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A breakthrough may be happening in South Carolina’s move to incrementally restore Second Amendment rights. In past history, some Second Amendment supporters have seen the Senate Judiciary Committee as the place where the Senate leadership places bills to restore Second Amendment rights to die. The mechanism is simple. Do not schedule a hearing or a vote on such bills until it is too late to pass them in the legislature or to get them to the Governor for signature. Second Amendment activist, James Moffitt wrote, on 24 March, about the Senate Judiciary Committee:This is typically where most 2A friendly bills...

Ask yourselves why they continue to wear masks out of doors, and the only logical answer – that they actually want to diminish public confidence in the efficacy of the vaccines because they were developed under Donald Trump’s watch – is truly eye-opening and disturbing. But, at this point, what other possible explanation can there be? I mean, it can’t be China Joe’s obvious dementia, since we’ve had no indication that Jill Biden shares that affliction. They are doing this intentionally and constantly, which means there is without any question at all a political motivation for it. The obvious political...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 50Psalm 50 A psalm of Asaph. 1 The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets. 2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. 3 Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages. 4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people: 5 “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” 6 And the heavens proclaim his...

Biden’s border policies have been a bonanza for the Mexican cartels, both financially and in terms of sexual exploitation of female migrants. Moreover, because the crisis of the unaccompanied minors has drawn border patrol agents away from policing the border, and because of the gaps left when Biden halted border-wall construction, the cartels now can easily smuggle in drugs, gang members, sex offenders, and potential terrorists. There are other failing marks on Biden’s first report card. He continues to call Georgia’s voting law “Jim Crow 2.0” and lies about its content. Apparently, requiring a photo ID is racist because Blacks...

Tim Scott has accused the left of hypocrisy following their attacks on his Wednesday night rebuttal of Biden's speech to Congress saying the slurs left him saddened, but more convinced than ever that he was right to be a Republican. The South Carolina senator was pilloried on Wednesday night and Thursday for delivering the traditional rebuttal to the president's remarks. Scott, the only black GOP senator, was mocked on Twitter as 'Uncle Tim', a play on the 'Uncle Tom' racial slur, used to describe black people who were too deferential to whites. Twitter took 12 hours to remove the term...

Former New York City Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani issued a long statement in response to the FBI’s Gestapo-like raid on his home earlier this week, and everyone needs to read and absorb it and what the implications of it mean for all of us. It’s important for everyone to understand that the FBI is not an actual law enforcement agency anymore, if indeed it ever was. Today, it is just a tool used by corrupt politicians to enforce and protect the interests of the deep state and the priorities of the Democrat Party. One of the most disturbing...

The Portland Police Bureau with assistance from the FBI are investigating a video death threat made against Mayor Ted Wheeler by a self-described Antifa collective. The Post Millennial can report exclusively that a left-wing journalist is linked to the video. The disturbing two-minute video was posted Wednesday night on Twitter by a newly created account named, “@knotathreat.” It was quickly shared and promoted among Portland’s Antifa and extremist far-left accounts. TPM is not posting the video because it includes a home address associated with Wheeler. The video shows a masked person standing in front of a MAX Light Rail train...

It’s the end of another week, and once again your author is a bit worn out for a detailed and dedicated column. So instead you get this grab bag.I promise to fill it with as many goodies as I can.1. There is no more civility in politics. Maybe there never really was.Remember our Founding Fathers, because they understood what we’re beginning to remember.“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” That’s what can be found in the final paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. The founders, as Paul Harvey so brilliantly outlined so many...

No, Joe, you are not a nice guy. Despite your need to keep telling us, we know the ugly truth. You are a pretty nasty guy. You are pugilistic, a plagiarist, a documented racist, a race hustler, creepy with woman and children, the "Big Guy" of a crime family, and have thrown a wrecking ball into America. Your pugilism is epic. How many times have you garnished your weakness with the threat of taking someone behind the gym? There is a difference between a bully and a tough guy. The truth is you are the archetypal man of the pampered...

The Kentucky Derby is getting started. Enjoy it. No question, we are in for some hard times these coming years. Not just with the malevolent creatures in the White House, but in so many areas of American life — from popular culture to sporting events. BLM zombies lurk from every corner of crazy, spreading their racist poison. Thankfully, the first Saturday in May is coming up. Kentucky Derby horse racing is front and center. Churchill Downs is a decidedly No Woke Zone edifice, built for the Sport of Kings, featuring a vast Millionaire's Row complex and super-exclusive Skye Terrace, put...

One of the unfortunate vestiges of liberalism's lingering influence upon American conservatism, and by extension the Republican Party that is conservatism's default political vehicle, is the pervasive knee-jerk tendency to view government action as per se bad and private-sector action as per se good. This ideology, which might be called "market fundamentalism" or "private-sector fundamentalism," takes on differing forms: in its more benign variation, a principled commitment to unwavering laissez faire, but in its more malignant variation, a less principled commitment to corporate boosterism and outright cronyism. The realignment now unfolding before our eyes in American politics could finally retire...

“And we won’t ignore what our own intelligence agencies have determined – the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today is from white supremacist terrorism.” -- Lyin’ Joe Biden on April 28, 2021. Yes, the First Amendment applies to all, even the current President. Speech must be free, as I noted before, “whether it’s good news or not, the truth or not, nice or not…. But speech does not stand alone; one of its virtues is that it reveals the character of the speaker.” Biden, his advisors, and the speechwriters, taken together and individually, are a singular disappointment, as...

Leftists do not have a sense of humor. Spread the word. Let's use Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals against the leftists. RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. Pretty crude, rude, and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear. Now we know how to use the leftists' tactics against them: mock them. Deputy Nate Silvester did. As a result, Deputy Silvester was suspended. Now other cops are mocking LeBron James. The short video at the...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

An astounding number of young people pose a real danger to the public, at the drop of a hat. Many of us recently saw an online video of a young teenage girl brandishing a knife, large enough to be a deadly weapon, attempting to stab another young girl. Just in the nick of time, a police officer shot the attacker, who died. While this is the most extreme video I've seen, there are many other instances of similar behavior, mostly unrecorded by media. SNIP Bear in mind that the military learned a long time ago that training a combat infantryman...

Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN. The CNN Politics Twitter account promoted his latest online essay with the words "President Biden to showcase his moderate radicalism in his big congressional address." "Moderate radicalism"? Doesn't that make about as much sense as "quiet loudness"? Collinson argued, "Biden's quiet radicalism is expressed through a huge pandemic rescue bill, a larger proposal that redefines the concept of infrastructure, and a massive health and child care blueprint." In other words, a socialist blueprint. Politico gushed with this headline: "Biden Just Gave the Most Ideologically Ambitious...

He is right. This is a test of the Department of Justice and FBI, which have been corrupted to the point where our democracy is in deep peril. The highly publicized early morning raid on the apartment and office of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of the 45th President of the United States, was an outrage. Thanks to a 10+ minute interview last night on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the nation’s highest-rated cable news program, we have a better grasp of the dimensions of the scandalous behavior of the Department of Justice. SNIP Here are some major issues that he highlighted:...

My major takeaway from President Biden's joint address to Congress is that he and his handlers are continuing to employ the Democrats' primary strategy from the Obama years: Never let a crisis go to waste.To scare the American people into accepting his reckless spending proposals, Biden is leveraging the pandemic, which means he is framing it as still hot, raging and dangerous, while immodestly taking undeserved credit for the progress that we've made.To begin, he staged an image of crisis for television viewers by having a group of entirely vaccinated people unnecessarily wear masks and socially distance, though Massachusetts Institute...