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GILROY, Calif. (Reuters) - A California teenager was identified by police on Monday as the gunman who killed three people, including two children, at a food festival south of San Francisco. Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a fence at the festival on Sunday evening and shot at people with a “AK-47-style” assault rifle at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told reporters. Within a minute of opening fire, Legan was fatally shot by three onsite police officers armed with handguns. “It could have gone so much worse so fast,” Smithee said, noting the festival, which takes...

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 17 July 2019. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics.

'We feel like we in a concentration camp — and it's just sad' President Donald Trump was widely condemned and declared a racist on Saturday for criticizing Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) over Baltimore's long-documented problems with crime, poverty, and political corruption. But what do Baltimore residents have to say? They agree with the president. "What he said was definitely true. [Cummings] hasn't done anything for us," one Baltimore resident named Michelle told Baltimore County Republican Central Committee member Kimberly Klacik of Trump's tweets. "As far as the houses and everything, like I said, [Cummings] has never done anything for not...

The year 1987 was significant in the history of the Senate’s process for considering a president’s nominees. The Senate defeated President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork, and the tactics of his opponents gave rise to the verb “to bork.” Many people, mistakenly it turned out, thought the confirmation process could not get any worse.Individual confirmation conflicts had increased since Reagan took office. In 1984, Democrats launched the first filibuster in American history against an appeals court nominee. After the second vote to invoke cloture, or end debate, on the nomination of J. Harvie Wilkinson to the U.S. Court...

Like every country in the European Union (EU), Hungary is struggling with a population shortfall due largely to low childbearing rates. Their national fertility rate is currently at 1.49 children per woman, below the EU average of 1.59. Replacement-level fertility requires a rate of around 2.1. The United States’s fertility rate most recently hit a long-term low of 1.7, and has generally not seen birth rates better than replacement level since the 1970s.Hungary already has a labor shortage. Their people are moving abroad in search of higher-paying jobs. Yet someone has to work and pay taxes to fund Hungary’s...

WASHINGTON — Jon Bon Jovi already has given $2,800 to Cory Booker’s presidential campaign. He’s about to raise a lot more for him. The Jersey rocker will host a fundraiser for the Jersey senator at his East Hampton home on Long Island Aug. 18, Booker’s campaign said Monday. Tickets cost $1,000, with members of the host committee agreeing to raise at least $15,000.

On Friday, a federal judge in Kentucky tossed Nicholas SandmannÂ’s defamation case against the Washington Post. Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student smeared by the Post and many other outlets earlier this year as a smirking, MAGA-hat-wearing racist who had blocked Native American elder Nathan PhillipsÂ’s path, promises an appeal.On appeal, Sandmann is likely to win. IÂ’ll lay out why, after a quick review of what happened.What Happened in DC in January After attending the March of Life in January of this year, Sandmann and his classmates waited for their bus at the Lincoln Memorial. While waiting, Native American activist...

Shortened title. Full title: Investigators are reportedly probing close Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's mysterious ocean non-profit Investigators are reportedly probing an oceanic conservancy group founded by Ghislaine Maxwell—Jeffrey Epstein's close associate and alleged madam— for possible ties to Epstein. British-born socialite Maxwell, 57, has been the subject of allegations for years that she was Epstein's top accomplice and has been accused of recruiting victims and abusing them alongside the financier. She has not been named in the most recent indictment of Epstein and has denied any wrongdoing. The New York Post reported that The TerraMar Project, which recent filings show...

Two months ago, Meghan Markle was reportedly ‘too busy caring for her baby’ to meet the President of her own country on his state visit to the UK. Now we discover she was in fact preoccupied with the birth of another elitist production – Vogue magazine. News that Meghan has spent the past seven months guest-editing the September issue of Vogue is no surprise to me. As a B-list actress, she’s probably craved all her adult life to be a Vogue star. News that Buckingham Palace has let her do it is a big surprise though, because Meghan is now...

Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten their views. This group specializes in encouraging others to harass those targeted by their ire, and has claimed responsibility for dozens of bomb threats and “swatting” incidents, where police are tricked into visiting potentially deadly force on the target’s address. At issue is a site called the “Doxbin,” which hosts the names, addresses, phone number and often known IP addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other...

Anyone who understands real estate knows it’s all about three things: location, location, location. In recent decades, many of the hottest locations in the country have been in Dixie. Much of this growth has come at the expense of the Northern states. In the last several decades, the North has lost more than 5 million residents and hundreds of billions of dollars of economic activity to the low-tax and business-friendly Southern states. Miami, Dallas, Charlotte and Nashville are the happening cities, replacing struggling places like Chicago, Hartford, New York, Baltimore and Providence. We would urge people to go to our...

Rep. Ilhan Omar said the "blame" for the "acceleration" of poor conditions in Iran and Venezuela is on the United States because of the economic sanctions the government has imposed against those countries. "The regime in Venezuela is to be blamed for this condition but the acceleration of these conditions, that blame is on us and the same is true for Iran," Omar said at the recent Netroots conference in Philadelphia. "So if we do want to be a helpful ally to people who are suffering around the world then we cannot continue to cause an acceleration in their suffering."

When a group of three people set about demonstrating the problems with so-called “grievance studies” in academia they did so by creating spoof papers designed to embarrass the reviewers at leading journals. As I described last October when the story broke, they were very successful. Seven of the 20 bogus papers they wrote were accepted for publication by various journals. More would have been accepted if the group’s plan hadn’t come to light before they had time to complete the work. Of the three people involved in the hoax, only one had a university position at the time it was...

China is now the big player in global cinema. “The Chinese film market is going to be the largest film market in short order,” Charles Rivkin, the new chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), said on a conference call with reporters. “They’re building about 25 screens a day.” Last year, more movie tickets were sold in China than in North America. American studios are desperate to capitalize on this growth by overturning the Chinese government’s edict that a maximum of only 34 American films a year can play on Chinese big screens. At the same time, they...

President Trump has done more for the black community in nearly three years than Elijah Cummings and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have in more than thirty years… Look at the black unemployment rate — LOWEST IN HISTORY under Trump. Trump signed into law what the first black president couldn’t — criminal justice reform. Trump is also responsible for the first drop in opioid deaths in decades… And how strange that this is suddenly not getting any attention: President Donald Trump highlighted Baltimore City during a White House ceremony Wednesday afternoon as he signed an executive order focused on so-called...

After some thought on the generation gap appearing in today's society, I have decided to reach out to some of you to get a wider dialogue. Here are some basics about me: - 24 years old (been a Free Republic member since 2014) - served in the regular Army for five years (Arabic linguist), I've been out for a year - one more semester of a bachelors' degree in international relations, plan to attend grad school for linguistics in spring, have a few computer science online certificates - working for now as a rent-a-cop for $12/hr part-time, I live with...

Senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) released a health-care proposal on Monday that preserves a limited, tightly regulated, private-insurance market, finally articulating her position on the role of the private market after struggling to do so throughout her early primary campaign. Harris’s plan, which comes days ahead of the second round of Democratic primary debates in Detroit, represents a more moderate approach than that championed by Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who has called for the total elimination of the private health-insurance market. Like Sanders, Harris would allow every American access to an expanded Medicare program, but she would also seek...

April Ryan, a CNN contributor and White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Network, blasted President Trump Monday for referring to Baltimore, Maryland as rat and bug "infested," noting that the term has Holocaust connotations and wondering what is "running across" Mr. Trump's "covers at night." "Baltimore is part of this country," Ryan said. "Let's go to Francis Scott Key, let's go to the Star-Spangled Banner -- 'Oh say can you see?' -- This is Baltimore. It is Baltimore today, it will be another city tomorrow. We are all Baltimore. #WeAreBaltimore." "And for him to use the word --bear with...

(Paul Preston):" Well, we’re actually forming a new state from California. We’re in the process of forming a new state from a preexisting state and following the constitution. Our constitution and Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights provides for us to form a new state when the citizens feel compelled to......."

Between 1803 and 2018, the United States Supreme Court ruled 172 federal laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), in their effort to demonize President Trump, may inadvertently add a law written in 1924 to this list of doomed legislation. Absent a smoking gun from the Mueller report, the Trump resistance sees the next opportunity to demonize Trump via his tax returns.It is entirely plausible that IRC 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f), originally passed in response to the Teapot Dome Scandal, (a bribery scandal involving oil leases on...