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In Tennessee, HB 1264 has passed with large margins. Republican Governor Bill Lee has said he will sign the bill into law, according to AP. HB 1264 passed the House on April 30, 62 to 31, with one legislator not voting. On 2 May, it passed the Senate, 18 to 11, with two senators not voting.The final bill was watered down with amendments. As passed, HB 1264 has interesting features which reform Tennessee law in the general direction of Constitutional Carry.  It is clear the Tennessee legislature was not willing to pass Constitutional Carry this year. HB 1264 creates...

Former FBI director and frequent President Trump critic James Comey will take questions during a live CNN town hall next week. The town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper will air at 8 p.m. on May 9, from Washington, D.C., the network announced Wednesday. May 9 marks exactly two years since Mr. Comey was famously fired by Mr. Trump, purportedly over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The Pentagon said Wednesday that it has enough funding to build 256 more miles of border wall in the near future, and will start construction at a rate of about a half mile a day over the next six months. Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan said in testimony to the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee. “How you will see this materialize in the next six months is that about 63 additional new miles of wall will come online, so about a half a mile a day will be produced.”

For some people, Nevada Rep. Susie Lee said, the opportunity to drive on repaved highways, cross repaired bridges and fly out of modernized airports isn’t worth the political implications of a major infrastructure bill. “I’ve been told, ‘You don’t want to give Donald Trump a win on this,’” Lee, a Democrat, told an audience this morning at the Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas. But even though the passage of a major bill would give Trump a stump point for the 2020 election, Lee said, the need for infrastructure spending outweighs partisan politics. “This isn’t a Republican-Democrat thing. This is an...

President Donald Trump mocked Hillary Clinton's recent claims that the 2016 election was "stolen" from her at a raucous "Make America Great Again" rally in Panama City Beach. On top form, Trump assumed the infamous unreasoning facial expression of Clinton."Hillary Clinton is still going up, 'Ahhh, I think they stole the election,'" Trump said.

In their research, the scientists point to an earthquake that occurred off the coast of Portugal in 1755, which destroyed the city of Lisbon, and a 7.9-magnitude quake that struck the Portuguese capital in 1969. Duarte describes the newly-found “structure” in the tectonic plate as “a very good candidate” for the source of these events. “The 20 upper kilometers [12.4 miles] of the plate is made of soft rocks that are light and the bottom is dense and heavy (because the plate is very old, more than 100 million years),” Duarte told Fox News. “This causes this lower part to...

Texas Senate Republicans are tired of uppity cities like Dallas taking down monuments to the Confederacy. That's the message from the state Capitol, where the Senate voted 19-12 along strict party lines to require a two-thirds, super majority vote from any municipal government that wants to get rid of their monument to Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or whatever other Lost Cause traitor the Daughters of the Confederacy decided to memorialize.

The FBI’s sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying... Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate... Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page

RUSH: Trump’s got an impromptu gathering with the press going on right now. Our microphones are there. I think most of this is over and the primary news of it is over, but let’s JIP it anyway and find out what is being discussed. THE PRESIDENT: — nobody even knows, although the halls of Congress know her very well. For years she’s walked around all over Congress. She came in, and she left supposedly GPS Fusion goes and meets for a short period of time with my son and some other people. They talked about a subject as very well,...

The Arizona Department of Transportation has released its first-stage environmental review of a proposed new interstate from the border to north of Phoenix. The agency wants the public to weigh in on the controversial proposal, and is holding public meetings in Tucson and Marana this week. Three years ago, the state transportation department began evaluating the possibility of a new interstate highway, called I-11, which would connect traffic from the Mexican border to the Nevada border. In 2015 a federal act identified the route as a high-priority corridor eligible for federal funding. State transportation spokesperson Laura Douglas says her agency...

Demands by Democrats that Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify before Congress about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election show a complete lack of respect for the rule of law and the constitutional provisions of the separation of powers. With their single-minded objective of attacking President Trump, congressional Democrats are sending a dangerous message to the American people. It is wrong for Democrats to demand that Mueller testify and it would be wrong for Mueller to do so. When Mueller accepted his appointment as special counsel, he did so fully aware of the federal regulations governing...

A new study published in The Lancet has revealed that on average Irish people continue to drink more year-on-year. According to the research, alcohol intake in Ireland has risen from 12.3 litres in 2010 to 13.2 litres in 2017. That’s more than double the global average of 6.5 litres, which is based on studies from 189 countries across the world. The study found 84% of Irish adults drink alcohol, with Ireland boasting one of the highest per capita consumption rates in Europe. IRELAND’S ANNUAL alcohol consumption continues to rise, despite notable decreases across the rest of Europe. It also revealed...

In this week of second-birthday celebrations for The Mark Steyn Club, the thing most worth celebrating is mere existence: We haven't yet been vaporized. Every day the Big Shut-Up advances: Last week Facebook eighty-sixed Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and for good measure Twitter suspended the Hollywood contrarian James Woods. It's a bit unfair on poor old calypso conspiracist Louis Farrakhan, who found himself de-platformed with all the right-wing haters just because Speech Commissar Zuckerberg needed a bipartisan figleaf. He won't require that much longer, and indeed Big Social is growing ever more brazen in its preference for...

More than 100 New York City moms living below the poverty level will be given $12,000 with no strings attached as part of a new study measuring the effect of poverty on early-childhood ­development. The study, named Baby’s First Years and partially funded by the city, is currently recruiting moms from maternity wards who will be handed up to $333 a month on pre-paid debit cards for the first three years of their baby’s life to see if having cash can affect the baby’s cognitive skills.

House Democrats staked out several positions on immigration through the appropriations process on Thursday, advancing spending bills through the appropriations committee that would block President Trump from tapping military construction funds for his desired U.S.-Mexico border wall and pave the way for “Dreamers” to work on Capitol Hill. Democrats included language in a bill that funds military construction and veterans programs for 2020 that blocks any use of military construction funds from 2015-2020 from going toward border wall construction. “Whether we agree or disagree on the need for a wall or whether there is or is not a crisis at...

We’re seeing a number of tweets reporting anti-Semitic attacks throughout New York City and for some reason, the media is silent on them. Police are searching for these suspects in the beating of a Hasidic father and son in Williamsburgh:

RUSH: Greetings, my friends. The surreal nature of our lives today — those of us who are engaged and enmeshed in politics. The surreal nature, the Twilight Zone nature of all this just continues. Okay. So we got the Mueller report out. It finds no collusion. There never was any. Don’t get me started on this. I’m not only probably driving you crazy, I’m driving myself crazy talking about this. There was no collusion. There was no investigation. All of this is a trumped up hoax. And Mueller didn’t find any because there wasn’t any to find and he had...

FULL TITLE: Nxivm members presented Hillary Clinton with illegal campaign donation at event in hopes of 'obtaining political influence to further their agenda' It seems that Hillary Clinton may have unknowingly played a large role in the racketeering charges that Nxivm founder Keith Raniere is currently facing in court. Court documents filed by the US Attorney's office prior to the trail detail how multiple members of he cult - including all five of the defendants who were indicted in the case - exceeded the legal limit for campaign donations when giving money to Clinton's first campaign for president. That motion,...

A little over a year ago I left one of the most beautiful places on Earth -- California -- because the Democrats running the state were even worse than the Democrats ruining various other states and municipalities throughout America. I wrote a farewell post here titled "Dear California: Call Me When the Commies Leave" in which I chronicled many of my problems with the Democratic supermajority in the California legislature. Many think I use the term "commie" flippantly, but I assure you that is not the case. When I call someone a commie, he or she is acting like a...

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is mulling a run for president, is planning a rally outside Trump Tower Monday to promote his Green New Deal, The Post has learned. “It’s a pretty good idea as Trump Tower is one of the biggest polluters per square foot in New York City,” said environmental activist Pete Sikora, who’s planning on attending the noon event. The City Council passed a bill last month to slap strict greenhouse gas emissions caps on private buildings exceeding 25,000 square feet by forcing them to retrofit pipes, heating systems, lights and other utilities by 2024 or face...