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If you missed my colleague Shaun Rieley’s defense of Tucker Carlson’s criticism of the military, I urge you to read it. Rieley, for what it’s worth, is a veteran of the Iraq War. Excerpt: This seems to be the rationale, for example, behind the Pentagon’s official press release responding to Carlson, which asserts that “the American military works best when it represents all the American people.” On this account, the military is, first and foremost, an egalitarian and representative body, rather than an exclusive and hierarchical one. But we are entitled to ask: Is this true? Could viewing the military...

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The US Secret Service became involved in a bizarre incident in which a gun belonging to Hunter Biden was dumped in a trash can behind a grocery store then found to be missing, the website Politico reported on Thursday. Delaware police were concerned the gun, a .38 revolver, could be found and used in a crime, the website said, adding that it was eventually found by a man searching the trash for recycling. Politico said it had obtained copies of records relating to Hunter Biden’s purchase of the gun on 12 October 2018. It said he answered “no” to a...

On March 25, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against the ATF’s December 26, 2018, rule declaring bump stocks to be machine guns and prohibiting ownership of said stocks.NPR reported the prohibition against ownership went into effect on March 26, 2019.

Civil War Expected in Texas and Alabama. About the New-York Appointments. PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. COL. LAMON AT CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, Monday, March 25. Col. LAMON had an interview with Gov. PICKENS and Gen. BEAUREGARD, this morning, and left in company with Col. DURYEA for Fort Sumpter. The opinion is prevalent that Major ANDERSON will evacuate Fort Sumpter on Wednesday of this week. However, the time is to be determined. CHARLESTON, Monday, March 25 -- P.M. Col. LAMON visited Fort Sumpter to-day, but nothing definite is known as to the result. He returned to-night, and says he hopes to return...

Photographs taken during President Joe Biden’s poorly received Thursday press conference reveal that he used a “cheat sheet” with the names and faces of the reporters pre-selected to receive an answer from him in response to certain questions. The cue cards also contained talking points for him to repeat during the press conference, such as his plans for infrastructure spending. Talking points such as “The United States now ranks 13th globally in infrastructure quality — down from 5th place in 2002,” and, “China spends 3 times more on infrastructure than U.S.” could be seen on the cue cards held in...

Neguse leads letter to Biden calling for ban on importing of semi-auto rifles, high-capacity magazines By: Blair MillerPosted at 1:32 PM, Mar 25, 2021 DENVER – Congressman Joe Neguse, the Democrat who represents the district that includes Boulder, led a letter to President Joe Biden Thursday calling for him to issue an executive order banning the importation of assault weapons, semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. Also signing onto the letter were Colorado’s three other Democratic members of the House of Representatives — Reps. Diana DeGette, Ed Perlmutter and Jason Crow — and 60 others. Neguse co-led the letter with Illinois...

Reports are now surfacing of people dying following the recently authorized Johnson and Johnson experimental COVID shots here in the United States. The Johnson and Johnson experimental COVID “vaccine” is an “adenovirus” vaccine, and like the experimental mRNA “vaccines” from Pfizer and Moderna, there are currently no approved adenovirus vaccines in the market, although the military has used experimental adenovirus vaccines that are not FDA approved. So by getting the FDA to issue an EUA, which they did on February 27th, Johnson and Johnson can now test their experimental vaccine on the public as part of their Phase 3 trials....

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday it was a 'total mistake' for The New York Post to be locked out of its Twitter account for tweets sharing the newspaper's report on Hunter Biden's emails. 'We made a total mistake with the New York Post, we corrected that within 24 hours,' Dorsey told House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, who had asked about that example. 'It was not to do with the content, it had to do with a hacked materials policy, we had an incorrect interpretation,' Dorsey added. Scalise had probed the Twitter boss on The New York Post's treatment, versus...

Charlottesville, Virginia, Mayor Nikuyah Walker published a poem Wednesday comparing her own city to a rapist. Before we go any further, let me point out one very important fact: Charlottesville has been run exclusively by Democrats and extreme leftists like Walker (who is officially listed as an Independent) for more than 40 years.

When it was unveiled at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, Ford's monolithic turbine-powered truck - affectionately dubbed 'Big Red' - was hailed as the future of motoring. At 13 feet tall, it stood two and a half times the height of an average car. Its tandem trailers, stretching out 100 feet, were twice the length of a Tyrannosaurus rex. And its futuristic 600-horsepower gas turbine engine convinced both the car-loving public and Ford motor executives that Big Red would usher in a new era of American motoring.

Austria's Cardinal Schönborn: God will not deny same-sex couples a blessingRome — Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has expressed unhappiness with the Vatican's recent decree banning Catholic priests from blessing same-sex couples, in what appears to be the first example of a cardinal openly disagreeing with the measure.Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna and a theologian who has been praised often by Pope Francis, said in an interview published March 24 that he believes gay couples who ask God for a blessing "will not be denied.""The question of whether same-sex couples can be blessed belongs to the same category as the question...

A USA Today editor on Tuesday deleted a tweet following a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, that left ten people dead, including a Boulder police officer.“It’s always an angry white man. Always,” Hemal Jhaveri, the Race and Inclusion Editor at USA TODAY Sports Media Group, tweeted on Monday following the shooting. The following day, after it was revealed the suspect’s name is Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a Syrian immigrant, Jhaveri apologized. “I deleted a previous tweet that was posted in haste and poor judgement. My tweet was impulsive and an over-generalization, for which I apologize. That over-generalization does not reflect...

Clashes broke out Thursday night between officers from the Los Angeles Police Department and at least 100 protesters who were trying to stop police from clearing out Echo Park's homeless encampment. A newly installed fence surrounded the popular Los Angeles park Thursday after authorities moved in to evict residents of the large homeless encampment despite protests by the people who live there and their supporters. Only a few tents and about a dozen people remained by evening along the grassy banks of Echo Park Lake, where tents had proliferated for months during the coronavirus pandemic, sparking concerns about trash, drugs...

President Joe Biden misstated the reality at the U.S.-Mexico border and offered a misleading account of who's getting the most benefits from the Donald Trump tax cuts in his first presidential press conference. Biden took questions for nearly an hour Thursday, answering multiple queries from the Associated Press, PBS, The Washington Post, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, Bloomberg, Univision. He was grilled on a number of topics, including the situation at the border, the Senate filibuster, working with Republicans, his 2024 re-election plans and Afghanistan - but received no questions on the coronavirus pandemic or...

Images taken during President Joe Biden's first press conference on Thursday showed him using cheat sheets - which did not prevent him from misstating key facts and losing his train of thought at times. The 78-year-old Democrat is seen holding one sheet that showed the headshots of journalists at the press conference that he planned to call on. Another cheat card listed stats about infrastructure, but Biden was still forced to correct himself after mistakenly saying the US ranked 85th in the world in infrastructure.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) discussed the subcommittee’s hearing with the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter and said that the hearing’s purpose was to send the message to tech companies “That we’re going to regulate. We’re going to legislate.” And that there “have to be some limitations, not just on advertising

A store where the suspect in the Colorado supermarket massacre bought his gun reportedly said the sale was lawful after he passed a background check. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, bought his AR-15-style Ruger AR-556 at the Eagles Nest Armory in Arvada, about 20 miles southeast of Boulder, 9NEWS reported. The store’s owner, John Mark Eagleton, said the accused gunman passed a background check before making the purchase. “We are absolutely shocked by what happened and our hearts are broken for the victims and families that are left behind,” he wrote in a statement to the outlet. “Ensuring every sale...

Denver students stage walkout to protest inaction on gun control by: Gabrielle Franklin Posted: Mar 25, 2021DENVER (KDVR) — Around 200 Denver Public Schools students walked out of in-person and virtual classes on Thursday as a way to push lawmakers to take action on gun control after the deadly shooting in Boulder on Monday. Students say they’re tired of mass shootings happening in their own backyard. “To see these kinds of things, happen in our community over and over again, it’s just insane that it’s been this long, and action hasn’t been taken,” said student organizer Hermela Goshu. They met...

......Joe Biden refuses to take the border crisis seriously. He put VP Harris in charge. Harris is “the worst possible choice,” says Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. He’s right. Migrant numbers are at a 20-year high, and unaccompanied children in federal custody are, as well. DHS Secy Mayorkas says the “border is closed,” but just 13% percent were reportedly turned away last week. Biden says Harris as the “most qualified person” to assist countries needing help in stemming migration. Harris has carte blanche: “When she speaks, she speaks for me, doesn’t have to check with me,” Biden said. <><> Forget that...