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Biden Wants Your GunsThe administration prepares to disarm the population.Citing a “gun violence public health epidemic,” President Biden has promised both executive and legislative action against firearms rights. Epidemic? Homicides, including gun homicides, trended steadily downward from the early 1990s through 2019. The surge in crime and homicides starting in 2020 coincided with the riots, urban disorder, and defund-the-police activism that roiled America last summer.But guns—not the actions of leftist politicians, activists, and media operatives—are the real problem, according to Biden. He demanded that Congress, among other things, ban so-called assault weapons, establish a universal background check system for all...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) called for an end to policing, claiming that "it is inherently and intentionally racist. Police cruising high-crime neighborhoods and enforcing arrest warrants disproportionately impacts minorities. Police know that minority suspects are far more likely to resist arrest and that in an effort to subdue resistance great bodily harm and/or death may result." Tlaib denied that the reform she wants entails abolishing police. "We can still have police, but they don't have to be armed and invade minority areas," she argued. "They don't need guns to make traffic stops. If they're afraid to make traffic stops without...

Targets dissidents who dispute country’s history or criticize ruling Communists. China’s Communist government has launched a new app that encourages citizens to report dissidents for expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet. The new platform will target anyone who criticizes the dictatorship’s ruling CCP, disputes the official version of the country’s history or engages in “misinformation.” The new website and app was proudly unveiled by China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), with authorities calling on users to play an “active role” in helping to identify “malicious people distorting facts and confusing” others. “For a while now, some people with ulterior motives…have...

A group of Stanford researchers published a study that says masks are ineffective and could have long-term health consequences. “Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established,” the article states. In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention performed a study and concluded that universal masking is recommended to slow the spread of COVID-19. The CDC concluded that cloth masks and medical procedure masks substantially reduce exposure from infected wearers and reduce exposure of uninfected wearers — the CDC’s study states that mask mandates were in place in 38 states and...

Parler, the conservative-oriented social media website that was banned from Apple’s App Store and several other internet hosting services after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, has been reinstated. Timothy Powderly, Apple’s senior director of government affairs, wrote a letter to Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., and said that Parler had been allowed back into the company's app store as of April 14. Powderly noted that the app had been banned for “including posts that encouraged violence, denigrated various ethnic groups, races and religions, glorified Nazism, and called for violence against specific people.” The...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) on Monday threw his support behind the PRO Act, union-backed legislation to promote labor organizing. The PRO Act would block so-called "right-to-work" laws, which allow people who benefit from union representation to opt out of membership and paying dues, and impose tougher restrictions on companies seeking to prevent unionization efforts.

In famous paintings and familiar stories of the nation’s founding, Roger Sherman of Connecticut is “the other guy.” The legislator who helped craft both the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights and the only signer of all four of the nation’s foundational documents has remained in the shadows of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and other Revolutionary superstars. To explain why Sherman deserves more and to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth (April 19, 1721), Mark David Hall, professor of politics at George Fox University in Oregon and author of “Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic”...

Under the Terrible Tyranny of Pity“Verily, I like them not, the merciful ones, whose bliss is in their pity . . .”“And what in the world hath caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful?” --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883) If you wish to make a man like you, it is said you should ask a favor of him rather than do a favor for him. If you ask a favor that is within his power, he will like you for asking because you thereby honor his power. This is why a man likes his wife a little...

Open sky, open land, and thousands of Bison descending off a bluff, and they don’t stop coming. Eileen didn’t seem all that phased by the throng of wild animals headed her way. “I’ve seen plenty of bison on my trips to the US but never moving like this. Amazing to see.” AWESOME VIDEOS AT LINK!.......................

A Russian fighter jet on Monday reportedly intercepted and escorted U.S. and Norwegian patrol aircraft over the Barents Sea. The Russian Defense Ministry said the incident over the body of water near Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia involved a MiG-31 fighter jet, Reuters reported, citing Russia's state-run RIA news agency. A Pentagon official told The Hill that the Defense Department was "aware of the reports." "Intercept activity is not unusual. The majority of these are considered safe. However, we don't get into details of the interactions themselves," the official said."

This past weekend John Kerry signed a garbage “climate change” agreement with the Chinese Communist regime. The Chinese didn’t even wait until Kerry was out of the country before they reneged on the agreement. While Kerry was still in Shanghai, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng signaled Friday that China is unlikely to make any new pledges at next week’s summit. One thing that was accomplished during the trip was China was able to reduce John Kerry’s carbon footprint. Not only did they put John Kerry on a bus and force him to wait but they also stuck him in...

Ahead of his appearance on last week’s episode of Candace, two-time World Series champion Aubrey Huff sat down to talk with The Daily Wire on Major League Baseball moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, cancel culture, the current state of baseball, and more.

There is no way this bull market doesn’t end very badly. We all know that is the reality of this liquidity-fueled market, but we keep investing for “Fear Of Missing Out.”An excellent example of investor exuberance came recently in “Investors Go All In:”“More importantly, over the past 5-MONTHS, more money has poured into the equity markets than in the last 12-YEARS combined.”If that chart alone doesn’t get your “Spidey senses” tingling, I am not sure what will. However, I have a few more charts to share with you.Technical DeviationsIn the short term, fundamentals don’t matter. Such is because over a...

New evidence shows refugee agency has done little to root out anti-Semitism, extremism The United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency is promoting violence against Israel and using educational materials that call for the Jewish state’s destruction, according to video evidence and copies of lesson plans being taught to children before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is in charge of providing education to scores of Palestinian children, has done little to root out anti-Semitism and the glorification of terrorism from its official lesson plans, although it has repeatedly pledged to do so. The Biden...

Drag kids — kids dressed in full garb of their biologically opposite gender — are now joining the scene with transgender kids. The parents, guardians, and advocates of transgender or drag kids are not only supportive, but seem to be encouraging the child’s experience and publicity. There’s nothing politically correct about this new frontier; it’s abuse, merely distorted and cloaked in progressivism. Any parent of an elementary school-aged child knows children can’t wear clothes they don’t have or drive themselves places. The parents of these drag kids, are not just supporting it but encouraging it by purchasing supplies and carting...

Shares of Contemporary Amperex Technology were up as much as 9% in Shenzhen overnight on news that it could be the company involved in supplying batteries for Apple's electric vehicle project.The jump in shares marks the best day for the company's stock in four months, Bloomberg reported Monday morning.The report, which appears to be unconfirmed for the time being, was published in Xuangubao.cn, a Chinese online stock news platform. That platform did not report a source for the information.A battery is "still being tested" for the project, according to Bloomberg, and the company did not respond for comment when asked...

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that a string of mass shootings had become an embarrassment to America. Anchor Dana Bash asked, “47 mass shootings in the United States in just over the last month. And I know you know this, polls show the vast majority of Americans support at least some new gun restrictions. When you were speaker, there were 20 first-graders killed in Newtown, Connecticut. Looking back, do you regret not passing laws then, and do you to see Republicans come to the table now at least to...

COVID-19 vaccine passports are on the march. Before long, if not already, you might need one to return to work, travel, visit your parents, attend a sports game or even a friend’s wedding. We’re well on our way already and Democrats — once the doubters of databases, IDs, and corporations — are all-in. With Republicans in Washington nearly two years from regaining any power, the battle, then, comes down to the states.But will Republicans governors have the courage to break with the political, corporate, and global ruling class? Will they have the will to tell government agencies and private businesses...

<p>The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be held accountable for its coverup and misfeasance which exacerbated the CCP virus pandemic, according to Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.</p><p>CCP officials were aware of a viral outbreak in Wuhan for at least six weeks before warning the world about the contagion. In the meantime, the regime arrested whistleblowers and censored online discussions about the outbreak. The CCP sealed off Wuhan from the rest of China while continuing to allow international flights in and out of the megacity.</p>

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s controversial “anti-riot” bill into law on Monday, a measure that vastly increases law enforcement’s powers to crack down on civil unrest. The bill, which passed mostly along partisan lines, has been criticized by Democrats and civil rights groups as unconstitutional for infringing on the First Amendment’s right to protest. “If you look at the breadth of this particular piece of legislation, it is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Winter Haven surrounded by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, uniformed deputies and other law...