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In the continuing trend for gun sales measured by the National Instant background Check System, (NICS), September 2020 was the second-highest in the history of NICS, coming in behind last years record number of about 1.61 million. September of 2021 had about 1.31 million gun sales recorded. In 2019 the gun sales were less than a million, about 974 thousand guns were sold in September.The number of gun sales traditionally picks up in September as hunting seasons are opening and approaching. This probably accounts for the converging numbers of handgun and long gun sales.Handgun sales were about 681 thousand, long...

October 14, 2021 Thursday of week 28 in Ordinary Time San Callisto catacombs, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 3:21-30 ©It is the same justice of God that comes to Jew and pagan alikeGod’s justice that was made known through the Law and the Prophets has now been revealed outside the Law, since it is the same justice of God that comes through faith to everyone, Jew and pagan alike, who believes in Jesus Christ. Both Jew and pagan sinned and forfeited God’s glory, and both are justified through the free gift of his grace by being redeemed in...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 13. THE REBEL DEMONSTRATION OF SATURDAY. The rebels showed themselves in considerable force at Miner's Hill, yesterday afternoon, in front of Gen. HANCOCK'S headquarters, at McCALL'S house, a short distance beyond Langley's, on the road to Lewinsville. They brought with them the large Parrott Gun which they captured at Bull Run, and planted it in front of MOTT's Battery. It was flanked on each side by brass howitzers. After looking on awhile at our camps and batteries, they concluded to retire, and did so, without firing us a shot. Beyond Langley's, and from there to Lewinsville, the...

Joe Biden and his administration are targeting women – targeting women in the workforce, targeting women standing up for their children, and targeting women by our very biological definition. As the first female Chair of the Ohio Republican Party, and currently, as a candidate running to be the first female Senator from Ohio, I have watched with dismay as Joe Biden’s destructive policies have reversed the incredible progress women made under President Trump and conservative policies. More importantly, as a mom, I am deeply concerned for the world we are leaving our daughters, sisters, friends and neighbors under Democrat policies,...

The genocidal globalist’s attempt to cull the human herd and create a godless world of enslavement. Greg Reese reports. Report...

Norway bow and arrow suspect is flagged for radicalization

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland police say 100 anarchists marched through downtown Portland Tuesday night, doing $500,000 in damage. In a press release, police said "100 people caused substantial damage to businesses and government buildings in downtown Portland," but the bureau altered the statement shortly thereafter, saying "100 anarchists" did the damage. Police say the group hit 35 different locations, "including banks, retail stores, coffee shops, and government buildings." Graffiti on the side of Nordstrom Rack says, "Breakin windows is good." According to social media posts, there was a direct-action march overnight at the same time. The march was in honor...

Washington -- Several years ago, while perusing material for my favorite department of "The American Spectator," the Current Wisdom, I came across an obvious lie perpetrated by Terry McAuliffe, this season's Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia. It was a pretty bold lie, too, and he was quite proud of it as you will see. The Current Wisdom is a department of "The American Spectator" that includes quotations that are obviously foolish but rarely out-and-out lies. This time the quote in question was an out-and-out lie. It was also quite foolish, but more to the point it was a lie,...

BOURNE — Bourne School Committee member Kari MacRae says she was fired from her new teaching position at Hanover High School over her social media posts. She remains on the committee despite calls for her resignation. She has said she won't resign. MacRae said in an interview Tuesday she is seeking legal recourse after her position as a business teacher at Hanover High was terminated Sept. 29. “I got fired specifically for a social media post I made," she said. "That’s a violation of free speech.” MacRae said Hanover High School Principal Matthew Mattos told her in a letter, which...

The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on Wednesday in United States v. Tsarnaev, a case involving the Biden administration’s request that SCOTUS reinstate a death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The case is an unusual example of what some in the legal community have called “cognitive dissonance,” in which the Biden administration is advocating a position that is in clear conflict with its stated policy goals. Biden pledged to end the death penalty, and called for a moratorium on all federal executions — a position that stands in stark contrast to the multiple federal...

<p>In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively – and peacefully – under the control of two emperors.</p><p>A Western empire included much of modern-day Western Europe and northwest Africa. The Eastern half controlled Eastern Europe and parts of Asia and northeastern Africa.</p>

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Those of us on the right side of dissident politics and social commentary have been routinely labeled as Nazis for a couple of decades now. Nazi this, Nazi that; Nazi over there; Look – a Nazi! This was interspersed with other prerogatives such as racist, homophobe, misogynist, you get the drift. But Nazi was the foundation that underpinned it all. The whole charade got so ridiculous that eventually it came to be known that someone had already lost an argument when they felt that they had to revert to holding up the Nazi card. In other words, the slur stopped...

Eco protesters who have infuriated motorists by blocking roads have agree to suspend campaigning after a Boris Johnson speech. Insulate Britain have drawn heavy criticism for stunts in which they ran out onto the M25 motorway and blocked access to the Port of Dover. However, motorists may enjoy some brief respite from their disruption as the group decided to stop campaigning until October 25 - ahead of the crucial COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. It said it made this decision in light of a Boris Johnson speech, made last month to the UN, in which he referred to the planet...

It seems that Katie Couric was protecting the “Notorious RBG” from being too notorious. In her new memoir, Going There, Couric admitted she edited comments from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her 2016 interview to protect her from severe public backlash. The Justice’s crime? Criticizing the national anthem kneelers. Couric omitted parts she deemed more problematic, such as when Ginsburg said that the protesters were showing “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.” Couric admitted in her memoir that she believed the then-83-year-old just was too “elderly and...

In the field of litigation settlements, people sometimes talk about a “win, win” scenario — a settlement structure where both sides can get some advantage and simultaneously claim victory. By that criterion, what is “green” energy (aka intermittent wind and solar power)? The public pays hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies to get the things built, and in return it gets: sudden shortages and soaring prices for coal, oil, gas and electricity; and dramatically reduced reliability of the electrical grid, leading to periodic blackouts and risks of many more of same; and despite it all fossil fuel use doesn’t...

There are few things as annoying than a “conservative” who insists they are or should be the arbiters of what true conservatism is. It’s never normal people; you won’t run into some dude at the bar holding court about what Republicans need to do win or rid itself of whatever element it’s fashionable to want to rid the party of. No, it’s always some overpaid blowhard with an inflated sense of self-importance insisting they are the heir to Reagan/Buckley/Goldwater/whomever and anyone who disagrees is damaging the cause and needs to be purged. Call it, “Weekly Standard Syndrome.” The a few...

The Constitution never even contemplated an administrative state as part of its checks and balances so this institution operates without any check on its power. Michael Regan is the administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. His job makes him a subset of the Executive branch but you’d never know that from his threat to Congress: If the legislators don’t give him the legislation he wants, he’d go ahead and do what he wants without them. This is a shocking usurpation of legislative authority but it’s par for the course in Biden’s Washington, D.C. When our Founders drafted the Constitution, they...

Christopher Columbus's expeditions were, first and foremost, about circumventing the Islamic sultanates surrounding and terrorizing Europe. Another Columbus Day has come and gone. Although it was "celebrated" with the usual vitriol and outraged "wokeism" concerning the Italian explorer's alleged "genocide" against the natives, one influential voice came to Columbus's defense: on October 11, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a proclamation, an excerpt of which follows: Columbus stands a singular figure in Western Civilization, who exemplified courage, risk-taking, and heroism in the face of enormous odds; as a visionary who saw the possibilities of exploration beyond Europe; and as a...

Let’s face it – the news that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo intends to challenge former president Donald Trump in a 2024 primary puts one to mind not of Godzilla v. King Kong, but of Godzilla v. Bambi. It’s Muhammad Ali stepping into the ring against Don Knotts. Pompeo is doomed. But we should be glad that he is offering up himself for sacrifice. Many conservatives are open to a competitive GOP primary, not because they dislike Trump (they like him) but because they want to make sure we nominate the strongest candidate in 2024. Moreover, Trump needs a...