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During the 2020 presidential campaign, Texas Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke often bellowed on how, if elected president, he wanted to take away your firearms, specifically your “military-style” AR-15 through a mandatory gun buy-back program, something unconstitutional on its face and a direct infringement of the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the Second Amendment, During the Democratic presidential primary debate on October 15, 2019, the Congressman responded to the question of how he intended to enforce that proposed gun buyback program: Although he hasn’t offered exact specifics on the program, he did share some additional details at the...

What King George could not do to early Americans, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Democrats and the Republicans have managed to do in just two years. They have arbitrarily taken governance away from the people making themselves rulers over us. What would Patrick Henry say of what’s happening to our nation? Indeed, he would probably be tagged a right-wing extremist for preaching, “Give me liberty or give me death.” But isn’t that the spirit of America? Where has this passion gone? I have but one aim with this commentary: To awaken the American spirit in you.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will push for another economic stimulus package of approximately $50 billion. The California Democrat told CNN she favors that amount as a compromise between spurring the stagnating U.S. economy without forcing the nation deeply into more debt. I would hope we could have about a $50 billion -- there are others who want more, she said in a partial transcript released by the Speaker's office. But I think in the stimulus packages, you have to look at what helps stimulate the economy without spending more money than you should because you weight the...