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I have a bunch of friends who are wild bunch action shooters, and have taken to the shooting competition called BAMM (bolt action military match) with great enthusiasm. Lots of 03 and 03a3 in these matches, but there are lots of other great guns out there, and the question is by design, are any of them faster or slower than others? Not just for five shots but with reload under speed. Do the sights really make that much difference for fast shooting? What about cock on closing compared to cock on opening? Which ones are really faster? Everyone has an...

Appearing Tuesday on WMAL’s Morning on the Mall, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, accused D.C. journalists of attempting to pit him against President Donald Trump and affirmed there is no rift between himself and the president on how to combat the Chinese coronavirus outbreak.

Abortion activist Beth Vial helps women get abortions by providing financial assistance, arranging their travel and child care and assuring them that there is nothing wrong with aborting an unborn baby. She complained in a column at Newsweek this week that the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with abortion restrictions, is making it difficult for women to get abortions. “Coronavirus travel bans further complicate the problem. Patients could easily get stuck—either at home, without a clinic nearby, or in a new city with no way to get back after the procedure,” she wrote. Vial has no scruples about promoting elective abortions, even...

Something like 20 years ago the FDA overhauled its drug approval process for cancer patients. Hospitals had new experimental drugs, but were forced to withhold them from study control group patients while watching them die. The revised rules said oncologists can test drugs on terminally ill patients without feeding placebos to control group participants. Trump further changed the rules to allow experimental cancer treatments which have only been tested safe, not effective, to terminally ill patients. Trump overruled the previous FDA reasoning which said that we can't feed experimental drugs to terminally ill patients because it could kill them. Today...

I received a 2020 Census letter today. I live in NY and have no intention of completing the census; i prefer not to assist NY in any way- including filling out the census so they get more aid from Washington which they ten disperse to illegals, criminals, etc. The envelope claims "your response is required by law." What, if any, are the ramifications of not filling out the census? Thanks.

The third part of the Corona (Chinese Wuhan) virus has been twice stalled today by democrats. It was reported that last night that an agreement between Republicans and Democrats was reached on the relief bill. Instead, democrats pulled a a bait and switch with their own bill. In that bill is a democrat liberal fantasy wish list- a garbage grab bag. Among the things more important than your family dying: Airline carbon emission footprintPayment for up to $10,000 in student loansSame-day voter registration, early voting, voting by mail, ballot harvestingCollective bargainingThe expansion of wind and solar tax credits for solar panelsRequirements...

During the past nearly half century as Leftism slowly, almost imperceptibly insinuated itself into the Democratic Party, hostility to religion - especially Catholicism - has been one of the party’s main tenets. The irony is that anti-Catholic sentiment exists in the political party of the first and only Catholic president. How times change. This has manifested itself in several high profile incidents of derogatory comments about people of faith and particularly Catholics. One was Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign featured him infamously referring to Middle American voters in the Rust Belt - now known as Trump Democrats - as...

As Americans across the country grapple with uncertainly over the impact of Wuhan coronavirus, Democrats in Washington D.C. are doing everything possible to exploit the crisis. As reported Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi crammed a number of irrelevant and damaging provisions into a previously bipartisan relief process. Democrats in the Senate, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, took her bait. One of the major power grabs in Pelosi's bill would federalize elections and increase the chances of voter fraud. Here are the "top five most egregious provisions" of Pelosi's bill from the office of Ranking House Administration Committee Member Rodney...

When Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited Washington in the spring of 2018, President Trump told him to put a stop to attacks on religious freedom, specifically “the burning of churches and the killing and persecution of Christians” by radical Muslims in his country. Things got better for a few months for Nigeria’s Christian community, which makes up about 40 percent of the 200 million people living in Nigeria.But the level of commitment has slipped, and activists in both Nigeria and the United States have concluded it is time for President Trump to step up the pressure on Buhari’s government to...

Democrats on Capitol Hill have now twice-rejected an economic stimulus packaged aimed at aiding Americans and businesses hurt by the coronavirus shutdown measures, as Republicans claim that their colleagues on the other side are attempting to cram a wish list of unrelated demands into the bill. Adding fuel to the fire, news began circulating last week that House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) had reportedly told colleagues that the bill provided "a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision." Clyburn's comments came during a conference call last Thursday featuring more than 200 Democrats, in which House Speaker Nancy...

The media are not reporting the fact they're fearmongering. They're fomenting and spreading exaggerated rumors of impending doom to raise the specter of fear for the express purpose of manipulating the public. And that by definition is fearmongering. Saturday morning my wife and I stopped by a friend's deli to pick up an item. My friend had CNN on the television that was typically tuned to a food channel. Predictably, listening to the reporting was like being connected intravenously to depressants. By the time we walked out of the shop, I needed a carafe of Valium with a carafe of...

Here is what I have found to be the most accurate and recent data on the coronavirus. These are from Johns-Hopkins. The clickable map is here: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 The raw data that drives the above interface and that I've been working with can be copied into a CSV file and then loaded into an Excel spreadsheet. It is found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_confirmed_global.csv

Kirstie Alley not only ignited a frenzy on Twitter on Monday, she welcomed it, after praising Donald Trump for taking charge of the coronavirus pandemic. The actress, 69, caused an uproar on the social media platform after thanking the president for his "recent decorum, sincerity & care" for Americans. "You're taking charge and leading in a manner needed & wanted for this country," Alley tweeted to the embattled president, who has been vilified by celebrities for his response to the novel virus.

The US press corps is readying a list of sharp, provocative questions for Dr. Anthony Fauci today, or whenever he appears at the daily Coronavirus Task Force White House briefing with President Trump. Among the questions being prepared are the following: "Dr. Fauci, do you agree with President Trump that the shutdown and mitigation measures put in place by the various Governors to flatten the curve must end soon, and that the end is just weeks away? Did you agree to this, or is the President over-ruling you on this?" Dr. Fauci - Can you please comment on the...

The coronavirus pandemic may be fueling a buying frenzy of guns and ammunition nationwide, but a sheriff in California is ordering all gun stores in his county closed, calling them non-essential businesses. Gun stores nationwide have had long lines this month of customers worried about possible social unrest amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "There’s a lot of unknown. Family first and friends," Brian Thompson told FOX11 earlier this month in a line outside of LAX Ammunition in Los Angeles. "I know what I have in my house and somebody might want to take that. I’ve been robbed before and who says...

In a shocking speech in front of the National Governors Association, Secretary Mike Pompeo revealed that he is in possession of a list of American governors who have been listed as "friendly" by Chinese Communist infiltrators. Pompeo said he received an invitation from a former governor to attend a networking event that promised great "deal-making" opportunities with the Chinese government. This networking event was run by "The Chinese People's Association for Friendship in Foreign Countries," said Pompeo. But what the participants might not have known is that "the group is the public face of the Chinese Communist party's official foreign...

Unbelievabe. Is anybody able to capture a screen shot of NY Gov. Coomo pissing and moaning about the shortage of medical supplies while sitting in front of hundreds of cases of medical masks?

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Moscow hospital for coronavirus patients and wore a protective suit. During a visit to the Kommunarka hospital on the outskirts of Moscow, Putin praised its doctors for high professionalism, saying they were working “like clockwork.” After a meeting with the hospital’s chief doctor, Putin donned a yellow hazmat suit with a mask and went into the area where patients were treated. Russia has registered 495 cases of the coronavirus and reported no deaths, which contrasts with the quick spread of contagion in Europe. Some experts say the low numbers could be attributed...

As stories of young people infected by COVID-19 being placed on ventilators -- or worse -- continue to multiply in news headlines and on Twitter feeds, officials are faced with the dire task of getting the message through to the younger generations. For weeks, young Americans have been instructed to practice social distancing, stay home, and to cancel Spring Break plans as the nation aims to stifle the spread of COVID-19. But somewhere along the line, the message seems to have been lost.

Around 50-55 minutes in, Adams calls for names of individual politicians who are blocking the rescue bill for political/pork purposes. He doesn't care which party, he just wants the names, like James Clyburn and his "social engineering" gambit. Of course, the Democrat Media is covering for their boys and girls...