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Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle, the AR-15 is the kind of versatile gun that lies at the intersection of the kinds of firearms protected under District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) and United States v Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939). Yet, the State of California makes it a crime to have an AR- 15 type rifle. Therefore, this Court declares the California statutes to be unconstitutional. Plaintiffs challenge a net of interlocking statutes which impose...

The article was about a child porn raid that killed two of its agents - the suspect committed suicide afterwards The raid was at 6am and USA Today published at 9.30am The subpoena asks for the IP addresses and phone numbers of everyone who clicked on the story between 8.03pm and 8.38pm that night

The agency investigating the fatal shooting of a suspect during an arrest attempt in Minneapolis Thursday says evidence shows "the man fired his weapon from inside the vehicle." While trying to arrest a person wanted on a felony warrant in a parked car on Thursday afternoon, US Marshals task force members shot the suspect, who had "produced a handgun" and "failed to comply with officers' commands," the US Marshals Service said in a prepared statement obtained by CNN affiliate WCCO.... ..."BCA crime scene personnel recovered a handgun as well as spent cartridge cases from inside the driver's compartment," the Minnesota...

Vatican Citizenship for Suspect BishopIgnored charges of sexual, financial crimeVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Rome has a welcome mat for accused criminals.Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, indicted in Argentina for unwanted sexual advances towards two seminarians, obtained Vatican citizenship in 2018 even though accusations of sexual and financial improprieties had already been leveled at him. According to a May 27 report by InfoVaticana, Bp. Zanchetta, 57, was given the rarely-granted citizenship of the Vatican City State on May 7, 2018. At the time, Zanchetta was already facing accusations of criminality in his native Argentina.Citizenship to the world's smallest state — in terms of...

A Bettendorf couple faces felony charges after police say they stole a 500-pound welder from a construction site at the Interstate 74 Bridge. Bill Fifer, 64, and his girlfriend Emma Stephenson, 24, were in Fifer’s silver Ford F-150 flatbed truck looking for scrap metal to collect when the found a large blue Miller Bobcat 250 welder shortly before 1:30 a.m. March 7, police say in an arrest affidavit. The welder, valued at $6,000, belonged to the Helm Group construction company in the new Interstate 74 Bridge construction zone on the 1300 block of Gilbert Street in Bettendorf. The two tried...

The FBI responded to an incident that diverted a Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday. A man aboard a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Nashville allegedly tried to breach the cockpit, according to a report by Fox 11 of Los Angeles, citing Albuquerque International Sunport officials...

As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative. Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American conservatives because we go counter to its narrative that black people needed liberal saviors, especially ones who come bearing gifts of more government. But we weren’t just canceled by liberals. For decades, liberals worked to put a wedge between black conservatives and our own communities....

Los Angeles County Sheriffs are asking the public for help identifying a 350-pound man who brutally beat a woman at a gas station in Gardena on Sunday. Surveillance video shows a morbidly obese black male exiting his Ford Expedition and calmly walking over to a woman filling up her gas tank.

Former “throuple” pol Katie Hill has reportedly been ordered to pay about $220,000 in attorneys’ fees after losing her lawsuit against media outlets that printed her naked photos, according to a report. The one-time Democratic rising star had accused the outlets of posting “revenge porn” by using the graphic, leaked photos that played a part in her resignation in 2019. But the legal bid was thrown out in March on First Amendment grounds, with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yolanda Orozco arguing that the publication was in the “public interest” as it reflected Hill’s “character” and “qualifications” for office. Hill...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A River North restaurant owner says he is closing earlier – not because of COVID, but because of crime. The owner of Bella Luna Bar & Pizza, 731 N. Dearborn St., said people are not coming out late anymore because of issues in the neighborhood – just as Chicago Police announced officers will no longer be stationed across the downtown area like they have been for the last year. The Chicago Police downtown deployment plan was put into place after two rounds of looting and unrest in and around the downtown area last year. It is moving...

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh has raised more than $50,000 for US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s grandmother — after the pol was slammed on Twitter for not helping her “abuela’’ enough Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had tweeted a thread Thursday depicting the conditions of her grandmother’s home, which was damaged during Hurricane Maria in 2017 — taking aim at the Trump administration for blocking aid to Puerto Rico. Walsh was among those quick to fire back at the progressive lawmaker, alleging she was allowing her grandmother to “suffer” in “squalid conditions” while she herself lived in posh comfort Shortly after, Walsh facetiously launched the...

A handful of days into this rainbow deluge, the air of LGBT pride is so suffocating that people could choke. It's plastered across social media, corporate logos, cereal boxes, even big box stores' pandering displays. This month, fans can't even go to a San Francisco Giants game without being bombarded with the league's first Pride-color uniforms. But one place conservatives thought they were safe from all this nonsense was the Republican National Committee. Turns out, their chairwoman is just as happy as anyone to pull on the LGBT jersey. It wasn't the smartest thing RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has ever...

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A former University of Oklahoma volleyball player is suing the school, claiming that she was “frozen out” from the team due to her political beliefs. Kylee McLaughlin is suing the university and her former head coach Lindsey Gray-Walton and former assistant coach Kyle Walton. One of the complaints accuses the coaches of violating McLaughlin’s First Amendment rights. McLaughlin claims that last summer, the volleyball team watched a documentary called 13th, a show that deals with the issue of mass incarceration of blacks. After the viewing the team held a group discussion. McLaughlin stressed she felt “one hundred percent that slavery...

The National Institute of Health provided more than $800,000 to Wuhan lab over 6 year period ------ In a Senate hearing late last month, top doctor Anthony Fauci told lawmakers the U.S. granted $600,000 in funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology over a five-year period, but documents provided by the Department of Health and Human Services Friday show the actual number was a third higher. Reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Judicial Watch, found that between 2014 and 2019 $826,277 was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the directive...

Breaking News as more people and analysts are becoming aware VAERS Adverse Events Reporting System is throttling data being reported to public. VAERS is also deleting already published report and also discovered VAERS does not publish "Follow-up" reports, follow up investigations, follow-up autopsy, etc... Nothing! I will pay you $1 Million to hurry up and submit a VAERS report while the patient is still breathing, no follow-up encounter data and death will ever be published! Said Anthony Fauci to every hospital CEO in the country!They are behind in reporting. 297 million doses, and 60% reports in VAERS for Covid-19 are...

Has Persecution Started? Archdioceses Ends Roman (Traditional Latin) MassFather Philip Wilhite of Sacred Heart Church in Conroe, Galveston-Houston Archdiocese, Texas, announced that the Traditional Latin Mass in his church will be discontinued.“After due consideration, conversations with the Archdiocese, and to best serve the spiritual needs of those who prefer the Extraordinary Form, we will transition from offering this form here at Sacred Heart to encouraging all to be active parishioners of Regina Caeli Catholic Church,” he wrote on FaceBook.com (June 2). One wonders what "due consideration" means and whether this measure is meant to promote sanitary Covid distancing.The last Mass...

ASHINGTON, D.C.—After a batch of his emails were made public through an FOIA request, a desperate, frantic Dr. Fauci called in an expert technician to make sure no more damaging emails were made public. The technician, renowned Beltway-area email server technician Hilgo Clintmann, arrived in his van and began to inspect Fauci's modest email server configuration. "Oh, yes, very bad email security here sir, very, very bad," Clintmann said as he walked through the server racks and inspected the various hard drives and cables. "We're going to need to rework this whole setup. You need to be able to, how...

On June 4, 1942, the US and Imperial Japanese navies faced off a few hundred miles from Midway Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The US Navy learned many lessons from the battle that helped win the war. Even now, 79 years later, the battle is still studied extensively — including by China. Today, however, a similar fight between the US and Chinese navies would likely play out much differently. Longer-range weapons would increase the distance over which both sides' could operate. Anti-ship missiles in particular have raised the stakes for surface ships and added to the importance of airpower...