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Take a look and decide. But while Germany may produce its own AR-15s, the hotbed of innovation for the rifle is still the United States. Products such as RadianWeapons ’s ADAC lower receiver are known among European sport shooters for being fast and innovative, and Germany has yet to produce similar refinements on their own.​ Mention a German take on an AR-15, and most people will imagine the HK416. However, many other German manufacturers have made their own take on the AR platform, from simple clones made by Oberland Arms to Haenel, which makes another variant of the piston-driven AR...

[Catholic Caucus] Monsignor Walter Rossi Is ‘On Retreat’ Monsignor Walter Rossi is “on retreat,” said the celebrant at a recent Mass held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where Rossi continues to serve as rector in spite of an investigation into his misconduct by the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and the diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. At that very moment, according to a Church insider, Rossi was vacationing in Italy with Fr. Andrew Hvozdovic, the co-owner of Rossi’s posh beach condo in gay-friendly Fort Lauderdale. Nicknamed by Scranton priests “Randy Andy” for his open homosexuality ......

The U.S. Coast Guard said it was notified at approximately 2 a.m. on Sunday that the 656-foot vehicle carrier Golden Ray was disabled and listing heavily with a fire on board in the St. Simons Sound. The ship had a total of 24 people on board, including 23 crew members and 1 pilot.

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Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” The Beat DC managing editor Tiffany Cross mockingly said President Donald Trump was “the secret Muslim president,” given Trump’s now-canceled planned meeting with Taliban leaders in the United States. “It is kind of ironic maybe it turns out Donald Trump is the secret Muslim president that they feared Barack Obama was. Where is the outrage from the right? I don’t understand this, the scary thing from all of this. This should be breaking news banners all across the country.” She continued, “I wonder what Fox News is talking about. I just don’t think this is...

Fox News contributor Guy Benson married his boyfriend of four years, Adam Wise, on Saturday. The couple tied the knot in front of 150 guests at the Charles Krug Winery in Napa Valley, Calif., People reported. Wise, 24, said of Benson, “We’re both organized and driven human beings. We just work well together. We’re best friends. He’s my home.” The pair met after Benson came out as gay on Fox News' "The Kelly File" in 2015, where he'd been promoting his book, "End of Discussion."

TWO top EU chiefs have told Remainers they will BLOCK any further Brexit delays as Brussels slammed the fiasco as "unacceptable". Guy Verhoftstadt fired off the warning just hours after France's foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drain, said he would refuse any move to extend Brexit. It comes after the PM had vowed he would "never" delay Brexit despite the House of Lords passing a bill on Friday effectively blocking a No Deal Brexit. EU BETTER GET ON WITH IT! Verhoftstadt, the European Parliament's chief Brexit co-ordinator, said another extension would be "unacceptable unless the deadlock in London is broken". He...

<p>Penn made the remarks as he promoted his new novel on stage in a conversation with actor Nick Offerman.</p> <p>“I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Donald Trump is going to win the presidency next time because I’m getting a sense that it’s going be an exponential jump in young people who are going to say, ‘No thanks.'”</p>

Rescue crews are searching for four crew members of a cargo ship that overturned in the early hours of Sunday morning off the coast of Brunswick, Ga., approximately 80 miles south of Savannah. There were 23 crew members and a pilot aboard the Golden Ray when the 656-foot carrier became disabled in St. Simons Sound, according to the Coast Guard. Twenty people on the vessel were rescued. Capt. John Reed, Commander of Coast Guard Sector Charleston, told reporters at a Sunday afternoon press conference that several people were rescued from the vessel "at multiple points." Then rescue operations were suspended...

The Taliban says Americans have the most to lose from canceling peace negotiations that sought to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. In a statement, the group claimed all was going well until the last moment.

Police near Minneapolis shot and killed a driver following a chase after he apparently emerged from his car holding a knife and refused their commands to drop it. The chase started late Saturday night in Edina and ended in Richfield with officers shooting the man, Brian J. Quinones, who had streamed himself live on Facebook during the chase. Police responded after Quinones ran a red light and wouldn't pull over, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. According to emergency dispatch audio, Quinones continued running through red lights in Richfield. After police forced the car to stop, Quinones got out holding what...

This is the moment a dramatic dog tries to avoid getting her nails trimmed by fainting before the first snip. A video of the Oscar-worthy performance by a pit bull in the US went viral over the weekend after it was shared on Reddit. It shows the pooch ignoring her nail-clipper-wielding owner before finally giving up her front paw. Just as the owner about to trim the first nail, the dog makes her theatrical descent.

CHARLOTTESVILLE — A Monticello tour guide was explaining earlier this summer how enslaved people built, planted and tended a terrace of vegetables at Thomas Jefferson’s estate when a woman interrupted to share her annoyance. “Why are you talking about that?” she demanded, according to Gary Sandling, vice president of Monticello’s visitor programs and services. “You should be talking about the plants." At Monticello, George Washington’s Mount Vernon and other plantations across the South, an effort is underway to deal more honestly with the brutal institution that the Founding Fathers relied on to build their homes and their wealth: slavery. Four...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Warns Madagascar Bishops Of Young "Rigid" Priests Pope Francis spoke on September 7 in the Antananarivo Cathedral, Madagascar, to the local bishops about screening seminarians. In this context, he warned them of young priests who are “too rigid” [meaning: pious and serious]. Francis insinuated that behind this there are “grave problems.” However, Francis failed to mention the enormous evil produced by rigid liberals like Francis himself who pour gallons of Modernist wastewater into the sparkling wine of the Gospel.

UNBELIEVABLE! Illinois authorities demand that private homeowner remove small 9/11 Memorial plaque, saying it is “obsolete” SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM If they don’t remove it within 14 days, they will keep getting fines of up to $500.00. So, I guess for America-hating leftists, remembering 3,000 Americans who were murdered by Muslims has now become obsolete?

The evangelical brother-in-law of Pete Buttigieg called on him to "repent" for using the Bible to justify late-term abortion and claimed the presidential candidate is "weaponizing" Christian teachings to promote a false religion. Pastor Rhyan Glezman, 34, who serves a church in small-town Michigan, told the Washington Examiner that he was very alarmed by Buttigieg's claim that the Bible teaches life does not begin until a baby first draws breath. During a wide-ranging Friday interview on the radio show The Breakfast Club, Buttigieg, 37, scolded Republicans for their views on abortion, saying, "Right now, they hold everybody in line with...

The following is an exclusive excerpt from Michelle Malkin’s new book, Open Borders, Inc: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?, available Tuesday, September 10. *** The Illegal Alien Shelter Network Operating in Plain Sight from Central America, across Mexico, and into the U.S. To fully appreciate the manufacturing of the 2018–2019 invasions of our southern border, you must first understand this: Pueblo Sin Fronteras is just one cog in the well-oiled, illegal-alien caravan-generating machine. Let’s start with what open-borders advocates themselves call their “Underground Railroad” of migrant safe houses that extend across Central America, through Mexico, and up and into the U.S…...

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow. Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread: http://kallmansalley.com/

An African-American man said a protester at an anti-ICE rally in New York City referred to him as a “house negro” because of his support for President Donald Trump. Video captured an exchange between the man, who was holding a “Trump 2020” sign, and protesters at Grand Central Terminal last week against the president’s immigration policies and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Signs by the protesters read, “Close The Camps” and “Abolish ICE.” One black woman confronted the pro-Trump man, apparently trying to shame him for siding with the commander-in-chief. “It’s not about color, it’s about policy!” he countered...

Most mass shooters in the U.S. acquired the weapons they used legally because there was nothing in their backgrounds to disqualify them, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist with Northeastern University who has studied mass shootings for decades. But in several attacks in recent years gunmen acquired weapons as a result of mistakes, lack of follow-through or gaps in federal and state law. Not all gun purchases are subject to a federal background check system. Even for those that are, federal law stipulates a limited number of reasons why a person would be prohibited from purchasing or possessing a...