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A study released this month found that the number of concealed carry permits has increased almost 50 percent since 2016, reaching an all-time high. The 75-page report, by Dr. John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Carlisle E. Moody, Research Director and Professor at the College of William & Mary; and research associate Rujun Wang, was released on Oct. 11. It found that no less than 21.52 million people had active carry permits, averaging out to about 8.3 percent of the adults in the general population. This percentage shifted greatly among states, for instance, with Alabama having 32...

Protests have erupted across Italy with thousands taking to the streets against the mandatory Green Pass which came into force today for all workers. Police were out in force, schools closed early and embassies issued warnings of possible violence after ugly scenes at the protests in Rome over the weekend. Workers blocked ports as they refused to follow the new rules which require them to show proof of vaccination, a recent negative test or of having recovered from Covid-19 in the past six months. Implementation of the new requirement varies. Electronic scanners that can read mobile phone QR codes with...

President Joe Biden has not held a press conference since July 15, the Republican National Committee’s research team stated Thursday. As of Friday, it has reportedly been 92 days since Biden held his last press conference. The delay in holding a press conference comes as polling the last two months reveals American workers and families believe the president does not possess enough “mental soundness” to be president.

[Catholic Caucus] Schneider: Ideologist Francis Accuses Others of "Ideology," Wants "Another Faith"In Communism, news presented exclusively Communist ideology, Bishop Schneider told CrisisMagazine.com (October 8), while in this "so-called pandemic time," official news is "all the same from morning to evening, continuously brainwashing the people."Schneider reminds that in democratic societies, it's legitimate to doubt the official narrative while in Soviet times, dissenters were labelled “enemies of the people” and in Covid propaganda they are called “enemies of health” or “enemies of the neighbour.”“We are living in a society of lies, and this is communism — substantially, intrinsically a system of lies,”...

A British Conservative MP has died after being stabbed multiple times on Friday when meeting members of the public in his constituency. Sir David Amess, 69, who represented Southend West in Essex, was fatally attacked at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. The father-of-five is the second sitting MP to be killed in such circumstances in five years, following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016 as she attended a constituency surgery. According to Sky News, a man walked into the meeting place and “stabbed him multiple times.” ... According to the BBC, Amess was known as a social...

Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) on Thursday said that he would expunge criminal records of those facing certain marijuana-related charges and legalize the drug if he is elected the governor of Florida. “Let me be clear: If I’m elected governor, I will legalize marijuana in the Sunshine State,” Crist said in a video posted on his Twitter on Thursday. “This is the first part of the Crist contract with Florida.”

NH Executive Council Meeting regarding excepting federal funding of for Covid vaccine registry. Members of the peaceful public were removed from the meeting and arrested by the NH State Police, apparently shortly after Governor Sununu scanned the crowd and texted something to someone.

Yesterday, Luke Rosiak told me on the Hugh Hewitt show that he had a new story ready to drop in the Loudoun County Public Schools scandal. Late yesterday, it dropped — like a bomb on the reputation for the LCPS board and its superintendent. The Daily Wire dug up more sexual assaults that LCPS failed to report to the state and make public, as state law requires, raising the question of how long and how extensive the LCPS cover-up of sexual assaults on its campuses has gone. And now the state of Virginia has opened an investigation to find those...

This new run on the outrage treadmill projects the contemporary left’s obsession with race and racism onto the right.In a 1994 New York Times op-ed, the famed linguist Steven Pinker introduced the “euphemism treadmill,” the idea that as much as we keep replacing more benign-sounding terms for those that have acquired a negative valence, ultimately, “concepts, not words, are in charge,” so when we “give a concept a new name, … the name becomes colored by” our underlying negative associations once more over time. Eventually a new name has to be invented, and the game starts all over again.Thus, we...

They were hanging out late last Tuesday when members had to scramble for cover. Four people were injured when a gunman leaned out of a passing SUV and sprayed the area with what sounded like an automatic weapon — a theory confirmed by witness testimonies and the ShotSpotter. The incident last Tuesday extended a string of shootings involving ordinary handguns and rifles that were modified into fully automatic weapons capable of firing up to 1,200 rounds per minute. The conversion process involves illegal devices commonly referred to as "Glock switches" or "auto-sears," which are readily available to buy on the...

PERRY, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) — A 21-year-old University of Georgia (UGA) student died Monday from complications involving COVID-19, despite being “fully vaccinated” against the virus.According to a report in UGA-affiliated newspaper The Red & Black, Shawn Kuhn, a senior at UGA majoring in exercise and sports science, died on October 11 following complications involving the novel coronavirus. Kuhn suffered a bout of pneumonia, supposedly brought on by COVID-19, which he fought for around six weeks before he died.Kuhn’s sister, Sharla Brook Kuhn, told The Red & Black that her brother had been “fully vaccinated” before his death, although she did not...

Congresswoman Cori Bush’s abortion story is full of contradictions. Earlier this month, the Missouri politician told her story to Congress to advocate for abortion on demand. But the heartbreaking details she shared about her experience betrayed her goal. She admitted to experiencing racism within the abortion industry and acknowledged that aborting her unborn baby led to “the darkest period of my life.” In a new interview with Vogue, Bush insisted that her abortion was about “mov[ing] on with my life,” and she slammed state lawmakers’ efforts to protect unborn babies through heartbeat laws and other legislation as “ludicrous.” “The narrative...

You don’t need to stamp out constitutional rights in the so-called 'private sector' -- you just have to make government so big and so important that the private sector barely exists.Andrew Ross Sorkin. If you watch CNBC, you might know him as that anchor who looks like a child and has three names. If you don’t tune in regularly, you might vaguely recall his on-air COVID fight with Rick Santelli, in which he claimed with a straight face that big box stores are far safer than restaurants with Plexiglas (and churches, especially), and therefore are allowed to remain open, repeatedly...

From his desk, Ryan Busse could hear his boss ranting that the country’s largest gun manufacturer, Smith and Wesson, had betrayed its peers in the industry. Just a year after the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, Smith and Wesson had reached a settlement with the White House agreeing to a slew of safety measures, including trigger locks on all its new guns. Now other gun makers — including Kimber America, which employed Busse — would surely be pressured to do the same. The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action accused Smith and Wesson of “craven...

Watch waves of Chinese war planes fly over Taiwan territory. Chinese war drums?

The “pro-choice” movement is all about one choice: abortion. And women who go to pro-choice groups looking for help with parenting or making an adoption plan usually are left to fend for themselves. This is happening in Texas right now with the new state heartbeat law. Pro-abortion groups are doing everything they can to “help” women “choose” abortion, including sending a mobile abortion facility to the border. Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are quietly and compassionately offering real help to mothers and their babies across Texas, providing financial aid, material resources and many other forms of support, all for free. It’s difficult...

In a surprise move, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will no longer require 2022 attendees to be fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus, the festival’s organizers announced this week. The announcement was posted on the festival’s Instagram story. In the announcement, it stated that attendees could show proof of full vaccination or a negative covid test taken within 72 hours of the event. Previously, Goldenvoice, a partner of AEG Presents, the company behind the festival, had announced that proof of vaccination would be required to enter all of its events. “Goldenvoice will require proof of full vaccination for...

Illinois lawmakers should divert their attention from maps, maps, maps during their veto session next month to address four important gun safety issues. Redrawing the legislative and congressional maps that will shape Illinois elections for the next 10 years will be a time-consuming process in the upcoming session, which will run for just six days over two weeks later this month. We get that. And every lawmaker is naturally extremely concerned about what their district will look like. Other big issues may be on the table, as well, including abortion rights for minors and amending the Health Care Right of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department building in downtown Washington and clashed with police as they challenged fossil fuel projects and called for the declaration of a climate emergency. Multiple arrests were reported. An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of protesters rushed the lobby, injuring at least one security officer who was taken to a nearby hospital. Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers against several unarmed protesters, a spokeswoman for the protest group said. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was traveling Thursday and was not in the building during...

The Hamas vision of the future is not an idyll of peace and prosperity. Bernie Sanders should read the report if he wants to know what he will be aiding and abetting. Hamas supporters wearing veils and gloves take part in an anti-Israel rally in Jenin. (photo credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS) Bernie Sanders’s knitted mittens were the sensation of Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration at the beginning of the year. For weeks, memes of the poker-face Vermont senator wearing a winter coat with his hands hidden in oversize mitts ruled the viral world. The image came back to me this week when...