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The District of Columbia has been one of the most aggressive jurisdictions in the nation in the leftist fight against gun rights. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in Washington's Heller fight that the Constitutional right to bear arms is an individual right. The high court followed up two years later in the McDonald case by ruling that right applies against the states. Courts recently struck down D.C.'s demand that individuals show "good reason" for a concealed carry permit. But now a decision by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in another fight over guns created by the local government...

While debt ceiling talks have put Social Security payments in the news, one topic that's been put on the back burner is a deadline Congress faces to shore up the program. Social Security's trust funds for retirement and disability benefits are projected to be able to pay only 78% of promised benefits by 2034. To fix that, Congress could consider several major adjustments. Here's what they could mean..... In just 13 years the trust funds Social Security relies on to pay retirement and disability benefits will be depleted, according to the most recent Social Security trustees' report. While benefit checks...

With so much happening in the news every day, from the congressional hearings on our withdrawal from Afghanistan to the budget crisis and more, it’s easy to overlook some of the truly horrendous things taking place in our nation. But what California’s Governor Newsom recently signed into law cannot be overlooked. It is nothing less than a frontal assault on parental rights, also hurting the very children it claims to protect. Although there were two controversial bills Gov. Newsom signed last week, we’ll focus here on AB 1184. As reported by California Family Council, this bill “prohibits insurance companies from...

BattlEye was another blocker for Proton, not working, despite so many popular online Windows games using it. Games that currently use BattlEye include (but not limited to):

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Results Among the 52238 included employees, 1359 (53%) of 2579 previously infected subjects remained unvaccinated, compared with 20804 (42%) of 49659 not previously infected. The cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection remained almost zero among previously infected unvaccinated subjects, previously infected subjects who were vaccinated, and previously uninfected subjects who were vaccinated, compared with a steady increase in cumulative incidence among previously uninfected subjects who remained unvaccinated. Not one of the 1359 previously infected subjects who remained unvaccinated had a SARS-CoV-2 infection over the duration of the study. In a Cox proportional hazards regression model, after adjusting for the phase of...

On September 23, 2021, the Firearms Policy Coalition filed a lawsuit challenging a ban on the sale and possession of precursor materials used by individuals to make their own firearms. The ban flies in the face of long-standing precedents. Individuals have been legally and practically able to make their own firearms ever since the Republic was founded. From firearmspolicy.org: “The right of individuals to self-manufacture arms for self-defense and other lawful purposes is part and parcel of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and an important front in the battle to secure fundamental rights against abusive government...

More than a year after George Floyd’s death, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a stack of bills on Thursday aimed at holding California law enforcement officers accountable for misconduct and restricting uses of force that have resulted in death and injury. The eight measures signed into law by Newsom include raising the minimum age for police officers from 18 to 21, and allowing their badges to be permanently taken away for excessive force, dishonesty and racial bias.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19, the Supreme Court said Friday. Kavanaugh, who is fully vaccinated, tested positive on Thursday night, the court said in a statement, and his immediate family tested negative. He has no symptoms, the court said.

In the wake of a series of severe EV battery fires, one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world, General Motors has just issued safety recommendations for Bolt EV’s: Not to park your Chevy Bolt within 50 feet of other vehicles in case it catches fire. Highly recommends that Bolt EV owners not to park within 50 feet of anything you care about. Recommends parking on the top floor or on an open-air deck and park 50 feet or more away from another vehicle. Requests Bolt EV owners to not leave their vehicle charging unattended, even if they are...

Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that right-wing extremism “is very quickly metastasizing into violent extremism.” Referencing a male suspect throwing a Molotov cocktail into the headquarters of the Travis County Democratic Party in Texas on Wednesday, Schmidt said he was “radicalized like a young man drawn to the lies of ISIS.”

Is it finally happening? Is John Durham getting ready to drop the Mother of All Bombs? He has subpoenaed the Hillary Clinton Campaign lawyers of the Perkins Coie Law Firm that represented both Hillary and the DNC. This is bound to send shock waves through the Hillary camp and the DNC, not to mention the go-to law firm for the DNC. Perkins Coie handles all of the DNC lawsuits brought against voter ID laws. JUST IN – Durham issues a new round of subpoenas, including to a law firm with ties to Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv)...

The indoctrinated youth of America are the most gullible people on earth. They have been so brainwashed in the public school system to see racism anywhere that they assume it’s a real phenomenon. But time and again, systemic racism, Critical Race Theory, and hate crimes turn out to be nothing more than hoaxes committed by persons of color who want to manufacture race wars where they do not exist. The latest example of the all-too-common race hoax comes from a St. Louis high school. On September 23rd, racist graffiti was painted in multiple bathrooms across Parkway Central High School. The...

'Florida has proven how much the Fauciites are filled with 'Emperors who have No Clothes', remarked co-host Clay Travis As the mainstream media and Democrats seem to have abruptly halted or at least slackened their barrage of criticism toward Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, questions arise as to the reasons behind the sudden silence, co-host Buck Sexton discussed Thursday on "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show." For more than a year, DeSantis and the Sunshine State were a favorite bugaboo of the left and prominent members of the mainstream media whenever the topic of coronavirus mitigation came up. On...

With internal tensions near a breaking point, House Democrats backed down from a promised Thursday vote to advance a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill after it became clear it was going to crash and burn. Hours before, at a press conference on Thursday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) publicly expressed confidence that the legislation would succeed. “So far, so good for today,” she said. And supporters of the legislation echoed her, repeatedly projecting victory by the end of the day. But it turned out the more prescient assessment came from Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). When asked if he felt...

Former President Carter, the oldest living president, will mark his 97th birthday Friday. Carter plans to spend his birthday quietly at his home in Georgia and will not make any public appearances, Deanna Congelio, the press secretary at the Carter Center in Atlanta, told ABC. Employees at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains, Ga., the former president's hometown, recorded birthday greetings from him, ABC reported. The Carter Center's website shared an online birthday card that members of the public can sign.

NEW LONDON Conn. — Movie theaters have long hosted theme nights, but here's a new one: In the world of COVID-19, some are now holding vaccinated-customers-only days. Niantic Cinemas is the latest to add to this growing trend, with its first "CinéVac Mondays" scheduled for Oct. 4. Peter E. Mitchell, manager of Niantic Cinemas, says he heard a podcast about two movie theaters, one in Peterborough, N.H., and one in Bryn Mawr, Penn., doing vaccinated-patrons-only days, to great effect. It has attracted back to those cinemas people who were wary of returning even though they are vaccinated. With this concept...

JESUS ASCENDS TO HEAVEN. ACTS 1 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read ACTS 1 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of it Bible Timeline 30 A.D. Bible Timeline ACTS of the APOSTLES Chapter 1, Verses 6-11Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has...

Research exploring how people forget things appears to have unintentionally stimulated better memory among its participants, a new study suggests. The experiment was originally conducted in 2012 and was supposed to explore the role of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in voluntary forgetting. While the 2012 experiment successfully demonstrated forgetting was something actively managed by the DLPFC, it turns out there was a bonus hidden inside its data. A reanalysis has now shown that tickling this part of the brain with the right frequency of magnetic stimulation as we learn new material can also help us remember it. "We...

“What we didn’t know until we were told in February this year, courtesy of Time magazine, was that there actually was a conspiracy — a secret coalition of chief executives, labor unions, left-wing pressure groups, and media companies — to manage what information was available to the voting public,” Liddle went on. “Its aim, as The Wall Street Journal put it, was to ‘suppress unwanted elements of US political conversation’. What a wonderful phrase,” he wrote in the Times. “Time magazine reported this as if the cabal — it called the arrangement a cabal — had been acting heroically,” he...