York are promoting a new form of extreme eating based on extremely expensive extreme aging: Steak Aging Goes Beyond Weeks to Months for Some Chefs. This is beef aged for up to 180 days – that’s 6 months! In dog years I believe that translates to carrion. But if you’re up for laying out a car payment...

Oh, well, we had three nights of rioting in St. Louis because a St. Louis jury acquitted a St. Louis cop who was falsely accused of murdering a St. Louis drug dealer six years ago. To hear the rioters tell it, this drug dealer was the second coming of Rosa Parks and just the best person who ever walked the sidewalks of St. Louis. I hadn’t said anything about this because riots in the greater St. Louis area have become such a regular occurrence since Barack Obama’s Justice Department began encouraging them and George Soros began funding professional rioters to...

The Wall Street Journal arrived yesterday, along with its semi-annual Mens Style magazine. This is the cover:Not shocking, as the WSJ men’s style editors have been pushing metro-sexual men for the better part of two decades and the downright goofy-gay “fashion” for the past 8 years. So the sight of Jared Leto* on the cover of their Fall Issue of the Men’s Style magazine in a “Gucci coat, Lena Skadegard necklace (top), Paul Morelli necklace and his own gold necklace” was not shocking. After all, this former business journal and bastion of Brooks Brothers haberdashery is now owned by Rupert...

Former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) asked a Manhattan federal court to grant him leniency after his conviction for sending obscene emails and texts to an under-aged 15-year-old girl last year. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 21 to 27 months for a charge that carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Weiner's lawyers argued that "the girl was the instigator of the crime. She preyed upon the weaknesses of a man who was widely known as a sex pervert. Now she's written a book and will profit from the experience. So, to say that she was an innocent victim...

I apologize for continuing to rail against Hillary Clinton but she continues to irritate like a boil that’s been festering for a quarter of a century. “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.” – Hillary Clinton, 1992 In saner times that comment alone would have served to thwart the unbridled ambition of such a smug, bitchy woman. But in the age that delivered the Magic Negro to the White House this sort of...

Hollywood as we have known it is dead, yes it is. It survived for years thanks to America’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mindless blockbusters based on mindless comic books. The box office for those blockbusters enabled leftist, anti-American producers to continued doling out millions of dollars to leftist directors to produce unappealing, box-office disaster films filled with leftist propaganda starring modestly-talented, sort of cute leftist actors. But those days are gone. America’s appetite for mindless comic book blockbusters has run its course, and Hollywood has suffered through two straight record summer box office disasters the last two years. When even...

One of the more bizarre revelations in Hillary Clinton's campaign autopsy book—What Happened—was her admission that she tried Voodoo, "but it didn't work. I had dolls of all the key players—Trump, Bannon, Limbaugh. I stuck them with pins like you're supposed to, but none of them even got sick, much less died." The former presidential candidate speculated that "some sort of Russian radiation or hypersonic interference may have short-circuited the effectiveness of this time-tested technique. I mean, it's not like I haven't successfully used this tool before. We made a lot of problems disappear when Bill was governor of Arkansas...

It’s FLOTUS Friday already and - as I believe I promised after last week’s marathon, no Lady M pictures for at least a week - I’ll highlight a different former FLOTUS. Let’s start with a little quiz question. Q.  How many people can an ex-FLOTUS off-load blame on for a humiliating presidential election loss? A.  Forty-one, give or take: Meet the Hillary blame list - FORTY-ONE and counting. In a companion piece, Piers Morgan shared a few observations on Hill’s blame-a-palooza blockbuster. 'What happened' is the title of Hillary Clinton's new 464-page book. The answer, it transpires, is the most...

Conservative writer Ben Shapiro, who manages the “DailyWire” blog site, made his scheduled appearance at Cal Berkeley on Thursday, and amazingly, no riots broke out, though two Antifa morons were arrested even before the event began. To watch the University’s preparations for the event, one would have thought an army of black-masked thugs or something was coming to destroy the campus and its easily-triggered student body, but no, it was just little Ben Shapiro, who sounds exactly like a 30 year-old Richard Dreyfuss, and is about the same size. Boy, what an imposing figure he makes, armed with his speaker...

Aftermarket options for Glock pistols are endless. Use of such accessories is not generally encouraged or considered wise by retailers of these items, but its all about personalizing. Check out our top 10 most off the wall modified Glocks. Heads up: these may induce fits of hysterical laughter. How do you make sure your Glock pistol is as happy as you are? Paint smiley faces on it. That says you mean business, for certain.A forward grip attached to your Glock pistol is a huge ATF no-no! Throw a stock on there to rack up as many absurd federal charges as...

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi went to the White House to have dinner with President Trump last night.  Afterwards there were two versions of what they had: the Dems claim they had meat, no gravy. The President says they had meat with gravy on the side which the Dems refused because they were afraid it might have poison mushrooms in it. So he’s saving the gravy for the next time they come to dinner.The truth, as usual, is somewhere between; they actually had Chinese food with chocolate pie for dessert. Cultural appropriation!! Microaggression! Somebody call Deep State Media! It’s over,...

The President cannot get the increased border security funding he wants without votes from Democrats, 98% of whom don’t give a damn about border security. Democrats do give a damn about filling our country with as many third world immigrants as they can, because they view them as future Democrat voters, but they can’t enshrine this 800,000 strong bloc of future DACA voters without votes from Republicans and support from the White House. They know that DACA provisions do not give the “Dreamers” citizenship or voting rights, but they do allow them to become permanent U.S. residents who can find...