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Ever since the 2012 massacre at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., gun-control advocates have worked hard to close so-called “loopholes” in background-check laws. Not all the efforts have been successful; gun-rights advocates say such measures are needlessly burdensome and do little to stop violent crime. But last year, Washington state residents voted to toughen the state’s background-check laws. And now the Oregon legislature has done the same. On Monday, the Oregon House voted 32-28 in support of Senate Bill 941, which requires background checks for all purchasers of guns through private sales. Currently, background checks in Oregon are...

Secretary of State John Kerry raised the specter of using a 30,000-pound (13,600-kg) bunker-buster bomb against Iran’s nuclear program in an interview aired this week, during an attempt to reassure Israelis that America had its back against Tehran, even if it means preemptive military action. People in Israel should have some confidence in an “administration that designed and deployed the weapon that has the ability to deal with Iran’s nuclear program,” Kerry told Channel 10, adding that his is “an administration, a government, a country that will stand by Israel way into the future.” The weapon he was referring to,...

Question: A friend of mine has been reading the Left Behind books that have all of this stuff about the “Rapture” in them. Is there really going to be a “Rapture” like these books talk about?   Answer: No.The “Rapture” refers to a passage in First Thessalonians 4, where Christians are “caught up” in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Many Christians believe, and the Left Behind books promote, that this being “caught up” to meet the Lord will occur before the Great Tribulation sometime in the near future. Christians will simply vanish, meet Jesus somewhere in the...

The Free West owes a debt of gratitude to Garland, Texas where it was proven for once and for all to the outside world: Islamic terrorism can be made to lose face. It seems the left hand never tells the right hand what it’s up to down at Foggy Bottom. Within days of the foiled terrorist attack outside the exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland Texas, comes the news that the United States is offering “big payouts” (“strictly confidential”) to anyone who has “information” on key ISIS leaders. “The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program...

In the wake of the Great Recession, the American economy continues to face an anemic recovery as we attempt to return to a period of sustained growth. In fact, just this past week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the gross domestic product grew at a rate of just 0.2 percent between January and March. Businesses – both large and small – are grappling with significant uncertainty and unpredictable days ahead. As if today’s economic climate wasn’t challenging enough, our innovators and job creators are being held back by another force which is becoming an increasing threat: patent trolls....

All law-abiding citizens were horrified by the recent riots in Baltimore supposedly resulting from the yet unexplained death of a Black young man in police custody. The destruction was unbelievable. The anger vented in the streets by residents of the community was at times unfathomable given that the Mayor, Chief of police, the majority of City Council, and nearly half the police department of the City of Baltimore are African Americans. “The pride of New York,” the Rev. Al Sharpton, announced that he was invited by the local community and the Mayor to come to Baltimore. His mission was clear....

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The popular and outspoken Israeli singer Amir Benayoun sharply criticized US President Barack Obama in a new song and went on to compare him with the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, to which the US Embassy in Tel Aviv responded with a condemnation. The embassy's spokesperson told Walla!, "we were sorry to hear the repulsive descriptions. We condemn any provocative and racist language, whether it is against the president of the United States or against anyone else, and we believe that most Israelis think like us." In the new song, which Benayoun posted in a video on Facebook this week, the...

For decades now, those concerned about global warming have been predicting the so-called “tipping point” — the point beyond which it’ll be too late to stave off catastrophic global warming. It seems like every year the “tipping point” is close to being reached, and that the world must get rid of fossil fuels to save the planet. That is, until we’ve passed that deadline and the next such “tipping point” is predicted. Would you believe it was eight years ago today that the United Nations predicted we only had “as little as eight years left to avoid a dangerous global...

A group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem has continued to challenge the Gaza-ruling Palestinian entity Hamas. The ISIS-linked Salafists are attempting to stir enough discontent in the Palestinian territory to pose a challenge to the rival jihadi outfit. The pro-ISIS group has even delivered rhetorical assaults against Hamas, going on social media to blast the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned faction as worse than the “Jewish Occupier” (Israel). Hamas has attempted to crack down on uprisings within Gaza. Recently, Hamas militants demolished a mosque that was a known ISIS hotspot. “Armed men from Hamas came to Deir Al-Balah and...

British warplanes arrived in the Baltics yesterday to begin ‘air policing’ in the region amid continuing aggression from Russia. Four Typhoons were dispatched from RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, to safeguard the skies as part of a ‘high readiness’ Nato force in Eastern Europe. They were deployed to Amari airbase in Estonia, where they will patrol the air space as part of a four-month mission until the end of August The RAF fighter jets will work alongside four Norwegian aircraft which will be based in Lithuania. Keit Pentus-Roimannus, the Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, yesterday welcomed the RAF planes as a ‘demonstration...

And still the media cowards attack us fiercely (because they know we won’t chop their heads off) and refuses to run the winning cartoon. “Muhammad Cartoon Contest Winner Retreats Into Hiding,” By Nathan Koppel, Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2015 Man says he faces death threats after winning grand prize for drawing of prophet “I don’t want to say where,” Mr. Fawstin said, also declining to say his age. “There are Muslims out there who want to kill me.” Mr. Fawstin said he was raised by Albanian Muslim parents in the Bronx but eventually renounced his faith. He said the...

Not your daddy’s Democratic Party… Democrats handed out an anti-Semitic flyer Monday night at a Maryland hearing.The anti-Semitic flyer supported liberal Donna Edwards for US Senator and claimed Israel was an “apartheid state.” As Power Line argues – Israel bashing is now acceptable in the Democratic Party.Power Line reported: Last night at a public hearing on the budget in Prince George’s County, Maryland, a flyer with the following headline was circulated: From Baltimore to Jerusalem It’s the Same Game. In 10 years Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin sent 1.2 billion dollars of Maryland Federal taxpayer money to the Apartheid...

Riots work. The Baltimore riots achieved a number of goals for the political left, which is why the left defended the riots as a quasi-legitimate outgrowth of fully justified anti-police, anti-white feeling – in a majority black city with a majority black police force and a majority black city council, in a country with a black president and a black attorney general.

The FBI began investigation Elton Simpson, one of the 2 shooters in Garland, Texas. The other shooter is Nadir Soofi. They were roommates in Phoenix. Nadir Soofi graduated from the University of Utah and the International School of Islamic Studies in Pakistan. He was a Palestinian sympathizer and published anti-police propaganda. The FBI paid an informant to gather information on Elton Simpson going back to 2006 and used wires to record conversations. The case was proven (trial memorandum here) as Simpson was well connected to al Shabaab and Simpson had purchased a ticket to travel to South Africa and had...

The conservative guerrilla artist Sabo once again has prepared one of his distinctive graphic welcomes for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who will be in Los Angeles for a trio of big-money fundraisers Thursday. This time, Sabo has papered parts of Bel Air, Holmby Hills and Pacific Palisades with a pair of posters, one of them a mocking takeoff of the animated film Shrek and the other a visual riff on a Game of Thrones promo. In the Shrek sendup, Clinton is called a “Shrew,” with her campaign mocked as “a Jeffrey Katzenberg production” amid a flurry of recent...

At least four Florida companies have been approved for ferry service from the United States to Cuba. For the first time in five decades, the U.S. is allowing ferry service between Florida and Cuba.. At least four companies said they were notified Tuesday of approvals by the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments, the first since Washington imposed a trade embargo on Cuba. Licensed were Havana Ferry Partners of Fort Lauderdale, Baja Ferries of Miami, United Caribbean Lines Florida of Greater Orlando and Airline Brokers Co. of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Here's something the world hasn't seen since December: oil trading above $60 a barrel. Traders are buzzing about whether its a sign that the era of low gas prices for American drivers is over. "It looks like this market is breaking out," said Phil Flynn, a senior energy analyst at the Price Futures Group in Chicago. It's a new high point for 2015. Crude oil prices fell below $45 earlier this year. While American drivers cheered the low gas prices at the pump, oil companies cut jobs and there was a panic sell-off in the stock market. Big energy stocks...

There's been outrage over everything lately. Over cartoons, over the Avengers... well how about an Avengers cartoon? Better yet, how about the most politically incorrect cartoon you'll watch this week? What would the world look like if our superheroes had to tow today's lines of political correctness? Oh yes, we went there...

Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record. But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are not so private anymore, either. Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored. The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google...