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A New Jersey gun owner is fighting charges for carrying a firearm for which he had a permit and ammunition state police have publicly said is legal. Roosevelt Twyne, a 25-year-old African-American security guard, was arrested by Roselle Park Police in February after a traffic stop stemming from tinted windows on his car. Evan Nappen, Twyne's attorney, told the Washington Free Beacon that his client was then erroneously charged for illegally carrying a firearm and being in possession of so-called hollow point ammunition. "He was arrested for the hollow point ammunition," Nappen told the Free Beacon. "Then they claimed he...

Haley Stevens, a Dem Congresswoman from Michigan just threw a public and vary obnoxious temper tantrum over her colleague’s gun video. Colorado Congressman Ken Buck wanted to have a little fun and made a 2nd amendment video using a gun he mounts on his wall. “I have just one message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, if you want to take everyone’s AR-15s, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C. and start with this one? Come and take it. #2A,” he said.

If you live in San Francisco, you’re likely pretty familiar with walking past addicts shooting up heroin on the street, shattered car glass shards on the ground or homeless camps. If you live elsewhere and only hear about it on the news or from friends and family, it’s hard to put it in perspective. San Francisco is a city struggling with a multitude of social issues; from drug and alcohol abuse, crime rates and inequality. What was once a hub for newcomers is leaving a bad taste in the mouths of its former residents as more and more citizens of...

The DOJ announced it is finalizing a rule to collect DNA samples from illegal immigrants who are in federal custody... the DNA Fingerprint Act requires a federal agency to “collect DNA samples from individuals who are arrested,... facing charges,... or convicted... or from non-US persons who are detained under the authority of the US. The Office of Special Counsel reported to President Donald Trump and Congress in a letter last August that Customs and Border Protection had failed to comply with the law and collect DNA samples Until now, 'non-U.S. persons have been exempt' from the sample collection following an...

Tide and time wait for no man, or so they say. But that isn't really true if you are a rich progressive, or one of those who finagle a fine living off the stupidity of naive guilt-riddled Westerners. Take the rising tide. For years the climate alarmists have been claiming that low-lying atolls like those in the Maldives would disappear, swallowed by the sea in a manner reminiscent of Atlantis. Global warming is causing sea level rise, they claim, and places like the Seychelles or Kiribati or the Maldives were doomed, doomed, doomed! Reasonable people pointed out that the sea...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 6, 2020 Former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Indicted on Theft of Government Property and Scheme to Defraud the United States Government A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a 16-count indictment against a former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a former subordinate for their alleged theft of proprietary software and confidential databases from the U.S. government as part of a scheme to defraud the U.S. government. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski...

Bit by bit, they are tearing down the fabric of society, erasing not only the distinctions of male and female, but the identity of our two genders as well. Why? Because God created us male and female, and Satan cannot implement his plan with those foundations in place. And since Leviathan, a type of the Devil in the Bible, is the king over the ‘children of pride‘, he is instructing his children to tear everything down to the ground, and the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Movement is doing just that. Meet gay, dress wearing actor Billy Porter. “If the foundations be...

People who have underlying health conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease, or diabetes—particularly those who are elderly—should be cautious .....“It is a good time for any American who is elderly, by however they define it, and has a serious underlying health condition to think carefully about travel,”... If you’re a person who is in that category: think twice, even before you get on a plane for a long trip, or you want to travel, or you want to go to a place that’s crowded where there may be people who are in fact, have an infection of any sort—that...

This web page provides weekly, preliminary estimates of the cumulative in-season numbers of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States. CDC does not know the exact number of people who have been sick and affected by influenza because influenza is not a reportable disease in most areas of the U.S.

"Wealth-hoarding" is a trendy phrase among modern socialists. As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently tweeted, "[t]he hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples' lives" (1). Bernie Sanders, another proud socialist and political ally of Ocasio-Cortez, said the following: "What we are trying to do is demand and implement a policy which significantly reduces income and wealth inequality in America by telling the wealthiest families in this country they cannot have so much wealth" (2). Recent presidential drop-out and U.S. senator Elizabeth Warren has a similar ideological position on wealth-hoarding: a "wealth tax" on those with over...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Babe Ruth. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Babe Ruth is considered to be the most famous baseball player of all time. His home run record, created in an era where the balls were much harder to hit for distance, stood until it was finally surpassed by Hank Aaron in 1974. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent...

Wouldn't it be best for us if Bernie won? It's next Tuesday. Cross voting allowed?

The Coronavirus isn’t the only thing that’s spreading. Hysterical leftists can’t let go of the delusion that Donald Trump is president because of sinister machinations by unspecified Russians -- the same Russians that Sleepy Joe Biden believes are messing with his electioneering. Biden -- who got badly clipped in the Iowa caucuses by Bernie Sanders, told “Face the Nation” that “The Russians don’t want me to be the nominee…” because “they like Bernie,” the Fidel-snuggler from Vermont. Channeling his best third person Tricky Dick, Biden added: "They spent a lot of money on bots on Facebook and they've been taken...

Last summer, when Elizabeth Warren was bringing out thousands of people at mega rallies who would wait long into the night in seemingly never-ending selfie lines, progressive groups were torn. They saw both Warren and her fellow presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as allies for their causes. Sanders had inherited goodwill from his 2016 run against Hillary Clinton. But Warren was the charismatic star on late night TV who had fought the big banks during the recession, and, notably, the politician progressives had initially tried to draft into the 2016 primary as an opponent to Clinton before Sanders entered the race....

DENVER -- Colorado has joined four other states in banning natural hair discrimination after Gov. Jared Polis signed the CROWN Act into law Friday evening. The governor signed House Bill 1048 at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, a studio and performing arts school based in African-American traditions. California was the first pass a law banning this type of discrimination as part of the CROWN — Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair — movement, a coalition co-founded by Dove and other organizations to end this type of discrimination.Rep. Leslie Herod and her co-sponsors brought forward the bill because of...

There is a constant stream of books and articles telling us, often strenuously and at great length, that the American Founders got the ideas they used for the Founding from the British philosopher John Locke. The Founders would be puzzled by this ongoing effort. They knew different. Locke's Two Treatises of Government appeared in 1690. The articles by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay that became The Federalist began appearing in American newspapers in 1787. Quite a lot had happened during that intervening century. The greatest development of all during that time was the onset of the American Enlightenment, that explosion of...

Did Pope Francis just encourage the communist regime in China? In the context of the current situation in China, the pope’s message is truly stunning. March 6, 2020 (CatholicCulture.org) — “Today, the Church in China looks to the future with hope,” Pope Francis said in the video message communicating his monthly prayer intentions. Yes, but that hope looks increasingly forlorn, as Chinese authorities continue to close down Catholic churches that do not accept the leadership of the government-backed Patriotic Association. “The Church wants Chinese Christians to be truly Christians, and to be good citizens,” the Pope said in his video message, adding...

America, in both its ideal and in its actuality, stands on two feet. Under those feet is a foundation of Biblical wisdom and a knowledge of history that taught the founders what worked and what didn’t. With enormous care, those great men designed a nation with a stable underpinning of a constitutional rule of law and the right of each individual to have a say in how that rule would be implemented –- in other words, the right to vote. We’ve all been busy hooplaing over the impeaching of a president, hyperventilating over the coronavirus, and watching the Democratic frontrunners...

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Friday that his campaign had raised $22 million in five days amid a surge in support following his South Carolina and Super Tuesday wins. Biden's victory in 10 of 14 states that voted Tuesday not only resurrected a campaign that had been left for dead just weeks ago but vaulted the former vice president ahead of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the race for delegates for the Democratic nomination. The former vice president shared his fundraising update on Friday during a call with supporters at a Bethesda, Md., fundraiser while...

There was cheer in the ITBP camp in Chhawla on the outskirts of Delhi as nearly half of the Indian citizens under quarantine were told that they were free to go, with a certificate of health provided by the medical team. The Indian government had evacuated 650 Indians and seven Maldivians from Wuhan after the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. Since then, for 409 of them a make shift camp created by the ITBP had been their home. But on Monday, nearly 200 residents were given okay to leave the camp. One of the youngest of the lot is two-year-old...